NEWS LITE : DIRECTOR STAYS HEALTHY IN N.Y.In his years as a director, Mike Nichols has never been tempted to move to Hollywood. ``I can't. There's a virus I have no protection against if I'm there: How am I perceived?'' Nichols said in Sunday's 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 Times. ``And you can do whatever you like, put towels at the bottom of the door, not read the trades, which I have not done for 35 years. If you're there long enough you will think, But how am I perceived? ``If you're vulnerable to the virus, you've got to stay away from the matrix.'' The consummate New Yorker's many credits include ``The Graduate,'' for which he won an Academy Award; ``Catch-22''; ``Primary Colors''; and ``Silkwood.'' He's being honored May 3 by the Film Society of Lincoln Center Lincoln Center New York’s modern theater complex. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1586] See : Theater with a lifetime achievement award that first went to Charlie Chaplin in 1972 and last year went to Martin Scorsese. Mystery is solved for actress Madsen Although Virginia Madsen loves ``Unsolved Mysteries,'' she wasn't exactly jumping for joy when the show offered her a part. ``I thought they were offering me a re-enactment,'' she says in the coming TV Guide. But she was thrilled when she heard that producers wanted her to co-star with Robert Stack. ``My friends and I are so into that show. It's this cult thing. We're always discussing, will (Stack) ever wear a different trench coat?'' said Madsen, whose credits include ``Dune,'' ``Ghosts of Mississippi'' and ``The Rainmaker Rainmaker An employee of a brokerage firm who brings a large amount of wealthy individuals or corporations to the brokerage firm's client base. Notes: Rainmakers are usually compensated very well for their efforts (or connections). .'' Woody Allen, wife snapped with baby Woody Allen is a new papa. The 63-year-old filmmaker was seen - and photographed - pushing the new addition in a stroller with his 28-year-old wife, Soon-Yi Previn. ``We're just very pleased,'' Allen said in Sunday's 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. . The couple wouldn't say whether the 5-month-old girl named Bechet (Bih-SHAY) Dumaine Allen was adopted. Previn hasn't looked pregnant in recent photos. The baby is named after the swing-era jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet, according to the Daily News and Sunday's 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 . Allen and Previn married on Dec. 23, 1997, after Allen's falling out with Mia Farrow farrow see farrowing. , his longtime lover and Previn's adoptive mother. New daughter born to Leoni, Duchovny Actors David Duchovny of ``The X-Files,'' and Tea Leoni of ``Deep Impact,'' have welcomed their first child, a girl, into the world, their publicist said Sunday. The baby was born Saturday at an undisclosed Southern California hospital, said Annett Wolf. The girl weighed 7-1/2 pounds and was 20-1/2 inches long, Wolf said. There were no complications during the natural birth, the publicist said. ``Mother and baby are doing beautifully,'' she said, adding the baby's name was not immediately announced. Duchovny, 38, wed Leoni, 33, on May 6, 1997. It was his first marriage and her second. This is the first child for both of them. Artist arrested for posing 150 naked in N.Y. A Brooklyn artist who says he has persuaded people in all 50 states to pose nude in public was arrested after coaxing more than 150 people to lie naked in the middle of Times Square early Sunday so he could photograph them. On a morning cold enough to see his breath, the artist, Spencer Tunick, 32, was arrested and his camera confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. at 6:15 a.m. at 47th Street and Seventh Avenue. Tunick, who did not disrobe, was charged with unlawful assembly unlawful assembly: see riot, rout, and unlawful assembly. , which means a failure to have proper permits for a parade or demonstration. None of the models was arrested. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why he did it,'' said Officer Lee Ann Tracy, a New York Police New York Police may refer to:
Tunick's lawyer, Ronald L. Kuby, described the arrest as part of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's ``crackdown on the quality of life and on naked people.'' Tunick has been working on what he calls the Naked States tour, in which he poses nude volunteers in public settings. In New York, he passed out more than 6,000 postcards to elicit volunteers. Thomas C. Donahue, 30, who is editing a 90-minute independent documentary on Tunick, joined in. ``At first,'' he said, ``I had reservations about lying down in Times Square because I thought the street would be grimy grim·y adj. grim·i·er, grim·i·est Covered or smudged with grime. See Synonyms at dirty. grim  i·ly adv. . But actually it was flat with no big potholes, and all I could see was blue sky, and the marquee of the nearby Palace Theater advertising ``Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale (type 425C -- search for a lost husband -- in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in .'' Diana's lover to sell tale Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt is auctioning the newspaper rights to his memoirs weeks after winning a court action to retrieve dozens of her stolen love letters, The Sunday Telegraph reported. Hewitt, a former army officer, hoped to make around $800,000 from the memoir - but is barred from reproducing the 64 letters from the late princess, the newspaper said. In a television interview in 1995, Diana acknowledged the affair with Hewitt, who had been her sons' riding instructor, and said she felt let down by him after his 1994 tell-all book. Diana, ex-wife of Prince Charles, was killed in a Paris car crash two years later. She was 36. In February, Hewitt won a legal action against a law firm for the recovery of the letters, mostly written between 1990 and 1991 when he was serving in the Persian Gulf War Persian Gulf War or Gulf War (1990–91) International conflict triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Though justified by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on grounds that Kuwait was historically part of Iraq, the invasion was presumed to be . Hewitt said the letters had been taken from his home by a girlfriend. CAPTION(S): 3 photos PHOTO (1) Taking the field to fight hunger Dodgers batting coach Manny Mota, left, prepares an autograph for Matthew Marquez, 6, Sunday at the Northridge Little League fields. Former third baseman Ron Cey, center, lends a hand as well to support a canned food canned food food sterilized by heat in a closed, durable container such as tin and aluminum cans, flexible aluminum foil and thermoplastic containers including squeeze tubes. Technically, the processes used are highly efficient and used universally. drive for needy children and their families. John Lazar/Daily News (2) Hewitt (3) Nichols |
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