Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 6 January, 2004

Tuesday

6 January, 2004

big hammer - bigger hammer

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Issue #86

Disinfotainment Today

By Michael Dare

 
Issue #87
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Top 10 Top 10
Presidential Candidate of the Week
 
    "Our own freedom and growth have never been the final goal of the American dream. We were never meant to be an oasis of liberty and abundance in a worldwide desert of disappointed dreams. Our Nation was created to help strike away the chains of ignorance and misery and tyranny wherever they keep man less than God means him to be...
    "We are committed to help those seeking to strengthen their own independence, and to work most closely with those governments dedicated to the welfare of all of their people. We seek not fidelity to an iron faith, but a diversity of belief as varied as man himself. We seek not to extend the power of America but the progress of humanity. We seek not to dominate others but to strengthen the freedom of all people...
    "For ourselves we seek neither praise nor blame, neither gratitude nor obedience. We seek peace. We seek freedom. We seek to enrich the life of man. For that is the world in which we will flourish and that is the world that we mean for all men to ultimately have. 
    "We do not intend to live in the midst of abundance, isolated from neighbors and nature, confined by blighted cities and bleak suburbs, stunted by a poverty of learning and an emptiness of leisure. 
    "This kind of society will not flower spontaneously from swelling riches and surging power. I propose that we begin a program in education to ensure every American child the fullest development of his mind and skills. 
    "I propose that we begin a massive attack on crippling and killing diseases. I propose that we launch a national effort to make the American city a better and a more stimulating place to live. I propose that we increase the beauty of America and end the poisoning of our rivers and the air that we breathe. I propose that we carry out a new program to develop regions of our country that are now suffering from distress and depression. I propose that we make new efforts to control and prevent crime and delinquency. I propose that we eliminate every remaining obstacle to the right and the opportunity to vote. I propose that we honor and support the achievements of thought and the creations of art. I propose that we make an all-out campaign against waste and inefficiency. 
    "A President does not shape a new and personal vision of America. He collects it from the scattered hopes of the American past. It existed when the first settlers saw the coast of a new world, and when the first pioneers moved westward. It has guided us every step of the way."
- Lyndon Johnson: State of the Union speech, 1965 -
 
Presidential Candidate of the Week Who's Still Living
 
John Buchanan is running against Bush as a Republican candidate in New Hampshire. Aside from "An End to the 9/11 Cover-Up" and "Restoration of America's Freedom, Security and Democracy," Buchanan has chosen me as his Drug Czar - so vote for him or I'll cut off your Darvon supply.
 
Fake Ad of the Week
 
Quiz of the Week
 
Whose God is More Vicious? Is it the fictional Moslem god called "Allah" or the real Christian God of the Holy Bible? 
 
Two Better Things to Do than Watch Madonna's Swept Away on Cable
 
a) Poke yourself in the eye with a fork.
b) Check out Madonna's entire book Sex online.
 
Downloads of the Week
 
It's not an MP3, it's in Real Audio, it's Willie Nelson's new song done at a Dennis Kucinich rally, and don't call me a hippie or I'll call you a crook.
 
I Feel So Much Safer Now
 
       "Only one person in the entire world has been convicted of anything connected to the attacks of 9/11. Very few people have ever heard of Mounir el-Motassadeq who was arrested in Germany in November 2001 and, according to a December 16 Wall Street Journal report, convicted this year as an accessory to 3,066 murders. His conviction is about to be overturned solely as a result of the failure of a related German prosecution. That case failed recently because the US refused to produce a key witness who might have offered exonerating testimony, Ramzi bin al-Shibh.
    "Bin al-Shibh, reportedly captured in Pakistan a year to the day after the attacks, has been elevated to the status of principal planner in the 9/11 legend. Like one of the other alleged key planners, Khalid Shaikh Muhammad (KSM), he has yet to make a single public appearance while reams of convenient confessions from him and KSM are released by the US government to support its insupportable version of events. Bin al-Shibh is reportedly being held at Guantanamo, outside the reach of media, lawyers and the Constitution. The credibility risk to the US government, as it spins a tangled web of conflicting data, is that at some point, in order to maintain any credibility at all, it will have to produce real and verifiable statements from those it holds in custody. It must produce the witnesses themselves, and in the flesh."
 
You're far more likely to choke on a piece of steak than get Mad Cow disease.
 
ABC news pulled its reporter off the Kucinich campaign after he pissed off Ted Koppel during the presidential debate.
 
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said God has told him President Bush will be re-elected in a landslide in November. God, busy fixing the Oscar race for Best Actress this year, was unavailable for comment. 
 
Federal Racketeering charges have been filed against Bush, Ashcroft and Health Secretary Thompson for violating their oath of office, failing to uphold the Constitution, and engaging in acts of treason.
 
    "Across Constitution Avenue, the Washington Monument is surrounded by an 8-foot wall, reminiscent of the one that used to divide Berlin and the one now being built to bifurcate the West Bank. A similar wall surrounds the U.S. Capitol-the so-called "peoples' house," and one has been erected on one side of the Supreme Court. The steps of the Supreme Court are now largely restricted to access by 'we the people.' The Capitol Building is constructing an underground security control center that will soon screen Girl Scouts and 4-H Club members as suspected terrorists."
    "Sirens constantly wail in the nation's capital and its Virginia and Maryland suburbs. One security expert has reported that Washington, DC, Metro Police have sometimes been instructed to turn on their sirens for no reason because police in Israel discovered that sirens are a psychological deterrent to would-be terrorists. Add the sirens to the almost constant noise from patrol helicopters, fighter aircraft, and the extremely high-pitched whine from unmanned aerial vehicles and you realize you no longer live in the capital of the Free World, but some bizarre Twilight Zone version of the capital city of an America in its death throes after some sort of nuclear cataclysm."
- Wayne Madsen: At Year's End, Signs Of Dictatorship Abound In Washington -
 
Belated Christmas Gift From Hell
The Bombardier is way cooler than a Segway
 
Why War is a Good Thing
 
If population growth continues at its current rate, without a lot of people dying meaningless deaths, the earth will have 134 trillion inhabitants in 300 years, or 10 people per square foot.
 
Cartoon of the Week
 
Shockwave of the Week
 
 
Internet Christmas Joke I Should Have Run Two Weeks Ago
 
THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS JEWISH
He went into his father's business.
He lived at home until he was 33.
He was sure his Mother was a virgin, and his Mother was sure he was God.

THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS IRISH
He never got married.
He was always telling stories.
He loved green pastures.

THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS PUERTO RICAN
His first name was Jesus
He was bilingual
He was always being harassed by the authorities

THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS ITALIAN
He talked with his hands
He had wine with every meal
He worked in the building trades

THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS BLACK
He called everybody "brother"
He liked Gospel
He couldn't get a fair trial

THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS A CALIFORNIAN
He never cut his hair
He walked around barefoot
He started a new religion

THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS A WOMAN
He had to feed a crowd, at a moments notice, when there was no food.
He kept trying to get the message across to a bunch of men who just didn't get it.
Even dead, he had to get up because there was more work for him to do.
 
Random Book Cover for No Particular Reason
 
History Lesson from Hell
 
"George W. Bush's father was meeting with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin Laden, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, on the morning of 9/11. They were on Carlyle Group business just a few miles from where hijackers supposedly acting on behalf of Osama bin Laden would fly a plane into the Pentagon."
 
Gallery of the Week
A nanobot removes a fatty deposit from an artery.
Check out the Nanomedicine Art Gallery.
 
"Ever thought about holding your breath and swimming under water for hours at a stretch like a whale? Or sprinting like a cheetah for 12 minutes, without breathing even once! Its no Sci-fi movie script or dream. The concept is very much real and might come true some day in the future. Scripted by scientists, Robert A. Freitas and Christopher J. Phoenix, it involves changing the very essence of life - replacing the blood coursing through your arteries and veins with over 500 trillion oxygen and nutrients carrying nanobots."
- Benoy George: Nanobots For You -
 
Don't Take My Word For It
 
"We're standing on the threshold of a liberating and exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man's consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the universe."
- Marshall McLuhan -
 
"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up."
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden -
 
"[R]eligious freedom should be universal as a fundamental part of American policy. Currently, our policy is to use military force on some bad guys -- and reward other bad guys with our money and business even when they are doing the same nasty things. Saddam kills or locks up Shiite Muslim leaders and that's NOT OK. Viet leaders kill or lock up Buddhist leaders and that IS OK. What kind of message does that send -- Asians are not as important as repressed Arabs/Iraqis? Crime pays as long as you give us the business?"
 
"Be unremitting in the doing of good deeds. Do them with all your might and by every possible means."
- Tirukkural 4:33-34 -
 
"A gaffe in Washington is when you tell the truth and the Washington establishment thinks you shouldn't have."
- Howard Dean -
 
"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
- John F. Kennedy: Nov. 12, 1963 -
 
    "French irritation over US controls on transatlantic flights was reinforced yesterday when the interior ministry revealed that American intelligence based its suspicions on passengers' surnames only.  This led to a child with a name similar to a Tunisian terrorist, a Welsh insurance agent and an elderly Chinese woman restaurant owner being questioned by counter-terrorist police when several flights from Paris to the US were canceled shortly before Christmas. 
    "Three other 'suspects' who were questioned were French citizens with Arab-sounding names. 
    "All the suspects' names, supplied by the US, were found merely to be homonyms - similar in sound or spelling to those of wanted al-Qaida activists."
- Paul Webster and Owen Bowcott: Terror suspect turned out to be a Welsh insurance agent -
 
     "Nine months after the demise of Saddam Hussein's regime and his feared mukhabarat (intelligence) operatives, Iraq is to get a secret police force again - courtesy of Washington.
    "The Bush administration is to fund the new agency in the latest initiative to root out Ba'athist regime loyalists behind the continuing insurgency in parts of Iraq.
    "The force will cost up to $3 billion (1.8 billion) over the next three years in money allocated from the same part of the federal budget that finances the Central Intelligence Agency.
    "Former CIA officials compare the operation to the Phoenix programme in Vietnam, which was launched in 1967. That programme sought to destroy the civilian infrastructure supporting the Vietcong through assassinations and abductions secretly authorized by Washington."
 
"The families of senior Iraqis captured by the US since the fall of Saddam have complained that their relatives had been wrongly identified as important regime members and that some had been tortured in custody."
 
"The early worm gets eaten by the bird."
- Xarvon, Alien Investigator -
 
    "The Southern Solstice has passed, and with it the deadline for 9/11 families to file their claims with the 'Feinberg Fund,' as it has come to be known. Of an official death toll of 2976, claims have been filed by for 2,851. The claim involves signing off on any future litigation against the government, the airlines, the airports or any security firms.
    "One hundred and twenty-five claims remain outstanding, but little has been written about any of these families. Where is the coverage of those insisting on finding out what really happened on that day before they sign away their 'claims?'"
 
    "Washington's hawks have sent a public manifesto to President George Bush demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military blockade of North Korea backed by planning for a pre-emptive strike on its nuclear sites.
    "The manifesto, which was sent on Tuesday, is presented as a 'manual for victory' in the war on terrorism. It also calls for Saudi Arabia and France to be treated not as allies but as rivals and possibly enemies."
 
    "What is national security? This Administration defines national security as sending our young men and women around the world to wage war on country after country--none of them strong enough to threaten us. I define national security as making sure every American has health care, employment, decent housing, a clean environment. I define national security as taking care of our people who are losing jobs, taking care of our senior citizens, taking care of our children.
    "Our current military budget is $400 billion a year, the largest in our history, larger even than when we were in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. And now we will be spending an additional $87 billion for the war in Iraq. At the same time, we are told that the government has cut funds for health care, education, the environment, and even school lunches for children. Most shocking of all is the cut, in billions of dollars, for veterans' benefits.
    "If I became President, I would immediately begin to use the great wealth of our nation to provide those things, which represent true security."
- Howard Zinn: The Logic of Withdrawal (imaginary speech for whichever candidate emerges as Democratic Party nominee for President)-
 
"What could ultimately be one of the final battles to expose the fraud of the federal income tax is scheduled to commence Monday morning in Fort Worth when Bedford Texas business owner Dick Simkanin goes on trial for a second time, facing 35 counts of federal tax related charges. His first trial in November ended in a mistrial when the jurors voted 11-1 to acquit him of failing to withhold employment taxes from his employees' paychecks."
 
"The Bush administration's total disregard for international law and treaties has put us on a perilous path. Clinton's agreement with North Korea ended their nuclear weapons program in exchange for access to oil. After Bush cut their oil supply and started his axis of evil rhetoric, North Korea resumed developing nukes and warned that they, too, can use preemptive attacks against perceived enemies, just like Bush's lawless attack of Iraq."
- Thomas P. Krise: Bush leads U.S. to dark ages -
 
    "Last year, the Congress of the United States violated the First Amendment to the Constitution by passing the 'McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act.' Within that law is a provision making it unlawful for individual citizens to purchase television and radio advertising within 60 days of a federal election. The only persons allowed to make such purchases are candidates for office.  
    "Such a restriction upon free speech is a clear violation of the First Amendment prohibition forbidding the government from 'abrading the freedom of speech.' Each member of Congress who voted for this law, violated his
Oath of Office under 5 U.S.C. 3331 to 'support the Constitution.'
    "By enacting this law, the incumbents in Congress assured they would no longer have to answer for their voting records because 'issue-advocacy ads' and 'voting record ads' cannot be run by those wishing to shed light on what the rascals have been up to.
    "President George W. Bush, violated the Constitution and his Oath of Office  under Article II Section I of the Constitution by signing this Bill into law."
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than that to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for a worse, unless the people have sense, spirit, and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against tyranny; against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many."
- John Adams, Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787 -
 
"Don't get agitated! Agitate!"
 - Pip Wilson -
 
"Hatred can be the greatest stumbling block to the development of compassion and happiness. If you can learn to develop patience and tolerance towards your enemies, then everything becomes much easier your compassion towards all others begins to flow naturally."
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama -
 
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein -
 

Contact George W. Bush - president@whitehouse.gov
Contact Jeb Bush - jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Contact Saddam Hussein - president@whitehouse.gov
Contact Kim Jong Il - eng-info@kcna.co.jp
Contact Jacques Chirac - france-presse@un.int
Contact the Pope - accreditamenti@pressva.va
Contact the Democratic Candidates:  Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Dick Gephardt, Bob Graham, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Lieberman, Carol Moseley Braun, Al Sharpton
Embassy of France in the US: 202-944-6000
German Embassy in the US: 202-298-4000
Embassy of the Russian Federation: 202-298-5700
Embassy of the People's Republic of China: 202-328-2500
White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414
Contact your Senator - http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm
Contact your Representative - http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html
House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Links to Central Government Agencies - http://www.firstgov.gov/
 
 
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Reader Review

Cold Mountain

Well, folks, saw the movie about the book I read years ago, and after a long wait and much wondering how such a book would be translated to film, I find myself quite satisfied.

Just as an appetizer for discussion, if you wish, after seeing this movie, my reaction was this movie was more than a love story, it was an anti-war movie. War is not glamorized here. The scenes of the Siege of Petersburg, VA, were horrific. Perhaps battlefields are the true Hells on Earth, a pit devoid of mercy or pity. The aftermath -- hundreds of bodies stacked like cord wood, the sound of the flies filling the air, the heat, the stench, you have to wonder why anyone would send his son to battle. Yet, we do.

I read a review by someone calling himself "YodaCracker" in the Independent Movie Data Base (IMDB.com) about this movie, and he ranted that "...there must've been a 100 anti-war comments throughout the movie, and I'm sure the hidden message of the movie wasn't anti Civil War but anti Iraq war. Why not just say you hate America in this movie?..."

I have to laugh. The book was written way before this war we're in now. It's amazing how a freeper can crawl into this area and condemn such a movie....they must be rather nervous about their warlike intentions. Such an ignorant remark should be exposed to the light, like bugs under an upturned rock. How hating war equates to hating America is beyond my comprehension.

This movie is not about what the North did to the South, but what the South did to the South. And that sin continues to haunt us. I say that in regard to the Home Guard depicted in "Cold Mountain". The Home Guard were corrupt beyond any possible redemption; they were really busy killing "deserters" or whoever got in their way, and generally terrorizing the folks down on the farms. Hmmm, Home Guard, Homeland Security. The irony wasn't lost on me.

Another scene that stood out for me was the hospital. Again, a snapshot of Hell. The doctor, as he winded his way through the maze of cots and maimed soldiers, muttered something about the "sacrifice of a leg so the rich man can keep his slaves." When I heard that, I thought to myself, "the sacrifice of a leg so the rich can continue to drive their SUVs."

Now that I think about it, I'd say "Cold Mountain" is not merely an anti-war movie, but a damn good one at that!

One can only hope that this film is shown at the White House in the coming weeks and is UNDERSTOOD.

--  Gang of One, January 5, 2004


Thanks, Gang!

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from Mark

Another Bumpersticker

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

BOMBS AWAY IN OCTOBER

IS BUSH A TRAITOR?

THE BOUND AND GAGGED ZONE

BAGHDAD BURNING

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny & windy.



Tonight, Tuesday, CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Navy NCIS', followed by a FRESH 'The Guardian', then a FRESH 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Paolini, and Howie Day.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Michael Imperioli and Dom Irrera.

NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'Tracy Morgan', followed by a FRESH 'Whoopi', then a FRESH 'Frasier', followed by a FRESH 'Happy Family', then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
On a RERUN Jay (from 12/1/03), are Tom Cruise, Keisha Castle-Hughes, and Tori Amos.
On a RERUN Conan (from 10/7/03), are Kevin Bacon, Viveca A. Fox, and the Del McCoury Band.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 12/11/03), are Adam Goldberg, Ali Landry, and Dannii Minogue.

ABC starts the night with a FRESH '8 Simple Rules', followed by a FRESH 'I'm With Her', then a FRESH 'Jim', followed by a FRESH 'Less Than Perfect', then a FRESH 'Line Of Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel is this week's guest co-host Dane Cook.

The WB offers a RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a RERUN 'One Tree Hill'.

Faux has a RERUN 'That 70s Show', followed by a RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH '24' (Day 3:  9pm - 10m).

UPN has a RERUN 'One On One', followed by a RERUN 'All Of Us', then a RERUN 'Rock Me Baby', followed by a RERUN 'Girlfriends'.

A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Martha Stewart), 'Martha Stewart: Ruin', and 'Cold Case Files'.

AMC offers the movie 'Conquest Of Planet Of The Apes', followed by the movie 'The Terminator', then the movie 'The Terminator', again.

BBC  -    [6pm] 'BBC World News';    [6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Morris;    [7pm] 'House Invaders' - Woodthorpe;    [7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - West Hampstead;    [8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;    [9pm] 'Ground Force America' - Washington D.C.;    [10pm] 'Ground Force' - Stamford;    [10:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Garforth;    [11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;    [12am] 'Ground Force America' - Washington D.C.;    [1am] 'Ground Force' - Stamford;    [1:30am] 'Ground Force' - Garforth;    [2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;    [3am] 'Ground Force America' - Washington D.C.;    [4am] 'Ground Force' - Stamford;    [4:30am] 'Ground Force' - Garforth;    [5am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;   and   [6am] 'BBC World News'.    (ALL TIMES EST)

Bravo has the movie 'The Terminator', followed by a RERUN 'Celebrity Poker', then a FRESH 'Celebrity Poker' (Game 5), followed by 'Queer Eye'.

Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Insomniac', 'South Park', 'Crank Yankers', and another 'Crank Yankers'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Tom Brokaw.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Deep Sea Detectives', 'Tactical To Practical', and more 'Modern Marvels'.

MTV has the 14th season Premiere of 'Real World'.

SciFi has the movie 'Sometimes They Come Back...Again', followed by 'Storm Of The Century' (part 1 of 3).

TCM celebrates Loretta Young (today would have been her 90th birthday) all day, and features my 2 favorite films about TV at night.
  [6am]    'Taxi!' (1932);
  [7:15am]    'Employees' Entrance' (1933);
  [8:30am]    'She Had To Say Yes' (1933);
  [9:45am]    'Midnight Mary' (1933);
  [11am]    'The Unguarded Hour' (1936);
  [12:30pm]    'Cause For Alarm!' (1951);
  [2pm]    'Key To The City' (1950);
  [4pm]    'The Bishop's Wife' (1947);
  [6pm]    'The Farmer's Daughter' (1947);

  [8pm] 'A Face In The Crowd' (1957);
  [10:15pm]    'Meet John Doe' (1941);
  [12:30am]    'The Front Page' (1931);
  [2:15am]    'Network' (1976);
  [4:15am]    'Bombshell' (1933).    (ALL TIMES EST)


Wednesday  -  01/07

TCM has neatly divided the day into thirds - the first third pays tribute to Dennis Morgan. The 2nd third features films with Joel McCrea, and the last third celebrates a very young Katharine Hepburn.
  [6am]    'MGM Parade Show #21' (1955);
  [6:30am]    'God Is My Co-Pilot' (1945);
  [8am]    'Captains Of The Clouds' (1942);
  [10am]    'Wings For The Eagle' (1942);
  [11:30am]    'Cheyenne' (1947);

  [1:15pm]    'Colorado Territory' (1949);
  [3pm]    'Stars In My Crown' (1950);
  [4:30pm]    'Fort Massacre' (1958);
  [6pm]    'Ride The High Country' (1962);

  [8pm]    'Little Women' (1933);
  [10pm]    'Katharine Hepburn: All About Me' (1993);
  [11:30pm]    'Christopher Strong' (1933);
  [1am]    'The Little Minister' (1934);
  [3am]    'Break of Hearts' (1935);
  [4:30am]    'A Woman Rebels' (1936).
    (ALL TIMES EST)



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Internationally well-known movie director John Woo of Hong Kong has his handprints cast at a Hong Kong hotel Monday, Jan. 5, 2004 for a planned Hong Kong's Avenue of the Stars that is expected to be opened later this year. The avenue is modeled after Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Photo by Lo Sai Hung

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The Information One-Stop

Moose & Squirrel

Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

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Shot in Robbery Attempt

Ray Davies

Singer-songwriter Ray Davies of the celebrated British rock band the Kinks was shot in the leg while chasing thieves who snatched a purse from a woman he was with, police said Monday. He was not seriously injured.

Police said Davies, 59, and the woman were walking near the edge of the French Quarter when the shooting happened around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Davies was treated and released at a hospital, said Capt. Marlon Defillo, a police spokesman.

Last week, Davies received royal honors in London. Along with singer-guitarist Eric Clapton, he was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire at a ceremony on New Year's Eve.

Ray Davies

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A Russian Theatre of Fire performer jumps during a Christmas show in Hermitage Garden in central Moscow, January 5, 2004. Russians are preparing for the Orthodox Christmas celebration on January 7.
Photo by Viktor Korotayev

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Sets Another Broadway Record

'The Producers'

With Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick back in the show, "The Producers" grossed a record $1,600,243 for eight performances last week, spokesman John Barlow said Monday.

Barlow said the figure was boosted by premium $480 orchestra tickets and a special $600 ticket price for New Year's Eve.

Lane and Broderick, who are reportedly earning $100,000 a week, returned to the musical Dec. 30. They will remain in the show through April 4. The musical is almost sold out through their engagement.

'The Producers'

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Cameo on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld will do a "pop-in" on his old friend, Larry David, this season on "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

He said the comedian, with whom he created "Seinfeld," showed up on the set during an episode set in Manhattan and makes a brief cameo, but wouldn't elaborate.

The fourth season of the HBO comedy, which began Sunday night, stars David as himself: a cranky comedy writer. He figured he'd do 10 episodes a year, compared to the 23 required for a network series, and that production would take eight months at the most.

Jerry Seinfeld

www.hbo.com/larrydavid

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UPDATED FOR 2004!

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

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DGA To Honor

Mike Nichols

The Directors Guild of America announced it will bestow its highest honor on Mike Nichols next month.

Nichols, whose work has included an array of social satires, will be presented the guild's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 56th annual DGA Awards on February 7.

The award is not presented annually, and only 30 directors have been so honored in guild history.

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BASE (Buildings, Antennas, Spans and Earth) jumpers parachute from Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers, in Kuala Lumpur January 5, 2004. Jumpers from Asia, Europe and the United States jumped off the Twin Tower's 73rd floor and did a freefall for four to five seconds before opening their single parachute and landing on a targeted 25-foot radius.
Photo by Zainal Abd Halim

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Group Breaks Up

B2K

Platinum-selling R&B quartet B2K has split up, their manager said Monday.

The teen heartthrobs gained instant success and legions of screaming fans when they made their debut in 2002. Their hits include "Bump, Bump, Bump" and "Uh Huh," and they will make their movie debut in "You Got Served," set for release on Jan. 30.

According to the statement, disagreements among the group members — Omarion (Omari Grandberry), Lil Fizz (Dreux Frederic), J-Boog (Jarrell Houston) and Raz B (De'mario Thornton) - fueled the breakup of B2K, meaning Boys of the Millennium.

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Planned for Key West

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Former Philadelphia 76ers president Pat Croce plans to open a pirate museum in this island city, once a base for seafaring outlaws.

Croce, known for his daredevil personality, bought a building in Key West's downtown for $3 million last week. He hopes to open Pirate Soul in the fall.

He said the museum will feature items from his pirate collection, including a treasure chest from Capt. Thomas Tew and the last journal from Capt. William Kidd, a 17th century pirate who was executed for his crimes. Croce also wants to borrow or lease other items.

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An actor hanging from a balloon flies over central Madrid during the traditional Epiphany parade January 5, 2004. Traditionally, children in Spain receive their Christmas presents on the morning of January 6, delivered by the 'Three Wise Men.'
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Fox TV Chairman Stepping Down

Sandy Grushow

Fox Television Entertainment Group chairman Sandy Grushow, whose responsibilities included the ratings-challenged Fox broadcast channel, has resigned.

Grushow is leaving to form his own production company based at 20th Century Fox, called Phase Two, effective immediately, it was announced Monday.

"This was a very complicated decision for me to make," Grushow said in a statement. He concluded it was better to exercise a production option in his contract rather than sign another executive agreement, he said.

Grushow's contract was to expire this summer. A successor was not expected to be named immediately.

Sandy Grushow

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Fall from Sky

'Fireballs'

Hundreds of witnesses reported seeing fireballs cross the skies of northern Spain Sunday in what authorities said may have been a disintegrating meteorite, Spanish radio said.

The bright flashes were spotted at around 6:00 p.m. (1700 GMT) in a swathe across the northern half of Spain, from the eastern city of Valencia to the northwestern pilgrimage site of Santiago de Compostela.

Jose Angel Docobo, director of the University of Santiago's observatory, said the phenomenon could have been caused by a rock orbiting the sun which had collided with the earth.

'Fireballs'

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In Memory

Brian Gibson

Brian Gibson, English-born director of acclaimed films including "The Josephine Baker Story" and "What's Love Got To Do with It?" about the life of singer Tina Turner, has died at age 59, his representatives said Monday.

Gibson, who had been suffering from Ewings Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, died on Jan. 4 in London, according to the Artists Independent Network.

A graduate of Cambridge University, he started directing scientific documentaries for the British Broadcasting Corp. in the 1960s and went on to direct some of the corporation's most praised films.

Gibson's first feature film was "Breaking Glass," a raw portrait of a punk rock singer, which brought him to Hollywood's notice.

He made a number of films in Hollywood, including many for HBO.

They included "The Juror" (1996), starring Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin, and "What's Love Got to Do with It?" (1993), which won Academy Award nominations for its stars Laurence Fishbourne and Angela Bassett.

"The Josephine Baker Story," produced in 1991, garnered the best director Emmy as well as a Golden Globe for actor Lou Gosset.

Other pieces for HBO included "Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story" (1989), about the famous Nazi hunter, that was nominated for several Golden Globe and Emmy awards; and the miniseries "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story," about the life and death of U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena.

In the late 1990s, he directed a number of small budget independent films, including "Still Crazy in London," a parody of aging rockers that starred Bill Nighy and the comedian Billy Connolly and won several Golden Globe nominations.

He is survived by his wife Paula Guarderas Gibson, two daughters and his mother Victoria and sister June. The funeral was planned in London next week, and memorial services later in London and Los Angeles.

Brian Gibson

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Taiwan miniature artist Chen Frong-shean displays one of his latest creations - bamboo chopsticks featuring a pair of monkeys - in Taipei January 5, 2004. The Chinese Year of the Monkey will be ushered in on January 22.
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