'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
October 15, 2002
resident George W. Bush claimed in a speech that Saddam
Hussein could attack America "on any given day"; he accused
Hussein of harboring terrorists, stockpiling weapons of mass
destruction, and using such weapons on his own people.
"Neither the United States of America nor the world
community of nations can tolerate deliberate deception and
offensive threats on the part of any nation, large or
small," the President said.
New documents were declassified
concerning tests of biological and chemical warfare agents
that were conducted by the United States government on its
own soldiers in Alaska, Maryland, Hawaii, Canada, and
Britain during the Cold War. Among the substances used on
American soldiers were sarin and VX; the tests were given
code names such as Green Mist, Red Cloud, Devil Hole, Rapid
Tan, and Night Train.
George Tenet, the director of central
intelligence, sent a letter to Congress in which he appeared
to undercut the resident's assertions about the purported
Iraqi threat, arguing that it was very unlikely that Iraq
would supply terrorists with weapons of mass destruction or
attempt to attack the United States, except in extreme
circumstances, such as an American invasion.
Current and
former intelligence officials in the CIA, the FBI, and the
energy department complained that resident Bush's case
against Iraq was largely false: "Basically, cooked
information is working its way into high-level
pronouncements," said Vincent Cannistraro, the former head
of counter-intelligence at the CIA. "And there's a lot of
unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among
analysts at the CIA." The Iraqi government gave reporters a
tour of Al Furat, an old industrial site that resident Bush
claims is being used to develop nuclear weapons.
Seven people died in the bombing of a shopping center in Helsinki,
Finland. Almost two hundred people were killed in bomb
attacks on two tourist nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia;
another bomb went off near the "honorary" American
consulate.
Two gunmen attacked American marines who were
training in Kuwait, killing one. Fifteen people were charged
with aiding the attackers, one of whom left a videotape in
which he claimed to be a member of Al Qaeda, which last week
released two audiotapes, one recorded by Osama bin Laden, to
Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite television station,
threatening to carry out new attacks on the United States
and its allies.
Several people died in rioting in Bombay
that broke out as a result of Jerry Falwell's comments that
the prophet Muhammad was a terrorist, prompting a leading
Iranian cleric to declare that Jerry Falwell is a
"mercenary" who must be killed for his blasphemy. "The death
of that man is a religious duty," he said, "but his case
should not be tied to the Christian community." Grand
Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah disagreed and said that
Muslims should not use physical violence against Falwell
because Islam is "a religion of mercy and love."
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
-- Roger D. Hodge
He's Been Busy, Again!
the worried shrimp
Character Is Fate....
The Worried Shrimp
Have crayon, will scribble
Ideas and Critiques are welcomed
Toonreviews
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The sun didn't break through all day. There are rumors of rain, and that would be a good thing.
Ron, the Dish dish repair guy showed up on time (I just love brushes with competence)! He had the Dish dish re-aligned & working before the final hour of 'Katie & Matt', and I was grateful. Actually, there was a bit more to it, but, who
cares now that the damn thing is humming again.
Over the last week a whole lot of kleenex & dental floss seemed to be used/disappeared. Turns out the kid has been making Kleenex ghosts, using the floss to hold them together...found a treasure trove of 'ghosts' this morning...guess we're gonna
decorate the house for Halloween...LOL
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS opens with '60 Minutes II', then a fresh 'Amazing Race 3', and a fresh 'Presidio Med'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Rudolph Giuliani and Naomi Watts.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers is Jason Mraz.
NBC starts with a fresh 'Ed', then a fresh 'The West Wing', and a fresh 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Ashley Williams and Keith Urban.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Greg Kinnear and Billy Connolly.
On a rerun Carson Daly (from 7/25/02), the scheduled guests are David Arquette and Kylie Minogue.
ABC has a fresh 'My Wife & Kids', then a fresh 'George Lopez', followed by a fresh 'The Bachelor', and topped with a fresh 'MDs'.
The WB has a fresh 'Dawson's Creek' followed by a fresh 'Birds Of Prey'.
Faux offers reruns of 'Bernie Mac', 'Cedric The Entertainer', and 'Fastlane'.
UPN has a fresh 'Enterprise' followed by a fresh 'Twilight Zone'.
Sci-Fi channel has 4 episodes of 'X-Files' filling prime time.
TLC has a fresh 'Junkyard Wars'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Connecticut
Former President Bill Clinton, right, works the crowd during a fund raiser for 2nd district Democratic congressional candidate Joe Courtney, in Enfield, Conn., Monday, Oct. 14, 2002.
Photo by Steve Miller
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'The Dirty Dozen'
Witness in 'Missing' Case
Costa Gavras
A judge scrutinized the film
"Missing" (1982) on Tuesday as part of an investigation into the murder of U.S. journalist Charles Horman in Chile after the bloody 1973 coup, filmmaker
Constantin Costa-Gavras told Reuters.
The Franco-Greek director and Chilean Judge Juan Guzman watched the prize-winning 1982 movie for more than three hours in a private showing in Santiago.
Costa-Gavras worked closely with Horman's family in making the film, which portrays their harrowing search for the missing young journalist and their futile pleas for help from the U.S. Embassy.
Costa-Gavras said the viewing had been intended to help Guzman clear up details of the killing but he would not say exactly how the film, which starred the late Jack Lemmon, could be used as evidence.
Costa-Gavras' film-making career, including the premiere this year of his film "Amen" on the Vatican's inaction during the Holocaust, reveal a fascination with political violence.
"More than the violence, I'm interested in the victims and resistance against repression, when power is not exercised normally, as it should be, and violence is the result of that," he said.
For more, Costa Gavras
Considers Move To Louisiana
Blues Foundation
Officials with the Memphis-based Blues Foundation say they'll study a possible move to Louisiana.
Officials with the Louisiana Economic Development group met Saturday with the foundation's board in Lula, Miss., to explore a possible move to Baton Rouge or New Orleans.
The 22-year-old nonprofit foundation, which produces the annual W.C. Handy Blues Awards show, has called Memphis home since its creation in 1980.
Members of the Memphis music community said Sunday the loss of the foundation would be a blow to the city, famed for its Beale Street, known as "the birthplace of the blues."
For a bit more, Blues Foundation Considers Move To Louisiana
The Blues Foundation
New Commemorative Stamp
Cary Grant
Barbara Jaymes Grant (R), the widow of actor Cary Grant poses with S. David Fineman, vice chairman of the presidentially appointed Postal Service Board of Governors after
dedicating the new commemorative 37-cent Cary Grant stamp in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, October 15, 2002.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
New Knight Commander of the British Empire
Placido Domingo
Spanish tenor Placido Domingo has received an honorary knighthood at the British Embassy in Washington for his "massive contributions" to music and the arts, a Foreign Office spokesman said
Tuesday. The 61-year-old opera star was made a Knight Commander of the British Empire in front of guests including Secretary of State Colin Powell and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
Born into a musical family in Madrid in 1941, Domingo grew up in Mexico City where he made his stage debut in Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto" in 1959.
After a 1991 performance of "Otello, the Moor of Venice" in Vienna, he reportedly received the longest ovation ever enjoyed by an opera star -- 101 curtain calls and over 80 minutes of bravos, flowers and ovations.
As a foreigner, Domingo will not have the right to call himself "Sir" but his knighthood entitles him to use the letters KBE after his name.
Placido Domingo
Christina Makes an Ass of Herself?
from tim h
CHRISTINA REFUSES TO REHEARSE FOR CHILDREN'S SHOW
Pop diva CHRISTINA AGUILERA stunned bosses on a
British kids TV show by
refusing to rehearse and then performing wearing
a raunchy outfit and thong.
Whilst most pop outfits have happily spent time
preparing for their appearances
on Saturday morning show CD:UK - aired yesterday
(12OCT02) - the sexy
singer insisted on having a stand-in rehearse
with her backing group.
A producer complains, "Everyone was taken aback.
It's usual for artists to
rehearse before performances but Christina
wasn't up for it. She got someone
else to stand in for her. It was a first, that's
for sure."
And Christina had a further surprise for
producers and the show's young
audience when she finally took to the stage -
wearing a breathtaking,
bottom-baring outfit.
~~ tim h
Thanks, tim!
Keeps Two Comedies, Cans One
The WB
The WB doled out some good news and bad news Monday, picking up full season orders of rookie sitcoms "Do Over" and "Greetings From Tucson," but axing crass buddy comedy "Off Centre."
Although not a critical fave, "Off Centre" had its fans on the WB ranch. Mike Clements, the network's co-senior VP of comedy, called the cancellation "bittersweet."
"Off Centre," which averaged 2.1 million viewers in its second season, will continue running through November sweeps, but production has been halted on the show. Seven episodes have already been shot; the WB had ordered 13 episodes.
As for the newcomers, "Do Over" now reigns as TV's only series about a thirtysomething man who's somehow sent back to the 1980s to change his past mistakes. (ABC last week canceled the similarly
themed "That Was Then.")
"Greetings from Tucson," meanwhile, continues to show an uptick on Fridays after a slow start. The ethnic family comedy averages 3.8 million viewers.
The WB
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Finds Home In Norway For Winter
Keiko
Keiko the killer whale, star of the "Free Willy" movies, got a new winter home in an ice-free Norwegian fjord Tuesday after a battle between local communities vying for a new tourist attraction.
The orca will stay in western Norway, where he has made a splash with the locals since he showed up last month at a remote fishing community of 1,750 people. He was released from captivity in Iceland in July.
Norway's Fishery Directorate said Keiko would be moved to Taknes bay in the Korsnes fjord in West Norway, about six miles northeast from the Skaalvik fjord where he has spent the last six weeks.
Keiko's surprise visit to Norway has sparked big controversy in the only nation in the world that hunts whales commercially and where whales are viewed more as meat than entertainment.
In Taknes, Keiko will not be disturbed by local fish farms or boat traffic and the area is ice-free through the winter. Many whales die every year from being trapped under the ice in deep Norwegian fjords.
Keiko
Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off
The Winner
Kirk Mombert, of Harrisburg, Ore., gives a thumbs-up after his giant pumpkin was the big winner at the annual Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in
Half Moon Bay, Calif., Monday, Oct. 14, 2002. Mombert's pumpkin weighed 1,173 pounds, a record for the Half Moon Bay event. He also won $5,865 in prize money.
Photo by Paul Sakuma
Woman With An Opinion (Sorta-Kinda)
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard, the pouty-lipped comedienne, was spotted sneaking out of the Loews Cineplex Village 7 after catching a matinee show of "Swept Away."
When approached by a reporter, Bernhard - looking a bit embarrassed - wouldn't admit at first which movie she had seen.
But when pressed, she finally 'fessed up that she had sat through the shipwreck romance, in which Madonna is tamed by a roguish he-man after being marooned on an island.
And when asked her opinion of the R-rated stinker, which has been universally panned by critics, Bernhard said simply, "It was fine."
But maybe thinking that her pronouncement was too much of an endorsement, she added: "It was OK."
Sandra Bernhard
Baby News
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and her Oscar-winning husband, Michael Douglas, are expecting their second child next spring, their spokesman said on Monday.
The 33-year-old raven-haired beauty gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Dylan Michael Douglas, in August of 2000, three months before the two movie stars were married.
Much to the delight of Zeta-Jones' father-in-law, veteran actor Kirk Douglas, young Dylan carried on a prominent Douglas family trait -- the dimpled chin of his grandfather.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
BartCop TV!
Art Goes On Tour From Portland To Portland
'Becoming a Nation'
A silver bowl made by Paul Revere, an original of George Washington's portrait on the dollar bill and other treasures seen only at gatherings for high-level foreign dignitaries are headed on a two-year, nationwide tour.
"Becoming a Nation" is an exhibit that has stripped the State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms of some of their rarest art and antiques: maps, paintings, silver, furniture, porcelain.
Among favorite images in the collection is a copy of a painting by Benjamin West depicting William Penn's treaty with the Indians of Pennsylvania. West painted it in 1772,
shortly before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the same year King George III named him historical painter to the British court.
Paul Revere, an artist and silversmith as well as patriot, is represented by a silver bowl and an engraving of the "Boston Massacre." Revere's picture of a clash between
colonists and British troops helped stir the sentiment that led to the Revolution.
The portrait of Washington that appears on the dollar bill dates from the end of the 1790s, when Washington was retiring from the presidency. His wife Martha Washington
ordered it, but historians doubt that she ever got a replica.
"Becoming a Nation" will be at these locations:
_Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore., April 11-June 8, 2003
_Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Ga., July 3-Aug. 31.
_Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, Calif., Sept. 26-Dec. 14.
_Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 2-Feb. 8, 2004.
_Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Feb. 27-April 25.
_Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Ala., May 21-July 18.
_Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 13-Oct. 10.
_Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Oct. 28, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005.
'Becoming a Nation'
State Department collection
Volcano, Hawaii
Kilauea
Lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano enters the Pacific Ocean Monday, Oct 14, 2002, in Volcano, Hawaii. Mauna Loa is stirring after an 18-year pause, and an eruption could be devastating to the neighborhoods
built on the giant volcano's slopes.
Photo by David Jordan
#1 In Syndicated TV Talk Show
'Dr. Phil'
Viewers are eating up the televised tough love. "Dr. Phil" has the best ratings of any new talk show since his mentor, Oprah Winfrey, debuted in 1986.
In the season's first week, McGraw drew more viewers than four other new talk show hosts combined — Rob Nelson, James Van Praagh, Caroline Rhea and John Walsh.
Further proof that Dr. Phil has arrived: He's being mocked regularly by David Letterman.
Letterman serves up simplistic bromides to poke fun at McGraw, whose Web site offers "Dr. Phil's Ten Life Laws," including "you either get it, or you don't" and "you create your own experience."
"I used to be living proof that anyone could get a TV show," Letterman said, "and now it's this guy."
For a lot more, 'Dr. Phil'
Actor Hospitalized
Richard Harris
Richard Harris, who stars as Professor Albus Dumbledore in the "Harry Potter" movies, has been hospitalized following treatment for cancer, his agent said Tuesday.
The veteran Irish actor fell ill in August after shooting the second film in the series, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," and went to a hospital with a severe chest
infection, said his London-based agent, Sharon Thomas.
She said the 72-year-old has been at the University College Hospital, central London for two months, where he's had a course of chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease.
"He has responded extremely well to treatment. He will be out of hospital very soon," Thomas said.
Richard Harris
All-California Series
Faux Sports
Fox will chase World Series viewers with two surprising California teams and a manic monkey, but history casts doubt on the odds of TV ratings glory when the rest of the country is left out.
In 2000, Fox Sports' telecasts of the Yankees-Mets Subway Series produced the lowest-rated World Series ever. Another intrastate matchup, 1989's earthquake-interrupted
Oakland-San Francisco series, also was among the lowest-rated ever.
"The network's got to hate this one," said media analyst Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates in Carmel, Calif.
Sports industry analyst David Carter said Fox has to drum up interest in a California-only contest and downplay the relevance of ratings from past intrastate series.
Faux Sports
OKs Creation in Science Class
Ohio
The state school board said Tuesday it will adopt a science curriculum that leaves it up to school districts whether to teach the concept of "intelligent design," which holds
that the universe is guided by a higher intelligence.
The board voted unanimously in favor of the standards, which emphasize both evolution and critical analysis of the theory. It will adopt them formally in December.
The standards put into writing what many school districts already do — teach evolution, but also explain that there is debate over the origin of life.
"In no way does this advocate for creation or intelligent design," said Michael Cochran, a board member who had pushed for the concept to be included in the standards. "I do look upon this as a compromise."
Supporters of intelligent design included some conservative groups that had tried and failed to get biblical creation taught in public schools. Critics of intelligent design said it is creationism in disguise.
Ohio
A True Story
'Guten Morgen, Herr Speer'
Long, long time ago, I attended Pepperdine's Heidelberg (Germany) campus. The school is in a grand old haus that provided some class-rooms, a small kitchen & dormitory-style living at it's most interesting.
Moore Haus, as it's known, is literally 'just down the street' from the castle, or schloss. Next to the castle was a fencing fraternity, Landmanshaft Afrania, and across the cul-de-sac was a small gasthaus, owned by the ever-charming
Schmidt familie. Moore Haus, located on Graimbergweg, didn't have sufficient room for all the classes, so morning sessions were held downtown in 'Amerika Haus', an English-language library run by the US (and rumored to be staffed by 'spooks').
Every morning, we'd walk down the big hill for classes. On the way was the home of the one & only Albrecht (Albert) Speer.
Most mornings he would be in his yard & we'd yell 'Guten Morgen, Herr Speer,' but he never responded. Not once.
Yamuna River
Durga Puja
Indian devotees carry an idol of Hindu goddess Durga as they immerse it into the Yamuna river in Delhi, India, in Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002. The four-day Hindu festival of Durga Puja
ended with the idol's immersion today.
Photo by Elizabeth Dalziel
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