BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 10 April, 2005
Sunday
10 April, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Poor Elijah (Peter Berger): Keeping Up With the Jetsons (The Irascible Professor)
I'm not a technology groupie.
On Stopping 'Stop Loss' (Rox Populi)
Emiliano Santiago is just another one of the poor, unsuspecting souls who didn't read the fine print when he signed on for a eight-year hitch with the National Guard.
Annalee Newitz: Court Camp (AlterNet)
We wanted justice for tech innovators. We also wanted some pizza delivered to the Supreme Court steps, goddammit.
Charles Karel Bouley II: Who deserves respect? (Advocate.com)
Here's one gay man who wasn't willing to sit back quietly while Pope John Paul II was deified by the media without mention of his war against gay families. Is it disrespectful?
TAYLOR EASON: Shopping Lists (Creative Loafing)
How to make the most of a restaurant wine list
Nicole Panter: Marketing Midriffs (Missoula Independent)
Miles Copeland shoots for Riverdance redux with the reality TV-ish American Bellydancer.
Tell Corporate America to Drop the Hammer (No, I'm Not Talking About Bartcop)
Tom DeLay's Web of Corruption
Save Phil A. Buster (Video)
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Love Object'
Purple Genes' review of the movie "Love Object" (2003) Directed by first timer Robert Parigi:
I wrote a song a long time ago called "Synthea"….a little keyboard driven dance tune about a demented dude who lived alone in a castle….he orders a Blow Up "Party Doll" that he ends up falling in love with. Well I was up late scanning ShoW. And I saw my song come to life in an odd ball Psycho/slasher/love story about a guy who spends $10,000.00 for a true to life, anatomically correct, made to specification foam fuck fantasy doll named "NIKKI"….but when he opens the crate, he gets a lot more than he bargained for……….
Kenneth (Desmond Harrington - "The Messenger; The Story of Joan of Arc" - "Ghost Ship" - "Dragnet") is a technical instruction manual writer and works in a clinical assembly line office where they crank out uncreative crap on deadlines…..Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller - "Get Over It" - "Standing Still" - "Life on the Ledge") gets a "Temp" job there as a typist…..Lisa has emotions…. unlike everyone else working in the office and she catches Kenneth's eye. But Kenneth is a SHY loner and instead of connecting with Lisa, he goes back home to his batch hole and ends up ordering an expensive lifelike made to order sex doll named Nikki….When the doll arrives in a crypt like crate, Kenneth shoves it into his flat and opens it up and begins dressing her to look just like Lisa !!!
Well a real sick relationship develops between Kenneth and Nikki and he becomes obsessed with all the "technical" details….hair, clothes, make-up etc…..But then something happens at work….Lisa throws a fit and is about to be fired….but Kenneth steps in and saves her job and agrees to have dinner with her…..Oh shit…Lisa takes Kenneth home and they drink wine and dance and Lisa gets turned on and so does Kenneth and they end up Boning on the couch…and Kenneth keeps watching the clock…because he "knows" Nikki will be waiting UP for him…..he leaves and when he gets home sure enough "Norman Bates" starts talking to Nikki and she is Jealous….This is where the movie goes from a psycho love story something else…….
Lisa finds out that Kenneth has a blow-up doll that he dresses like her and dumps him. Kenneth's boss Novak (Rip Torn - "Baby Doll" - "Steel Cowboy" - "Larry Sanders") fires him for not being productive and Kenneth's' next door neighbor/apartment manager Radley (Udo Kier - "Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein" - "Spermula" - "Blade") can hear all the weird shit going through the common wall. So Kenneth gets pissed at Nikki for screwing up his relationship with Lisa (it's always the womans' fault !) and decides to kill her, cut her up and kick her out !..He's going crazy….so he goes out and kidnaps Lisa and brings her back to his apartment, ties her up and tortures her……
SPOILER ALERT:
Novak starts hearing terrible noises next door as Kenneth is trying to kill Lisa and so he calls the police. But Lisa gets away from Kenneth just as he is draining her blood and as she is poised over his strapped in torso and gets ready to murder the misogynistic mother fucker….the cops break in and shoot HER !!
Cut to the end of the movie….Kenneth gets his job back and a $10,000.00 bonus…just enough for him to buy another Nikki doll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Purple Gene gives "Love Object" 5 phony fingers up out of 10 for not having the Chick come out on top!
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National Library Week
April 10-16, 2005
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WHEN I WAS A KID
I WENT HIKING IN THE HILLS
I MADE THESE SCISSORS
Zen Man
(in the Berkeley hills on memory lane)
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still sunny & very windy.
The wind is blowing from the north & drowning out any noise from the Grand Prix.
Don't forget to listen to Erin Hart streaming live on KIRO tonight from 9pm - 1am (pdt). You never know who might show up.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN 'Cold Case', then the movie 'High Crimes'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'The Contender', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a RERUN 'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH 'Desperate Housewives' (runs 2 minutes long), followed by a FRESH 'Grey's Anatomy' (starts 2 minutes after the top of the hour).
The WB offers a RERUN 'Charmed', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then a RERUN 'Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge'.
Faux has a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'Malcolm', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development', then a RERUN '24'.
UPN, as usual, pisses away the night with RERUNs of 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Knievel's Wild Ride', followed by a FRESH 'The First 48', 'Family Plots', another 'Family Plots', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Groundhog Day', followed by the movie 'Groundhog Day', again, then the movie 'Crocodile Dundee II'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 6;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Think Fast, Father;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 4;
[4pm] 'The Avengers' - The Curious Case of the Countless Clues;
[5pm] 'The Royal Wedding: Charles and Camilla';
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Derby 4;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Newark 35;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Corry-Thomas;
[8pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Episode 3;
[9pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 2;
[10pm] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Episode 3;
[12am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 2;
[1am] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 1;
[2am] 'What Not to Wear' - Episode 3;
[3am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 2;
[4am] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 1;
[5am] 'What Not to Wear' - Episode 3;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio' (David Duchovny), 'Project Greenlight', 'Queer Eye', and 'Showdog Moms & Dads'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Office Space', followed by the movie 'Big Trouble', then 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
History has 'Horrors Of Hussein', 'High Hitler', 'Hitler's End', and 'Conquerors'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Blind Swordsman #2: Return Of Zatoichi' (1962);
[7:15AM] 'The Luzhin Defence' (2000);
[9:15AM] 'The Legend of 1900' (1998);
[11:30AM] 'Grateful Dawg' (2000);
[1PM] 'Alice et Martin' (1998);
[3:15PM] 'At The Angelika #95' (2005);
[3:45PM] Short: 'Bliss' (2000);
[4:15PM] 'Character' (1997);
[6:30PM] 'Grateful Dawg' (2000);
[8PM] 'Swingers' (1996);
[9:45PM] 'Before Night Falls' (2000);
[12AM] 'Swingers' (1996);
[1:45AM] 'Baby It's You' (1983);
[3:45AM] 'Before Night Falls' (2000). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi fills the night with 'Merlin'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] 'The Tune' (Feature);
[7:45AM] 'Silverstar' (Feature);
[8AM] 'A Place Called Chiapas' (Documentary);
[9:40AM] 'Mother of an Attitude' (Short);
[10AM] 'Particles of Truth' (Feature);
[11:45AM] 'La Salla' (Short);
[12PM] 'Since Otar Left' (Feature);
[1:40PM] 'No Problem' (Short);
[2PM] 'The Staircase: Chapters 1&2' (Documentary);
[3:45PM] 'Gerry' (Feature);
[5:30PM] 'The Sharktank Redemption' (Short);
[6PM] 'Shorts Program 119' (Short);
[7PM] 'The Hours' (Feature);
[9PM] 'What Alice Found' (Feature);
[10:35PM] 'Particles of Truth' (Feature);
[12:30AM] 'The Long Good Friday' (Feature);
[2:30AM] 'Gerry' (Feature);
[4:15AM] 'Since Otar Left' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[6am] 'Tom Thumb' (1958);
[8am] 'The Secret Garden' (1949);
[10am] 'Top Hat' (1935);
[12pm] 'Midnight Lace' (1960);
[2pm] 'The Thrill Of It All' (1963);
[4pm] 'Desk Set' (1957);
[6pm] 'His Girl Friday' (1940);
[8pm] 'The War Lord' (1965);
[10:15pm] 'Touch Of Evil' (1958);
[12:15 am 'Something New' (1920) SILENT ;
[1:15am] 'The Paper Chase' (1973);
[3:15am] 'Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light' (2000);
[4:15am] 'Blackboard Jungle' (1955). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Monday - 04/11
TCM features Charles Chaplin all day and
Buster Keaton all night.
[6am] 'Chaplin at Keystone Studios' (1914) SILENT ;
[7am] 'The Idle Class' (1921) SILENT ;
[7:45am] 'The Kid' (1921) SILENT ;
[8:45am] 'Pay Day' (1922) SILENT ;
[9:15am] 'The Pilgrim' (1923) SILENT ;
[10am] 'A Woman of Paris' (1923) SILENT ;
[11:30am] 'The Circus'(1928) SILENT ;
[12:45pm] 'City Lights' (1931) SILENT ;
[2:15pm] 'Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin' (2003);
[4:30pm] 'Modern Times' (1936);
[6pm] 'The Great Dictator' (1940);
[8pm] 'The Paleface' (1922);
[9:45pm] 'Cops' (1922) SILENT
[10:15pm] 'Our Hospitality' (1923) SILENT ;
[11:45pm] 'Sherlock Jr.' (1924) SILENT ;
[12:45am] 'The Navigator' (1924) SILENT ;
[2am] 'The Scarecrow' (1920) SILENT ;
[2:30am] 'The Cameraman' (1928) SILENT ;
[3:45am] 'Buster Keaton: So Funny It Hurt!' (2004);
[4:30am] 'Free And Easy' (1930). (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Deborah Gibson (L) and Jean Louisa Kelly perform Pastiche from 'Les Miserables' during 'What A Pair 3', a concert of songs from Broadway musicals performed by duets of famous women, to benefit the Friends of the Breast Program at the University of California in Los Angeles April 8, 2005. Various personalities were honoured for their long-term support of Dr. Helena Chang's work in the field of breast cancer research at the Revlon/UCLA Breast Center.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
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U.S. Military Detains
Cameraman
A cameraman carrying CBS press credentials was detained in Iraq earlier this week on suspicion of insurgent activity, the U.S. military said Friday, while the network issued a statement saying it was investigating the incident.
The cameraman suffered minor injuries Tuesday during a battle between U.S. soldiers and suspected insurgents, and was standing next to an alleged insurgent who was killed during the shootout, the military said.
The military issued a statement at the time saying the cameraman was shot because his equipment was mistaken for a weapon. But on Friday, the military said the cameraman was detained because there was probable cause to believe he posed "an imperative threat to coalition forces."
In a statement released Friday, CBS News said the man had worked as a freelancer for CBS for three months and that he was videotaping for the network when he was shot.
Cameraman
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British comedian Rowan Atkinson and his wife Sunestra Sastry arrive for the blessing after the civil wedding of Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla Duchess of Cornwall at St. George's Chapel at Windsor England, Saturday April 9, 2005.
Photo by Odd Andersen
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Keeps Sunday Time Slot
'Grey's Anatomy'
The new ABC drama "Grey's Anatomy," which has proved a strong Sunday night partner for "Desperate Housewives," will keep its time slot and cut short the season for "Boston Legal."
Both "Grey's Anatomy" and "Boston Legal," a reworking of the long-running ABC series "The Practice," were winning the time slot among total viewers and with advertiser-favored adults ages 18 to 49.
But "Grey's Anatomy" has averaged 17 million viewers compared with 12.5 million for the legal drama from veteran producer David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal," "Boston Public").
The blow for "Boston Legal" has been softened by the fact it will get a run of 27 episodes next season, which includes the five that were to air this season.
'Grey's Anatomy'
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Donates $2M
Tom Clancy
Author Tom Clancy, who reaped millions from blockbusters such as "Patriot Games" and "The Hunt for Red October," wants people to see life a little more clearly.
To that end, he has donated $2 million to fund a professorship in ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The first doctor to hold the seat being funded by Clancy's donation, Dr. Terrence P. O'Brien, has treated the writer, who was diagnosed in 2001 with pathological myopia. The rare type of nearsightedness, in which the eyeball continues to elongate, can lead to profound vision loss.
Tom Clancy
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British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking (front) is surrounded by pipers as he arrives at Oviedo's cathedral in Spain, April 9, 2005. Hawking, who won the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord in 1989, is in Asturias' capital to launch events celebrating the UNESCO-backed XXV Anniversary of the Prince of Asturias Awards with a conference scheduled for April 12, 2005.
Photo by Alonso Gonzales
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500 Musicians to Play
Rochester Jazz Fest
Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea and Sonny Rollins are among more than 500 jazz singers and musicians playing at this year's Rochester International Jazz Festival.
The fourth annual, nine-day festival June 10-18 will feature more than 100 performances ranging from formal concerts to free street gigs.
Rollins will be the top draw at the Eastman Theater on June 10, with Chaka Khan and Will Downing performing the next night. Corea, along with special guest Strunz & Farah, will take the stage on June 14, followed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on June 16.
Rochester Jazz Fest
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Oscar Begins Celebrating Centenary
Greta Garbo
Oscar is celebrating the centenary birthday of one of the greatest legends of cinema, the late screen goddess Greta Garbo.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences kicks off the celebrations for the Swedish-born superstar's 100th birthday on Thursday with a special tribute led by the few people left in Hollywood who knew her.
The event, to be hosted by Academy Award-nominated actress Lena Olin, will include film clips and will include appearances by actress Joan Leslie and authors Gore Vidal and Gavin Lambert.
Greta Garbo
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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G.O.P. Hypocrisy Wedding News
Arthur J. Finkelstein
Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged political campaigns to elect conservatives in the United States and Israel over the last 25 years, said Friday that he had married his male partner in a civil ceremony at his home in Massachusetts.
Mr. Finkelstein, 59, who has made a practice of defeating Democrats by trying to demonize them as liberal, said in a brief interview that he had married his partner of 40 years to ensure that the couple had the same benefits available to married heterosexual couples.
Some of Mr. Finkelstein's associates said they were startled to learn that this prominent American conservative had married a man, given his history with the party, especially at a time when many Republican leaders, including resident Bush, have campaigned against same-sex marriage and proposed amending the Constitution to ban it. Mr. Finkelstein has been allied over the years with Republicans who have fiercely opposed gay rights measures, including former Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, and has been the subject of attacks by gay rights activists who have accused him of hypocrisy. He was identified as gay in a Boston Magazine article in 1996.
Arthur J. Finkelstein
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Actor Frankie Muniz (R) is congratulated by former NBA All-Star Karl Malone after winning the 29th Annual Pro/Celebrity Race in Long Beach, California, April 9, 2005.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
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Where Faux Gets 'Em
Jeff Varner
Jeff Varner, who was bumped from "Survivor" in 2001, has a new job in reality television: TV newsman.
Varner will join WGHP, the Fox affiliate based in High Point, as a weekend anchor, the station announced Friday.
Prior to his stint on "Survivor," Varner worked as an Internet project manager in New York City and earned a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jeff Varner
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A man walks through an exhibit of hundreds of pairs of military boots set up as a memorial to U.S. service members killed in the war in Iraq, Saturday, April 9, 2005, in Seattle. 'Eyes Wide Open,' a traveling exhibit honoring fallen U.S. military personnel and Iraqi civilians, is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. The tour began in January in Chicago and is on display at the Seattle Center through Sunday. It makes it's final stop in Tacoma, Wash., April 12-13.
Photo by Elaine Thompson
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Indiana's 'Village Idiot'
Mark Carmichael
The competition was fierce and foolish, but a man who accidentally sawed through a live wire and topped that by wrecking his truck hours after buying it more than earned the honorary title "Village Idiot."
Mark Carmichael's blunders won him the good-natured award that's been handed out for years in the tiny Brown County town of Story. The winner is whoever gets the most votes from regulars at the Story Inn's saloon.
The bar's patrons had more than enough evidence to give him the honor - not least of which was the pig roast incident.
"I cooked a couple of hogs out there on some bed springs once," he explained to a dismayed visitor.
Carmichael had cut the carcasses in half with a chain saw, then used a pitchfork to turn the meat as it cooked. He ended up serving up the portions with a hatchet.
"People loved it," he said. "We called it Louisiana style."
Mark Carmichael
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Iraqi Shi'ites loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr hold cut-outs of British Prime Minister Tony Blair (C), former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (L), and U.S. President George W. Bush during a protest rally in Baghdad April 9, 2005. The rally was called on the second anniversary of the fall of Baghdad with protestors demanding an end to the U.S. military presence in Iraq and a speedy trial for former president Saddam Hussein.
Photo by Akram Saleh
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Oldest Thing On Earth
Speck of Crystal
Call it much ado about almost nothing. To create buzz about an otherwise arcane subject, the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed off a tiny speck of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old.
Saturday's daylong celebration was capped with "The Rock Concert" by jazz musicians who composed music to try to answer the question: What does 4.4 billion years old sound like?
Though scientists acknowledged there wasn't much to see, spectators used a microscope to check out the tiny grain, which measures less than two human hairs in diameter.
After the festivities the object will return to its native Australia with Simon Wilde, professor at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, who made its discovery in 1984. The sample will eventually be put on display at a natural history museum in that country.
Old Speck of Crystal
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Gerald Hockemeier holds a newborn female Western lowland gorilla Saturday, April 9, 2005, at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb. The baby gorilla's mother, Timu, famous for being the world's first test tube gorilla, failed to bond with the newborn, which will be hand-raised and then given to a surrogate gorilla mother, in hopes Timu will learn from that relationship and bond better when she has another young gorilla, zoo director Dr. Lee Simmons said.
Photo by Dave Weaver
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