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Salon's TV picks for Monday, June 18, 2001
Series
The biography series Intimate Portraits (7 p.m., Lifetime) kicks off a new season with a profile of Calista Flockhart. Everybody Loves Raymond (9 p.m., CBS) reruns the one where Ray invests in a go-kart track over Debra’s objections. Good cameo by “Mr. Show” guys Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. On a rerun of Angel (9 p.m., WB), the LAPD becomes a force of zombies targeting people of color and the homeless. Backstory (10 p.m. EST/ 11 PST, American Movie Classics) looks at “Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood.” The reality series Gay Riviera (10 p.m., Bravo) follows the lives of gays and lesbians living in Miami Beach and New York City. Two half-hour episodes air back-to-back.
Specials
The documentary Gun Deadlock (8 p.m., Lifetime) looks at both sides of the gun-control debate. Filmmaker Lee Grant interviews victims of gun violence, legislators, gun-control activists (including Rosie O’Donnell) and NRA president Charlton Heston. The 1997 TV movie Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (9 p.m., ABC) stars Peter Horton and Nat Parker in an adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s bestseller about an ill-fated expedition. The six-part documentary series Hitler’s Holocaust (9 p.m., History Channel) chronicles the Nazi campaign against the Jews; it includes disturbing, never-before-seen death camp footage shot by the Nazis. Edward Herrmann narrates. Forrest Sawyer anchors MSNBC Reports: Gay Hollywood (10 p.m., MSNBC), a look at the growing visibility and power of gays on TV and in the movies.
Sports
Baseball:
Marlins at Braves (7:30 p.m., TBS)
Talk
Rosie O’Donnell (syndicated) Jon Stewart, Kyle Maclachlan.
David Letterman (CBS) Tony Danza
Jay Leno (NBC) Haley Joel Osment, Chi McBride
Conan O’Brien (NBC) Darrell Hammond
All times Eastern unless noted.
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“The Daily Show” commemorates 9/13/01
"Remembering the day we forgot the lessons of the day we swore we had sworn we would always remember"
Ten years ago, a tragedy brought us all closer together. Last night, Jon Stewart recalled another moment, just two days after, when all the solidarity engendered through a national trauma began to dissipate into the political ether. Opportunists — first Jerry Falwell, then Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, all the “Ground Zero Mosque” people (not to say anything of the folks in power) — began using the memory of that historical moment for their own personal advantage. “The Daily Show” paid tribute:
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"The Daily Show" host shares outrage that the 9/11 responders health care bill won't cover cancer
Late last year, Jon Stewart unabashedly put activism above comedy in his support of the Zadroga bill — the health care bill that provides medical treatment for 9/11 first responders.
The bill passed, but Stewart still has reason for outrage. It was announced Tuesday that the compensation fund will not cover the costs of cancer treatment.
Administrators say that there are inadequate “published scientific and medical findings” that a causal link exists between 9/11 exposures and the occurrence of cancer in responders and survivors. A number of medical experts have argued otherwise.
Natasha Lennard covers the Occupy movement for Salon. A British-born, Brooklyn-based journalist, she has been covering Occupy Wall Street since before the first sleeping bag was unrolled in Zuccotti Park. One of the first journalists arrested at an Occupy action, she has managed to enrage Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. You can follow her on Twitter (@natashalennard), and email her any Occupy updates/videos/ideas to natasha.lennard@gmail.com More Natasha Lennard.
Stewart: Does Congress want to break up with us?
"The Daily Show" host compares the debt crisis to a bad relationship that won't end
In his update on the debt crisis Monday night (also know as “Armadebtdon”), Jon Stewart used some elaborate similes.
He compared the rancorous negotiations to a “non-fiction version” of the film “Captain America” — a fictionalized vision of what Americans can achieve if they put their minds to it.
On the economic collapse threatened by a U.S. default, Stewart noted, “the only catastrophe that has moved its date this often is ‘Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark’.”
Natasha Lennard covers the Occupy movement for Salon. A British-born, Brooklyn-based journalist, she has been covering Occupy Wall Street since before the first sleeping bag was unrolled in Zuccotti Park. One of the first journalists arrested at an Occupy action, she has managed to enrage Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. You can follow her on Twitter (@natashalennard), and email her any Occupy updates/videos/ideas to natasha.lennard@gmail.com More Natasha Lennard.
Jon Stewart skewers Murdoch testimony
"The Daily Show" host rips into the News Corp. CEO, Rebekah Brooks and the British police
Rupert Murdoch, centre, attempts to speak to the media after he held a meeting with the parents and sister of murdered school girl Milly Dowler in London, Friday, July 15, 2011. The lawyer for the Milly Dowler's family says Rupert Murdoch has issued a full and sincere apology to the murdered schoolgirl's family for the actions of journalists at his newspaper. Mark Lewis told reporters that the media baron called the private meeting and apologized "many times," telling the Dowlers the events that transpired at the News of the World tabloid were not in keeping with the standards set out when his own father entered the media industry.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)(Credit: AP) Jon Stewart almost had too much material to choose from when giving a satirical summary of recent events in the phone hacking scandal. Following the testimony in front of a British parliamentary committee Tuesday of Rupert Murdoch, his son James and Rebekah Brooks (which was interrupted by a pie attack on the Australian-born mogul), Stewart took shots at a few key incidents.
He made particular mention of Rupert Murdoch interrupting his son during the hearing to say that it was “the most humble day” of his life. “Not so humble you couldn’t wait for your turn to talk!” quipped Stewart.
Natasha Lennard covers the Occupy movement for Salon. A British-born, Brooklyn-based journalist, she has been covering Occupy Wall Street since before the first sleeping bag was unrolled in Zuccotti Park. One of the first journalists arrested at an Occupy action, she has managed to enrage Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. You can follow her on Twitter (@natashalennard), and email her any Occupy updates/videos/ideas to natasha.lennard@gmail.com More Natasha Lennard.
Obama would make a terrible Incredible Hulk
Stewart mocks the mild anger the president has displayed over debt negotiations
"The Daily Show" imagines Obama as the Hulk “If that’s Obama mad, that’s weak,” said Jon Stewart on Thursday night, mocking the president’s alleged tough talk in debt negotiations. Stewart suggested that even if Obama were the Incredible Hulk, he would politely excuse himself when he felt a transformation coming on, so as to change into a bigger suit.
“The Daily Show” host took particular issue with the president’s warning to House Majority leader, Eric Cantor. “Don’t call my bluff, Eric,” Obama said this week. “Boy, the name Eric really takes the urgency and steam out of an argument, doesn’t it.”
Natasha Lennard covers the Occupy movement for Salon. A British-born, Brooklyn-based journalist, she has been covering Occupy Wall Street since before the first sleeping bag was unrolled in Zuccotti Park. One of the first journalists arrested at an Occupy action, she has managed to enrage Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. You can follow her on Twitter (@natashalennard), and email her any Occupy updates/videos/ideas to natasha.lennard@gmail.com More Natasha Lennard.
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