NEWS LITE : `ER' STARS RECEIVE BIG BONUS CHECKS.Byline: Compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports Medicine, or at least TV medicine, really can pay: George Clooney, Julianna Margulies and other ``ER'' stars received bonuses totaling $7 million this week. Warner Bros. Television Warner Bros. Television is the television production and distribution arm of Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment and The CW Television Network (in which Warner has a 50% ownership stake). President Tony Jonas delivered the checks Thursday, about two weeks after NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. agreed to an $850 million deal with Warner to keep the top-rated TV drama. Clooney, Margulies and fellow original cast members Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle and Noah Wyle each received $1 million, a source close to the show said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Four other cast members, including Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, Alex Kingston and Maria Bello, each received $500,000, said the source. ``ER's'' executive producers had earlier given $6 million to the show's behind-the-scenes team. Mother of girl killed by bomb gives birth Aren Almon Kok, whose baby came to symbolize the federal building bombing through a photograph of her lifeless body in a firefighter's arms, gave birth Wednesday to a daughter. Kok and her husband, Stan, named the baby Bella Almon Kok. Mother and daughter, born five weeks premature, were doing well, a hospital spokeswoman said in Oklahoma City. Information on the child's weight wasn't available. Baylee Almon had just celebrated her first birthday when a bomb destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building on April 19, 1995, killing Baylee and 167 other people. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Baylee was captured by an amateur photographer and transmitted worldwide. Magazine reveals fantasy movie cast Entertainment Weekly has cast ``Interngate: The Movie.'' Their fantasy lineup: President Clinton would be played by James Brolin; Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
v. snitched, snitch·ing, snitch·es v.tr. To steal (something, usually something of little value); pilfer. See Synonyms at steal. v.intr. Linda Tripp by Penny Marshall; independent counsel from hell Kenneth Starr by Wendy's pitchman Dave Thomas; high-power fix-it guy Vernon Jordan by Robert Guillaume; Lewinsky spin doctor/attorney William Ginsburg by Richard Dreyfuss; book agent and Clinton hater Lucianne Goldberg by Sally Jessy Raphael Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal on February 25 1935 in Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1]) is an American talk show host. Early years Raphael was born in Easton, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. ; and our fave fave Informal n. One that is preferred above others or likely to win; a favorite. adj. Favorite. [Short for favorite.] , Paula Jones by - tee hee - Howard Stern. Charity to auction song manuscript The lyrics to ``Candle in the Wind 1997,'' Elton John's top-selling tribute to Princess Diana, will be auctioned off Feb. 11 in Los Angeles, Christie's said. Lyricist lyr·i·cist n. A writer of song lyrics. Also called lyrist. Noun 1. lyricist - a person who writes the words for songs lyrist Bernie Taupin's manuscript - three handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. , annotated and typed pages - will be offered at a charity auction for the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles. The package also includes the final typed lyrics, signed by Taupin and John. OFFBEAT: Patient takes body part home in a plastic bag Thirteen days after surgeons removed her cancerous bladder, Virginia Broache discovered she had carried the organ home along with other belongings in a hospital bag. A home nurse found the bladder Tuesday wrapped in a surgical towel, sealed in a double plastic bag and tucked into the bag Broache took with her when she was released Monday from a Richmond, Va., hospital. ``I never thought anything like that could happen in the hospital,'' a shocked Broache said. ``My doctor's been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. my bladder.'' Hospital spokesman James M. Goss said the specimen should have been placed in the hospital's pathology refrigerator for examination later. ``We're still investigating how that step was missed,'' he said. ``We apologized to the patient. We sent a medical courier to retrieve the specimen.'' Toni Braxton declares bankruptcy Whoa! Toni Braxton filed for bankruptcy Jan. 23 in L.A., according to Entertainment Weekly. The sultry songstress song·stress n. 1. A woman who performs songs, especially ballads or popular songs. 2. A woman who writes songs. See Usage Note at -ess. says she wasn't getting a big enough paycheck from her record company, LaFace Records, which is run by Kenneth ``Babyface'' Edmonds and L.A. Reid, her producers. Earlier, she had filed a lawsuit against LaFace's parent company, Arista Records, claiming that although her albums, ``Toni Braxton'' and ``Secrets,'' sold more than 15 million copies and earned Arista arista (ä·riˑ·st about $170 million, she wasn't raking in the moola moo·la or moo·lah n. Slang Money. [Origin unknown.] . ``The singer received an average royalty of just 35 cents an album,'' her attorney, Stanton Stein, told Jet magazine. ``That represents a tiny fraction of what an artist of her stature traditionally receives.'' Industry executives estimate that Grammy Award-winning stars like Braxton usually get a buck for every album sold. ``I'm just asking for a raise; that's about it,'' Braxton told Jet. But with the bankruptcy filing, she has withdrawn the lawsuit. CAPTION(S): 5 Photos PHOTO (1) Weekend getaway Chelsea Clinton's spending the weekend with her father at Camp David. Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Switzerland. Associated Press (2) EDWARDS (3) BROLIN (4) DOHERTY (5) BRAXTON |
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