NEWS LITE : FOSTER GIVES BIRTH TO 7-1/2-POUND SON.Actress Jodie Foster Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19 1962), better known as Jodie Foster, is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, 3 BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her one of the few select is a mother for the first time. The Oscar-winning actress gave birth to a boy at 5:53 a.m. Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as , her publicist said. Charles Foster
Charles William Foster, Jr. (April 12, 1828 – January 9, 1904) was a U.S. Republican politician from Ohio. weighed 7-1/2 pounds and was 20-1/2 inches long. ``She couldn't be happier. She's happy as a lark,'' the publicist said. Foster, whose movie credits include ``Taxi Driver'' and ``Silence of the Lambs,'' isn't married and has not revealed the name of the father. She has said she plans to be a single mother. The 35-year-old actress returned to her Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. home with her son Tuesday. Bowie blasts off on cyberspace effort Rocker David Bowie has confirmed that he'll launch BowieNet, the first artist-created Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. . BowieNet, located at www.davidbowie.com, will offer high-speed Internet See broadband. service across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. beginning Sept. 1 and expand worldwide later in the year, the entertainer said. The site will offer e-mail service See Internet e-mail service. as well as special music and entertainment access, all for $19.95 a month. ``I wanted to create an environment where not just my fans but all music lovers could be a part of the same community - a single place where the vast archives of music information could be accessed, views stated and ideas exchanged,'' Bowie said in a statement. Madonna bows out of role as violinist She's not the first person to waste violin lessons. Madonna has decided not to play the lead in ``50 Violins,'' a movie about an inner-city music teacher, Miramax said Tuesday. Wes Craven, the film's director, said the problem was ``genuine mutual creative differences.'' Madonna's spokeswoman did not return a call Tuesday. The entertainer spent three months learning the violin so she could play the role of a woman who taught kids in East Harlem, Daily Variety said. Griffith admits she had breasts `done' Actress Melanie Griffith has had plastic surgery, but she swears it's not as much as you might think. ``I did my breasts seven years ago after I had (daughter) Dakota,'' she told Good Housekeeping Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. magazine. ``But that's it. I don't want to feel like I have to look 20 anymore. . . . I'm not going to live a life where I have to have plastic surgery every 10 years. Well, maybe every 20.'' Charges dropped on singer's stereo The city of Chicago has dropped charges that Grammy-winning singer R. Kelly played his car stereo too loudly back in April. Kelly, known for the rhythm and blues rhythm and blues (R&B) Any of several closely related musical styles developed by African American artists. The various styles were based on a mingling of European influences with jazz rhythms and tonal inflections, particularly syncopation and the flatted blues chords. hit ``I Believe I Can Fly,'' was arrested, police said, after he refused their request to turn it down. SELLING YESTERDAY; McCartney's boyhood home a tourism site It looks like any other 1950s working-class row house in Liverpool, England. But at No. 20 Forthlin Road, a young Paul McCartney Noun 1. Paul McCartney - English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942) McCartney, Sir James Paul McCartney played pranks, listened to pop records and wrote some of the Beatles songs that turned four Liverpool boys into music legends. The National Trust, keeper of some of Britain's grandest historic houses, has taken over the two-story home and restored it to 1950s condition, complete with furniture and gadgets from the decade. It opens to the public July 29, but the media had a preview Tuesday. ``My dear mother Mary had great aspirations for our family and was very proud and pleased when we moved to 20 Forthlin Road,'' McCartney said in a statement read during the tour of the three-bedroom house. ``My mum and dad would have found it very hard to believe that the house is now a National Trust property, but they would be chuffed chuff 1 n. A rude, insensitive person; a boor. [Middle English chuffe.] chuffed Adjective Informal (pleased) about it and so am I.'' McCartney, who is still mourning the death of his wife, Linda, did not attend the preview. But that did not stop Beatles fans from congregating outside to shout, ``We love you, Paul!'' Martin Drury, director general of the National Trust, said the house, built in 1952, ``is the first building acquired by the National Trust because of its significance to 20th-century popular culture.'' Paul was 13 in 1955 when his parents rented the house. His father, Jim, had a poorly paid job supervising garbage collection. A year later, his mother died of breast cancer. The family stayed in the house until 1964. The National Trust, which bought the house in 1995 for $88,000, based the restoration on photographs taken by McCartney's brother Michael. The kitchen's deep square sink, upstairs doors and the linoleum linoleum (lĭnō`lēəm), resilient floor or wall covering made of burlap, canvas, or felt, surfaced with a composition of wood flour, oxidized linseed oil, gums or other ingredients, and coloring matter. in the hall are the only original features. There are no McCartney possessions to see, and the living room where McCartney and John Lennon did their composing does not yet have an authentic piano of the period. Michael McCartney's photographs of family members adorn the walls. A 1940s television stands in the living room, which is decorated with three different wallpapers in the cheap and cheery style of the day. The kitchen counter is covered with a red-and-white checked cloth, and the room is filled with 1950s kitchen items. The garden still blossoms with the lavender Paul liked to bring indoors to counter the smell of his father's smoking. News Lite is compiled by Audrey Ramsay Prest from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) BOWIE (2) Paul McCartney's boyhood home along this row of houses is now open to tourists. |
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