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ABC7 Reporter Stephen Tschida, our wild train rider, is in the thick of life after arm surgery.

Three days ago he wrote on Twitter that he was spending time with his Aunt Molly: “Off post-op pain killers and alone at a house in the country with an old lady. Feel like I’m living the ENDING of ‘Valley of the Dolls.’ Two days ago he reported, “If a surgeon says “you’re going to be uncomfortable” that means you will be in AGONY! My new goal for a return to normalcy is November 1.” On Monday he provided yet another update, saying, “Bottom line: I quit pain pills too soon. Just didn’t want to wind up like Matthew Perry. Although he really did get thin for a while.”

A & E Networks is inviting Washington journos to join Lifetime and Jennifer Aniston for a screening of Lifetime’s “FIVE” with opening remarks by Dr. Jill Biden. The October 3rd reception and screening at the Ronald Reagan Building is to “celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” This event is by invitation only. No crashers please.

This week TIME released the cover of its special commemorative “Beyond 9/11″ issue, marking the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York. The front cover image by Julian LaVerdiere and Paul Myoda, co-creators of the original Tribute in Light memorial in New York City, shows a photo-illustration imagining the memorial as seen from space.  The cover also features a silver border—only the third cover in the mag’s 88-year history without the trademark red border. Ten years ago, in the days following the September 11 attacks, TIME changed its border for the first time in history, to black.

TIME’s Beyond 9/11 project also includes a photography and documentary components.  Portraits of Resilience, featuring portraits by Marco Grob coupled with oral histories of 40 men and women, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Rudolph Giuliani, will go live on a special website September 7th.  And a one-hour documentary, “Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience,” will air on HBO and CNN and stream on TIME.com on Sept. 11th.

The Beyond 9/11 edition will hit newsstands on Thursday, September 8.

Congrats to the winners of our 2 pm trivia question:  “George W. Bush is said to have a special picture of himself and a popular rock and roll band from the 1970s.  Who is the band?”

The answer was ZZ Top.  Susan Sears and Nicole Holtz were the first two readers to answer correctly.  They’ll be joining us at Nat Geo’s August 23rd reception and premiere of  “George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview.”  If you missed out on the first round, you’ve got one more shot to win a set of tix.  The first two readers to send the correct answer for the below question to fishbowlmatt@gmail.com (include your name, employer and telephone number) will be given a set of tix to the Tuesday night event.

QUESTION # 2: What monumental thing did George W. Bush do on his 40th birthday?

*Hint: cold turkey.

Courtesy of our friends at National Geographic, FishbowlDC has two sets of two premiere tickets to give away on the 2pm hour.  The first two readers to send the correct answer to the below trivia question to fishbowlmatt@gmail.com will join Betsy and me at Nat Geo’s August 23rd reception and premiere of  “George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview.”

To win, please submit the correct answer along with your name, employer, title and telephone number.   Don’t worry if you miss out on the first round.  We’ll give away two more sets at 4pm this afternoon.

QUESTION: George W. Bush is said to have a special picture of himself and a popular rock and roll band from the 1970s.  Who is the band?

*Hint:  They were booked to play a one-hour show at his inauguration party in 2001.

Our pals at National Geographic were kind enough to offer our readers four sets of two tickets to join FishbowlDC at the premiere of “George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview” on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 in Washington DC.  To win your spot at the event, you’ll need to be among the first two readers to respond correctly to trivia questions we’ll post at 2pm and 4pm EST.  So be on the lookout and send your guesses to fishbowlmatt@gmail.com.

For more info on the documentary, click here.

The National Geographic Channel is set to host the world premiere of  “George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview” on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 in Washington DC.  The documentary, produced and directed by Peter Schnall, reveals exclusive, first-person insight into the former president’s experience following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In what some are calling the most in-depth on-camera interview he has ever given on the subject, President Bush recalls what he was thinking and feeling and what drove the real-time, life-or-death decisions he faced in the first minutes, hours and days after the most lethal terrorist attacks ever on U.S. soil.  The film will debut on Nat Geo at 10 pm on Sunday, August 28, 2011.

Beginning at 6pm at National Geographic HQ, the event will include a reception, screening and Q&A Peter Schnall.  Invite only.  For more information, visit NG’s website here.

And listen to Schnall’s interview with Adam Belmar from Saturday’s SiriusXM PoliOptics program here.

For this weekend’s show, PoliOptics hosts Adam Belmar and Josh King take a first look into the National Geographic film “George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview.”   Belmar and King will speak with documentarian Peter Schnall about his unprecedented access to President Bush in the days after Osama Bin Laden’s death and will share with listeners the riveting outtakes from Schnall’s interviews with W.  PoliOptics airs Saturdays at 12p and 6p ET on SiriusXM Channel 124. Or snag a podcast of the show on iTunes.

The first clip from “George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview” below.

First clip from Nat Geo’s “George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview” from Realscreen magazine on Vimeo.

Actress Demi Moore has joined with the CNN Freedom Project to call attention to the trade of human life in ‘Nepal’s Stolen Children: A CNN Freedom Project Documentary.’

As a special contributor to the project, Moore traveled to Nepal to join her organization, Maiti Nepal, which has reportedly rescued 12,000 stolen Nepalese children from sex trafficking since it was founded in 1993.

The film airs Sunday, June 26 at 8 p.m. (ET)

It won’t be an easy watch. “At the brothel, I was forced to have sex with men and if I argued they would burn cigarettes on my body and beat me with a stick or spill hot water on me.  I went with my baby son, but we were separated and when he cried they burned his tongue with a cigarette,” said Radika, one of the rescued girls Moore meets at Maiti Nepal.

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The invitation is out. The premier of “Page One,” a documentary that takes you inside the walls of the NYT, is set for June 15.  And if you can secure an invite, you won’t want to miss it.

The date is June 15. There will be a reception and screening with a discussion following at the Newseum. NYT‘s David Carr, who stars in the film, will take questions.