NEWS LITE : HANKS SURPRISED BY HIS CELEBRITY.Tom Hanks Noun 1. Tom Hanks - United States film actor (born in 1956) Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks doesn't know how he became a two-time Academy Award winner. ``I keep asking myself, How did all this happen?'' Hanks says in the Sunday 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. . ``But I only know that it did. I can say that it was important to say yes to some things and important to say no to some things.'' The ``Apollo 13'' co-star realizes a dream this month with ``From the Earth to the Moon From the Earth to the Moon Verne tale of a group who have a monster gun cast to shoot them to the moon. [Fr. Lit.: WB 13:650] See : Astronautics ,'' a 12-part miniseries airing on HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy that began Sunday. Hanks served as executive producer, directed an episode, wrote an episode and co-wrote three others. Getting there was a long road, from the cross-dressing sitcom ``Bosom Buddies Bosom Buddies is an American sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson. It ran from 1980 to 1982 on ABC. ,'' to film hits like ``Splash'' and ``Big.'' Then came ``Philadelphia'' and ``Forrest Gump,'' which brought back-to-back best-acting Oscars for Hanks. He also directed ``That Thing You Do.'' ``Part of my success was being in the right place at the right time,'' Hanks said. ``But you also gotta be able to deliver the goods Verb 1. deliver the goods - attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won" bring home the bacon, succeed, win, come through when the time comes Adv. 1. when the time comes - at the appropriate time; "we'll get to this question in due course" in due course, in due season, in due time, in good time .'' Simpsons' children mum on murders O.J. Simpson's youngest children have never asked him about their mother's bloody 1994 murder, the celebrity athlete acquitted in the killing told the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. . ``Sydney has never mentioned it once, never asked about it,'' Simpson said in a transcript published Sunday. ``Not even my son. He has never even once mentioned it.'' The former star football player, sports commentator and actor added that he has never wanted to talk to his daughter, Sydney, 12, and son, Justin, 9, about their mother's murder. The BBC supplied a transcript of the interview to London's Sunday Telegraph. In 1995, Simpson was acquitted in criminal court of the knife slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal and her friend Ronald Goldman Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was murdered in Los Angeles, California in 1994 at the age of 25 along with his friend Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. . He was held liable for the deaths in a civil case and was ordered to pay victims' relatives $33.5 million. Regarding his children's silence, Simpson said the ``best shrinks and child psychologists'' had advised him to ``let them bring it up, let them talk about it when they want to.'' Madonna still `friends' with daughter's dad Madonna wants the world to know the father of her child may not be her husband, but he's still a big part of her life. ``I was in love with him,'' Madonna says in the April 11 TV Guide. ``A lot of people think I walked out on the street and looked at him and said, you're going to be my sperm donor.'' Madonna had a daughter, Lourdes, with Carlos Leon Carlos Leon (born July 10, 1966 in Cuba) is a personal trainer and actor. He is most famous for his former relationship with singer Madonna, who gave birth to their daughter Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon in 1996. He left Cuba during the Mariel boatlift in 1980. , a personal trainer she met 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 . ``I had a relationship with him. I still have a relationship with him,'' Madonna said. ``We are really good friends. . . . The last thing I want my daughter to do is grow up without a father. I grew up without a parent.'' ABC News readies change More than a year after ABC News announced his successor, Roone Arledge is ready to cede control of the network's news division, The New Yorker reported Sunday. Arledge will likely retain his title as chairman of ABC News, but he has agreed to give up decision-making authority in June, the magazine said. His deputy, ABC News President David Westin, will assume full control of the news division then. A spokeswoman for ABC News declined to confirm the story. ``We have long said that David Westin was Roone's successor,'' ABC News spokeswoman Eileen Murphy told The Associated Press. ``When Roone chooses to announce that he's decided to move on or step down, he's going to do it.'' The New Yorker said that starting in June, Westin will report directly to the network's president, Robert Iger, rather than to Arledge. In two decades as news division president, the 66-year-old Arledge created the highly successful ``Nightline'' and ``This Week'' and watched ``World News Tonight with Peter Jennings'' crush its rivals for eight years. Ratings for ``World News Tonight'' have recently lagged. Murphy also confirmed that ABC News was negotiating to hire former Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). editor Shelby Coffey III. Various news reports have said Coffey is in line to be Westin's deputy. ``We are in discussions with him . . . to come to ABC News in a senior news management role,'' she said. ``I've appreciated talking to a variety of people,'' Coffey told the Los Angeles Times in Saturday's editions. ``I haven't made any choice beyond enjoying enormously the time with my wife and children.'' Teresa's letter not too late A thank-you note Mother Teresa wrote in 1981 but then forgot to mail finally arrived 16 years late. And it couldn't have come to Gilbert Ortiz of Cheyenne, Wyo., at a better time. The same day last week that the 70-year-old Ortiz learned his kidneys were failing and he had an aneurysm aneurysm (ăn`y  rĭzəm), localized dilatation of a blood vessel, particularly an artery, or the heart. on his aorta, he received
the inspirational letter postmarked Calcutta, India.
The letter was from Mother Teresa, who signed a typed letter thanking him for a donation but forgot to mail it. The letter is dated Nov. 28, 1981. Mother Teresa died Sept. 5. A Missionaries of Charity Missionaries Of Charity Missionaries of Charity is a Roman Catholic religious order established in 1950, which consists of over 4,500 nuns and is active in 133 countries. Members of the order designate their affiliation using the order's initials, "MC. nun came across the letter recently while sorting through Mother Teresa's papers and thought Ortiz would want it, an accompanying letter said. ``I'm only 5-foot-5, but with this letter I'm 8 feet tall,'' Ortiz said. ``Pain, sorrow and suffering is but the kiss of Jesus,'' the letter reads. ``A sign that you have come so close to him that he can kiss you. May God give you all the courage to accept your cross with the resignation and love in union with the passion of Jesus.'' Rapper-actor sweats it out in writing, directing debut Ice Cube isn't always cool. Writing and directing his first film, ``The Players Club,'' made the rapper-actor question himself. ``You have doubts about yourself when you've never been to school and you see people who've done it and they've been to school,'' he said in Sunday's New York Daily News. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. anybody who just winged it. It's just like, man, going into uncharted waters. You don't know if you're cut out for it or not, and it challenges all of your ability.'' ``The Players Club'' looks at the world of strip clubs through the eyes of a single mother who dances on weekends to put herself through college. ``Everybody knows what goes on on stage,'' Ice Cube said. ``I wanted to give up the game on what goes on behind the stage.'' Ice Cube was a member of the rap group N.W.A. before moving on to star in films, including ``Boyz N the Hood,'' ``Higher Learning'' and ``Anaconda Anaconda, city, United States Anaconda (ănəkŏn`də), city (1990 pop. 10,278), seat of Deer Lodge co., SW Mont.; inc. 1887. .'' News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) HANKS (2) Ice Cube Dives into new waters (3) Roone Arledge said he's ready to move on. Enrico Ferorelli/ABC |
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