Le Show; 1999-03-21; 1999-03-28

KCRW is National Public Radio for more of Southern California. Hello, Gorman! Jimmy Rogers was a founding father of Chicago Blues and the Linchpin of the original Muddy Waters Band. I'm Tom Schnabel, join me in my guest John Cainick who produced the great Bluesmakers last album today at three. Cafe LA Weekends 2-5 here on 89.9 KCRW. No, he doesn't mean he produced the album today at three. He means join him today at three, doesn't he, Chris? Oh, not the album? He didn't produce the album today at three. He means join him today at three. Okay, okay. Is that a surgical procedure? No, no. It's just a radio procedure. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Thank you, Chris. In 10 seconds, ladies and gentlemen, it will be 10 a.m. time for the surgical procedure known medically as today's edition of Lucho. Well, sir, just because if I don't say this at the beginning of the broadcast, the

welter of more recent developments will have totally blurred my consciousness. I'll never get around to it. Just catching up on last week's big TV show that originated from Los Angeles. You probably remember it. You probably slept through some of it. But my question would be just this, if you knew that your honorary Oscar was the most controversial one in recent history and that there were going to be protests and all sorts of attention focused on you and on the granting of the honorary Oscar to you, wouldn't you at least write your acceptance remarks? Why would you ad-lib those? Why would you ad-lib those starting with, I've been a member of this academy on and off for I don't know how long? Wouldn't you look that up? Of course, why would you ad-lib the good nights if you're the host of the Academy Awards? You've got a writing staff that's longer, larger than, you know, the, oh, then the Serbian

Human Rights Committee. Wouldn't you write your closing comments? Wouldn't you have them written for you? It was like, of all the things that amazed me most on the Oscar show last week, it was the ad-libbing. But nobody ever said he liked his ad, could write. He was just a good director, I guess. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that out of the way, now one more piece of old business. Weeks ago, I bitched and moaned to you about the sad fate of being an author and exhibit A in that screed was the fact that my book had been miraculously and mysteriously overpriced by the computer at amazon.com, went from $15 to $55 and took a long time to tweak it back, tweak it back down, urge it back down. A fine member of the listening audience of this broadcast emailed me this week at Lemail

at interworld.net to point out that I wasn't the only victim. Misery, of course, does love company and it now marks the first thing that I have in common with Bill Gates. Yes, I went to amazon.com this week and checked out Bill Gates' newest book, whatever it's called. Pay me some more money, I think it's called. And the price at amazon.com, at least the day I went there, was $555. No wonder he's the richest man in the world. No, I mean, I'm sure nobody paid that for it, that didn't make him rip. But apparently it's a disease at amazon. It's the amazon virus. I don't know what it is, but all I can say is if it's the amazon virus, it goes unhide. Welcome to the show. Oh, man, what's up?

You can kiss my ass. Don't you think that it's amazing? Don't you think that it's a shame? Don't you really say that the season was the same? Don't you think that it's a shame? Don't you really say that the season was the same? Don't you really say that the season was the same?

Don't you really say that the season was the same? Don't you think that it's a shame? Don't you really say that the season was the same? Don't you really say that the season was the same?

Don't you really say that the season was the same? I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm. I'm as jumpy as a puppet on a string.

I'd say that I had spring fever, but I know it isn't spring. I am starry-eyed and vaguely discontented, like a knight and girl without a song to sing. Why should I have spring fever when it isn't even spring? I keep wishing I was somewhere else walking down a strange new street. Hearing words that I have never heard from a girl I've yet to meet. I'm as busy as a spider-spinning daydreams.

I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing. I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud or a robin on the wing. But I feel so gay in a melancholy way that it might as well be spring. It might as well be spring. I'm as busy as a spider-spinning daydreams.

I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing. I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud or a robin on the wing. But I feel so gay in a melancholy way that it might as well be spring. It might as well be spring. Once there was a thing called spring when the world was riding verses like yours and mine.

All the lads and girls would sing when we sat at little tables and drank May wine. Now April, May and June are sadly out of tune. Life has stuck the pin in the balloon. Spring is here. Why doesn't my heart go dancing? Spring is here. Why isn't the walls entrancing? No desire.

Maybe it's because nobody needs me. Spring is here. Why doesn't the breeze delight me? Stars appear. Why doesn't the night invite me? Maybe it's because nobody loves me. Spring is here.

Spring is here. Spring is here. Spring is here. Spring is here. Spring is here.

Spring is here. Spring is here. Spring is here. Spring is here. Spring is here. Spring is here. Spring is here. Australia, because they are really Australians even though they bought American, he bought American citizenship at one point. The venue was Rupert Murdoch's country estate near YAS.

I'm worried he likes to hear most often. YAS! YASS! Which sprawls along the banks of the Morung Murumbiji River, Murumbiji River. The wedding had been shrouded in secrecy. Well, wait a minute. You own a media empire. Why would you want this to be secret? You like everybody's private life, don't you? No one willing to confirm the location or even the date. Hmm, interesting. At the insistence of the couple, it was an intimate occasion witnessed by about 120 close friends and family. The guest list believed to include Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Rupert Murdoch arrived shortly after 4 p.m. with his mother, Dame Elizabeth, and daughter Prudence. The newest Mrs Murdoch, it is believed Anna Murdoch, the mother of the groom, asked Rupert not to bring his new love, 31-year-old Wendy Deng. Interesting the Australian spell, Wendy, W-E-N-D-I. They doesn't indicate here whether they put little smiley face in the dot.

The media magnets, marital affairs, have become more complicated lawyers. This week confirmed that the settlement of the tycoon's divorce could take longer than expected. At the center of the dispute, a $12 billion trust fund that controls the family's interests in their public companies. You know, I will testify, Anna, I told you that many is the time. Anyway, congratulations to Lockland Murdoch for marrying a supermodel, and congratulations Sarah, because it will be a while before Lockland discovers some Asian TV executive and dumps you. You got 20 good years at least. Well, supermodel, 15. And in other news of the right wing, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, now Baroness Thatcher, declared yesterday or today, some day close to this, that Augusto Pinotje, quote, had brought democracy to Chile, unquote, Baroness Thatcher's interpretation of the

ex-dictator as a champion of liberty, emerged as he visited him over the weekend for afternoon tea. It was the same general Pinotje who overthrew the legally elected government of Salvador Yende, established a regime to carry out wholesale torture and murder in this currently awaiting legal proceedings since the law, lords, and England ruled this week that he can be prosecuted for any torture that he ordered after 1988 in the Spanish authorities have just sent over to England 30, 30 or 33 new details of torture and murder cases committed after 1988. Nonetheless, he brought democracy to Chile. During the supposedly impromptu visit, Lady Thatcher was accompanied by crews from Sky TV, Rupert Murdoch's satellite TV channel in Britain, which broadcasts the proceedings live, broadcast the impromptu meeting live.

Why weren't they at the Lockland Murdoch wedding? The general, smiling, and almost moist-eyed, said through an interpreter, Lady Thatcher, it's an honor for me to be here. Of course, he was talking about the house where he's currently living. I guess it's always an honor for him to be there, because if he weren't there, he'd have to be somewhere else. Lady Thatcher said, I'm glad you were comfortable. You set up a constitution suitable for democracy. You put it into effect. Elections were held. And then in accordance with the result, you step down. This analysis differs from the... More commonly accepted view that after a bloody coup in 1973, Pinter Shea headed a savage dictatorship in which political opponents were kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered by his secret police force. In 1990, he did step down from power after losing a poll, but he gave himself a virtual immunity in Chile for crimes committed by his junta and appointed himself as Senator for life. Lady Thatcher visited him at the Wentworth estate in Surrey, where he is under house arrest.

After tea, biscuits, and cakes, she posed for photos with a general and his wife, Lucia, who had exasperated her neighbors by bellowing through a megaphone at protesters gathered outside the estate, said, one of the general's neighbors fed up with his presence at the neighborhood. One of them said of Lady Thatcher, quote, she's barking mad now, of course, they shouldn't really let her out, unquote. All right, so that's what's going on over there. Over here, the Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on possibly misleading advertisements for medical preparations. The FDA, for example, objected to an advertisement promoting caverject as an alternative to Viagra Pills for the treatment of ED. By the way, Bob Dole just returned from another trip to Serbia.

He is the United States sort of roving diplomat with that portfolio over there. I just left that space for your joke. Anyway, the FDA objects to an advertisement promoting caverject as an alternative to Viagra Pills for the treatment of ED, male impotence. The advertisement in Parade Magazine last November said, caverject can help you and your partner enjoy renewed spontaneity and sexual satisfaction, unquote. The agency said the manufacturer had omitted an important fact, namely that caverject is a prescription medication that must be injected via a needle inserted directly into the penis. Ouch! Don't put that in Parade Magazine. Why would you want to know that? Could help you enjoy renewed spontaneity if you ever get over the trauma! All right then, apropos of the current unpleasantness, I happen to see a feed of Serbian television

night before last. And I know last night they were showing a footage of the American F-117 stealth fighter down in Yugoslavia near Belgrade, Serbia, I guess that is, it's both. You guys can be both. But the night before what they were showing on Serbian television was even more interesting and that it didn't have to be confirmed by the Pentagon before I believed it, or before I believed it maybe a little more. They were showing a subtitled version of Wag the Dog. You may remember Wag the Dog, it's the movie that has this, when I tuned in, they were

showing the scene where under the guidance of Dustin Hoffman, technicians tart up a scene showing an Albanian girl fleeing repression. That was on Serbian TV. Now a ladies and gentlemen in case you're wondering, this program does have an exit strategy. I will exit exactly when the computer shuts us off. That seems to be now the, that's the 1999's two magic words, because we heard them during the impeachment from, well actually late 98, when the house took up impeachment, we have an exit strategy and now we're hearing where the words came from, of course, military. Everybody who goes on TV who's not quite for this deal but doesn't want to be against it, because you know, might work, the safe place to be is just to say, you know, I'm not

sure we have an exit strategy. All right, so I've told you my exit strategy is to leave through the door at the time the program's over. You can track me on this and in case I don't, I'll still be here, but the NATO officials announced today in their press briefing that they are moving to phase two, since phase one was so spectacularly successful, at least if the goal was to increase the killings of civilians by the Serbs, they are moving directly to phase two, which is heightened attacks and large target areas and at the urging of the Pentagon, which said they had this sort of, well I don't want to say secret weapon, but they had this at their, you know, in their arsenal all along, just waiting for the proper time, the NATO officials announced that if the Serbs do not relent, NATO aircraft may well drop Linda Tripp on Belgrade.

So that would be possibly decisive, we don't know about that yet. Ladies and gentlemen, on now to something I've been talking to you about on this program lately, because nobody else does in this country, so it's wide open for me. That's called an entrance strategy. Scientists have sparked fresh concern about the effect of genetically modified crops on wildlife. This is in Britain. They suggested the lifespan and fertility of ladybugs could be reduced dramatically, because their food chain would be poisoned. Government-funded research in Britain has indicated that altering the genetic makeup of plants to resist destructive aphids might have serious effects on other natural pest killers. There's already a row over the significance and credibility of tests in Britain suggesting that genetically modified potatoes can harm rats.

What's the problem with that? Don't we want to harm rats? Anybody who doesn't want to harm rats, raise your hand. Other scientists have suggested that pollen from genetically modified crops can cause contamination over great distances, which of course is stimulating the Monsanto Company distributor of many genetically modified crops. They are hauling a Canadian farmer into court, I mentioned this last week, because they found evidence of GM genetically modified seeds on his land. He says, well, blue in. The latest study led by Dr. Nicholas Birch of the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Dundee prompts new questions about the food chain for birds. Ladybugs are traditionally regarded as gardeners and farmers' best friends, their well-being is a prime indicator of environmental stability. The latest research fed genetically modified potato plants to aphids, which were in turn fed to Ladybugs.

Ladybugs' lives were shortened by up to half, the expected lifespan, and their fertility and egglaying was significantly reduced. Females were affected more seriously than males. I would think so, where egglaying is evolved. And a change of diet to aphids not exposed to genetically modified plants seemed to reverse the process. Of course, we're way beyond that here. American Ladybugs are on their own. OK, now, ladies and gentlemen, this week in the show business trade paper Variety, there was a story about the new popularity of columns and articles about celebrity real estate. And yes, they did interview me. So now here's how wacky it is. This column, this industry, which feeds parasite-like, you pardon me, on supposedly private transactions of unavoidably public people, now has spawned, well, I started making fun of it, now somebody's

writing about that, it just keeps going on forever. Now I'm talking about that article. It's called the Media Food Chain. If only we could kill some of the media ladybugs. No, I'm not. I'm just saying feed them genetically modified aphids, nothing other than that. Richard Geer, anyway, who co-stars with Julia Roberts in a movie that's going to be released soon. Wow, what a coincidence that he's put his Malibu home on the market at $10 million. Any relation between the two? You never know. No, Geer decided to sell his home because he doesn't spend much time there. Ah, he spends more time in New York. Interesting. Geer bought the Malibu compound with its three bedroom, 2,500 square foot main house, guest houses, pool and tennis court in July, 95 for 5 million. He didn't expand the houses, but did a major refurbishing, and once he won, 10 million. Richard, greedy, greedy, greedy.

On about 2.2 acres, the compound is on a bluff, I'll say, not to mention the price. His 90 feet of private beach, the main house has an ocean view from its living room and master suite, the nearby guest house, or staff quarters, has two bedrooms. The compound also has a second smaller guest house and a cottage on the beach. Artist David Hockney has sold his home on the beach in Malibu, and he doesn't have a movie coming out. For its $1.5 million asking price, he sold the house because he hasn't been using it for a while. Apparently nobody's living in Malibu anymore. The hell is the dealer? The English painter maintains his studio and main residence in LA. The Malibu home was a retreat. I guess now he's in his advanced stage. Actress Kelly Lynch, and her husband, screenwriter, director Mitch Glazer, are planning to move in April to a Las Felis house, Howe Hose, that they've been restoring since they bought it last year. So this really is no news. They haven't done their planning to move. They've been restoring. Nothing's happened. And Brendan Fraser, who stars King Kong, and his wife, have moved into a Beverly Hills

area home he bought in 1996 and has just finished renovating. Since Fraser bought the $700,000 house, he's been starring in movies that would allow him to buy it four times over. Apparently, the actor, 30, King Kong, and became my first time home buyer when he purchased a house built in 1966 with three bedrooms and 3,300 square feet. Expanded the house, changed the entrance, and heavily landscaped the garden. Guess what's a garden for? Yes, that was my question. Do I have to tell the story of the thousand rainy days since we first met?

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me who ends up getting wet. It's every little thing we've done since we first met, but it's always me who ends up getting wet. The thousand times a day, then ask him if he'll marry me in some old fashioned way, but before my tongue is tripped to me, I'll stay always be alone.

The thousand times a day, then ask him if he'll marry me in some old fashioned way, but before my tongue is tripped to me, I'll stay always be alone. The thousand times a day, then ask him if he'll marry me in some old fashioned way, but before my tongue is tripped to me, I'll stay always be alone.

This is, at longer hands, predictably diametrical views on an issue of public concern. Today is our cost of opalacy, a good idea. On the right, Dick Clark, on the left, Casey Caseham. Dick, a young boy wants to go to school, but he's school's not there anymore, half his village has been burned down. He hasn't seen his father in more than a week. And he'd like to hear, baby, I'm a want you, by bread. Well sir, except for the song request, this isn't some BS sob story from under the sweetheart tree. It's real. It's what's really going on and cost of all right now. And it's one good reason why our policy is on the right track. Dick, to have this kind of humanitarian tragedy occur in the middle of Europe and do nothing about it, well it would be sadder than a monkey's reunion without Peter Tork. And there's another thing, after all our threats, if the NATO countries didn't attack

Milosevic, our word would be worth less than yesterday's wrappers. And don't forget Dick, this Milosevic is not exactly in the top 10 on the humanity chart. The only language this fellow understands is force and possibly circle creation. Sure, it'd be great if he'd stop harassing the ethnic Albanians without getting bombed, just like it'd be great if every record was a hit. But Dick, even though we keep reaching for the stars, we still have to keep our feet on the ground. Ending this bombing campaign successfully will help us all reach a time when the only sad stories we have to hear are the ones under the sweetheart tree. Dick? Casey, bad stuff is happening all over the world. Hey, there are even countries where my bloopers' specials aren't on the air. But talk about bloopers. This cost of opalacy is worse than the ones my good buddy, Ed McMahon, the big fella,

is selling through the mail. Casey, your defense of the bombing sounds like what we used to hear during the Vietnam war. Talk about oldies. Casey, you gave us everything but the dominoes. What hurts our credibility, my friend, is making threats we can never make good on. And that's something I've been very careful not to do as a producer. Can I tell you for just a second who's against this policy? Henry Kissinger, Natalie Cole from Canada, the bare naked ladies. You know, Casey, Kosovo's a long way from America. Fewer people in this country know where it is than, well, and saw my old Wednesday night variety show. You're right that the killings in Kosovo are a tragedy. But hey, tragedy is just comedy, minus time. Casey, a civil war in the middle of the Balkans, is not worth the life of one American band.

Come next New Year's Eve, I don't want to be counting body bags on that balcony. I want to be counting down seconds to midnight. And that, my friend, is no blooper. From the right on Dick Clark. From the left, I'm the caseer. And we both agree on one thing. At Loggerheads is a rockin' way to be. At Loggerheads is produced with the aid of a grant from the Disc Jockey Foundation, celebrating 50 years of not talking over vocals. Join us again next time for another matched but polarized pair, debating the day's events. At Loggerheads. This is a fine spring morning, it's everywhere for us to share. Just look what a fine spring morning can do.

I've got a brand new feeling, when I think twice it's awful nice. I hope everybody's feeling it too. Bees are getting busier, birds are getting busier, little girls and boys are getting busier, songs are getting singier, but a fly's a wingier, and sure a shooting spring is getting springier. So on this fine spring morning, my heart's resigned, made up my mind to spend every fine spring morning with you. Say I've seen a lot of mornings, the sunshine glows, a rooster crows, but this is my first

spring morning in love. So if this young girl's fancy gets out of hand, please understand, it's just that this young girl's fancy is love. Kids are getting cosier, neighbors get nosier, bulls are getting more and more bulldozier, bulls are getting bummy earth, chums are getting chummy earth, and yummy looking girls are getting yummy earth, some of these fine spring mornings, we're going to be a family and spend every fine spring morning in love.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's been a while since we've talked about digital television, so let's drag up some of the bad news, according to a study by a couple of studyers who surveyed people who now got digital TV via cable. Picture quality was among their biggest disappointments, isn't that ironic? Only 4% of subscribers to digital cable like the picture better than analog, but wouldn't that the reason we were supposed to be making the switch in the first day?

Also, it still is reported to be difficult to get a digital reception if you're using an antenna as opposed to cable, which many people will have to do since your cable won't give you digital television in many cases. In a survey in New York, I believe this was, a couple of dozen outdoor sites equipped with a 30-foot antenna, or a 30-foot speed high, might not have been the antenna, 30 feet. A highly directional antenna and careful pointing got no reception, because visually you either get reception, you either get reception, you get none, you don't get fuzzy. Surprisingly, in 4 out of 13 sites where there was no digital TV reception, but there was regular TV standard like you get now reception, the results for the standard reception were

the best quality possible, isn't that strange? And in case you think it doesn't affect you because if you don't want to get digital, you don't have to, even though your analog channel will shut off, PBS officials have touted the network's requests to Congress for an additional $90 million, actually they want $80 million, sorry, over the next four years to pay for digital production, development, and distribution. That's right, they want more money to go digital, so there'll be more channels of programming people don't watch. I didn't say that, I just thought it. Ladies and gentlemen speaking of television, of course all the networks are revving up for whatever this thing is, whatever it turns out to be.

Although that doesn't mean that all of the highly planned features are being dumped. For example, 60 minutes tonight in a highly promoted venture, promoted not only on CBS television during the NCAA basketball semi-finals. By the way, the NCAA pays so much money to CBS so that nobody on CBS will call it the NCAA. Do you know that? It's a...stricture, it's supposed to call it the NCAA, but they pay me no money so it's the NCAA. And theory, now this is theory, that was fact, theory is that they don't want it to be called the NCAA because they are afraid that people might confuse it with the NAACP. That's just theory. Anyway, highly promoted during the NCAA semi-finals and also on the CBS News website. Special edition of 60 minutes, previewing the new Star Wars feature, they'll take a

little time for that. But otherwise it's a very heavy stuff going on at all the networks, particularly CBS, as we'll hear in another edition of Bad Days at Black Rock. Next here on the show. All right, sir, let me see it's here. This is Dan, this is the logo for Kosovo and Crisis. All right. Everybody's signed off on the title because, you know, we changed the name, remember we have to do some tweaking of the logo. Well, there was some sentiment for Crisis in Kosovo, but... But MSNBC is using that, I pointed that out of my email. Yeah. And, frankly, Dan, I think that's what turned the tide. Good, that's good. All right, then, let's have a look, see, at this logo, is that there, Eagle, or ours? Ah, that's theirs.

Look, and good. Okay. Would our fearless leader have to say about a special report between the basketball games? He said the minute they can sell beer commercials in it, it's a go. All right, then, sir, we've got the time to fine tune this logo. I know we're writing Kosovo in what's supposed to look like Slavic print here or something correct. Yeah, something like that. But I just wonder about readability. Uh-huh. I mean, Peter, if CBS News stands for anything, at least stands for a good, clean, readable logo, I should think. Yeah. Look, our department really liked this, Dan, but I think we can kill it on the grounds of news, judgment. All right, now, can you tell me about theme music, sir, please? They recorded it last night, I have a dad in my office. Well, just give me a ballpark notion here, huh? What's the feeling, Copelandesque, more tragic?

Well, I don't know, Dan, pretty much like that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that. Well, first, you're saying that the melody puts the emphasis on the second die. You're sure it's not, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. I have, uh, Dan, let me, let me think for a moment. Well, Daniel, glad I ran into you. Oh, Brother Wallace, good to see you. Good to see you, Daniel. Oh, man, the newsroom looks busy. Like the old days, Michael, this Kosovo thing has got us all more adrenalineized than a a hammer factory. Oh, look at you bustling about like a man of 60. Because must have something hot on Kosovo for 60 minutes, sir, yes, because I'll tell you something, Michael. Evening news, plans to own this particular war. Well, no, sir, we're not going to let CNN do another golf job on us. No. We've signed up consultants. We're not even going to use just to make sure they don't show up on someone else's air. Oh, you know, Peter.

Hello, hello, Pete. Hi, Mike. Daniel, I was wondering if you could take narrating duties in one of the follow-up stories for 60 minutes, too. I kind of have my hands full this week. Oh, big Kosovo take-outs on the night, eh? No, sir. Star Wars. Interesting angle for 60. Going a little ahead of the news curve. Still only end of Clinton's opposition to missile defenses and interesting story. Got people at the White House talking on the record. Not Star Wars, the missile defense Daniel. Star Wars, the movie. We've got exclusive footage of the new trailer. And I still have to take my introduction to Leslie and Lucas. It's taking hours to light. So, Michael, sir, please, yes, yeah. This is Mercury and bustling. Is Barbara Walters running your shop all of a sudden? Daniel, it's a big deal. Is an internet tie-in and everything. Do you realize that's the first internet tie-in we've had in the history of 60 minutes? Pearl Wallace, we're bombing another country.

Maravilages being torched. The flames of war are once again looking at the map of central Europe. At times like these, the premier weekly broadcast of CBS News should be covering that. Don't you think? Well, I'm sure 48 hours will do exactly that, brother, rather. Look, you'd beloved Ed Murrow used to do celebrity interviews. Well, he was forced to by the network. All right. So, the only difference is that we didn't have to be forced. Well, exactly. I mean, it isn't even sweeps month. Daniel, in our shop these days, it's always sweeps. But look, the piece isn't all puff balls. I mean, Leslie asks Lucas whether improved computer technology really makes for better Star Wars movies. And he says, well, I don't want to give it all away. Peter here might want to use it on your

your special report. Now, we're not doing one, Mike. Basketball. Oh, but Daniel, the flames of war looking at the map. Now, now, now sports has promised us a bottom-third crawl if anything big happens and also plug for CBS.com. So, brother, brother, am I so lured in your eyes that I can't get you to devise this narration for me? What studio's it in, Michael? See, the seas tied up with basketball. All right, brother, watch. You know, here's a tip that's hotter than summertime roadkill. They're bringing back the mod squad. 60 minutes might want to do a whole piece on it. Well, thanks, brother, brother. You know, and I'll look for your special reports if you ever get one on the end. See you, Peter. Bye, Mike. All right, sir. All right, sir, then please, let's nail this theme thing down. New four straight. If it's duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. That just sounds to these old ears,

like we're just, we're reusing the Gulf War music. You know, that that sounds cheap. Bad haircut cheap. Then I'll bring the tape to studio day, okay? I'll meet you there. Yes, sir. Thank you. Oh, boy, I'm about to get a booze attack.

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Oh, boy, I'm about to get a booze attack. Oh, boy, I'm about to get a booze attack. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I gotta go raise the money to buy Bill Gates's new book, and

that'll keep me busy. It's $555. Did you know that? So you know what? I'll meet you back here next week at the same time over these same stations on NPR worldwide throughout Europe, on the U.S. and 440 cable system in Japan, around the world through Armed Forces Network. It's a short way if WBCQ the planet, 7.415 megahertz, and whenever you want it on your computer, at www.HarryShirror.com, and it'd be just like dropping Linda Trip on the Serbs if you'd agree to join with me that, would you? This is me executing my exit strategy, case, case you need an example.

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Everything's safe. It's time for a show. All right, you remember probably the candidacy, or maybe you just remember hearing about it as a small child. The presidential candidacy of one time Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado. He was kind of a golden boy in Democratic Party circles. At a time when gold really wasn't the medal of choice among Democrats, but Gary Hart had started as a volunteer in the George McGovern campaign in 1972 and had quickly worked his way up to campaign manager and stuff and soon after got elected Senator from Colorado was really a meteoric rise, resembling that of someone else we've known recently, except more meteoric. It didn't spend all that time in his home state, got to Washington real quick.

A rising figure in the national scene ran for the presidency in the Democratic primaries in 88 and sort of challenged the press when they said, have there been, has there been any hanky-packy outside of your marriage? We've heard these rumors and Gary Hart threw down the gauntlet and said, well, why don't you follow me and find out for yourself? And they did and snapped a photograph of him and his patuity on a yacht called the Monkey Business and that was it for Gary Hart, hence my need to explain him. All right, I'm reminded of that because I believe the gauntlet ladies and gentlemen has just been thrown down again. News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch is no two-timer. This according to Murdoch's spokesman Howard Rubenstein, he said Monday of this week that the media mogul did not begin his much-talked about affair with Wendy Deng, one time president of his Asian satellite, one time vice-president of his Asian satellite service, until after

he separated from his wife, Anna. Anna? Still, I'm offering to be a character witness for you. Rubenstein was responding to a March 8th report in daily variety about a delay in the settlement of the Murdoch's divorce that some believe is due to Anna Murdoch hardening her position out in the wake of public disclosure of the relationship with Wendy Deng. The timing of the affairs beginning has been the subject of some speculation. Rubenstein said Murdoch absolutely did not have an affair with this woman prior to a separation from his wife. I'm not a newsman, although I play one in movies, but that sounds like the gauntlet has been thrown down. Now of course, he discovered her in Hong Kong, that's a long, you know, it's hard to justify the trip just to poke around, but that's obviously what he did. But dog on it, that really does sound like a Gary Hart-like challenge.

Go find it. No proof he was having an affair while he was still married, before he separated. Okay, guys, I don't hear the thunderous footsteps of newsmen, but okay, it's a budget problem. Also ladies and gentlemen, this week's news that you may have missed, there's a new textbook, mathematics, applications, and connections approved for use in 15 states, including California, Texas, and approved for use in New York City. They still have schools in New York City? Wow. It is laced this textbook with a wider name, a wide array of names of consumer products from Nike and Gatorade to Disneyland and top baseball cards, many of which appear in the illustrations as well, a spokesman from McGraw Hill, which publishes the book, said the publisher received no payments from the companies whose products appear in the book.

One of the book's authors said the well-known products were included simply to make the math problems more relevant to sixth graders. That's right, they've never heard of apples, but Nike's, you see. The 1999 version of the textbook is drenched with product shots and trivia about everything from Barbie dolls, cocoa frosted flakes, Sony PlayStation, spawning basketballs, and characters and entertainment sites owned by Disney and Warner Brothers and Fast Food Fair, from Burger King and McDonald's. The McGraw Hill textbook is intended to turn word problems into real life situations, to better teach the principles of sixth grade math. For example, the 1995 edition still in use in many areas introduces a division problem as follows. Will is saving his allowance to buy a pair of Nike shoes that cost $68.25. If Will earns $3.25 per week, how many weeks will Will need to save?

To the right of the text is a full-color picture of Nike's. Of course, once the last time Nike's only cost $68. Another word problem, this one in the new edition, says, quote, the best-selling packaged cookie in the world is the Oreo cookie. The diameter of an Oreo cookie is 1.75 inches. Express the diameter of an Oreo cookie as a fraction, in simplest form. A section on the surface area in the same edition asks students to calculate the surface area of a box of cocoa frosted flakes, adding some information about when the cereal was introduced. Another page titled, school to career highlights land's end. Consumers can purchase unique clothing and accessories in products from the home. The section reads. They don't mention that the Oreo cookie, the white stuff is large, do they? One of the book's authors, 12 authors, by the way. Gee, if each author got one hundredth of a royalty from the use of commercial products, how much would each author, no, that's too real.

Patricia Wilson, an associate professor at the University of Georgia, said the brand names were scattered through the book almost unconsciously. That's always a good way to write a book. That's why I wrote mine. I don't recall ever actually discussing not using logos, she said. Certainly we didn't discuss trying to use logos. It was more the examples that people came up with. You're trying to get into what people are familiar with so they can see, hey, mathematics is in the world out there. All right, I'm going to work on my own, I'm going to work on my own next book almost unconsciously while I say to you, hello, welcome to the show. See, put on his neckies one morning, ate at Oreo and thought to himself. Yeah, it's a grabber cool, when you're sad to toll hard in your voices low. It's only jealousy, I looked as far as I can see, I made a word, I know what I heard.

It's a ship we're on is singing, and lady, I've been thinking, I'm guilty but I know it's not, they put me in a rough spot, a rough spot, friends, talk of a bitter end, hushed, I know we can't pretend, we're living so seriously. Not the way we wanted to be, a subtle twist, I know that I missed this ship we're on is burning, strange but I've been yearning, I'm losing everything I've got, you put me in a rough spot, a rough spot.

It's only jealousy, I look as far as I can see, I made a word, I know that I missed this ship we're on is singing, and lady, I've been thinking, I'm guilty but I know it's not, hushed, I know it's not, they put me in a rough spot, a rough spot, a ship we're on is burning, strange but I've been yearning, I'm losing everything I've got, you put me in a rough spot, a rough spot, you put me on a ship, it's burning, and that's a rough spot, a rough

spot, a rough spot. See the flowers round the altar, see the peaches and tins, beneath the head, master's chair, harvest last door, see the tooth been chosen, see the tooth been chosen, see the walk hand in hand to the front of the wall, harvest faster, harvest faster, what was

the longing look you gave me, the longing look, more than enough to keep me fed on here, see the children with baskets, see the hair cut like corn, neatly combed in their own, harvest faster, harvest faster, what was the store, the longing look you gave me, the longing look, across the hill, mobs and the canvas chair, the longing look you gave me, the

longing look, more than enough to keep me fed on here, I'll tell you when the exams and crops all fail, of course you passed and you were never seen again, we all grew and we got screwed and cut to the end, we're out of nowhere in the tension and go then, see the flowers round the altar, see the peaches took up Mary and I wish you well, all this faster, harvest faster, what was the store, the longing look you gave me, the longing

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to keep me fed on here, harvest faster, what was the store, the longing look, more than enough to keep me fed on here, harvest faster, what was the store, the longing look, more than the acknowledgement of that fact, change anything, really, you know, but we are as you know, the center of self-improved, the center of motivational self-work, the world capital of positive, positive vibrations for a newer, brighter, fresher, better you, and so this The story I think has some resonance for all of us.

Before a recent New Jersey net game in Miami, net coach John Calapari invited motivational speaker Tony Robbins, you know him, the guy with the big teeth, to speak to his team. Robbins talked about focusing one's thoughts and he illustrated his speech by breaking a wood plank in two. Now with his thoughts with his hand. Seven members of the nets followed and did the same, breaking a wood plank in two with their focused energy. They then went out and lost by 26 points, shot 36 percent, and the coach was fired. Ladies and gentlemen, Beck has sold the Pasadena House he bought a year ago. This guy can't keep out of the hot property column. He plans to play an acoustic, he's focusing his next album with, okay. He bought a smaller home on the west side a few months ago, right? That was in the paper, wasn't it?

After he and his girlfriend, fashion stylist Lee Limon decided to flee the summer heat of Pasadena, well, yeah. Beck sold his five bedroom, 5200 square foot home on slightly more than an acre in Pasadena for 1.38 million, he purchased it for 1.275 million, a profit for Beck. He doesn't need the records. He made out like a bandit on the house in Pasadena and some other suckers going to suffer through the Pasadena summer heat. Built in the 1950s, the post and beam house is in a wooded area, well, there's your cool, and has a pool as well as city and mountain views. Actor Tom Poston has listed his Beverly Hills home at about 1.4 million, and he's appearing in an upcoming comedy by a guy. Well, the movies do out this fall, so that's not really the timing that we look for in the hot property column, but it's close. It's close.

Poston decided to sell his home of 12 years because he wants a smaller one. Where is it? Beverly Hills. Built in 1980, his house has five bedrooms and 4,400 square feet. The home also has an elevator with two windows, an elevator with two windows, a pool and a paddle tennis court. That is a big elevator. How do you get the pool in the elevator? Man, I want to talk to that electrician. I'm going to read that sentence again. The home also has an elevator with two windows, a pool and a paddle tennis court. That has got to be the biggest elevator in Beverly Hills, Tom. You're a fool to sell. And Corbin Bernson, who first gained fame in a thing, and his wife have listed their Hollywood Hills home which they refurbished at $999,000. And round figure. If you turn it upside down, it's the devil's selling price. Bernson co-starred with Marla Maples in the TV movie, okay. He co-starred in four movies, four TV movies last year, including The Dentist 2 on HBO.

If you don't have HBO, you've got to get it. I didn't even know they had The Dentist 1, The Dentist 2. That went right by me. The Hollywood Hills home is one of several labor stores for themselves before selling. The first project was during LA Law Days. The biggest project was a home on 40 acres in England. Okay. The couple planned to redo houses they can buy for about $750,000 each. But they just bought a property for themselves. It will be a major renovation, a farm complex with barns and other buildings on 12 acres in France. Our Hollywood Hills home, $990,000, has four bedrooms, three baths of Dan in an office and 2,900 square feet. It also has a deck and a pool, but the pool is not in the elevator. So they didn't refurbish it enough by my lights. I mentioned Britain there. Last week was word from British research that the cell phone was addictive.

Not to be outdone, their British have now completed an official investigation into the health effects of cell phones. Finding include that far from causing memory loss, they can actually improve metal performance. Cell phones make you smarter. It's right here. Look, it's in print. A study using volunteers who had dummy cell phones strapped to their heads, carrying out psychological tests, has overturned the popular view that the telephones cause people to forget things. In the only research in the world on the effects of mobile phones on the human brain, scientists from Bristol University found the phone significantly improved the speed it took to carry out mental tasks. It does not address concerns about potential cancer risks. Oh, okay. It makes you smarter, but you die sooner. Maybe. The surprise findings will come as a comfort to the estimated 10 million users of cell phones of Britain who have been subjected to a series of scary stories about the potential mental effects.

This may be necessary for the Brits. It may be necessary for them to use cell phones to get smarter because Canadian researchers have found that Britons are becoming borderline retarded through missing too much sleep. Falling an hour short of the desired eight hours a night can temporarily knock a point off your IQ. With two more lost, if a further hour is skipped, 15 points can easily be lost in a week, which would make an average person with an IQ of around 100 borderline retarded by Friday. I think this is the Canadian's didn't have a revolution, so their substitute for that is putting out this kind of research. Warning that Britain is in danger of becoming a sleepless society. Global authorities are highlighting a sharp deterioration in the time Britons spent sleeping with serious consequences on the roads, the workplace, and relationships. The British Sleep Foundation is being launched to raise awareness of the importance of sleep

and to lobby for better funding for sleep clinics. Sleep has been badly downgraded, said Professor Jim Hornhead of the Sleep Research Center at Loughborough University and co-founder of the Sleep Foundation. We're moving towards a 24-hour culture with people working through the night. Even in our leisure lives, sleep is seen as a waste of time, young people go clubbing, and early night is not cool. The average night sleep is now down to seven hours from nearly nine earlier in the century. Well then they had an empire, they could sleep, and slaves were doing the work. Many people are surviving on fewer than six hours a night. Britain says Professor Neil Douglas head of respiratory medicine at Edinburgh University and the other co-founder of the Sleep Foundation, Britain, this is a good sound bite. Britain needs to wake up to its sleep problem. Gets better. There are signs of change, some London PR and advertising firms have power napping rooms, but in general the damaging view that sleep is wasteful still holds.

So just to review the important statistics, an hour short of the eight hours a night, contemporary knock of point off your IQ, if you lose, if you're two hours short a night by the end of the week, according to the Canadians, you ladies and gentlemen are borderline retarded. Congratulations, pick up your plaque at the, well, you can't find the door, but we'll med you the plaque, come in, come in the mail. All right, speaking of nothing having anything to do with that, ladies and gentlemen, O.J. Simpson has agreed to do television ads for a lawyer's group and he explains his decision by saying he feels many people accused of crimes don't have decent lawyers. The main thing I've learned, the main thing I've learned, this should be good, is that you can't walk into a courtroom without competent legal representation, Simpson said in a telephone interview. He's doing commercials for Justice Media, a lawyer referral service that uses the number

of one eight hundred lawyer. The idea came from a friend he would not identify, Bob Kardashian. Just a guess, just a guess. Bob Kardashian, Rupert Murdoch, Don Olmeyer. He said the money he was paid, quote, just covered my expenses, unquote. So Fred Goldman can keep his cotton pick and hands off of it. Justice Media plans to sell the commercials to law firms across the country. Stephen Jackson, a lawyer for the referral service, says the campaign will be aimed at the minority community and they believe Simpson will be an attractive spokesman. Asked if he has any new evidence that might help convince the public of his innocence, he told the Associated Press, quote, I'm working on it, unquote. Well, of course, that's just the beginning. Hey, what's happening? It's juice. You know, a court appearance is an important time in your life. Hey, don't be about it.

So you want to make a good impression, but you don't want to spend two or three hundred dollars just to rent a limo for the day, especially if you don't bail out. I hear that. That's why you want to remember this phone number, one eight hundred court trip. That's your direct line to a limo service in your community that'll whisk you to your court appearance in style. If you do get out, just beep your driver. He'll be back before you can say, I'm home, honey. If you don't make bail and don't need to ride home, you're not on the hook for expensive waiting charges. One eight hundred court triplets, you made that all important courthouse arrival, looking like a player, not a perp. And for making a good impression is a lot cheaper than a new suit. I say it's like having a relative in the limo business. So whenever you need to visit the so-called halls of justice, forget about cheesy buses, expensive and unreliable cabs, or driving yourself and maybe being on the hook for endless

parking charges, go one eight hundred court trip. Hey! It beats a slow-speed brago chase every time. I can only give you love that last forever and the promise to be near each time you call the only heart I own for you and you alone, that's all, that's all. I can only give you country walks in springtime and a hand to hold when leaves begin to fall when a love who's burning light will warm the winter night that's all, that's all.

There are those I am sure to have told you, they would give you the world for a time. All I have are these arms to enfold you and a love time can never be strong. If you're wondering what I'm asking in return dear, you'll be glad to know that my demands are small, say it's me that you'll adore for now and ever more that's all, that's all. If you're wondering what I'm asking in return dear, you'll be glad to know that my demands

are small, say it's me that you'll adore for now and ever more that's all, that's all. You're listening to this show from the edge of America. Congratulations to Steve Forbes who entered the race for the presidency this week with an internet announcement, that is so hip, but he still publishes his magazine on paper, so that's, you know, there's a plus, there's a minus and he's had four years to work on

his Steve Forbesness and judging by his appearance on Meet the Press this past week, he's still got a ways to go because when he laughs, he sort of rocks backwards as if his laugh is so powerful that it has a recoil. It's an interesting, you know, it's, I would never begrudge somebody a good powerful laugh, but the recoil looks a little, you want to, you want to rock into the camera, Steve, not away from it. Congratulations also to the European community, which fired its entire commission because they were found to have been almost as corrupt as the International Olympic Committee. And that, that's pretty corrupt. Meanwhile a scientific committee over in Europe has cast doubts about the safety of the controversial genetically engineered here we go again, hormone known as BST, which is injected into cows to boost milk yield, you want more milk yield, don't you?

Sure you do. The Committee on Animal Health and Welfare Findings increased the likelihood of trade tensions between the U.S. and Europe, because BST, bovine, somatotrophin, is in routine use in the United States, all right. While Monsanto has repeatedly failed to gain access to European markets with it, this is on top of the banana war, we have threatened, perhaps, to ban the importation of red jano cheese, I believe, or prosciutto, some good Italian food, because the Europeans will not get rid of a ruling favoring the former British colonies, and their bananas, as opposed to the fine Chiquita bananas that the United States company farms somewhere in the bowels of Latin America. The likelihood of a trade war sparked by BST, this genetically engineered cow hormone

is high, some 100 million units of BST have been used in U.S. herd since 1993, 30% of American dairy cows now use the hormone, by use it, they mean it stuck into them, the cows use it, you see, that's good writing. What else do the cows use? The Animal Health and Welfare Committee found the BST, which is made from a natural growth hormone, should not be injected into cattle, you cows stop using it. Cites increased likelihood of mastitis, foot problems, and injection site reactions, which would also lead to welfare problems besides human health risks. Canada has also banned BST, after its expert group identified gaps in data on human and animal safety relating to the hormone, said the cows didn't sleep enough when they got this.

No, it didn't. So, now, Monsanto said it had been subject to one of the most intensive post-approval monitoring programs ever conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in other words, figuring out what went wrong after they let the cows use it. They showed no ill-effectant cows treated with BST, or problems arising in products using milk from cows treated with BST, said Monsanto. There was a risk of increased mastitis requiring careful management, he said. Well, that's like show business. You just need good management, whether you're talking about mastitis or careers. Speaking of careers, organizers are predicting today's Academy Awards could become in the future an all-day event like the Super Bowl. Yeah. Academy Awards have been moved to Sunday, you may have noticed, for the first time, says Oscar producer Gil Cates, they'll be pre-shows, pre-pre-shows, and pre-pre-pre-shows.

The day-long coverage this year will include 11 hours of coverage from E television. Oscar presenters don't go home empty-handed, all presenters are given what one Hollywood insider describes as the world's most extravagant basket of free goodies, including a $750 Edson Waterman pen, a $1,000 tag-hoyer watch, a $250 salvador Farragamo scarf, a $125 Hermani tie, a $1,000 spot treatment at the peninsula Beverly Hills Hotel, two crystal champagne flutes worth $250 and more. The stars have to get someone to carry the baskets to the limos there, that big, says one involved with the bags. But it's exciting that there are, so that E is right now probably as we speak, doing their all-day pre- Oscars show, and of course, that is being anchored by the way by Joan Rivers, who will be interviewing probably Gina Davis, who's anchoring the official ABC

pre-show before the Oscars. And if I'm not mistaken, there will be even more more shows available to the discerning viewer. Hey everybody, welcome back to Super Sunday, the Oscars. I'm Alan Thick here for the E2 channel out in the sunshine here in front of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Look who we've got here as our guest for this segment, none other than the host of the official Oscar pre-show on our sister E channel. The fabulous Joan Rivers, if it's possible, you look even better than you want to. Alan, Alan, you've always been a sweetheart, I never dreamed you were blind too, hey, now I love what you're wearing, I mean, when did the band lead a die? Joan, this has got to be exciting for you and your daughter Melissa hosting an Oscar

pre-show like this. Oh, it is so exciting, I haven't been this thrilled since the Botox, no, please, first darling, I have to explain that we are not the official Oscar pre-show that Anna belongs to Gina Davis because she's tall and has the bone structure of a goddess, but I'll tell you this, Alan, I wouldn't throw Jeff Goldblum out of bed just for leaving some pretzel crumbs on the duvet, bitch, you wouldn't. Not even bagel crumbs, hey, you're getting me hungry, no, but I'm very happy to be hosting the unofficial pre-show. I think that gives us an e more freedom to get the real scoop from the arriving celebrities and not just, you know, they're there, they're pre-packaged soundbites. Also, I hear ABC is paying Gina Bupkiss. Joni, what good appropriation did you go through for this sterile, fabulous evening? Three words, Alan, college and college and college, now, of course, I caught up on all the days I called Bruce for lunches, you know, he always writes the jokes for the Oscars

there is in real life, just the queen of dish. I mean, I'm sorry, Liz Smith, sometimes the truth hurts. And of course, I had to get all my hair and wardrobe worked on weeks ago, because if you wait until the last minute, all the movie stars of everybody good just booked up to the Tochus. And it's a result you come on here looking like the mayor of North Hollywood. I mean, please. Jon, they're signaling that they need you back in the main position. Ah, it's my own fault. I'm co-hosting with my daughter. She's a lovely girl, Alan, but she couldn't ad libber way into a paid toilet. Great to see you. Jon Levy's host to the unofficial Oscar P show over on the e-channel, but hey, stick with us. We've got a lot of great things yet to come here on e2. And next, we'll meet the seat fillings. We'll meet the seat fillings, we'll meet the seat fillings, we'll meet the seat fillings.

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The night is useless, and so are we. Because everybody knows the fabric of our leaf. It's fallen apart at the seams. And I've been looking for a good time. But the pleasure is the seldom in few. There's no whiskey, there's no wine. Just the concrete and a whirlwind mind. Because everybody knows that creeps are slow. Till you feel safe from his eyes. And I've been looking for a new friend. And I don't care if he's the crappin' and grey. Oh, Maria, haven't you known?

They so can't miss all on your own. Because everybody knows the circuits is closed. And the animals have gone wild. And I've been looking for my shallow. But this place is so bright and something. There was no one, nothing to see. The night is useless, and so are we. Because everybody knows the fabric of our leaf. It's fallen apart at the seams. And I've been looking for a good time.

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