NEWS LITE : FORMER TV HOST ENJOYS TIME OFF.Unemployment suits Joan Lunden Joan Lunden (born September 19, 1950) is an American broadcaster, most recently the host of the CBS reality series "Wickedly Perfect," and was a popular co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 through 1997. just fine. ``I was addicted to structure,'' the 47-year-old former host of ``Good Morning America'' said in the July issue of Ladies' Home Journal Ladies' Home Journal U.S. monthly magazine, one of the oldest in the country and long the trendsetter among women's magazines. Founded in 1883 as a supplement to the Tribune and Farmer (1879–85), it began an independent publication in 1884. . ``If you told me six months ago this would be the best summer of my life, I would have thought you were crazy.'' Lunden left the 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. morning talk show in September, after 17 years on the job. Now she's enjoying being a stay-at-home mother and her reborn love life with boyfriend Jeff Konigsberg, 37. ``He is my Rock of Gibraltar,'' Lunden says. ``He's so incredibly grounded that I call him Johnboy Walton.'' Life after ``Good Morning America'' hasn't been all relaxation. Lunden has a book coming out in October, ``A Bend in the Road Is Not the End of the Road - Ten Positive Principles for Dealing With Change.'' She plans to take a complete year off TV work before deciding what to do next. Poitier used refusal to assert his rights Sidney Poitier Noun 1. Sidney Poitier - United States film actor and director (born in 1927) Poitier faced down Hollywood stereotyping the only way he could: by turning his back. When he was the industry's sole African-American leading man in the racially segregated 1950s, Poitier turned down ``more than a few'' roles he considered demeaning de·mean 1 tr.v. de·meaned, de·mean·ing, de·means To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: demeaned themselves well in class. . ``I was here under my own terms, and I knew I had no power to influence except the power to say no,'' Poitier said. ``I didn't come into this business for the fame and fortune and all of that. I had points to make to myself and to the world on behalf of myself and my family.'' Poitier, 71, made his first film in 1950 - the racial drama ``No Way Out.'' He went on to star in such classics as ``The Blackboard Jungle,'' ``To Sir, With Love,'' ``In the Heat of the Night'' and ``Lilies of the Field lilies of the field more splendidly attired than Solomon. [N.T.: Matthew 6:28–29; Luke 12:27–31] See : Beauty ,'' which in 1963 made him the only African-American to win the Academy Award as best actor. He continues to work, appearing in the recent film ``The Jackal'' and as South African anti-apartheid crusader-turned-President Nelson Mandela Noun 1. Nelson Mandela - South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela in a Showtime cable TV movie. `Seinfeld' mailman cuts fee for tax ad Wayne Knight, who played lazy postal worker Newman on ``Seinfeld,'' is more into public service in real life, taking a reduced fee to make radio commercials urging Wisconsin tax delinquents to pay up. ``Ninety-five percent of Wisconsin taxpayers pay their taxes on time. Congratulations,'' Knight says as the Hank Williams' song ``Your Cheatin' Heart'' plays in the background. ``Unfortunately, that means 5 percent of you don't. No congratulations for you. ``In fact, what if the other 95 percent knew who you were?'' he asks. ``That wouldn't be pretty.'' Event honors queen's birth LONDON - The weather gave Queen Elizabeth II a break for her official birthday celebrations on Saturday. The rain stopped just as the queen left Buckingham Palace for the annual Trooping the Color ceremony at Horse Guards Parade Horse Guards Parade is a large parade ground off Whitehall in central London, at grid reference TQ299800. It was formerly the site of the Palace of Whitehall's tiltyard, where tournaments were held in the time of Henry VIII. . And it stayed dry as the queen joined her family later on the balcony of the palace to see a variety of modern and vintage aircraft fly overhead, including an AWACS AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) Mobile, long-range radar surveillance-and-control centre for air defense. Used by the U.S. Air Force since 1977, AWACS is mounted in a specially modified Boeing 707 aircraft, with its main radar antenna affixed to a rotating dome. communications and surveillance aircraft, Harrier jet fighters and a Spitfire. On the way to the Trooping the Color ceremony, the queen - wearing a white and navy cotton dress with coat and matching hat - rode in an open carriage, behind another open carriage carrying her mother, Queen Mother Elizabeth, and the queen's sister, Princess Margaret. Riding behind the queen, three abreast, were Prince Charles, Prince Philip and the Duke of Kent. The queen actually marked her 72nd birthday on April 21, but the official birthday is marked on the second Saturday of June. Queen Victoria, who liked to celebrate her birthday of May 24 in private, started the custom of having an official celebration in June 1843. The day has been marked on a Saturday since 1959, to accommodate the crowds who come to see the pageantry, according to ``Monarchy and the Royal Family,'' by Graham and Heather Fisher. City secretary has sexy credentials Mayor Willie Brown Jr.'s new scheduling secretary is also a former Miss Asian America The Miss Asian America Pageant is a nationwide pageant founded in 1980 by Rose Chung with a mission "to showcase young Asian American women in a high quality production that will represent their culture, intelligence and talent." Incorporated as Miss Asian, Inc. and a lingerie model with her own site on the Internet, the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the reported. Esther Hwang, a $40,951-a-year ``special assistant'' hired four months ago, is also a former cheerleader. Her Web site (www.esther.com) includes a biography describing her as ``personable PERSONABLE. Having the capacities of a person; for example, the defendant was judged personable to maintain this action. Old Nat. Brev. 142. This word is obsolete. , friendly, voluptuous, daring, and sexy,'' and ``without a doubt one of the hottest and fastest-rising Asian talents today.'' Hwang also has a role as an ``enchanting mermaid seductress'' in an upcoming film, ``Mermaid Island.'' Hwang, a University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. graduate, is as ambitious as her boss, according to the bio. Her dreams, the bio says, are ``to attend law school and graduate school, teach literature, write books, get married to a wonderful man, have a family, be a champion dog breeder and ultimately help others `through my love for God.' '' The mayor's reaction to the Web site included a big laugh. As for an official response, mayoral spokeswoman Kandace Bender told the paper, ``Hey, it's the 21st century . . . and that's her portfolio. We all have interests after our work hours.'' News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Esther Hwang, left, aide to San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr., models lingerie and has a Web site. Brant brant or brant goose, common name for a species of wild sea goose. The American brant, Branta bernicla, breeds in the Arctic and winters along the Atlantic coast. Ward/San Francisco Chronicle (2) Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip attend her birthday celebration. John Stilwell/Associated Press (3) LUNDEN |
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