CBS-TV Says 'Buh-Bye'
Howard Stern
Shock Jock Howard Stern's weekend, late night syndicated show from King World (inherited from
CBS' Eyemark) will end its run this Saturday.
E! continues to run two episodes of its half-hour episodes of its own late night video version
of Stern's drive-time radio show at 11-12 p.m.
The Howard Stern Radio Show launched on CBS O&O's and a handful of other stations in August
1998, with most stations carrying it on Saturday nights at 11:30 to try and eat into the
audience of NBC's Saturday Night Live franchise.
Stern had trumpeted the CBS show the previous April, saying it would contain the same
scatological humor as his radio show.
When asked by reporters whether such a show could air on the Tiffany network (though
technically it was not on the network, but syndicated by it), Stern replied:
'Tiffany is a stripper's name.'
Howard Stern Goes Buh-Bye On CBS-TV
This Coming Saturday Night (17 Nov)
George Carlin!
HBO, at 10 pm (est), 'George Carlin: Complaint'
9 minutes have been cut, and the title has been changed....but, damn, it's George Carlin!
To hear a little Carlin, online, www.laugh.com.
Anyone else remember when if you saw George Carlin, Kenny Rankin was the opening act?
In The Chaos Household
Last Night's TV
Started with 'Enterprise', and it really proved it's NOT the old 'Star
Trek'.....In the old days, if Kirk nailed an alien babe, you knew she'd be worm-fodder
by the end of the episode. Still hate the theme song, though.
Watched 'Drew Carey' just because it was LIVE'. Blue Man Group seems to be
everywhere these days. Over the weekend, they were performing with Wayne Newton in Vegas.
Finished primetime with '20/20'. Did you see Barbara Walters trying to drum up
sympathy for the Shah of Iran's son to regain the Peacock Throne?
Tonight, it's nearly naked women night on ABC with a 'special' Regis, ''The
Supermodel Edition'', followed by a Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. 'PrimeTime Thursday'
has an interview with Niki Taylor on her recovery.
On NBC, 'Friends' has Rachel telling her dad's she's pregnant (sounds like a real
knee-slapper), followed by 'Scrubs', 'Will & Grace', 'Just Shoot Me', and
finally 'ER'.
CBS boots someone else from 'Survivor: Africa'. 'CSI' tries to bring a
bit of kink to primetime, and 'The Agency' doesn't have an anthrax story this week.
On 'The Tick' (on Faux), 'The Immortal' dies, followed by an episode of
'Fornication Island'.
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Upping The Ante
'Jeopardy'
Don't adjust that dial, ``Jeopardy!'' fans. Starting Nov. 26, one of the nation's top trivia
game shows will double the dollar amounts on its question-and-answer board, raising the minimum
sum to $200 from the current $100 and the top value to $2,000 from $1,000.
The move marks the first time award totals have been raised in the show's current 18-year run,
which dates back to 1984.
``I have long said that the contestants are the real stars of our show,'' said Alex Trebek, the
program's longtime host who has sported a new look of his own this season as he took to the air
without his trademark mustache. ``It is great to see that our players will be rewarded even more
for their hard work and vast knowledge.''
Dollar amounts in the show were hiked by a factor of 10 from 1964 levels when ``Jeopardy!''
returned to the air in its current format in 1984.
'Jeopardy' Ups The Ante
A long time ago, I was a contestant on 'Jeopardy' - ate freaking 'Turtle Candies' for a
l - o - n - g t - i - m - e. Not that I'm complaining. Was also was on an older game show 'Split Second',
hosted by Tom Kennedy. Still use the luggage, sold the Z-Brick.
Actor Charlton Heston signs a portrait of himself as "Moses" which he portrayed in the
film "The Ten Commandments," by artist Allan Davidson, left, at the Los Angeles premiere
of the film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2001.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
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Look Who's On 'The View'!
Ron Jeremy
``Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy,'' a documentary about the best-known adult film actor in history, will
receive a 50-city release starting Nov. 30 in New York and Los Angeles.
``Porn Star'' is the life story of Jeremy, a somewhat homely former high school teacher from Long Island who has more
than 650 porn films to his credit. Jeremy's notoriety also has led to appearances in mainstream films such as ``Detroit Rock City''
and upcoming ``The Rules of Attraction.''
``Porn Star,'' directed by Scott Gill, has spent the last 11 months on the festival circuit. Jeremy will accompany the film as it
makes its rollout around North America. He is scheduled to be interviewed by Barbara Walters Nov. 27 on her ABC morning show ``The View.''
The Ever-Fabulous Ron Jeremy
Interesting way for Barbara Walters to say 'Happy Thanksgiving'... ; )
''Tribute To Miles''
Miles Davis
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by jazz musician Miles Davis has opened in a London gallery.
Davis turned to visual art in the 1980s after a stroke stopped him from playing the trumpet. He died in 1991.
``The most interesting aspect is you can see three different periods of the last 10 years of his
life,'' said Jonathan Poole, organizer of the exhibition at the Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, on Wednesday.
His early work uses what Poole describes as hot colors and clashing shapes.
``As his work matured he integrated swirling abstracts and in the last two years of his life there's
a very strong African influence,'' Poole said.
``He transformed his world of sound into shapes and colors,'' Poole told Reuters.
``Tribute to Miles,'' housed in three 700-square meter domes, coincides with the 10th anniversary
of the mega-selling jazz master's death.
Tribute To Miles Davis' Art
Send In The Clones
To Open A Day Early
Director George Lucas and distributor 20th Century Fox have decided to send in the clones a day
earlier than originally planned: Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones will now come out in
North America on Thursday, May 16.
The move will give Clones a jump on the Memorial Day weekend--considered the official start of
the summer blockbuster season. When Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace opened on May 19,
1999, it rang up the biggest single-day theatrical gross ever, taking in $28.5 million, and went
on to earn $105.7 million during its first five days--and that was before Memorial Day weekend.
During that holiday period, the film tallied another $66.9 million.
As announced on Lucasfilm's official Website, www.starwars.com, Clones will invade the U.S. and
Canada on the same day it debuts abroad in the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Jordan, Hong Kong,
Thailand and Hungary. Other countries--including France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Israel, West Africa
and Bulgaria--will get Clones a day later.
In the meantime, fans will have to content themselves with the new Clones two-minute trailer, which
will run before screenings of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone this weekend.
'Clones' To Open A Day Earlier
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Dan & Connie & Maury
Serenading Dan
Connie Chung shocked and delighted her former co-anchor Dan Rather last night - serenading the
CBS newsman to the tune of "Love and Marriage."
Chung, who co-anchored the "CBS Evening News" with Rather from 1993-95 - an often stormy
alliance - materialized as Rather was inducted by Maury Povich into the Silver Circle of
the New York Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts & Sciences.
The ceremonies, hosted by Povich (Chung's husband), came to a sudden halt as Chung walked
in and sang to the tune of "Love and Marriage."
Here's how it went:
"Chung and Rather/Chung and Rather/How the gossips used to love to blather/
None of it was true, Dan/I treasured sitting next to you, Dan.
"Dan and Connie/Dan and Connie/Nothing like Mark Green and Giuliani/
As I said to Maury/It's time to tell the honest story.
"I loved being your co-anchor/Right from the starting/
You'd be in Afghanistan/I'd be with Tonya Harding.
"Dan and Connie/Chung and Rather/Time to put aside the past and gather/
Glad that I came back, Dan/What's done is done/You're number one/And here's your Silver Circle platter."
"This is my tribute to Dan," Chung told The Post. "Maury came up with the idea - and I always do
everything my husband asks me to do."
Last night's ceremonies also featured inductees Linda Ellerbee, Ch. 11 newsman Marvin Scott and
"Today" show weatherman Al Roker.
Dan Rather, Connie Chung & Maury Povich
'Let Them Eat Cake' For The 21st Century
Prairie Chapel Menu
Look Who's Directing A Kid's Movie
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson will be calling "action" in his new job as a Hollywood film-maker. The self-styled
"king of pop" is set to make his directing debut alongside old pal Bryan Michael Stoller on a film
about a lovelorn little boy. Entitled Home of the Angels, the film will shoot next May in Stoller's
native Canada. However, the pair are still hunting for a studio to back the project.
"It's a story of a boy about eight-years-old," explains Stoller, who previously directed such opuses
as Undercover Angel and The Random Factor. "He finds himself in and out of orphanages. It's Stand By
Me with a little bit of Oliver!... It's sort of all about growing up and who to trust, and [the boy]
being afraid of trusting people because the people he cares about tend to go away. It's a pretty emotional piece."
It would seem that the character is one Jackson feels intimate with. "Michael can relate to this,
because I think he feels that he kind of grew up as an orphan. Some of his favourite movies are Boys Town and Oliver!"
Jackson has acted, after a fashion, in such films as The Wiz and Captain Eo, but this will be his
first time behind the camera. Stoller explains his motivation: "He's never won an Academy Award and
he feels this material could attract Academy interest."
Jackson may never have won an Oscar, but that hasn't stopped him getting one. A few years back he
paid £1.5m in auction to purchase the Best Film Oscar for 1939's Gone With the Wind. The statuette
now has pride of place at his California home.
Michael Jackson, Director
Wasn't 'Boy's Town' Newt's favorite movie?
Only A $100 'Incentive'?
Dan Rather
Dan Rather slipped a $100 "incentive" to a Philadelphia cabbie Monday to get him back to New
York to in time to cover the American Airlines crash in Queens.
Rather's Monday-morning flight from Texas to LaGuardia was diverted to Philadelphia when the
crash forced area airports to close.
Rather - who desperately needed to be back in NYC - jumped into a cab at the airport and said
he needed to get to Philadelphia's 30th Street railroad station fast.
"I made it clear to the driver he was on the incentive system," he told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
"In the rear window, you'll find sweat from the back of my head," Rather said of his speedy ride
to the train station. "A New York cabbie couldn't hold a candle to this fellow."
After arriving at 30th Streeet Station, Rather caught a Metroliner and was back at his desk by
2:15. His first report on the crash aired at 3:55 p.m.
"Everybody in Philadelphia took really good care of me," Rather told the Inquirer. "As one who
has traveled a fair amount over the years, sometimes under stressful conditions, it's rare
when everything falls into place."
Rather said that, on the flight from Austin, a flight attendant handed him a note from the captain,
informing Rather about the crash in Queens but asking him not to tell the other passengers.
"My first reaction was, 'Our Father, who art in heaven,' " Rather said. "My second reaction was,
'Here we go again.' My third reaction was, 'Don't assume anything.' "
Dan's $100 'Incentive'
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A Cad By Any Definition
Elizabeth Hurley
Mum-to-be Elizabeth Hurley has sent her boyfriend packing. Hurley's friend William Cash claims
she dropped millionaire Stephen Bing, whom she had been dating for 18 months, because he doesn't
want her to keep their baby.
Cash wrote in Saturday's Daily Mail, that Bing is a "Californian playboy" who has "no idea of
what constitutes chivalrous behavior." Bing's "crude insensitivity to the future mother of his
child is galling by any standards," hisses Cash. In fact, certain close friends of Hurley have
dubbed him "Bing Laden."
Since Hurley told him she was expecting, Bing has hardly been in touch, according to Cash. The
37-year-old real-estate heir is said to be carousing in his old bachelor haunts while Liz prepares
for motherhood. He did not return a call for comment.
Elizabeth Hurley & The Cad
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Wednesday Night In NYC
Maybe A Slow Boat?
Jesse Ventura
Gov. Jesse Ventura said he'll lead a business delegation on a visit to China, a trip he
postponed after the terrorist attacks.
``While the full economic impact of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington is
still a little hazy, one thing is crystal clear: We can't allow terrorism to further
harm our economy,'' Ventura said Tuesday in a news release.
The trade mission, initially scheduled for this month, will take place next June 7-18.
China is Minnesota's third-largest trading partner, the governor's office said.
Ventura supports the World Trade Organization's recent decision to accord China membership,
saying it means more opportunity for Minnesota businesses, the news release said.
Jesse Ventura & China
New! Updated!
(6 Nov, 2001)
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, has provided another eye-opening set of charts!
A brief excerpt: " "The influence of the opposition across the 3rd/9th axis may indicate
we have more to fear from domestic terrorism than a foreign entity. Sagittarius on the cusp
of the foreign 9th house, with ruler Jupiter in Cancer, the sign most closely associated with
home and country, in the home 4th, shows the source of anthrax and other bio-chemical threats
are more likely from within our own borders; by a home grown group of domestic terrorists. The
recent wave of breast beating, chest thumping, and flag waving can be attributed to the most
excessive planet (Jupiter) transiting the most exorbitantly patriotic and jingoistic sign (Cancer).
Jupiter also has jurisdiction over religion, so the source of these dreadful bio-terrorist attacks
could very well be a group with a strongly opinionated religious axe to grind. "
Very interesting reading!
Finally Picked Up For The Season
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres scored a standing ovation at the Emmys. Her sitcom ratings finally jumped. And
groveling to her boss in front of 17 million viewers probably didn't hurt, either.
Just a week after her much-lauded stint hosting the re-rescheduled Emmy Awards, CBS has picked
up DeGeneres' struggling Friday sitcom The Ellen Show for a full season (22 episodes). Although
it remains CBS' lowest-rated series (number 77, right between America's Most Wanted and Temptation
Island 2), network execs have voiced their support for the show, saying they've been pleased with
its creative direction.
The decision signifies a remarkable turnaround for DeGeneres, whose Emmy hosting duties almost
never happened and whose Friday series seemed all but destined for the fall trash heap.
DeGeneres even joked about it during the November 4 Emmycast, warning the audience that terrorists
"can't take away our creativity, our striving for excellence, our joy...only network executives can do that."
She then went on to do a little executive butt-kissing, telling CBS honcho Les Moonves that the joke
"should have no bearing on whether you pick up my series or not. Really, handsome. Is it just me,
or does he get sexier by the day?"
22 Episodes For 'Ellen'
'Poster Boy' For Heart Disease
Drew Carey
After narrowly escaping a heart attack, Drew Carey talks about the wake-up call that changed his life.
In real life, Drew Carey is a lot like the character he plays on his sitcom: an average guy from Middle
America who's got a horrible diet, is overweight - and, he learned this summer, at high risk for a heart attack.
The 43-year-old narrowly escaped a massive heart attack in August, and he subsequently had an angioplasty
procedure to open a clogged artery in his heart.
He has since made some serious life changes.
With his new lifestyle, Carey has lost about 40 pounds, and doctors say his prognosis is good.
"He is clearly the average American in terms of his risk," said Eisenberg. "He's the American poster
child for heart disease."
But heart disease is also highly preventable.
"It's the most common disease in America, heart disease," said Carey, "which really, you want to kick
yourself … Like I just suffered from the most preventable thing that nobody should have to have."
Though Carey's episode has scared him into changing his lifestyle, he said he wasn't afraid of dying.
"I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move
on and do something better," he said. "Why is everybody afraid of going to heaven? You want to be here
with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in heaven, sitting next
to Jesus, you know?"
And in the meantime, he continues to appreciate the life he's living. "I'm really grateful every day,"
he said. "God's really blessed me in a lot of ways. It's really great."
Drew Carey
Hell, if Drew wants to sit next to Jesus, all he has to do is take a bus in LA.
They Really Do Think Differently
Musicians' Brains
The brain waves of professional musicians respond to music in a way that suggests they have
an intuitive sense of the notes that amateurs lack, researchers said Wednesday.
Neuroscientists, using brain-scanning MRI machines to peer inside the minds of professional
German violinists, found they could hear the music simply by thinking about it, a skill
amateurs in the study were unable to match.
The research offers insight into the inner workings of the brain and shows that musicians'
brains are uniquely wired for sound, researchers said at the annual meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience.
Neuroscientists often study how we hear and play music because it is one of the few activities
that use many functions of the brain, including memory, learning, motor control, emotion,
hearing and creativity, said Dr. Robert Zatorre of the Montreal Neurological Institute.
``It offers a window onto the highest levels of human cognition,'' Zatorre said.
In a study by researchers at the University of Tuebingen, the brains of eight violinists with
German orchestras and eight amateurs were analyzed as they silently tapped out the first 16 bars
of Mozart's violin concerto in G major.
Brain scans showed professionals had significant activity in the part of their brains that
controlled hearing, said Dr. Gabriela Scheler of the University of Tuebingen.
``When the professionals move their fingers, they are also hearing the music in their heads,'' Scheler said.
Amateurs, by contrast, showed more activity in the motor cortex, the region that controls finger
movements, suggesting they were more preoccupied with hitting the correct notes, she said.
Scheler, a former violinist with the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra, said the findings suggest
that professionals have ``liberated'' their minds from worrying about hitting the right notes. As
a result, they are able to listen, judge and control their play, Scheler said.
``Presumably, this enhances the musical performance,'' she said.
In a second experiment, the violinists were asked to imagine playing the concerto without moving
their fingers. Brain scans showed again that the professionals were hearing the music in their heads.
Zatorre, who has studied the brain's response to music for two decades, said it was the first
time anyone had studied music and its relationship to motor control and imagery.
Musician's Brains Are Different
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Memorial Service
Ken Kesey
Laid to rest in a casket painted in psychedelic swirls of purple, yellow and orange, novelist Ken Kesey took center stage Wednesday for one last time in a theater where he did magic tricks in his youth.
Eulogized as a teacher, trickster, writer and seeker of truth, the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion" was also remembered for his performances of old-time medicine shows and children's stories.
"We were, and still are, astronauts of inner space," said longtime friend and neighbor Ken Babbs. "We go where no man has gone before - and bring the wife and kids."
More than 1,000 people gathered at the McDonald Theater with friends, family, and members of the Merry Pranksters, the band of revelers who rode with Kesey on an LSD-fueled cross-country bus ride that helped define the 1960s and was immortalized in Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."
The memorial service concluded with a recording of the late Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead singing, "We Bid You Goodnight."
Pallbearers loaded the casket with rough rope handles onto the back platform of the latest incarnation of Kesey's psychedelic bus, Further, for a final trip to the Kesey farm in Pleasant Hill, to be buried in the back yard next to his son, Jed.
A lone piper played "Amazing Grace," and people in the street yelled "Further," and "Hail the chief!" as the bus drove away, clanging a big brass bell mounted on the roof. The theater marquee carried the farewell message, "Sparks Fly Up, Ken Kesey."
"I never rode the bus," University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer said. "Did I know his merry pranks? No."
But Frohnmayer recalled that Kesey was an untiring supporter of the university where he earned a degree and later taught. The school honored Kesey several times, and when Frohnmayer's daughter, Kirsten, was struck with leukemia, Kesey sent a box of books, each one inscribed personally to a member of the Frohnmayer family.
"It was just an act of incredible empathy and kindness," Frohnmayer said.
His novels will endure in the state that became home to Kesey as a young boy after his family moved from Colorado in 1943.
Guitarist Mason Williams played "The Water is Wide," and recalled performing with Kesey in Christmas shows and the touring production, "The River Show," with Kesey playing a fire-and-brimstone preacher.
"If you want wonderful chaos, Ken was exactly the right guy," Williams said.
Kesey's final performance came in a movie showing his preacher character, and mourners sang along as the image of Kesey led them in the hymn, "We Shall Gather At the River."
In recalling 43 years with his friend, dating back to a Wallace Stegner writing seminar at Stanford University, Babbs refused to clear up the controversy over the spelling of the name of the bus - Furthur or Further - that Kesey considered his greatest work.
Home movies from 1964 show the original bus being inscribed with the misspelled word Furthur as its destination, but the current bus carries the name Further.
"He said, `That's one of the best things about it, nobody knows,'" Babbs said of the spelling. "Let's just keep that one going."
After "Sometimes A Great Notion," came out in 1964, Kesey found the act of writing tedious, and came to prefer creating stories to be acted out at once, or movies drawn from the Pranksters' adventures on the bus, Babbs said.
Kesey died Saturday at age 66 from complications following surgery to remove a cancerous tumor on his liver.
His legacy will be to inspire people to be kind to others, Babbs said.
"The person isn't gone. The spirit isn't gone. It spreads out over more and more people and spreads the load," Babbs said. "He says our job is nothing less than changing the world."
Ken Kesey Memorial
Still Really Like This One....
"Boondocks" (9 Oct 01)
Gonna let it ride for awhile.
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
