Le Show; 1999-09-12; 1999-09-19

I'm Tom Schnabel, join me this Sunday, September 12th, when Cafe LA goes backstage with Brazilian great Gilberto Gil at the Hollywood Bowl. Cafe LA weekends 2-5 here on 89.9 KCRW. I understand Gilberto Gil likes all the M&Ms. Chris wins the next news from National Public Radio. The next one, 5 o'clock this afternoon, weekend, all things considered. Who weekended? Excuse me? You said weekend. Oh, please. I'm sorry. All right, Chris, ladies and gentlemen, he's run out of patience. He is absolutely, he's gone. He is like the wind. In 10 seconds, it will be 10 AM Pacific Daylight Savings Time. Last time for the weekend edition of La Show. Ladies and gentlemen, cast your mind back about 25-26 years.

Our name, the name of the people of the United States of America, our government gave a seemingly endless supply of military assistance to the government of Indonesia. After that government illegally invaded the recently freed former Portuguese colony of East Timor 25 years ago, in our name, the name of the taxpayers of the United States, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, well, we're not going to bother about that. It would be unrealistic to object. In our name, the name of the people whose governments comprise the membership of the United Nations, the East Timorys were told this year that if they went to the polls in

a referendum to decide whether to be independent of the illegal occupying force of Indonesia, the United Nations would protect them, would assure them a safe and fair election, and would protect them in the aftermath. In our name, the United Nations then decided to withdraw from East Timor after the East Timorys voted for independence, and after the militia armed and supported by the Indonesian military, went on a rampage to punish those who voted for independence. In our name, the Secretary General of the United Nations this week said, the United Nations wasn't unaware of the possibility of violence after the vote for independence. He said, we were not fools.

And now today, following what NPR described as a change of heart by the Indonesian President and more like a change of head, to allow an international peacekeepers force to arrive after two weeks of violence in our names, an internationally organized peacekeeping force aided by the United States will get to East Timor, just in time to mop up. So it may be a little too late for 20,000 people killed, the 200,000 people forcibly evicted from their homes which were burned to the ground. But ladies and gentlemen, the good news is our name is safe. Hello, welcome to the show. Kallenemashore told me to go and I sing a song for Sinix.

I asked the帽, such a song, sin of cool girls and they said I'll just forget it. And I don't know why, we are such an angry show Robert and Lawrence told me to go and sing a song for Sinek's. It seems every person living I know wants to hear a song for Sinek's. Tell me what is the appeal of a fearless world I deal. And you tell me all your love is gone. And you tell me everything, well it's gone and it's gone.

La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la. There was a vote that left me and I said to sing a song for Sinek's. It knows the compassion and now out of fashion. The world's not yours living and now all I think I see. It is a rooster for Sinek. And you tell me all your love is gone. And you tell me everything, well it's gone and it's gone.

The breeze of the purple one's gone, don't want to hear a song for Sinek's. Before and the pain, no matter what shade, want to hear a song for Sinek's. But I hope you don't agree. I hope you don't agree. Please don't tell me you agree. I hope you don't agree.

I hope you don't agree. I hope you don't agree. I hope you don't agree. I hope you don't agree.

I hope you don't agree. I hope you don't agree. I hope you don't agree. I hope you don't agree.

I hope you don't agree. I hope you don't agree. Till now and you're almost lost, your will to live. No matter what you've been through, long as there's breath in you.

There is always one more time. If your dreams go bad, everyone that you had, that don't mean some dreams. Can't come true. Because it's funny about dreams. Just that strange as it seems. There is always one more time.

There is only a state of mind to live. Keep in your eyes closed. It's worse than being blind. So if there's a heart out there, looking for someone to share, I don't care if it's been turned down time and again. And if we meet someday,

please don't walk away. Because there's always one more time. There is always one more time. One more time. One more time from the edge of America from the home of the homeless. What a hip choice for a title song for a movie. A actor Joel Gray, whose main residence is in New York, not in Maine, oddly enough.

I would think his New York, no, I've pummeled that now. His Hollywood Hills, Pieda Terre. It's really Pieda Hills. On the market at $585,000, Gray. Get to the house. There isn't Canadian hot property, is there? The two-bedroom, two-bathroom house built in 1957 was renovated in 1994 by a late architect and now features walls of glass with canyon views. The 3,000 square foot contemporary home was purchased by the veteran actor in the mid-90s before it was remodeled. Doesn't say whether he was remodeled. Actor Don Johnson has put his Hollywood Beverly Hills area. Don Johnson can't live in Beverly, he only lives in the area. The heck is wrong with this? Home on the market for the second time this year. This time at $2.85 million.

He had listed it at $3.25 in Feb, but then took it off the market. It's a gate at home in Caldwater Canyon, on 1.4 acres. Hurry. Johnson spends most of his time in San Francisco where he plays the title role in Nash Bridges. Johnson has owned his Beverly Hills area home for about 10 years. He lived there with his former wife, Melanie Griffith. The 4-bedroom 6,000 square foot house was built in 1941 for actor Bert Lar, who played the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz. Lar loved the avocado lemon lime grapefruit almond and fig trees that still grow in the property. Lar had so many avocados that he sent some to the 21 Club in New York with instructions to serve them to his friends for free. That's a house with some history. I'd paid. No, I wouldn't. After Lar, actress Betty Grable and her then husband, band leader Harry James, owned the home. Later, music producer Michael Chapman lived there and added a gazebo in Poole House. Johnson's home also has a tennis court, Poole's pub, Cabanhas,

bananas, outdoor bar and barbecue, outdoor bar and barbecue, and enclosed playground with a tree house, a four-car garage, and a motor court. Hereby finds the Porsche Guilty. Ladies and gentlemen, so that would be that. That's the property. As hot as it gets, let's talk humanitarianism. Can we? At this time of year, Rupert Murdock was condemned by Tibetans this week after criticizing the Dalai Lama and condoning the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Here is a man, ladies and gentlemen, whatever you think of him, and you know what I think of him. Who at least has a consistent personality. I cannot tell you a fact about Rupert Murdock that will make you scratch your head and go, well now I'm going to have to reconsider. Mr. Murdock, who hopes to expand his business interests in China, said of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, I have heard Sinek say he's a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci Shaves.

He listens to Sinek's, you see. Murdock, 68 recently married a 31-year-old Chinese woman, Wendy Ding. Also excuses Chinese disregard for human rights on the ground that the average Chinese person cares more about his next bowl of rice. Murdock expresses his support for China's forced occupation of Tibet by asking whether Tibet's own culture was ever worth preserving. Quote, it was a pretty terrible old, autocratic society out of the Middle Ages. Maybe I'm falling for that propaganda, he says of the Chinese government. But it was an authoritarian medieval society without any basic services. Maybe you are. Murdock says that Tibet's main problem is that half the people in Tibet still think that Dalai Lama is the son of God. The Dalai Lama however is supposedly according to a non-Rupert Murdock-owned newspaper,

the reincarnation of the first Dalai Lama rather than the son of God. I think it's another religion to believe somebody is the son of God. Mr. Murdock, check. I think you have people who can check that. In his ambition to expand his star satellite television business in China, Mr. Murdock has already been accused of placing his commercial interests above Freedom of Speech in 1994. He dropped the BBC from star satellite after it was critical of Chinese leaders and of the Tiananmen square killings. As I say, consistent. That's what you love. And the nation's largest Protestant, this nation's largest Protestant denomination has launched a new aggressive campaign aimed at converting Jews to Christianity. With the publication of a prayer book, Jewish leaders describe as offensive and condescending, the Southern Baptist International Mission Board timed this week's release of the pocket-sized prayer guide to coincide with the Jewish High Holidays that began this past Friday. Dotted with photos of rabbis and Jewish holy sites,

the booklet offers tips on how to evangelize Jews during the ten holiest days of the Jewish calendar. Pray each day for Jewish individuals you know by name, it says. Build authentic friendships with Jewish people. Love them as you would an unsaved relative. While acknowledging the prayer book might seem wrong-headed or arrogant to some, Southern Baptist said the Bible is clear on the need to evangelize the Jews. On day six, the book urges Christians to pray non-day eight of the ten-day, high-holy-day period. On day eight of that period, the prayer book urges Southern Baptists to pray that, quote, Jewish people would be free of the strong influence of materialism.

Unquote. There is absolutely... Oh, ladies and gentlemen, the whole Waco thing is now boiling. This week, the Attorney General, Janet Reno. Yes, still Janet Reno appointed a... Well, he's not an independent... He's not a special... Former Senator John Danforth, an Episcopal priest, will have full power to subpoena and pull people before grand jury and investigate the whole Waco deal. And it also became public this week that the FBI knew, as long as four years ago, that incendiary tear gas devices had been used at Waco. They issued a 49-page report to the Justice Department on the subject when the report was passed on by the Justice Department to Congress.

The last page was missing. That was the page on which mention was made of the incendiary tear gas devices, but the Justice Department has an explanation. It was the last page of the report. Sometimes the staple doesn't go all the way through, and a page gets lost. I'm sure that's what happened here, says a Justice Department source. So my favorite new explanation, beating all to hell, the dog ate it, is sometimes the staple doesn't go all the way through. That lays jam and that works whenever and wherever. And finally, this voice, Hilary Clinton is having her problems just when she decided that giving presidential clemency to the, what, doesn't Puerto Rican who had served 19 years for buying bombs and transporting bombs

or conspiring to think about transporting bombs. Just when she decides that it's a bad idea, at least several of the former members, I guess they're still members of the FALN, decided to accept the president's terms for the clemency and her sprung, thus sort of doing a double rug pull. That's embarrassing for her, but her putative rival for the New York Senate race next year, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has problems of his own. The City of New York is right now in the midst of an outbreak of St. Louis and Safalitis, and I think the first thing they got to do, if they're going to have that disease there, at least change the name. You know, it sounds so bush-league to have St. Louis and Safalitis in New York. Make a New York and Safalitis. You know, step it up. Make a big league. They are spraying the City of New York with Malathion,

which was very controversial when they did it out here in Southern California for medflies a few years ago, not for them, actually against them, if I have the sides correct, but apparently much smaller doses in New York, because mosquitoes are, I guess, wimpier than medflies. Anyway, here's New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani giving advice to the citizens of New York on how to deal with the outbreak of St. Louis and Safalitis in the City. If you want to deal with what you can do about not getting infected, if there's a chance that you can still be infected, which may not be so, but it may be so, you can cover yourself where long sleeves, where long pants, and then put spray, if it comes out of here, on the exposed part of your body. That's all you have to do, and you have to do it during the evening hours and the early morning hours, and then you will not get bitten by

whatever number of mosquitoes remain after the 100 million or so that we've killed. Now, did I just add one other thing you could do if you were in New York? You could put up screens. Ladies and gentlemen, it may come as a surprise to the rest of the country. They don't have screens on their windows in New York. They can spray and they can cover, but they can't put up screens. I guess it's too dense for screens. Before you spray, put up the damn screens, then come talk to me. We were born before the wind, also younger than the sun.

The other body boat was one, as we sail into the mystic. But now I hear the singers cry. Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic. Where that fork home blows, I will be coming home. Here when the fork home blows, I want to hear it. I don't have the fear and I want to rock your gypsy soul. Just like we're back in the days of old.

Never suddenly we will fall into the mystic. Where that fork home blows, you know I will be coming home. Here when that fork home blows, I want to hear it. I don't have the fear and I want to rock your gypsy soul. Just like we're back in the days of old.

And together we will fall into the mystic. Where that fork home blows, I want to rock your gypsy soul. And together we will fall into the mystic. Where that fork home blows, I want to rock your gypsy soul. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Direct from the Trading Floor of Coriim Saltamolliver, this is Mind Your Own Business. I'm Mike Tuchinello on the Trading Floor. Alan Greenspan has spun, now we can come out and play again.

That seemed to be the stock market's message this week as mid-summer's inflation fears gave way to the irrational exuberance of early autumn. Leaving the charge was the announcement of the CBS Viacom merger, which would have been called a blockbuster, except for the fact that it actually included blockbuster. Now, for the first time if the deal goes through, one company will be able to produce a movie, show it on television and cable, and then sell or rent it at a video store. Most analysts think the deal puts NBC in play as the only network not now connected to a movie studio. But Savvy thinking on the street says watch for CBS Viacom to gain complete control over a movie's life cycle and next purchase an airline. Other entertainment news this week wasn't as glittery. The long-troubled theme restaurant chain Planet Hollywood entered the one chapter it hoped the book of its life didn't contain chapter 11. But I guess today thinks in the great entrepreneurial tradition, but what looks like lemons may yet end up being lemon pledge. He's the man behind bankruptcy.com. Welcome Jeff Arsenal to the Trading Floor.

Mike, good to spend some time with you. Jeff, at 28, you're already one of the legends of the Internet industry, aren't you? I wouldn't say something like that. I would hire people to say it for me though. Well, who wouldn't? But yes, in just one year bankruptcy.com, which was the first and still is the only way to take yourself through the entire reorganization process and do it completely online. It went from a joke idea scribble in the back of a drink napkin at a dance club to being a publicly owned company that according to its stock price right about now is more is a more valuable piece of corporate real estate than general motors. Wow, solid testimony to the enduring appeal of starting over. Exactly Mike. In a way, it's sort of born again.com, although we never said that in our advertising. By the way, just for the record, the dance club was straight. They have those? Oh, sure.

Jeff, you've had conversations of substance with the parties in the planet Hollywood case. Well, just some feelers, you know, couple darts in the back of the neck type of thing. And what exactly is your proposal for rescuing the operation? Look, Mike, the whole action star premise that the place was built on is more than over. I mean, I'm sorry. Schwarzenegger, Stallone. You know, they never upgraded the product. They never made the deals with with the Mel Gibson's in the Sandra Bullocks. It could have made the planet Hollywood brand seem, you know, more late 90s. Well, there is the Bruce Willis factor. The big picture. The new Hollywood is Wall Street. The biggest cable channels are the ones where people gossip about the stock market all day. So what I'm proposing is to recast the chain around what's happening now. People are making unbelievable amounts of money in today's market and some people blow it out. These are disaster movies. These are real disasters.

So planet bankrupt would center around the personalities and memorabilia in the biggest, most spectacular business collapses. Like the planet Hollywood case itself. So what you have grand openings with personal appearances by Michael Milken. He's one of our personalities. Frank Lorenzo, who took cutting in the airlines on a ride that no air sickness bag could deal with. You went glamour. How about the family that took Barney's New York into chapter 11. Or the guys behind the, a reading in the global satellite phone system just went under. Yes. We also have a whole room devoted to prominent local retailers who've gone under. So in New York, for example, you get to meet crazy Eddie in Los Angeles. The brothers who used to own the house of suede. So local celebrities. Those are people who are on television more than anybody who just had a show. And then suddenly they disappeared.

You know, guys who could probably have made a go of their businesses. If they haven't bought so much airtime, I suppose. But built in curiosity factor to meeting them. Sure. At stage one. That's, you know, get you in the door for a burger and a meet and greet. Well, what stage two? These are people with an inspiring story to tell Mike most of them. How they started over doing things like this. That's what goes on in the renewal room. The renewal room. It'll be on an upper floor and most of the properties. Real exquisite decor, you know, grand looks, really great looking food. And an hour of inspiration from the guy who took George Ash jeans down. Jeff, it sounds great for the high roller. Mike, even on the burger level, there's a key ask that connects you right over a live internet connection to bankruptcy.com. You can start your process of personal reorganization while you're still enjoying your Pepsi. Well, Jeff, they all important question for cautious investors before they take an unbelievable risk.

Because what's been the response of the bankruptcy judge and the parties in the planet Hollywood case? Well, Mike, as you know, the devil is in the details. To me, hearing back from them is a detail. It'll happen. I mean, seriously, this is the only viable business plan for these properties. They're tweeners, you know, too big for Starbucks, too small for Nike town. Jeff Arsenal, good luck with plans for planet bankrupt and may 11 be your lucky number. You know what, Mike? It is good. And that's mind your own business for this week. Now, from the training floor of Chorium Stalk of Oliver, I'm Mike Tuchinello. This week, mind the business of someone you love. So long! But she smiles. She smiles and veins tend to rise. She smiles and hits.

Bow down. She smiles and hits. Bow down. She works the room. Her kiss is every victim twice. She spreads a joy around. Do you close your eyes to see miracles? Do you raise your face to kiss angels? Do you close your eyes to hear a cause? But she buzzes and smells. But she buzzes and smells. Not that I can't cross the line. Cross the line.

But she but knows. She knows you better than yourself. Confess upon your needs. She shares love. And the share of love is sharing wealth. Digging me pockets please. Do you close your eyes to see miracles? Do you raise your face to kiss angels? Do you close your eyes to hear a cause? But she buzzes and smells.

But she buzzes and smells. Not that I can't cross the line. The pain again's a strain. But she never seems to pet. And what I'm doing with a singer's song. Do you close your eyes to see miracles? Do you raise your face to kiss angels? Do you close your eyes to hear a cause? But she buzzes and smells. Not that I can't cross the line.

Do you close your eyes to hear a cause? But she buzzes and smells. But she buzzes and smells. OK, a list show obsession check. Let's find out what's up with genetically modified food lately. The Washington Post has a front page story today reporting on US farmers being in a near panic because of escalating uncertainty over genetically engineered crops. Farmers planted millions of acres of the crops this year, but foreign buyers are rejecting them in droves despite aggressive US marketing efforts. In the past month alone, Japan's two biggest breweries and a major Mexican corn tortilla maker said they would no longer use US gene altered corn in their products.

That's right, American corn is no longer safe enough for a Mexican tortilla factory. Don't drink the water, don't eat the corn. Thank you very much. And IMS, the Ohio-based pet food maker, recently told its grain suppliers it would no longer accept genetically engineered corn for use in its premium dog and cat food. Yes, indeed. But then in Britain, government trials of genetically modified crops have left the head of Britain's first biotechnology company uneasy because he suspected they were not rigorous enough. He said while he was absolutely certain the testing of the crop should continue, he was concerned about their effect on human health and wildlife. He said for some considerable time people would have to be alert to the possibility of allergy or long-term toxicity caused by the introduced genes. There's also the possibility that antibiotic marker genes

used to demonstrate the genetic implants had succeeded could cause antibiotic resistance and superbugs. Then on the subject of digital television, this update for your listening irritation, observed in action this week digital television in Britain, there have been previous reports of the video quality of United Kingdom DTV Stinks, says this correspondent, I'm happy a report, it does not. On fast sports there were some detectable compression artifacts, but they were certainly no worse than anything transmitted on any digital cable TV channel. Did those compression artifacts make the digital a bit worse than terrific analog reception? Well, strictly speaking, yes, welcome to the age of digital, says this correspondent. Notably, the analog channels generally look great, that's in Britain.

If you've heard that CBS will be broadcasting its movies in high definition this year, the reason Samsung will underwrite the costs of converting them. Hey, Samsung, underwrite me, babe, I'm there. The congressional budget office says digital television will not reach the 85% penetration level needed to shut down analog TV as mandated by 2006. Digital television set prices won't fall far enough, fast enough for that cutoff. Just 49 US TV stations are fully authorized for digital TV broadcasting at this time. And Reuters recently ran a story under the headline, digital TV turns off British consumers. Representatives of three services that provide digital television were given 90 minutes to convince

a 13-member people's jury that their services were worth paying for five people agreed. The financial times has estimated 4,000 digital TV receivers have been sold in the United States. So, it all sounds great. It really does. Now, on a related matter, the New York Times reports this week that record companies are now bitching and moaning because street vendors in New York are selling bootleg CDs that are of audio quality as good as the legitimate CDs sold in stores for three times the price. These are the same record companies, ladies and gentlemen, that killed off for consumers. We still use it here in the industry. The fabulous digital audio tape format because of fear that the bootleg problem would be uncontrollable. They preferred to deal with CDs because at the time they didn't think that the cheap CD burners would come into being. So there, now it is German worst inventions of the 20th century, your lists, your submissions, and you should submit.

Another person suggests the leaf blower and appropriate use of energy and an ordnance amount of noise to achieve what is better done by hand from Maurice Barnwell at the Department of Design in the York University in Toronto. Bugzappers says David. Here's another Dave who says, don't check out my webpage, that's always good advice. The neutron bomb, the teleprompter, fun or catchy spellings, tasty night, collagen injections, binaka, squirting gum, pet psychologists, humvees, and simulated wood grain. Thank you, Dave. Brent suggests internet casinos, no cocktail waitresses, no free cocktails, no flashy tacky decor, no big-haired tourists, no cheesy cover bands, no celebrity impersonators, no fun from Brent. A woman named Nicole Stranko complains about the submissions from other listeners.

It's a worldwide millennium list of the worst inventions, not a Californian in the 90s list of annoying things. Items have to be harmful and destructive as a whole. She says, so here's her list. Mint flavored lead paint, Christian imperialism, chemical warfare, patriarchy, patriarchy isn't an invention of the 20th century Nicole. They like savings time, philidomide, phlegiston, flammable jammies, the combine harvester enables farming methods and increase soil erosion and mineral depletion requiring use of chemical fertilizers. The suburbs, cosmetic surgery, and that's sort of on the same line is filter tip cigarettes, gangster rap, it's not an invention. It's a macaroni salad, seawalls, jetties, grines, and other structures designed to prevent beach erosion, demographic target markets. Okay, Nicole. Alan Weiss, as a computer center at UCSB, why is everybody limiting their choice for worst invention to gas powered leafflowers?

Leapflowers are simply stupid. No matter where their power comes from. When you use a broom, you sweep stuff into a pile and pick it up and put in the trash. When you use a blower, you turn this stuff into a cloud, some of which settles backward came from, and the rest of which just gets in people's eyes. More music, and settles and neighbors yards until they blow it back into your yard. Why does anyone think this is a good idea? My list of worst inventions would have to go on to include poison gas, trench warfare, aerial bombing, napalm, and the automobile. Okay, Leslie suggests breast and penile implants, water beds, fan fan hair plugs, hermetically sealed office buildings, and twinkies. Lisa of Oakland suggests the clapper. Is that Lisa that suggested that? Perfume ads in magazine, musical rings on cellular phones, peanut butter and jelly mixed together in one jar. Monster trucks suggests another listener.

Dillon suggests microwave pizza, commercial TV, instant coffee, commercial radio. The words will be right back, artificial coloring, VHS, and mini discs. You just had it, babe. That was it. And Philip says, I expected someone to quickly suggest AstroTurf, the Space Defense Initiative, a track tape, the Earth Shoe, Pogs. That's this week's list. Ladies and gentlemen, now you did here on my neural business that Viacom has bought CBS, and there are concerns all over the place. But nowhere more than at Black Rock, where this may be another bad day next on the show. Hey, Mr. Wallace.

Well, hey. That was a lot to be done. Oh, she's great, Mr. Wallace. Thank you for asking. Daniel is still in here. Yes, sir. Doing new season promos for their local stations. Gotcha. There's a great hour of news here on CBS 47. Gill and Marianne bring you the latest from around the Quad Cities. Then the CBS evening news covers your world. I'm Dan Rather. Join me, Gill and Marianne, weeknight starting at 5.30 here on CBS 47, where the Quad Cities learn to love you, HF. Man, I want a lot of words for their $7 million. Excuse me, Daniel. I got your page. Oh, Michael, hold on there, Hoss. I want to talk to you double-prone. Uh, that one, okay, doctor? Uh, look good in here, Dan. Look, like you really liked Gill and Marianne. Excellent. I'm, uh, I'm on a five, gentlemen. Brother Wallace, we're more cooked than burgers at a tailgate party. Daniel, so it's sold again. So what else is new, Michael? It's a newsman's job to know what's new.

That's where all the scuffed chew leather and the bloodstained safari jackets are all about. You never got blood on your safari jacket, Daniel? I got traces. Anyway, let's, let's go into the stairwell. I could use some stale air. Look, Brother Rather, I shoppers already got the word that Paramount wants to have this same relationship with the 60 minutes for dramas that they do with Saturday Night Live for comedy. A series of films based on our stories. I've also heard that MTV has approached Brother Hewitt to do a series of very fast-paced teens, C. Wayne C. excerpts from your broadcast. A 60 minutes minute. I've heard that corporate is pitching Kurt Loader to be a correspondent on 48 hours. That my shop is being leaned on to do the tie-in stories with Paramount films, as soon as they're released. So, you may end up doing tie-in stories on films based on our stories. We'll already have the footage for you.

It's win-win. Sir, it's so loose-lose, I feel like a crack shooter on a Russian cruise ship. What's happening here, Ross, is that an organization which still on its good days has CBS values is being submerged into an organization based on MTV values. Daniel, would there be something so wrong about your CBS news wraps? I can't believe you're even asking me that question. I can't believe our brothers at ABC News are taking marching orders from a cartoon mouse. I can't believe our brothers at NBC News can't do a piece of nuclear safety without permission from the bosses at GE. When you compare our situation with theirs, Daniel, we're still the Tiffany Network. Well, you know, I hear they want to run old CBS evening news broadcasts on Nick at night. Now, that- No, sure. Crunk art, vintage. That's the business we're going to be in, Michael. News, nostalgia. It's good, Daniel.

It's very good. Well. All right, then. In any case, brother, rather, on a practical level since we both have promos to cut, what do you suggest we do? Sir, please, two mergers ago, we tried to buy CBS news. Yes, I remember. Now, we're a much smaller piece of a much bigger pie. Our new fearless leader would sell off a troublesome little tidbit like us in a top 40 heartbeat. Daniel, to quote one of your old features, reality check. Brother Mel doesn't sell things. He only buys them. We've just been talking about all the ways our little shop ties into the rest of the company. They're not going to give that away. You think Paramount Pictures wants to go back to the days of paying for story ideas? Michael, you know geese flying south solid in your bones.

That if Ed Merle were alive today, this crew would have him interviewing washed up rockers on VH1. Daniel, if Ed Merle were alive today, he'd be older and drunker than David Brinkley. This is the future. I suggest we embrace it. They've offered you a part, haven't they? What? Some part that Howard K. Smith or Ed Newman or some other retired anchor wouldn't normally play. They've offered it to you. Have it, they Michael. Let's go, Daniel. Gill and Mary Ann are waiting. Who's doing what now? After you, brother, rather. Thank you, sir. Please. When Elvis finds no speed, meant to cop on the beat. He was higher than a fly on a spray, any day. When Pete knew he was booked at the police man, he'd look and defending his budget.

You could hear him say. Have you got the gumption to make the assumption that I'm inebriated? Have you got the gall to say alcohol's gone to my weak? I ain't had a drink, sir, since I made the clink, sir. The night I celebrated. And the garbage man's ball when we had that brawl. You remember, officer? You may be the law. Still, that could be a flaw when your calculations all top. I got troubles enough. I ain't even touching the stuff. Not even a week. Little drop. Just draw with some chalk, sir. Align and I'll walk, sir. Straighter than a judge, man. Have you got the gumption to make the assumption that I'm pinched? Yes, you made me the law. Still, that could be a flaw when your calculations all top.

I got troubles enough. I'm not even touching the stuff. Not even a week. Little drop. Just draw with some chalk, sir. Align and I'll walk, sir. Straighter than a judge, man. Have you got the gumption to make the assumption that I'm pinched? You mean, officer, you gonna put me in jail? Don't close that game. Let me take a walk. I'll be straight. Hey, officer, take these things off, mom. I ain't gonna do nobody no harm. Officer, I know they're captain of the prison. Don't get me with that blackjack. I ain't coming back. Oh, awesome. If I got to go, let me take my horn so I can be real gone. Oh, awesome. Are you doing wrong, officer?

The verdict is in court. We'll come to court. It's a new day in the halls of television justice. First up, the case of the Larsen is Labrador. And here comes a judge like never before. Judge O.J. I find the defender guilty of wearing one ugly ass suit. Look out, Judge Judy. Take a walk, Ed Koch. Three strikes, Judge Joe. It's the court show for the new millennium. I tell you, I can use this gavel on my girlfriend. Just kidding. Judge O.J., coming this fall to a daytime near you. There's almost as much fun as playing golf. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that concludes this edition of the show. I'm going to go try to find a chink in the consistency of Rupert Murdoch's personality.

That'll keep me busy. So for the next seven days, I'll meet you back here a week from now. On these same stations on NPR Worldwide throughout Europe, on the U.S. and 440 cable system in Japan, around the world on Armed Forces Network, on shortwave at WBCQ, the planet at 7.415 megahertz. And on your computer, whenever you want it, in the miracle of real audio, at www.HarryShirer.com. And if you, well, it'd be just like the staple going all the way through, if you'd agree to join with me then. Alrighty, thank you very much. You want to get in on the 100 worst inventions of the century list. We'll email at interworld.net or a show, 1900 Pico PICO Boulevard, Santa Monica, California, 90405.

The show comes to you from century of progress, productions, and originates through the facilities of SAS, a satellite service of KCRW Santa Monica. A community recognized around the world is the home of the homeless. This is KCRW Santa Monica KCRY Indio Palm Springs in KCRU Oxnard Ventura, and around the world on the internet at KCRW.org, KCRW is a community service of Santa Monica College National Public Radio for more of Southern California. What a way to end a summer season of Jazz at the Bowl. The Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Shirley Horn, Plast Johnson, Greg Jefferson, Monica Mancini, and Jack Sheldon all out there under the stars, paying tribute to the musical geniuses of Henry Mancini, Quincy Jones, and Johnny Mandel.

This is the last Jazz evening of the last summer of the millennium, for tickets called 323-850-2006. That's 850-2006 for Hollywood Jazz Legends at the Hollywood Bowl. Here's the great thing about being on the radio. I've heard that message all week and it's driven me crazy. When is that concert? Thank you. It's 11 a.m. Joe Frank is returning to the air on KCRW Sunday mornings at 11 beginning in October 3rd. The new series will be titled Joe Frank the other side between now and then. We present archival programs from his previous radio series. And now from National Public Radio, Joe Frank. Working in California. Chris, while we have a moment here. Is this a moment? This is our moment. When would a listener hungry for the next news? Be able to hear it here on KCRW. They'd be able to hear it at 5 when we broadcast weekend all things considered.

From National Public Radio. Yes it is. Wow. So the news hungry listener would have to be patient. That's right. He'd have to go hungry for the next 8 hours or so. Well, it was seven. Yeah, seven or so. Good. Seven is eight or so. Yes it is. Chris and his wonderful math tricks. Ladies and gentlemen for your listening pleasure. Thank you. Chris in 14 seconds or so. That is to say 10. It will be time for the show here on KCRW. So stay tuned. Won't we? So ladies and gentlemen, last week I talked about what had been done in our name. Here comes now the guardian of London. That's a newspaper. It's not an actual guardian. Washington trained death squads in secret. That's not George, by the way. This is today's paper. Indonesian military forces linked to the carnage and east teamwork were trained in the United States. Under a covert program sponsored by the Clinton administration, which continued until last year. This is an answer to the question, why should we be sending 200 logistical troops to support the Australian peacekeepers?

The US program codenamed iron balance was hidden from both Congress and the public when Congress curved the official schooling of Indonesia's army after a massacre in 1991. But units that continued to be trained was the copassus and elite force with a bloody history. I think all elite forces have bloody histories. Just oh, which was more rigorously trained by the United States than any other Indonesian units according to the Pentagon, which has these documents. Copassus was built up with American expertise despite United States awareness of its role in the genocide of about 200,000 people in the years after Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975. And its involvement in a string of massacres and disappearance has since that blood bath. And the steam international describes copassus as responsible for some of the worst human rights violations in Indonesia's history. And we trained him. The covert training program was conducted under a Pentagon project called Jset joint combined education and training.

The training was in military expertise that could only be used internally against civilians, such as urban guerrilla warfare, surveillance, sniper marksmanship, and psychological operations. Specific commanders trained under the US program have been tied to the current violence and to some of the worst massacres of the last 20 years. Included in those commanders is the son-in-law of the late dictator General Soharto and his mentor. See, mentoring is a good thing. So, ladies and gentlemen, that would be the answer to the question, why are we now obligated to send, oh, God, 200 logistical support troops for the peacekeepers, because we got something on our hands and an ink tomato soup. But, psychological operations continue here for the next hour, as hello, welcome to the show. The Chief President of the Foundation

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It's raining about my baby I've got time for nothing else It's raining about my baby I've got time for nothing else It's raining about my baby Well, hello ladies and gentlemen from the Edge of America from the home of the homeless I'm Harry Sheerah welcoming you to the show The Treasury Secretary of the United States Lawrence Summers apparently wrote a blueprint for affairs economic affairs over Asia way called the East Asian Miracle in which he urges governments to insulate themselves from pluralist pressures and to suppress trade unions Thank you, that's our Treasury Secretary doing that So, well, you know, killing him is a good way to insulate from them, wouldn't you say? Those dang pluralist pressures

I am in receipt of a message from a listener who leaves his phone number and asks psychological operations Do they include lobotomies and implants that make the subject to your voices? Leaves his phone number If you don't want to hear voices, don't pick up the phone It would be my implant And, all right, ladies and gentlemen, some fine, fine quotes this week, some fine thing People said fine things this week and other people wrote them down Vice President Gore, for example, you've noticed, I'm sure, that a lot of the candidates are laying a little heavy on their godliness on their born-again hood George W. Bush obviously Alan Keyes and Gary Bauer but also Vice President Gore Now, this week, replying to accusations that talking about faith in God and the political campaign can cheapen faith, quote,

I think it can, depending on how it's done, sure but I think people can tell I think we have all learned pretty well to tell if somebody's being genuine on a subject like this or not, unquote Who, doesn't Bill Clinton talk the Bible real good? Yes, he does Here's one, quote, everybody wants me to run for president and I have a lot of respect for Jesse and the job he has done When he asks me to look at something, I'm going to consider it That's Donald Trump Everybody wants me to run for president Trump By the way, he echoes my belief in an interview this week He echoes a belief first stated, oh, almost a year ago in my fabulous book It's the stupidity stupid, it's still available that people would have been less critical of Bill Clinton if he'd fooled around with better looking women Donald Trump now says that So why aren't I rich?

No, well, Donald Trump says he's taking calls from people urging him to run and added, quote, my desk is full of information Most of it polls, unquote So that would distinguish him from other, from normal politicians, wouldn't it? That would be a change Most of his information consists of polls George Michael, the pop singer is defending two lawsuits for Slander by the LAP by the, no, the Beverly Hills police officer who arrested him in the public restroom in Beverly Hills in the park He made fun of the arrest in a music video The police officer says he suffered mental and physical pain as a result I don't know exactly where the physical pain the locus of it, I don't have that I have some polls if you'd like, well, anyway So George Michael because he said he was going to be more open about his life now if newspaper editors would publicize his favorite charity

so he's being very open He says if he was going to revert to heterosexuality he'd do it with ginger spice, the former ginger spice She's great looking, he says, but that's as far as it goes But I'm a ginger rather than a posh any day, he says I like girls with a bit of meat on them He also admitted he would not mind betting either Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman And finally he said he would not be using public toilets again So that's the George Michael experience for today And finally, in the fine, fine things people have said this week Former President Bush gave an interview to Oh, it was the Fox News channel, that's right About who's owner more in a moment But the former president said he has not asked his son whether he ever used drugs I wouldn't even consider to do that, Bush said ungramatically Now, isn't it the partnership for drug free America's thing

that you're supposed to talk to your kids about drugs before it's too late I wouldn't even consider doing that, says, I wouldn't even consider to do that Says George Bush, senior He's not asked his son, not ever talked about drugs with his son So you got your partnership or you got your former president You can pick your mentor Newt and Marianne Gingrich to the disappointment of this microphone have decided to keep their divorce out of the public They've reached a settlement that September 29th Video tape deposition of Newt's squeeze, apparently, will not happen now So I'm going to have to find something else to keep me alive for the rest of the month They've got a confidential agreement on how to divide their income and assets while their legal separation proceeds It gives them both support to live off of, said, Newt's attorney and non-professor of grammar The judge has not yet canceled which was to be a first joint appearance in court by the Gingriches Marianne's attorney confirmed agreement was reached but would give no details

So, all right Got to watch Steve, got to watch, I guess, the new season then Maybe that's why they settled to avoid competing with that speaking of which I'll speak of that when I read the trades for you moments from now But first, my two favorite cultural watchdogs are at it again Senator Joseph Lieberman, that Democrat, Connecticut And Mr. Virtue himself, Bill Bennett Who is an advocate of impulse control, except I guess when it comes to eating Because boy, he's just ballooning Anyway, they awarded the Silver Sewer Award this week for identifying the nation's worst cultural polluters To Robert Murdoch's Fox Network

Murdoch, according to Bennett, has put more cultural rot into the television mainstream than virtually anybody else and he's been doing it for years Says, that's a quote They specifically attack action, the Hollywood spoof done by veteran spoofer Joel Silver And the family drama get real which tanked in the ratings so I wouldn't be worrying about that But anyway, these two shows set a new low according to Bill Bennett Although he says he's not seen a full episode of either show So there might be new lows yet to plumb He's seen excerpts And you can sure get the odor of the hole from a part and it's foul, he says I wonder how much he says, is he just seen promos? Bill, can we get somebody on the horn to find out if Bill Bennett has just seen promos or if he's seen actual excerpts? Because that would be The Bill Bennett says he's tried a few times in the past This is the same Bill Bennett who I maintain is the most dangerous man in America for

Spearheading the mandatory minimum sentence laws that have put thousands of non-violent drug offenders behind bars while releasing murders and rapists But there's so few murders and rapists in this country now anyway Speaking of which, today's New York Times tells us that the crack epidemic died all by itself without any help from police crackdowns And the police crackdown on gangs in here in Southern California, here in Los Angeles, was sparked by a report by a cop that he now, one of the his fellow cops now claims, was concocted from whole cloth But anyway, back to Bill Bennett He says he's tried a few times in the past to sit down with Rupert Murdoch, hey, I know the feeling But he says he's never gotten past Murdoch's gatekeepers, hey, I know the feeling Who he says does not, who say Rupert does not make programming decisions at that level That is, according to the Washington Post, which points this out, not unless the network is contemplating doing an unflattering telefilm about Clarence Thomas

Bennett notes that, signing a news report that detailed how the project based on the bookstrange justice was passed over by Fox and picked up at Showtime Bennett says it's bad for adults as well as children, this stuff on Fox even though it's after the family hour It means he's just polluting the minds of adults so they can in turn pollute the minds of their children A degraded parent has the opportunity to pass it on to two or three kids It can be a more potent thing Murdoch's reaction, hey, I'm busy with this Chinese gal, don't bother me No, sorry, it was officially no comment But really it was, hey, I'm busy with this Chinese gal, don't bother me In olden days, a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking Now have a note, anything gold, good authors too, who once knew better words

And now only used for little words, writing prose, anything gold The world has gone mad today, and goods bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today When most guys today that women prize today are just silly sigalones So though I'm not a great romance, so I know that you're bound to answer when I propose Anything gold, in olden days, a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking Now have a note, anything gold, and good authors too, who once knew better words

Now only used for little words, writing prose, because anything gold The world has gone mad today, and goods bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today When most guys today that women prize today are just silly sigalones So though I'm not a great romance, so I know that you're bound to answer when I propose Anything gold, may I say before this record spins to a cold I want you to know anything gold

This week, ladies and gentlemen, in the Congress of the United States, Republicans briefly considered the idea of they have these budget spending caps They agreed to a couple years ago, and it's proved difficult to stay within them So before they just decided to screw them, they briefly considered this week using a slight kind of trick A slight kind of a dodge, a slight kind of gimmick, and making the current fiscal year a 13-month year Just a 13-month year, that would do it, because then you see, anyway, so they finally rejected that But along the same lines, ladies and gentlemen, let me read now the trades for you

Even more network ads, question mark from electronic media, I will read it for you Agencies and advertisers plan to discuss with the broadcast networks their increasing commercial time Says John Mandel, of MediaCom, New York, our concern is the networks have gone too far and will kill the golden goose The comments followed a report that ABC has asked some producers to reduce program time in their prime time shows this fall Like the 13-month year, but different

Mr. Mandel said he hopes to invite representatives of the networks to a meeting next month to discuss the problem A number of us, he says in the advertising and agency side field networks, are threatening the very existence of ad-supported mass-reach broadcast television by adding too many commercial minutes He emphasized, advertisers don't want the meeting to become adversarial, we're not going to be threatening him, it's not that kind of thing, and it's not about cost, it's beyond that We want to point out that we now have data from another medium, radio, that shows over commercialization has driven listeners away, we can now prove that Radio! Mr. Mandel says he understands networks have but a single revenue stream advertising, how they don't, excuse me, they also have syndication revenue

He just thought the host should interpose that before misinformation is spread to the listening public, but he said it's come to the point where they have to look past the financial picture for this quarter and look at their very survival Banks, a media director of Sachi and Sachi, of the ABC move, quote, it's outrageous, it's suicidal ABC's response to the report every new season dictates change, in the increasingly competitive landscape, it is incumbent upon each of us to remain relevant i.e. make some money Mr. Mandel noted it's not just ABC adding commercial slots, all the networks are doing it, he said

According to a recent study, in the first six months of the year, in primetime, ABC averaged 10 minutes and 12 seconds of national commercials an hour The first time the 10 minute barrier has been broken NBC was seconded, 9 minutes 46, those are national commercials, of course they also give the local stations Commercial time and they do promotions for themselves and blah blah blah and one producer interviewed by the New York Observer about the change said It's like they're forgetting that we're here for entertainment and they're only concerned about advertising There's somebody who doesn't read the trades enough ladies and gentlemen, but that not you because I read the trades for you a copyrighted feature of this broadcast News of real estate Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger has completed a hundred thou

Bruce Willis, who stars, he has purchased two and a half acres next to his Beverly Hills area home Michael Jackson The King of Pop is living on East 74th Street in Manhattan since June he's been there when he signed a $75,000 per month lease on a six-story townhouse His lease represents the highest monthly rent ever paid for a Manhattan townhouse Runs through November He usually resides, of course, at his 2700 acre Neverland Ranch where he has exotic animals and kitty rides The singer and his wife Debbie Rowe and his two children Prince Michael and Paris Michael Catherine Having virtually unnoticed for three months in July the family was spotted outside the building

The Jackson House is 12,000 square feet on the ground floor there's a large foyer, powder room, kitchen and dining room, and a deep family room toward the back On the second floor there's a 36-foot parlor, a formal dining room, a butler's pantry, maybe a deep butler's pantry I don't know, and a wet bar The third floor has a master bedroom, out with two baths in the back and a library with a powder room over looking 74th Street The fourth floor has two bedrooms, each with baths, a small kitchen and a laundry There's a three-room guest apartment on the fifth floor and a billiard room and another laundry room On the top floor is an exercise facility with a north-facing terrace and a small caretakers quarters The house was last purchased for 3.1 million five years ago by somebody who peans, takingly renovated it According to the New York Times, Mark Shagall once lived there, says one broker familiar with the property?

Is it great taste? No, but it's glitzy One broker familiar with Mr. Jackson's plan say he may be doing his own renovations to the building, Michael Jackson is in New York To record, to make a new record, even possibly including a tribute to his new home city The third floor has a master bedroom, a small kitchen and a laundry room The third floor has a master bedroom and another laundry room An awful lot of children, which mean they need an awful lot of love, you see them on the streets and in the subway But that's the lights that fire like the gloves

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