BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 26 December, 2004
Sunday
26 December, 2004
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Torie Osborn: The Change You Wish to See
Many Americans donate generously. But strategic giving is important: Your contributions are one of the most powerful tools you have for making the world a better place.
Liza Featherstone: Down and Out in Discount America
To effectively battle corporate criminals like Wal-Mart, the public must be engaged as citizens, not merely as shoppers.
Anna Lappé: What Would Santa Do?
The Bush administration has just announced cuts of an estimated $100 million to one of our most critical aid initiatives: helping the poor and hungry around the world feed themselves. Despite enough food produced in the world to make us all chubby, the United Nations recently announced that hunger is on the rise again. Already more than one in seven people in the world go hungry.
Annalee Newitz: Fake Future
If Internet culture is going to bite us in the ass, its problems will grow out of rampant individualism and the cacophony of voices contributing to the medium.
Quicktime Video: Aswad tells us how photographing people in Oakland turned into a fashion trend
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Suspiria'
Purple Gene reviews the movie "Suspiria" (1977) [AKA: "Suspiria - in der Krallen des Bosen"] - directed by Dario Argento
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Instead of midnight mass on Christmas Eve I went to Midnight Arthouse Italian Horror flick on the IFC. A movie I'd never heard of before, "Suspiria", caught my attention not just for the title but also for the bizarre oversaturated color filming and odd staging. Apparantly this first time horror film director, Dario Argento, had delusions of Hitchcock and Fellini - as in "Juliet of the Spirits" meets "The Birds" in a haunted Ballet studio in rural Germany that just happens to be occupied by a coven of old witches, young bitches and bats........
For a movie rather thin on plot and dialogue, we get scary tables chasing a screaming heroine and exploding plants and wall paintings revealing secret doors and Vampire bats flying out of closets and blood filled sinks and big ugly women whispering "Kill American - Kill American"!!!!! All kinds of occult oddities running amock on a shadowy and shady school...........
Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper - across between Karen Allen and Genevieve Bujold) is an American Ballet Dancer and she travels to Germany to attend the Tanz Akademie of Dance. She arrives on a dark and stormy night only to be turned away at the door. After witnessing a girl fleeing Tanz and being horribly murdered, somehow Suzy winds up going back and living in the Akademie with the head mistress Madam Blanc (Joan Bennett) and some other oddly suspicious old women. Suzy starts hearing things and I mean really hearing things.....moaning and screaming....and the phone stops working and all the lights start flashing....and she sees things in the mirrors (lots of mirrors) and she has these vivid visions of herself being cut up and suspects that the old bitches are witches and she's right!!!!!!!
This movies' tagline is telling "The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes are the first 92 minutes" and by the time I was experiencing the end of this strange intriguing and rather amatuerish horror NOIR, I couldn't stop staring - and shaking my head - and saying out loud, "This is fuckin' WEIRD" until Suzy finds out all her nightmares are real and the Coven wants to kill her and she gets out of the place just as it bursts into flames and all the hags go up in smoke and Suzy dances away...........
Purple Gene gives "Suspiria" 8 flaming candelabras out of 10 for catching my attention on Christmas Eve!
Purple Gene
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DOG BUDDHA STATUE
STARING IN ELEGANT REPOSE
NOT A SINGLE FLEA
Zen Man
(in the Mountains)
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and pleasant.
The kid got some fun stuff for Christmas. His only disappointment was Zoo Tycoon 2.
He loves his Zoo Tycoon 1, and has been clamoring for #2 for several months.
Unfortunately, #2 takes about twice the memory of his current computer, and there are no upgrades in the immediate future.
VCR ALERT - Comedy Central reruns the 5 best episodes of 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart @ 9pm est/pst.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN 'Cold Case', then the movie 'Ocean's Eleven'.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then 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 RERUN 'Home', followed by a RERUN 'Desperate Housewives'.
The WB here offers 'NBA Basketball' (Clips visit the Rockets), followed by a RERUN 'Charmed', then a FRESH 'The Mountain'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Totally Outrageous Videos', followed by a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN 'Arrested Development', then a RERUN 'Malcolm', followed by another RERUN 'Malcolm'.
UPN has the movie 'A Very Brady Christmas', followed by a RERUN 'Fear Factor', then another RERUN 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', followed by the movie 'Monster's Ball', then 'Dog The Bounty Hunter'.
AMC offers the movie 'Tammy And The Millionaire', followed by the movie 'Tammy And The Bachelor', then the movie 'Tammy Tell Me True'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 2;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Entertaining Father Stone;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 25;
[3:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 26;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - A Double in Diamonds;
[5pm] 'The Avengers' - Never, Never, Say Die;
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Westpoint 12;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Ardingly 17;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Burdett;
[7:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Hinchcliffe;
[8pm] 'This Life' - Fantasy Football;
[9pm] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 5;
[10pm] 'Mine All Mine' - Episode 5;
[11pm] 'This Life' - Fantasy Football;
[12am] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 5;
[1am] 'Mine All Mine' - Episode 5;
[2am] 'This Life' - Fantasy Football;
[3am] 'Cold Feet '- Episode 5;
[4am] 'Mine All Mine' - Episode 5;
[5am] 'This Life' - Fantasy Football;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Barbra Streisand), and 'Cirque de Soleil: Varekai'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', another 'MAD TV', followed by the top 5 'Jon Stewart/Daily Show''s of the year.
History has 'The Real Spartacus', 'Countdown To Armageddon', and 'Nostradamaus: 500 Years Later'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Blind Swordsman #4: Masseur Ichi, The Fugitive (1963);
[7:30AM] 'At The Angelika #91' (2004);
[8AM] 'This Is Not A Film' (2003);
[9:30AM] 'IFC 10th Year Anniversary Special' (2004);
[10AM] 'The Kids Are Alright' (1979);
[12PM] 'Sunshine State' (2002);
[2:30PM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase';
[3:30PM] 'The Kids Are Alright' (1979);
[5:30PM] 'Sunshine State' (2002);
[8PM] 'Death and the Maiden' (1994);
[10PM] 'Lantana' (2001);
[12AM] 'Death and the Maiden' (1994);
[2AM] 'Chattahoochee' (1989);
[3:45AM] 'Lantana' (2001);
[5:45AM] Short: 'Happy Birthday to Me' (1998). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Epoch: Evolution', followed by the FRESH made-for-TV movie 'Fire: Nature Unleashed'.
Sundance -
[6:45AM] 'The Target Shoots First' (Documentary);
[8AM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: The Singing Detective' (Original Production);
[8:30AM] 'Shorts Program 102' (Short);
[9:30AM] 'Funny Ha Ha' (Feature);
[11AM] 'McLuhan's Wake' (Documentary);
[12:40PM] 'el Octavo dia La Creacion' (Short);
[1PM] 'Borstal Boy' (Feature);
[2:35PM] 'The Target Shoots First' (Documentary);
[3:50PM] 'Ocularist' (Feature);
[4PM] 'Shorts Program 102' (Short);
[5PM] 'Funny Ha Ha' (Feature);
[6:30PM] 'La Jetee' (Short);
[7PM] 'This Charming Man' (Der Er En Yndig Mand) (Feature);
[7:30PM] 'The Hired Hand' (Feature
[9PM] 'The Singing Detective' (Feature);
[10:50PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: The Singing Detective' (Original Production);
[11:15PM] 'La Repetition' (Feature);
[12:50AM] 'The Lover' (Feature);
[2:35AM] 'Whole' (Documentary);
[3:30AM] 'Hush!' (Feature);
[5:50AM] 'The Hired Hand' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'The Barretts Of Wimpole Street' (1957);
[8am] 'Forbidden Planet' (1956);
[10am] 'It Happened In Brooklyn' (1947);
[12pm] 'Sullivan's Travels' (1941);
[2pm] 'Marnie' (1964);
[4:15pm] 'Notorious' (1946);
[6pm] 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (1936);
[8pm] 'The Smiling Lieutenant' (1931);
[10pm] 'Gigi' (1958)
[12am] 'Spite Marriage' (1929) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'Annie Get Your Gun' (1950);
[3:30am] 'Girl Rush' (1944);
[4:45am] 'Cyclone On Horseback' (1941). (ALL TIMES EST)
Monday - 12/27
TCM celebrates the ever-fabulous Marlene Dietrich (today would have been her
103rd birthday) all morning & afternoon, then
pays tribute James Stewart all night.
[6am] 'The Blue Angel' (1930) [AKA: 'Der Blaue Engel'];
[8am] 'Morocco' (1930);
[10am] 'Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song' (2000);
[12pm] 'Destry Rides Again' (1939);*
[2pm] 'Manpower' (1941);
[4pm] 'Kismet' (1944);
[6pm] 'Rancho Notorious' (1952);
[8:00 pm] 'Vertigo' (1958)
[10:30 pm] 'Rope!' (1948);
[12am] 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' (1956);
[2:15am] 'Rear Window' (1954);
[4:15am] 'The Mortal Storm' (1940). (ALL TIMES EST)
* directed by Miss Dietrich's grandson, the insightful David Riva.
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Actress Isabella Rossellini poses with Terry, the Guide Dog Foundation labrador-poodle mix she is raising, in New York Monday Dec. 6, 2004. Since 1946, the foundation has bred and trained guide dogs, providing them free of charge to blind people.
Photo by Richard Drew
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Tops Rock Song Poll
'Stairway To Heaven'
Perennial rock favourite "Stairway to Heaven" by British group Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock music song of all time, a new poll said.
The rambling epic from 1971 obliterated the opposition -- all songs from the 1970s -- in the survey by British specialist radio station Planet Rock, gaining more than 70 percent of the vote.
In a Top 10 was dominated largely by long-defunct groups, with Led Zeppelin taking up three of the places, while the most recent favourite was "Highway to Hell" by Australia's AC/DC, from 1979.
The Top 10 was:
1 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
2 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
3 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
4 Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
5 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
6 Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
7 The Eagles - Hotel California
8 Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
9 AC/DC - Highway to Hell
10 Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower
'Stairway To Heaven'
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Snoop Dogg signs a young fan's shirt before the start of a game between the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
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Freed After Arrest
Mordechai Vanunu
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was released by Israeli police after being arrested trying to enter the West Bank town of Bethlehem to attend midnight mass, police sources said.
Vanunu was forced to post bail of 50,000 shekels (11,500 dollars) and ordered to remain at his residence at St George's Anglican cathedral in east Jerusalem where he has been living since his release in April.
Vanunu converted to Christianity shortly before he was arrested, fuelling accusations among Israelis that he is a traitor to the Jewish state.
Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said Vanunu had been arrested while wearing a Father Christmas hat while travelling in a vehicle that was marked up as a press vehicle.
Mordechai Vanunu
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Heading Berlinale Jury
Roland Emmerich
German movie maker Roland Emmerich will head the jury at the Berlinale film festival, which will run February 10-15, the organisers announced.
Emmerich, whose films include "Independence Day" and "The Patriot", got his start in the international world of cinema when his student film "The Noah's Ark Principle" was screened at the Berlinale in 1984.
The organisers also said that eleven films, eight of them world premieres, have been selected for competition so far in the festival's 55th edition.
Roland Emmerich
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Billion-Dollar Profit
HBO
The US cable television network HBO has broken industry records by becoming the first broadcaster ever to reap more than one billion dollars in profits, the entertainment press said.
The network, responsible for a slew of award-winning, globally-popular shows including "Sex in the City," "The Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under" broke through the landmark barrier in 2004, Daily Variety said.
The unit of media giant Time-Warner had notched up 960 million dollars in pure profits in 2003, compared to a 500-million-dollar profit peak for terrestrial broadcasters set by NBC several years ago.
HBO
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Models present wedding dresses by Turkish designer Muhterem Censeveral during the 'Walk of Islam' fashion show, in Berlin, December 25, 2004. The presentation by German and Germany-based Turkish designers is organized for Muslim women and is the first such event in Germany, according to Werkstatt der Kulturen, or the culture workshop.
Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
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Found In Japanese Aquariums
Gay Penguins
Researchers have found a number of same-sex pairs of penguins at aquariums in Japan, with an imbalance between the numbers of male and female birds suspected to be the cause, a report said.
A research group led by Keisuke Ueda, professor of behavioral ecology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, found about 20 same-sex pairs at 16 major aquariums and zoos, Kyodo news agency said.
Penguins in captivity "may be more likely to form same-sex pairs" due to the difficulty of finding partners of the opposite sex because breeding facilities in Japan only have an average of 20 birds, the agency quoted Ueda as saying.
It is not known if the frequency of homosexuality is higher than in the wild, where telling the sexes apart is tough, he said.
Gay Penguins
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Seeks Tech Tools to Train MDs
Military
The military sees technologies from the entertainment industry as potential tools for honing the skills of medics.
They could better simulate the difficult conditions and types of wounds medics are likely to encounter during war time, said Dr. Greg Mogel, West Coast director of the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center.
Simulators known as "Caves" already place trainees in immersive environments that use virtual reality, Mogel said, but there are only 10 of them, and quality is poor despite spending "millions and millions of dollars trying to come up with realistic images."
"We buy a $29 video game and it's there," Mogel said.
Military
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French 'Spiderman' Alain Robert climbs Taipei 101, the world's tallest skyscraper, in the Taiwan capital December 25, 2004. The dare-devil 42-year-old scaled the 101-story, 1,667-foot office tower, aided by ropes and a safety harness, in about four hours in drizzling rain and wind. Robert has climbed many of the world's most renowned structures including the Empire State Building in New York, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the twin Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, former title holder of the world's tallest building. REUTERS/Taipei 101 Handout Photo by Reuters (Handout) French 'Spiderman' Alain Robert climbs Taipei 101, the world's tallest skyscraper, in the Taiwan capital December 25, 2004. The dare-devil 42-year-old scaled the 101-storey, 508-metre (1,667-feet) office tower, aided by ropes and a safety harness, in about four hours in drizzling rain and wind. Robert has climbed many of the world's most renowned structures including the Empire State Building in New York, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the twin Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, former title holder of the world's tallest building.
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Target Liberal Profs
Conservative Students
Traditionally, clashes over academic freedom have pitted politicians or administrators against instructors who wanted to express their opinions and teach as they saw fit. But increasingly, it is students who are invoking academic freedom, claiming biased professors are violating their right to a classroom free from indoctrination.
For example, at the University of North Carolina, three incoming freshmen sued over a reading assignment they said offended their Christian beliefs.
In Colorado and Indiana, a national conservative group publicized student allegations of left-wing bias by professors. Faculty received hate mail and were pictured in mock "wanted" posters; at least one college said teacher received a death threat.
And at Columbia University in New York, a documentary film alleging that teachers intimidate students who support Israel drew the attention of administrators.
For a lot more, Conservative Students
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The Independence Square decorated with a Christmas tree is seen during fireworks that mark the key Christian Christmas festivity in Kiev, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004.
Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko
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Smoking Skill Boosts Career
Yuen Qiu
Smoking is bad for your health, but it was good for Hong Kong martial arts queen Yuen Qiu's acting career.
Yuen, who appeared in the 1974 James Bond film, "The Man With the Golden Gun," landed a role in "Kung Fu Hustle," which opened in Hong Kong Thursday, because the director liked the way she smoked, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Yuen, a popular stuntwoman and kung-fu actress in the '70s, said she was accompanying a friend to an audition when director Stephen Chow saw her smoking. He was looking for someone who smoked the way she did and urged her to join the cast, she told the newspaper.
Yuen Qiu
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Members of Berlin's ice swimming club 'Berliner Seehunde' (Berlin seals) take a dip in the cold water of the Oranke lake in Berlin December 25, 2004. Several members of the swimming club met for their traditional weekly ice swimming meeting.
Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
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Couple Reserves Seats
Christmas Eve Mass
Joe and Kathy Tricaso weren't taking any chances on not getting a seat for Mass on Christmas Eve.
The couple, who live in the Akron suburb of Green, spent $85 in a church auction last summer to reserve a pew. Their investment paid off.
The parking lot at Queen of Heaven Catholic Church was filling fast when they arrived an hour before Friday's 4 p.m. service.
He said one reason for bidding on the reserved pew during the church's Summer Fun Fest was to keep his mom, Doris, from arguing with the ushers about seat availability on Christmas Eve. The couple also wanted the family to sit together.
Christmas Eve Mass
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Loses 3 Dwarves In Cost-Cutting
Snow White
Snow White had to make do with just four dwarves rather than the usual seven due to cost-cutting at a theatre in the eastern German town of Stendal, the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper has reported.
The Altmark Stendal theatre said it could afford only six actors for its Christmas rendition of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves", which led to protests from theatre-goers from the nearby western city of Hanover who wanted to see seven dwarves.
The theatre said it had attached two puppets in dwarf outfits to a background wall to give the production six dwarves. The actor playing the prince was supposed to double as the seventh dwarf but only made one brief appearance on stage.
Snow White
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Pewit gulls are hand-fed by a visitor at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Christmas day, December 25, 2004.
Photo by Toshiyuki Aizawa
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