NEWS LITE : BIG BEN TO MAKE TV DEBUT FOR Y2K.Big Ben, the world's most famous clock, will be seen as well as heard when it booms the end-of-the-'90s chimes across London at midnight Dec. 31. For the first time, authorities will allow a camera to be placed in the tower of the clock that stands above the Houses of Parliament Houses of Parliament: see Westminster Palace. , Britain's Independent Television network announced this week. Who rocker robbing cradle for romance Rock legend and The Who guitarist Pete Townshend's ivories have been tickled by a pretty young piano teacher, says 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 . And whooooo is she? A blond Daisy Fuentes Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban model and actress. When Daisy was three years old, the Fuentes family moved to Madrid, Spain, and finally emigrated to Harrison, New Jersey four years later. look-alike less than half Townshend's age - and younger than his two daughters. Rachel Fuller gives lessons to Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall's children. Townshend was recently spotted double-dating with Fuller, Jagger jag 1 n. 1. A sharp projection; a barb. 2. a. A hanging flap along the edge of a garment. b. A slash or slit in a garment exposing material of a different color. tr.v. and Hall at a David Bowie concert in London. ``We were trying to lie low. I'm a little embarrassed to say she's only 26 years old,'' said Townshend, 54. ``She's a brilliant musician. Better than me. She was a bit of a child prodigy, in fact.'' Despite being red in the face, Townshend makes no secret of liking his women young: He previously dated 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 fashion-journalist-turned-publicist Lisa Marsh, who was 21 years his junior. The graybeard rocker split from wife Karen in 1994. They have a son, Joseph, 10, and two daughters, Emma, 29, and Aminta, 27. Son's intellect surprise to Allen You didn't know Woody Allen's only natural child is a genius? Neither did Dad. Seamus Farrow farrow see farrowing. , 12 on Dec. 19, goes to a Bard College annex for gifted high schoolers, and has applied to enter Columbia University next fall. ``This is the first time I'm hearing it,'' Allen said of the boy he named Satchel. ``It's news to me.'' That's because Seamus, who lives with mom Mia, hasn't seen or spoken to his old man in four years, a result of the acrimony ac·ri·mo·ny n. Bitter, sharp animosity, especially as exhibited in speech or behavior. [Latin  crim between his mom and dad over the alleged molestation molestation n. the crime of sexual acts with children up to the age of 18, including touching of private parts, exposure of genitalia, taking of pornographic pictures, rape, inducement of sexual acts with the molester or with other children, and variations of these of one of her girls, Dylan, and Allen's marriage to Mia's oldest, Soon-Yi Previn, 28. Since September, Seamus has attended Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, Mass., where, as the school's youngest, he studies biology and Latin. Last year, he took to reading Albert Camus, Franz Kafka and Jean-Paul Sartre. When he was 5, it's said, he explained black holes to anybody who would listen. Mia's lawyer says Seamus ``is positively phobic'' about Allen, and ``sees Woody less as a father and more as the man who was having an affair with his sister, Soon-Yi.'' Allen is permitted supervised visits with three of Farrow's 14 kids: Seamus and two the ex-couple mutually adopted. Letterman fans tuning in tuning in, v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune again After five years of bad news in the ratings, things are starting to look up again for David Letterman. His ``Late Show'' average audience of 4.1 million last month was up 10 percent over 1998, putting him in the closest competitive position with rival Jay Leno in a major ratings sweeps month since November 1996, Nielsen Media Research said Thursday. Before the recent upswing, Letterman had lost more than half of his audience since 1994, when he used to beat Leno's ``Tonight'' show in the ratings. Leno's average audience of nearly 6 million in November was essentially identical to the year before, Nielsen said. Letterman's core audience hadn't really abandoned him, they were just watching less often, said CBS' top researcher, David Poltrack. ``People are re-connecting with the show and are starting to watch more,'' he said. 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. doesn't appear particularly worried. Rick Ludwin, NBC senior vice president, said the ``Tonight'' show had widened its lead over the ``Late Show'' within the past year in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic that advertisers covet cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. . Letterman's new viewers don't appear to come at the expense of Leno's audience, Ludwin said. ``If there are more viewers coming to the time period, then welcome to the party,'' he said. Celebrities share apocalyptic plans Kim Cattrall of HBO's ``Sex and the City'' isn't taking any chances over Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 . ``I'm stocking up on everything - just in case,'' she told Glamour magazine. Other celebrities polled in the January issue had their own ideas about emergency measures. ``I am going to stockpile gold bricks,'' actress and comedian Janeane Garofalo said. ``And then I'm going to sit in my apartment on top of the pile of bricks, with lots of bottled water and my rifle, shouting, Get off of my land! at anyone who steps off the elevator.'' News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) THE SECRET WORD IS `PICKLE' Bill Kaschub of Arlington, Texas, wears a crown of pickles Thursday after winning the Groucho Marx Impersonation Impersonation Patroclus wore the armor of Achilles against the Trojans to encourage the disheartened Greeks. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Prisoner of Zenda, The Contest at the Friars Club in Beverly Hills. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer (2) Garofalo (3) Allen (4) Letterman |
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