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On eBay, wedding dress for success
By LOUIS B. PARKS
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

It was the eBay auction that made 8 million people laugh and sold one wedding dress. It contained some truth, some fiction and made seller Larry Star an overnight media sensation, with a couple of movie offers and a lot of explaining to do.

"It was satire," Star said Thursday when asked if the story behind the auction of his ex-wife's wedding dress was true. "Let's just say it was satire."

But more on truth and ex-wives later.

Star, 42, from Everett, Wash., became an underground celebrity this week when his eBay auction -- selling what he said was his ex-wife's worn-just-once wedding gown -- was forwarded all over the country on the e-mail chain-letter circuit. It's still accessible at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=63851&item=4146756343.

Not only did Star, a musician with the Seattle-area rock band The Buzzcuts, model the dress himself, blurring his face but not obscuring his beard, do-rag or his hairy, heavily tatooed arms, but he also wrote a hilariously catty commentary on why he was selling it.

"She took the $4,000 engagement ring but left the dress. I was actually going to have a dress burning party when the divorce became final, but my sister talked me out of it," he posted on the auction site.

He wrote that he was afraid he couldn't get the dress on but "then I figured she got her Texas cheerleader hair through there (so) I could get my head in it."

His sales pitch was unique: "Don't worry, ladies -- I am wearing clothes on underneath it. I gotta say it did make me feel very pretty. So if it can make me feel pretty, it can make you feel pretty." and "I think it's funny that one picture makes it look like the chest plate off an Imperial Storm Trooper."

As the auction became an Internet phenomenon, Star added material twice, thanking viewers for their support in a difficult time and telling them "Five years of misery (in his marriage) was well worth the hearty guffaw that was my pleasure to give you."

At one point the bidding went well over $10,000 for the $1,200 dress. When it became clear that some bids were bogus or from people caught up in bidding frenzy, eBay stepped in to help Star eliminate nonlegitimate bidders.

Final tally: More than 6 million visitors looked at the auction by the time it closed, resulting in 113 official bidders with the dress selling to "absolutsth," whose eBay About Me page tells us his name is Barry and he likes music. And wouldn't you know, the winning bidder was trying to get out of paying.

"As far as I know, he's not going to pay me," Star said. "I'm probably going to have to re-list it, actually."

But the end of the auction was not the end of the story. By 1 p.m. Thursday, about 8.6 million visitors had looked at the auction site, which was still growing as an Internet destination as people e-mailed it to friends.

Star went on The Today Show Wednesday morning and was booked solid on Thursday.

"I'm hoping for a writing gig somewhere, a column, a radio show. I got offers for movie rights to this thing. I asked the guy, `Who would you get to play me?' He said, `If it's a feature film, we'll get Jack Black.' I'm like, `I'm a lot freakin' funnier than Jack Black. I'll play myself, thank you.' "

His band's Web site, www.thebuzzcuts.com, has "gotten tons of hits." He hasn't gotten any job offers yet, but "they're flying me out to do stand-up in Atlanta and then go back on the Today show," he said Thursday.

When the Chronicle asked him if the dress was really his ex-wife's, he sidestepped.

"I got the wedding dress, I wanted to get rid of it. I was going to burn it and had the idea of selling it on eBay. I needed to sell it on eBay with all the other dresses on there, and I needed to make it stand out."

"It's satire. You know, people are blowing this thing out of proportion," he hedged. "I wrote it because it's funny. I've been married twice. I'm not lying saying I haven't spoken to the ex-wife in years. I don't know where she is."

That's apparently the first ex-wife, because he and the second ex-wife divorced in 2003, according to the Seattle Times. Their divorce came, the paper reported, after fourth degree domestic violence charges were filed against him after he and his wife had an argument. According to the police report, she hit him and threw a guitar at him, he pushed her and she fell, scraping her face. They went together to the police to report it. The case was later dismissed, but the couple divorced last June.

And, despite the hair crack, neither of his exes is from Texas.
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Bell Talks Buffy And Angel

Jeffrey Bell, who co-wrote and directed the finale of The WB's vampire series Angel, told SCI FI Wire that scheduling conflicts and story concerns were the main reasons why Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar won't appear in Angel's final episodes. Angel co-creator Joss Whedon had asked Gellar to appear while Gellar was busy. But when Gellar was available for the final episode, producers opted not to include her, because they didn't want the show's finale to be about Buffy, said Bell, the series co-executive producer.

"Buffy [Gellar] is an aspect of Angel," Bell said in an interview. "It would have been great if she could have come in for one of the last couple of episodes, but not the finale. But Sarah was in Japan shooting her feature [The Grudge] right up until we were shooting our last episode. Joss had asked her if she was available for number 20 ['The Girl in Question'] or number 21 ['Power Play'], and she wasn't. So we wrote number 20 [as] a story that dealt emotionally with Buffy, even though she wasn't in it."

Bell added that the finale, "Not Fade Away," "is about our people and everything we'd been through. And we'd already written about Buffy in number 20. So the ship had sailed and there wasn't a lot we could do about it.

"It would have been great to have her," Bell added. "It would have been a huge ratings boon. The fans would have loved it. But not for the finale. That's not what Angel ultimately is about. We struggled so much to get as many of our stories resolved anyway. I can't imagine having added that to the mix as well." The WB will air "Not Fade Away" on May 19.

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April 27, 2004, 10:58AM

'Sesame Street' regular gives 'The Sopranos' a try
By DAVID BAUDER
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NEW YORK -- After filming an intimate scene with his girlfriend in The Sopranos, Steve Buscemi's good-natured angst over actress Alison Bartlett's other job on Sesame Street was laid bare.

"Everybody's going to hate me!" Buscemi moaned. "I'm bedding down Gina!"
Alison Bartlett, who has been turning heads on Sesame Street since joining the show in 1986, is now turning heads for her role as a mobster's girlfriend on The Sopranos.

What would Elmo say?

Good-natured Gina, the veterinarian and Sesame Street neighbor for nearly two decades, seminude and in bed with a man? A mobster just out of prison, no less.

Even in a profession with vertigo-inducing character switches, Bartlett's feat -- simultaneously performing on television's most violent show and probably its most gentle -- is noteworthy.

"It is an extreme," she said. "An absolute extreme."

Children's Television Workshop, which makes Sesame Street, has rules about what outside work its performers can take on. Lewis Bernstein, the show's executive producer, said he trusted Bartlett to do what's right. He was able to see for himself Sunday, when the love scene involving Bartlett's character, Gwen McIntyre, aired.

Bartlett has been a member of the Sesame Street family since 1986, first portraying a student in a science class. Gina graduated from college, came back to run a day care and is now a vet, even though Bartlett is allergic to dogs.

Before joining Sesame Street, Bartlett had prime Sopranos training: At age 12, she played a girl who chopped her boyfriend's head off in a Gary Sinise-directed play.

Taking time off to have three children, Sesame Street was Bartlett's only acting job for many years. But in the past two years, she's actively sought other work. She's on a new series, The Jury, to air on Fox this summer. She played a prison guard raped by a prisoner on Law & Order and a closet lesbian schoolteacher on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

"It's a good thing my children go to bed at 8 o'clock," she said.

Georgianne Walken, casting director on The Sopranos, said Bartlett nailed the audition for her character, Gwen, by capturing the maternal instincts of a woman who fell in love with a prison inmate.

Bartlett said she pursued the role because The Sopranos is a great show, not because she was trying to break from the constraints of a long-established character.

She and her manager, Carolyn Anthony, cleared the job with Children's Television Workshop. Bartlett's contract with The Sopranos had a long list of activities she would not do, words she would not say.

Children's Television Workshop forbids its actors from making commercial endorsements for children's products, or performing in roles on other children's shows because it might confuse Sesame Street's young fans. The show asks actors not to appear in roles that would cast their Sesame Street characters in a bad light, Bernstein said.

Bartlett's appearance on The Sopranos shouldn't be a problem because any parent with common sense isn't letting his preschool children watch the show, he said.

Sesame Street is also careful in picking outside celebrities to appear on the show, which is done partly to attract parents to watch with their children. Tony Soprano himself, James Gandolfini, was on three years ago to talk to children about fears.

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Stargate Atlantis, a spinoff of SCI FI's hit original series Stargate SG-1, features a new cast led by Joe Flanigan, playing a crew that undertakes humanity's greatest and most dangerous mission yet. Atlantis will debut with a two-hour premiere in July and feature crossover appearances by members of the SG-1 team. Following its premiere, 18 additional original episodes of Atlantis will air during the show's regular Friday 10 p.m. ET/PT timeslot as a companion series to the new eighth season of SG-1, which airs at 9 p.m.
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Berman said the proposed movie would be a prequel, but declined to elaborate. In the wake of the poor box-office performance of Star Trek Nemesis, the 10th film in the franchise, cast members and others have been widely quoted as saying that there will be no more Trek movies featuring the characters from The Next Generation.
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Berman also told the magazine that he is developing a non-Trek SF TV series with Star Trek: Enterprise producing partner Brannon Braga."

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Earlier rumors had suggested that the frog network was going to view the critically acclaimed but low-rated show's pilot with an eye to picking it up. Wonderfalls starred Caroline Dhavernas as an aimless young woman who finds inanimate objects speaking to her."

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WASHINGTON -- Researchers found a serious security flaw that left core Internet technology vulnerable to hackers, prompting a secretive effort by international governments and industry experts in recent weeks to prevent global disruptions of Web surfing, e-mails and instant messages.

Experts said the flaw, disclosed today by the British government, affects the underlying technology for nearly all Internet traffic. Left unaddressed, they said, it could allow hackers to knock computers offline and broadly disrupt vital traffic-directing devices, called routers, that coordinate the flow of data among distant groups of computers.

"Exploitation of this vulnerability could have affected the glue that holds the Internet together," said Roger Cumming, director for England's National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre.

The flaw affecting the Internet's "tranmission control protocol," or TCP, was discovered late last year by a computer researcher in Milwaukee, Paul "Tony" Watson, 36, who said he identified a method to reliably trick personal computers and routers into shutting down electronic conversations by resetting the machines remotely.

Routers continually exchange important updates about the most efficient traffic routes between large networks. Continued successful attacks against routers can cause them to go into a stand-by mode, known as "dampening," that can persist for hours.

Experts previously maintained such attacks could take between four years and 142 years to succeed because they require guessing a rotating number from roughly 4 billion possible combinations. Watson said he can guess the proper number with as few as four attempts, which can be accomplished within seconds.

"The biggest concern is (the effect on routers) because of the risk of bringing down the Internet or severely disrupting traffic on the Internet," Watson said.

Already in recent weeks, some U.S. government agencies and companies operating the most important digital pipelines have quietly fortified their own vulnerable systems because of early warnings communicated by some security organizations. The White House has expressed concerns especially about risks to crucial Internet routers, since attacks against them could profoundly disrupt online traffic.

"Any flaw to a fundamental protocol would raise significant concern and require significant attention by the folks who run the major infrastructures of the Internet," said Amit Yoran, the U.S. government's cybersecurity chief. The new flaw has dominated discussions since last week among experts in close-knit security circles.

The public announcement coincides with a presentation Watson expects to make Thursday at a popular Internet security conference in Vancouver, where Watson said he will reveal full details of his research.

Watson, who runs the www.terrorist.net Web site, predicted that hackers will understand how to begin launching attacks "within five minutes of walking out of that meeting."

"It's fairly easy to implement," Watson said. "Someone walking out of the conference would immediately understand. No matter how vague I am, people will figure it out."

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Right-leaning punk rockers making some noise on Web
Movement seen by mainstream as social distortion

By SHWETA GOVINDARAJAN Cox News Service

WASHINGTON -- Some on the American punk rock scene -- whose anthem has long celebrated anarchy but for many years embraced a liberal agenda -- are now singing a little louder, thanks to a little-known movement of conservative punks seeking to rally like-minded rockers through a new Web site.

They're also trying to change the overall attitude of the mainstream punk community, the majority of whom are anti-Bush, to become more accepting of those whose politics lean to the right.

"I believe conservatism and punk go hand in hand," said Nick Rizzuto, 22, founder of www.conservativepunk.com, a Web site launched at the beginning of the year that promotes conservative politics and provides a forum for punk rockers to air their views.

Rizzuto, a supporter of President Bush and the Iraq war, said his own views are a mixture of conservative and libertarian beliefs, but overall, that conservative punks embrace basic notions of freedom, individuality and a limited role of government in people's lives -- the building blocks of punk music philosophy.

Punk musicians on the left, however, argue that although punk rock has championed anarchy and scorned the establishment, its roots were always more radical than conservative.

"Punk rockers want change in society -- that's what punk rock is all about. That's the exact opposite of conservative," said Mike Burkett, also known as vocalist Fat Mike for punk band NOFX. "Conservative punk is really kind of an oxymoron."

Burkett is the founder of pxxxxxxxx.com (i intentially did this), an unabashedly anti-Republican Web site composed of punk bands, record labels and fans that seeks to organize youth punk rockers. The site has a specific goal: to mobilize more than a half a million punks to kick Bush out of office in November, said Scott Goodstein, political director of pxxxxxxxx.com.

"It's supposed to engage and enrage punk voters to take a stance," Goodstein said. "We're doing our part to make people understand that the Bush administration is out of touch with what's going on in our lives."

Meanwhile, the movement of young, conservative and politically savvy youth is good news for the Bush camp, which is trying to reach out to young voters, punks included.

"We all think it's great -- the more, the merrier," said Mary Ellen Grant, deputy press secretary for the Republican National Committee. "It's good to see there's freedom of expression within the punk rock community as well."

Rizzuto said he became conservative shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when students at his university in upstate New York shut out other perspectives and blamed Bush's policies as a catalyst for the strikes.

He launched conservativepunk.com after observing the punk rock music scene, which he had been a part of for 10 years, push right-wing punk rockers -- albeit a small minority -- to the periphery.

"Left-wing politics is very popular in punk rock -- left wing is the norm. (But) there's always been right-wing, conservative punks. They (just) never spoke up," he said.

His inspiration is largely drawn from the most famous and outspoken Republican punk, Johnny Ramone, guitarist for the legendary punk rock band The Ramones.

"He's kind of bulletproof among punks," Rizzuto says of Ramone. "Punks can't go up to Johnny Ramone and say, `You're not a punk.' Johnny Ramone is punk rock."

Since January, Rizzuto has been flooded with mixed responses from all over the world, with most of his hate mail coming from France and Germany, countries that did not support the war in Iraq.

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The WB has approached Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel creator Joss Whedon about doing at least a movie-of-the-week or two—and possibly as many as six—next season, thanks in large part to a fan campaign organized by Saving Angel, E! Online's Watch With Kristin column reported. But the columnist added that, despite Herculean efforts by fans to save the canceled vampire show, Angel won't be coming back as a regular series, either on the frog network or on UPN or Fox, which have both passed.

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Meanwhile, E! Online reported that The WB executives have decided to review an episode of Fox's canceled fantasy series Wonderfalls along with its pilots, which means it is in the running for a fall-season pickup.

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Jaws didn't exactly drop upon hearing the news, first reported on the website of executive producer Tim Minear, that Wonderfalls has been sent down the river for good after its first airing in its impossible new Thursday time period. A really sick April Fool's joke it turned out to be for those of us still hopeful that offbeat shows of distinction can still have a future on network TV. Airing against new episodes of hotter-than-ever The Apprentice and the juggernaut CSI, what chance did this quirky little show have? None, as it turns out.
The floodgates of woe once again have opened and poured into my e-mailbox since news of this got out Friday night. People have been expressing dismay at Fox's hasty ax-wielding as well as a general lack of confidence in network TV's ability to sustain, promote and support fragile risk-takers that revel in wonderment as opposed to the reality-TV norm of exploitative debasement. Case in point: those ghastly promos for The Swan, which unlike Wonderfalls, is getting the initial boost of being launched behind an American Idol results show and thereafter moves to Mondays, when more people might presumably be available to watch Fox than on either Friday or Thursday, the dead-end nights where Wonderfalls was banished.
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This story makes my head want to explode. Acquitted?! WTF? She needs to be taken out of society permanently.

April 6, 2004, 10:47PM

Mom who bludgeoned sons sent to state mental hospital
Associated Press
TYLER -- A mother acquitted by reason of insanity in the bludgeoning deaths of her sons was committed Tuesday to a maximum-security state mental hospital in Vernon.

In a hearing attended by Deanna Laney's husband and other family members, a state district judge ordered Laney to be transferred from the Smith County Jail to the hospital 190 miles northwest of Dallas.

After an evaluation of Laney's mental health, another hearing will be held, most likely at the end of the month, to determine whether she should be involuntarily committed. If she is, she'll remain in the hospital for up to 90 days for observation and treatment. The court may order Laney to stay in the hospital, prescribe outpatient treatment or order Laney released. Under state law, she could be committed for the rest of her life.

Laney, 39, was found innocent by reason of insanity of all charges in the deaths of Joshua, 8, and Luke, 6, and the severe beating of Aaron, now 2. The jury found that Laney suffered from a severe mental illness that caused her not to know right from wrong -- the standard in Texas for insanity -- when she bashed her sons' skulls with rocks last year.

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After four years of playing Connie McDowell, Charlotte is ready to delve into comedy again. She loves to go back and forth between Comedy and Drama, and with the intense storylines Bochco have given her, she is looking forward to a more lighthearted, comedic role. Charlotte is thankful that Bochco has been so understanding both of her pregnancy and of her desire to leave the show. She would also like to take this opportunity to thank her fans for their support and well wishes. "

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A friend of mine sent this to me in e-mail. I don't know if the numbers are factual or not. All sounds good though.

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Worst president in history?

(The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to the editor.
Please forward to all on your list as this will put things in perspective:)

Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war.
They complain about his prosecution of it.
One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U.S. history.

Let's clear up one point: President Bush didn't start the war on terror.
Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11.
Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims.

FDR led us into World War II.
Germany never attacked us: Japan did.
From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost,
an average of 112,500 per year.

Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.
North Korea never attacked us.
From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost,
an average of 18,333 per year.

John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost,
an average! of 5,800 per year.

Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.
Bosnia never attacked us.
He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing.
Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
Over 2,900 lives lost on 9/11.

In the two years since terrorists attacked us,
President Bush has liberated two countries,
rushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida,
put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot,
captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year.
Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home.

Worst president in history? Come on!

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...

It took less time to take Iraq
than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound.
That was a 51 day operation.

We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time
than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard
than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq
than it took to count the votes !!!!

Our military is GREAT! PASS IT ON!!!!!

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Touched by Angel Fans
A Worldwide Outcry Over a Show's Demise

Thanks to WB's cancellation of Angel, I now have an amazing postcard collection: at last count, 1100 from unhappy fans in nearly every state, all over Canada and England, plus 20 other countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Brazil, Poland, Italy and Germany.

I'm not sure if any are written in blood, but they certainly show a lot of heart. As cult followings go, Angel's is pretty awesome.

Several Internet-driven fan campaigns, hoping to persuade WB (against the odds) to cancel the cancellation, have raised money to buy ads in trade papers and hire a billboard truck to canvass Hollywood with the message 'We'll follow Angel to hell... or another network.' There have been rallies, even - appropriate for a show about a noble vampire - blood drives.

These creative protests come at a time when creativity is an endangered TV commodity, with contrived reality trumping the most inspired fantasies.

Much of the mail I've received expresses fear that the networks have given up on shows that stimulate the imagination. That's why these people are so forcefully mourning the end of Joss Whedon's wild world of apocalypse and redemption that began with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

On April 14, Angel returns with the first of its final six episodes. The story is full of action, humor and surprise, while also confronting big themes of humanity and heroism. As I watched, I was entertained, moved � but saddened. Like any fan, I'll miss Angel, too."

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Online search engine leader Google Inc. announced plans Wednesday for a free e-mail service providing 250 to 500 times more storage space than market leaders Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp., delivering the latest challenge in a fierce fight for Web supremacy.
But there's a catch to the new service: Google's computers will scan e-mails to deliver targeted advertising.
Google's service, called Gmail, will offer 1 gigabyte of storage space, roughly 500,000 pages of e-mail. Gmail users will be able to receive up to 10 megabytes in a single e-mail -- more than the free services of Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail allow to be stored in an entire mailbox.
Gmail also will enable its users to type a keyword into a built-in search box to find information contained in their e-mailboxes within seconds. "

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