NEWS LITE : LOS FELIZ LIBRARY BIG ON DICAPRIO.Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. movie posters cover the walls of the computer center at the new Los Feliz Branch Library, built on land where the actor's family home once stood. The Leonardo DiCaprio Computer Center contains seven terminals with a variety of multimedia software to help students with math, language and study skills, Peter Persic, spokesman for the Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system serves the residents of Los Angeles, California. , said Thursday. DiCaprio and his family, who are longtime residents of the Los Feliz neighborhood, donated $35,000 to fund the computer center, Persic said. The ``Titanic'' actor did not attend the ceremony. Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. and City Council President John Ferraro John Ferraro (May 14 1924—April 17 2001) served as a Los Angeles City Councilman from 1966 until his death. Early life Ferraro was born in the working class suburb of Cudahy, California, just south of Los Angeles. were on hand Thursday to cut the ribbon at the library's opening. ``There are lots of books about Leonardo DiCaprio on the shelves, but I doubt they'll stay there for long,'' Persic said. Newman donates funds for refugees Paul Newman said Wednesday he's giving $250,000 to Catholic Relief Services Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community. Founded in 1943 by the U.S. bishops, the agency provides assistance to 80 million people in 99 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the to assist refugees and others suffering in the Balkan crisis. ``It is our hope that by giving this donation to the Kosovo refugees, we will set an example that other corporations will follow to alleviate the plight of these unfortunate people,'' the actor said in a statement. `Yesterday' named song of the century The Beatles' ``Yesterday'' was voted best song of the 20th century in a 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. Radio poll. Rounding out the top five: ``Stardust star·dust n. 1. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being. 2. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use. 3. ,'' ``Bridge Over Troubled Water,'' ``White Christmas'' and ``Unchained Melody.'' Greenwich Village home for Paltrow After inspecting and rejecting 50 possibilities, Gwyneth Paltrow settled on a Greenwich Village town house on West Fourth Street. It set her back $1.6 million. Familiar terrain for the actress. Brad Pitt once rented in the neighborhood. Dion cancels gigs as husband heals Canadian chanteuse chan·teuse n. A woman singer, especially a nightclub singer. [French, feminine of chanteur, singer, from chanter, to sing; see chant.] Celine Dion has ditched several concert gigs so she can be with her manager-husband as he recovers from skin cancer surgery on his neck. Rene Angelil was released from the hospital last week and will receive radiation therapy for six weeks. ``Obviously, this is a very delicate time for Rene and I, but we have been blessed with some of the very best medical attention in the world,'' Dion said in a statement. ``Rene is the biggest priority in my life, and I want to be by his side as he continues his treatment.'' They married in 1994. Angelil, 56, has managed Dion, 30, since she was a teen-ager. Namath's wife has plastic surgeon plastic surgeon A surgeon specialized in reconstruction or cosmetic enhancement of various body regions, most commonly the face–nose, chin, and cheeks, breasts and buttocks; PSs remove fat deposits through liposuction; PSs reduce scarring or disfigurement pal Joe Namath's wife, Tatiana, who filed for divorce from the football great, has already found a new honey. Since leaving the couple's Tequesta, Fla., home for Santa Monica, she has been dating plastic surgeon Brian Novack, according to People magazine. Tatiana Namath, 37, married the former football player, 55, in 1984, and they had two daughters. His favorite pastime since giving up the game has been ``a whole lot of golf,'' the magazine says. And that didn't sit well with the missus mis·sus n. Variant of missis. missus or missis Noun 1. Brit, Austral & NZ informal . ``Joe has lived an exciting life, so he's happy to relax now,'' she's quoted as saying. ``I had children at 24, and I've grown in a way that I'd like to be more stimulated.'' She's focusing on a career as a playwright, according to People. ``It's better for my kids to see me happy and fulfilled.'' Looks like McGarrett will be back in action Film 'em, Danno. The TV series ``Hawaii Five-0'' will be made into a movie now that a rights dispute between CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. and the estate of the show's creator has been resolved. The movie's producer, George Litto, and the widow of show creator Leonard Freeman prevailed in a 21-month arbitration battle with the network over film rights to the story about the island adventures of no-nonsense cop Steve McGarrett. ``It's a major franchise,'' Litto said Wednesday. ``It's the kind of television show that became part of the fabric of society. McGarrett became the symbol, the epitome of the tough, honest, dedicated cop.'' Litto said he has a script and a large line of credit. He plans to approach studios and stars about getting a big-budget project off the ground. He hopes to be on location in Hawaii as early as this fall. CBS said in a statement: ``We believe it would have been better for the project if we had prevailed in the arbitration, but obviously we did not.'' 9-1/2 minutes would get him out of there David Blaine, the guy who's buried alive in a 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 sidewalk, has drawn reams of gawkers, including some celeb ce·leb n. Informal A celebrity. types, to his macabre show. Drew Barrymore, Ed Norton and Carol Burnett have been spotted at the site, Blaine's spokeswoman, Jill Fritzo, said. ``I went by at midnight, and it was packed. He was sleeping on his side,'' she told USA Today. In fact, so many people have been dropping by that police barriers have been erected. He's lying in a coffin with a transparent cover, with a tank filled with two tons of water on top, and plans to stay there for a week. Oxygen is being piped in. As for potty timeouts, he's not eating and is subsisting on only three tablespoons of water a day. A nurse watches over Blaine, and a crane operator, Bill Daly, 35, is standing by in case of an emergency. Daly told USA Today that it would take about 2-1/2 minutes to set up the crane and seven minutes to lift Baline out of the ground if, say, a pesky tarantula tarantula (tərăn`chələ), name applied chiefly to several species of the large, hairy spiders of the families Theraphosidae and Dipluridae of North and South America. The body of a tarantula may be as much as 3 in. (7. manages to crawl into the coffin with Blaine. News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 photos PHOTO (1) A $1.2 billion Titanic hotel-casino proposed for Las Vegas is shown here in an artist's rendering. (2) Jack Lord was the original McGarrett (3) Dion |
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