BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 7 April, 2005

Thursday

7 April, 2005

big hammer - bigger hammer

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Jazz From Hills

Trimmed Bush and Hedges

Union with Divinity

What is it with Roman Catholics that Pope John Paul II is the only conduit to a higher power? I see these people who are less than 26 years of age saying they will be lost spiritually because this is the only pope they have ever known. So what. Guess what, folks, he's a religious leader that is dying from human diseases just like you will when you get to be around his age. He puts on his undies, poops, farts, belches, just like you do. He's a human being.

Why does one man evoke so much love? I thought the Bible says to do the exact opposite. I thought the Bible said to love Jesus, Jesus was THE WAY, and don't mess around with the WAY. No icons, no idolatry. The inspiration is Christ, not the Pope.

Look, if you think you're gonna get into heaven by praying to a man who then delivers your prayers to a divinity, go for it. But be careful who you invest your spirituality with. Popes really have been an awful lot historically, ranging from pedophilia, alcoholism, murder, rape; there's some good stories about some of those fellows. Some of the stories are right up there with the ones about Caligula.

The funeral will be held next Friday with Bunnypants having to make his photo-op at the cost of millions, and he's a, what, a Baptist? Some kind of Protestant, Bunny is. I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the Stone Age and before President Kennedy, you wouldn't be able to get a president to touch any of this Catholicism with a ten foot pole 'cause he'd lose the Southern Baptist vote and the election. Times change quickly when you're dealing with THE BIG GUY.

My OH SO DIVINE question is what is up with Tom Delay? Is he not going go to the funeral 'cause he's under so many investigations his own party members won't let him leave domestic soil? If there is one man who needs all the help he can get getting in touch with his spiritual side, it would be DeLay, but he probably has a gambling junket that weekend booked at taxpayer's expense. I can't wait for his downfall; forgive me, father.

Back to papal matters. I've read all about the papacy, had girlfriends who were devout Catholics who believed all that stuff, I've received communion even though I wasn't supposed to, and actually the most fun weddings I've ever attended were Catholic, because those folks sure like to party, especially in Mexico. However, all the pomp and circumstance that goes along with all of the papal ceremonial proceedings, costing millions and millions of dollars that could be used to feed the poor and starving people of Africa still baffle me. Oh well, I guess I'll watch CNBC for a few days till after the burial, then maybe catch up on the Beverly Hillbillies episodes on WGN.

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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.

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THAT STUMP OF A TREE

MUST FEEL MIGHTY IMMOBILE

JUST STANDING AROUND


Zen Man
(in the Ventana Wilderness)

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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Jana Prikryl: Abu Ghraib: A Global Family Portrait (The Believer. Posted on Alternet.)
Why did the soldiers at Abu Ghraib feel the compulsion to not only abuse the prisoners but to turn it into a series of macabre photo ops?


Michael Blanding: The Culture of Life Top Ten (AlterNet)
At minimum, a true "culture of life" would support these ten positions.


Mark Morford: Where Are The Good Christians?
The fanatics and nutjobs now running the show sure give honest believers a bad name.


Paul Krugman: An Academic Question (NY Times)
(Click on "Columns," then on "An Academic Question.")

It's a fact, documented by two recent studies, that registered Republicans and self-proclaimed conservatives make up only a small minority of professors at elite universities. But what should we conclude from that?


MAUREEN DOWD: Curveball the Goofball (NY Times)
I had an editor once whose wife was in the Audubon Society. There were a lot of articles about birds in that newspaper.


Jim Hightower: Neutering Social Security (Hightower Lowdown. Posted on Alternet.)
Naming the names behind the grab for Social Security.


Eli Sanders: GOD WAS WITH THEM (The Stranger)
... a look into the pasts of the victim, Micah Painter, and his three attackers reveals that a single force shaped all four young men: Evangelical Christianity.

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

GOVERNOR STERIOD OPPOSES GAY MARRIAGE

NOVAKULA STILL SUCKING BLOOD

"JUDGE NOT THAT YE BE JUDGED"

JESUS FREAKS SUCKING EGGS

LIKE WATCHING SHIT GO DOWN A TOILET

WATCHING MORE SHIT GO DOWN THE TOILET

MORE SHIT, YADA, YADA, YADA

FLUSH THIS MOFO

THE LEADER OF THE PAC

THE HEART OF DARKNESS: TAKE TWO

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny & too warm for the season.

Have replaced the old Archives. Not quite finished - need to find some pages from August...

Have been trying to avoid most of the papal overkill, but every now & then something slips by. So far, have heard him called 'John Paul XXII' and Paul VI referred to as 'John Paul VI'. It's wonderful that consolidation retained only the best & the brightest.

And, wtf was it with Pickles & Condi & their mantillas? Is their 'Catholic-cooridinator' stuck in the early-1970s? Cripes, not even the Abuelas wear them anymore.




VCR/VDR ALERT - If you like the Marx Brothers, check out TCM's listings for Friday.




Tonight, Thursday:

CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Survivor: Palau', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Bruce Willis and Greg Giraldo.
On a RERUN Craig (from 3/21/05) are Michael Chiklis, Tony Hawk, Nic Armstrong and the Thieves.

NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Joey', followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace', then a FRESH 'Apprentice', followed by a RERUN 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Brittany Murphy, Dave Attell, and Velvet Revolver.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Steve Zahn, Fran Drescher, and Jack Gallagher.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Mena Suvari, Kenan Thompson, and Tori Amos.

ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'Jake In Progress', followed by another FRESH 'Jake In Progress', then a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover', followed by 'PrimeTime Live'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Patrick Dempsey and Sting.

The WB offers a FRESH 'Blue Collar TV', followed by a RERUN 'Blue Collar TV', then a RERUN 'The Starlet'.

Faux has a FRESH 'The O.C.', followed by a FRESH 'Tru Calling'.

UPN fills the night with 'WWE Smackdown!'.

A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and a FRESH 'The First 48'.

AMC offers the movie 'MacArthur', followed by the movie 'Apocalypse Now', then the movie 'Hamburger Hill'.

BBC  -   
 [2pm]    'As Time Goes By' - Episode 3;
 [2:40pm]    'Are You Being Served?' - Big Brother;
 [3:20pm]    'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
 [4pm]    'My Family' - Absent Vixen;
 [4:40pm]    'The Catherine Tate Show' - Episode 1;
 [5:20pm]    'Coupling' - Circus of Epidurals;
 [6pm]    'BBC World News';
 [6:30pm]    'Cash in the Attic' - Peltier;
 [7pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 9;
 [8pm]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Hamlet;
 [8:40pm]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Mr. Neutron;
 [9:20pm]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Party Political Broadcast;
 [10pm]    'Shameless' - Episode 2;
 [11pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 9;
 [12am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Hamlet;
 [12:40am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Mr. Neutron;
 [1:20am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Party Political Broadcast;
 [2am]    'Shameless' - Episode 2;
 [3am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Hamlet;
 [3:40am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Mr. Neutron;
 [4:20am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Party Political Broadcast;
 [5am]    'Shameless' - Episode 2;
 [6am]    'BBC World News'.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'West Wing', another 'West Wing', yet another 'West Wing', and a FRESH 'Project Greenlight'.

Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Tony Woods), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Adele Givens), 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Hollow Men'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Drew Barrymore.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Countdown To Armageddon', and another 'Modern Marvels'.

IFC  -   
 [6AM]    'Kicked In The Head' (1997);
 [7:30AM]    'Sunshine State' (2002);
 [10AM]    'Shadow Magic' (2000);
 [12PM]    'IFC Short Film Collection I';
 [2PM]    'Deception' (1993);
 [3:30PM]    'The Lady And The Duke' (2001);
 [5:45PM]    'Swingers' (1996);
 [7:30PM]    'At The Angelika #95' (2005);
 [8PM]    'Deception' (1993);
 [9:30PM]    'Fear of a Black Hat' (1994);
 [11PM]    'Your Friends And Neighbors' (1998);
 [12:45AM]    'Mr. Jealousy' (1997);
 [2:30AM]    'At The Angelika #95' (2005);
 [3AM]    'Your Friends And Neighbors' (1998);
 [4:45AM]    'Running With The Bulls' (2003);
 [5:30AM]    'At The Angelika #95' (2005).    (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has 'Rose Red' (part 2 of 3), followed by 'Rose Red' (part 3 of 3).

Sundance  -   
 [7:05AM]    'The Sharktank Redemption' (Short);
 [7:30AM]    '156 Rivington' (Feature);
 [8:35AM]    'The Way Home' (Feature);
 [10:05AM]    'A Foreign Affair' (Feature);
 [11:30AM]    'Shorts Program 110' (Short);
 [12:30PM]    'Shooting the War' (Documentary);
 [1:30PM]    'Salt' (Feature);
 [3PM]    'The Way Home' (Feature);
 [4:30PM]    '156 Rivington' (Feature);
 [5:30PM]    'Shorts Program 110' (Short);
 [6:30PM]    'A Foreign Affair' (Feature);
 [8PM]    'The Staircase: Chapters 1&2' (Documentary);
 [9:45PM]    'Basilisk Stare' (Short);
 [10PM]    'Narc' (Feature);
 [11:45PM]    'Anatomy of a Scene: Narc' (Original Production);
 [12:10AM]    'Beso Nocturno' (Short);
 [12:30AM]    'Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator' (Feature);
 [1:55AM]    'Confederation Park' (Short);
 [2:30AM]    'The Staircase: Chapters 1&2' (Documentary);
 [4:15AM]    'Love Me or Leave Me Alone' (Feature);
 [4:30AM]    'Unfinished Symphony' (Feature);
 [5:30AM]    'Salt' (Feature).    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM spends the day celebrating the 77th birthday of James Garner, then features films with Humphrey Bogart all night.
 [6am]    'The Children's Hour' (1961);
 [8am]    'Boys' Night Out' (1962);
 [10am]    'The Thrill Of It All' (1963);
 [12pm]    'The Wheeler Dealers' (1963);
 [2pm]    '36 Hours' (1965);
 [4pm]    'Grand Prix' (1966);
 [7pm]    'Private Screenings: James Garner' (2001);

 [8pm]    'Casablanca' (1942);
 [10pm]    'To Have And Have Not' (1944);
 [12am]    'The Maltese Falcon' (1941);
 [2am]    'The Big Sleep' (1946);
 [4am]    'Dark Passage' (1947).
    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Friday  -  04/08

TCM starts off the day with 2 from Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, and then 11 films featuring the The Marx Brothers - Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo (but not Gummo).
 [6am]    'Gold Dust Gertie' (1931);
 [7:15am]    'Fifty Million Frenchmen' (1936);

 [8:30am]    'The Cocoanuts' (1929);
 [10:15am]    'Room Service' (1938);
 [11:45am]    'At The Circus' (1939);
 [1:15pm]    'Go West' (1940);
 [2:45pm]    'The Big Store' (1941);
 [4:15pm]    'A Day At The Races' (1937);
 [6:15pm]    'A Night at the Opera' (1935);
 [8pm]    'Duck Soup' (1933);
 [9:15pm]    'Horse Feathers' (1932);
 [10:30pm]    'Monkey Business' (1931);
 [12am]    'Animal Crackers' (1930);

 [2am]    'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951);
 [3:30am]    'Gildersleeve's Bad Day' (1943);
 [4:45am]    'Gildersleeve's Ghost' (1944).    (ALL TIMES EDT)



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Bono, Brad Pitt, and Djimon Hounsou, left to right, pose for photos after a news conference at which a public service announcement for Heartland Unite for ONE--The Campaign to Make Poverty History was shown Wednesday, April 6, 2005, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The 60-second video featuring celebrities and religious leaders will be broadcast on MTV and ABC networks starting April 10.
Photo by Rene Macura
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Solo Tour

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen will travel light on his upcoming tour. The Boss will perform by himself when he begins a series of live shows in support of his upcoming "Devils & Dust" album, with the first performance slated for April 25 in Detroit. The album comes out a day later.

A series of dates across the United States and Europe will carry Springsteen through the end of June, when additional domestic shows will be scheduled. These will mark Springsteen's first solo shows since the 1995-97 "Ghost of Tom Joad" tour, where he was accompanied only by his acoustic guitar and harmonica.

In the United States, Springsteen will also play in Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, St. Paul, Minn., Chicago, Fairfax, Va., Cleveland, Philadelphia, East Rutherford, N.J., and Boston.

Bruce Springsteen

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Fans Line Up at Wrong Theater

'Star Wars'

"Star Wars" fans will have to find the right theater before they can leave for the dark side.

Seven weeks before its release, "Star Wars" fanatics started lining up outside Grauman's Chinese Theater for the sixth installment of the popular George Lucas movie series. The vigil began Saturday.

But there's a problem: "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" won't be showing at the Hollywood landmark when the movie is released May 19. The studio, 20th Century Fox, opted instead to open the film a mile away at the ArcLight theater.

Still, the resolute "Star Wars" die-hards aren't moving on. Beneath a makeshift awning, 11 people refused to relinquish their spots in line.

"We've heard all this before," fan Sarah Sprague said, noting there were plenty of rumors in 1999 and 2002 that previous "Star Wars" movies weren't opening at the Chinese Theater. The rumors were false and the films were shown there.

'Star Wars'

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Several groups protest against California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's policies in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 5, 2005. The groups gathered during a fund-r a fund-raising dinner for the governor.
Photo by Paul Sakuma
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Academy of American Poets

Poetry & the Creative Mind

The crocuses are blooming and the celebrity readers intoning. Yes, it's that time of year again, the third annual Poetry & the Creative Mind all-star benefit. Actors Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson and Sam Waterston were among the luminaries at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall Tuesday evening, as the Academy of American Poets celebrated the 10th National Poetry Month.

Despite co-chair Jorie Graham's breathless closing remarks describing the evening as a "miracle," this year's reading was a rather somber affair. The 11 readers mostly went for gravitas, from Neeson's choice of "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden to Waterston's heroic picks: E.A. Robinson, Robinson Jeffers, Walt Whitman and Robert Lowell.

Former CBS anchor Dan Rather read only one poem, Wallace Stevens' "The Death of a Soldier," which he chose "lest we forget that we are a nation at war." The bleak poem was shorter than his introduction, in which he informed the audience that it was written in the year of his birth, 1931.

Other readers included architect Maya Lin and playwright Tony Kushner, who brought laughter with his lusty reading of Thom Gunn's mucus-rich depiction of mating leopard slugs in "At the Barriers." Gunn, as Kushner noted, died last April. Graham paid tribute to another recently dead poet, Robert Creeley, but other deaths, including Donald Justice's and Mona van Duyn's, went unremarked.

Poetry & the Creative Mind

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Asked to Respect Iwo Jima Sites

Clint Eastwood

Tokyo's nationalist governor had one request for Clint Eastwood before he starts shooting his next film, about the World War II battle at Iwo Jima: Respect the fallen soldiers.

Eastwood, who is expected to begin shooting an adaptation of James Bradley's "Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima" later this year, met Wednesday with Shintaro Ishihara.

He asked the actor-director to avoid "sacred" sites of the dead if he films on the island, Tokyo metropolitan government spokesman Katsumi Kumagai said. Eastwood replied that he would "absolutely not" trample on Japanese feelings, he said.

Clint Eastwood

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Cutting Back on Acceptance Speeches

Emmys

Emmy officials decided against an extreme makeover for the ceremony but are cutting back on acceptance speeches in a bid to woo more viewers.

As winners in some categories walk to the stage, short taped interviews with them will be played in lieu of "spontaneous" remarks, it was announced Wednesday.

Stars, unsurprisingly, are exempt. Writers and directors aren't.

Eight writing and directing categories are affected, and the new approach may be expanded to some other categories.

Emmys

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U.S. Presidential Advisor Karl Rove talks on radio about the President's Social Security plans during Treasury Radio Day with radio talk host G. Gordon Liddy (L), at the Treasury Building in Washington, April 6, 2005. Thirty radio stations from around the United States took part in the event.
Photo by Mannie Garcia
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Hosppital News

Aimee Osbourne

Aimee Osbourne, the eldest daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, is now having treatment in Los Angeles after a lump was removed from her breast, Sharon Osbourne said Wednesday.

"Aimee's had a breast cancer scare. She found a lump on her breast which she's had removed," Sharon Osbourne said in a statement without saying whether the lump was cancerous or providing other details.

Sharon and Aimee had been set to star in a London production of "The Vagina Monologues," but withdrew Friday, saying Aimee was ailing.

Aimee Osbourne

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Film Editors, FX Group Protest

Oscar Changes

Two Hollywood professional societies have sent letters of protest to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Oscar producer Gil Cates, complaining about this year's Academy Awards telecast.

The board of directors of American Cinema Editor and the executive director of the Visual Effects Society objected to the way Oscars were presented in some of the lesser categories this year.

In a new time-saving measure, a number of statuettes were handed out either to winners who remained seated in the audience or who were assembled on stage in advance as part of a nominee lineup.

Although the Oscar-nominated editors were not subject to the new format this year, the ACE board wrote: "We believe the show's setup sent an inappropriate and potentially damaging message to viewers that some artists contribute more to the filmmaking process than others."

Oscar Changes

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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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When Wingnuts Whine

'Controversy'

As always, not everyone in the press and on the Web agrees with the selection of Pulitzer Prize winners, announced earlier this week. But whats relatively rare is that criticism surrounding one choice this year has a partisan edge.

The Pulitzer Board anointed 11 Associated Press photographers as winners in the category of breaking-news photography. The award-winning photos were from war-torn Iraq -- and some in conservative circles claim the images were, on the whole, overly helpful to the insurgent cause. At least one of the photos raised an uproar from the same quarters when it was first published late last year.

Columnist Michelle Malkin and the popular Powerline blog, meanwhile, returned to the controversy over the widely published AP photo of terrorists executing Iraqi election workers in Baghdad. Malkin asked on Tuesday if the Pulitzer judges were ignorant of the controversy. Powerline called the award a "Pulitzer Prize for felony murder." Last December it had charged that the terrorists wanted to be photographed carrying out the murder, to sow more terror in Iraq and to demoralize American voters. Thats why they tipped off the photographer, and thats why they dragged the two election workers from their car, so they could be shot in front of the APs obliging camera.

As for possible political bias of the Pulitzer judges: They hailed from a hardly liberal group of papers (The Washington Times, The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y.) plus the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The AP's crime? In so many words, they are guilty of showing the conflict in Iraq the way that it is, and not the way that the conservative blogosphere wishes that it were. The right wants those pictures of rose pedals and liberation parades that Dick Cheney promised them three years ago, and now they're mad they didn't get them.

'Controversy'

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A t-shirt vendor sells a commemorative t-shirt for $10 outside the funeral of attorney Johnnie Cochran, Jr. at West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles, April 6, 2005. The t-shirt features one of Cochran's most famous lines 'If it doesn't fit you must acquit.' Cochran represented O.J. Simpson in Simpson's 1995 murder trial in which he was acquitted of the murder charges of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Cochran died from a brain tumor on March 29 at his Los Angeles home.
Photo by Fred Prouser
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Overkill - Live

Pope's Funeral

Several TV networks will provide live coverage of Pope John Paul II's funeral Friday - for Americans who want to get up early or stay up late.

The funeral is scheduled to begin at 4 a.m. EDT on the East Coast, and will be carried on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC.

Most of the traditional network anchors will be accompanied by experts who will not only help translate the language of the Mass, which will be said in Italian, but explain to viewers what is going on.

Pope's Funeral

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New James Bond

Daniel Craig

The producers of the hugely successful James Bond film franchise have chosen British actor Daniel Craig to take over the role of the suave super-spy, a report said.

The 37-year-old has been offered a three-film deal by Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and is expected to sign up formally in the next few weeks, The Sun newspaper reported Wednesday.

Craig, a tough-looking character actor who has mixed up appearances in many art-house titles with roles in blockbusters such as "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", just beat fellow Briton Clive Owen for the role, the report said.

Daniel Craig

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Lost Valentino Film

'Beyond the Rocks'

Many pining looks, a story of forbidden love, whirlwind changes of scenery and costumes were revealed after more than 75 years when a long lost silent film featuring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson was shown in Amsterdam.

The only known copy of the 1922 classic "Beyond the Rocks", with an imaginative and playful new score by Dutch composer Henny Vrienten, premiered in style at Amsterdam's art deco Tuschinski theatre to mark the start of the Filmmuseum's Biennal festival.

For over three quarters of a century, movie critics and historians had been looking for the film directed by Sam Woods (1883-1949)-- the only one in which Valentino and Swanson starred together.

The version that was found by the Filmmuseum was a special export version, which is racier than the American original.

'Beyond the Rocks'

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A worker makes his final touches to a set of 200-year-old wooden figureheads that are part of a French Naval sculpture exhibition at Sydney's Maritime Museum April 6, 2004. Titled 'Les Genies de la Mer-Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture', this exhibition is one of the largest at the museum and showcases the flourishing naval sculptures when France was one of the world's leading sea powers.
Photo by David Gray
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Escorted Off Train By British Police

Grace Jones

British police escorted actress Grace Jones off a Eurostar train after she allegedly grabbed a ticket inspector's arm in a row about her fare, the cross-Channel rail operator said Wednesday.

Jones, 52, also verbally abused the female inspector after being asked to pay extra for a seat upgrade on the Tuesday evening service from Paris to London, Eurostar spokesman Paul Charles said. He added that the company wouldn't press charges.

The Jamaican-born star, who is also a singer and former supermodel, was travelling on the Eurostar service with a first-class ticket but had sat in the premium-class area, Charles said.

Grace Jones

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Dedicates Latin Song To Pope

Jukka Ammondt

A Finnish professor known for his recordings of Elvis Presley songs in Latin will release a single dedicated to Pope John Paul on the day of his funeral.

Jukka Ammondt's previous records -- "Nunc hic aut Numquam" (It's Now or Never) and "Ne calces mi glaucos calceos" (Don't You Step on my Blue Suede Shoes) -- won him a cult following.

Pope John Paul gave him a medal in 1994 for his album "Tango Triste Finnicum" (The Sad Finnish Tango).

Jukka Ammondt

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French Math Student Sets World Record

13th Root

A 24-year-old French student claimed a world record after he became the first person to figure out the 13th root of a 200-digit number by mental arithmetic alone.

Alexis Lemaire, who is studying for a master's degree in computer studies at the University of Reims, eastern France, took 48 minutes and 51 seconds to arrive at the 16-figure answer.

The competition was overseen by a mathematician and a public bailiff to ensure that the answer was right and Lemaire had only used his own brainpower to get there. Use of a computer, calculator and even a pencil and paper were not allowed.

In December, Lemaire set a world speed record of 3.625 seconds for finding the 13th root of a 100-digit number. The previous record of 11.8 seconds had been held by a 38-year-old German, Gert Mittring.

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Banners hang on the border fence in the Arizona desert Wednesday April 6, 2005, in Agua Prieta, Mexico.At least 100 Minuteman volunteers were registred to watch the border and report any illegal activity to federal agents.
Photo oby Jose Luis Magana
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Curbing Short Stories

Atlantic Monthly

Journalism is edging out fiction at The Atlantic Monthly magazine, which in its nearly 150-year history has published short stories by Henry James, Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway.

In a note to readers in the May issue, The Atlantic's editors said they will no longer run a short story in every issue but will produce an annual fiction issue in August that will be available in print form on newsstands and online to subscribers.

The fiction issue will be edited by C. Michael Curtis, who has been on The Atlantic's staff for four decades.

Atlantic Monthly

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WW2 Concert to Be Held Next Month

Trafalgar Square

London's Trafalgar Square will host a rock concert to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.

Organizers say they want to recreate the atmosphere of May 8, 1945, when thousands of people thronged to the square in central London to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany.

The mayor's office has joined the BBC and the Royal British Legion, a charity that raises money for British ex-servicemen and women, to stage the free concert on the evening of May 8.

Trafalgar Square

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In Memory

Frank Conroy

Frank Conroy, the memoirist and longtime director of the celebrated University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, died Wednesday. He was 69.

Conroy died at his home in Iowa City of colon cancer, said James Alan McPherson, acting co-director of the workshop. "Frank took a great program and made it an extraordinary one," McPherson said.

Conroy won literary praise in 1967 for "Stop-Time," which chronicled his growing up in homes that included a Florida shack, a snowy cabin and a tiny Manhattan apartment. The impressionistic memoir was nominated for a National Book Award.

Famously demanding, to the point of reducing students to tears, he held the post for 18 years before announcing his resignation last year. ZZ Packer, Nathan Englander and Thisbe Nissen were the among the young writers he worked with.

He returned to teaching last year after a bout with colon cancer, but became ill again in recent months with cancer and entered hospice care in Iowa City.

Conroy's books also include "Time & Tide, A Walk Through Nantucket," a collection of essays entitled "Dogs Bark, But the Caravan Rolls On," "Body & Soul," and "Midair." He sold his first short story when he was a senior at Haverford College, dabbled in journalism, wrote short stories and essays for a variety of magazines and served as literary director at the National Endowment of the Arts.

A lover of jazz, Conroy also played piano in clubs in New York for several years and befriended such musicians as Keith Jarrett and Wynton Marsalis. Conroy's friend David Halberstam once called him "innately hip, the first true counterculture person I had ever met."

After his stint with the NEA, Conroy moved to Iowa City and became the workshop's fourth director. Founded in 1936, the workshop was the nation's first creative writing program and boasts alumni and past faculty such as Kurt Vonnegut, T.C. Boyle, Raymond Carver, John Irving and Flannery O'Connor.

Frank Conroy

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