Bartcop Entertainment - Wednesday, 1 May, 2002

Wednesday

1 May, 2002

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Reader Review

Poi Dog Pondering

By Dave Romm



Poi Dog Pondering

New Age Bluegrass

Poi Dog Pondering has one of the worst web sites I've ever encountered, and apparently they've broken up and reformed and done videos and other projects and stuff. Oh well, I learn a lot researching these recommendations. I'll only talk about the three CDs I have. Their music, based around the song writing and singing of Frank Orrall and can be described as "rock" or "electronic folk" but I tend to think of it as "new age bluegrass". They sound like a bunch of talented musicians got together and jammed, decided which tunes they liked, did a bit of rehearsing, wrote some lyrics and recorded an album. Whether this is the case or not, their music is tuneful and tightly played to give an overall effect of looseness and musicians enjoying themselves.

According to their discography, they had one album, From Texas to Hawaii, before their epynomous CD Poi Dog Pondering, though their web site lists it as "the CD that started it all". I'm confused; not for the first time. It's generally a bad sign when a group's best song is the first song on their first CD, but such is the case. Living With The Dreaming Body is a nifty song, with tin whistle and accordian and violin and a rock beat, though it helps to just let it wash over you and not pay close attention to the lyrics, which are about a guy who doesn't get laid because his drunk girlfriend is whiny and maudlin. In general, the music on the album is much better than the lyrics, which tend to be interesting images that don't really gel into a narrative. Songs about touch and water and the turning of the years. The only other time I've encountered this CD, it was being played in a counterculture store called Global Village that sells incense and moccasins and candles and such. Perfect.

Their second (?) CD, Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea, is much more successful, overall. U-Li-La-Lu is a great song about living life to the fullest. The Ancient Egyptians is about walking and enjoying the trip. The Me That Was Your Son is a poignant ode to a dead mother. Sugarbush Cushman exults the simple life in Vermont, and ends with an emotionally powerful vibrato that I haven't been able to listen to all the way trough more than once. Good music well played, and the lyrics work pretty well and Orrall's innocent singing is steady.

On Volo Volo, they went punk and it doesn't work. The only song I like is Te Manu Pukarua, which is in Tahitian (I think); a fast bluegrass island dance. The person who introduced me to the group likes the album, so perhaps this is just personal taste. And certainly, I don't mind that a group explores new styles and doesn't just produce the same music over and over. Still. Because of this one, I haven't sought out their later albums. Oh well. YMMV.

Dave Romm is a conceptual artist with a radio show and a web site and a very weird CD collection. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here.



Thanks (again), Dave!

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Weekly Review

HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW

April 30, 2002

The Pope apologized to victims of pedophile priests and said there was no place in the Church for priests who abuse children, but he also noted that the power of Christian conversion must not be underestimated. American cardinals indicated that they definitely wanted to have a way to get rid of "notorious" pedophiles but that pedophiles who were not "notorious" might be dealt with in some other way. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said he thought "zero-tolerance" policies were potentially unjust and that bishops should have "a little more wiggle room."

Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met with President George W. Bush down at the ranch in Crawford, Texas, and went for a ride in the President's pickup truck. "Saudi Arabia made it clear," Bush said, "and has made it clear publicly, that they will not use oil as a weapon."

Senior Bush Administration officials told reporters that they were still hoping to invade Iraq but acknowledged that Ariel Sharon's invasion of the West Bank, which was getting high ratings in Israel, had put off the war until early next year; they estimated that the new war, which until recently was on the fall schedule, would require the use of up to 250,000 troops.

Israel refused to allow a United Nations fact-finding mission to travel to the Jenin refugee camp to investigate allegations of war crimes. Yehuda Lancry, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, told Secretary General Kofi Annan that the mission, if it proceeds, would be permitted to gather facts but not to make any "observations" about the facts. Amnesty International said it had "credible evidence" that war crimes were committed in the Jenin camp. An Israeli sergeant who fought there told an American reporter that he and his men had received orders to "put a bullet in each window": "It's not true that there was a massacre, because guys did not shoot at civilians just like this," he said. "However--and this is terrible--it is true that we shot at houses, and God knows how many innocent people got killed."

Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review

--Roger D. Hodge

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Reader Movie Reviews

TANK GIRL & DESPERATE LIVING

By Joe Bacon

Comic Books are a peculiarly American art form. The best comic characters (like Superman) take on a life of their own. Very few of them make a successful transition to the silver screen. Most fall flat on their faces. This movie definitely falls into the latter category for it is the failed flimsy folly called TANK GIRL (1995).

Tank Girl  (1995)
TANK GIRL (1995) is set in the year 2033 after a meteor grazes the Earth and turns it into one big desert. Sorry, no ''WATERWEIRD'' here. In fact, the 'heroin'(e), (Lori Petty) opens up the movie by saying 'No celebrities, No cable TV'. Hey, I don't know about you but this world is sounding pretty good to me. A WORLD WITHOUT ìFOX NEWS?! No Chris Clairol? No Geraldo? No Hannity & Colmes? No Novak? No Cokie? No NPR? To quote Butthead, ''We're There!'' ( heh heh heh!)

Water has become the main source of wealth in the world and it's controlled by an EVIL MONOPOLY run by ol' Alex the Droogie HIMSELF, Ken Lay, er, that's not right. No, the Bad Guy with the BRITISH ACCENT is played by our old Marquis of Maliciousness, Malcolm Mc Dowell. Playing the role of TYPICAL FREEPER CAPITALIST, ol' Ken, er, Mal has only one desire - to get more and more of what water is left in the world.

Tank Girl is living with a bunch of her Naderite friends (NO, NOT THE FOLKS YOU SEE ON THURSDAY NIGHTS) living a nomadic existence. They make the fatal mistake of striking water and ol' Ken, er, Malcolm finds out. Soon the MOST POWERFUL ARMED FORCE ON THE PLANET - the DWP Police, wipes off our little bunch of Nomadic Naderites. Tank Girl is taken away to work as a WAGE SLAVE in a factory run by one of Mal's buddies, Kathie Lee Gifford. Now, Tank Girl doesn't want to conform and become a 'Model Citizen' like Kathy Lee, and she constantly makes trouble along with her new friend Jet Girl (Naomi Watts).

Not wanting to be a good Christian Woman (who steals somebody else's husband, like Kathy Lee), ol' Kenny, er, Mal decides to torture her and let her face the drip, drip, and drip of STREACHING A BAD PLOT. It is in this water torture scene (hell this whole movie is a torture) where Tank Girl, strapped in a straightjacket, utters the LINE OF THE MOVIE:

''It's really hard for me to play with myself in this thing!''

As she is placed in a tube (they're too cheap to strap her into the bidet of Death) and Tanky gets dripped to death, the DWP main complex comes under attack from a group of mutant warriors called the Rippers, led by rapper ICE-T. Good lord, his face is a classic case of putting pancake makeup on a waffle face. The Rippers, far more effective than Pink Tutu Democrats, wage an effective guerilla force on the Freeper boys. Ol' Malcom McLay decides to release Tank Girl from the damp dank dÈcolletÈ and offers her a deal, a la Monty Hall. If she makes the correct deal, she lives. Now which does she choose--the box on the floor or the tray that Jay is holding? Well, she makes the wrong choice, and she lives (RATZ).

Now Kenny brings her out to the last site where the Bat Boys (HOLY WEEKLY WORLD NEWS!) struck, and as she is ordered to find the lair of the Rippers, they stage a surprise attack and kill all of the DWP. They almost kill the Punk Priestess as well, but she is delivered from death by her pal Jet Girl, who steals a DWP Jet and bombs away the Rippers.

Now this is NOT the way to start a relationship, since Tank Girl decides the best way to get even with Ken Lay, er, Malcolm is to join the Rippers. So, Tanky finally steals a tank (an hour into the film) and starts driving around looking for the Rippers with her pal Jet Girl. Eventually, they find the Ripper lair and find out that the Rippers are really Rappers - OR, is that the other way around?

While Tanky and the Rippers are plotting revenge, Ol' Kenny, er, Malcolm lost so many body parts, his thugs had to raid a Chief Auto Parts store to put him back together. Kenny's thugs kidnap Tank Girl's little sister and threaten to reconstitute her in a batch of White Castle Hamburgers. Tanky gets (broken) wind about this and her new Ripper friends help her free little Tank-ette. Let's just say that when ol' Mal, er, Kenny gets 'KREAMED' in the end, he isn't warbling ''Singin In The Rain''!

The next entry in the Sweepstakes of Stupidity is from the Titan of Tastelessness, the Duke of Depravity himself - John Waters. This movie is the last of what the Master of mediocrity called his 'Trash Trio'. Boy, does it LIVE UP to THAT NAME! It is the last low-budget baguette made by Wanky Walters before he went 'mainstream' (ahem!).

The one and only Desperate Living  (1977)
''DESPERATE LIVING'' (1977). It may be most accurate to describe this movie as Water's version of ''THINGS TO COME'', since the depravity of Homelessness and shantytowns came to fruition only four years later when President Pruneface decided to give the truly needy a long and agonizing golden shower.

Now this is the only early Waters' pix without the appearance of his cinematic cholesterol-clogging crie du chat, Divine. Be aware, ol' John does not pull an Ed Wood about pulling the string or showing a horde of buffaloes. He creatively casts a galaxy of goofballs that beckon the belching of your licentatious laughter. And, don't forget the immortal Opening Credits, shown over footage of a REAL cooked RAT, served on elegant bone china and picked at by an unseen diner.

The plot (1 inch above ground) - Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) has succeeded in living the Cosmo Girl Lifestyle - Yes, she is the Stuffy Stuck-Up Slut who done Got it ALL. Yet, she has a cry in her heart ''Is that all there is?'' (UNFORTUNATELY Peggy Lee doesn't sing that tune for her). ''Is there nothing more?'' Such 'spirit(80 proof)ual' hunger is insatiable (HELP MARILYN CHAMBERS!) and it has placed poor Peggy in and out of several mental hospitals. The movie opens as Peggy returns home, based on her husband's (NAME OMITTED TO PROTECT INNOCENT PARTY) pleas after he witnessed her latest encounter with Jack and his Nurse in the Cuckoo's nest. She is led into her bedroom, where she enters into a hysterical monologue blaming her poor nervous wreck of a husband for all the failings in her life. She concocts a perverted plan to remove him.

The plans starts in motion when she seduces the family maid, Grizelda, (played by the incredible 450 pound Waters' Discovery, Miss Jean Hill) returns Peggy (Nooner's) affections and the two co-conspire to bump off Big Daddy. Hubby comes into the room and catches them in the act of 'being themselves' in a way Allen Funt would never have got past the censors. Hubby makes the fatal mistake of pissing off Miss Jean Hill, and she SITS ON HIS FACE in a way Monty Python never thought of doing. Hey, it doesn't even take a minute and Mr. Gravel is dead as a doornail! Peggy's two children break down the door and now our pale carbon versions of Thelma and Louise are in DEEP TROUBLE!

The kids start screaming and threaten to call the cops. Quick thinking is needed by Grizelda and she points her butt cheeks to the kids and plays the poots piper with such power and precision that the kids are knocked out. Running out of the house with only the clothes on their back, they take the family car for a Rendezvous with Repulsion.

Our lesbian heroes are stopped cold in their tracks by a motorcycle cop, who has a fetish for ladies underpants. Trust me, he has a BIG fetish for BIG panties and when he sees Grizelda, he reacts in the manner that normal men do when confronted with the new issue of HUSTLER. His radio indicates that both women are to be shot on sight, but he lets them off the hook when he asks for Grizeldaís underpants. Our terrified duo asks the cop where they could go to hide out and he directs them to the wonderful land of Mortville.

Mortville is a little horrendous hamlet populated by dozens of Regan's rejects. Look at this town and you have an idea of what passes for a wet dream for Freepers. Angry, ugly lesbians and fey gayboys all in tight leather pants populate the cardboard Camelot. Presiding over this Perverted Paradise is the one and only Queen Carlotta (Edith Massey) and her daughter, Princess Coo-Coo (Cookie Mueller). The Queen is so evil and selfish she forces all of Mortville to follow the sick sleazy Social Darwinist path. When you enter Mortville for the first time, you start your way at the bottom, then you work your way down even lower, as long-time inhabitants Mole Mc Henry (Susan Lowe) and her lover Muffy St. Jacques (Liz Renay). Now, let's face it folks, this is not your 'Father Knows Best' Household, here, but at least they had enough of the (curdled) milk of human kindness to let Peggy and Grizelda rent a room of their cardboard shack.

Carlotta shows such Christian Compassion to her subjects - when Peggy and Grizelda enter Mortville, the Leather Law enforcers shoot one of the inhabitants to death when (s)he refuses to walk backwards. This act infuriates Princess Coo-Coo and she throws a fit at her mother. Queen Carlotta decides that it's curtains for Coo-Coo and she looks for a more worthy successor - Peggy.

Peggy concocts a serum that will infect every inhabitant with bat rabies. She tries it on the princess and sees that Coo Coo Cooed her last Coo! As she prepares to pour the serum into the Mortville Water supply, a revolution breaks out and Grizelda, with the help of Mole and Muffy, gets the whole town top overthrow the government. In a creative act of surrender, Ex-Queen Carlotta is forced to kiss New Queen Grizelda's ass (since this is a John Waters movie, you can figure out how this scene plays out!) and Happiness is restored to the town of Mortville forever!

Well, that's it for this time! See you next time in the celluloid closet!

Joe Bacon


Thanks, Joe!

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Watched Nova on PBS. Hate talking back to the TV that much.

Saw the so-called 'reunion' on 'Frasier'. Followed it with 'Scrubs', but hadn't realized it was their episode featuring some of the old 'St. Elsewhere' gang. NBC seemed hard-pressed to come up with an hour's worth of 'greatest moments' for Jay Leno's month-early 10 Year Anniversary, so lots of wealthy white men were paraded by.

Also managed to catch 'The Osbournes'...it was the Christmas episode. My favorite lines were:
Ozzie to Sharon - ''I adore you, sweetheart. Now, fuck off.''
And
Sharon - ''We're gong to hear about this fucking gravy for the next year.''




Tonight, Wednesday, it's pretty much fresh on CBS. First up is '60 Minutes II', then 'The Amazing Race II', and '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Kirsten Dunst, Angie Stone, Steve Nash & The O'Jays.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are George Segal, Fairuza Balk & Todd Glass.

It's all fresh on NBC with 'Ed', 'The West Wing', and 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Willem Dafoe, Doc Antle & Michelle Branch.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Charlie Sheen & Sarah Silverman.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla and Lounge Against The Machine.

ABC is mostly fresh with 'My Wife & Kids', 'Jim', 'Drew Carey', then a rerun 'Drew Carey', and wrapped with a fresh 'Primetime Special Edition' dealing with multiple personalities.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Little X, Lisa Loeb, Jason Alexander & Jack Burkman.

The WB is fresh with 'Dawson's Creek' and 'Felicity'.

Faux is fresh with 'Malcolm', 'Grounded For Life', 'Bernie Mac' and 'Greg, The Bunny'.

UPN has a fresh 'Enterprise', and a fresh to UPN season finale of 'Wolf Lake'.



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



(See below for addresses)

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Great Link

Failure Is Impossible

failureisimpossible.com - JulieFest Review

failureisimpossible.com

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'Simpsons' End Is Near?

Matt Groening

The creator of The Simpsons has dropped the first hint that the hit cartoon series may soon be coming to an end.

Matt Groening has been the inspiration behind Homer and his family since 1990, when they got their first regular show.

He said: "It becomes increasingly difficult as the years go by to keep on not only surprising the audience, but surprising ourselves.

Groening admitted he has a troubled relationship with Fox television who show both The Simpsons and his other creation Futurama.

He said that despite making $1bn (£686m) for the network there is only "a trace of a smile in their faces when I walk into the room".

He is upset after the cancellation of Futurama, his futuristic cartoon follow-up to Bart and Homer.

He said: "They (Fox) haven't really supported it. I think it's a worthy companion to The Simpsons and we're really proud of it. But Fox gave it a bad slot and zero promotion for the last three years."

Matt Groening

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Must Be The French Fries

Bill Maher

Bill Maher ended up all wet at Bungalow 8 Saturday night. The "Politically Incorrect" host was partying with a posse that included conservative commentator Ann Coulter when a bucket of mop water was dumped on his head, apparently by accident. A busboy - carrying the bucket en route to cleaning up a spill - didn't recognize Maher, who turned to a female friend and asked, "Was it clean?" When he was assured that it was, Maher kept partying, and at one point danced atop a table.

Bill Maher

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Useful Link

Annoyances

Annoyances.org is the most complete collection of information assembled for and by actual users of Microsoft Windows. Explore this free web resource.

Annoyances.org


Thanks, Radio Fred

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BartCop TV!

BC TV

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His Poor Parents

Ari Fleischer

White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" that his parents, both staunch Democrats, were horrified to learn their son would be working for President George W. Bush.

Fleischer joked Monday with Leno on the NBC talk show that his mother still thinks Al Gore won Florida during the 2000 presidential election.

"My parents are very principled Democrats," Fleischer said. "Every now and then the president will say, 'Do I have your mother yet?' and I say 'No, sir, not yet,'" Fleischer said.

Ari Fleischer

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Fun Link

Funk Encyclo-P-dia

Groove Corner - Funk Encyclo-P-dia

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Another Baby?

Rosie O'Donnell

Weeks after going public about her homosexuality to support child adoption by gay couples, soon-to-retire talk show host Rosie O'Donnell and her longtime partner are reportedly expecting a baby together.

Us magazine reported in its upcoming edition that O'Donnell's companion of four years, Kelli Carpenter, is several weeks pregnant, though there was no word on who the father might be.

Syndicated TV show "Access Hollywood" also was reporting in a broadcast set for Tuesday that Carpenter is pregnant.

The latest issue of Us, which hits newsstands on Friday, said O'Donnell, 40, and Carpenter, 34, recently visited a New York gynecologist's office, where O'Donnell was quoted as telling other women in the waiting room, "My girlfriend is here -- she's pregnant."

The former stand-up comic and actress plans to end her six-year stint as host of "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" this month in order to spend more time with her three adopted children -- two boys and a girl -- Parker, 6, Chelsea, 4, and Blake, 2.

Rosie O'Donnell

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Contract Renewed For 2 More Years

'Craiggers'

Kilborn, host of "The Late, Late Show" on CBS, has signed a contract extension that will keep him on the air for at least two more years, the network said Monday.

He has been host since March 1999, and the network is up 25 percent in viewers at his 12:35 a.m. time slot since then.

"Craig has done everything we expected since taking over `The Late Late Show,'" said CBS President Leslie Moonves. "He has attracted more young viewers to the time period and his show has proved to be a terrific companion to David Letterman's `Late Show.'"

'Craiggers'

'Craiggers' At CBS Web

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Rare Recordings Auctioned

John Lennon

Rare recordings by Beatles legend John Lennon fetched $195,200 at a sale of pop memorabilia in London Tuesday, auction house Christie's said.

The auction raised $776,000, even without its star lot -- a draft manuscript of Paul McCartney's ballad "Hey Jude," which was withdrawn after the songwriter said it had disappeared from his house.

A collector paid $109,631 for the auction's most expensive lot, a tape of Lennon singing nursery rhymes with his stepdaughter Kyoko.

The same unnamed bidder paid $85,610 for a 25-minute recording of Lennon's early work on "She Said, She Said," from the Beatles' "Revolver" album.

John Lennon

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Canceled Remaining Tour Dates

Creed

The rock band Creed canceled remaining dates on its tour after lead singer Scott Stapp was injured in a car accident, the band's spokesman said Monday.

Creed spokesman Steve Karas said the crash involved another vehicle and occurred in the Orlando area. Other details, including when the accident happened, were not immediately known.

Of Stapp's condition, Karas would only say, "We don't want people to believe that this is a situation where Scott will not recover."

The popular Orlando-based band was scheduled to perform in Fargo, N.D. on Monday, and visit several other cities through the end of May.

Creed

Creed.com

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Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

A New Look & Even More Information!

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Playing At Jazz Aspen Snowmass Festival

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan will perform this fall at the annual Jazz Aspen Snowmass festival.

Dylan will play Sept. 1. Opening acts haven't been announced.

Jazz Aspen, usually held in Snowmass Village, is expected to be moved to the Buttermilk Mountain base area because of a construction project.

Phil & Friends, led by former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, is scheduled to perform on opening night, Aug. 30. Willie Nelson and Nickel Creek are set to perform on closing day, Sept. 2.

Bob Dylan

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Fairly Esoteric Link

Wild Man Fischer

Wild Man Fischer

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Owes Back Commissions

Kelsey Grammer

"Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer, one of the highest-paid actors on U.S. television, must pay his former talent agency more than $2 million in back commissions, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding a lower court ruling, found that Grammer and his production company Grammnet Inc. owed The Artists Agency of Los Angeles the money under a 1995 agreement which renegotiated the terms of their contract.

In 1996 Grammer left Artists for good and challenged the 1995 contract on the grounds that it violated collective bargaining agreements with the Screen Actors Guild and other industry groups.

A SAG arbitration panel subsequently found that the contract terms, while unusual, were valid -- a position later upheld by a federal judge, who ordered Grammer to pay unpaid commissions totaling more than $2 million.

"Kelsey feels like the union let him down," Martin Singer said in Daily Variety's Tuesday edition. "The court's decision unfortunately allows the talent agency to collect commissions under a contract that doesn't follow the agency's own rules."

Kelsey Grammer

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Shuttering Governor's Mansion

Gov. Jesse Ventura

Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is locking up the century-old governor's mansion as part of a raft of budget cuts he complains fall unfairly on him, his spokesman said on Tuesday.

The hulking former professional wrestler, actor and Navy SEAL spends most nights at his ranch in the suburb of Maple Grove and rarely stays at the ornate 20-room mansion, which mostly hosts ceremonial events, meetings and tourists.

The shuttering of the residence at the close of business on Tuesday will save $375,000, the bulk of it from the salaries of seven staff who cooked, cleaned, and maintained the grounds. Tours of the mansion, which sits on a block of ornate homes including one that once housed writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, are given once or twice a month. Few of the state's recent chief executives have lived there.

On ABC's "Good Morning America," Ventura said the cuts were a "personal attack" on him because he was part of the Independent Party.

Gov. Jesse Ventura

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Renewed For Third Year

'Six Feet Under'

HBO has renewed its latest "it" Sunday series, "Six Feet Under," for a third season.

Thirteen new episodes of the funeral-home saga will unspool next year.

This past August, the second hour of "Six Feet Under's" first season finale averaged a 13.8 rating, tying it for the best marks that "Sex and the City" had received at that point.

Then, in January "Six Feet Under" bagged a Golden Globe for best drama, boosting its sophomore-season launch in March. It continues to be one of HBO's top-ranked shows.

'Six Feet Under'

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

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Another Lawsuit

R. Kelly

Lawyers for two-time Grammy winner R. Kelly said Monday they will fight a third civil lawsuit that claims the R&B star had sex with an underage girl.

Kelly's lawyers said they have settled two previous civil suits that also claimed the singer had sex with teen-agers but that "the cash machine is closed."

"People seem to have gotten the idea that R. Kelly is some sort of walking ATM machine they can hit up for cash simply by threatening to sue him," Margolis said.

Kelly is known for his inspirational hits "I Believe I Can Fly" and "The Greatest" but also raunchy songs such as "Feelin' On Yo Booty," "Bump 'n' Grind" and "Your Body's Callin'."

R. Kelly

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Very Useful Link

Washington Times Reality Check

The Washington Times Reality Check: April 22-28, 2002

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60 Years Later

'Rosie the Riveter'

We Can Do It

When a labor group wanted to organize an event to salute the female workers who kept U.S. factories humming during World War II, it didn't take long to find one of its first honorees.

Margaret Berry, who went to work building B-29s as a "Rosie the Riveter" 60 years ago, was still working at Boeing Co. These days, she volunteers to help restore vintage bombers at age 79.

After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, American men enlisted and faltering wartime factories called on women to help build aircraft and ships, among other jobs.

Nicknamed "Rosies" after one of the first women to work in a defense factory, the women were immortalized in a poster of a worker flexing her muscles with the slogan "We Can Do It."

The Rosies helped acclimate Americans to the idea of wives and mothers doing paid work, said Karen Anderson, a history professor at the University of Arizona and author of "Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women During World War II."

For more, 'Rosie the Riveter'

Rosie the Riveter Trust

Women in Trades

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Starring In A Movie

Jerry Springer

Talk show host Jerry Springer has agreed to star in a movie that will be shot this summer in the Tampa Bay area, the film's producer said.

Philippe Martinez, the producer of "Citizen Jury," said Monday the $12-million feature casts Springer as the producer of a courtroom reality TV series that tries capital punishment cases.

Christopher Lambert, best known for his roles in the "Highlander" movies, will play the show's host, a professor at fictional Tampa Law College, Martinez told the St. Petersburg Times.

Springer had made cameos as himself in several movies, and starred as a talk show host in 1998's "Ringmaster."

Jerry Springer

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Operating At A Loss

Michael Jackson's Charity

The "charity" Michael Jackson formed with rabbi Shmuley Boteach is operating at a loss. The New York-based Oxford L'Chaim Society told the IRS it took in $203,185 in 2000-2001 but wasn't able to actually dispense any help because it had expenses of $259,432, mostly in-office fees and staff salaries, reports Foxnews.com's Roger Friedman. In addition, Boteach lists $19,028 for "promotional" costs and $13,480 on unspecified "outside services." Boteach's mother and sister are listed on the L'Chaim Society's filing as treasurer and secretary, respectively, but both of them told Friedman that they have nothing to do with the charity and should not be on the forms.

Michael Jackson's Charity

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Special Gift Baskets

American Bandstand 50th Anniversary

The celebrities who show up for the "American Bandstand" 50th anniversary show will go home with goodies, just like at awards shows.

Special gift baskets have been custom-made for all the stars. The baskets include a pocket-sized digital jukebox with three-thousand songs, old-time candies like Wax Lips and Sen Sen, Hot Wheels sunglasses, a Frisbee, the Twister board game, a yo-yo and lots of beauty products.

The "American Bandstand" special will be Friday on ABC. Scheduled guests include Michael Jackson, Cher, Alanis Morissette and Stevie Wonder.

American Bandstand 50th Anniversary

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From 'USA Today'

Jay Leno

If NBC promised Jay Leno another 10 years on The Tonight Show, would he make better use of it?

A decade in, Leno still seems as insecure in the job as he was when he became NBC's surprise choice over David Letterman. Granted, it was a tenuous start, but he has ruled the ratings for seven years and has become an undeniably welcome presence in Hollywood and in viewers' homes. Yet he still acts like a man who is unwilling to take even the slightest risk for fear his job could be taken away at any moment.

And as he dithers, a great platform goes to waste.

For the rest, 10 years of Jay Leno makes one weak

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Not My Idea Of Household Pests

Baby Cobras

Dudu Meah, a Bangladeshi snake charmer, holds deadly young cobras near Dhaka on April 30, 2002. Photo by Rafiqur Rahman

A Bangladeshi snake charmer called in to find two serpents in a suburban home near the capital unearthed over 3,000 deadly cobras and hundreds of eggs.

Police and local newspapers said snake charmer Dudu Miah captured over 3,500 young cobras at two houses in Narayanganj near Dhaka.

The find, however, triggered panic among neighbours who fled their homes, police said.

Cobras, which are highly venomous and endemic to Bangladesh, often nest in houses -- frequently ridding them of rats and other domestic pests.

Baby Cobras

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