Sunday, September 14, 2003

Peruvian truth reveals decades of terror. INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY [09/12/03 11:44am] A Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission recently reconfirmed what many human rights observers and especially Native people have known for more than a decade: killings and massacres of Indians in Peru occurred with regularity for over 20 years.... [more] [Indian Country Today]
9:54:24 PM    

Snoop Dogg Coaches Son's Football Team (AP). AP - HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — To his fans, Snoop Dogg is a pioneering rap artist, to some authorities who have tangled with him he's an ex-felon. But to the players and parents in the Orange County Junior All America Football League, he's just coach Dogg. [Yahoo! News - Most Emailed]

lj:) Of course the most important thing is to get the cheerleaders to lift their shirts for the video camera. Yes and Ted Nugent is a stand-up Republican, Hitler loved his dog (but hated people) and on and on. Snoop keep with the doobies and the latonic hip hop, leave the kids alone.


9:52:05 PM    

SPAMELOT: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL ANNOUNCED
press release
special thanks to Eric Idle
Friday, 12 September 2003

A Musical Adaptation of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
book by Eric Idle based on the screenplay by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin
music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez,

Directed by Mike Nichols

Opening on Broadway in the Spring of 2005

SPAMELOT, a new musical adaptation of the most popular Monty Python movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, will open on Broadway directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Ostar Productions, in the Spring of 2005, following out-of-town engagements.


9:46:27 PM    

Taped at the BBC
Can the Beeb put its entire archive on the Web?
By Paul Boutin
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 4:24 PM PT

For those of us still debating whether to shell out the 40-odd bucks for Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection on DVD, BBC Director-General Greg Dyke may have settled the matter this weekend. At the end of his speech to an annual TV industry conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dyke announced that the Beeb plans to put its enormous TV and radio archives online and to allow anyone to download them—free—for non-commercial use. "Under a simple licensing system, we will allow users to adapt BBC content for their own use," Dyke said. "We are calling this the BBC Creative Archive."


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