NEWS LITE : JULIA LIVENS UP A DINNER PARTY.Re-creating a scene from ``Notting Hill,'' Julia Roberts sat down to dinner with a group of folks, some of whom had no idea a famous Hollywood star The Hollywood Star was an idiosyncratic gossip tabloid published on an erratic schedule in Hollywood, California by William Kern, who wrote much of the magazine under the pseudonym "Bill Dakota. was joining them. Things got weird though when one guest didn't recognize her. Set up by Marie Clare magazine for an article in its July issue, the dinner party mirrored one in the movie that features Roberts as a movie star dating a London bookstore owner, except for the real-life woman who had no idea who the guest of honor was. ``And what do you do for a living,'' she asked Roberts. ``I'm an actress,'' Roberts replied. ``Anything I might have seen?'' the woman went on. ``How about `Pretty Woman?' '' Roberts answered. Suddenly it dawned on the questioner who she was talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to . ``She's not very good with faces,'' the woman's fiance said to Roberts. ``Please don't take it personally.'' Roberts didn't. ``Why is it so weird So Weird is a television series shot in Vancouver, British Columbia that aired on the Disney Channel as a midseason replacement from January 18th, 1999 to September 28th, 2001. that somebody didn't recognize me?'' Roberts said later. ``The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, nice to meet you; I'm Julia.'' Jar Jar Binks Jar Jar Binks (born c. 50 BBY) is a fictional character from the Star Wars Prequels, , and . Named by George Lucas' son[1], his primary role was intended to provide comic relief — based on his gangly way of walking and his unique accent — but he ended up gives Lucas a great image Ahmed Best Ahmed Best (born August 19, 1973) is a voice actor most famous for his role as Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), for which he was awarded a Golden Raspberry in 1999. , the man behind the mask of the new ``Star Wars'' character Jar Jar Binks, feels like he came to the scene-stealing role from a galaxy far, far away. Before ``Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace,'' Best's only film experience was working as an extra in ``Lean On Me.'' ``I kept waiting every day for somebody to say, excuse me, you're not supposed to be here,'' Best said in the June 24 issue of Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person . Director George Lucas Noun 1. George Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) Lucas discovered Best while the singer-dancer-drummer was working in the San Francisco production of the dance musical ``Stomp.'' Lucas couldn't have been happier with his choice. ``It was the first time I could get an alien to turn in a really great performance,'' Lucas said of Best, who acted out the scenes in costume during filming, but whose image was digitally created and inserted during special effects work later. Washington insiders run for the cause Vice President Al Gore; his wife, Tipper; Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and two dozen members of Congress put on their running shoes Saturday to raise money for breast cancer research and treatment programs. At the Washington Monument, they joined 65,000 other participants, many of whom were cancer survivors or relatives of cancer victims. After a brief pep rally and warm-up set to dance music, they blended into a sea of white T-shirts for a 5-kilometer run around downtown Washington. The Race for the Cure was expected to raise $2.5 million for research programs, local education about breast cancer and medical care for poor women in the Washington area. OFFBEAT off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. : Tanker couldn't hold its liquor When a tanker truck loaded with tequila sprang a leak in Opelousas, La., it was considered a hazard, not an opportunity to break out shot glasses and salt shakers. ``Who's going to Winn Dixie (supermarket) to get the limes limes plural limites (Latin; “path”) In ancient Rome, a strip of open land along which troops advanced into unfriendly territory. It came to mean a Roman military road, fortified with watchtowers and forts. ?'' joked Trooper John Dayries of the State Police Hazardous Material Unit. About 10 gallons was caught and disposed of safely between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. ``In bulk like this, it's a flammable liquid,'' Dayries said. ``That's why we're taking all these precautions.'' A long discussion of whether the tequila was ready to drink or still raw never reached a conclusion. Nobody tasted it. Some dripping continued. Friday morning, U.S. Customs officials supervised the tequila transfer into another tanker to complete the trip from Mexico to a Florida distiller. The truck had stalled by some railroad tracks, said Opelousas police Lt. Mark LeBlanc. ``If it had kept bouncing down the road, it would have dumped a lot more product,'' he said. Dayries said the tank appeared to be cracked. He ticketed the owner, Reynolds Nationwide Inc. of San Antonio, for operating a leaking container holding a flammable liquid. ``If they give us any problems,'' he said, smiling, ``we'd confiscate To expropriate private property for public use without compensating the owner under the authority of the Police Power of the government. To seize property. When property is confiscated it is transferred from private to public use, usually for reasons such as it.'' G.I.s join Time list of 1900s' icons Time magazine's top 20 heroes and icons of the 20th century run the gamut: a princess and a preacher, an aviator and an alcoholic, a gay man and ``The Greatest.'' Alphabetically, they start with boxer Muhammad Ali and end with Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), worldwide organization dedicated to the treatment of alcoholics; founded 1935 by two alcoholics, one a New York broker, the other an Ohio physician. founder Bill W. The eclectic group includes activists Rosa Parks and Harvey Milk, pioneer Charles Lindbergh and screen icons Marilyn Monroe and Bruce Lee. The list is the fifth and last in its top 100 people of the last 100 years. Previous lists included the top 20 leaders and revolutionaries, artists and entertainers, builders and titans, and scientists and thinkers. The new list included one generic entry: the American G.I., from World War I through the Kosovo conflict. And there was one family entry: the Kennedys, cited as America's most powerful family of the century. The rest of the list included Princess Diana, Nazi victim Anne Frank, Billy Graham, Che Guevara, Helen Keller, Everest conquerors Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst, soccer great Pele, baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson, dissident Andrei Sakharov and Mother Teresa. Is `Silence' sequel a tasteful read? ``Hannibal,'' Thomas Harris' sequel to ``Silence of the Lamb,'' is causing a bit of extra buzz because of a six-page synopsis of the plot that has turned up on the Web, according to the 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. . The novel supposedly includes a few unexpectedly gruesome bits: FBI agent Clarice Starling starling, any of a group of originally Old World birds that have become distributed worldwide. Starlings were brought to New York in 1890; since then the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has spread throughout North America. (Jodie Foster in the movie) helps rescue Hannibal ``the Cannibal'' Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) from being fed to pigs and flees with the good doctor to Buenos Aires. More unbelievable: Starling indulges her cannibalistic can·ni·bal n. 1. A person who eats the flesh of other humans. 2. An animal that feeds on others of its own kind. [From Spanish Caníbalis, urges and offers Lecter a bite of herself. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Shooting for the stars Latin singer Ricky Martin aims at photographers Saturday at the MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. Movie Awards in Santa Monica. Victoria Arocho/Associated Press (2) ROBERTS |
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