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Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
Entertaining Link
As Seen On BartCop
As Seen On BartCop
''Rolling Thunder''
From Nancy Maynard
Thanks, Nancy!
Nancy is our reporter in the Washington, DC-area. She was one of the first contributors to the E-page, with some great music reviews, and followed them up with
her own pictures of the pentagon (one of her neighborhood landmarks) last September. If something is going on, I know Nancy is nearby, and way ahead of my learning curve.
He's Been Busy Again!
The Worried Shrimp
From The Worried Shrimp
The Worried Shrimp - DeficitDubya #33
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Nearly had whiplash, trying to see what product Canned Heat's ''Up The Country'' was selling. It was for 'Tide'. I always think of 'Tide' when I think about going
'where the water tastes like wine.' Although 'gonna do somethings that I've never done before' does sound like some of the bachelor boys on laundry.
Can't find a link online (yet), but both 'Star' and 'The Globe' are reporting that Sharon Osbourne dated Jay Leno back in the late 70's, before
Ozzy entered her world. And, that Ozzy wasn't too keen on the visits to Jay's show. One of their visits to Jay reruns on Friday. Speaking of Friday night
reruns - Shirley Manson is on Craiggers.
Noticed that NBC dumped the scheduled episode of 'Philly' for a 'Dateline'.
Really got a kick out of 'Raymond', and the Christmas letter. Nothing identified with there. No. Not at all.
CBS has a Trifecta of reruns - 'JAG', 'The Guardian', and 'Judging Amy'.
On a rerun Dave (from 5/9/02), the guests are Hugh Grant and Tony Hawk.
On a rerun Craiggers, the guests are Tim Robbins and Jamie Lee Curtis.
NBC has an 'NBA Playoff' game which will intrude on primetime programming. Watch out for local filler & the net filling with 'Dateline'.
On a rerun Jay, the guests are Toby Maguire and P. Diddy with Usher.
On Conan, the guests are
On Carson Daly, the guests are Pete Yorn and Bridget Moynahan.
ABC expresses its utter contempt for what remains of an audience and regurgitates 2 rerun episodes of the failed series 'Mole II: The Next Betrayal'. They are followed by a
fresh episode of 'Philly'.
On a rerun Bill Maher (from 3/14/02), the guests are Michael McKean (Actor), Alec Baldwin (Actor), Christianne Klein (Reporter), and Frank Bruni (Reporter).
The WB has reruns of 'Gilmore Girls' and 'Smallville'.
Faux has 4 reruns - 'That 70's Show', 'Andy Richter', 'Bernie Mac', and another episode of 'Andy Richter'.
UPN has reruns of 'Buffy', 'Girlfriends', and 'The Parkers'.
FX has a fresh episode (2nd to last of the season) of 'The Shield', and follows with a rerun episode.
No Ozzy Scheduled This Week
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On Surgery & Collagen
Sharon Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne's wife Sharon, matriarch of America's wacky TV family The Osbournes, loves cosmetic surgery – except for lip-plumping collagen injections that
left her looking like she'd been punched in the mouth.
She had a stomach-stapling operation in 1999 that helped her shed nearly 100 pounds and admits she's gladly had lots of other procedures.
"I'm like the $6 million woman ... go for it," she says. "What's the big deal?"
But it was nip and tuck after a botched collagen injection 10 years ago gave her a lopsided, deformed look, she tells an interviewer.
"I looked ridiculous, absolutely pathetic," she recalls.
"The injections hurt so much, I only had half the mouth done and said: 'I'm outta here.'
"For two months I had a really big side, you know, one side of my top lip and that was it. And everyone's asking: 'What's the matter with your lip?'
Sharon Osbourne
Visiting Uganda
Bono, Tucker & O'Neill
Irish rock star Bono belted out the Beatles' "The Long and Winding Road" to schoolchildren, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill gently lifted 7-year-old Sula Bulela onto his
lap Monday as the most publicized roadshow in Africa entered its second week.
American comedian Chris Tucker joined O'Neill and Bono in Uganda where the three visited a protected spring, a health center and Kisimbiri primary school to see how savings from
a debt relief program have improved the lives of ordinary Ugandans.
At the spring, which has been protected by barbed wire and a concrete barrier from thirsty cattle with funds that would have been spent paying off Uganda's foreign debt, O'Neill
explained to Tucker that people were originally wary of tampering with it for fear the water would dry up.
O'Neill and Bono argued openly throughout the day about development issues, particularly O'Neill's position that private enterprise should play a key role in spurring development.
For more, Bono, Tucker & O'Neill
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill In New Zealand
Former American President Bill Clinton gestures as he speaks in front of a New Zealand flag to guests at a dinner to launch a new series BMW that took place at the
Hilton Hotel on Princes Wharf, Auckland, New Zealand, Monday May 27, 2002.
Photo by Dean Purcell
Booted From ''Becker''
Terry Farrell
Terry Farrell, the former model and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine beauty who plays the diner owner Reggie on CBS' hit comedy Becker, has been let go from the series after
four seasons, as producers have decided to take the Ted Danson show in a "new creative direction."
A spokeswoman for Paramount Network Television was mum about any details regarding Farrell's departure, saying only that the 38-year-old actress will not be back
for any episodes next season.
The move comes at an especially bizarre time for Becker: Monday's cliffhanger season finale featured Farrell's character and Becker's new neighbor, played by Nancy Travis,
both revealing their feelings for the doctor.
Prior to Becker, Farrell was best known for her role as science officer Jadzia Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also played the girlfriend of Rodney
Dangerfield's son in the 1986 comedy Back to School. Meanwhile, the Iowa-born actress just finished shooting the Lifetime original movie Losing It, set to air in July.
Terry Farrell
A Hero For Our Time
Jane van Dis
Jane van Dis, a student at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, poses near Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, S.D., May 21, 2002.
Van Dis, a pro-choice advocate, says the school curriculum includes little information about contraception or abortion. She founded a chapter of Medical
Students For Choice despite some faculty warnings that such activism could hurt her career.
Photo by Kellie Smedsrud
WTF ? Doctors are NOT being taught about contraception? Or abortion? The University of South Dakota is a catholic school? We're supposed to be grateful that the students have someplace to
'practice'? What's next - Parsons School of Design offers fashion classes in burqa's?
Looking To Move
Ozzy's Cup O'Tea
Ozzy has put his real estate agents on the case to find a bigger house for his brood to move into – but it has to be within walking distance of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Why?
Ozzy can find a decent cup of tea at the hotel -- he's there every day.
Ozzy's Cup O'Tea
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Returns 'Home' to Teach
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen went back to the high school she attended to teach drama workshops in the memory of a student killed in a traffic accident.
In April, the actress taught a pair of acting sessions to high school drama students from across Arkansas in the memory of Thea Leopoulos, who died a year ago.
The girl's father said Thea never would have imagined an Oscar-winning actress teaching her drama class. "As humble as Thea was, she never would have
expected that," Paul Leopoulos said. "She never would have hoped for it because she was always giving."
Steenburgen said that while she can't experience their loss, she offered to help Thea's parents in any way.
So the Leopoulos family asked her to teach the classes to help drama students decide whether professional acting is the right career choice. The actress told
them that leaving for New York, like she did 30 years ago, isn't for everyone.
Mary Steenburgen
Appropriately Dressed?
Pickles
France's first lady Bernadette Chirac and U.S. first lady Laura Bush, right, stand together as an American Army bugler plays "Taps" to close a Memorial Day ceremony,
Monday, May 27, 2002, at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac toured the area where Allied
forces broke through Hitler's fortifications 58 years ago to begin the end of World War II.
Photos by J. Scott Applewhite
Now We Know Where She Gets Her Taste?
Jenna
Jenna Bush, 20, left, daughter of President Bush and first lady Laura Bush, joins her mother as they are welcomed to Prague Castle by President of the Czech Republic Vaclav
Havel and his wife Dagamar, at right, Monday, May 20, 2002. Craig Roberts Stapleton, U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic, stands between Mrs. Bush and Jenna.
Photo by J. Scott Applewhite
Makes Plea To Get Wes Back
Fred Durst
Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has made a plea to Wes Borland, the band's former guitarist, to return to the band. "We are hoping Wes will come back and surprise us
one day soon...We miss him, but he's doing his thing and he's supposedly really happy," wrote the Bizkit frontman on the band's website. "Email Wes and tell him to
come back to his family."
He also said that Limp Bizkit is still jamming and that he's "been doing a lot of writing lately--all kinds of styles. I'm playing guitar too, scary!!"
Fred Durst
Yeah, Real Middle Of The Road
``Sunday with Simon''
California's Republican candidate for governor doesn't have much of a political record for voters to dissect. But Bill Simon does have a talk show.
In much the same way that Ronald Reagan started with ``General Electric Theatre'' and Jesse Helms made his name on a small, 250-watt North Carolina
radio station, Simon began his political career with a foray into the entertainment industry. For much of last year, Simon hosted ``Sunday with Simon,''
an early-morning, half-hour talk show that offered a unique window into the candidate's ideological foundations.
While Simon has sought to move toward the political mainstream since winning the GOP nomination in March, his choice of guests in all 15 episodes that
aired on the family-friendly cable network PAX-TV -- shows recently reviewed by the Mercury News -- reflect the candidate's solidly Christian conservative worldview.
In many of the shows, the guests served as mirrors for Simon's views on abortion, the role of religion in society and the corrupting influence of the entertainment industry.
He criticized film critics for championing ``perverse films,'' suggested Hollywood was trying to ``kidnap our kids'' and wondered if young women should tone down their ``provocative'' dress.
In his conversation with Lakita Garth, an activist who pushes abstinence over safe sex, Simon asked: ``Lakita, do you think young women should dress more modestly?''
Garth responded by criticizing women who wear their ``skirt so short it's a belt and the `V' cut down to the navel.''
Simon laughed and wondered: ``How can you blame a young man for being intrigued when young women are running around like that?''
In another show, Simon spoke with conservative film critic Michael Medved, who accused Hollywood of promoting ``radical secularism and intolerance of religion.''
In the Medved interview, the film critic talked of Hollywood's fascination with ``degradation, depression, despair, dysfunction -- any other `D-word' you can think of.''
Simon asked: ``Do you think that that's reinforced by the number of critics that seem to me to be absolutely in love with perverse films?''
``Oh,'' Medved said, ``absolutely.''
For a lot more, ``Sunday with Simon''
The 2 Pauls Tour Continues
Bono & O'Neill
U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Irish rock singer Bono revealed strong differences Monday over how rich nations should help poverty-stricken Africa.
The pair, in Uganda on the third leg of a debt-study tour that has taken them to Ghana and South Africa and will end in Ethiopia, differed on whether more aid money and
increased debt forgiveness could help Uganda.
As the pair toured an elementary school outside Kampala, O'Neill expressed surprise that six or seven children had to share one book and suggested voluntary aid could ease such shortages.
"I think if people understood they could give six copies of Dr. Seuss and every child could have one ... that translates better than saying give us some more money," O'Neill said.
Bono, a long-term activist for debt relief and aid to Africa, responded by saying more money was desperately needed from rich Western nations.
"It is going to take billions of dollars ... it's not 'cosmic stuff' though," Bono said, adding more money would allow children to have a meal a day and to prepare themselves for better futures through education.
At a news conference under a spreading mango tree, surrounded by children on benches supported by tree roots, O'Neill praised the Kisimbiri Church of Uganda primary school, which teaches about
700 children, saying it was an excellent example of bottom-up planning.
"Trade is not the answer to everything," O'Neill said, but added: "My own belief is there should not be trade barriers anywhere. It's not a simple problem that can be solved with a couple of silver bullets."
Uganda is ranked 141 out of 162 countries on the United Nations Development Index, and in 2000 around 35 percent of the population was still living on less than a dollar a day -- down from 56 percent in 1992.
The 2 Pauls Tour Continues
BartCop TV!
Hole Calls It Quits
Courtney Love
To the surprise of pretty much no one, Courtney Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson officially announced Friday the demise of the band they founded together after
12 years and three studio albums together.
The pair said they will no longer record or tour together as Hole, but they will team up for any future catalog releases from the band.
For most Hole fans, Friday's announcement wasn't much of a shocker: The band hasn't released an album since 1998's Celebrity Skin, while Love has pursued various
other projects--namely forming a new band, starring in Milos Forman movies and launching legal assaults against Hole's record label, Universal, and the former bandmates
of her late husband, Kurt Cobain.
These days, Love seems to have spent more time in court than in a studio, battling a lawsuit by Universal Music Group claiming Hole still owes the record label five more
albums. Love has countersued, saying their contract was unrealistic, and accused the label of cheating the band out of royalties.
Courtney Love
15th Century Crown
Margaret of York
The 15th-century crown of Margaret of York - sister of King Edward IV of England and wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy - returns to the Tower of London, May 27, 2002, for the first
time since 1468. The crown, one of only two English crowns from the medieval regalia to have survived being destroyed by Oliver Cromwell, is currently housed in Aachen Cathedral, Germany and
will form part of an exhibition to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, marking her 50th year on the throne.
Photo by Michael Crabtree
Probation in Pot Case
Nate Dogg
Rapper Nate Dogg was sentenced to one year of probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana.
The rapper, whose real name is Nathaniel Dawayne Hale, was arrested April 12 after his tour bus was stopped for speeding and a search turned up
marijuana and a loaded, stolen gun.
Hale, 32, also received a $4,400 fine on Friday and was ordered to complete 24 hours of community service and eight hours of drug counseling.
Hale had faced felony charges of possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a stolen firearm and misconduct involving
weapons while committing a felony.
All the charges were dismissed except for the marijuana possession charge, which was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor.
Nate Dogg
No Harvard MBA's Need Apply
New ''The Bachelor''
For the next edition of reality TV series "The Bachelor," producers don't want a clone of Alex Michel.
The 31-year-old management consultant was the star of the ABC series this spring, "dating" 25 women and narrowing the field each week until he chose a
mate in the final episode.
So if you went to Harvard and hold an MBA, you probably won't get picked. Series producers will "try to find a different type of guy," producer Mike
Fleiss said. Michel is a tough act to follow, and producers don't want the next bachelor to be too weighted down by comparisons to him, Fleiss said.
Fleiss also said they're looking for people are sincere about trying to find a mate, not people who just want a quick shot of fame.
Applications for the next edition of "The Bachelor" are at www.abc.com.
New ''The Bachelor''
Operation Condor
British Marines
British marines returning from an operation deep in the Afghan mountains spoke last night of an alarming new threat - being propositioned by swarms of gay local farmers.
An Arbroath marine, James Fletcher, said: "They were more terrifying than the al-Qaeda. One bloke who had painted toenails was offering to paint ours. They go about
hand in hand, mincing around the village."
While the marines failed to find any al-Qaeda during the seven-day Operation Condor, they were propositioned by dozens of men in villages the troops were ordered to search.
"We were pretty shocked," Marine Fletcher said. "We discovered from the Afghan soldiers we had with us that a lot of men in this country have the same philosophy as ancient
Greeks: 'a woman for babies, a man for pleasure'."
Originally, the marines had sent patrols into several villages in the mountains near the town of Khost, hoping to catch up with al-Qaeda suspects who last week fought a four-hour
gun battle with soldiers of the Australian SAS. The hardened troops, their faces covered in camouflage cream and weight down with weapons, radios and ammunition, were confronted
with Afghans wanting to stroke their hair.
"It was hell," said Corporal Paul Richard, 20. "Every village we went into we got a group of men wearing make-up coming up, stroking our hair and cheeks and making kissing noises."
For the rest, British Marines
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