NEWS LITE\Woody Allen to receive coveted director's award.Woody Allen has been chosen to receive the D.W. Griffith Award, the Directors Guild of America's highest honor, and he won't even need to leave Manhattan to accept it. The award will be presented to Allen at the 48th annual DGA DGA Directors Guild of America (movie directors union) DGA Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (France) DGA Directeur-Grootaandeelhouder (Dutch: Managing Director and Major Shareholder) Awards banquets March 2 in Los Angeles and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , the DGA said Wednesday. Previous recipients of the award include Frank Capra, John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille Noun 1. Cecil B. DeMille - United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959) Cecil Blount DeMille, DeMille , John Huston, Robert Altman and Orson Welles. Allen, 60, has served as actor, director and screenwriter in films since the 1960s, including "Annie Hall," "Manhattan," "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask," "Sleeper," "Bananas" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors." In his latest, "Mighty Aphrodite Aphrodite (ăfrədī`tē), in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. Homer designated her the child of Zeus and Dione. ," Allen plays a sportswriter sports·writ·er n. A person who writes about sports, especially for a newspaper or magazine. sports in a failing marriage who seeks out his adopted daughter's birth mother and discovers she's a prostitute. Comic doesn't feel like a heel about interview with Imelda Shoe queen Imelda Marcos will be kicking herself when she gets a look at the TV interview she did with a show-and-tell comedian. Ruby Wax, an American with a knack for getting celebrities to make fools of themselves, spent three days with the former first lady of the Philippines for a special to be broadcast Sunday on the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. . Marcos sings five songs on the show, including "Feelings." During one number, Wax pulls up her long skirt to show off her shoes to the camera. The camera also peers into an upstairs closet with maybe 360 pairs of shoes. "This is the happiest I have been since Zsa Zsa's closet," Wax says, pawing through several racks of clothes as Marcos' aides giggle. Marcos "didn't have a clue" about how she was being set up, Wax said in the Sunday Telegraph. "I thought she had guessed when I kept saying, 'Show me the shoes. Show me the shoes,' but she had no idea." The comedian added: "I don't think you could call her a great ironist." Marcos left behind a legendary shoe collection when she and her husband, Ferdinand, fled to Hawaii in 1986 after an uprising. Miss N.Y. may play new role after suit She performed a Puccini aria at the Miss America pageant, but Miss New York
The Miss New York competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New York in the Miss America pageant. State is singing a different tune, threatening a $2 million lawsuit against pageant officials who are trying to take away her crown. Pageant officials said she is unable to fulfill her duties because she has landed a role as a Broadway understudy. "There are no duties for Miss New York," Helen Goldsby, 25, countered Tuesday. She claimed that pageant officials would not let her promote her platform on child abuse and failed to book appearances for her. She took the Broadway job because "I couldn't pay my rent. I had no money," Goldsby said. Pregnant teens' cause stirs Fonda Jane Fonda's latest cause is curbing teen pregnancy. The 58-year-old movie star and fitness guru got Turner Foundation, tied to her husband Ted Turner, to put an estimated $500,000 into the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy adolescent pregnancy See Teenage pregnancy. Prevention. She took on the issue after attending the 1994 U.N. world population conference in Cairo. "When you're dealing with teen pregnancy, you're also dealing with crime, alcohol and drug abuse, school dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human , alienation," she said in Wednesday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "We came back here thinking, 'Wow. What can we do?"' Michael Dalmat, coordinator of the pregnancy prevention unit at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. , said: "She's got a fire in her belly, and I think she's going to have a very positive impact." Mug the mayor It seems Mayor Richard Riordan has been stewing for a while about the way he looks in file photos the Daily News routinely runs with stories about him. He's been circumspect cir·cum·spect adj. Heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent. [Middle English, from Latin circumspectus, past participle of circumspicere, to take heed : about mentioning it, with nary a complaint until last week, when he asked us to take a new photo - which we did. But the mayor's unhappiness with the way he's been "mugged" by the Daily News found its way into this month's edition of Buzz magazine, which hit the streets this week and contained the following one-paragraph item: "L.A.'s robust Mayor Richard Riordan wants the L.A. Daily News to stop using an unflatteringly wan stock photo of him. Trouble is, the press-savvy mayor, wary of being labeled 'hostile to the media' is reluctant to ask the paper directly. Not to worry, Dick. Now you don't have to." Asked Thursday about the Buzz item, the mayor joked: "I get better pictures at the Department of Motor Vehicles In the United States of America, Department of Motor Vehicles (or DMV) is a commonly used name of the government agency of a U.S. state which administers the registration of automobiles (e.g., by issuing license plates), and/or the licensing of drivers (e.g. than the Daily News runs of me." Okay, we get the message. We hope the new file shot taken last week is a better representation of the real Richard Riordan than the old "wan" photo (No. 1, right). In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , we've come across several other shots that show the many sides of the mayor - and we'd like readers to help us choose one of these shots as the official News Lite portrait of the mayor. Call (818) 883-6397 and enter 6800 as the category number. Then make your choice by pressing the number of the photo you prefer (from 1-9). Calls must by placed by noon Friday. Results will be published in Sunday's Daily News. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo (1) The "wan" mayor (2). The victorious mayor (3) The post-bike ride mayor (4) The pet-loving mayor (5) The primping mayor (6) The hardball mayor (7) The toastmaster toast·mas·ter n. A man who proposes the toasts and introduces the speakers at a banquet. toastmaster Noun a person who introduces speakers and proposes toasts at public dinners Noun 1. mayor (8) The workingman's mayor (9) The portrait mayor |
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