NEWS LITE : FATHERS OF FAME HAVE ODD PASTS.Paul Fleiss, father of ``Hollywood Madam'' Heidi, was Leonardo DiCaprio's pediatrician; Robert Redford's father was a milkman in Edinburgh, Scotland; Michael Moriarty's father was a surgeon for the Detroit Police Department The Detroit Police Department serves the city of Detroit, Michigan. The department was founded in 1865 to serve the city's growing population. The department is broken into 6 districts, the central, southwestern, northeastern, western, eastern, and northwestern. ; David Duchovny's father wrote a book called ``The Wisdom of Spiro Agnew''; Jerry Stiller's father was a taxi driver taxi driver n → taxista m/f taxi driver taxi n → chauffeur m de taxi taxi driver taxi n → ; Elizabeth McGovern's father is a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . Furthermore, Kim Basinger's father managed a loan company; Jeremy Irons' father was an accountant; Christina Ricci's father is a primal scream  The of this article or section may be compromised by "weasel words".You can help Wikipedia by removing weasel words. therapist; New Yorker editor David Remnick's father was a dentist; Jane Seymour's father fled Poland when the Germans invaded; Ted Danson This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. , Nancy Reagan and Steven Jobs are adopted; David Lee David Lee may refer to:
tr.v. out·sold , out·sell·ing, out·sells 1. To surpass (another) in an amount sold: a book that outsold all others of its kind. 2. his father's. Quayle cosmetics please producers MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company reports that Dan Quayle James Danforth "Dan" Quayle (born February 4 1947) was the forty-fourth Vice President of the United States under George H. W. Bush (1989–1993). He unsuccessfully sought the Republican Party Presidential nomination in 2000. uses M.A.C. cosmetics to get ready for public appearances, a revelation that puffs the chest of John Demsey, president of the company. ``Isn't this country wonderful,'' he asked, ``where RuPaul and Dan Quayle both use M.A.C. cosmetics?'' Lopez not giving up movies for music Despite topping the charts, Jennifer Lopez says she hasn't abandoned the silver screen for the music business. ``I'll continue doing both, and I want to do both better,'' Lopez said. ``I really have a desire to keep striving and doing more.'' Lopez's single ``If You Had My Love'' is No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 list. During a visit Wednesday to her family's native Puerto Rico, Lopez said she will begin work on a thriller, ``The Cell,'' in July and plans to star in a romantic comedy, ``The Wedding Planner,'' next year. Her movie credits include ``Selena,'' ``Money Train'' and ``Out of Sight.'' GM pledges to back Burns' filmmaking Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is getting a decade of financial security for upcoming projects. General Motors Corp. has told Burns it will underwrite a portion of every documentary project he takes on in the next 10 years, and pay for the extensive educational projects that accompany the films. Burns said the dollar value can't be specified yet because he doesn't know what projects might be involved. But he said the pledge to pay 35 percent of his production costs will provide security for his Florentine Films company and scores of associates who work on his films as free-lancers. ``Having a long-term commitment allows you to do some real long-term planning,'' Burns told The 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. Burns is working on a 20-hour series for 2000 called ``Jazz.'' Future projects include a film about Mark Twain and possibly documentaries on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the National Parks system. Gingrich assumes post at think tank Newt Gingrich has been appointed a Hoover Institution fellow. The former House speaker will focus on technology, society and public policy at the conservative think tank that was founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover and is located at Stanford University. ``I am delighted to join the fellows at the Hoover Institution,'' he said. ``I look forward to exploring the entrepreneurship and innovation of Silicon Valley and relating its successes to the direction public policy should take in the information age.'' News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 3) Motion on the ocean The statue of a mariner overlooks the docks at the 25th annual Marina del Rey In-Water Boat Show, left. Keko the dog rides a body board towed behind a boat Thursday to drum up publicity for the show, which runs through Sunday, top, while Sam the orangutan orangutan (ōrăng`  tăn), an ape, Pongo pygmaeus, found in swampy coastal forests of Borneo and Sumatra. sips soda while at the
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