NEWS LITE : IN ITALY, MADONNA FASHIONABLY LATE.Madonna has caused a minor stir in Italy by keeping a VIP audience waiting more than an hour at a Rome cinema showing the Italian premiere of ``Evita.'' The singer stars in the role of Evita Peron of Argentina, and her tardiness Tardiness Dagwood comic strip character; chronically late at the office. [Comics: “Blondie” in Horn, 118] ten o’clock scholar schoolboy who habitually arrives late. [Nurs. at the premiere drew some harsh criticism. ``A diva can't forget to be a lady,'' said an announcer on RAI, the state radio, during Saturday's main lunchtime newscast. He suggested Madonna take a lesson from classy stars like Sophia Loren. ``Madonna, how rude,'' was how the newspaper Il Messaggero began its account Saturday of the previous evening's premiere. While the film was well-received, the Rome paper went on to note, the first applause of the night went to several in the invitation-only audience who walked out before the movie began to protest Madonna's lateness. After a brief appearance at the movie theater, Madonna took off, Il Messaggero reported. A news conference in Rome the next day - to which Madonna was 40 minutes late - began with a statement by her publicist, who said Madonna's security detail wanted to wait until it was ``100 percent'' safe to move past the screaming fans outside the cinema. Time honors AIDS doctor Time magazine's 1996 Man of the Year is AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho, who pioneered a treatment for HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. infection that has shown promise in beating back the deadly disease. Ho, scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center is a medical research institution dedicated to finding a cure for HIV/AIDS. It is headed by prominent scientist Dr. David Ho, and located in New York City. 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 , has fundamentally changed the approach to combating the AIDS virus AIDS virus n. See HIV. , Time said in its Dec. 30, year-ending issue. Ho, a 44-year-old father of three, used a ``cocktail'' of anti-viral drugs to combat the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus human immunodeficiency virus n. HIV. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) A transmissible retrovirus that causes AIDS in humans. in early stages of infection. His work included using protease inhibitors Protease Inhibitors Definition A protease inhibitor is a type of drug that cripples the enzyme protease. An enzyme is a substance that triggers chemical reactions in the body. to help clarify how HIV overwhelms the body's immune system, insights that helped treatment research focus on early stages of infection instead of later terms of the illness. Ho ``did not make the most headlines, but he helped make history,'' the magazine said. The cost of Ho's ``cocktail'' treatment - up to $20,000 a year - puts it beyond the reach of all but the best-insured patients. And Ho himself said he has only begun an experiment that might help a small group of men in the first three months of infection. Still, Time said his work ``might, just might, lead to a cure.'' Overheard Under the Cuisinart display, in the basement of the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Macy's store, an impossibly cute toddler begins bawling. She's hot. She's tired. She's hungry. She wants Santa. A passing middle-aged woman toting an Orville Redenbacher Hot Air Popper watches sympathetically. ``I don't blame her,'' says the woman. ``I feel like crying, too.'' Clinton joins last-minute crowd at mall President Clinton skipped church Sunday and plunged in among the nation's last-minute Christmas shoppers. Wearing a holiday tie and a Santa pin on his jacket lapel, the president trekked through the glittering shopping mall at Union Station, the Amtrak Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run rail depot in Washington, D.C. For nearly two hours he lingered over the kiosks in the elegant east hall, purchasing a few trinkets and knickknacks while several hundred people gathered nearby - including a man in a toy soldier suit who mingled in the crowd on stilts This article is about the poles. For the type of bird, see stilt. For other uses, see Stilts (disambiguation). Stilts are poles, posts or pillars used to allow a person or structure to stand at a certain distance above the ground. . Clinton shopped alone and did not tell reporters what he bought. But he was seen making purchases at two stands, Aurea and Bouvier's, where he'd been admiring bracelets, earrings and necklaces. After browsing among the kiosks, Clinton ducked into two stores, Platypus platypus (plăt`əpəs), semiaquatic egg-laying mammal, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, of Tasmania and E Australia. Also called duckbill, or duckbilled platypus, it belongs to the order Monotremata (see monotreme), the most primitive group and Appalachian Springs. Then he returned to the White House, toting two shiny green shopping bags into the Oval Office while aides followed with two larger bags. As Clinton was leaving the mall, two hecklers began shouting, ``Hey Bill Your AIDS plan is a sham!'' The president was shaking hands and ignored them. Holiday classic won't be same He still wants you to have yourself a merry little Christmas, but he'd also like it to be blessed. Composer Hugh Martin, now a Seventh-day Adventist, has changed the lyrics to the yuletide classic he penned for the 1943 movie ``Meet Me in St. Louis.'' ``My faith means everything to me now. I wasn't even a Christian when I wrote it,'' Martin said Friday during an interview at his Encinitas, Calif., home. Several months ago, Martin and his publishing company officially changed the chorus from ``have yourself a merry little Christmas'' to ``have yourself a blessed little Christmas.'' Originally sung by Judy Garland in the movie, ``Merry Little Christmas'' did not achieve mass popularity until the 1970s. By 1990, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a non-profit performance rights organisation that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating placed it on the list of Most Performed ASCAP ASCAP abbr. American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Standards. ``Have Yourself a Blessed Little Christmas'' will be released next holiday season. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Hugh Martin, who co-wrote ``Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'' with Ralph Blane, has rewritten the lyrics. Associated Press |
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