BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 8 January, 2009

Thursday

8 January, 2009

(Updated Daily)

[532 days in a row]

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Bush Invites the Obamas to Stay at TONY BLAIR's House


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Mark Morford: Everybody get bloody (sfgate.com)
Kids! Click here for brutal, nonstop misery and pain!


Ted Rall: "Only One Solution: Eat the Rich"
A moratorium on housing foreclosures and evictions is a good idea. So is making the tax code more progressive. Obama's plan to build new public works is smart. But those are half-measures. Even if they don't come out of Congress watered down and wankified, they'll come too little and too late to kill the rapidly metastasizing disease that threatens to kill the U.S. economy: income inequality.


Melinda Henneberger: Mall Noir (slate.com)
The store was going out of business in a couple of days, she said. Oh, I'm sorry, I started to say, but she stopped me: Nah, not to worry; it wasn't her store, thank God, though this was the fourth business in the mall to go under in the last month alone, and she was starting to wonder where she was going to find a J-O-B. The place was so still all through Christmas, she said, that the highlight of her season was the day a shoplifter ran through the mall with six or eight security guards in hot pursuit-and got away.


Michele Hanson: There's a lot to be miserable about now (guardian.co.uk)
What can the future hold for [today's youth]? The miracle is that only one in 10 think life means nothing. Eight out of 10 would not be unreasonable. Today's youth need a medal for sticking it out.


Troy Patterson: Homeland Security USA (slate.com)
A show about the brave agents defending America from Swiss belly dancers.


David Faris: The Anti-Library of George W. Bush (citypaper.net)
The architects of George W. Bush's legacy face a daunting challenge in the years ahead: How to build a presidential library for a man who - Karl Rove's absurd claims of Bush's bookishness notwithstanding - doesn't seem to read.


"Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing" by Mignon Fogarty: A review by Bill Reagan (popmatters.com)
Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is my favorite evidence of the resurgence in syntactical attentiveness.


Michael Agger: Thoreau's Worst Nightmare (motherjones.com)
After 150 years, "Walden" endures as a monument to frugality, solitude, and sophomore-year backpacking trips. Yet it's Thoreau's ulterior motive that has the most influence today. He was one of the first to use lifestyle experimentation as a means to becoming a published author. Going to live by the pond was a philosophical decision, but it was also something of a gimmick. And if you want to land a book deal, you gotta have a gimmick.


Agnes Oaks, ballet dancer: Interview by Laura Barnett (guardian.co.uk)
'You should be remembered at your best -- so I'm retiring this summer.'


Gail Pennington: Kevin Kline's Cyrano de Bergerac brings Broadway to TV (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
"Great Performances" brings Broadway to television with a straight-from-the-stage version of Edmond Rostand's 1897 classic "Cyrano de Bergerac."


Preston Jones: These days, performers are creating their own marketing strategies (McClatchy Newspapers)
Of all the embattled, entrenched industries in America, few have weathered more public criticism and financial blows than the music business.


Glenn Gamboa: "Viva Glasvegas: Scottish rockers are fast becoming the next big thing" (Newsday)
Glasvegas is moving fast. Three years ago, the Scottish rockers weren't even a band. A year ago, they hadn't even been in a proper recording studio and hadn't completed an album. But the swiftness of their arrival - they've already been crowned "Britain's Best Loved Band" by influential British magazine NME - isn't the result of any sort of plan.


David Bruce: Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal": A Discussion Guide
Free download. This short pamphlet contains Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and a few anecdotes about Jonathan Swift.It also includes a number of questions and their answers about Jonathan Swift and "A Modest Proposal."


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CIA Veterans: Panetta's Too Old to Withstand Hazing Ritual for New Directors


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Trivia Question Of The Day

The movie "Casablanca" was filmed entirely in the studio, except for the sequence showing Major Strasser's arrival. Which California airport was used?

   A    Burbank
   B    Long Beach
   C    Ontario
   D    Santa Monica
   E    Van Nuys



Send your answer to Marty





Trivia Question from Yesterday

On which TV show did Jerry Lee Lewis make his first TV appearance?

   A    Jack Paar's Tonight Show
   B    The Milton Berle Show
   C    The Perry Como Show
   D    Sid Caesar's Your Show Of Shows
  E    The Steve Allen Show                   Source


Lewis, though not the first pianist in the boogie-woogie style, was a pioneer of piano rock, not only through his sound but also through his dynamic performance. He would often kick the piano bench out of the way to play standing, rake his hands up and down the keyboard for dramatic accent, sit down on the keyboard, and even stand on top of the instrument. His first TV appearance, in which he demonstrated some of these moves, was on The Steve Allen Show on July 28, 1957, where he played the song "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On ".           Source





Charlie was first, and correct, with:
   Apparently it was on the show hosted by someone Dave Marsh, I think, once put on a rock & roll enemies list:
  E The Steve Allen Show
  on July 28, 1957.




Alan J replied:
   E The Steve Allen Show



~ Tony In Philly answered:
   E: The Steve Allen Show



Marian the Teacher replied:
   The Steve Allen Show



Adam in NoHo replied:
   E The Steve Allen Show



Joe S said:
   You know? I saw that performance. That's how old I am.
  E The Steve Allen Show
  Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On




Buzzcook responded:
   Like so many firsts it was E. Steve Allen. Though there might have been some local tv stuff.



Jim from Ca said:
   Steve Allen



Sally answered:
   'Tis again a grey and rainy day in January, here in northern Jersey. The holiday decoration are about put away, and, just when I am ready for a new poll, and at OUR expense, BadtotheboneBob decides to go on hiatus! Ack!
  Thank God for "old faithful" Marty!
  About Jerry Lee Lewis making his first TV appearance on the old Steve Allen's, "Tonight" show (E) - I actually saw him on that show back in the 1950s! I loved old Steve-O, he was SO funny. He used a blackboard and wrote out the words to the most popular "rock 'n roll" songs of the day - and then recited them out loud - it was a riot! He would recite them as if they were great prose (or poetry) with a totally strait face - I can remember it as if it were yesterday. Sigh...
  Thanks for the memories,




And, MAM   Fannie Mae Barnes   replied:
   Answer . . . E The Steve Allen Show in 1957. He played his nelwly released single, 'Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On ' with his ususal style and energy. He slams his hands against the keys, his hair is flying in and out of his face, and his legs are moving around like they have a life of their own.
  Can be seen on here on the YouTubes.





  



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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

ROLLING SHELBYS' JOINT!

PRESIDENT FUBAR! 13 DAYS AND COUNTING!

THANK YOU CHIMP BOY!

MAY YOU LIVE FOREVER, YOU SON OF A BITCH!

HITTING THE PANIC BUTTON!



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and warmer.



Tonight, Thursday:

CBS opens the night with a RERUN 'CSI: The 3rd One', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN 'Eleventh Hour'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Kate Winslet and Marv Albert.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Amy Sedaris and Dennis Haysbert.

NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'My Name Is Earl', followed by a FRESH 'Kath & Kim', then a RERUN 'The Office', followed by a FRESH '30 Rock', then a FRESH 'ER'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Dustin Hoffman, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and Lady Gaga.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Howie Mandel, Anthony Mackie, and Lady Antebellum.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson 'The Scab' Daly are Angela Kinsey and Asher Roth.

ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'Ugly Betty', followed by a FRESH 'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH 'Private Practice'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Anne Hathaway, Jensen Ackles, and Lenka.

The CW offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'Supernatural'.

Faux has LIVE 'College Football - BCS National Championship', then pads the left coast with local crap.

MY fills the night with the movie 'No Way Out'.

A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH 'The First 48', and another 'The First 48'.

AMC offers the movie 'Commando', followed by the movie 'Caddyshack', then the movie 'Black Dog'.

BBC  -   
 [12:00 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
 [12:30 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
 [1:00 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 2
 [1:30 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6
 [2:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 Sandgate
 [3:00 PM]    Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 6
 [4:00 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 3
 [4:30 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7
 [5:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 4 Bonapartes
 [6:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 The Secret Garden
 [7:00 PM]    BBC World News America
 [8:00 PM]    Dragons' Den - Episode 9
 [9:00 PM]    My 100,000 Lovers
 [10:00 PM]    BBC World News America
 [11:00 PM]    Dragons' Den - Episode 9
 [12:00 AM]    My 100,000 Lovers
 [1:00 AM]    Dragons' Den - Episode 9
 [2:00 AM]    My 100,000 Lovers
 [3:00 AM]    The Graham Norton Show - Ep 10 Alicia Silverstone, Joan Rivers and The Freemasons
 [4:00 AM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 11
 [4:30 AM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 12
 [5:00 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 17 May
 [5:30 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 18 Springthorpe
 [6:00 AM]    BBC World News     (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'Millionaire Matchmaker', 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', and 'Tabatha's Salon Takeover'.

Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Jim Gaffigan: Beyond The Pale'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Dana Perino.
Scheduled on a FRESH Colbert Report is Lawrence Lessig.

FX has the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada', followed by the movie 'There's Something About Mary', then the movie 'There's Something About Mary', again.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Nostradamus: 2012', and 'Cities Of The Underground'.

IFC  -   
 [6:15 AM]   Heavy Load
 [7:50 AM]   The Importance of Being Earnest
 [9:25 AM]   The Battle of Shaker Heights
 [10:45 AM]   Heavy Load
 [12:20 PM]   2009 Spirit Awards Nomination Special
 [12:45 PM]   Let Him Have It
 [2:45 PM]   The Importance of Being Earnest
 [4:20 PM]   IFC in Theaters
 [4:30 PM]   The Battle of Shaker Heights
 [5:55 PM]   subUrbia
 [8:00 PM]   Jersey Girl
 [9:45 PM]   Clerks
 [11:20 PM]   IFC News Special
 [11:30 PM]   Flannel Pajamas
 [1:35 AM]   Jersey Girl
 [3:20 AM]   IFC in Theaters
 [3:30 AM]   Clerks
 [5:05 AM]   The Importance of Being Earnest    (ALL TIMES EST)

SciFi has the movie 'Raging Sharks', followed by the movie 'Sharks In Venice'.

Sundance  -   
 [05:30 AM]   La Vie Promise
 [07:00 AM]   Home (2005)
 [08:15 AM]   Bombon: El Perro
 [10:00 AM]   The Fortune Hunter
 [10:45 AM]   Red Lights
 [12:30 PM]   Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
 [02:05 PM]   Eve & the Fire Horse
 [03:45 PM]   The Page Turner
 [05:15 PM]   Red Lights
 [07:00 PM]   Travellers & Magicians
 [09:00 PM]   Iconoclasts - Season 4: Stella McCartney + Ed Ruscha
 [10:00 PM]   Good Morning Heartache
 [11:35 PM]   Green Porno: Firefly, Dragonfly & Spider
 [12:00 AM]   Spectacle: The Police
 [01:00 AM]   Eileen Gray: Invitation to a Voyage
 [02:00 AM]   Iconoclasts - Season 4: Stella McCartney + Ed Ruscha
 [03:00 AM]   Noise (2007)
 [05:00 AM]   Eve & the Fire Horse     (ALL TIMES EST)

TCM spends the morning celebrating Elvis Presley, who was born on this day in 2935.
 [7:30 AM]      King Creole (1958)
 [9:30 AM]      G.I. Blues (1960)
 [11:15 AM]      Blue Hawaii (1961)
 [1:00 PM]      Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
 [2:45 PM]      Fun in Acapulco (1963)
 [4:30 PM]      Roustabout (1964)
 [6:15 PM]      Elvis on Tour (1972)
 [8:00 PM]      On the Town (1949)
 [9:45 PM]      Anchors Aweigh (1945)
 [12:15 AM]      The Out-of-Towners (1969)
 [2:00 AM]      California Suite (1978)
 [4:00 AM]      Where's Poppa? (1970)
 [5:30 AM]      The Loved One (1965)     (ALL TIMES EST)


Friday  -  01/09/09

TCM:
 [7:45 AM]      The Big Sky (1952)
 [10:15 AM]      Cimarron (1960)
 [12:45 PM]      Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
 [4:00 PM]      The Caine Mutiny (1954)
 [6:15 PM]      Key Largo (1948)
 [8:00 PM]      It Happens Every Spring (1949)
 [9:30 PM]      The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
 [11:15 PM]      The Nutty Professor (1963)
 [1:15 AM]      "Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence" Quentin Tarantino (2008)
 [2:00 AM]      The Amityville Horror (1979)
 [4:00 AM]      The Old Dark House (1932)     (ALL TIMES EST)



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Actor/director Sean Penn arrives for the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009.
Photo by Chris Pizzello

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Portrait Goes To Smithsonian Institution

'Hope'

Even before he takes office, President-elect Barack Obama's image will become part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery, the museum announced Wednesday.

The gallery acquired the iconic red, white and blue collage by Los Angeles street artist Shepard Fairey, depicting Obama with the word "Hope." The image - later modified with the messages of "Change" and "Vote" for the Obama campaign - became one of the most memorable images from the 2008 election. The curators at the Smithsonian Institution museum plan to hang it by Inauguration Day.

"What I think is so fascinating is the ubiquitous nature," said Carolyn Carr, deputy director of the Portrait Gallery. "When people think of a portrait of Obama, they think of this image."

Gallery officials would not reveal how much they paid Fairey for the 1.5-metre tall, mixed-media stencilled collage. Art collectors Heather and Tony Podesta of Washington donated money for the Smithsonian to purchase the work.

'Hope'

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Actress Conchata Ferrell of "Two and a Half Men" arrives at the 35th annual People's Choice awards in Los Angeles January 7, 2009.
Photo by Phil McCarten

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No Nude `King Lear' For PBS

Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen says his on-stage "King Lear" nude scene is discreetly avoided in the upcoming public television version of the play.

A public TV executive said Wednesday at a meeting of the Television Critics Association that the decision to forgo full-frontal nudity by McKellen was made by Trevor Nunn, director of the acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production that airs March 25.

McKellen said audiences can be distracted when an actor or actress strips. The British actor, who turns 70 this year, of "Lord of the Rings" and "X-Men" films fame, said cutting the nudity left the production's quality unaffected.

Ian McKellen

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Baby News

Baby Girl Affleck

It's another girl for Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.

Affleck's spokesman, Shawn Sachs, and Garner's spokeswoman, Leslie Sloane-Zelnik, said Tuesday that Garner gave birth to their second daughter but would not provide any additional details.

Garner and Affleck, both 36, were married in June 2005. Garner gave birth to daughter Violet in December 2005.

Baby Girl Affleck

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Gus Van Sant receives the Sonny Bono Visionary Award at the 20th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif. on Tuesday Jan. 6, 2009.
Photo by Robert Kenney)

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Hong Kog To Restore Old Home

Bruce Lee

The Hong Kong government has agreed to preserve a former home of late martial arts legend Bruce Lee and turn it into a tourist attraction, an official said Wednesday.

The house where Lee lived from 1972 to 1973 is currently used as a "love motel," where rooms are rented by the hour and people often carry on affairs. The owner has lobbied to covert it into a museum.

Hong Kong's commerce and economic development minister met with the owner Tuesday and agreed to the project that would restore the two-story house back to its "original outlook and features," said government spokeswoman Winnie To in an e-mail statement.

Bruce Lee

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Vidiot Speak

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Still Nailin' the Palins

Schadenfreude

If Sarah Palin was feeling some "fear and despair" over daughter Bristol's situation before, we can only imagine what things are like now that both the father and paternal grandmother of little Tripp are dealing with some major issues.

Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin's betrothed and Sarah Palin's would-be son-in-law, has been forced to leave his electrical apprenticeship at an Alaskan oil field after a local newspaper raised questions about his eligibility for such a position. The 18-year-old's lack of a high school diploma, for one, was against federal regulations, and the governor's apparent arm-twisting to land him the gig didn't help his cause, either.

But that's small potatoes compared to his mom, Sherry Johnston. As word came Monday of Levi's sudden unemployment, she was busy pleading not guilty to six felony counts of possessing and selling OxyContin, aka hillbilly heroin. The 42-year-old is currently out on bail and her trial is set to start in March.

Schadenfreude

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Actor Dustin Hoffman, recipient of the Chairman's Award, poses with his wife Lisa, right, and daughter Alexandra at the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009.
Photo by Chris Pizzello

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Arrests Sheriff Over Jail Food

Judge U.W. Clemon

A federal judge ordered an Alabama sheriff locked up in his own jail Wednesday after holding him in contempt for failing to adequately feed inmates while profiting from the skimpy meals.

U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon had court security arrest Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett at the end of a hearing that produced dramatic testimony from skinny prisoners about paper-thin bologna and cold grits.

The sheriff, who showed no emotion when his arrest was ordered, had testified that he legally pocketed about $212,000 over three years with surplus meal money but denied that inmates were improperly fed.

Sheriffs in 55 of Alabama's 67 counties operate under the system allowing them to make money operating their jail kitchens. The law pays sheriffs $1.75 a day for each prisoner they house and lets the elected officers pocket any profit they can generate.

The law doesn't require the money to be spent at the jail or within the department; sheriffs can keep it as personal income. They historically have provided little information about profits, so the hearing offered a rare look into a practice that dates back to the Depression.

Judge U.W. Clemon

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Tries To Extend 15 Minutes

Joe Sam the (Fake) Plumber

Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting.

He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to let Israel's "'Average Joes' share their story."

Joe Sam the (Fake) Plumber

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Sues Nephews

Larry Flynt

Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt has sued two of his nephews for selling their own line of adult movies under the same family name.

Flynt accuses the nephews of producing pornographic films that are "inferior products" and "knockoff goods." Flynt said he filed the lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court to protect his family name in the industry.

Jimmy Flynt II and Dustin Flynt worked for their uncle for more than a decade before he fired them about a year ago. The brothers said they are trying to break into the business and have a right to use their family name.

Larry Flynt said he fired his nephews for being unproductive and gave them a severance package of $100,000 that they used to start a competing company. He said he is unimpressed with that company's products and expects he will have to help out his nephews when it fails.

Larry Flynt

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Ice sculptor Don Chapelle, of Brilliant Ice Sculpture, puts the finishing touches on an ice sculpture called Pipeline, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008 at the Boston Common in Boston.
Photo by Lisa Poole

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Humor Impaired

Juan Valdez

Colombian coffee growers are brewing up a lawsuit over a U.S. comic strip joking that violence is so rampant there, maybe "there's a little bit of Juan Valdez in every can" of the country's java.

The Colombian Coffee Growers Federation says it has consulted with U.S. lawyers and will sue "Mother Goose & Grimm" cartoonist Mike Peters "for damage and harm, detriment to intellectual property and defamation."

The suit will be filed Friday and "would not seek any less than $20 million," according to a note on the federation's Web site. It will also demand a retraction from any newspaper that published the Jan. 2 cartoon.

In the offending comic strip, a character says: "Y'know, there's a big crime syndicate in Colombia. So when they say there's a little bit of Juan Valdez in every can, maybe they're not kidding." The joke plays off a former marketing slogan used by the federation.

Juan Valdez

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Judge Seals Records

Eddy Arnold

A judge has sealed records in a paternity suit filed by a California man who claims he is the biological son of the late country singer Eddy Arnold.

Probate Judge Randy Kennedy on Monday ordered all new filings private.

Forty-eight-year-old Christopher Tanner of Anaheim filed his suit in June, a month after Arnold died at 89.

Arnold's family says Arnold denied fathering Tanner. The family asked the judge to seal records to limit damage to the late singer's reputation.

Eddy Arnold

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Coffin On eBay

Big Bopper

The son of iconic '50s rock n' roller the Big Bopper has said he plans to sell his late father's casket--which he was buried in for 48 years--on eBay in the next few weeks.

The Big Bopper, real name J.P. Richardson, died along with Buddy Holly and Richie Valens in a plane crash in 1959. The accident has since become known as "the day the music died" after Don McLean recalled the incident in his massive-selling 1972 U.S. number one "American Pie."

The 16-gauge steel casket was exhumed from its original resting place in 2007, because Richardson's son wanted to move his father to a more visible location, reports The Beaumont Enterprise.

Richardson, who was born three months after his father's death, said he saw his body for the first time in person after it was exhumed. Buried in a black suit with a blue-and-grey striped tie and socks, the Big Bopper's thick, brown hair was reportedly still in perfect condition. He has since been reburied in a new casket.

Big Bopper

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A kite-flying enthusiast tightens the strings of a 30 feet in diameter kite during a practice session ahead of the 19th International Kite festival in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad January 7. 2009. More than 163 kite-flying enthusiasts from 36 countries will compete in the five-day long festival which starts January 10.
Photo by Amit Dave

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Sorry Excuse

'John Doe'

The Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as "John Doe." Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., was sending a personal letter to all the families who received the improperly addressed letters as the result of a printing error, the Army said.

The 7,000 original letters were sent late last month to inform survivors about private organizations that offer gifts, programs and other assistance to families that have lost soldiers in Iraq or other countries where they are deployed for the war on terrorism.

It was sent from the U.S. Army Human Resources Command's Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Center in Alexandria, Va., which issued a formal apology Wednesday.

The letters, which were printed by a contractor, were to have been automatically addressed with the specific names and addresses of survivors, said Paul Boyce, an Army spokesman. Instead, they contained the placeholder greeting - "Dear John Doe."

'John Doe'

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Surgeon Jailed

Dr. Jan Adams

The plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West's mother before she died has been sentenced to a year in jail for drunken driving.

Dr. Jan Adams pleaded no contest to misdemeanour drunken driving last year.

Authorities say his Jaguar was spotted early June 26 travelling the wrong way on Interstate 680 near Cordelia. Adams' blood alcohol level was .20 per cent.

Solano County Court Commissioner Ray Wieser sentenced the 54-year-old surgeon, author and TV personality Monday. He'll get credit for eight days he previously was jailed.

Dr. Jan Adams

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Prime-Time Nielsens

Ratings

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Dec. 29-Jan. 4. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

    1. (X) NFL Playoff: Indianapolis vs. San Diego, NBC, 27.79 million viewers.
    2. (X) "NBC NFL Playoff Pre-Kick 2," NBC, 21.87 million viewers.
    3. (X) "Fox NFC Wildcard Post Game," Fox, 16.42 million viewers.
    4. (7) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 14.39 million viewers.
    5. (3) "NCIS," CBS, 13.43 million viewers.
    6. (X) Sugar Bowl: Alabama vs. Utah, Fox, 13.37 million viewers.
    7. (16) "Cold Case," CBS, 12.67 million viewers.
    8. (8) "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.32 million viewers.
    9. (10) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11.87 million viewers.
   10. (14) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 11.36 million viewers.
   11. (21) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 10.94 million viewers.
   12. (X) "Superstars of Dance," NBC, 10.55 million viewers.
   13. (X) "Kennedy Center Honors," CBS, 10.51 million viewers.
   14. (27) "Million Dollar Password," CBS, 10.41 million viewers.
   15. (X) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.76 million viewers.
   16. (31) "The Unit," CBS, 9.73 million viewers.
   17. (X) "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 9.62 million viewers.
   18. (X) "Deal or No Deal," NBC, 9.49 million viewers.
   19. (X) Orange Bowl: Cincinnati vs. Virginia Tech, Fox, 9.32 million viewers.
   20. (24) "Brothers and Sisters," ABC, 9.09 million viewers.

Ratings

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Water pours over one of the dams at Chadwick Lake, an artificial lake and irrigation system, after heavy rainfall in central Malta January 5, 2009.
Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi

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