NEWS LITE : EMBARKING ON REVENGE? DOG'S CAMEO DOG PUT CLOSE ON SPOT.Did revenge drive Glenn Close to play evil dog-napper Cruella De Vil in ``101 Dalmatians?'' Does her gleeful glee·ful adj. Full of jubilant delight; joyful. glee  ful·ly adv.glee portrayal have anything to do with being upstaged by her own dog? While she was a student at the College of William and Mary Noun 1. William and Mary - joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II , in Williamsburg, Va., in the early 1970s, Close owned a small white dog named Penny, recalls theater professor Jerry Bledsoe. One day while she was appearing in a student production of ``The Miser,'' Penny got out of Close's dressing room and wandered into the theater. ``The dog slowly made its way down the aisle and climbed onstage,'' Bledsoe recalled. Penny appeared just as Close was just delivering the line, ``The devil sees you and takes you to hell, you beggardly dog.'' Instead of applauding, the audience laughed so hard the play had to stop. Slap's something to be thankful for Who says jail doesn't reform criminals? Take Zsa Zsa Zsa Zsa may refer to:
You'll recall that back in 1989 she was sentenced to three days in jail and 120 community service hours for slapping a cop who dared stop her Rolls-Royce because its registration had expired. She put in her community service at an L.A. shelter for poor women and their children. What you may not know is that she's gone back to the shelter every year since. She returned again Monday with 100 Thanksgiving turkeys. ``It makes so many people happy,'' Gabor said. ``It makes me feel good. I try to cheer them up, that's all. It's a small thing really, darling. But I know it means so much to them.'' Today it's 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. , tomorrow 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. ? Bryant Gumbel, who will leave NBC's ``Today'' show in January, has been spotted dining 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 with executives of rival network ABC. Rumor has it, says New York magazine, that ABC has proposed an ``edgy'' talk show on Thursday nights for Gumbel. The talks may also be linked to Diane Sawyer's ``flirtation'' with CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. . If Sawyer left ABC, a source told the magazine, ``Bryant would be a good guy for `PrimeTime.' He could even substitute for (Ted) Koppel.'' Gumbel's agent, Ed Hookstratten, said his client ``does not, has not and will not decide on anything before the first of the year.'' Berlin street name change drawing flak Marlene Dietrich still can cause a stir in her hometown. A plan to rename a Berlin street after the sultry actress who epitomized prewar Berlin's glamour and sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. has met resistance from Berliners angry that she supported the Allies during World War II. Officials in her old neighborhood of Schoeneberg, who lauded the late actress's ``fierce resistance to German Nazism,'' have received letters and phone calls from people calling her a ``non-German'' and a ``traitor to the Fatherland fa·ther·land n. 1. One's native land. 2. The land of one's ancestors. fatherland Noun a person's native country Noun 1. .'' Dietrich died four years ago. Hanns Leske, a Schoeneberg politician who champions the renaming plan, said the complaints were ``mostly from older citizens who still have a very concrete image of Dietrich'' - namely, of her in a U.S. Army uniform, entertaining American troops during the war. Hardly a glamorous address, the narrow street, now called Tempelhofer Weg, runs a few blocks through a light industrial area near Tempelhof airport. It boasts a school, a metal scrap yard, two car repair shops, a Tupperware distributor and about 20 other enterprises. District officials plan to revamp the area in the next few years, making the future Marlene Dietrich Street a main thoroughfare through a mixed neighborhood of apartments, offices and stores. (1) Glenn Close, who plays the cackling cack·le v. cack·led, cack·ling, cack·les v.intr. 1. To make the shrill cry characteristic of a hen after laying an egg. 2. To laugh or talk in a shrill manner. v.tr. Cruella De Vil, was upstaged by a dog. Associated Press (2) Marlene Dietrich: Irks some Germans CAPTION(S): 2 Photos |
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