NEWS LITE : LABOR DAY NOTES.The staff at the progressive magazine Mother Jones has organized a bowling team called the Bowlsheviks, a name credited to bowling widow Carmel Vermeltfoort. The team's uniform shirts will read: ``Mother Jones: Leading strikes since 1873.'' The first 75 mothers who send proof that they gave birth on Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. to Fruit of the Loom Fruit of the Loom is an American company which manufactures clothing, particularly underwear. The company's world headquarters are based in Bowling Green, Kentucky. One manufacturing facility still remains in Jamestown, Kentucky, and several other facilities are located across the , 132 W. 21st St., 10th floor, 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 , NY 10011, will receive free underwear for 21 years. Actor likes own films, even flops After huge hits like ``The Untouchables'' and ``Dances With Wolves'' gave way to big bombs like ``The Postman'' and ``Waterworld,'' Kevin Costner knows that whatever he does, he does it in a big way. He also knows that trait makes some critics see him as the perfect example of everything they hate about Hollywood. ``I hear things,'' Costner is quoted in 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. on Sunday. ``I'm not immune.'' Despite his failures, the Academy Award-winning actor has no regrets. ``Maybe I don't see myself clearly. 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. ,'' Costner said. ``Maybe there's an arrogance about me or whatever. But I know the way I feel about movies is really pure. ``I'm happy about the things I've done. I'm not always happy about the results, but I'm happy about the choices I've made, because I've made them myself. I love `Wyatt Earp,' and I really love `The Postman,' and I loved making `The War,' '' he said, referring to three box office flops. ``I would stack my movies up with anybody's movies, all the sequels included.'' In his latest film, ``For Love of the Game,'' Costner returns to the baseball diamond, where he has succeeded with ``Bull Durham'' and ``Field of Dreams.'' The actor who played baseball in college portrays a once-great pitcher trying to go out in style. Diana's paramour par·a·mour n. A lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship. [Middle English, from par amour, by way of love, passionately, from Anglo-Norman : par, by sells tale to tabloid Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt is still cashing in on the affair. His latest sale is a new memoir compiled after he retrieved dozens of stolen love letters. ``Cruel Hewitt,'' ``Cad in a Cravat'' and ``Lowest of Low,'' rival newspapers declared Sunday in almost unanimous condemnation of Hewitt's deal with The Mail on Sunday to serialize To convert a parallel signal made up of one or more bytes into a serial signal that transmits one bit after the other. serialize - serialise his memoir for the equivalent of $800,000. Publication may start next week. The book is said to include notes from Prince William at 8 and Prince Harry at 5. Hewitt will also draw on 63 letters from Diana, mostly written in 1990 and 1991, when the former army officer was serving in the Gulf War. In February, he successfully sued to recover the letters, stolen by another girlfriend. Cantata cantata (kəntä`tə) [Ital.,=sung], composite musical form similar to a short unacted opera or brief oratorio, developed in Italy in the baroque period. conductor makes 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. show Robert Bass, conductor of the 100-voice Collegiate Chorale, didn't know just how cool he was. When MTV asked his group to perform at the cable music channel's annual awards show this week, Bass initially thought it was somebody's idea of a joke. ``I did not dream my 20th anniversary season with the Collegiate Chorale would be celebrated in the presence of the Backstreet backstreet Noun a street in a town far from the main roads Adjective denoting secret or illegal activities: a backstreet abortion backstreet n Boys, Ricky Martin, Madonna, David Bowie, Jennifer Lopez, Lauryn Hill, Britney Spears, Chris Rock and Sean `Puffy' Combs,'' Bass said. The chorale chorale (kōrăl`, –räl`), any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in will perform a 1937 cantata, ``Carmina burana,'' by Carl Orff, the German composer who died in 1982. The rapper NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular and Combs had a hit recently with ``Hate Me Now,'' which is based on ``Carmina burana,'' so the chorale got the invitation to be the opening act for the awards show at the Metropolitan Opera House. ``I presume millions of TV viewers will think Carl Orff is a hip-hop artist and Bob Bass and the Collegiate Chorale is a rap group,'' Bass said. ``What a great way to reach a new audience.'' Venice film critics laud `Liaison' Italian critics gave a big thumbs-up Sunday to a little film from a virtually unknown Belgian director, calling it a contender for the Golden Lion, the Venice Film Festival's top prize. ``A Pornographic Liaison'' got a solid 10 minutes of applause at its premiere screening Saturday. Critics at the film festival said it eclipsed another early favorite - ``Holy Smoke,'' by Australian Jane Campion campion: see pink. campion Any of the ornamental rock-garden or border plants that make up the genus Silene, of the pink family, consisting of about 500 species of herbaceous plants found throughout the world. , director of ``The Piano,'' which garnered a best actress Oscar in 1993 for Holly Hunter. ``A Pornographic Liaison,'' starring France's Nathalie Baye, is a modest film directed by 31-year-old Frederic Fonteyne. It centers on a couple who remain nameless throughout the movie. They meet once a week in a hotel to realize a mutual erotic fantasy. The audience never sees beyond the closed door of their hotel room, and the precise nature of the fantasy remains a mystery. ``Holy Smoke,'' with ``Titanic'' star Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel and Pam Grier, centers around a beautiful young woman who follows her guru to India. Keitel plays a cult deprogrammer who catches up with her. Italian critics professed disappointment at Campion's eagerly awaited film, one of 18 in competition for the Golden Lion. Premiering at the festival, but not in competition, was Woody Allen's ``Sweet and Lowdown low·down n. Slang The whole truth: gave us the lowdown on what happened at the party. lowdown low (inf) n he gave me the lowdown on it → ,'' a cinematic valentine to jazz in the 1930s. Allen has a soft spot for the venerable film festival and often premieres there, although he never attends. ``Sweet and Lowdown,'' starring Sean Penn, Uma Thurman, Samantha Morton and Anthony LaPaglia, follows jazz guitarist Emmet Ray, who enjoyed a brief stint of success in the 1930s. The 56th annual Venice Film Festival opened Sept. 1. It will end Sept. 11 with a special lifetime achievement award for comedian Jerry Lewis. Chocolates' squiggles are clues Forrest Gump may have charmed America by saying, ``Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're going to get,'' but that's not necessarily true. Actually, many chocolate makers indicate with squiggles on the outside what kind of filling you'll find. ``A lot of people poke the bottoms,'' said a smiling James Connelly of Hilliards House of Candy of Hanover and North Easton, Mass. Connelly was among the attendees at the Philadelphia National Candy, Gift & Gourmet Show. For example, said Connelly, a round chocolate with a circle on top probably has an orange filling. A squiggle See tilde. in the shape of a letter R probably has raspberry. A loop down the side is usually lemon, while a letter V is most often vanilla. Some marks vary a bit from one maker to another, but others are consistent. ``I've never seen anybody put any mark but a straight line on a peppermint peppermint: see mint. peppermint Strongly aromatic perennial herb (Mentha piperita, mint family), source of a widely used flavouring. Native to Europe and Asia, it has been naturalized in North America. ,'' said Michael T. King, the production manager for Hilliards. The two-day, biannual bi·an·nu·al adj. 1. Happening twice each year; semiannual. 2. Occurring every two years; biennial. bi·an trade show in suburban Philadelphia features hundreds of exhibitors from the candy trade and allied industries, such as makers of baskets, boxes and display cases. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Director Frederic Fonteyne, left, filmed ``A Pornographic Liaison'' with Nathalie Baye and Sergi Lopez. Associated Press (2) COSTNER |
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