October 20, 2002 Archive

Video

• Can't you see what I'm trying to say? I love you! Did your husband leave you any money?

  Margaret Dumont was born October 20, 1889. She gave priceless performances as the precisely perfect foil for Groucho Marx. The wife of a millionare, she basically was the haughty, aristocratic society woman that she played in seven Marx brothers movies.

  in Video — by Al Barger — on Oct 20, 2002

• Take THAT, SNL naysayers

  The October 19, 2002 Saturday Night Live with John McCain rocked hard. I was about to fall out of my goddam chair laughing at the Hardball show. "Osama Bin Laden is a house negro." "Craze-o. Cra-a-aze-o Harry Belafonte is a crazy mo-fo."

  in Video — by Al Barger — on Oct 20, 2002

• Waiting For Frodo

  in Video — by Solonor Rasreth — on Oct 20, 2002

• Gandolfini Issues

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 20, 2002

Music

• Haunting Hymns for Halloween

  Looking for something other than "The Monster Mash" for your Halloween party? Try Kronos Quartet.

  in Music — by Sydney Smith — on Oct 20, 2002

• Screaming Yellow Fungus Releases Spores

  An instant classic from unknown supergroup Screaming Yellow Fungus

  in Music — by Kevin Murphy — on Oct 20, 2002

• Chieftain Derek Bell Dies

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 20, 2002

• NARAS/ASCAP Education Opportunity in Cleveland

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 20, 2002

• Neko Case - Blacklisted

  Blacklisted is, above all else, a triumph of delicate, late-night moodiness. Case has a long, dark highway in the back of her mind.

  in Music — by Kenan Hebert — on Oct 20, 2002

• Listen to The Donnas

  in Music — by Lennat Mak — on Oct 20, 2002

• La Diva Renee

  The New York Times offers another (in my opinion, deservedly) fawning look at America's Operatic Sweetheart, Renee Fleming, on the occasion of her performance as Imogene in Il Pirata at the Met.

  in Music — by Ross — on Oct 20, 2002

• Grandpa Jones, vaudevillian folk music professor

  Besides being a fine banjo picker and showman, Jones took an unassuming but near academic interest in folk music.

  in Music — by Al Barger — on Oct 20, 2002

Culture

• "Spam, Spam, Spam Spam.."

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 20, 2002

• No Pity

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 20, 2002

• Travel: Internet Success Story

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 20, 2002

• Anna Nicole Was Subtler

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 20, 2002

Books

• 'I Am Not A Junkie'

  News in Books — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 20, 2002

• Book Review: The Yardbirds by Alan Clayson

  "There were four rock groups in the world that really counted, and The Yardbirds were one of them."

  Review in Books — by Ed Driscoll — on Oct 20, 2002

• Ayn Rand's fear of cold sores

  in Books — by James Russell — on Oct 20, 2002