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Calgaryperson
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07-01-2002
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 6:46 pm
For Tuesday, March 30th 2004, from our studios in Calgary... THE ENTERTAINMENT MINUTE with Calgaryperson HEADLINES -2009 is when we should expect the changeover... Jay Leno has signed on til 2009 as host of The Tonight Show. He will annually recieve $20 Million Dollars. -Will & ----- Debra Messing will miss the last few tapings of Will & Grace, as doctors have put the pregnant star on permanent bedrest. -Janet makes first appearance on TV Last night on the Late Show with David Letterman Janet Jackson managed to avoid more wardrobe malfunctions, but did however cause a verbal miscommunication. She said the word 'jesus' when Dave was asking about the Super Bowl incident. Censors bleeped it out during the broadcast. -I'm Still Fun, Nice Jenny! J.Lo will appear at the Kids Choice Awards this weekend to show a softer, nicer side of herself. -New Star, New Format, Big Scoop Star will unveil their new 'glossy' format and have the Tom & Penelope break-up on the cover. -Jack Black News Our favorite 'Rocker', Jack Black will join the cast of Peter Jackson's new movie, King Kong. -Pooh A California judge on Monday tossing a lawsuit brought by Stephen Slesinger Inc. against the Walt Disney Co. after siding with the Mouse House's allegations that the family firm tampered with evidence in order to get hundreds of millions of dollars from Winnie the Pooh products. -Passing Broadcaster Alistair Cooke, host of Masterpiece Theatre, died Monday at midnight at his New York home of apparent heart disease. He was 95. REPORTS FROM REUTERS-presented by The SNL Zone www.geocities.com/snlzone/ Michael Jackson Grand Jury Spends Day 2 in Hiding LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Santa Barbara grand jury in the Michael Jackson child molestation case convened in secret for a second day on Tuesday as prosecutors tried to dodge the media. Two white vans with blacked-out windows apparently carrying the 19 grand jurors and six alternates drove into a Santa Barbara County Sheriff's training facility north of downtown Santa Barbara shortly after 8:30 a.m. PST (11.30 a.m. EST), escorted by unmarked police sedans. Because Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon has gone to great lengths to keep the matter under wraps, little was known about the testimony going on inside. A source close to the case said that on Monday grand jurors heard from a child psychologist who counseled Jackson's accuser. The 14-year-old boy, who was seen in a controversial British documentary that aired last year about the self-proclaimed "King of Pop," was also expected to testify. Meanwhile the presiding judge in Santa Barbara, responding to a legal challenge by news organizations, loosened a "decorum" order governing media coverage of the grand jury. Superior Court Judge Clifford Anderson lifted the portions of his order that barred photographers from taking pictures of case participants outside the courthouse -- a restriction that media attorneys say violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and California law. Anderson issued his new ruling on the same day that news organizations asked a California appeals court to block the decorum order. Media lawyer Ted Boutrous said his clients were studying Anderson's ruling to determine how to proceed with their appeal. Jackson has already been charged with seven counts of lewd acts on a child under the age of 14 and two counts of plying the boy with alcohol in order to seduce him. Prosecutors were apparently seeking a grand jury indictment against the 45-year-old performer in part to avoid a more public preliminary hearing in the case. Legal experts say Jackson is unlikely to testify before the inquiry, which could last for several more weeks. Jackson, a former child star whose "Thriller" is one of the top-selling pop albums of all time, is also expected to skip a hearing in open court on Friday. That hearing will deal with mostly procedural matters in the sensational case, which is tentatively scheduled for trial in December. TELEVISION RATINGS Most-Watched Show: CSI: Miami, CBS: 19.6 Million Viewers Here's how the networks fared last night: 1. CBS: 15.0 Million Viewers 2. NBC: 11.8 Million Viewers 3. ABC: 8.0 Million Viewers 4. FOX: 5.2 Million Viewers 5. UPN: 3.8 Million Viewers 6. WB: 2.8 Million Viewers Guess What Folks? That's the news, and I am out of here! 032904-1
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 7:25 pm
Thanks Cal! I love reading these!
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 7:32 pm
I read these everyday. I really enjoy them even though I haven't told you. Thanks so much for doing them. Please keep doing them. Thanks.
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Calgaryperson
Member
07-01-2002
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 8:25 pm
I think we can keep it going for a little while longer.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 8:28 pm
Calgaryperson, I just wanted to add my kudos for these great reads!! I really enjoy all the tidbits here...it's a lot of fun! Thanks for bringing them to us!!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 9:04 pm
HEY!!! IF YOU READ THESE, LET CALGARY KNOW!!!!! so he will keep doing them!!!!!
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Reiki
Member
08-12-2000
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 9:16 pm
Calgary I love this thread. I come in all the time to see what's new in the world of entertainment. Thank you for the time you put into this for us. Keep up the good work. - pssst Pamy was that enough sucking up?
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Spygirl
Member
04-23-2001
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 9:20 pm
I'm an Entertainment News addict, so this is right up my alley! Thanks!!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:05 pm
Reiki..yep, good start!!!
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Kady
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07-30-2000
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:59 pm

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Kaykay
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01-21-2004
| Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 10:18 am
I love reading these updates I'm a big fan of entertainment news. Thank you and keep up the GREAT work!!
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Calgaryperson
Member
07-01-2002
| Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 7:13 pm
For Wednesday, March 31st 2004, from our studios in Calgary... THE ENTERTAINMENT MINUTE with Calgaryperson HEADLINES -Air America hit's the airwaves Left-Winged "Air America Radio" hit the airwaves today. Former Saturday Night Live cast member, Al Franken is the face of the network with "The O'Franken Factor". The network is currently only on a handful of stations nationwide but online at www.airamericaradio.com -Get the booze Cheers alum, Kirstie Alley and Shelley Long will star in their own pilots for CBS and NBC respectively. -More Music Industry Cuts EMI will cut 1,500 jobs. They are dropping one fifth of their recording artists and most CD and DVD's will be produced from private companies. -No Chance The Seigfried & Roy marquee has been taken down from the Las Vegas strip, 6-months after the Roy Horn was nearly mauled to death. -Guess it's not so secret Janet Jackson and Germaine Dupree are planning on tying the knot in secret this upcoming summer. -The Partridge Birthdays Partridge Family matriarch Shirley Jones celebrating her 70th birthday on Wednesday. The actress is also getting ready to star with son Patrick Cassidy in the current revival of 42nd Street beginning in May, the first time a mother and son have co-starred in any Broadway musical. -Suprise!! Paul McCartney performing a surprise concert at a restaurant in Lake Tahoe Monday night after a weeklong ski vacation in the area. It was a repeat performance for McCartney, who played an impromptu performance in the same spot last year. -Beat the rush Usher's latest CD, Confessions, selling approximately 1.1 million copies in less than a week, making it the best-selling album debut since 2001 and the highest ever for an R&B artist, according to Arista Records. REPORTS FROM REUTERS-presented by The Saturday Night Live Zone www.geocities.com/snlzone/ Pee-Wee Actor Paul Reubens Says He's No Pedophile LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - His fans may call him "different" or "freaky," but actor Paul Reubens, who rose to fame as kids' television show host Pee-wee Herman, wants people to know he is neither a pedophile nor a child pornographer. In his first interview since pleading guilty earlier this month to possessing obscene material after a two-year criminal probe targeting him, Reubens told Entertainment Weekly magazine that nude photos seized from his home were "kitschy, funny stuff from the 1940s, 50s or 60s." "Ninety percent of anybody off the street who looked at the stuff would burst out laughing and say, 'You're kidding me,"' he said in the magazine's issue that hits newsstands Friday. "You can say that I'm different, that I'm freaky, that I'm weird. You can say lots of stuff about me. But you can't say I'm a pedophile. That's just not part of who I am. I am not a child pornographer," Reubens said. Reubens, 51, became a major star in the 1980s as the geeky, grown-up kid who dressed in a gray suit and bow tie and ran a "playhouse" filled with imaginative characters like Jambi the Genie and Captain Carl. His sharp wit and sarcastic tongue made him a hit with adults and kids, and along with his TV show, Reubens made several movies based on the Pee-Wee character. In July 1991, however, his star fell to Earth after he was arrested in Florida for exposing himself in an adult movie theater. He paid a fine, but his career faltered. By the late 1990s he was rebounding, and his arrest for indecent exposure had become "a punch line to a joke," he told Entertainment Weekly. But in November 2001, police raided his house and seized 30,000 images they deemed to be sexually questionable. Reubens said they are part of his vintage photography collection. "There were nude pictures ... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art," he told Entertainment Weekly. Eventually, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office built a case of possessing child pornography based on 170 of the 30,000 images. On March 19, Reubens pleaded guilty to the lesser misdemeanor of possessing obscene material. He paid a $100 fine and was sentenced to three years probation. "I didn't want to spend a million dollars and put myself in the poor house," he said of his reason for reaching a plea deal. Reubens said his instinct was to fight because he didn't believe the material was pornographic or obscene. "But separate from that, as I learned firsthand, two people can have completely different opinions of what's obscene," he said. The comic actor said he is working on a few television and movie ideas, and that Hollywood, he hopes, hasn't seen the last of Reubens or his altar-ego, Pee-wee. "Does anyone come back from this? I don't know the answer to that," he said. "but I'll be damned if I'm going to let this destroy me." TELEVISION RATINGS Most-Watched Show: American Idol-Tuesday, FOX: 25.7 Million Viewers Here's how the networks fared last night: 1. FOX: 18.7 Million Viewers 2. NBC: 10.6 Million Viewers 3. ABC: 8.6 Million Viewers 4. CBS: 8.4 Million Viewers 5. UPN: 2.6 Million Viewers 6. WB: 2.5 Million Viewers I guess we can keep this up for a bit longer, let's at least renew through mid-April. Guess What Folks? That's the news, and I am out of here! 033104-1
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 2:38 pm
Thanks Calgary!!
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Calgaryperson
Member
07-01-2002
| Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 5:59 pm
For Wednesday, April 1st 2004, from our studios in Calgary... THE ENTERTAINMENT MINUTE with Calgaryperson HEADLINES -Finding any way they can... Martha Stewart's legal team is asking for a new trial after, one juror allegedly lied about his past. He reportedly beat a former girlfriend and lied about it on his questionaire. -Guess What Society? YOU JUST GOT PUNK'D! Ashton Kutcher pulled a "punk" on the world by saying that his hidden camera show "Punk'd" was ending. The show will in fact RETURN this April. -'insert "D'OH!' effect here' The voice actors who play the voices of the little universe known as The Simpsons have gone of strike. They are looking for a new contract for the next season. -IT'S HIS LIFE... Jon Bon Jovi and his "missus Dorothea" welcoming their fourth child on Monday, Romeo Jon, weighing in at nine pounds, seven ounces. -But wait... Jon Stewart and his wife are expecting a baby very soon. -Oh no! More Baby News! Kevin Sorbo and his wife Sam giving birth to their second child on Wednesday, per his publicist. The unnamed tyke weighed in at (ouch!) 12 pounds, six ounces. -Just a bit too late, but still Ah-nold took a sexual harrasment prevention course-voluntarily-with the rest of his staff. He took the course earlier in the year. -Reality Update: Amy Adams was voted off of American Idol. -Well, it works The Academy Awards will be staying in late February. The Academy has chosen to keep the awards right where they are. -Billionaire's and their attempts to one-up each other. Mark Cuban has already signed on to host a reality show where he will award $1 Million Dollars of his own cash with ABC. FOX has signed on with British entrepreneur Richard Branson. Contestants will vie for his "approval". -Seemed kinda far fetched anyways Another casualty of the TV season. CENTURY CITY has been cancelled. CBS will replace the show with reruns of The Guardian. -More Grace HBO's The Wire and BBC America's The Office among recipients of the 63rd annual Peabody Awards, announced Wednesday, that honor "excellence in electronic media." -More Indecency News The broadcast industry meeting with regulators and critics behind closed doors on Wednesday to discuss how to handle the growing complaints about indecent programming. REPORTS FROM REUTERS-presented by The Saturday Night Live Zone Stern Shocks Listeners with April Fool's Hoax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fans of Howard Stern were horrified on Thursday to hear that the radio shock jock was yanked off the air and replaced by a more wholesome show only to find out later it was all an April Fool's day prank. Instead of hearing Stern and his sidekicks open the morning show, New York's WXRK Radio's General Manager Tom Chiusano read a statement saying the show was taken off the air. "Viacom can no longer bear the weight of the government pressure and its affects on our corporation," he said, adding, "While we're sorry to end the Howard Stern Show, we promise quality programing in the future." After the message, two other deejays then played about an hour of music interspersed with sterile banter and a promise of a show with "all the fun without the filth." Listeners across the country called the show to complain. But then Stern and his sidekick Robin Quivers came on the show and revealed it was a hoax. "We are back for anybody who was stupid enough to fall for that," Stern said. Added Quivers: "Check your calendar, people." The joke was taken seriously by many since Stern has been in the eye of a national storm over indecency in radio and TV broadcasting and has said he will be thrown off the air. Stern, notorious for lewd talk about sex and bodily functions, has railed against the crackdown on indecency and has made President Bush and his conservative policies a target of on-air rants. Broadcasters have been under pressure in recent months with lawmakers contemplating legislation to substantially raise fines for those who violate indecency regulations. Clear Channel Communications Inc., the top U.S. radio station owner. dropped Stern's show from six stations after a racist remark from a listener was aired in February. Earlier this month, Viacom Inc. President Mel Karmazin apologized for broadcasting the comment. Stern's show is syndicated by Viacom's Infinity Broadcasting unit. Stern, who generates as much as $100 million in advertising and fees for his nationwide carrier, blamed the conservative backlash on the exposure of singer Janet Jackson's breast during a performance in February's Super Bowl half-time show. TELEVISION RATINGS Most-Watched Show: American Idol-Wednesday, FOX: 21.8 Million Viewers Here's how the networks fared last night: 1. FOX: 14.0 Million Viewers 2. NBC: 11.6 Million Viewers 3. CBS: 9.3 Million Viewers 4. ABC: 7.8 Million Viewers 5. WB: 2.8 Million Viewers 6. UPN: 2.1 Million Viewers Well, thanks for all the support! We're gonna commit to at least Mid-April. Expect a weeklong countdown/personal break at some point in the next few weeks. Guess What Folks? That's the news, and I am out of here! 040104-1
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 8:24 pm
Darn it, I liked Century City!!!!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 8:36 pm
I love reading all this stuff! Thanks Cal!
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Calgaryperson
Member
07-01-2002
| Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 8:49 pm
Next Week, we're going on a little break-I'm on Spring Break-. Tune in as we present "The 101 Biggest Entertainment Hair-Scratchers". Moment's that made you do a double-take. 101 of them! Production has been completed! Next Week!
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 9:02 pm
I've been reading every day too, thanks Calgaryperson! I also heard that the Martha Stewart juror lied about stealing money from a Little League group he was involved in? This is the juror who said, after the trial, that their verdict against Martha was a victory for the little guy. Maybe if he'd kept his mouth shut Martha's team might not have been so interested in digging up his past. She may be down and out, but you still don't mess with Martha!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 9:03 pm
oooh, I am looking forward to the 101!!! I havew to wait a week!?? You big tease!
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Calgaryperson
Member
07-01-2002
| Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 9:22 pm
For a sample, here is a preview edition we did for the 101 Most Shocking Moments at our old home. This is not the one for the upcoming countdown. And now, from our studios in Calgary... THE ENTERTAINMENT MINUTE present's it's 101 Most Shocking Moments- Night 0 Now your host, Calgaryperson Here's a quick preview of next week's countdown. NUMBER 0-(-20) -0: Dennis Rodman play's basketball -01: Dennis Rodman marries Carmen Electra -02: Dennis Rodman: From Thereon -03: Liza Minnelli get's maried to that guy. We think. -04: Dixie Chicks London Concert in 2003. -05: Woody Allen fall's for the pattern and dates/marries younger. -06: Way Way Younger. -07: Pres. Ronald Regan is nearly assinated -08: Ronald Regan actually becomes president. -09: That first album of Yoko Ono and John Lennon -10: The Nancy Kerrigan thing. -11: Tupac and Biggie. -12: Suge Knight. -13: The whole east coast vs. west coast thing. -14: Lisa-Marie Presley releases an album. -15: Lisa-Marie Presley bombs. -16: M*A*S*H debut's on CBS. -17: M*A*S*H air's longer than the Korean War. -18: Magic Johnson open's a chain of theatres. -19: Russell Simmons starts a lot of things called Def-Jam. -20: The Entertainment Minute with Calgaryperson debut's on the message boards...lol, jk. Well, this is just a preview. The official 101 will begin this Monday. Guess What Folks? Thats the news, and I am out of here! 031104-7 To see the actual 101 Most Shocking Moments, go to Page 2 of the thread.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 10:30 pm
LOL #20!!!
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Friday, April 02, 2004 - 6:03 am
Cool thread Calgaryperson, thanks for letting me know about it in chat last night. I will now be addicted to this one.
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Calgaryperson
Member
07-01-2002
| Friday, April 02, 2004 - 7:26 pm
For Friday, April 2nd 2004, from our studios in Calgary... THE ENTERTAINMENT MINUTE with Calgaryperson HEADLINES -Jake Blues on the Walk of Fame John Belushi, aka The Greatest SNL Cast Member Ever, aka Jake Blues, aka The Samurai, aka The Bee, posthumously recieved a star on the Walk of Fame. Fellow SNL Alum, Chevy Chase, Jim Belushi, and Dan Akyroyd were on hand, along with John's widow, Judy Belushi Pisano. -Prince at it again... Prince is launching his own personal music store online. Musicology Download Store, a service allowing netizens to download songs from his latest album Musicology, due in stores later this month, as well as selected live and unreleased recordings. -Oops, I'm Sick Again Britney Spears cancelled a concert last night in Cleveland, the third in a matter of weeks due to an unnamed illness. -CNN messes up CNN forgot to check a piece of tape that they ran. You know, The Late Show making fun of President Bush and featuring a boy yawning at a Bush rally as having been faked. Letterman called the charge an outrageous lie, but CNN refused to admit what happened above. -This indecency thing is getting really old... ABC is placing 5-Second Delays on GMA and The View. -REALITY UPDATE Survivor: All Stars: Jerry Manthey was voted off last night. The Apprentice: Troy McClain was fired by The Donald last night. -Speaking of Donald... Donald Trump is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend with musical guest Toots and the Maytals. Full information is available at The Saturday Night Live Zone at www.geocities.com/snlzone/ -Another Newlyweds/David & Liza Show? A camera crew from Bobby Brown's production company has been filming the two for the past few weeks in hopes of selling the footage to a network. -Ain't It Cool News founder has a new gig Harry Knowles, creator of the Internet movie gossip Web site is set to co-produce Princess of Mars Paramount Pictures' big screen version of the Edgar Rice Burroughs pulp class. -Bizkit has a tiff Limp Bizkit have cancelled two shows in South Africa citing "undisclosable personal reasons" for the nixing. REPORTS FROM REUTERS-presented by The SNL Zone www.geocities.com/snlzone/ Sports Broadcaster Summerall Awaiting New Liver LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Legendary sports broadcaster Pat Summerall has been taken to a Florida hospital to await a liver transplant, a family spokesman said on Friday. Summerall, who entered a rehabilitation program in 1992 to deal with an alcohol problem, was hospitalized in Texas before being taken earlier this week to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, to await the transplant. "Pat is open about the past and accepts that his alcoholism is the reason he is in the hospital today," his wife, Cheri, said in a statement. "Although this month marks his 12th year of sobriety, alcoholism is a progressive disease, and the damage to his liver reached the point where a transplant is the only option for survival," she said. The spokesman said that Summerall was on a waiting list for a donor organ, but said early reports he was scheduled to get a new liver this weekend were inaccurate. Summerall, 73, was a college football star and professional player before becoming a broadcaster in the early 1960s. He started his career with CBS before moving to Fox and is best known to audiences as the long-time broadcaster partner of John Madden. In his absence, Madden and former colleagues including broadcaster Jim Nantz and former Dallas Cowboys star quarterback Troy Aikman are filling some of Summerall's responsibilities at his production company, which makes corporate video brochures. FRIDAY MOVIES -Hellboy, Starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair Born in the flames of hell and brought to Earth to perpetrate evil, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) was rescued from sinister forces by Dr. Broom, who raised him to be a hero. MINUTE Rating-4 out of 5 -The Prince and Me-starring Julia Stiles The story of a female student at a Midwestern university who has the dubious fortune to fall in love with a European prince spending the semester there incognito. -cough-CHICK FLICK-cough- MINUTE Rating-2 out of 5 -Home on the Range-starring Judi Dench, Cuba Gooding, Jr. A group of cows learn that their owner must pay a $1000 mortgage on the farm or she will be forced to sell. The animals band together with the lady's horse to come up with the money. MINUTE Rating-3 out of 5 TELEVISION RATINGS Most-Watched Show: CSI:, CBS: 26.4 Million Viewers Here's how the networks fared last night: 1. CBS: 22.0 Million Viewers 2. NBC: 17.6 Million Viewers 3. ABC: 6.6 Million Viewers 4. UPN: 4.7 Million Viewers 5. FOX: 4.1 Million Viewers 6. WB: 2.8 Million Viewers Well, next week, we're taking the week off. In place is "THE ENTERTAINMENT MINUTE presents The 101 Biggest Entertainment Head-Scratchers". It's all been pre-made and I just gotta copy and paste it in, all next week! I'm on Spring Break, so That's the news, and I am out of here! 040204-1
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 10:44 am
Have a great week, Calgary. Enjoy yourself immensely 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 1:03 pm
Hey Cal, I know you are a big SNL fan, did you see it last nite??? It was the best one in a long time!!!
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