Week of November 15, 2005

President Bush meets with

Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Although Hu acknowledged that

there were frictions that needed to

be addressed, no proposals were

announced and the two leaders took

no questions.

Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) joins with a

bipartisan group of critics to reject a

proposed agreement to extend the

Patriot Act.

House Republicans force a vote over a proposal to begin the immediate

withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, sparking a new debate.

Vice President Dick Cheney lashes out at Democrats who accused the Bush

administration of manipulating intelligence in the run-up of the Iraq war, saying

such critics were spreading “one of the most dishonest and reprehensible

charges ever aired” in Washington.

After all-night negotiations - Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice brokers a deal

between Israel and the Palestinians providing for the passage of people and

goods in and out of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon - declaring that hard liners in his conservative

Likud party have made life unbearable - quits the party.

General Motors Corp will close 12 plants and will trim 30,000 off its workforce.

President Bush ends a two-day visit to China.

President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald

Rumsfeld take on congressional critics of their war

policy, saying that U.S troops would remain in Iraq until

the Baghdad government was ready to take charge and

that those calling for a hasty withdrawal were

jeopardizing the safety of Americans abroad and at

home.

Week of November 15, 2005

Sen. Barack Obama - In Nebraska - is visiting the home of Warren Buffet and is

expected to raise some $1.2 million by year’s end.

China reports its first human cases of bird flu on the mainland, including at least

one fatality.

In Virginia - FBI agents arrest women who was suspected of robbing four banks

in suburban Virginia while appearing to be talking on a cell phone.

Mexico and Venezuela pull their ambassadors from each others capitals after the

government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez refused to apologize for

belittling Mexican President Vicente Fox, has Chavez called hip Washington’s

“puppy.”

Sports -

Baseball owners vote to ratify a tough new steroid policy, which includes a 50-

game suspension for a first positive test.

Technology -

Facing a patent lawsuit that may halt its U.S. sales - Blackberry says it has

finished a new design that would keep systems running if it lost the case.

Entertainment - Fresh off “Broke Back

Mountain” - actor Heath Ledger says of his

development as an actor - “It’s been a long,

slow process of making mistakes and changing

it.”

Russell Crowe pleads guilty in New York to

assault, admitting to a judge that he threw a

phone that hit a Manhattan hotel concierge in

June. He was sentenced to a conditional

discharge - he must not be arrested for one

year.

Radio news - “The John Tesh Radio Show” -

launched in 2003 is now on 230 stations!

Music news -

Red hot hip-hop record producers - Andre Dre

Lyon and Marcell “Cool” Valenzano, Dallas

Austin, Lil Jon, Fat Joe, Pharell Williams and Chad Hugo.

Week of November 15, 2005

Outside san Quentin state Prison - Rapper Snoop Dogg urges Gov. Arnold

Schwarzenegger to spare the life of convicted murderer and former gang leader

Stanley Tookie Williams.

Madonna is still hot - her new

album, “Confessions on a

Dance Flor,” is No. 1 on iTunes

and Amazon.com. And a single

from the new album, “Hung Up”

is getting played heavily on

WHTZ and KIIS-FM. She has

sold nearly 23 million albums in

the U.S. since SoundScan

began tracking retail music

sales in 1991.

Top DVD sales -

Star wars: Episode III Revenge

of the Sith

Charlie and the Chocolate

factory: Deluxe Edition

Charlie and the Chocolate

Factory

The Devel’s Rejects

Christmas with the Kanks

Batman Begins: Deluxe edition

Office Space: Special edition

Herbie: Fully Loaded

Family Guy presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

Cinderella: Platinum edition

Some best-selling books -

The Sea - John Banville

Christ the Lord - Anne Rice

The Camel Club - David Baldacci

Memories of My Melancholy Whore - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Saving Fish From Drowning- Amy Tan

The Truth (With Jokes - Al Franken

Team of Rival - Doris Dearns Goodwin

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

Healthy Aging- Andrew Weil

The World if Flat - Thomas L. Firedman

Week of November 15, 2005

Games -

Microsoft unveils Xbox 360 - rival to the Xbox.

TiVo announces a service that allows its digital video records to save programs

to iPods and Playstation Portables.

Music news -

Passing - Link Wray - Early rock guitarist. He was 76.

Rap performer 50 Cent (born Curtis Jackson) will start a line of books published

by Simon and Schuster based on his rhymes about drug dealing, street crime

and expensive cars. The publisher is teaming with MTV to issue a series of

novels and novellas geared to young black readers.

The CMA’s 39 th annual event is held in New York City - a place where’s there no

country station. Sales of country records are now lagging 10% behind this time

last year.

Keith Urban got male vocalist and entertainer of the year

Lee Ann woman got best album (There’s More Where That Came From) single (I

May Hate Myself In the Morning) and musical event of the year.

Wow - American Idol champ

Carrie Underwood’s first album

- “Some Hearts” comes out this

week. Season 1 winner Kelly

Clarkson has sold 5.8 million

copies of her first two albums.

She’s country, but not Idol’s first

country breakout. That goes to

fourth placer Josh Gracin -

remember him in 2003? His

album went gold and he has

placed two singles in the

country top 10.

Television news - GemstarTV

Guide International Inc says it

was shutting down Inside TV

magazine just seven months

after launching it.

Ted Koppel signs-off of “Nightline” - which he presided for 25 years.

Week of November 15, 2005

Nickelodeon orders 20 more episodes of “SpongeBob SquarePants” - for a total

of 100 adventures. The channel halted orders of new episodes while the

SpongeBob movie was in production and it was not known whether more would

be ordered.

Martha Stewart’s “Apprentice” reality show is ending after its first season. Low

ratings.

Top TV -

CSI - 29.55 million viewers

Desperate Housewives - 25.93

Monday Night Football - 21.86

Without a Trace - 20.78

Lost - 20.01

Grey’s Anatomy - 19.74

CSI: NY - 19.22

Survivor: Guatemala - 18.98

CSI: Miami - 18.39

NCIS - 17.79

Cold Case - 17.42

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

-16.69

NFL Monday Showcase - 16.30

Two and a Half Men - 16.19

Law & Order: SVU - 15.76

ER - 15.44

Criminal Minds - 15.09

60 Minutes - 14.46

House - 14.15

At the movies -

Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire

Walk the Line

Chicken Little

Derailed

Zathura

Jarhead

Get Rich or die Tryin’

Saw II

The Legend Of Zero

Pride & Prejudice

Dreamer

Week of November 15, 2005

Hot Hits this week in 2005 -

Gold Digger - Kanye West Feat. Jamie Foxx

My Humps - Black Eyed Peas

Photograph - Nickelback

Run It! - Chris Brown

Hung Up! - Madonna

Laffy Taffy - DL4

Stickwitu - Pussycat Dolls

Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down - Fall

Out Boy

Wake Me Up When September

Ends - Green Day

Beverly Hills - Weezer