BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 15 April, 2007

Sunday

15 April, 2007

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[963 days in a row]

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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Nat Hentoff: Saving Free Speech and Jesus (villagevoice.com)
Religious and conservative groups support the 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' banner under fire at the Supreme Court


Margy Waller and Shawn Fremstad: Spirit-Crushing 'McJobs' Are Putting an End to Upward Mobility (Philadelphia Daily News. Posted on AlterNet.org)
If we want to save the middle class, it's time to focus on what's happening in the low-wage labor market.


PAUL KRUGMAN: For God's Sake (The New York Times)
In 1981, Gary North, a leader of the Christian Reconstructionist movement - the openly theocratic wing of the Christian right - suggested that the movement could achieve power by stealth. "Christians must begin to organize politically within the present party structure," he wrote, "and they must begin to infiltrate the existing institutional order."


Andrew Ross: The Teen Commandments (villagevoice.com)
Acht, the wild cliques! Jon Savage documents the pre-history of youth subculture.


Harvey Wasserman: May Peace Be with You, Kurt Vonnegut
As the media fills with whimsical good-byes to one of America's greatest writers, lets not forget one of the great engines driving this wonderful man---he HATED war. Including this one in Iraq. And he had utter contempt for the men who brought it about.


Morris Dickstein: Going Native (theamericanscholar.org)
When American literature became good enough for Americans, what happened to the literary canon?


Froma Harrop: What's Sick About "The Secret" (creators.com)
Karl Rove has been accused of many things. Writing the bestseller "The Secret" is not among them. But it would have been a masterstroke had Bush's political brain done it. "The Secret" is a splendid strategy for neutralizing Democratic voters.


Henry Blodget: Spend Every Dime! (slate.com)
Why U.S. tax policy makes saving a sucker's game.


Timothy Noah: The Deeper Fakery of Couric's Plagiarism (slate.com)
Why original thought is harder to steal.


DINITIA SMITH: Kurt Vonnegut, Counterculture's Novelist, Dies (NY TIMES)
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died [recently] in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.


Commentoon: Imus Comments (womensenews.org)

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Reader Comment

Roscoe Lee Browne

Thanks for the bio.

You're one of the very few sources I've checked that covered the death of Roscoe Lee Browne. Kurt Vonnegut's death was definitely worth reporting, but I fail to understand why so many chose to report his death and not Browne's. Thank you so much for the write up you did on Browne. It was well done.

Linda    >^..^<


You're welcome, Linda!
Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis were also overlooked when they both died on 22 November, 1963.

Wikipedia:
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22 , 1963 )
On his deathbed, unable to speak, Huxley made a written request to his wife for "LSD, 100 µg, i.m.". According to her account of his death (in her book This Timeless Moment), she obliged with an injection at 11:45am and another a couple of hours later. He died peacefully at 5:20 that afternoon, November 22, 1963. Media coverage of his death was overshadowed by news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on the same day, as did the death of the Irish author C. S. Lewis.

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November, 1898 - 22 November, 1963 )
On November 22 , 1963, Lewis collapsed in his bedroom at 5:30 pm and died a few minutes later, exactly one week before what would have been his 65th birthday. Media coverage of his death was overshadowed by news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on the same day, as did the death of Aldous Huxley.

OTOH, with all the hours to fill, the MSM could do better.

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

A SIGN OF OUR TIMES!

THE 176 MILLION DOLLAR BONER FOR JESUS!

FLAXEN HEADED FASCIST HO!

THE PAT ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF LAW!

CHIEF VU DOO!

THE BIG, BAD WOLFOWITZ GETS A BLOW JOB: UPDATE!

WHAT PART OF "CAPITALIST KILLER SCUM" DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?

THE WOLFOWITZ BONER AND THE CHIMP HO'S. "OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WHORING!"

"AFTER CAREFULLY CONSIDERING THE WHOLE SITUATION, I STAND WITH MY BACK TO THE WALL, AND WALKING IS BETTER THAN RUNNING AWAY, AND CRAWLING AINT NO GOOD AT ALL!"

YOU'RE NOT A FUCKING KING YOU DUMB FUCKING CHIMP!

GO TO FUCKING HELL YOU LOW LIFE RACIST CONSERVATIVE SCUM!

WHAT IS THIS WINGNUT ASSHAT SAYING? GRAB YOUR CAN, HERE COME THE GARBAGE MAN. CONSERVATIVES REALLY SUCK!

SNOOP DOGG AND THE WHITE WING HONKY!!! PRICKS IN A POD!

RICK PERRY'S HAIRBRAINED FASCIST IDEA!

THE SUNDAY FUNNIES!

THE ORGINAL HO DIES!

JUST SAY BLOW!

GETTING SWEATY IN THE MC ROVE MOSH PIT!

WHY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL LOSE THE WAR IN IRAQ

HOW ABOUT PLAN "D"! DUMP THIS CHIMP HUGGER!


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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and cool morning, overcast afternoon.

The kid & I finally got the garden planted.

7 kinds of tomatoes, 2 kinds of onions (red & white) and shallots, too. Some banana peppers, yellow wax beans, lettuce and basil.


Tonight, Sunday:

CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Amazing Race', then a FRESH 'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH 'Without A Trace'.

NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Deal Or No Deal', then a FRESH 'Apprentice'.

ABC begins the night with a FRESH 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' then a FRESH 'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH 'Brothers & Sisters'.

The CW offers a RERUN '7th Heaven', followed by a FRESH '7th Heaven', then a RERUN 'America's Next Top Model'.

Faux has a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN 'Simpsons', then the SERIES PREMIERE 'Drive'.

MY has the movie 'Gigli', followed by the movie 'Wag The Dog'.

A&E has 'The First 48', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', 'Sons Of Hollywood', and another 'Sons Of Hollywood'.

AMC offers the movie 'Moulin Rouge', followed by the movie 'Saturday Night Fever', then the movie 'Saturday Night Fever', again.

BBC  -   
 [11:00 AM]    The BRIT Awards 2007 - 2007 BRIT Awards;
 [1:00 PM]    Robin Hood - Ep 1 Will You Tolerate This?;
 [2:00 PM]    Robin Hood - Ep 2 Sheriff Got Your Tongue?;
 [3:00 PM]    Robin Hood - Ep 3 Who Shot the Sheriff?;
 [4:00 PM]    Robin Hood - Ep 4 Parent Hood;
 [5:00 PM]    Robin Hood - Ep 5 The Arrow and the Optic;
 [6:00 PM]    Robin Hood - Ep 6 The Taxman Cometh;
 [7:00 PM]    Robin Hood - Ep 7 The Brothers A Dale;
 [8:00 PM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep 4 Guyonvarch;
 [9:00 PM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep 5 Bowling;
 [10:00 PM]    Footballer's Wive$: Overtime - Episode 13;
 [10:30 PM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 21 Hayes: Barbour;
 [11:00 PM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep 4 Guyonvarch;
 [12:00 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep 5 Bowling;
 [1:00 AM]    Footballer's Wive$: Overtime - Episode 13;
 [1:30 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 21 Hayes: Barbour;
 [2:00 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep 4 Guyonvarch;
 [3:00 AM]    Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 1 Door Handle;
 [3:40 AM]    Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 2 Happy New Year;
 [4:20 AM]    Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 3 Sex;
 [5:00 AM]    Peep Show - Episode 1;
 [5:30 AM]    Peep Show - Episode 2;
 [6:00 AM]    BBC World News - BBC World News.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.

Comedy Central has has the movie 'Trading Places', 'Ron White: You Can't Fix Stupid', followd by a FRESH 'Mind Of Mencia', then a FRESH 'Reno 911!'.

FX has the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'Alien Vs. Predator', and 'The Riches'.

HBO ofers a FRESH 'The Sopranos', followed by a FRESH 'Entourage'.

History has 'Snipers', 'The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy', and 'Fort Know: Secrets Revealed'.

IFC  -   
 [06:25 AM]    Life Tastes Good;
 [07:55 AM]    In the Bedroom;
 [10:15 AM]    Red Bull Ride to the Hills;
 [10:45 AM]    Men With Guns;
 [01:00 PM]    Life Tastes Good;
 [02:30 PM]    In the Bedroom;
 [04:45 PM]    IFC News Special;
 [04:55 PM]    Men With Guns;
 [07:10 PM]    Brown's Requiem;
 [09:00 PM]    The Funeral;
 [10:45 PM]    Leaving Las Vegas;
 [12:45 AM]    Fall Time;
 [02:20 AM]    Media Lab Results;
 [02:30 AM]    The Funeral;
 [04:15 AM]    Leaving Las Vegas.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has 'Stephen King's The Stand', 'The Dresden Files', and a FRESH 'The Dresden Files'.

Sundance  -   
 [04:00 AM]    Leaving Normal;
 [06:00 AM]    In Short: Subway;
 [07:00 AM]    Frankie Starlight;
 [09:00 AM]    Tony Takitani;
 [10:00 AM]    Reconstruction;
 [12:00 PM]    The Parole Officer;
 [01:00 PM]    Hotel Infinity;
 [02:00 PM]    Episode 6;
 [02:00 PM]    The Red Toy;
 [02:00 PM]    Da Kath & Kim Code;
 [04:00 PM]    September 30, 1955;
 [06:00 PM]    Six Shooter;
 [06:00 PM]    Love + Hate;
 [08:00 PM]    Episode 3: That Way Madness Lies;
 [09:00 PM]    Episode 1: Eddie Vedder + Laird Hamilton;
 [10:00 PM]    Caravaggio;
 [11:00 PM]    choke.;
 [12:00 AM]    Pray;
 [01:00 AM]    Six Shooter;
 [02:00 AM]    Episode 3: That Way Madness Lies;
 [03:00 AM]    Episode 1: Eddie Vedder + Laird Hamilton;
 [04:00 AM]    In Short: Subway;
 [04:00 AM]    Edward II.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Raffles (1939);
 [7:30 AM]      Not As a Stranger (1955);
 [10:00 AM]      His Girl Friday (1940);
 [12:00 PM]      The Princess And The Pirate (1944);
 [2:00 PM]      Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936);
 [4:00 PM]      Hannah and Her Sisters (1986);
 [6:00 PM]      The Nutty Professor (1963);
 [8:00 PM]      Moby Dick (1956);
 [10:00 PM]      Namu, the Killer Whale (1966);
 [12:00 AM]      Broken Blossoms (1919)    SILENT ;
 [2:00 AM]      Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933);
 [4:15 AM]      Robocop (1987).    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Monday  -  04/16/07

TCM pays tribute to Charles Chaplin, who was born on this day in 1889.
 [6:00 AM]      The Kid (1921)    SILENT ;
 [7:00 AM]      The Gold Rush (1925)    SILENT ;
 [8:15 AM]      City Lights (1931);
 [9:45 AM]      Limelight (1952);
 [12:00 PM]      Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003);
 [2:15 PM]      A King in New York (1957);

 [4:00 PM]      The King And The Chorus Girl (1937);
 [6:00 PM]      Her Highness And The Bellboy (1945);
 [8:00 PM]      Clash of the Wolves (1925)    SILENT ;
 [9:30 PM]      The Adventures of Rusty (1945);
 [11:00 PM]      Benji (1974);
 [12:30 AM]      Bell, Book and Candle (1959);
 [2:30 AM]      Bend of the River (1952);
 [4:15 AM]      The Far Country (1955).    (ALL TIMES EDT)



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Actress Jennifer Tilly poses at the 13th annual Race to Erase MS in Century City, California April 13, 2007. The evening benefits The Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
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Hamlet for the Shakespeare-Impaired

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ASCAP Founders Award

Melissa Etheridge

It has been quite a year for singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge.

At the behest of former vice president Al Gore, she wrote the song "I Need to Wake Up" for the environmental documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," and ended up with an Oscar for her efforts.

Come July 7, Etheridge will lend her voice to Live Earth, Gore's seven-continent concert to raise awareness for what he has coined SOS, Save Our Selves: A Campaign for a Climate in Crisis.

On Wednesday, Etheridge will be receive the ASCAP Founders Award during the performing rights group's 24th annual Pop Music Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. The ceremony is part of ASCAP's "I Create Music Week" to celebrate songwriters and music-makers. Other festivities surrounding this event include the Film & Television Music Awards honoring composer Marc Shaiman, and the second annual ASCAP "I Create Music" Expo, a three-day conference dedicated to songwriting and composing, at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel.

For an interview: Melissa Etheridge

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Movie magnate George Lucas looks at the car he damaged during practice Friday, in the paddock before the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race on the street course of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., Saturday, April 14, 2007.
Photo by Reed Saxon
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Famousr: Who Is More Famous?

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Grandmother Blogs From Baghdad

Jane Stillwater

Jane Stillwater is an unlikely war correspondent. She's 64, a self-described Berkeley "flower child, 40 years later" and broke.

So how did this mother of four grown children end up in Baghdad, churning out commentary ranging from shock at Thursday's bombing of the Iraqi parliament cafeteria, to the weirdness of touring Saddam Hussein's bathroom?

Inspired by a sense of outrage and determined to blog from inside the war zone, Stillwater ate peanut butter sandwiches for months to save up for a ticket to Kuwait. She got a small Texas newspaper to help her secure press accreditation, and eventually boarded a troop transport to Baghdad.

Jane Stillwater

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bartcook

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Cast May Reunite On Stage

'Frasier'

The cast of the long-running hit television comedy "Frasier" could reunite, but on the stage rather than the small screen, David Hyde Pierce, an actor who starred in the show, said.

Pierce, who is starring in a new Broadway musical "Curtains," told Reuters late on Thursday he had met other members of the cast recently while they were in New York. They included Kelsey Grammer, who played psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane, and John Mahoney, who played his father, retired policeman Martin Crane.

"Absolutely, we talked about it," the 47-year-old actor said in an interview. "We got together and had breakfast and all we talked about is what plays we might do together."

Pierce, who played Frasier's brother Niles, said any reunion would likely be a play rather than a musical.

'Frasier'

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Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, speaks to the media during a break from hearings outside a court in Moscow, Saturday, April 14, 2007. Police detained Garry Kasparov and more than 100 other activists Saturday as they gathered for a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin's government in central Moscow. Kasparov told reporters he faces charges of shouting anti-government slogans.
Photo by Ivan Sekretarev
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Online Converters

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Barred By Clerics

Genie Shows

Malaysian Islamic scholars have called for a halt to popular exhibitions billed as featuring ghosts, genies and other supernatural beings, saying they are forbidden and could undermine the faith of devout Muslims.

Many Malaysians are willing to suspend disbelief when dealing with the supernatural, and the exhibitions capitalise on a widespread fascination with the ghouls and goblins that populate Malaysia's legends and folklore.

But supernatural beings should not be played up in exhibitions, state news agency Bernama quoted the chairman of Malaysia's National Fatwa Council as saying.

"They are beyond the comprehension of the human mind as they involve the invisible world," Abdul Shukor Husain said.

Genie Shows

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Vidiot Speak
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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Simpson Book-Rights Auction On Hold

'If I Did It'

An auction for the rights to the canceled O.J. Simpson book "If I Did It" was put on hold after the company that struck the book deal with HarperCollins filed for bankruptcy Friday.

The filing in a Florida bankruptcy court by Lorraine Brooke Associates - said to be owned by Simpson's children - means no further action can be taken in regards to the book rights until a federal judge reviews the case.

"As far as we know the auction will not be held on Tuesday," said attorney David Cook, who represents slaying victim Ron Goldman's family, which has tried to collect a $33.5 million civil judgment from Simpson for about a decade.

No date has been set for the bankruptcy hearing, but Cook hopes to get an order from the judge that would allow the auction to continue.

If I Did It

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In this photo released by the Museum of Modern Art, artist Richard Serra assists in the installation of 100 ton steel plate belonging to his sculpture entitled 'Intersection II' in the museum courtyard, Saturday, April 14, 2007, in New York. The work is part of an exhibit entitled 'Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years' which opens June 3, 2007. The sculpture is made up of huge steel plates that were lifted, one at a time, over the Garden wall from West 54th Street, which was closed to traffic.
Photo by Daniela Stigh
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English Russia » Graffiti from Ukraine

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Suds Fill Streets

Boise

City streets got an unscheduled cleaning as a sudsy citrus-scented foam erupted from manhole covers like geysers.

The bubbles spewed from a three-block stretch on the city's east side Thursday after American Linen accidentally released detergent into the municipal sewer lines. The combination of gravity and churning water whipped the soap into a sudsy foam.

Officials say the company had a malfunction, caused by human error, in its automated detergent loading device, releasing 167 gallons of a harmless but concentrated detergent.

Crews worked during the day to disperse the suds before they reached the treatment facility, then used soft-spray hoses and yard blowers to reduce foam levels closer to the plant.

Boise

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A woman dressed in "Oiran" costume performs on stage at a festival in Tokyo's Asakusa district, April 14, 2007. "Oiran", also known as "Tayuu", were high-class courtesans predominant in the Edo period. They practiced the arts of dance, music, poetry and calligraphy to entertain men in the pleasure quarters.
Photo by Kiyoshi Ota
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15 Strangest Coincidences In World History

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Restaurant Closing

Taboo by the Delta

Local diners with adventurous palates have less than two months to try rattlesnake, alligator and other exotic meats.

The restaurant Taboo by the Delta is closing its doors June 1 when its owner retires after 10 years in business.

The name of the restaurant reflects the hidden allure of "things that are forbidden. Things that would hurt you," owner Jesse "Boo" Burkett said. "People just buy into it."

"People are so curious to things that are different," said Burkett. However, he acknowledged, "you do get negative reactions from people sometimes."

Taboo by the Delta

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A model shows accessories for a bathing suit from the line of fashion designer Algirmiro Palencia of Venezuela during the opening show of Miami Fashion Week in Miami April 13, 2007.
Photo by Hans Deryk
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The Daily Render by Nikolas ® Schiller

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Pieces Transformed Into Watches

Titanic

Steel and coal from the Titanic have been transformed into a new line of luxury wristwatches that claim to capture the essence of the legendary oceanliner which sank in 1912.

Geneva watchmaker Romain Jerome SA billed its "Titanic-DNA" collection as among the most exclusive pieces showcased this week at Baselworld, the watch and jewellery industry's largest annual trade fair.

To make the watches, which were offered for sale for the first time in Basel for between $7,800 and $173,100, the Swiss company created an alloy using the slab from the Titanic with steel being used in a Harland and Wolff replica of the vessel.

The gold, platinum and steel time pieces have black dial faces made of lacquer paint that includes coal recovered from the debris field of the Titanic wrecksite, offered for sale by the U.S. company RMS Titanic Inc.

Titanic

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The Lost Virtual Tour: Oahu, Hawaii - Filming Locations for ABC's Lost

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In Memory

Don Ho

Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune "Tiny Bubbles," has died. He was 76.

Ho entertained Hollywood's biggest stars and thousands of tourists for four decades. For many, no trip to Hawaii was complete without seeing his Waikiki show - a mix of songs, jokes, double entendres, Hawaii history and audience participation.

Donald Tai Loy Ho, who was Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German, was born Aug. 13, 1930, in Honolulu and grew up in the then-rural countryside of Kaneohe.

Inspired by the U.S. military planes flying in and out of Hawaii during World War II, Ho joined the Air Force. As the Korean War wound down, he piloted transport planes between Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu and Tokyo.

When he returned home and took over his parents' struggling neighborhood bar, Honey's, he put together a band and started performing at his father's request.

Honey's became a happening place on Oahu, with other Hawaiian musicians stopping in for jam sessions. Ho began to play at various spots at Hawaii, and soon, he was packing places such as the Coconut Grove in Hollywood and the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.

Ho also became a television star, and hosted the "The Don Ho Show" on ABC from 1976-77. One of Ho's most memorable TV appearances was a 1972 cameo on an episode of "The Brady Bunch."

Don Ho

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In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Seven, left, the Central Park's Zoo's newest seal pup nuzzles with her new friend Herbie, in the water at the Central Park Zoo, Wednesday, April 11, 2007. Seven was but a few months old and near death when rescued in September 2006 by the Marine Animal Lifeline, a group based in Maine that rehabilitates stranded animals and aims to release them back into the wild. Seven couldn't survive in the wild due to an impairment in her right flipper so she got to join the seal community at New York City's Central Park Zoo.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher
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