BartCop Entertainment Archives - Wednesday, 21 June, 2006

Wednesday

21 June, 2006

(Updated Daily)

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Disinfotainment Today

By Michael Dare


 

thanks you for trying to end the war in Iraq.

I guess there's nothing anyone can do about it.


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Reader Review

'Winter Soldier'

Review of "Winter Soldier" DVD

On Jan. 31st, 1971, 125 Vietnam veterans got together at a HOJO in Detroit and spent three days recounting the atrocities they witnessed and participated in during their tours.

It's one horror story after the other, delivered in sometimes halting, sometimes eerily calm candor. They all, to a man, focus on the all important body count...competitions between squads, companies and even battalions. "Beers for ears"...three day passes as rewards for high counts. If it's dead, it's a VC.

It's chilling to watch these young men (most 23 or younger and some having served 2 tours) talk about the indoctrination that occurred in boot camp and how it translated on the ground in Vietnam.

It's powerful stuff, I was especially touched by the testimony of a forward scout named Camil, I had a hard time connecting the killer to the eloquent, soft spoken man on the screen.

"Winter Soldier" gets 5 purple hearts out of 5 for portraying the horror of an unjust war, and it's release coincides with and might help us understand what happened in Haditha.

"Winter Soldier" is available at amazon...in a bundle deal with another documentary called "In the Year of the Pig", which covers our involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to just before the Tet offensive.


~ Th' Rev.
Depthmarker


Thanks, Rev!
A recent release, Sir! No Sir! (2005) would fit the bill, too.

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OUTSIDE THE WAREHOUSE

STARING AT IT'S OWN SHADOW

LONELY PURPLE TREE


zEN mAN
(enjoying the lovely colors of spring in the starkest of settings...50th st. at E 12th near the railroad tracks in Oaktown..."Run Ron Run" [Ron Dellums soon to be our new mayor])

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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Greg Mitchell:"Wash Post" Obtains Shocking Memo from US Embassy in Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger and Hardship (Editor & Publisher)
The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says show that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, "the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees."


Mark Crispin Miller: 'Some might call it treason' (smirkingchimp.com)
Two weeks ago, Rolling Stone came out with "Did Bush Steal the 2004 Election?" -- a masterful investigative piece by Robert Kennedy, Jr., arguing that Bush & Co. stole their "re-election" in Ohio, and pointing out exactly how they did it. Primarily because of Kennedy's good reputation, and the mainstream credibility of Rolling Stone, the article has finally opened many eyes that had been tightly shut to the grave state of American democracy.


PAUL KRUGMAN: Class War Politics (The New York Times)
In case you haven't noticed, modern American politics is marked by vicious partisanship, with the great bulk of the viciousness coming from the right. It's clear that the Republican plan for the 2006 election is, once again, to question Democrats' patriotism.


Geov Parrish: Foiled Again! (Satire; seattleweekly.com)
In an e-mail intercept, Osama bin Laden says that after seeing the Department of Homeland Security grants list, he's decided not to attack Kansas City.


Sandra Steingraber: My Children, The Food Experiment (Center for Ecoliteracy. Posted on Alternet.org)
My kids have never seen food industry ads -- their food preferences have been entirely shaped by direct experience.


Julian Baggini: What's so bad about extinction? (guardian.co.uk)
Our attitudes to extinction are probably shaped too much by the fate of the dodo. Because it has become a symbol both of humanity's thoughtless destruction, and of extinction itself, the two ideas have become too closely associated. In fact, nature has always managed to kill off species efficiently without our aid, and will almost certainly get around to us one day too.


Richard Roeper: Stupidity on tap: Too many drinking games (suntimes.com)
According to film legend, Dustin Hoffman showed up on the set of "Marathon Man" one day looking like utter hell. Hoffman explained to Sir Laurence Olivier that as preparation for a scene in which Olivier's character tortures him, Hoffman had gone two days and nights without sleep."My dear boy," Olivier supposedly said, "why don't you just try acting? It's so much easier."


David Bruce: Wise Up! Fathers (athensnews.com)
Movie director Steven Spielberg's daughter Mikaela saw her father on television for the very first time in 1996 when he appeared on the Academy Awards show. Mikaela's mother held her in front of the TV and told her, "Look, honey, there's your daddy." She burped.


Ethical living: Is it OK ... to use air conditioning? (guardian.co.uk)
Leo Hickman's guide to a good life


Jackson Pollock: Create Your Own Masterpiece

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Tip From Kip

'as long as those gays can't get married'

Here's a great column that was in a local giveaway paper. It was written a local guy that is almost always worth reading.

- Kip


Unchained Maladies
By Ricky Thomason

I put ten dollars worth of Bush-water in my lawnmower -- and that didn't even fill the tank. It was almost enough to make me scrape the "Bush-Cheney" and "Dubya - The President" stickers off the back of it. But, really, who cares if gas goes to five bucks per gallon -- as long as those gays can't get married.

I cried the other day when I read that the death toll of American soldiers in Iraq is approaching 2500 and that our troops are caught in the middle of a religious civil war with no way out. Then I thought, what the hell am I blubbering about? At least those gays can't get married, and my millionaire pals get $69 billion dollars in tax cuts. I strongly suspicioned this may be the most corrupt administration and party in the history of America - then I decided that was unimportant. At least those gays can't get married, oil company profits are setting records, and my millionaire pals got tax cuts.

I almost got angry and decided I'd been lied to when, according to a May 21, 2006 article by The New York Times' David Cay Johnson, "The $69 billion tax cut bill that President Bush signed this week tripled tax rates for teenagers with college savings funds, despite Mr. Bush's 1999 pledge to veto any tax increase. The increases, which are retroactive to the first day of the year, are expected to generate nearly $2.2 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, which issues the official estimates."

Then I thought, since the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated the cost of prosecuting the war against Iraq at up to $9 billion per month, why our kids' savings would keep that deal over there running for almost two weeks. Why shouldn't any patriot be willing to give their kids college money for that? Oh, and at least those gays can't get married, the oil company profits are at record levels, my millionaire friends got $69 billion in tax cuts -- which sounds huge, but would only keep the Iraq war running for less than eight months.

For the rest


Thanks, Kip!

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

SAY "HELLO" AND THEN SAY "BUSH SUCKS"

DENNY THE YELLOWBELLY CASHES IN

DENNY AND JERRY ARE "LIVING IT UP"

GOING TO THE DARK SIDE

DICKHEADS DAUGHTER IS A NUT BAG

STAY THE COURSE

OLD AND IN THE WAY

FREEDOM DEAD IN OHIO

THE BEST BULLSHIT MONEY CAN BUY

DON'T EAT THE YELLOW SNOW

CHIMP 101

LITTLE RICKY'S STORM TROOPERS

MONEY FOR NOTHING AND DICKS FOR FREE

A FATHERS LOVE

THE THREE STOOGES

WHY THEY CALL HIM RUMMY

OH, GO SUCK A DICK RICHARD

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. NOW THERE'S AN OXYMORON!


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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny & mid-70°s - quite pleasant.

Universal Studios new commercial offers a free kid ticket (with an adult ticket), plus a bonus ticket to a Dodger game.

Oh, and they've pushed up the age of a 'kid'.

Disneyland set the local standard years ago, deciding kids are under 10. 10 years & older pay the adult entrance fee.

Universal is now advertising your kid is a kid til they're 15.

Economy must be booming.


No new flags.


Tonight, Wednesday:

CBS starts the night with the SEASON PREMIERE 'Big Brother 7', followed by a RERUN 'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN 'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Amy Sedaris and Morningwood.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Stanley Tucci, Cat Deeley, and Van Hunt.

NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE 'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Thomas Haden Church, Julie Scardina & Sea World animals, and Martina McBride.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Adam Sandler and the Subways
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Luke Perry and Jose Gonzalez.

ABC begins the night with a RERUN 'George Lopez', followed by a RERUN 'Freddie', then a RERUN 'Lost', followed by another RERUN 'Lost'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Bonnie Hunt, Phil Gordon, and Buckcherry.

The WB offers a FRESH 'Blue Collar TV', followed by a RERUN 'Blue Collar TV', then a RERUN 'One Tree Hill'.

Faux has a FRESH 2-hour 'So You Think You Can Dance'.

UPN fills the night with the movie 'My Date With Drew'.

A&E has 'Rampage Killer: Signs', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', followed by a FRESH 'Inked', another 'Inked', 'Criss Angel', and another 'Criss Angel'.

AMC offers the movie 'A Civil Action', followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park', then the movie 'Lake Placid'.

BBC  -   
 [2:00 pm]    'As Time Goes By' - Episode 3;
 [2:40 pm]    'Are You Being Served' - It Pays To Advertise;
 [3:20 pm]    'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
 [4:00 pm]    'My Hero' - Wedding;
 [4:40 pm]    'My Family' - Ep 1 The Mummy Returns;
 [5:20 pm]    'My Family' - Ep 2 You Don't Know Jack;
 [6:00 pm]    'BBC World News;
 [6:30 pm]    'Cash in the Attic - Rice;
 [7:00 pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 44;
 [8:00 pm]    'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 10;
 [8:30 pm]    'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 16;
 [9:00 pm]    'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares' - Ep 4 La Riveria;
 [10:00 pm]    'Bad Lads Army' - Episode 4;
 [11:00 pm]    'The Catherine Tate Show' - Episode 6;
 [11:40 pm]    'Coupling' - Sex, Death and Nudity;
 [12:20 am]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 16;
 [1:00 am]    'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares' - Ep 4 La Riveria;
 [2:00 am]    'Bad Lads Army' - Episode 4;
 [3:00 am]    'Mine All Mine' - Episode 1;
 [4:00 am]    'Mine All Mine' - Episode 2;
 [5:00 am]    'Mine All Mine' - Episode 3;
 [6:00 am]    'BBC World News'.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', followed by a FRESH 'Celebrity Poker Showdown'.

Comedy Central has the movie 'Ringmaster', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Dog Bites Man'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Anderson Cooper.
Scheduled on a FRESH Colbert Report is Bay Buchanan.

History has all 'Modern Marvels' all night.

IFC  -   
 [6:00 AM]    The Night and The Moment;
 [7:45 AM]    Invincible;
 [10:00 AM]    Joe The King;
 [11:45 AM]    This Is Not A Film;
 [1:15 PM]    IFC In Theaters;
 [1:30 PM]    IFC Short Film Collection II: June;
 [3:30 PM]    Swingers;
 [5:15 PM]    Joe The King;
 [7:05 PM]    Before and After;
 [9:00 PM]    Swingers;
 [10:45 PM]    IFC In Theaters;
 [11:00 PM]    Shallow Grave;
 [12:35 AM]    At The IFC Center #14;
 [1:00 AM]    Swingers;
 [2:45 AM]    IFC In Theaters;
 [3:00 AM]    Shallow Grave;
 [4:35 AM]    She's Gotta Have It.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has all 'Ghost Hunters' all night.

Sundance  -   
 [06:00 AM]    Tony Takitani;
 [07:20 AM]    McVicar;
 [09:15 AM]    Who Is Bernard Tapie?;
 [10:15 AM]    Silent Running;
 [11:45 AM]    Dark Water;
 [01:30 PM]    Photographing Fairies;
 [03:30 PM]    Time Bandits;
 [05:30 PM]    Imagining Argentina;
 [07:30 PM]    The Drug Years: The Drug Years: Teenage Wasteland;
 [08:15 PM]    The Drug Years: The Drug Years: Just Say No;
 [09:00 PM]    Kath & Kim: Fat;
 [09:30 PM]    Men Named Milo, Women Named Greta;
 [10:00 PM]    We Have Arrived Bonnaroo 2004;
 [11:45 PM]    Fellini's Casanova;
 [02:20 AM]    City of Men: Episode 4: Uolace and Joao Victor;
 [03:00 AM]    Mon Ange;
 [04:30 AM]    Ju-On.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM starts the day with one more film from last night's tribute to director Anthony Mann, then celebrates Jane Russell who born on this day in 1921, and wraps the night with a short salute to Anthony Quinn.
 [7:00 AM]    The Tall Target (1951);
 [8:30 AM] Cartoon Alley #23 (2005);
 [9:00 AM]    Underwater! (1955);
 [10:45 AM]    The Las Vegas Story (1952);
 [12:15 PM]    The French Line (1954);
 [2:00 PM]    The Outlaw (1943);
 [4:00 PM]    His Kind Of Woman (1951);
 [6:15 PM]    Macao (1952);

 [8:00 PM]    Ride, Vaquero! (1953);
 [10:00 PM]    Guns For San Sebastian (1968)  [AKA: 'La Bataille de San Sebastian'];
 [12:00 AM]    Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears (1973)  [AKA: 'Los Amigos'];
 [1:45 AM]    Private Screenings: Anthony Quinn (1999);

 [2:45 AM]    The Milky Way (1936);
 [4:15 AM]    Night Waitress (1936);
 [5:15 AM]    Sworn Enemy (1936).    (ALL TIMES EDT)



Thursday  -  06/22

TCM spends the night with Billy Wilder.
 [6:30 AM]    City For Conquest (1940);
 [8:30 AM] MGM Parade Show #20 (1955);
 [9:00 AM] Private Screenings: Sidney Lumet (2005);
 [10:00 AM]    Stage Struck (1958);
 [11:45 AM]    The Girl Most Likely (1957);
 [1:30 PM]    The First Traveling Saleslady (1956);
 [3:15 PM]    Two Tickets To Broadway (1951);
 [5:15 PM]    Beat The Band (1947);
 [6:30 PM]    Ding Dong Williams (1946);
 [8:00 PM]    Billy Wilder Speaks (2006);
 [9:30 PM]    Double Indemnity (1944)     [View Trailer];
 [11:30 PM]    BIlly Wilder Speaks (2006);
 [1:00 AM]    The Lost Weekend (1945)     [View Trailer];
 [3:00 AM]    Sabrina (1954)     [View Trailer];
 [5:00 AM]    A Foreign Affair (1948);
    (ALL TIMES EDT)



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In this photo released by YOO, Elle MacPherson, left, joins Jade Jagger at the unveiling of a residential condominium building called JADE in the Manhattan borough of New York, Monday, June 19, 2006. Jagger designed the building for developer YOO.
Photo by Dave Allocca
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Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Hall of Fame

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has chosen former "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw, producer-director James Burrows, producer Leonard Goldberg, talk-show host Regis Philbin and actor William Shatner for induction into its Hall of Fame, which honors individuals who have made "extraordinary contributions to television" in front of or behind the camera.

Hall of Fame candidates are submitted by ATAS' membership and the industry at large, with the final selection being voted upon by a committee, which was co-chaired by Sam Haskell, president of Magnolia Hill Entertainment, and Conrad Bachmann, actor and former ATAS governor.

Hall of Fame

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MSGOP's Surprise Hit Video

Connie Chung

Alongside viral videos of alcohol-drinking monkeys and balletic race cars, the newest Web sensation is a crooning Connie Chung.

On the Saturday finale of MSNBC's Weekends with Maury & Connie, Chung sang a version of Bob Hope's old theme song Thanks for the Memory to her husband and co-host, Maury Povich. A clip of the performance - complete with mood-setting candles and an accompanying grand piano - is the most popular clip of the week on the video Web site YouTube.

As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 413,000 people had viewed the video of Chung - a rating that might have saved Weekends with Maury & Connie, from being cancelled. The half-hour talk show, which featured the two discussing news events, averaged about 232,000 viewers since debuting Jan. 7.

Decked out in a pink gown, Chung sings: "We came to do a show, for very little dough/ By little, I mean I could make more working on skid row/ That's cable."

Connie Chung

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New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz edits one of his own puzzles for an upcoming edition of the newspaper while promoting Patrick Creadon's documentary 'Wordplay,' Wednesday, June 14, 2006, in New York. Shortz is featured in the documentary film, about crossword wonks including Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart, which opens Friday, June 23, 2006.
Photo by Kathy Willens
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FBI Shadowed Playwright

Arthur Miller

In the summer of 1956, playwright Arthur Miller married screen idol Marilyn Monroe in a Jewish ceremony, an event of high-level gossip for much of the world and of high-level curiosity for the U.S. government.

"An anonymous telephone call" has been placed to the New York Daily News, an FBI report notes at the time. The caller stated that the "religious" wedding - Miller was Jewish and Monroe had converted - was an obvious "cover up" for Miller, who "had been and still was a member of the CP (Communist Party) and was their cultural front man." Monroe also "had drifted into the Communist Party orbit."

The memo is one of many included in Miller's FBI files, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act. Miller, who died last year at age 89, was a longtime liberal who opposed the Vietnam War, supported civil rights and, in one play, "The Crucible," linked the Cold War pursuit of communists to the Salem witch trials of the 17th century.

The FBI not only kept records of Miller's political statements, from his opposition to nuclear weapons to his attacks against the anti-communist blacklist, but of his affiliation with such organizations as the American Labor Party ("a communist front") and the "communist infiltrated" American Civil Liberties Union.

Arthur Miller

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Tinker Bell's Voice

Brittany Murphy

Actress Brittany Murphy will be the Walt Disney Co.'s first-ever voice for Tinker Bell, giving the gift of speech to the precocious winged creature who until now communicated via facial expressions and jingling.

The iconic green sprite is returning to the screen in a direct-to-video film slated for release next year as part of Disney's new "Fairies" line of products, which the company touted on Tuesday at the Licensing 2006 International Show in New York.

Disney expects the Fairies line, aimed at girls aged 4 to 11, to generate at least $1 billion in annual sales within 4 years, Disney spokesman Gary Foster said.

Brittany Murphy

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BBC Cancels

'Top of the Pops'

The British Broadcasting Corp. announced Tuesday that it is canceling "Top of the Pops," its flagship music chart show, after more than four decades on the air.

BBC director of television Jana Bennett said the show, which first appeared in 1964, would air for the last time on July 30.

The show has suffered flagging ratings in recent years as it faced competition from cable and satellite music channels and the Internet. Last year it was moved from the main BBC1 channel to BBC2, which attracts a smaller audience.

'Top of the Pops'

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Postpones Broadway Opening

Martin Short

Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, the comedy entertainment starring the hyperkinetic comedian, has pushed back its Broadway opening by one week.

The show will now open Aug. 17 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre instead of Aug. 10. Preview performances begin July 29.

Fame Becomes Me, a sendup of show-biz autobiography, has received mixed to negative reviews during its lengthy tryout tour that began last month in California. The San Francisco Chronicle called the production "an enjoyable, safe evening that could be so much more," while a Toronto newspaper, where the show is running through July 2, urged its creators to "start working like fiends on salvaging the mess that bears their names."

Martin Short

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Russian cult author and leader of the left-wing National Bolshevik Party Eduard Limonov reads from his new book 'Limonov against Putin' in Moscow June 20, 2006.
Photo by Thomas Peter
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Baby News

Agnes Charles Guggenheim

Academy Award-nominated actress Elisabeth Shue and her husband, director Davis Guggenheim ('An Inconvenient Truth'), are parents of their third child, a girl, People magazine reported.

Agnes Charles Guggenheim was born Sunday, according to Shue's publicist, Stephen Huvane.

Shue and Guggenheim, who are both 42, have a son, Miles, 8, and a daughter, Stella, 5.

Agnes Charles Guggenheim

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Another Visit To Divorce Court

Robert Evans

Robert Evans is headed to divorce court - again. His seventh wife, Victoria White O'Gara, filed for divorce June 16 in Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences, according to People magazine.

Michael Levine, spokesman for the 75-year-old former Paramount production chief, declined comment Tuesday.

The pair were married last August in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. It was the third marriage for White O'Gara, 43, who has three children.

Robert Evans

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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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Overvalued Penthouse

Elton John

Elton John has filed a lawsuit against the Fulton County tax assessors office, saying the county overvalued his penthouse condominium.

The tax assessors office placed a value of $4.6 million on John's 12,000-square-foot condo on Peachtree Street in Atlanta's trendy Buckhead neighborhood.

But that value is $900,000 too much, the 59-year-old singer's experts say.

If he prevails, John would save $16,000 a year in taxes. If he loses, he can expect to pay $77,250 a year.

Elton John

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In this undated handout photo released by the Drusillas Park Zoo in east Sussex, England on Monday June 19, 2006 a silvery marmoset monkey is seen on its cage at the park zoo. Five endangered monkeys, a family of Silvery Marmosets - a male, female and 2-month-old baby - and a pair of Geoffrey Marmosets were stolen from the zoo over the weekend, the latest in a recent string of small-monkey thefts across England, British police confirmed Monday. The marmosets were estimated to be worth between 2,000 and 3,000 pounds each (US $3,700 - US$5,500; Euro 3,000-4,400).
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Leaves CBS

Dan Rather

Veteran broadcast journalist Dan Rather has left CBS News in a bitter departure clouded by a reporting scandal over resident George W. Bush's military record, ending 44 years as reporter, anchor and face of the network.

Rather said his departure on Tuesday came after "a protracted struggle" with CBS executives who, he said, had "not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work" since he stepped down as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" in March 2005.

Dan Rather

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Celebrity Chef Wins Libel Damages

Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay has won a libel action against a newspaper that accused the celebrity chef of faking scenes on his reality TV show. The Evening Standard claimed in November that parts of "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" - in which Ramsay helps save failing restaurants - had been exaggerated to make an average restaurant look like a health hazard.

It also claimed the program had put an incompetent chef into place at Bonaparte's, a struggling bistro in northern England that was featured in one episode.

The newspaper's publisher, Associated Newspapers Ltd., agreed to print an apology and pay $138,000 in damages to Ramsay and the makers of his program.

Gordon Ramsay

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Musician Cesar Lopez holds a guitar fashioned out of a rifle at the United Nations Drug and Crime headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, June 20, 2006. Lopez is designing guitars with weapons donated by the Colombian government.
Photo by Daniel Munoz
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Rediscovered Masterpiece Goes For $21.7M

Egon Schiele

A rediscovered masterpiece by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele sold for $21.7 million at auction on Tuesday, a highlight of a bumper week in the buoyant London art market.

"Wilted Sunflowers," a painting long thought to have been destroyed during World War II, went to an anonymous buyer on Tuesday for nearly twice the upper end of the pre-sale estimate of $11 million.

Egon Schiele

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Don't Ask, Do Tell

Pentagon

A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.

The document outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members with physical disabilities, and in a section on defects lists homosexuality alongside mental retardation and personality disorders.

The Pentagon has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibits the military from inquiring about the sex lives of service members but requires discharges of those who openly acknowledge being gay.

Pentagon

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A piece of art made of tissue hangs on the wall of the women's public restroom located inside the Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce building, Thursday, June 15, 2006, in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Dubbed the ChamberPot Gallery, the exhibition is the brainchild of two local artists hoping to draw attention to this artist-oriented community and to lure into the village out-of-town hikers, bikers and joggers who use a bike path next to the station.
Photo by David Kohl
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Adopted In West Hollywood

Pot Resolution

City leaders adopted a resolution Monday night calling on sheriff's deputies not to target certain adult marijuana users. City Council backed the nonbinding resolution 4-0, said city spokeswoman Tamara White.

The resolution directs the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, which contracts with this left-leaning city, not to "target adult marijuana users who consume this drug in private and pose no danger to the community."

Minors and drug dealers would still be subject to arrest, and smoking in public would still be prohibited, the resolution says.

Pot Resolution

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Corporate Art Collection

Kmart

Attention Kmart shoppers: today's specials are on garden hoses, children's T-shirts, and don't miss the Ming dynasty art and a Picasso.

Kmart, better known for discounts on items such as casual clothes and housewares, is selling off high-end art from its former corporate headquarters, including a rare Picasso tapestry and a 15th-century Chinese Ming dynasty watercolour.

They are among works being sold from the corporate art collection at the former headquarters in Troy. The gallery includes more than 1,000 oils, photos, posters, tapestries and sculptures.

Kmart

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In Memory

Vincent Sherman

Vincent Sherman, who directed - and romanced - Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford during his heyday as a leading Hollywood filmmaker in the 1940s and '50s, has died. He would have been 100 on July 16.

Sherman, whose film career was seriously damaged by Hollywood's communist "red scare," later became a successful director of such television series as "The Waltons," "Medical Center," "Baretta," "Trapper John, M.D." and "77 Sunset Strip."

Because of his ability to evoke powerful performances from strong-willed female stars - he also directed Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan and Patricia Neal - Sherman became known as a woman's director, a title he hated. He was quick to point out that he also directed Errol Flynn in "The Adventures of Don Juan," Paul Newman in "The Young Philadelphians," Bogart in "All Through the Night," Richard Burton in "Ice Palace" and Ronald Reagan in "The Hasty Heart."

Though both were married at the time, he and Bette Davis had an affair that began during the filming of 1943's "Old Acquaintance" and continued through "Mr. Skeffington," which was released the following year. His dalliance with Crawford lasted through three movies, and another with Hayworth happened during "Affair in Trinidad," after she had divorced Aly Khan.

Sherman's wife, Hedda, tolerated his extramarital adventures, and their marriage lasted 53 years. She died in 1984.

During the early 1950s, his thriving career foundered as he was dropped without explanation by Warner Bros. A federal agent had told the studio Sherman was suspected of communist ties.

"I wasn't a communist," he remarked in 1997, "but I knew people like John Garfield who'd been blacklisted, and I stood beside them."

Born Abram Orovitz to one of the only two Jewish families in Vienna, Ga., in 1906, Sherman learned at an early age to defend himself against the taunts of his schoolmates.

After graduating from Oglethorpe University, he sought an acting career in New York, joining the left-wing Group Theater. Since ethnic names for actors were unfashionable, he changed his to Vincent Sherman.

In the late 1940s Warner Bros. hired Sherman under an acting-writing-directing contract, and he was assigned to the studio's B-picture unit, adapting old movies into remakes.

Sherman is survived by his son Eric, a daughter, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Vincent Sherman

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