NEWS LITE : BEATLES FANS RALLY FOR SIDEWALK STAR.Beatles fans and a activist determined to see the band get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by gathered in front of John Lennon's star Friday to remember the late Liverpudlian on what would have been his 58th birthday. ``Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI, located in Hollywood, California. Its headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine. donated a cake again this year, and we sang songs. It was nice,'' said Westside activist Jerry Rubin Jerry Rubin (July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was a high-profile American social activist during the 1960s and 1970s. He underwent a remarkable political transformation in the 1980s. . Lennon was shot to death by a crazed fan in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on Dec. 8, 1980. About 100 people showed up, many of them from the San Diego-based Come Together Beatles Fan Club, he said. Rubin has been working with the managers of ex-Beatles and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to get the band a star on the Walk of Fame. ``We concluded a yearlong petition drive today, and I've got 5,000 signatures in my hands now,'' he said, following the annual event this evening. ``Most of the people I asked to sign the petition couldn't believe (the Beatles) didn't already have one,'' he said. Spelling cheered by alma mater SMU SMU Southern Methodist University SMU Solid (Waste) Management Unit SMU Saint Mary's University (Halifax, Nova Scotia; Philippines) SMU Singapore Management University SMU Saint Mary's University of Minnesota The man who brought you ``Charlie's Angels,'' ``The Love Boat'' and ``Melrose Place'' has something else to show for his time. TV producer and Dallas native Aaron Spelling received the Distinguished Alumni Award on Thursday from Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. . Honorees usually accept the award in Dallas, but Spelling is afraid to fly, so the school moved the ceremony to Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. , where he lives. University President Gerald Turner said Spelling's ``trendsetting productions have made him a leader in U.S. television history.'' While at SMU in the early 1950s, Spelling was head of the cheerleading The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. squad and the first student to direct a senior-class production. E Street drummer echoes for the Boss So what does Max Weinberg, the former drummer in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, have to say about the fact that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in nominated Springsteen - but not the band? With a straight face Weinberg, who now drums for the Conan O'Brien ``Late Night'' TV show, said, ``No one deserves to be included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than Bruce.'' No hard feelings? ``Like I said, no one deserves to be included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than Bruce.'' Would he and the band perform with Springsteen at the induction ceremony? ``Like I said, no one deserves to be included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than Bruce.'' Churchills' spousal correspondence on display Clementine Clementine forty-niner’s drowned daughter; “lost and gone forever.” [Am. Music: Leach, 236] See : Grief chews out Winston for berating his staff in one of a selection of letters from the Churchills that went on display Friday in London. Fifteen of thousands of letters the couple wrote to each other from the time they wed in 1908 until Churchill's death in 1965 were picked for viewing at the Cabinet War Rooms, in the basement of the Treasury. ``There is what you would expect from Churchill, telling Clementine about political affairs of state,'' said Phil Reed, the curator. ``Her letters were more emotive and about her personal and family life.'' Churchill was prime minister from 1940 to 1945 - the World War II years - and 1951 to 1955. ``There is one letter written in June 1940 where she tells him off for being overbearing with his staff,'' Reed said. ``He was shown publicly as a strong and powerful man, and she seems to be the only one who could have questioned that.'' Performers gather to decry de·cry tr.v. de·cried, de·cry·ing, de·cries 1. To condemn openly. 2. To depreciate (currency, for example) by official proclamation or by rumor. use of land mines Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris brought their country-western hits to the nation's capital Friday, hoping to pressure political leaders to ban land mines and generate awareness among fans about the needs of victims. The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation This article or section has multiple issues: * Its tone or style may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. * It reads like an advertisement and needs to be rewritten in a neutral point of view. * It may be confusing or unclear for some readers. sponsored the Friday night concert benefit for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World. Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams performed at Washington's Constitution Hall. Crow opened the show with an acoustic set of her songs. She described for the audience her first encounter with land mines in Bosnia three years ago. ``Riding in the helicopter, you see all these smoking lands,'' Crow said. After her trip she wrote a song called ``Redemption Day,'' which she performed Friday night. Dressed in a long purple dress, Harris drew cheers and a standing ovation from the crowd of nearly 2,000 people. She dedicated one of her songs to parents and children around the world. ``It's certainly within the realm of possibility to make the world a better place for people who don't have the freedom to walk outside their home,'' Harris said. Almost a year ago, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is a coalition of non-governmental organizations whose goal is to abolish the production and use of anti-personnel mines. , an effort financed by the veterans foundation, received the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. . But in some ways, winning the prize has made the group's crusade more challenging, because people assume its mission is complete. ``We have to swim upstream on this one,'' says Bob Muller, president of the veterans foundation. ``Having signatures on a document in the U.N. doesn't clear up the land mines out there.'' Harris has personally taken on the cause, traveling last fall to Southeast Asia, where she visited humanitarian aid programs for victims in Cambodia and Vietnam. Foul play? Yankees fan ejected from Georgia classroom A fifth-grader told not to show up on Braves Day in a Yankees shirt was sent to the principal when he defied his teacher's edict A decree or law of major import promulgated by a king, queen, or other sovereign of a government. An edict can be distinguished from a public proclamation in that an edict puts a new statute into effect whereas a public proclamation is no more than a declaration of a law . ``He wanted to show his team spirit,'' said Brendan Dunwoody's father, George, a former New Yorker living in Peachtree City, Ga., who raised his son to be a Yankees fan. ``I should be able to wear what I want,'' 11-year-old Brendan 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 . Brendan had asked his teacher Tuesday whether he could wear the jersey the following day to Oak Grove Elementary School Oak Grove Elementary School can refer to:
``I said, no, we're celebrating Braves Day. As a teacher, I just held my ground,'' teacher Michelle Serbun said. She said she sent him to the principal but the principal told him the shirt was fine. Dunwoody said she made Brendan change shirts anyway. There are no hard feelings, the father said. ``She's a great lady'' he said of Serbun. News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Cat in the hat Near the Old City of Jerusalem walls, ``Gingie'' the cat, wearing a paper cup decorated with the Israeli flag, sits on the shoulders of Lionyana Yekemovsky on Thursday as they watch the annual Jerusalem March held during the Sukkot holiday week. Jacqueline Larma/Associated Press (2) LENNON (3) SPELLING |
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