NEWS LITE : EX-SWEATHOG GETS LIFE-IN-FILM AWARD.John Travolta, whose career began as Vinny Barbarino on ``Welcome Back, Kotter'' and moved on to movies ranging from ``Saturday Night Fever'' to ``Pulp Fiction,'' received a lifetime achievement award at the 34th Chicago International Film Festival. In his acceptance speech Saturday, Travolta praised the festival for showing ambitious independent and foreign films. ``I think Chicago should be proud of that, for 34 years, it has cared enough to keep challenging us,'' Travolta said. The two-time Academy Award nominee's many other credits include ``Get Shorty short·y also short·ie Informal n. pl. short·ies 1. A person short in stature. 2. A thing of less than average size, length, extension, or duration. adj. ,'' ``Face/Off'' and ``Mad City.'' Wolfe reads latest at daughter's Duke It's been more than a decade since Thomas Wolfe's last book, ``Bonfire of the Vanities.'' It's only natural that Wolfe thinks his latest, ``A Man in Full,'' was worth the wait. ``It's much better,'' Wolfe said before a reading Saturday at Duke University in Durham, N.C. ``Of course, if you don't believe the last book's your best, you're in trouble.'' Wolfe's reading was part of ``Duke Moms and Dads Read,'' part of the school's parents weekend. The writer appeared dressed in his trademark double-breasted white suit and tie, striped shirt and two-toned shoes, accompanied by his daughter Alexandra, a Duke freshman. Notorious' widow issuing new album Quietly, R&B singer Faith Evans has moved beyond her unwanted role of hip-hop's most famous widow with a new album and a new love. Evans, wife of Notorious B.I.G. when he was gunned down in 1997, often found herself entangled en·tan·gle tr.v. en·tan·gled, en·tan·gling, en·tan·gles 1. To twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; snarl. 2. To complicate; confuse. 3. To involve in or as if in a tangle. in rap scene soap opera soap opera Broadcast serial drama, characterized by a permanent cast of actors, a continuing story, tangled interpersonal situations, and a melodramatic or sentimental style. scenarios. Through it all, the 25-year-old mother of three kept her dignity. She stayed silent when Tupac Shakur fueled the East-West hip-hop feud by claiming he had sex with Evans in an effort to disrespect her husband, also known as Biggie big·gie n. Slang 1. A very important person: "hassles between executive biggies" New York. 2. Smalls. ``These were things that didn't have to do with me - Tupac, East Coast vs. West Coast. It was like, leave me out,'' Evans says in the Nov. 12 issue of Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person . European royalty observes treaty rite King Juan Carlos Juan Car·los Born 1938. King of Spain (since 1975) who acceded to the throne on the death of Francisco Franco and helped restore parliamentary democracy. Noun 1. of Spain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands There were many territorial, dynastic, and religious issues that figured in the outbreak and conduct of the war. . The Treaty of Westphalia ended an era of religious war between Roman Catholics and Protestants, fought mostly in Germany. It also recognized for the first time the sovereignty of the German states, the Netherlands and the Swiss confederation Swiss Confederation: see Switzerland. . Littlefield leaving longtime 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. post NBC plans to name a new president for its entertainment division today, setting up a transition that eventually will put all the network's entertainment operations under the executive, Scott Sassa Scott Sassa Scott Sassa is currently Founder and CEO of uber.com a consumer internet site. Prior to that, he served as Residence with Kleiner Perkins, a leading technology venture capital firm. , senior NBC officials said Sunday. As president, Sassa will replace Warren Littlefield Warren Littlefield is the head of programming for Sony Pictures Television and the former president of NBC Entertainment. Littlefield was born in Lincoln, NE. Warren graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, and was awarded a BA in Psychology. , who, with 20 years at NBC, is one of the longest-serving program executives in the history of television, despite being only 46 years old. Littlefield has been a central figure in developing and scheduling some of the most popular TV shows of the past decade, including ``Seinfeld,'' ``Cheers'' and ``Law and Order.'' The senior NBC executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the network had decided to move Sassa, who is 39, from his current job as president of NBC's station division, to set up a transition period during which Sassa could work under NBC's top entertainment executive, Don Ohlmeyer Don Ohlmeyer (born Donald Winfred Ohlemeyer, Jr., February 3, 1945, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American television producer and former president of the NBC network's West Coast division. He grew up in the Chicago-area and attended Glenbrook North High School. , before taking over for Ohlmeyer when he decides to step down. Ohlmeyer's contract expires at the end of 2000 and he has told friends he is likely to leave his present job at that time to go back to producing shows. One senior NBC executive said Sunday that Littlefield had not been seen as a suitable successor to Ohlmeyer. NBC, a unit of General Electric Co., concluded a deal with Littlefield on Sunday to create a joint-venture production company that he will head. Littlefield's contract as president of entertainment had extended through 2001. In a telephone interview Sunday, Littlefield called the arrangement with NBC for a production company ``a gold-standard deal,'' adding, ``I feel really sensational about that.'' Littlefield said he had begun to think about leaving his position last Christmas when Jerry Seinfeld This article is about the comedian. For the character, see Jerry Seinfeld (character). Jerry Seinfeld (born Jerome Seinfeld on April 29, 1954 in New York City, New York) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and writer. told him he would be quitting his show. ``I think when Jerry said he realized it was time to move on to the next phase of his life, I started to think seriously about my own choice,'' Littlefield said. ``When it became clear that Don was not going to go beyond his contract, and as it became clear that Scott would be a player for the network, I also got very comfortable with the idea that it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for me to move on to chapter two of my life.'' No other executive affected by the decision responded to requests for comment Sunday. But one senior executive said Ohlmeyer, who had been an Emmy-Award winning producer of sports and entertainment shows before joining NBC, ``wants to get back to making shows.'' Another senior NBC executive, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said, ``This is about getting an orderly transition in place.'' The executive noted that Sassa had been brought to NBC last year after running the entire entertainment operation for Turner Broadcasting. He said that, in essence, Sassa had been temporarily parked in his job overseeing NBC's stations to await an opening in entertainment. Slater says finding himself a safer way Christian Slater can admit he's been a wild man offscreen off·screen adj. 1. Existing or occurring outside the frame of a movie or television screen: could hear sounds of offscreen mayhem. 2. , now that he knows who he is. ``Nobody gets through life unscathed,'' Slater says 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. . ``I've been in the public eye for the past 20 years, so my life has been slightly more exposed, and dealing with some of that has been difficult, especially when you don't have an identity or foundation of your own.'' Slater, currently starring on Broadway in ``Side Man,'' has had several run-ins with the law involving drugs and alcohol. In 1997 he was arrested during a drinking binge for roughing up his girlfriend, kicking a man in the stomach and trying to take an officer's gun during his arrest. He got a 90-day jail sentence and three years of probation. Now 29, Slater says he's made peace with himself by discovering who he really is. ``I think I lacked a certain identity of my own and I spent a lot of time living up to a projected image that people would place on me,'' Slater said. ``I lost myself.'' News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Wading through the wool A woman does the best she can to make her way through a flock of sheep, among 2,000, herded Sunday through Madrid as part of a celebration of Spain's 800-year-old seasonal livestock routes. Paul White/Associated Press (2) TRAVOLTA |
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