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Who gets J.R. in new ‘Dallas’ movie? 25.03.05 11.20am NEW YORK - When hair was big, and big oil was brash and unbowed by scandal, "Dallas" was the world’s favourite soap opera. Now the 1980s story of the Ewing family and their Texas oil empire is coming to the big screen, updated to the present day with an all-star cast. Instead of "Who shot J.R.?" the mystery now is who will play J.R., the devious oil man with a glint in his eye and a cowboy hat setting off his business suits. "Wealth and power, greed and corruption in Texas - it’s a very pertinent topic," screenwriter Robert Harling said in an interview shortly after turning in his script to "Legally Blonde" director Robert Luketic who will direct the film. The author of "Steel Magnolias," who also wrote the screenplay for the 1996 comedy "The First Wives Club," has been working for 18 months on the "Dallas" script which takes the original characters from the pilot of the 1978-1991 series. "It’s reinventing the Ewing family as if they existed now in 2006 when the movie comes out," Harling said, explaining that he did not follow the plots developed over more than a decade in the series, though fans will recognize some things. Read more......... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1...jectID=10117094

morning all at beatking (7.27 AM here)...thanks heaps for the kind words........ :) :) :bigsmile:

i`ve eaten all my easter goodies..it`s wet, lightning storms, lots of internet, kicking back, hanging out, getting down... :bigsmile:

don`t i know it mate..... :(

good on you mate....love your sense of humour, your southern power surfing and your sheep suzie..... :bigsmile:

she just scraped through eh.......lucky paula.. :)

sad news...a great tv character actor...... r.i.p.

nice one sg..i`ve emailed it to a couple of mates who deserve it..

sweet as.... :)

Bush's custody plea for Schiavo refused March 25, 2005 - 7:59AM A state judge today refused to hear Governor Jeb Bush's arguments to take custody of Terri Schiavo, leaving the brain-damaged woman's parents with only the slimmest hopes in their fight to keep her alive. Bush's request cited new allegations of neglect and challenges the diagnoses Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state, but Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer wasn't convinced. Greer's decision came hours after the United States Supreme Court refused to order her feeding tube reinserted. The decisions reduce chances for quick intervention to reconnect the tube, which was pulled last Friday. Doctors have said Schiavo, 41, likely would die in a week or two without nourishment. Schiavo's husband, Michael, today urged the high court not to intervene, saying her case has been endlessly litigated and state courts have agreed with him that she would want to die. The appeal by her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, was part of a rush of legal activity in the unprecedented right-to-die struggle. They have frantically tried to reconnect the tube because they deny Michael Schiavo's arguments she has no hope for recovery and she would not have wanted to live in such a state.

Sporting a long beard, chess legend Bobby Fischer walked free yesterday from a Japanese detention centre and immediately headed to the airport to fly to his new home, Iceland, following a nine-month stand-off with Tokyo officials trying to deport him to the United States. Before leaving, however, the eccentric genius offered a few parting shots to the leaders of Japan and the United States, whom he accused of "kidnapping". "I won't be free until I get out of Japan," he told a crowd of reporters at the airport before boarding his flight to Copenhagen en route to Reykjavik. "This was not an arrest. It was a kidnapping cooked up by Bush and Koizumi," he said, referring to US President George Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "They are war criminals and should be hanged," he said. Fischer, with a long white beard and wearing jeans and a baseball cap, left the immigration detention centre on Tokyo's outskirts early Thursday morning. Japanese officials released the eccentric chess icon after taking him into custody in July, when he tried to leave the country using an invalid US passport. Fischer, 62, was accompanied to the airport by his fiancee, Miyoko Watai - the head of Japan's chess association - and Iceland's ambassador to Japan Thordur Oskarsson. He was in high spirits and characteristically defiant as he arrived at the airport. As Fischer walked toward the airport entrance, he turned, unzipped his pants and acted like he was going to urinate on the wall. He called Japan's ruling party "gangsters" and said he was being hounded by the United States because it is "Jew-controlled". Read more....... http://smh.com.au/news/World/Freed-Bobby-F...1525304087.html

Formation of Iraq govt drags on Mar 25, 2005 Shi'ite and Kurdish figures delayed the second session of Iraq's elected parliament until at least Monday and warned that bargaining over the formation of a government could drag on for another week. As the political drama played itself out, Iraqi troops battled insurgents in their former stronghold of Fallujah and five Iraqi policemen and soldiers died in a friendly-fire incident yesterday. US ambassador to Bulgaria, James Pardew, yesterday asked that Bulgaria's parliament not set a definite date for the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq, a parliament spokesman in Sofia said. The request came a day after the Bulgarian defence ministry said it would pull its 450 troops out of Iraq by the end of the year. "The request...was to not necessarily set a deadline for withdrawal of Bulgarian contingent from Iraq," spokesman Borislav Velikov told journalists after talks with Pardew. Pardew also called for Bulgaria "to take into account the concrete circumstances and conditions in Iraq and the progress towards democratisation after the new Iraqi parliament adopts a constitution," Velikov added. Meanwhile, in Britain, the head of an information watchdog said today he expected to gain access to secret advice on the legality of the Iraq war that the government received in the run-up to the March 2003 invasion. Read more....... http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_sk...8%3fformat=html

oooops..forgot.....writeup came from...http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/AOL_Browser/1107803894/1... :taskmaster: :)

just to make extra, extra sure... :bigsmile:

just to make sure.. :)

works like a dream....try this link guys..... :bigsmile: http://homepage.mac.com/element17/albumcov...nder/index.html

Thanks kiwibank for sharing, but I had no luck with both of them. The MA3D would not install, and the Album Cover Finder, never could even the simplest ones. @ DudeAsInCool thanks also. bummer...the album cover finder has been working quite well although it only finds smaller images..i`ll have to give it another go.... :)

Isn't that called "a date"? :horny: Once you say I do you pay dearly for sex. :) i just knew that you were going to say that red.....you speak the truth....... :read this: :( :bigsmile:

ooooops!!..where did it all go?.. :rolleyes: :P :)

yummy...... :) :)

what i`m munching this easter....... :bigsmile:

something in the air...genesis (phil collins)

Kentucky : Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names.....

wild

i`ve always sort of liked him....i`ve never seen him as a sell-out to punk or anything like that..even though he did the generation X thing..i`ve always thought of him as a rocker and listened to his stuff in that context.......i rather like " flesh for fantasy " from " rebel yell ", arguably his best album..........there is also a live acoustic version of " rebel yell " around that is pretty good too..i`ve always liked his guitarist steve stevens....typical L.A. rock scene guitarist, but good hooks none the less.... :) -- ---------------------------------------------------------- With Rebel Yell, Billy Idol released what's arguably the best of his so far five solo albums. Keith Forsey was still at the producer's helm, and Steve Stevens was doing his fiery guitar theatrics, but here, the songwriting, ferocity and singleworthiness of songs, and tight arrangements were among their best. The album itself reached #6 on the album charts. The anthemic title track is another example of an Idol classic failing chart-wise, like "White Wedding." It stalled at #46 on the charts, though it did respectfully well on the album rock charts, peaking at #9. But this turned out to be another frantic mixture of new wave synths, punk rhythms, hard rock, and techno beats. "In the midnight, she cried more, more, more!" roars Idol in the chorus, creating another memorable lyric. This song was also reinforced by the energetic concert performance clip on MTV, where viewers got to see Stevens perform some squealing and laser-beam sounding space age theatrics with his guitar. The session take has some "tonight" instead of "last night" in "last night a little dancer came knocking at my door," as well as some rough instrumentation and different lyrics. Until reaching #1 with "Mony Mony," "Eyes Without A Face" became Idol's highest charting song, reaching #4 on the pop charts and #5 on the album rock charts. The slow airy synths and pulsing bass, claps in this ballad, backup vocals by Idol's girlfriend, Perri Lister, who also did the makeup on Idol's first album, and Stevens grinding guitar during the sudden ferocious rock section midsong provided yet another hit for Idol. The album closer "The Dead Next Door," has a quieter ambient synth sound that kind of belongs with "Eyes" "Blue Highway," also present here in a demo version, is a rocker perfect for some high speed driving down a highway. "(Do Not) Stand In The Shadows" is another uptempo rocker along the same lines. And the pulsing night-time feel of "Daytime Drama," with some keyboard theatrics before the first chorus, isn't a bad non-single bridging "Rebel Yell" with "Eyes." There's a slight ominous and nocturnal club aura with the pulsing bass backbeat in "Flesh For Fantasy," the third single, which reached #29 on the pop charts and #8 on the album rock charts. The carnal hunger is felt during the chorus-"you see and feel my sex attack"-when things rise in pitch, evidenced by Idol's lusty vocals and Stevens' guitars. The session take has a slightly slower tempo in the verses, but with a quicker-paced and different sounding chorus. The next single was the #50 pop/#24 album rock-charting "Catch My Fall," a pulsing dance tune with a sax nonetheless. Yet there are some signs of the fiercely individualism wanting some sort of support after a lifetime of experience: "I've traveled and unwound my own truth yeah/I've laid my head on the rock of youth yeah/I've trusted and then broken my own word/Just to keep me free in this mad, mad word." The demo version is more stripped down and restrained, but not bad. A cover of Chris Spedding's "Motorbikin'" is the only new track on this expanded edition bar the demo versions and session takes. Used as a warmup track during the album sessions, this is a real showcase for Stevens' guitar and something Gen X might have done. After releasing this classic, Billy Idol would turn that sneer of his into a whiplash smile. "Flesh For Fantasy" Idol/Stevens/Forsey There's a change in pace Of fantasy and taste Do you like good music? Do you like to dance? Oh yeah. Hangin' out for a body shop at night Ain't it strange what we do to feel alright? Oh yeah. So when will you call? I'm experienced Oh yeah Face to face And back to back You see and feel My sex attack Sing it Flesh, flesh for fantasy We want Flesh, flesh for fantasy It's after midnight Are you feelin' alright oh yeah Turn on the light, babe Are you someone else tonight? Neighbour to neighbour, door to door Don't ask questions, there's time for it all Oh yeah. Face to face And back to back You see and feel My sex attack Sing it Flesh, flesh for fantasy We cry Flesh, flesh for fantasy I sing for culture... Father loves his son, Mothers, daughters, too. It's an old old story, Cries the new world too. Flesh, flesh for fantasy We want Flesh, flesh for fantasy We want Flesh, flesh for fantasy You cry Flesh, flesh for fantasy B00000JCFW.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_