Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 18 June, 2002

Tuesday

18 June, 2002

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Issue #7

Disinfotainment Today

By Michael Dare




"Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers."

 

ISSUE #7

 
 

BELIEVE IT OR ELSE

 
Terminator III Goes Into Production
 
James Cameron has once again taken on the helm of the Terminator franchise. According to the Ain't-it-Cool website, the film concerns George W. Bush's mission to send the Terminator back to the end of the Gulf War in order to assassinate Saddam Hussein, who it turns out was behind the events of 9/11, thus saving thousands of lives and a couple of buildings.
 
In an interesting twist, the Terminator overshoots his mark by forty years, arriving when Saddam is just a baby. Finding himself unable to assassinate the cute little tyke, he brings it back to 1948 where it is adopted by George Bush Sr. who names it after himself and raises it as his own. In a series of totally implausible events, the child ends up stealing an election in a bloodless coup and becoming President of the United States, declaring himself dictator, hiring a bunch of religiously insane bureaucrats for his cabinet, and destroying the civil rights of all American citizens.
 
Meanwhile, the new democratically elected head of Iraq convinces the United Nations to invade the United States in order to free the citizenry from the Bush dictatorship.
 
Release is set for summer of 2003.
 
Yeah, right
 
Everyone who thinks that all the facts are going to come out now that a Federal judge is hearing a case concerning Area 51, raise your hands.
 
A Better Buzz
 
When killer bees pollinate coffee plants, the yields increase by up to 50%.
 
She Wouldn't Have Fucked You Anyway
 
Charlie Sheen married Denise Richards.
 
Music Video of the Week
 
Gonads and Strife would make Frank Zappa proud.
 
Free MP3 of the Week
 
Tiny Doctors by They Might be Giants.
 
Research Site of the Week
 
The Glossarist is a spectacular searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries.
 
Obituary of the Week
 
Scott Shugar, who wrote Today's Papers at Slate Magazine, has died in a diving accident. Today's Papers was mandatory reading every day. Click here for a tribute to Scott by Michael Kinsley, Slate's founding editor.
 
Calling all Terrorists
 
Got a question? Ask the Council on Foreign Relations.
 
Okay, it's in Arabic, but here's the real deal.
 
Only in America
 
A recent presidential order "authorizes [U.S.] forces to kill [Saddam] Hussein if they are acting in self defense." Apparently the previous policy was that soldiers were not allowed to fire in self-defense.
 

 
Dear Dr. Hollywood,
I see from your bio that you used to write for Animaniacs. There's something I've always wondered. Why the hell do they always say "Hello nurse?"
 
Wakko fan
 

Dear Wakko fan,
 
Years ago, Tom Ruegger was asked by Steven Spielberg to come up with new Warner Brothers cartoons. Ruegger invented Tiny Toons, which took place at Acme University, where all the old Warner Brothers characters taught classes to new, younger Warner Brothers characters. Since Bugs Bunny would be teaching a class to up-and-coming cartoon rabbits, the first character Ruegger created was Buster Bunny, who was to be the new Bugs. Ruegger wanted to come up with a new version of Bugs Bunny's famous catch phrase "What's up, Doc?" but all he could come up with was "Hello Nurse!" It just didn't make any sense for Buster to say "Hello Nurse," so the whole idea was dropped.

Years later, Ruegger was once again asked by Spielberg to come up with new Warner Brothers cartoons, only this time completely original. Ruegger invented Animaniacs, and finally found a use for "Hello Nurse."
 
MD
 
Send your questions to "Ask Dr. Hollywood" at disinfotainment@earthlink.net
 
 

WHO'S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?

by Helen A. Handbasket



 

June 17, 2002

 
 
5. Scooby-Doo took in $56.4 million. I haven't had a decent bowel movement all week. Coincidence? I don't think so.
 
4. "Thank you, thank you, thank you," said Mario Puzo from the 3rd level of hell concerning his new roommate, John Gotti.
 
3. President Bush is formalizing a new policy of taking pre-emptive action against states and terror groups trying to develop weapons of mass destruction, just as the United States Supreme Court took pre-emptive action against voters in Florida trying to develop democracy.
 
2. Bin Laden has threatened Eminem but they still won't cancel Friends.
 
And the number one people going to hell this week?
 
1. Jewish settlers living in the West Bank.
 

ALLIANCE FROM HELL

 
Conservative Christians have joined up with Islamic governments to halt the expansion of sexual and political protections and rights for gays, women and children at United Nations conferences.

PMS FROM HELL

 
The largest wildfire in Colorado history was started by a U.S Forest Service technician burning a letter from her husband.
 

VIRUS FROM HELL

 
Okay, let's take the lead from Saudi Arabia and chop off the hands of the scumbags who came up with the first computer virus that can be spread through JPEGs.

HISTORY LESSON FROM HELL

 
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years.
2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador.
3) From which animal do we get cat gut? Sheep and Horses.
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? November.
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? Squirrel fur.
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? Dogs.
7) What was King George VI's first name? Albert.
8) What color is a purple finch? Crimson.
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand.
 

QUOTES FROM HELL

 
"Do you know how they test to see if fish are edible? They take the whole, live fish and throw it in a blender. Then you are testing the brains, the eyeballs, the spine, the guts, the backbone. But I don't eat any of those parts! I only eat the meat. If you want to test to see if a fish is fit for human consumption, you should test only the parts that humans consume."
- Ted Nugent -
 
"If the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is right, then it is possible that in the amount of time that separates us from the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the coastal cities of the world along with billions of their inhabitants will have to be evacuated. New York, Washington, Miami, New Orleans, London, St. Petersburg, Calcutta, Tokyo, Shanghai – all will be underwater. The breadbaskets of the world, the American mid-west and Ukraine, will be deserts. How does George Bush respond to these prospects? Either he believes that oil company public relations hype is a superior source of knowledge to the scientific research of the IPCC, in which case he is a fool; or else he is aware of the devastation that his policies may cause future generations, in which case he is a scoundrel. There is no apparently benign third alternative interpretation of his behavior."
- Ernest Partridge from The President of Fantasyland -

"First BUSH KNEW!, then CONGRESS KNEW!, then the FBI KNEW!, now the CIA KNEW!. Oh, and EGYPT KNEW!. Hell, Creedence Clearwater Revival KNEW! They saw a 'bad moon rising'. They warned us that 'troubles' were 'on the way.'"
- Juan Gato -
 
"Each religion, each country, each race was claiming, 'We are the chosen people of God. We are the highest; everyone is lower than us.' This is insanity, and everybody has suffered because of it. Jews have suffered immensely for one single folly that they committed: the idea that 'We are the chosen people of God.' Once you have the idea that you are the chosen people of God, then you cannot be forgiven by others because they are also the chosen people of God, and how to decide it? No argument can be conclusive, and nobody knows where God is hiding so you cannot ask him either; he cannot be brought in the court to be a witness. Then only the sword is going to decide. Whosoever is mighty is going to be right."
- Osho from Consciousness or Insanity -

"Winning gives birth to hostility. Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning & losing aside."
- Buddha -

CHILDREN'S TOY FROM HELL

 

QUIZ FROM HELL

 
According to Israel's Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the 345 kilometer fence between Israel and the occupied West Bank, which costs $1 million per kilometer to build, is "non-political and temporary."
 
If you had $345 million to spend on the crisis in the mid-east, would you...
 
a) build a bunch of new hospitals and offer unlimited free healthcare to absolutely everyone regardless of race, creed, or color.
b) offer to move anyone in the mid-east who's tired of the violence to the Bahamas.
c) buy every single Palestinian a split level home with a swimming pool.
d) build a fence.
 
If you were to commit suicide by blowing yourself up, it would be because...
 
a) you were happy as a lark.
b) your situation seemed hopeless.
 
If you wanted to stop people from blowing themselves up, you would...
 
a) give them hope.
b) bomb their homes.
 

"Revenge is not a payment of a debt, but rather a loan of violence to be returned with interest at some future date."
- Tom Simmons -


"As long as life continues like this, you will have people who think like me."
-Zaydan Zaydan, a failed Palestinian suicide bomber -  


"To get peace, we must return to the pre-1967 borders. Peace is more important than real estate."
- David Ben-Gurion -
 

CARTOON FROM HELL

 

CONTRADICTIONS FROM HELL

 
In India, Donald Rumsfeld announced that Pakistan had let Al-Qaeda terrorists into Cashmere, and then in Pakistan he said the Al-Qaeda were not in Cashmere.
 
The "Environmental Protection Agency" has called for relaxing clean air rules to make it easier for utilities, oil refineries and industrial plants to upgrade and expand, which will increase smog and contribute to asthma and other respiratory ailments.
 

SITES FROM HELL

 
Mandatory reading: How to reduce terrorism: Bring American troops home By Thomas Gale Moore From Ted Rall: George W. Kafka: Bush's police state kicks into gear.
 
What's more fun than watching The Osbournes? Being the Osbournes.
 
Hooray! Our Jenius President Has Caught A Puerto Rican Middle Eastern Terrorist!
 
If any more proof were needed that the most powerful nation on earth is now governed by a junta of panic-stricken, innumerate provincial nitwits, consider this.
 
How much money has been spent on the War on Drugs this year? Check out the drug war clock.
 
PG&E is using the bankruptcy courts to void dozens of state laws that are supposed to protect consumers and the environment. They must be stopped.
 
Some people haven't gotten over it. Where's the outrage? Right here.
 
Would Nixon have resigned if his VP hadn't already fallen in disgrace? Maybe it's time to stop chasing Bush and go after Dick.
 
Are you psychic? Take this online test, as if you didn't already know.
 
And you MUST already know about the CIA's TOP SECRET mind control research program code named MK-Ultra.
 
Got a short attention span? Love music? Listen to Quick96 where they only play the best parts of your favorite songs.
 
How could your shopping preferences have led to this?
 
Is the Internet the last refuge of the liberal?
 
Ever notice how cars in movies always burst into flames the instant they collide with anything, despite the fact that gasoline has a very narrow flammable range of about 0.8 to 6% gasoline vapor in air and the vapor-air mixture must be exactly as specified or the gas will not burn, let alone explode? Learn more at Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics.
 
Need a job? Why not apply for work at Disney animation?
 
Of course all you really need to do is Wack Bush with a bottle if he tries to take a drink.
 



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Many thanks to Michael Dare!

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Alex's Entertainment Report

Alex

Madonna & Halle - Girls Kiss?

Madonna and sexy Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry will share a raunchy lesbian kiss in the new Bond movie. The superstar singer is performing the theme song and making a small cameo in new spy flick Die Another Day--and gets intimate with Halle in a scene that's sure to have fans sitting up. A source says, "The action would add some serious sizzle to the flick."

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Oh, That Rupert!

Apparently concerned that News Corp was taking the "When in Rome" advice too literally, investors at a London conference Friday gave the company's 30-year-old deputy COO Lachlan Murdoch a cool reception as he attempted to explain why the company had purchased the loss-making Italian pay-TV business Telepiu. As reported by the Melbourne, Australia, newspaper The Age, the apparent heir to company founder Rupert Murdoch faced a largely hostile crowd at a Merrill Lynch Telecommunications Media and Technology conference in London on a day when News Corp shares hit their lowest point in more than two years. One of them demanded to know why News Corp had paid $1.5 billion for a company that was regarded in its own country "operationally as a nightmare." He replied somewhat cryptically, "We continue to be a company that is going to be opportunistic on building value. That's not exclusionary to growing better businesses." The Age described Murdoch's listeners as "nonplused."


~~ Alex

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

The World Cup was alive in my neighborhood as the US met Mexico. It was on KMEX, channel 34, and it wasn't necessary to have the TV on to hear....well, as the game wore on, the 'hood got quieter. Finally had to turn it on to see why. Between 2 years of backwoods-PA high school Spanish & what little I've picked up in 30 years in LA, wasn't that hard to tell the announcers were somewhat stunned.

Years ago, my parents bought us a freezer, and it's out in the garage with the washer & dryer. Growing up with canners & hunters, freezers were pretty normal. Used this one to take advantage of the bulk shopping of CostCo and sales. Best laid plans & all that crap.....Seems the door was left ajar for a few days, and defrosting started. Garbage day is Wednesday, and I'm really looking forward to it. Going to have to toss most of what was in there. Pretty bummed about it, but, trying to look at is as an opportunity to clean it out. That once a decade (whether it needs it or not) kind of thing...LOL

Got Mo the lizard, moved into her new 10 gallon terrarium with the cat-proof lid. She seems to have had quite a remarkable recovery.

Expanded the universe of the kittens today with a pen around their kennel-home. They are past walking, and now are certifiable explorers.

Letterman was great! First, MIMS looking befuddled & flummoxed on tape, asscroft & the 'eagle soars' singing, followed by the night bunnypants cleaned his glasses on the producer's shirt!



Tonight, Tuesday, CBS has a 'Trifecta' of reruns - 'JAG', 'The Guardian' and 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Ellen DeGeneres and Al Franken.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Catherine Bell and Moth.

NBC has 2 fresh episodes of 'Spy TV' followed by reruns of 'Frasier' and 'Scrubs', and then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Dennis Miller, Ali Landry and Paulina Rubio.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are David Bowie and Colin Farrell.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are John Stamos and Meshell Ndegeocello.

ABC starts the night with 2 reruns of 'Spin City', then a fresh 'Mole II: The Next Betrayal' and a fresh 'Houston Medical'.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are David Brenner (comedian), Michele Mitchell (CNN Headline News Anchor), Michael Graham (Radio Host), and 1 TBA.

The WB has reruns of 'Gilmore Girls' and 'Smallville'.

Faux has 2 reruns of 'That 70's Show', then a fresh 'American Idol: The Search For A Superstar'.

UPN has reruns of 'Buffy', 'The Parkers' and 'The Hughleys'.

TCM pays tribute to residents of the White House. First up, The Best Man (1964), written by Gore Vidal, and the Tagline was: Does The Best Man Always Get To The White House? (Picture Horshak, from 'Welcome Back, Kotter' going ''Ohhhhh-Ohhhhh'' here)
Next is State of the Union (1948) where an industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels. (Compromise? That alone dates it!)
Then, the rarely seen Gabriel Over the White House (1933), a fantasy about a political hack elected president during the Depression, transformed by an angel after an auto accident into a national savior--the perfect president, from a 1933 point of view. The result is just a bit scary. (Well, not by today's standards)

Also on TCM, in the middle of the night, is one of my all time favorites - The Loved One (1965). Check out these credits! The tagline was: The motion picture with something to offend everyone!



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



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To Host Sci Fi Pix On Sci Fi Channel

William Shatner

"Star Trek" alumnus William Shatner will host a weekly late-night frightfest on Sci Fi Channel, beginning Saturday, July 20.

The Saturday night series will include 13 pictures from the archives of B-movie filmmaker Charles Band and his shingle Full Moon Pictures. Among them are "Killjoy," "Ragdoll" and "Oblivion." "Fright Night" will air Saturdays at 11.

Besides introducing each picture, Shatner will also host guests associated with the genre, including B-movie producer Roger Corman and comic book maven Stan Lee. The host also will personally reinterpret a gory moment from that week's picture.

William Shatner

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Fun Link

Demented Lyrics

Demented Lyrics

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'Cooter' Seeks Virginia Seat

Ben Jones

Ben Jones, a former congressman who played grease monkey Cooter on TV's "The Dukes of Hazzard," is working in Virginia to jump start a political career that ran off the road 10 years ago in Georgia.

Jones, 60, is unopposed for the Democratic nomination to challenge freshman Republican Rep. Eric Cantor this fall. Analysts say he has a tough task ahead of him in the GOP-leaning district.

Jones describes himself as "a Harry Truman, Harry Byrd Democrat," uneasy with the more liberal bent of his party nationally. He said he supports a lower capital gains tax, the death penalty and rights of gun ownership.

In 1988, Jones unseated Rep. Pat Swindall, R-Ga., and was re-elected in 1990. He lost the Democratic primary in 1992.

Jones, who grew up in Portsmouth, settled in Rappahannock County in 1998. He has opened Cooter's Place, a restaurant, bluegrass hangout and "Dukes of Hazzard" memorabilia emporium in Virginia's conservative Blue Ridge Mountains. He recently opened another Cooter's in Gatlinburg, Tenn.

Cantor, 38, is a Richmond lawyer and pro-business conservative. He won his seat in Congress in 2000 in a rout over a little-known Democrat, but only after a narrow primary victory.

Ben Jones

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Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

ANOTHER New Look & Even More Information!

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Fails to Stop Demolition of Famed Studio

U2

The Irish rock group U2 has lost a bid to prevent demolition of the studio where it recorded its latest award-winning album.

Ireland's Planning Board has been given the go-ahead for a redevelopment project that requires the razing of the studio, feted by the group as part of Ireland's musical heritage.

The studio, on Hanover Quay in Dublin, was used by U2 to record the Grammy-winning album "All That You Can't Leave Behind" and has been compared in significance to The Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles spent their early days.

Dublin's Docklands Authority placed a compulsory purchase order on the property in August 2001 as a step toward demolishing the studio to create a public amenity on the quayside.

U2

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Australians Replicate CIT Experiment

'Teleported' Data

Physicist Dr Ping Koy Lam (L) and student Warwick Bowen look over their world breakthrough teleporting test equipment at the Australian National University in Canberra June 17, 2002. The successful teleporting test involving a laser beam of light being disembodied in one location and rebuilt in a different spot about one metre away in the blink of an eye, has been compared with the science fiction teleporting in the hit television series Star Trek. Photo by Graham Tidy

Australian scientists said Monday they had successfully "teleported" a laser beam encoded with data, breaking it up and reconstructing an exact replica a yard away.

Their work replicates an experiment at the California Institute of Technology in 1998, but the Australian team believes their technique is more reliable and consistent.

Although the research brings to mind the way "Star Trek" characters were beamed around on TV and in film, scientists at the Australian National University said their technique's main use will be as a way to encrypt information and for a new generation of super-fast computers.

At this stage, the process perfected by Australian physicist Ping Koy Lam and his 12-member team can only teleport light by destroying the light beam and creating an exact copy at the receiving end from light particles known as photons.

Teleporting a laser beam involves destroying and replicating billions of photons.

Lam said he believes the process, called "quantum teleportation" and which takes a nanosecond — one billionth of one second — will soon be used for teleporting matter.

"My prediction is if we are not doing it, it will probably be done by someone in the next three to five years, that is the teleportation of a single atom or a small group of atoms," he said.

Quantum teleportation makes use of a strange aspect of quantum physics called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which says it is impossible to measure both the speed and position of an object at the same time.

'Teleported' Data

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Band Warned of Security Risks

Fred Durst Testifies

Limp Bizkit warned concert organizers of security problems during its tour of Australia and New Zealand before a teen-age fan died in a crowd crush, lead singer Fred Durst said Monday.

Durst was testifying by live video link from Los Angeles at the inquest into the death of 15-year-old Jessica Michalik, who suffered a heart attack during a Limp Bizkit performance in Sydney on Jan. 26, 2001. Michalik died five days later.

He told the court he had raised concerns with tour promoter Vivian Lee before the Sydney concert, which was part of a touring multi-band festival called the Big Day Out.

Durst said the band approached organizers after a crowd collapse in Auckland, New Zealand.

Durst said he told Lee, "I just hope the security's better at the next show because that (Auckland) was a little out of hand."

Fred Durst Testifies

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Useful Link

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

Scientific American: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

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Not A Stallone Fan

Lennox Lewis

He fancies himself a pugilist, but Sly Stallone shouldn't try and churn up with Lennox Lewis. The heavyweight champ says he despises Stallone, the "Rocky" films and everything they stand for. "Stallone projected the image that all boxers are like 'duh and dose,' like we are all stupid," Lewis complains to Webster Hall art curator Baird Jones. "Boxers aren't stupid. Most of us are very intelligent." He also objects to the gruesome scene in which Rocky has his eyelid sliced open so he can see his opponent. "All my career, all the crazy things I ever heard, there never was a fighter who cut open an injured eyelid," he says.

Lennox Lewis

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Unhappy Man, Beaten Wife

Steve Austin

The wife of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has accused the wrestling star of beating her after a weekend argument at their home in an upscale neighborhood of San Antonio, police said on Monday.

Debra Williams, also a professional wrestler, called police to the couple's home on Saturday night and told officers that Austin had beaten her on the head, back and legs then stormed out of the house before police arrived.

Austin called the house while officers were there and was told he was in trouble, according to a police report. Austin told them he understood, but declined a request to return to the house or report to the police station, the report said.

Austin, a native Texan and former North Texas State University football player began wrestling professionally in 1992 and is one of the leading stars of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., formerly known as the World Wrestling Federation.

World Wrestling Entertainment spokesman Gary Davis said Austin recently failed to appear at two scheduled performances, one in Montreal and one in Austin, Texas, describing the no-shows as an "unacceptable violation of his contract."

Davis said Austin was apparently dissatisfied with the way his character was being developed for WWE shows.

Steve Austin

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

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Going Ga-Ga Over Go-Go's

ABC

ABC is developing a biopic that chronicles the rise of the Go-Go's as the first superstar, all-girl rock band in the MTV era. The project could be ready in time for a possible February sweeps run.

Mark Sennet and Alan Jacobs, along with Jaffe-Braunstein ("Gilda Radner: It's Always Something"), purchased the life rights from the five members of the L.A. rock band and sold the pitch to ABC; Sennet and Jacobs made the pitch with the band members -- Belinda Carlisle, Jane Weidlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine and Gina Schock -- in tow.

Rights to the Go-Go's story have been long sought after; the act had a notorious appetite for sex and drugs, and the group imploded after just four years of making albums and scoring hit singles such as "We Got the Beat," "Vacation" and "Our Lips Are Sealed". The group reunited in 1994 and '95 for an album and tour, and again last year.

No offers have been made to directors or actors, but the Go-Go's themselves are expected to participate in the picture. Sennet hopes a filmed Go-Go's concert can also make it into ABC's schedule. Quinn Taylor, ABC's senior VP of miniseries and movies, said nothing's been discussed yet, but multiple tie-ins to the picture would be likely.

Going Ga-Ga Over Go-Go's

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2 Camerons

'Minority Report' Cameos

Cameron Crowe's cameo appearance in "Minority Report" is "a payback," according to the sci-fi thriller's director, Steven Spielberg. Crowe roped Spielberg in for a cameo in last year's "Vanilla Sky" for what started off as a joke on its star, Tom Cruise. "We shot it four times and I wound up working two hours on the scene," Spielberg said. "So I said, 'You owe me one' and when we were doing 'Minority Report,' I called him up and said, 'We're shooting all night in a subway station in downtown L.A. so I want you on the set by midnight.' I kept him there till 3:30 in the morning." If you look carefully, you'll also see "Vanilla Sky" star Cameron Diaz sitting in profile behind Crowe on the train.

'Minority Report' Cameos

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World Cup Fever

Painted Faces



U.S. soccer fans show their support inside the stadium before the second round World Cup Finals match between Mexico and the USA in Chonju, June 17, 2002. USA won 2-0.
Photo by Oleg Popov

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Honors Victims

Elton John

Elton John paid tribute to the victims of a deadly April school shooting in this city by holding a concert whose proceeds will help care for those affected by the tragedy.

"We cannot play the music without thinking of why we are here tonight," John told a sold-out crowd of more than 7,500 packed into a concert hall in Erfurt for the latest stop on the German leg of the British star's "Songs from the West Coast" tour.

Robert Steinhaeuser, a 19-year-old loner who had been forced out of the school the previous fall, fatally shot two students, 13 teachers and a police officer in a 20-minute rampage April 26 at Johann Gutenberg Gymnasium before turning the gun on himself.

Elton John

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BartCop TV!

BC TV

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Snarky Gossip

Courtney Love

In preparation for her myriad court cases coming up this summer, rowdy rocker Courtney Love got another nose job. Love, who has extolled the virtues of plastic surgery in the past - going so far as to get various operations on her face and breasts - went into the Atlanta radio station 99X-FM for some in-studio promotions last week and showed up with two black eyes and a new schnozz.

Courtney Love

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Opens In October

'Hollywood Arms'

"Hollywood Arms," the play by late actress Carrie Hamilton and her comic mother Carol Burnett based on the latter's life story, has firmed up its Broadway plans.

The production, directed by Harold Prince, will open at the Cort Theater on Oct. 31, with previews beginning Oct. 8.

The play, based on Burnett's memoirs, was seen at Chicago's Goodman Theater earlier this year. That production, also helmed by Prince, starred Linda Lavin, Frank Wood, Michelle Pawk and Donna Lynne Champlin. The cast for the Broadway production has not yet been announced, although some members of the Goodman cast are likely to reprise their roles.

Hamilton died in January of cancer-related pneumonia; she was 38.

'Hollywood Arms'

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Summer Plans

John & Al

The same June 28 weekend that Al Gore is staging his Memphis retreat to boost his 2004 presidential claims, one of his potential rivals is hosting a similar get-together on Georgia's St. Simon's Island. John Edwards, the young and personable Democratic senator from North Carolina, now has some of Gore's former big contributors backing him and his weekend getaway may bring in some more. At this stage you have to think Gore is still the front runner for his party's nomination, but if he falters, Edwards would have a good shot at it.

John & Al

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$80 Each!

Watermelons



Farmers decorate square-shaped watermelons with ribbons before shipping them to an agricultural cooperative in Zentsuji, western Japan, on Monday June 17, 2002. The watermelons, developped to save spapce in refrigerators, are priced at a whopping 10,000 yen (US$80) each. Some 450 to 500 watermelons will be sent to department stores and other places in Tokyo and Osaka - for display rather than eating.

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He Flies 1st Class, Wife Flies Coach

Jean Clod

Jean Claude Van Damme flies first-class. But his wife, Gladys Portugues, flies coach. So the Muscles from Brussels wasn't even aware of the hubbub on the couple's flight home to L.A. from a holiday in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Portugues was unlucky enough to be seated next to a tall man in a short bathing suit which didn't provide full coverage. She complained to a flight attendant, who delayed takeoff so she could switch seats. We're told that Van Damme never even turned around to see what was up.

Jean Clod

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Santa Monica, CA

New Aerial Campaign

An anti-abortion group had an airplane fly over Southern California beaches towing a giant banner depicting what the group said were two photos of a 10-week-old aborted fetus.

The 30-by-100-foot banner passed back and forth over Santa Monica's beaches for almost 30 minutes on Saturday.

Gregg Cunningham, executive director of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, which financed the flyover, said both photos were of the same aborted fetus. The banner carried a message reading "10-Week Abortion."

Nancy Sasaki, president of Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles, said the campaign made "what should be a private matter into a media circus." She also doubted the authenticity of the photos used.

The message was lost on some beachgoers who said they didn't understand it.

"I noticed it, I looked at it, but I didn't understand what it meant," said Elaine Fleming. "I thought it was odd to be sitting at the beach and to see this big banner about abortion going by."

New Aerial Campaign

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A Ho On One?

Hidden Valley Golf Club

A private golf tournament in Norco, California, added a new hazard to the game -- getting arrested for prostitution.

Police said they arrested six people at the Hidden Valley Golf Club on Friday after receiving a tip-off.

"As part of the golf tournament, sex acts were offered to participants for a fee," said Lisa McConnell at the Sheriff's Department in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles.

"There were tents set up around the course, where people could pay for sex."

Hidden Valley Golf Club

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To Combine Rewrite of TV & Radio Ownership Curbs

Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission, stung by several court decisions undercutting media ownership limits and under pressure from Congress, said on Monday it would embark on a lengthier, over-arching effort to rewrite rules for television and radio ownership.

In a blow to some media giants, like Tribune Co. that is anxious to go on a buying spree of television stations and newspapers, the FCC will combine several efforts into one with the goal of adopting new rules by spring of 2003.

The endeavor also follows pressure from Congress where some lawmakers are warning that the FCC will relax ownership limits, which could hobble diversity and competition in the media industry, while others are pushing for faster easing.

New rules, which analysts expect to be less stringent than the old ones, could touch off a wave of consolidation and the creation of new, massive conglomerates, which consumer groups fear would crowd out local mom-and-pop operations that provide diverse voices.

Federal Communications Commission

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