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[RonDog]

From www.SundayMirror.co.uk (via Drudge):

BIN LADEN'S JULY 4 TERROR BROADCAST

Osama bin Laden is to give another televised address to the world.

The al-Qaeda leader is to deliver a hate-filled video on July 4, American Independence Day.

The announcement was made on the Arabic Sahab website which issues daily information on the war in Afghanistan.

Bin Laden was pictured on the site, kneeling between two al-Qaeda officials.

His spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith says: "America should get ready and fasten its safety belt.

And, from http://www.filmsite.org/alla2.html:

All About Eve (1950)

"...Margo begins to get roaring drunk and feels "Macbethish" in mood - she snidely calls Eve "the Kid" and "Junior," feeling menaced by the deceptive young actress. At the height of her bitchery, she warns some of the birthday party guests about what to expect in the film's most famous line - it is delivered as a lip-sneering, nasty admonition:

Lloyd: It's very Macbethish. What has or is about to happen?
Margo: What is he talking about?
Bill: Macbeth.
Karen: We know you. We've seen you like this before. Is it over or is it just beginning?
Margo: (after gulping down another martini and marching to the staircase) Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

Matt thinks that Osama has been watching old Bette Davis movies?

[Senator Pardek]

One of the best scripted films of all time.

Margo: Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.

[Calvin Locke]

Well, Drudge didn't mention Art Bell the first half-hour, but did get his potshots in at O'Reilly.

I think TLC should come up with a show called "Inside the Mind of a Serial Caller". All Hail Usama.

[RonDog]

From www.BoxOfficeMojo.com (via Drudge):

'Stitch' and 'Minority' in Photo Finish
by Brandon Gray
June 23, 2002

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo) - Lilo & Stitch may have been ahead on Friday, but Minority Report eked out a victory for the weekend, according to studio estimates. However, their grosses were neck-and-neck down the line, prompting 20th Century Fox's head of distribution Bruce Snyder to label the weekend "too close to call" until actual numbers come in on Monday.

Though everybody didn't run to Minority Report, the critically-raved sci-fi thriller pulled in an estimated $36.9 million at 3,001 theaters, which would exceed the openings of director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Cruise's last pictures -- A.I. Artificial Intelligence ($29,352,630) and Vanilla Sky ($25,015,518) respectively.

Breaking the weekend down, Minority grabbed an estimated $11.9 million on Friday, jumped 13% to $13.4 million and Fox is projecting a 13% dip to $11.6 million for Sunday. Demographically, the audience skewed only slightly male at 52% but played mostly to those over the age of 25 (64%), according to Snyder.

Lilo & Stitch gobbled up an estimated $12.3 million on Friday at 3,191 venues to top the chart then, but Minority surged ahead on Saturday. For the weekend, Disney's latest traditionally animated event came in at an estimated $35.8 million, which would rank as the second biggest opening ever for a hand-drawn picture behind The Lion King.

Illustrating just how close these two pictures were, estimates from other studios had the movies flip-flopped. One had Lilo & Stitch at $34.8 million and Minority Report at $34.2 million..."

And from disney.go.com/disneypictures/LiloAndStitch:

[eddie willers]

One of the best scripted films of all time.

Wish I could remember some of the lines George Sanders said to his "Chippy", Marilyn Monroe.

[Senator Pardek]

(A butler passes by)
Miss Claudia Caswell: Oh, waiter!
Addison DeWitt: That is not a waiter, my dear, that is a butler.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Well, I can't yell "Oh butler!" can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
Addison DeWitt: You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point.
Miss Claudia Caswell: I don't want to make trouble. All I want is a drink.
Max Fabian: Leave it to me. I'll get you one.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Thank you, Mr. Fabian.
Addison DeWitt: Well done! I can see your carreer rise in the east like the sun.

[Pharmboy]

What is Matt flacking that horrible Time magazine for? Did they say nice things about him recently??

[Calvin Locke]

I daresay that it will be a very long time before writing like that appears in mainstream entertainment.

[RonDog]

LOL! Sounds like you know this movie better than most!

[hole_n_one]

All About Eve

[Senator Pardek]

One of my top ten of all time (won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Screenplay). I watch it about three times a year. Here's my favorite quote -

The theatuh, the theatuh - what book of rules says the theater exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City? Or London, Paris, or Vienna? Listen, junior. And learn. Want to know what the theater is? A flea circus. Also opera. Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets, Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man band - all theater. Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience - there's theater. Donald Duck, Ibsen, and the Lone Ranger. Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford, Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable, Rex the Wild Horse, Eleanora Duse - they're all theater. You don't understand them, you don't like them all - why should you? The theater's for everybody - you included, but not exclusively - so don't approve or disapprove. It may not be your theater, but it's theater for somebody, somewhere...It's just that there's so much bourgeois in this ivory green room they call the theater. Sometimes it gets up around my chin.

[Calvin Locke]

I don't know about Time, but what's with Drudge's end of segment question: "Is it the end of the world or just hype?"

Well, Matt, you're talking about it. Isn't that hype? Getting on the bandwagon? What percentage of your listeners are Time subscribers?

Okay, you mentioned that AOL/Time-Warner's down to 40cents. So are time to cash in on the Martha Stewart shennanigans?

I'm very disappointed he didn't play the song with the line "its the end of the world as we know it" to go to break. (I'm horrible with song titles/artists).

[vikingchick]

Minority Report sucks. Can anybody tell me why they called it "Minority Report"? I watched it, but I must have missed the explanation when the jerk behind me kept kicking my chair.

[Cinnamon Girl]

When Disney initially sent out material on Lilo & Stitch, there were bold pictures of Lilo and her older sister, two of the ugliest girls Disney has ever animated. They look like those trolls with the long hair you twist up and spin.

They must have gotten word that the girls were too ugly because the next thing you know, Lilo has been totally removed from any of the billboards or print ads and its just that disturbing looking creature Stitch.

Unless this is an extraordinary story, I predict that Lilo & Stitch will tank faster than Rob Morrow's film career.

[hole_n_one]

[eddie willers]

MARGO
Then you two must have a long talk-

EVE
I'm afraid Mr. deWitt would find me
boring before too long.

MISS CASWELL
You won't bore him, honey. You
won't even get to talk.

ADDISON
(icily)
Claudia dear, come closer.
(she does, and he points)
This is Max Fabian. He is a
producer. Go do yourself some good.

MISS CASWELL
(sighs)
Why do they always look like
unhappy rabbits?

ADDISON
Because that is what they are. Go
make him happy.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Projecting.

[RonDog]

Well, Drudge didn't mention Art Bell the first half-hour, but did get his potshots in at O'Reilly.

LOL! Matt was even ragging on O'Reilly's new line of neckties, a la Rush:

From shop.ecompanystore.com/foxnews:

O'Reilly

And from www.tieguys.com/Rush_Limbaugh_Ties:

Rush We report. You decide. :)

[AUsome Joy]

When one of the precogs disagrees as to who would commit murder, it was called the minority report and was "hidden" by the powers that be. Anderton knew that he would not commit murder and that is why he kidnapped the precog that would probably be the one that would be in the minority and wanted to download her memory. That was the crux of the movie. He thought it was a perfect system, but it had a fatal flaw. Sorry someone was kicking your chair because my husband and I loved it.