NEWS LITE : ACTOR BEGINS CASE VS. FRENCH JUDGE.Robert De Niro Noun 1. Robert De Niro - United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943) De Niro appeared in a Paris courtroom Friday to press his case against a judge who hauled him in last year for questioning in a probe of an international prostitution ring. De Niro, accompanied by his French lawyer, informed Judge Herve Stephan of his reasons for filing a complaint against Judge Frederic N'Guyen, whom the actor accused of leading a witch hunt. The actor denied any involvement in the ring and denied ever paying women for sex. His complaint against N'Guyen, filed in March, is said to accuse N'Guyen of revealing ``judicial secrets'' and invasion of privacy invasion of privacy n. the intrusion into the personal life of another, without just cause, which can give the person whose privacy has been invaded a right to bring a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity that intruded. . Earlier this week, former Culture Minister Jack Lang and Bernard-Henri Levy, a respected French philosopher, were fined for slandering N'Guyen, whom they criticized for questioning De Niro. Matchmaking Matchmaking Matricide (See MURDER.) Kecal marriage broker whose plans are foiled by a pair of lovers. [Czech Opera: Smetana The Bartered Bride in Osborne Opera, 32] Levi, Dolly rabbi helps out Roseanne Roseanne says she's so fed up with the ``losers'' her three daughters bring home to mama that she's taking on the role of matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. , according to Entertainment Weekly. The talk show maven has roped in London-based Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of ``Kosher Sex,'' to find prince charmings for her daughters, ages 22, 23 and 27. The magazine says the good rabbi has hit pay dirt and plans to introduce Roseanne's girls to two American graduates of Oxford University and a Briton who owns a London catering biz. They will all go on a group date, then spill the beans on Roseanne's show the next day. Bizarre enough for ya? ``It's not that crazy an idea,'' Boteach tells the magazine. ``These guys are educated, compassionate, humble and know how to treat a woman.'' Water balloon stunt makes the girls cry An estimated 20,000 teen-agers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., area skipped school Thursday to get a glimpse of the pop group 'N Sync at the Mall of America Mall of America (also MOA, MoA, or the Megamall) is a shopping mall located in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota. It is just southeast of the junction of Interstate 494 and Minnesota State Highway 77, and is across the interstate from the - only to have their hopes splattered splat·ter v. splat·tered, splat·ter·ing, splat·ters v.tr. To spatter (something), especially to soil with splashes of liquid. v.intr. by a water balloon. The boys bolted when someone dropped a large water balloon on the autograph session. ``I didn't see (the water balloon), I just heard it,'' said 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake. ``It hit some girls, too. (Our security guards) were scared some kids were going to get hurt. Me and the guys want to apologize. We're very sorry a couple kids had to ruin it for everyone.'' The almost entirely girl mob wept. Dining Diaz invests in Miami restaurant Cameron Diaz, a regular at South Beach clubs, is a partner in a restaurant and lounge, Bambu. ``There's something about Miami Beach that gets to me,'' she told the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 during a break in shooting Oliver Stone's football flick ``Any Given Sunday'' with Al Pacino. The restaurant, near Madonna's Blue Door and Michael Caine's South Beach Brasserie bras·se·rie n. A restaurant serving alcoholic beverages, especially beer, as well as food. [French, from brasser, to malt, brew, from Old French bracier, from Vulgar Latin , is due to open in November and will serve pan-Asian food. Rare cellared wines push bidding through roof Sixty bottles of the rarest wine in the world were auctioned off Friday, selling for $140,000 and putting the two-day auction total at $3.4 million. Among the bottles included in the auction were two full cases of vintage 1945 Chateau Mounton-Rothschild and a case of 1947 Chateau Cheval-Blanc. A single bottle of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, bottled in 1900, went for $4,370, and 108 bottles of fine Californian wine, bottled in 1984, sold for $27,600. The auction by Christie's and wine retailer Zachys brought nearly $1 million ahead of presale expectations. Also put up for auction were three rare bottles of Chateau Margaux, bottled in 1900, which fetched $19,550, and a case of Chateau Petrus, bottled in 1961, which sold for $59,700. The wines were bought by anonymous bidders. Ex-intern may guest on `SNL' What a week for Monica Lewinsky, the former Beverly Hills High School Beverly Hills High School (usually abbreviated as "Beverly" or as "BHHS") is the only major public high school in Beverly Hills, California. (The other public high school in Beverly Hills, Moreno High School, is a small alternative school located on Beverly's campus. student. She reportedly was at the center of a Greenwich Village bar brawl, and now the ex-White House intern may make a guest shot with a ``Saturday Night Live'' ensemble that has spent months spoofing her. Lewinsky reportedly was talking with ``The Practice'' co-star Camryn Manheim on Wednesday night in a booth at Joe's Pub, when a couple of partygoers recognized them, got obnoxious and tried to sit down, according to the New York Post. Another man tried to intervene and got sucker-punched, according to the paper. A brawl broke out and at least six police cruisers rushed to the scene. 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. was keeping mum about it, but there were reports that the former White House intern will appear as a guest on this week's SNL SNL Saturday Night Live SNL Sandia National Laboratories SNL School for New Learning (Depaul University) SNL Springfield News-Leader (Missouri newspaper) SnL Sweet N Low SNL Standard Nomenclature List show. ``This is a live show. The only thing I know for sure is that Cuba Gooding Jr. is the host and Ricky Martin is the musical guest,'' NBC spokesman Marc Liepis said Friday. If she appears, Lewinsky would push aside actress Molly Shannon, who has frequently portrayed her in skits. There was no word on whether John Goodman would reprise his role as Linda Tripp. During a skit rehearsal this week, Lewinsky made jokes about dating and phone sex with President William H. Taft, according to the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. . Taft was president from 1909 to 1913. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) DE NIRO (2) LEWINSKY (3) Heart like a wheel The Miata Club of America spells out - and underlines - a very special Mother's Day tribute at the Texas Motor Speedway Texas Motor Speedway is a superspeedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas -- the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The track layout is very similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor in Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. , on Friday. Darnell Jean/Associated Press |
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