BartCop Entertainment News - Thursday, 16 August, 2001

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Thursday

16 August, 2001

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Re: Bill Maher Reference About Mr. T & Nancy....

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Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter has been voted the "best baddie" in movie history 
according to an Internet poll of over 17,000 fans.  More info can be found 
at Hannibal Lecter.

CBS decided to place its finale of "Big Brother 2" opposite the season premier of 
NBC's "Friends".  They are confident that they in the performance of the show, 
and hope for another win against "Friends" as they did with "Survivor".  
Personally, I don't think "Big Brother 2" is big enough of a powerhouse to beat 
"Friends", but you never know.

I found this interesting web page while surfing the web: Movie Spoilers. 
It's a site that with one-line movie spoilers.  It was compiled by screenwriter 
Diane Patterson.  Check it out!

Brad Pitt is making a "Jackass" out of himself.  He has appeared on the show 
"Jackass" in a skit.  In this skit unknowing bystanders watch in shock as Brad 
Pitt is being kidnapped and dragged into a van kicking and screaming.  Personally, 
I think that's kind of funny, as long as Brad Pitt was on it (he was).

Barbara Eden's son died of an accidental heroin overdose, a coroner's spokesman 
said on Monday.  Matthew Michael Ansara was found dead in his pick-up truck in 
June. 

Mark Wahlberg (aka Marky Mark) ruled out a sequel to "Boogie Nights" because he's 
found religion.  Since becoming a Seventh Day Adventist, Mark wants to be a role 
model for kids.  Ain't that nice.  The role that made him what he is no longer 
is good for him.  Dirk Diggler was the best thing that could happen to him, but 
if fighting apes is the message that he wants to send to kids, then go for it.  

Today's Trivia is about "Pulp Fiction":
Released on October 14, 1994
*  Danny DeVito was the executive producer
*  The shot of Vincent plunging the syringe into Mia's chest was filmed by having John      
     Travolta pull the needle out, then running the film backwards.
*  The F--- word is used 271 times.

 ~Alex

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Reader Comment

Blazing Saddles

Ya know I was watching the news yesterday, and there were forest fires burning all 
over the West, and everywhere else it was flooding, too damn hot or too damn wet, 
and they anounced that the upcoming Global Trade Meeting in DC, will cost 
38,000,000 dollars to keep the protesters at bay, while all the time they are still 
cutting down the rain-forest a thousand acres a day, and the sand-dunes are 
creeping over the land. Damn! 

All this while Bush is resting on his laurels there on his ranch in Texas, and 
still meditating on his navel. And when some reporters asked him about the 
escalating problems in the Middle-East, all he could say was, "Damn! can't we all 
just get along". ~~~ah shit!

Then I saw something really interesting on the news, they have cloned a new plant 
that can absorb hazardous waste and even metal. Now maybe they can clone humans to 
do the same. What else can they do with all that radio-active waste that is 
piling up from the Atomic Energy Plants all over the country, stored in steel
barrels that are rusting and leaking into the soil, but what to do with them? 
Nobody wants them in their own backyard, And it would be too expensive to send 
them in a rocket into the sun. Boy! now, aren't we having fun? 

Now the scientists are warning us of 'Global Warming', & that the hole in the 
Ozone Layer is spreading, but what is it the cause of all this heat? When back in 
the past the U.S. did testing of atomic explosions on islands in the Pacific 
Ocean and under it too, and underneath the ground in Nevada and even out there in 
'Outer-Space. 

But they have developed the 'cover-up' almost to an Art or a Science. Now wouldn't 
old Frankenstein be proud?. He started it all ya know? Maybe this news is what is 
giving me the shits, causing all my jerks and fits, I wanted to shout!, slow
down you're going too fast, or stop! the world, I wantta get off. And if they ever 
land on Mars, maybe then they'll see the future of our planet, where only horny 
toads & lizards will crawl across the land.
                                                  
                                             
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					ShadowCatcher

Carson Daly Goes "Later"

Forget Johnny, another Carson's poised to take over late night. 
    
Carson Daly has signed on as the new host of NBC's late-late-night one-on-one 
interview show, Later. 

Total Request Live fans need not fret, though. 

Daly will be keeping his TRL day job, along with his gig deejaying two syndicated 
music radio shows. But his involvement with NBC is part of a three-year pact that 
gives him a chance to move from teenybopper land into more adult-oriented fare. 

As host of Later, Daly will be staying up late to interview not just the 'N Syncs 
and Britneys of the world, but celebrities and pop-culture personalities who are 
actually old enough to vote. 

Daly--who hails from the Larry King school of softball questioning--might want to 
work on his interviewing chops before taking over the Later duties. 

The show made its debut in 1988 following what was then Late Night with David 
Letterman. Original host Bob Costas set the standard, taking advantage of his 
well-honed interview prowess and the show's one-on-one setting to present more 
intimate insight into celebs. 

Daly will have time to practice. A victim of declining Nielsens, Later has been on 
hiatus since the beginning of the year, replaced with SCTV reruns. NBC plans to 
start up the chatfest with Daly at the helm in early 2002. 

Read the whole story at Carson Daly.

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Sony Promises...

Sony Promises Not to Use Fake Reviews

In the first agreement of its kind since two Sony Pictures executives admitted 
using fake reviews to promote movies, the company promised Oregon officials Monday 
it would never again advertise in the state with fabricated reviews.

In the pact signed Monday, Sony said it would either use quotes from actual 
reviews by professional film critics or admit that the people touting the film 
were studio employees.

A spokesman for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in Culver City, Calif., declined 
to comment Monday.

At least two moviegoers have filed their own lawsuits against Sony, saying they 
were deceived by false advertisements into paying to see bad films. 
 

Reader 'Steve T' observes "At least two moviegoers have filed their own lawsuits 
against Sony, saying they were deceived by false advertisements into paying to 
see bad films."
Using this logic, the Greens could claim they were tricked into voting for a bad 
candidate."


To read the whole story, Sony Promises.

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Hollywood Remembers...

Jack Lemmon (Ensign Pulver) in Mr. Roberts

Hollywood remembers Jack Lemmon

It was exactly one year since Walter's death when Jack was laid to rest in the 
same (Westwood) cemetery as Matthau, Marilyn Monroe and George C. Scott.

The familiar Hirschfield caricature of Lemmon was on screen and Lemmon's 
pianistics and voice greeted guests as the tribute program began. Michael 
Feinstein played tunes from Lemmon's lifetime (and movies) as biographical stills 
played on screen. Clips from his films followed Charlie Rose's welcome remarks 
and the start of all-male (why no ladies?) speaker introductions, plus a note 
from Robert Redford re ``Bagger Vance,'' Lemmon's last (although small) role.

Larry Gelbart, one of Lemmon's poker-playing pals, said, ``Jack had the agility of 
an Astaire and the tenaciousness of a Cagney ... Whether he was performing a work 
by Neil or O'Neill, he would apply himself with an almost religious sense of 
discipline, to put himself at the service of the test ... He was an actor who 
valued quality writing just as writers value quality acting.''

Gelbart added, ``In all of the medical procedures he must have had to endure in his 
last days among us -- no matter how many scanners or tests they subjected him to, 
it's a certainty that they never found one mean bone in the man's body.''

As for the regular Sunday poker games, he added, ``Draw poker is still one of our 
games, but we never play Jacks-or-better anymore. For us, a better Jack is simply 
unimaginable.''

Kevin Spacey was 14 when he met Jack Lemmon at one of the latter's lectures on 
acting. Eleven years later, he was on stage with him in ``Long Day's Journey into 
Night.'' He and Jack also worked together in ``Glengarry Glen Ross,'' which Jack 
liked to call ``'Gene Barry, Glenn Close,' because it was easier to remember.''

Spacey said, ``How the Academy missed that performance will forever be a mystery to 
me. That should have been his third Oscar.''

Lemmon was Spacey's governor in ``The Murder of Mary Phagan,'' his father-in-law in 
``Dad'' and father in ``Long Day's Journey.''

``He located the Jack Lemmon in all of us. So Jack Lemmon will always be inside of 
me. I've based so many of my decisions -- taking roles, playing roles -- the way I 
thought Jack would have. Lester in 'American Beauty' is pure Jack Lemmon. Sam Mendes 
and I talked at length, watched 'The Apartment,' all in an attempt to make Lester a 
guy people could identify with.''

Spacey, who did a marvelous imitation of Lemmon, said, ``I will always try to carry 
a little of Jack's 'magic time' with me wherever I go.''

A lion-maned Kirk Douglas said the office of Jack's company, Jalem, was next to 
Kirk's Bryna. Douglas loved to see Lemmon's car with license plate ``JL Loves 
(heart shape) FL'' parked outside his window. Many paid tribute to Jack's love for 
wife Felicia, who bravely attended.

Tony Curtis winged in from his new home in Vegas to pay tribute. Of course clips of 
him, Lemmon and Joe E. Brown from ''Some Like It Hot'' were shown.

Hank Azaria costarred with Lemmon in his last major role, ``Tuesdays With Morrie,'' 
which aired on ABC in December 1999. Lemmon help inspire the most sensitive work of 
Azaria's also-varied career. He called Lemmon ``The patron saint of acting without 
limits.''

Neil Simon, who had done four movies with Lemmon, related moments with Jack in life 
and on sets, each time pointing out, ``It was very hard to find an actor like that.'' 
He ended with, ``It's very hard to find an actor like him -- and finding a man like 
Jack Lemmon is damn near impossible.''

The emotion of the evening rose with each magnificent speaker and Tom Hanks was 
obviously moved by each who preceded him as he misread a line of the tribute he'd 
written. He challenged us: ``The next time you come across a performance of his, 
turn the sound down low if you can and see if he is not still fascinating and 
graceful and astonishing. See if each moment of his performance is not perfectly 
committed in silence, as Jack Lemmon is able to tell the emotional arc of the story 
and every beat of his character with only his eyes and the language of his body. 
You might miss some of the jokes but you will see the humanity.''

He noted, ``With any closer inspection of his work and his choices, Jack Lemmon 
reveals himself to be a particular and singular film artist on a sliding par 
between Marlon Brando and Groucho Marx. Or, maybe he is the bastard love-child of 
the two, since his dramatic and comedic performances are found in a number of the 
best motion pictures ever made ... He was one of a kind.''

Courtney Lemmon, brother Chris and David Seltzer put together the evening. Chris 
thanked Paramount's Sherry Lansing, Jonathan Dolgen and Allison Jackson, plus 
Warren Cowan, George Schlatter, the speakers and Feinstein (who closed the evening 
playing/singing a favorite of Lemmon's: Ira and George Gershwin's ``Our Love is Here 
to Stay''). Billy Wilder and Gregory Peck were not well enough to attend.
 
To read all of Army Archerd's story, Jack Lemmon.

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