NEWS LITE : AYKROYD, DIXON CELEBRATE BABY.It's another girl for actor Dan Aykroyd Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live and wife Donna Dixon. The couple's third daughter - Stella Irene Augustus Aykroyd - was born April 5 in 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 and weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces, publicist Susan Patricola said Wednesday. The Aykroyds, who married in 1983, have two other girls, Danielle, 8, and Belle, 4. They live in New York. The former ``Saturday Night Live'' comic and Blues Brothers member currently stars in the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. series ``Soul Man.'' Miss Dixon appeared on the ``Bosom Buddies'' TV series. Owens' nightclub takes top honors Buck Owens' nightspot in the San Joaquin Valley Noun 1. San Joaquin Valley - a vast valley in central California known for its rich farmland Calif., California, Golden State, CA - a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes was picked as the nation's country nightclub of the year by the Academy of Country Music, which stages its 33rd annual awards show next week at the Universal Amphitheatre. It was the first award for The Crystal Palace in Bakersfield. The academy's board of directors also picked Chicago's US99 as radio station of the year on Wednesday, and Tom Rivers of WQYK radio in Tampa, Fla., was named disc jockey disc jockey (DJ) Person who plays recorded music on radio or television or at a nightclub or other live venue. Disc jockey programs became the economic base of many radio stations in the U.S. after World War II. of the year. The talent buyer/promoter trophy went to Gil Cunningham of Omaha's Don Romeo Agency. Country music sweethearts Tim McGraw and Faith Hill lead nominees for ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, New York, www.acm.org) A membership organization founded in 1947 dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of information processing. In addition to awards and publications, ACM also maintains special interest groups (SIGs) in the computer field. ``Hat'' trophies with their duet ``It's Your Love'' getting nods for top song, single, video and vocal event of the year. Nominations were announced in February. Winners will be revealed during the Academy of Country Music Awards show televised by CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. on April 22. Fonda says Georgia akin to Third World Jane Fonda Noun 1. Jane Fonda - United States film actress and daughter of Henry Fonda (born in 1937) Fonda , pretty much out of the global loop since her heady Hanoi days, addressed a United Nations group in New York Wednesday, comparing her adopted Georgia to a Third World nation. ``There is a lot of rural poverty,'' she told a round table organized by the U.N. Population Fund. ``In the northern part of Georgia, children are starving to death. People live in tar paper shacks with no indoor plumbing. . . . It's what makes working in Georgia very interesting, because we are, in some ways, like some developing countries.'' She said the Peach State has the highest U.S. repeat rate of adolescent pregnancies and gonorrhea gonorrhea (gŏnərē`ə), common infectious disease caused by a bacterium (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), involving chiefly the mucous membranes of the genitourinary tract. . She added, ``It has one of the lowest rates of adults who never graduated from high school. There is a very strong radical right component, very well organized, very vocal and well-funded that works through churches that is right now in the process of very systematically trying to take over local school boards and county health departments.'' Coward or hero?; Apology doesn't dim `Titanic' controversy Not everyone in Dalbeattie, Scotland, was placated by Wednesday's personal apology from the makers of ``Titanic'' for implying the ship's first officer, a local hero, was a cowardly murderer. Some locals said the apology and a $8,000 contribution to a fund commemorating William Murdoch weren't enough: They want 20th Century Fox to amend the credits to reflect the truth when the video version of the Oscar-winning film is issued. The movie shows Murdoch accepting bribes and killing two passengers who are fighting to get on to a lifeboat as the ship is sinking. He then puts a gun in his mouth and takes his own life. But official records show that Murdoch, the bridge officer when the iceberg struck, acted promptly to deal with the emergency and then acted selflessly to help passengers onto lifeboats. The 47-year-old first officer went down with the ship. At a ceremony Wednesday, on the 86th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, Scott Neeson, executive vice president of 20th Century Fox, insisted the movie ``was never intended to portray him as a coward.'' ``I believe he was portrayed as a hero in the film,'' said the Scots-born movie executive, who lives near Dalbeattie. ``In the film and in real life, he is saving an enormous number of lives.'' Apologizing for causing Dalbeattie and Murdoch's family ``so much distress,'' Neeson gave the school a check and an inscribed in·scribe tr.v. in·scribed, in·scrib·ing, in·scribes 1. a. To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface. b. To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters. silver tray. He dashed hopes, however, by saying the company would not change the ``Titanic'' video. Fashion-themed eatery deep in debt Is the Fashion Cafe on its last cafe au lait ca·fé au lait n. 1. Coffee served with hot milk. 2. A light coffee hue. See Regional Note at beignet. [French : café, coffee + à, with + lait ? Launched with much fanfare and plugged by supermodels like Elle Macpherson, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Christy Turlington, it ``currently owes creditors $700,000,'' Maxim magazine reports. The London Evening Standard: ``Cynics Cynics (sĭn`ĭks) [Gr.,=doglike, probably from their manners and their meeting place, the Cynosarges, an academy for Athenian youths], ancient school of philosophy founded c.440 B.C. by Antisthenes, a disciple of Socrates. were debating the wisdom of basing a restaurant around women who scarcely eat at all.'' --- News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 4 Photos PHOTO (1) Get a grip Casey, a 14-year-old Capuchin monkey capuchin monkey one of the New World monkeys used commonly as a laboratory primate. Gregarious, arboreal and diurnal, they are popular pets and weigh up to 10 lb. Called also Cebus spp., ringtail or organ-grinder monkey. , latches onto owner Don Turner's face while out for a walk in Maine on Wednesday. Turner said Casey does this when he gets excited with his surroundings. Pat Wellenbach/Associated Press (2) William Murdoch Critics condemn movie portrayal (3) Fonda (4) Aykroyd |
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