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Dave Kindred is to The Sporting News what Rick Reilly is to Sports Illustrated: its leading columnist, occupying the back page. Kindred's writing might stand a half notch below Reilly's, but Kindred's left-leaning ideas are visible only between the lines, whereas Reilly wears

. . . he just forgot that Hollywood doesn't know anything else: > If television's "Crazy Cooter" has his way, fans of the "Dukes of Hazzard" may be speeding away from a new movie version of the cornpone classic faster than the Duke boys running

> Here's a very odd story... A new class of drugs designed to help people with Parkinson's Disease actually turned some of them into compulsive gamblers. These drugs are now being sold over the counter at Caesar's, Harrah's and the MGM Grand.

CBS will launch a 24-hour on-line news network, complete with a blog. The whole shift in the dissemination of news and analysis is fascinating. CBS no doubt sees the changing landscape and will be one of the first of the big trees to get planted in it. >

Can we get a restraining order on this? > Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone will direct superstar Nicholas Cage in the first major Hollywood movie about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, producers announced. > The as-yet untitled film, which will be made for Paramount Pictures, will tell

> The person lucky enough to win the 36th annual [World Series of Poker] tournament will earn an astonishing seven-and-a-half (m) million dollars. Last year's prize was a mere five (m) million, doubling what accountant Chris Moneymaker made in 2003. > The person knocked out

More annoyance driven by advertising. Then again, these people have volunteered to be annoyed and, quite frankly, we, too, would have a hard time turning down the opportunity to get our vote to count in the ratings: > Nielsen will now be interrupting Nielsen people meter users every 42 minutes,

If you, like us, have a moderate taste for the macabre, you may enjoy this site. Link [http://www.hauntedstudio.com/]. It's full of original spooky paintings, like this one:

LOTR's Peter King has re-made King Kong. It comes out in December 2005. The trailer looks good. Link [http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/king_kong/large.html]. We hear a lot of complaining, but we like the re-makes. Some are horrible (we're not