Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 6 August, 2002

Tuesday

6 August, 2002

big hammer - bigger hammer

(Updated Daily)

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Issue #14

Disinfotainment Today

By Michael Dare


 

"Not Affiliated in Any Way!"

 

ISSUE #14

is brought to you by
 


 

BELIEVE IT OR ELSE

 
Duh!
 
After moving all their sites producing weapons of mass destruction out of Baghdad, Iraq invited a US Congressional team to visit Baghdad to search sites suspected of producing weapons of mass destruction.
 
Vomit Inducer of the Week
Yep, it's octopus ice cream.
 
Online Video of the Week
 
Grab your cat and watch this.
 
Poem for my Son
 
Max was happy
I suppose
to be born with just one nose
If he had
been born with two
Who would know
which one he blew?
 
OBL Watch
 
Number of days since 9/11 that Osama bin Laden has not been found - 323.
 


 

 
Dear Dr. Hollywood,
 
In your article about John Landis, you say "1983 was certainly the worst year of Landis' career. Journalists around the world lambasted Landis for The Twilight Zone accident, forgetting that the reason it was called an accident is that it wasn't on purpose."
 
Hey, douchebag. Accident?  Filming illegally, at night, with explosives and kids?  Fuck John Landis, and fuck you.
 
Sandy.
 

Dear Sandy,
 
    I was hired by Daily Variety to write an overview of the career of John Landis for a special "Billion Dollar Director" issue celebrating his life. Okay, I could have turned down the job but why? It was a major assignment from a major paper that would get me read by everyone in Hollywood. I didn't know going into it how I would deal with the Twilight Zone accident, and I knew it would be tricky because it was a tribute. I unquestionably had to mention it, but in such a way that no one would be offended. If I had written "In 1982, John Landis committed manslaughter through his own personal negligence, causing an actor and two children to be decapitated, somehow managing to elude jail through a gross miscarriage of justice," do you think they would have printed it? Sure. And Hitler would have left in footage of concentration camps if Leni Riefenstahl had put them in Triumph of the Will.    

This was a job for hire and I did it as professionally as possible. That's what being a professional writer is all about. Once I accepted the assignment, I did NOT have final say. I was working with a slew of editors who made it clear to me that I didn't have to write a puff piece, but I still had to be careful not to offend the studios or Landis, who were participants in the project. I struggled with the Twilight Zone reference and wrote the sentence you mentioned, which was printed verbatim, so the editors obviously thought I solved the problem correctly. Sometimes you've got to say things a certain way because that's the job.

    If you're still pissed off at John Landis because of The Twilight Zone, I understand. I'm not too happy that Elia Kazan testified in front of the House of Un-American Activities Committee, but A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and East of Eden are still pretty good.

    John Landis may be a horrible human being. I've never really met the guy. As inexcusable as his and other's actions were during the shooting of The Twilight Zone, there's still Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places and American Werewolf in London, so I'm conflicted. I like a lot of his films. Whatever you think of him morally, he's one of the best living comedy directors who just happened to decapitate some children.
 
MD
 
Send your questions to "Ask Dr. Hollywood" at disinfotainment@earthlink.net
 


 

WHO'S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?

Helen A. Handbasket

As ex-executive chief in charge of operations for the burning flames of hellfire, Helen's access to eternal contracts is legendary. Who are her sources? Wouldn't you like to know? Sorry, all communications are confidential and the property of Helen A. Handbasket, whose opinions do not necessarily reflect those of this or any other publication.
 

August 5, 2002

 
Only one person is going to hell this week. What the hell's the matter with you people? Get out there and get into mischief.
 
1. Ed costar Josh Randall was caught smoking crack with a homeless man near the Brooklyn Navy Yard at the same time nine miners were saved from certain death in Pennsylvania. Coincidence? I don't think so. Way to go, Josh! You're an underground hero.
 
Personal to Andre: Ever notice that Vin Diesel and Benito Mussolini have never been seen together?
Personal to Marcus: You were a little short. Expect a visitor.
 

UNDO THE COUP

Satan for President in 2004

 

PEACE PROCESS FROM HELL

 
Attacks on Peace Corps volunteers are going up.
 

A PROMISE, NOT A THREAT, FROM HELL

 
If Satan doesn't get a speaking part in Disney's proposed MOW about the Pennsylvania miners, more people will die during production than died in Pennsylvania.
 

LEGISLATION FROM HELL

 
Anti-choice legislators are again willing to sacrifice women's health to advance their own political agenda with H.R. 4965, the "Partial-Birth Abortion" Ban Act of 2002. The bill contains no exception to preserve the health of the woman — which the Supreme Court has declared a necessity since Roe v. Wade - and criminalizes doctors for providing their patients with appropriate medical care. Stop the bastards.
 

CARTOON FROM HELL

 

QUIZ FROM HELL

 
If Bush had succeeded in privatizing Social Security a year ago, the retirement funds of millions of Americans would have been invested in...
 
a) Enron stock
b) WorldCom stock
 

FABLE FROM HELL

 
    A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
    The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news. The donkey died."
    "Well then," Kenny replied, "just give me my money back."
    The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."
    "OK, then just unload the donkey," said Kenny.    
The farmer asked, "What ya gonna do with him?" 
    "I'm going to raffle him off," said Kenny. 
    "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!" 
    "Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't tell anybody he is dead."
    A month later the farmer met up with Kenny and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"     
"I raffled him off," said Kenny. "I sold 500 tickets at $2 a piece and made a profit of $898.00."
    "Didn't anyone complain?" asked the farmer.    
"Just the guy who won," said Kenny, "so I gave him his $2 back."
    Kenny grew up and eventually became the chairman of Enron and best friends with the crooked president of the United States.
 

HISTORY LESSON FROM HELL

 
    On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND TREASON.     The petition for Articles of Impeachment was referred to the Judiciary Committee and, almost 70 years later, has YET TO BE ACTED ON. Check out Congressman McFadden's amazing Speech  on the Federal Reserve Corporation and why the United States should be out of the banking business. Every word of it has come true.
 
"You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out."
- President Andrew Jackson stated in reference to the bankers at the state of his administration. -
 

SATAN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW

 
To get odors out of plastic containers: place crumpled newspaper inside the container and seal it overnight.
 

QUOTES FROM HELL

 
"Matters of great concern should be treated lightly."
- Lord Naoshige -
 
"Matters of small concern should be treated seriously."
- Master Ittei -
 
"Telling it like it is while seeing it as it ain't."
- Joe Fernati describing Bill Hicks' comedic style -

"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, 'Thyroid problem?'"
- Emo Philips -

"There is no greater threat, today, to the powers that be, than an informed American public."
- Carol Brouillet -

"In combat, officers eat last. In the economic turmoil, the economic warfare that they faced, Enron officers ate first."
- Senator Cleland of Georgia -
 
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor."
- Werner von Braun -
 
"Patriotism means to stand by the country, it does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official."
Theodore Roosevelt -
 
"The world moves and ideas that were good once are not always good."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
 
"Where the people fear the government, you have tyranny; where the government fears the people, you have liberty."
- attributed to Caesar Read, Thomas Jefferson, but mainly Anonymous -
 
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
- Thomas Jefferson -
 
"Bush had good speechwriters; it's just that this time the ventriloquists were failed by the dummy."
- Richard Cohen, Washington Post -
 
"I like to read the Bible in public places and then yell out, 'Bullshit!'"
- Zach Galifianakis -
 
"There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love."
- Don Juan de Marco -
 
"Why do you bring fools to judge my work?"
- Michelangelo to the Pope in The Agony and the Ecstasy -
 

MEDICAL ADVICE FROM HELL

 
"Women who hold their stillborn infants may suffer more psychological trauma than those who don't; Women who dress their stillborns in cute babyclothes and keep them in the house, pretending that they're actually growing up and talking to the dead corpses daily in babytalk fare even worse."
- National Lampoon -
 

SPAM FROM HELL

 
"I am working with a pornography business, and I have secured evidence that you committed adultery. Unless you send 1 million won to me, I will publicize it."
- Letter sent to over 250 randomly selected business executives in Korea. The sender, now in jail for extortion, received 9 million won ($7,500) from nine executives before getting caught
 

SITES FROM HELL

 
Mandatory reading: Step right up, get yer tragedy right here. A company in Georgia used recycled pieces of steel from the World Trade Center to make medallions, which it sold for $30 each. That's right, find out how they're peddling 9/11.
 
The decision announced last week to withhold the $34 million United States contribution to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will cost uncounted women and children their lives. If historical patterns hold, UNFPA says that the loss of the U.S. contribution -- 12 percent of its $270 million budget -- will translate to 2 million more unwanted pregnancies, 800,000 more abortions, 4,700 more dead mothers and 77,000 more deaths among children under 5.   

Calling all potheads. Check out Marijuana Myths.
 
We're Jeff and Tracy. We're Your Good neighbors. We Smoke Pot.
 
Hello Jeff and Tracy. If you happen to be going to Hempfest 2002, be sure to bring me back something like, oh, I don't know, surprise me.
 
Notice to all criminals; if you're going to commit crimes, don't videotape yourself doing them.
 
Can you picture a bright and happy future for all of mankind? Jim Channon can. Check out Adventures in Social Architecture - Civilization as a Fine Art.
 
Somebody needs to inform the president that George Orwell's 1984 is a warning against totalitarianism -- not a how-to manual.
Ayn Rand says money is the root of all good.
 
British scientific researchers have demonstrated for the first time that genetically modified DNA material from crops is finding its way into human gut bacteria, raising potentially serious health questions. Although the genetically modified material in most GM foods poses no health problems, many of the controversial crops have antibiotic-resistant marker genes inserted into them at an early stage in development. If genetic material from these marker genes can also find its way into the human stomach, as experiments at Newcastle university suggest is likely, then people's resistance to widely used antibiotics could be compromised.
 
A former Reagan aide has come out in favor of medical marijuana.
 
Daypop is a great way to search 7500 news sites and weblogs for specific current events and breaking news.
 
Are we or are we not a Christian nation? Visit The Faith of our Founding Fathers to find out.
 
Okay, it's got links to pornography, but it's also a serious outlet for sex news.
 
Don't have a million dollars to buy one? Here's a site where you can read the entire Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman.
 
Yes, it's a new list of the Top 10 Conservative Idiots.
 
The truth about Bush's proposed Palestinian State.
 
Before you get angry at the first family for taking time off this week, check out Laura Bush's to-do list during her and hubby's vacation at the Crawford Ranch.
 


 
Acknowledgement
 
dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY consists of information from dozens of sources, cut up, thrown in the air, and recycled randomly. It is sent all over the place, so I apologize if you're seeing the same thing twice. If you see a joke, graphic, or news item that came from or through you, thanks, send more, and please accept the fact that much of dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY is unacknowledgeable, and if I sought permission from everyone whose bastardized material showed up here, I'd never get anything else done. Please note that I don't even put my own name on it.
 
Thanks,
 
Satan
 


 
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Many thanks to Michael Dare!

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From 'TBH Politoons'

Great Site!

Click Here!




Thanks, again, Tim!

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Alex's Entertainment Report

Alex

Tango Fatone

A new generation will discover Broadway's Rent beginning Aug. 5, when 'N Sync star Joey Fatone makes his Broadway debut playing the unsure filmmaker, Mark.

Mark is the struggling artist who captures the events of his east Village friends' lives on film, Fatone will have the chance to sing such Larson tunes as "Rent," "You'll See," "Tango: Maureen," "La Vie Boheme," "Halloween" and "What You Own."

Rent plays the Nederlander Theatre, 208 W. 41st Street. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster, (212) 307-4100.

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'The Producers' In LA

General public sale for tickets to the Los Angeles engagement of The Producers, starring Jason Alexander and Martin Short, begins Aug. 5 at the Pantages Theatre or via phone.

Alexander and Short will star as Max and Leo, respectively, in the eight-month Los Angeles run of Mel Brooks' smashzilla musical beginning May 2, 2003.

For ticket information, call (213) 480-3232 or visit Ticketmaster.com.


~~ Alex

Alex's Site

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Reader Comment

'Fried'?

<< Clinton lavished praise on work his fried and interior decorator Kaki Hockersmith did>>

In the late 90's we were pleased to play host to Kaki during a visit to address a decorative arts group of which my wife Linda is a member. She was a total delight, and sent us a picture of herself in one of the White House rooms she had decorated. Funny, she never once seemed "fried." But you know how those Clintonites are!!!

Lar


Jeez, Lar, I must have been 'fried' to let that one get by. Thanks (the archived page has been corrected). ; )

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Letters, We Get Letters

Re: Chloe Fitzjames

That abomination of a dress that you have attributed to Sydney designer, Chloe Fitzjames, is most certainly not hers. I know this to be true because I am Sydney designer, Chloe Fitzjames. Please correct this, or endure my wrath.


Took awhile, but finally found the page & picture referred to - it was back on May 10th! Sure don't wish to incur Chloe's wrath! : )

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Reader Question

Re: Big Dog

If Clinton said on TV that he thinks we should go to war with Iraq right away, do you think Bush would cancel the attack? Might be the only way to stop him.

Tim


Excellent point, Tim!

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Reader Assistance

from Alex

Saw someone asking about addresses of celebrities...this is a good site - Ultimate guide to Hollywood

~~ Alex


Thanks, Alex!

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

I attempted watching Anna Nicole last night, and had a hard time sticking it out. Can we say 'time for intervention?' How pathetic to market (what appears to be) chemically enhanced mental problems for entertainment value. How many ass-shots does an audience need (if they aren't juggling towels, beers & the remote?) Hey - why not hire a cameraperson with Parkinson's to complete the effect? This is in the top 5 worst programs I've ever seen. The visual equivalent of pulling wings off a moth.

Today's lesson in automotive science was 'the fuel-pump and why the car won't move when it craps out'. Needless to say, we did not see the stinking corpse plant.

Toeser, the 6-toed wonder cat, had to visit the Vet today. Seems she has an upper-respiratory infection. Poor thing is the gassiest cat, ever, but add some antibiotics, and we're talking arfing lethal! She's sleeping contentedly, and my eyes are watering...



Tonight, Tuesday, CBS has the usual 'Trifecta' of reruns - 'JAG', 'The Guardian', and 'Judging Amy'.
On a rerun Dave (from 7/19/02), the scheduled guests are Ted Koppel and Wendy Liebman.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers, the scheduled guests are Vin Diesel, Minnesota Viking Cris Carter, Buddy Hackett, and comic Joe Matareso. (May say it's fresh, but it looks like a rerun to me)

NBC starts the evening with a fresh 'Spy TV', and follows it with a fresh 'The Rerun Show'. Then it's reruns of 'Frasier' and 'Scrubs'. 'Dateline' rounds out the evening.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Clint Eastwood, comic Gabriel Iglesias, and Gavin Rossdale.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are John C. Reilly, Fred Savage, and Patrice O'Neal.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Zooey Deschanel, Verne Troyer, and Thicke.

ABC starts the night with 2 reruns of 'Jim', then a fresh 'Mole II: The Next Betrayal', and then a fresh 'Widows', a 4-parter.

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

Faux has a rerun of 'That 70's Show', and then a rerun of the 'Simpsons', followed by 'American Idol: The Search For A Superstar'.

UPN has a rerun of 'Buffy' (Buffy investigates Spike's attack), and then reruns of 'The Hughleys' and 'The Parkers'.

E! reruns an hour of Anna Nicole at 9pm (edt).



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



(See below for addresses)

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Concert Plans Saved Miner

Ozzfest Saves!

A miner who didn't make the trip underground that left nine of his colleagues trapped for 77 hours thanks his love of rock and roll.

Roger Shaffer, 22, was at Ozzfest 2002, heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne's summer concert tour, on the day the nine miners became trapped after breaking through to an adjacent, flooded mine. The miners ended up stuck in a cramped and flooded shaft at the Quecreek Mine for 77 hours before they were rescued.

Shaffer, an apprentice miner, had used one of his few vacation days to go to the July 24 concert, which had been rescheduled because Osbourne's wife, Sharon Osbourne, had cancer surgery.

"I have to thank Ozzy and (his) family, because if the events in their life weren't going on, my events would have been a lot different," Shaffer said.

Shaffer learned what happened to his crew while returning home after the concert near Pittsburgh.

Shaffer sat glued to the television July 27 when the good news broke that his buddies were alive.

Unlike some of his fellow crew members, Shaffer said he plans to return underground if the mine reopens.

He said he sees few options. He can't afford school and is about a week away from taking a test to move up to a better pay scale.

Ozzfest Saves!

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2,202nd Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Susan Sarandon

Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon poses for photographers after receiving the 2,202nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California August 5, 2002. Hundreds of fans attended the ceremony in front of the Kodak Theatre including family members and actors Ryan Phillippe and Kieran Culkin who co-star with her in the upcoming film "Igby Goes Down."
Photo by Jim Ruymen

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Guesting On 'ER'

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle ("Traffic") is checking into "ER," where he will play a med student.

He has signed on for a four-episode guest starring arc on the drama, which begins its ninth season on NBC next month. The episodes will likely air during the November sweeps.

Cheadle's long list of feature credits include "Ocean's Eleven," "Boogie Nights," "Out of Sight," "Swordfish" and "Bulworth." He's also no stranger to television, having been a regular on both "Picket Fences" and "Golden Girls" spinoff "The Golden Palace."

Don Cheadle

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Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

A New URL, A New Look & Even More Information!

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To Lead Chicken Dance

Verne Troyer

Verne Troyer, the 32-inch-tall actor who plays the mini-clone to Dr. Evil, will try to help break another record when he leads the world's largest chicken dance and kazoo band at a festival in this Ohio River town.

Troyer will play lead clucker at the Oktoberfest Zinzinnati on Sept. 22.

The two-day event is the nation's largest Oktoberfest, drawing a crowd of about 500,000.

Other notables who held the job include singer Tony Orlando, Weird Al Yankovic, Monkees singer Davy Jones and Prince Luitpold Von Bayern, crown prince of Bavaria.

Verne Troyer

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2-Inch Gun Seized

GI Joe

Airport security staff confiscated a TWO-INCH plastic gun from a toy soldier, it was revealed yesterday.

British tourist Judy Powell, 55, bought a GI Joe doll in America as a gift for her seven-year-old grandson George.

Security officials at Los Angeles airport found the toy — similar to Action Man — when they searched Judy's bags before she boarded a flight to London.

Then they took the figure out of its box and confiscated its tiny replica Armalite rifle.

Judy revealed: "They examined the toy as if it was going to shoot them.

"Then they asked me if there were toy grenades as well. I thought they were joking, but they weren't smiling — they were deadly serious."

"I can understand them wanting to ban weapons or things that look like weapons, but surely common sense has to take over at some point.

"The whole world is going mad if we resort to such stupid measures."

Security chiefs at Los Angeles airport said: "We have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica.

For the rest, GI Joe

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Giant Jimmy Hat?

Cerne Abas Giant

A six-metre sheath has been placed on the Cerne Abas Giant in the middle of the night, a 60 metre fertility symbol cut into the hillside in southern England, August 5, 2002.

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New From HBO

'Sopranos' Food Line

HBO is branching out into food as an ancillary business to "The Sopranos," the drama about a New Jersey mob family that begins its fourth season in September.

Warner Books, an HBO corporate cousin, will publish "The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco," a collection of southern Italian-style recipes. Bucco is the fictional owner of the Nuovo Vesuvio restaurant in the TV series.

The recipes will be sprinkled with "advice" from other cast members, including Tony Soprano's grilling methods.

HBO is also planning a gourmet food line under Bucco's name, manufactured by The Halifax Group. The first products will go on sale this fall: marinara sauce, pasta, salad dressing and frozen pizza.

Upcoming next year will be Bucco's brands of barbecue sauce, olive oil and additional salad dressings and pasta sauces.

'Sopranos' Food Line

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Franchise Showdown

'Freddy Vs. Jason'

In a continuing effort to exploit its franchises, New Line Cinema has greenlit "Freddy vs. Jason," signing Brad Renfro to star alongside Robert Englund, who'll be back for his eighth performance as Freddy Krueger.

The studio hasn't yet decided on the actor who'll play Jason Vorhees, the lumbering maniac from the "Friday the 13th" franchise who will be making his 11th appearance onscreen. Ronny Yu, the Honk Kong veteran whose credits range from "The Bride With White Hair" to "Bride of Chucky," will direct the picture, with shooting to begin Sept. 9 in Vancouver.

The film's premise is a simple collision of legendary evildoers who've each racked up impressive body counts of promiscuous teens. Renfro ("The Client") will play a character who finds himself pitted between the two combatants, and so his mission is to try and stay alive until the end credits.

"It's clash of the titans, the ultimate showdown," said New Line production president Toby Emmerich. "Freddy is the intellectual manipulator, Jason the killing machine. When you have done 17 movies between these characters, it is hard to stay fresh, but putting these characters together makes it fresh. There is a hard-core fan base for each, and we will be out in front of 'Predator vs. Alien' and 'Batman vs. Superman,' other films putting venerable characters against each other."

'Freddy Vs. Jason'

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

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Likes Working in New York

Jerry Stiller

Jerry Stiller has definite opinions about the difference between working in New York and Los Angeles.

"People in New York are very sharp," Stiller, a Brooklyn native, told TV Guide for its Aug. 10 issue. "I hate to say this, but I think it's because the weather in California is so warm and tropical that people tend to fall asleep while you're talking to them.

Stiller still resides in New York, and he lives in a hotel when filming in Los Angeles.

"I always felt that L.A. was full of ghosts of people who I idolized so much, like George Burns and Jack Benny. I never felt I belonged there with them. When everybody went west in the '50s like Rod Steiger and John Cassavetes, guys I used to hang out with, drinking coffee and exchanging tips, I said they were abandoning ship. And the truth of the matter is, I was scared of California. But now I'm back and forth."

Jerry Stiller

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Calls Brad Pitt Her 'Goofball'

Jennifer Aniston

Actress Jennifer Aniston says her Hollywood heart-throb husband Brad Pitt is a "goofball" who wants to have seven children.

"Brad is the kindest person I know and the sweetest goofball on the planet," Aniston said in an interview with Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper on Monday.

"I always thought two (children), but Brad wants seven," she told the Mirror.

Jennifer Aniston

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40th Anniversary

Marilyn Monroe

Flower tributes left by fans surround the tomb of actress Marilyn Monroe on the 40th anniversary of her death August 5, 2002 in Los Angeles as a card with Monroe's photograph is placed at the tomb. Fans gathered at Pierce Brothers cemetery in Los Angeles to honor the late film star who was found dead of an apparent sleeping pill overdose August 5, 1962.
Photo by Fred Prouser

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Donates to Sipesville Firefighters

Travis Tritt

Country singer Travis Tritt is donating $25,000 to a group of volunteer firefighters who helped rescue trapped coal miners in Pennsylvania last month.

Tritt, who performed at the Ohio State Fair this weekend in Columbus, is donating the money to the Sipesville (Pa.) Volunteer Fire Company, according to his official Web site.

The volunteer fire company was the lead team at the scene on July 27 when the nine miners were pulled out after 77 hours underground.

The firefighters said they'll use the money for much-needed repairs to the fire hall, which hasn't been upgraded since 1981.

Travis Tritt

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BartCop TV!

BC TV

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Visits Angola

Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow, a United Nations goodwill ambassador, visited famine-hit Angola on Monday, much of which lies in ruins after a recently ended civil war.

Over the next week, the 57-year-old actress and her 13-year-old son, Seamus, will visit humanitarian projects and rebel demobilization camps.

Aid groups say up to a half million people face starvation because of the fighting and have appealed for an international relief effort.

Mia Farrow

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Edinburgh

Fringe Festival

Drei halb nackte Clowns treiben während des Fringe-Festivals 1999 Schabernack

For stand-up comedians, Edinburgh's Fringe Festival offers the ultimate challenge -- to tickle the fans and tempt talent scouts to launch them on the road to fame.

From as far afield as Australia and America, they pour into the Scottish capital to launch a three-week bid for glory at the zany extravaganza billed as the world's largest arts festival.

Almost 350 comedians are trying their luck this year and festival director Paul Gudgin admires their optimism at the Fringe, which helped to launch the careers of Oscar winning actress Emma Thompson and comedian Dudley Moore.

Anarchy reigns supreme at Edinburgh 2002 -- from drag queen Tina C's Twin Towers tribute to "Mrs Armstrong and Her Amazing Naked Samoans."

American comedian Rich Hall is out to prove, tongue firmly in cheek, that George W. Bush is the greatest U.S. President of all time.

Edinburgh's Fringe Festival

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Disney Production Deal

Affleck & Damon

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have secured a two-year film production deal at Disney for their Live Planet production company.

Initially formed to hatch reality shows, the company is now refocusing to use Disney as a launch pad for features.

Live Planet used the initial $15 million it raised to hatch Project Greenlight with Miramax, with writer-director Pete Jones winning a contest that entitled him to $1 million to make his Miramax-distributed film "Stolen Summer." The headaches of indie filmmaking were captured for the HBO series "Project Greenlight," and Live Planet is moving forward with a second season, with several tweaks: This time, a winning director will be chosen to helm the winning script in two separate contests that have been held over the past few months.

The primary focus for the foursome was that series, as well as the Bailey-and Affleck-created ABC reality gamer "Push, Nevada" and another HBO reality show revolving around a minor league sports team called "General Manager."

But Live Planet has done OK on the film production front without trying much. It has been involved in projects including "Matchstick Men," the Ridley Scott-directed drama starring Nicolas Cage; a three-part adaptation of the Howard Zinn book "A People's History of the United States" for HBO (with John Sayles writing the first two-hour installment); and a New Line pic called "Solace," which is casting.

Affleck & Damon


This deal between Affleck, Damon & Disney is 15 times the deal Disney cut the 9 Pennsylvania coal miners. Who says having a 'real' agent & lawyer doesn't matter?.

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Leading Contenders

Syndication

Add Chuck Norris, Bob Saget and Ahmad Rashad to the list of syndicated TV contenders for fall 2003.

Development for the syndication marketplace is in full swing, with potential shows piloted, or about to be piloted, at nearly every major syndication outfit. While much of what's in the works is aimed at fall 2003, some series could be ready as early as January should room on local station schedules become available.

Norris ("Walker, Texas Ranger") will star in a weekly project featuring an ensemble cast and an exotic base of production. Hawaii and Vancouver are considered possible production locales.

Here are other highlights of recent entries to the development game:

= "Mobile Court" will be hosted by Judge Kevin Ross, who gets dispatched into the streets by car with his bailiff. They travel to locations where conflicts have happened, such as a home, a workplace or a club.

= "Jumble" (Tribune) is based on the word unscrambling game seen in hundreds of newspapers. A host is to be determined.

= "Eliminator" (Disney's Buena Vista), a tentatively titled hybrid quizzer that blends elements of high drama and comedy.

= King World Prods. is in development on a daily daytime program featuring Jack Ford and Alexandra Wentworth that is drawing comparisons to "Live With Regis & Kelly."

= In addition to the Ellen DeGeneres-led yakker that Telepictures Prods. is mounting, the Warner Bros. company is developing projects with Larry Elder, who hosted the studio's former series "Moral Court." Telepictures is also working on something with Ben Stein.

= NBC Enterprises is focusing much of its development attention on two projects. One, featuring Court TV's Nancy Grace, is called "Trial by Fire." The other is a talker from "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels.

= Twentieth Television has a handful of concepts in the works and has recently started regionally testing "Ex-Treme Dating," with Los Angeles TV personality Jillian Barberie as host.

= Universal Domestic Television announced a project with Sarah Ferguson earlier this year, as well as a magazine with Will Smith and James Lassiter's Overbrook Entertainment.

Syndication

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In Memory

Roy Kral

Roy Kral, of Jackie and Roy, one of jazz's most famous duos, died Friday of congestive heart failure. He was 80.

He and his wife, Jackie Cain, worked together for more than 50 years. As Jackie and Roy, they recorded nearly 40 albums in 56 years and were known for their jazz interpretations of songs from other genres.

The couple would perform the songs in a sophisticated bebop style filled with scat riffs, known as vocalese. Their voices had similar ranges but were an octave apart, creating unusual harmonies.

Kral took classical piano lessons as a young boy, but he abandoned them to teach himself to play jazz piano by mimicking what he heard on the radio. He later served as an arranger for the Army band during World War II before beginning his professional career.

Kral met Cain in 1947, and they were married two years later. Their hits included "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most," "You Inspire Me" and "It's a Lovely Day Today."

The couple continued to perform in recent years despite Kral's declining health. They sang most recently at the Kaye Playhouse in June in a concert saluting the singer Teddi King.

Roy Kral

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In Memory

Chick Hearn

Play-by-play announcer Chick Hearn, who made phrases like "slam dunk" and "air ball" common basketball expressions during his 42-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died Monday night, three days after suffering a fall. He was 85.

The only play-by-play announcer the Los Angeles Lakers have ever had, Hearn died at 6:30 p.m. at Northridge Medical Center Hospital, team spokesman Bob Steiner told a grim-faced news conference outside the hospital.

"Chick, we'll miss you dearly, Quite simply, you're the best," said Mitch Kupchak, the team's general manager and a former player, his voice breaking.

Hearn was rushed to the hospital Friday night after falling and striking his head in the back yard of the Encino home he shared with his wife, Marge. The two would have celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary on Aug. 13.

Surgeons operated twice on Saturday to relieve swelling in his brain, but he never regained consciousness.

Hearn called a record 3,338 consecutive Lakers games, starting in 1965 and ending when he underwent surgery last December to repair a blocked aortic valve. While recovering, he fell and broke his hip.

Despite that setback, he returned to work April 9 and broadcast the Lakers' playoff run to their third consecutive NBA championship.

He became the Lakers' announcer when the team moved from Minneapolis from Los Angeles at the beginning of the 1960-61 season.

As word spread Monday that his condition was deteriorating, outpourings of concern came from all over Los Angeles. Radio stations continually broadcast reports, and when a news conference was called to announce his death several television stations interrupted their regular programming to broadcast it.

About 100 fans had gathered outside the hospital, and many broke into tears when they heard he had died.

Whether Hearn was the most famous Laker of them all can be debated, but his career with the team was far longer than such standouts as Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jamaal Wilkes, James Worthy and Michael Cooper.

And he was calling games long before current stars Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant were born.

"There's never going to be another Chick Hearn," Johnson said Monday. "He's a man who will be remembered long after. Some people grow bigger than their sport, bigger than their job."

In his case, Johnson said, he will remember Hearn for more than what he did in the broadcast booth.

"He didn't just support Magic Johnson for what he did on the court," he said. "He supported Earvin Johnson Jr. When I talked to Chick, a lot of times it was hardly about basketball. He was always so proud of me. I would get little notes from him. That would make me feel so good."

Hearn called his first Lakers game in March 1961 and his last on June 12 when the Lakers beat the New Jersey Nets 113-107 in East Rutherford, N.J., to complete a sweep of the NBA Finals and earn their ninth title since moving west from Minneapolis.

During the finals, he told The Associated Press he was getting stronger every day and planned to work at least one more season. And he said he believed his call of the Lakers' Game 7 victory over Sacramento in the Western Conference finals might have been as good as any in his career.

As recently as last week, he felt well enough to drive to Los Angeles with his wife to speak at a fantasy basketball camp.

Born Francis Dayle Hearn on Nov. 27, 1916, in Aurora, Ill., Hearn peppered his rapid-fire delivery with terms like "no harm, no foul," "the mustard's off the hot dog," "ticky-tack foul," and "faked him into the popcorn machine."

Whenever he believed a Lakers victory was clinched, Hearn would say: "You can put this one in the refrigerator. The door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O is jiggling."

Hearn's unique "words-eye view" provided the soundtrack for nine NBA championships - one with West and Chamberlain, five with Johnson and Abdul-Jabbar, and the last three with O'Neal and Bryant.

Hearn also broadcast other historic Lakers accomplishments, such as the night in Las Vegas when Abdul-Jabbar broke Chamberlain's NBA career scoring record and when Johnson broke Oscar Robertson's career assist record.

Hearn also documented the Lakers' record 33-game winning streak in the championship season of 1971-72 with West and Chamberlain, saying: "That will never be duplicated." It hasn't.

He also was a comforting voice to fans in difficult basketball times - helping fans cope with Johnson's HIV announcement in 1991 and Loyola Marymount star Hank Gathers' death in 1990.

When the Lakers moved from the Forum in nearby Inglewood to the downtown Staples Center in 1999, the press room was named in Hearn's honor.

He has been immortalized with a star on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame," and appeared as himself numerous times on television shows - including the TV movie "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island."

And he hosted the TV show "Bowling for Dollars."

Hearn missed just two games prior to his unprecedented streak - one because bad weather kept him grounded and one because he had another broadcast assignment.

The first game of the streak was on Nov. 21, 1965, at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Johnson was in grade school and Abdul-Jabbar was still Lew Alcindor and a teenager.

Throughout his career, Hearn refused to call in sick. He came to work when he wasn't feeling well - including a couple of times with laryngitis that forced him to sit out the second half.

A member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and the American Sportscasters Hall of Fame, Hearn received a standing ovation on his 85th birthday in November during a Lakers-Milwaukee Bucks game.

He got his nickname when friends played a prank on him when he was an amateur player. Given a box he thought contained sneakers, he found a chicken inside.

When Hearn broadcast his 3,000th consecutive game in 1998, O'Neal said, "That's an amazing accomplishment. I don't think I've done anything 3,000 times in my life. I hope he stays around 3,000 more games."

Pat Riley, a member of that team who later spent 2 years beside Hearn in the broadcast booth before he became the Lakers' coach, credited him with being his mentor, and not only in a broadcasting sense.

"He was a man who taught me about discipline," said Riley, who guided the Lakers to four NBA titles in the 1980s and now coaches the Miami Heat.

Hearn kept few secrets from Lakers fans, but for many years one of them was his age. After he reached 70 or so, he would only chuckle and say, "I don't know, I lost my birth certificate."

You might say he was "caught with his hand in the cookie jar" during the NBA finals in June, acknowledging his age and saying he was proud of it.

Hearn's death leaves Los Angeles with two Hall of Fame broadcasters - Vin Scully of the Dodgers and Bob Miller of the Kings.

The Hearns had two children, but both died - a son of a drug overdose and a daughter after battling anorexia. The couple was very close with Shannon, their granddaughter, and her family.

Chick Hearn

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