Who's Going To Hell This Week
Helen A. Handbasket
Reader Response
Re: Peter Boyle
''Also saw the late rerun of 'X-Files', where they show much better episodes than what is currently in prime
time....it was the one with Peter Boyle as the psychic insurance guy. Without a doubt, one of the finest actors of our time!...''
I remember seeing that episode 5 years ago or so, and I thought to myself at the time, "This is the best episode I've ever seen."
Later I found out that Peter Boyle won an Emmy for that very episode. Weird, huh?
~~ Barney Gumble
Thanks, Barney! The first time I ever saw Peter Boyle was in the movie ''Joe''. ''Young Frankenstein''
only confirmed what a wonderfully gifted actor he is.
Have a Peter Boyle weekend, and rent both films.
Late Night Pretzel Fun
Dave & Jay
President Bush was joking himself Monday about his fainting episode, but that didn't stop the late-night
comedians from coming after him, or Vice President Dick Cheney.
CBS "Late Show" host David Letterman noted how the "poor guy" was out cold for four seconds Sunday after a pretzel
became lodged in his throat.
"Fortunately, it was the same four seconds that Dick Cheney was conscious," Letterman said.
On NBC's "Tonight Show," Jay Leno also poked fun at the vice president.
"They ran to get Dick Cheney, and they realized nobody could remember the undisclosed location he was hiding in," Leno said.
All this time everyone around Bush has been worried about Osama bin Laden, Leno said, when "it turns out he was
almost done in by Mr. Salty." Bush, who was traveling in the Midwest Monday and sent reporters following him a big
bag of pretzels with the instructions to "chew slowly," sported a red scrape on his cheek from the incident.
"It's no laughing matter," Letterman said. "He had a cut on his forehead, his cheek was bruised, and this president
is not even married to Hillary."
Dave & Jay Have Fun
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Wow, no Jerry Stiller in 'King Of Queens' on CBS. But, Peter Boyle didn't disappoint, as usual.
Didn't really miss MNF on ABC.
Both Dave & Jay had humor related to pretzels. Gotta wonder from what it's taking our attention away....
Tonight, Tuesday, it's a fresh evening at CBS, with 'JAG', the debut of 'First
Monday' (with James Garner playing the to-the-right-of-Scalia justice), and 'Judging Amy'.
NBC is also all-fresh, with the 2nd of 5 episodes of Hank Azaria's ''Imagine That'', '3 Sisters',
'Frasier' (2nd half of a 2-parter on Daphne's visiting relatives), 'Scrubs', and then 'Dateline'.
ABC further helps to kill off their sitcoms with reruns of 'Dharma' and 'Spin City'. Then they
offer fresh episodes of 'NYPD Blue' and 'Philly'.
The WB goes 50/50 with a rerun of 'Gilmore Girls' and a fresh 'Smallville'.
Faux follows the pattern with an hour of reruns - 'That 70's Show' and 'Undeclared'. They are followed by
a fresh '24' (must be around 8 or 9 am...)
AMC has 'Touch Of Evil', an Orson Welles Classic. Chuck Heston plays a narc. The opening shot
has been parodied often, and never better than on 'SCTV', where Johnny LaRue 'needs' his crane. It is followed by
'A Shot In The Dark', which is a Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau movie, before the studios realized they
could pump poop if they put Roman numerals behind the original title. It is followed by 'Man Of LaMancha', for all
unabashed optimists out there, but, realize that this movie was a BOMB....watch it, and you'll know why.
TMC has 'Casino Royale', an overdone spoof of the 'James Bond' genre. Ultimately, 7 directors were involved in
this effort, and it shows. Yum, haggis!
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Jukkasjarvi, Sweden
The Ice Hotel
In the tiny town of Jukkasjarvi, 125 miles north of the Arctic circle, Sweden's Icehotel attracts tourists from
all over the world, eager to stay in the planet's first hotel built entirely of ice, reversing an exodus of locals
moving south in search of a friendlier climate for employment. The hallway leading to the entrance of the bar,
complete with chandelier and ice sculptures.
Photo by Arne Bergh
Hates The 'National Enquirer'
Angie Harmon
Angie Harmon "didn't sleep the first four or five days" of her honeymoon - but not for the obvious reason. The
"Law & Order" star tells TV Guide she was distraught that the National Enquirer obtained a video of her wedding
to Giants star Jason Sehorn. "I would wake up in the middle of the night just bawling," said Harmon, who is
"weighing the options" of a lawsuit against the tab. "What just absolutely broke my heart, tore me apart, made
me so incredibly angry was, we paid so much for security. And they have my entire wedding on tape . . . I hate
them, I absolutely hate them."
Angie Harmon
ABC's First Drama Commitment for Next Season
``Miracles''
In one of its first drama commitments of the 2002-03 development season, ABC greenlit Friday the pilot for
``Miracles,'' an hourlong suspense drama about a Vatigan investigator of the paranormal.
After spending years debunking supposed miracles, the investigator begins to lose his faith -- until he comes
across a sick boy whose illness appears to give him the power to heal others.
``Miracles''
Maybe they could consider a Vatican investigator of pedophiles instead?
The ''Talent Magnet's'' First Act
''Roots'' To NBC
The television miniseries ``Roots'' made history for ABC in 1977. Twenty-five years later, its commemoration has proved an embarrassment.
The network's entertainment chief said Sunday said ABC should have done more in prime time to honor ``Roots,'' the story
of a black slave family that transfixed a nation when it was first aired.
After ABC turned down an offer by the original producers to commemorate ``Roots,'' it was snapped up by NBC. ``Roots 25:
Celebrating 25 Years'' will air Friday at 8 p.m. EST, timed to coincide with the Martin Luther King Day holiday.
Susan Lyne, the ABC entertainment president who's had her job for less than a week, took the blame for the show leaving ABC.
It fell through the cracks with the network preoccupied by its miserable prime-time showing this year, she said.
``If anybody should have suggested that to the network, fought for it, it's probably me, and I didn't think to do it,''
said Lyne, who until her promotion last week was in charge of ABC movies and miniseries.
''Roots'' To NBC
Their ''Talent Magnet'' sure knows her 'stuff'....ROFLMAO
He Finds Women Interesting
Robert Altman
Director Robert Altman has interesting female characters in his films for a simple reason, says one of his
leading ladies: He finds women interesting.
``He looks at women in the same way he looks at men, as individual human beings who provide resources for
various emotions and experiences,'' said Helen Mirren, who stars in Altman's latest film, ``Gosford Park.''
``He finds women and men to be of equal interest. Most male writers and directors have trouble doing that,''
she told The Dallas Morning News on Friday.
Altman also has directed ``M.A.S.H,'' ``Nashville,'' ``The Player'' and ``Short Cuts,'' among others.
``Everyone uses their own experiences, but I think creative men in particular use the women in their lives as
resources. Altman surrounds himself with strong, interesting women who have something to say,'' she said.
Robert Altman
Joining CNN, Again
Keith Olbermann
In a homecoming of sorts, sports veteran Keith Olbermann will join CNN as a contributor to ``NewsNight With Aaron Brown.''
Olbermann, who worked as a sports reporter at CNN in the early 1980s and recently guest-hosted Jeff Greenfield's
show on the news cable network, will provide a series of essays on a range of topics for ``NewsNight''; they will
also air on CNN throughout the week.
Olbermann, who was co-anchor of ``SportsCenter'' at ESPN from 1992-97, most recently worked at Fox Sports Net,
where he anchored a sportscast and a weekly show, ``The Evening News With Keith Olbermann.'' Olbermann exited
Fox Sports last May, six months before his contract was up. Previously, he hosted evening news yakker ``The Big Show'' at MSNBC.
Later this month, Olbermann will revive a twice-daily series of sports and news commentaries originated by
Howard Cosell, ``Speaking of Sports'' and ``Speaking of Everything,'' on ABC Radio.
Keith Olbermann
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'Law & Order'
Jerry Orbach
Playing a sardonic cop for a decade hasn't stunted Jerry Orbach's appetite for a little more ``Law & Order.''
``Every show is new to me. We talk about ideas. We see a headline and say, 'Oh, this is an interesting mystery
or a fascinating crime.' Then the writers will say, 'Yeah, but what's the legal problem in the second half of
the hour?''' he told the Rocky Mountain News in Saturday editions.
``On 'Law & Order,' every day is different. I work with a lot of fascinating actors, since we draw on a huge
talent pool in New York.''
``I've never been tempted to leave,'' Orbach said. ``The idea that I can stay home in New York as an actor
and be with my wife is wonderful. I wouldn't want another job, at least for the time being.''
Jerry Orbach
Wheat For Cuba
From US Via Turkey?
12 de enero de 2002, 20h32
The Turkish vessel Ismael Kaptanoglu arrives in Havana, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2001, carrying 30,000 metric tons of
wheat from the United States. The cargo is part of the first sale of food from the U.S. to Cuba in nearly 40 years.
Photo by Cristobal Herrera
Wheat For Cuba
Picky Dresser?
John Travolta
John Travolta continues to defend his title for conspicuous consumption on movie sets. While filming "Basic," about
Army basic training, Travolta's character is required to wear a black T-shirt most of the time. But he won't wear
Fruit of the Loom. An insider says his contract stipulates that he be provided with eight brand-new, $350 Armani
T-shirts every day of shooting (total cost $2,800). He refuses to wear the same shirt twice and won't wear clothes
that have been dry cleaned because the chemicals used in the process are frowned on by Scientologists.
John Travolta
``The Notorious C.H.O.''
Margaret Cho
Comedian Margaret Cho is getting intimate.
In her new standup show, ``The Notorious C.H.O.,'' she speaks frankly about sex and her struggles with her self
image. She's been touring the performance since fall.
``I think there's no way for women to learn about sex in our culture without diving into it,'' Cho told the crowd
gathered at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach Saturday night.
Her new show discusses sexual experimentation and her adventures at a sex club, but it wasn't all X-rated. The
33-year-old got a bit serious near the end of the show.
``I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations
and to love each other without restraint.''
Without missing a beat, Cho added: ``Unless you're into leather.''
Margaret Cho
A Happy Man
Steven Tyler
Life is making rocker Steven Tyler pinch himself these days.
With his band Aerosmith receiving four Grammy nominations, including best rock album, and his daughter, Liv, co-starring
in the box-office hit ``The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,'' Tyler is thrilled.
``Am I surprised that things have turned out like this? I have to pinch myself every day,'' the 53-year-old Tyler
told the Los Angeles Times for Sunday's editions. ``Life is really beautiful.''
Even if Aerosmith doesn't win any Grammy Awards on Feb. 27, Tyler said he's still grateful because he's living
the life he dreamed of.
``I told my dad, 'When I grow up I want to be a (rock star),' and he said, 'I don't think you can do both.'''
Steven Tyler
``The Dancer Upstairs''
John Malkovich
Ah, to be John Malkovich -- movie star, co-founder of Chicago's Steppenwolf theater company, an actor's actor, and now
director of his first feature film, ``The Dancer Upstairs,'' which premiered over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival.
``Dancer Upstairs'' tells the story of one man's struggle with his own conscience as he steers his career upward inside a
corrupt police department and morally bankrupt government.
As an actor, Malkovich is known as a perfectionist and an artist. As a director, it seems, his mind works much the same way.
John Malkovich
Hospital News
Rosemary Clooney
Singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was reported in serious condition at the Mayo Clinic on Monday following lung cancer surgery.
Her agent issued a statement in Los Angeles saying the upper lobe of Clooney's left lung was removed on Friday
in a successful operation. She was likely to be released from the clinic next week.
Clooney starred in 1954's ``White Christmas'' with Bing Crosby, hosted a TV series and had a number of hit singles,
beginning in 1951 with ``Come On-a My House.''
She was scheduled to appear at the Grammy ceremonies on Feb. 27 to receive a lifetime achievement award. Her
agents said it was too soon to determine if she would make that appearance but doctors ``are confident she will
be able to resume her recording and performing career in near future.''
Rosemary Clooney
On Paula Zahn & Geraldo
O'Really
Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly says Paula Zahn was just being politically correct when she expressed offense
at a CNN promotion that described her as ``sexy.''
``If Paula Zahn doesn't think she's there partially because she's a good-looking babe, then she's in never-never
land,'' the talk show host told reporters over the weekend.
Zahn - who left Fox News Channel in September to join CNN - is an excellent broadcaster, ``but Eleanor Roosevelt
is not going to be anchoring your weekend news, OK?'' O'Reilly said.
The combative talk show host defended co-worker Gerald Rivera, sort of. O'Reilly said Rivera's an ``exciting guy.
How seriously you want to take him is up to you.
``The man has a gun,'' O'Reilly said. ``I'm not going to say anything bad about him.''
O'Really
$1 Million To Build Shrine To Krishna
George Harrison
George Harrison pledged to help build a $1 million shrine to the Hindu god Krishna shortly before his death, it was revealed yesterday.
The temple will be constructed on high ground near the banks of India's River Ganges, where Harrison's ashes are said to have been scattered.
It is to be built at Varanasi, the holiest of Indian cities.
Along with the 6,000- square-foot temple, there will be accommodations for 100 monks and nuns and a guest house
with 150 beds for pilgrims.
According to Hindu philosophy, a believer must touch the Ganges before death to be cleansed of his sins.
Prasann Atama, president of the temple, said, "If the lord has given George Harrison strength to help us, all well and good."
George Harrison
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Father's & Son's
Julio & Enrique
Enrique Iglesias says his superstar dad Julio cruelly taunted him earlier in his career - insisting he would flop as a Latin pop singer.
The insults even continued, Enrique says, after he made it big, with his father saying he could never win a Grammy.
And it's left a rift so wide between them that to this day, Enrique hasn't said a word to Julio about his highly successful career.
"It's not a normal relationship. It's weird in many ways, but we love each other," Enrique told London's Sunday Times.
"When I sold a million copies, he would say, 'You know, you're not going to pass a million copies, that's impossible.
"Then I would end up selling 2 million or 3 million or 4 million. I said, 'I know what I'm doing. This is what I love in my life.'
"Then he'd say, 'Oh, yeah, you sold that many copies, but you're never going to get a Grammy.' "
Enrique proved his father wrong again by winning a Grammy in 1996.
"Never, ever, ever do I raise the subject with him. I think my father thought that nothing was going to happen,
that I wasn't going to be successful," says Enrique, 26.
Julio & Enrique
50th Anniversary
NBC's ``Today''
On its Golden Anniversary broadcast, NBC's ``Today'' reprised moments grand and goofy from its past 50 years.
Along with the current team of Couric, Matt Lauer, Al Roker and Ann Curry, Monday's edition of ``Today'' - roughly its
14,000th - also brought back alumni including Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, Jim Hartz, Jane Pauley and ``Nightly News'' anchor
Tom Brokaw, who confessed to having once overslept during his ``Today'' tenure.
In an unprecedented flash of detente between ``Today'' and its 2-year-old morning rival on CBS, a simulcast found current ``Early
Show'' host Bryant Gumbel dropping by his ``Today'' alma mater. He ended his 15-year ``Today'' run in 1997.
``Today'' was a brainchild of Sylvester ``Pat'' Weaver, now 93, who was represented on the show Monday by his actress daughter Sigourney Weaver.
In a film clip from that first day, original anchor Dave Garroway addressed its most basic breakthrough when he welcomed
an audience perhaps caught off-guard by the very sight of him: ``You've just arisen and find your TV sets working instead
of a test pattern,'' he noted. Before ``Today,'' the network programmed nothing at the breakfast hour.
NBC's ``Today''
``The Great Raid''
Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin Bratt has enlisted in ``The Great Raid,'' a Miramax drama based on a true incident in the last days of World War II.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur organized a secret raid on a POW camp called Cabanatuan, where 500 American prisoners faced
certain doom. His pick to lead the mission, the proud Army ranger Col. Henry Mucci (to be played by Bratt), was forced
to get a crash course in guerrilla warfare from an AWOL Army mechanic turned guerrilla fighter.
Bratt recently played the title role of Leon Ichaso's ``Pinero,'' about the drug-addled Latino poet and playwright
Miguel Pinero. Miramax released the film late last year for an Oscar-qualifying run.
Benjamin Bratt
Children Not Pleased With #5
Joan Collins
The thirtysomething children of Joan Collins are said to be less-than-thrilled about their 68-year-old mother's
plans to wed 36-year-old Percy Gibson. The handsome, Peruvian-born theater company manager will become hubby No. 5
next month for the former "Dynasty" diva, who was 32 when Gibson was born. Sources close to the Collins clan say
that Joan's son, Sacha, and daughter, Tara, from her marriage to singer Anthony Newley, are upset about their
man-chasing mom's upcoming London nuptials. "Sacha thinks that Percy is marrying Joan for her fame and money and
Tara is upset that Percy is younger than her," says our source. "Both of them are worried that Joan is heading
for more heartache and pain." Another family insider sniffed, "Percy is just a polite version of Peter Holm," Joan's
fourth hubby, "who tried to take her for a fortune" after she divorced in 1988. A rep for Collins did not return calls.
Joan Collins
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, always has something interesting to read!
More Changes Ahead
''Ally McBeal''
The further the ratings and morale at "Ally McBeal" fall, the tougher David E. Kelley gets with his anorexic,
stressed-out cast.
Several "Ally" actresses complained last year there was "pressure to lose weight," and now one actor who decided
to leave was hurt when it was "leaked" to the media that he was fired.
Last week, "X-Men" stud James "Jimmy" Marsden was shocked when he read in Entertainment Weekly that he was a
"Loser of the Week" for being fired from "Ally McBeal" after filming just a few episodes.
Marsden was hired for the 2001-2002 season along with three others - Julianne Nicholson, Regina Hall and Josh
Hopkins - to help spice up the show after popular stars Robert Downey Jr., Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs left.
"Jimmy quits the show after one season, and the next thing he knows it is being leaked that he was fired. He left
on his own. He was not fired," said a Marsden pal.
The show has had a revolving door of "special guests" including Bon Jovi for several years, but the only reprieve
it enjoyed from sagging ratings was when Downey Jr. was on. He was fired after repeatedly falling off the
sobriety wagon. Last week, Mariah Carey guest-starred as a woman who was "undateable."
Meanwhile, Marsden is back to focusing on his movie career. The hot actor is in negotiations to do the sequel
to "The X-Men" and will appear in "Interstate 60" later this year.
''Ally McBeal''
Meow
Amanda & Claudia
Amanda Lear - the ageless object of affection of Salvador Dali, David Bowie and Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi - is renowned as much for her scathing wit as her reputation as a man magnet. Lear tells Paper magazine
about a run-in she had with supermodel Claudia Schiffer a few years back.
A movie producer had optioned Lear's book, "My Life with Dali," and wanted Schiffer to play Lear. "I ran into
Claudia at a restaurant," Lear recalls. "She said, 'I love your book! Who wrote it for you?' I said, 'I did,
darling. Who read it to you?' So that was the end of that. They never made the movie."
Meow
Proceeds To Benefit The Material World Foundation
``My Sweet Lord'' Re-Issued Monday
The 1971 George Harrison hit ``My Sweet Lord'' was re-issued Monday in aid of charity.
The single by the former Beatle, who died in November after a long battle with cancer, was released following huge public demand.
The song topped the charts for five weeks in 1971. It was the first solo post-Beatles number one for any member
of the world's most famous group.
All proceeds from the single will go to the Material World Foundation, set up in 1973 by Harrison to support
agencies worldwide that assist poverty-stricken children.
``My Sweet Lord'' Re-Issued Monday
Talk About Being Used
Alicia Silverstone
A hooker in London is using pictures of perky actress Alicia Silverstone to ply her trade. The call girl who
goes by the name of Cindy has plastered photos of the "Clueless" star advertising her services in phone booths
around the city. "This is a sick joke," Silverstone's rep, Elizabeth Much, told the Daily Mail. "We have no idea
who this person is. There is nothing we can say except that we hope this goes away."
Alicia Silverstone
In Memory
Ted Demme
Ted Demme, a film and television director whose credits include the film ``Blow,'' died after playing basketball. He was 38.
Demme was participating in a celebrity basketball game at the private Crossroads School when he was stricken
Sunday, said Ted Braun, a spokesman for Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.
Paramedics rushed Demme to the hospital's emergency room in full cardiac arrest. He was pronounced dead 20 minutes later.
Demme, a nephew of director Jonathan Demme, directed Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz in last year's ``Blow.'' The film was
based on the true story of George Jung, who was the American connection to the Colombian cocaine cartel in the late
1970s and early '80s when the drug became hip.
Demme, who lived in West Hollywood, also directed the 1996 film ``Beautiful Girls'' and was a director on the 1999
television series ``Action.''
His uncle, Jonathan Demme, was director of the 1991 film ``Silence of the Lambs,'' which won the Oscar for best picture.
He also directed the films ``Philadelphia,'' ``Married to the Mob'' and ``Something Wild.''
Ted Demme
In Memory
Frank Shuster
Comedian Frank Shuster, who with his partner Johnny Wayne appeared on ``The Ed Sullivan Show'' 67 times, died Sunday
of pneumonia. He was 85.
Shuster was the sunnier, subtler and taller half of the team nicknamed ``The Kings of Canadian Comedy.'' They
performed together for more than 50 years.
The Wayne and Shuster team - whose comedy was a blend of gentle satire and zany fun - first appeared on Sullivan's
show in May 1958, spoofing the assassination scene in Shakespeare's ``Julius Caesar.'' It was called ``Rinse the Blood Off My Toga.''
The boyhood friends first appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Corp. radio in 1941 before moving in the 1950s
to television, where they stayed until 1989.
They were added to the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1999 and were among the first six inductees into
the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame in 2000.
``Frank Shuster was part of one of the great comedy teams on CBC in Canada and indeed in all of North America,''
said Slawko Klymkiw, the CBC's executive director of network programming.
The duo twice was named best comedy team in North America by U.S. television critics and editors.
Shuster once said the comedy team clicked because the partners had opposite senses of humor. Wayne died in 1990.
``Johnny's is very broad and mine is subtle. He overplays and I underplay and we meet halfway,'' he said.
Shuster and Wayne first met as youngsters in their native Toronto. Both graduated from the University of Toronto.
Wayne and Shuster also entertained troops during World War II and the Korean War. Shuster was named an officer
of the Order of Canada in 1997.
Shuster and his wife, Ruth, were married for 50 years. They had two children.
Frank Shuster
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Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
