NEWS LITE : MCBRIDE'S OPENER WAS A BIG SUCCESS.Country singer Martina McBride sells out her own concerts now but vividly remembers her anxiety over being a relatively unknown opening act for Garth Brooks. She worried about being ``some chick singer'' that concertgoers would yell off the stage. ``The whole thing was a baptism by fire The phrase baptism by fire or baptism of fire, known in English since 1822, is a translation of the French phrase baptême du feu and is a reference to a soldier's first experience under fire in battle. - sink or swim,'' McBride told Country Weekly magazine in its July 27 issue. She swam, obviously, and credits the Brooks experience for bolstering her confidence. ``After that, there's not much concert-wise that can be any more difficult,'' said the Kansas-born singer of hits such as ``Independence Day,'' ``Wild Angels'' and ``A Broken Wing.'' McBride, 32, moved to Nashville in 1989 with husband John McBride, who became a sound man for Brooks while she sold T-shirts for the superstar on the road. She later recorded ``Cheap Whiskey,'' a duet with Brooks, and went on to score her first hit, ``My Baby Loves Me.'' Pink Power Ranger breaks out of mold Amy Jo Johnson Amy Jo Johnson (born October 6, 1970) is an American actress, singer-songwriter and musician. She is perhaps best known for her role as Kimberly Hart, the first Pink Ranger of the Power Rangers franchise in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. says she's nothing like the angst-ridden best friend that she portrays on WB's teen show ``Felicity.'' In real life, she's carefree. The 26-year-old sings on the new ``Felicity'' soundtrack and, on Aug. 15, stars in VH1's ``Sweetwater,'' about a 1960s-era band. The work is a fair distance from her past role as the pink Power Ranger. She says she had to prove herself to casting directors after that role. ``But it was good for me. I started studying harder,'' she said in the July 23 issue of USA Magazine. Elvises square off for kingly contest Elvis wannabes Wannabes is an online interactive soap and game created for the BBC by Illumna Digital. Wannabes follows on from Jamie Kane, the BBC's previous foray into online interactive drama. The show/game consists of 14 10 minute episodes released twice a week. unpacked their glitzy jumpsuits, touched up their sideburns side·burns pl.n. Growths of hair down the sides of a man's face in front of the ears, especially when worn with the rest of the beard shaved off. [Alteration of burnsides. and tuned up their throaty renditions of The King's favorites as impersonators gathered in Las Vegas for a weekend competition. ``These guys are very serious about what they do,'' said Doug Wilson, an Elvis impersonator from Akron, Ohio, who was eyeing his competition after belting out a few tunes inside a ballroom at the Imperial Palace hotel-casino Friday. In all, 27 people showed up for the Images of Elvis competition. The winner, to be chosen Sunday, will get $1,000. `Two Fat Ladies' co-chef in hospital Jennifer Paterson, one of television's ``The Two Fat Ladies'' cooking pair, has undergone tests for cancer and is hospitalized in London, 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. said Saturday. The 71-year-old chef and fellow cook, Clarissa Dickson Wright Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright (born 28 June 1947) is an English celebrity chef who is best known as one half, along with Jennifer Paterson, of the Two Fat Ladies. , have amused and enlightened audiences in many countries. They travel about the countryside in a motorcycle and sidecar 1. sidecar - Synonym slap on the side. Especially used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr. 2. sidecar - The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga. to collect ingredients and leaven leaven (lĕv`ən), agent used to raise bread or other flour foods. Physical leavens include water vapor, which is released as steam at high temperatures (as in popovers), and air, which is incorporated by beating. their recipes with wry humor. Dutch make a joke of midlife's advent on the 50th birthday Sirens wailing, police screeched to a halt next to a charcoal BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. sedan and peered through the tinted windows at the figure slumped inside, a plastic bag over its head. Within minutes, an officer pried pried 1 v. Past tense and past participle of pry1. open one of the locked doors, then staggered back and roared with laughter. The ``body'' was a dummy planted by friends of the car's owner. His only crime: Turning 50. That comical confusion, which played out recently in the southern city of Den Bosch, Netherlands, underscores the reality about hitting middle age in the Netherlands: You can pretty much count on becoming the butt of some very public practical jokes. ``Let's face it, turning 50 can be very depressing. We Dutch like to make a laugh of it,'' said Toos Kremer, who runs a bakery that sells specialty cakes to mark the occasion. The politically incorrect tarts are shaped like genitalia and are decorated with real lingerie. About to turn the big 5-0? If you're Dutch, you might find a crude homemade likeness of yourself on your front step or sidewalk. Got a big nose to begin with? Expect a dummy with a schnoz schnoz also schnoz·zle n. Slang The human nose. [Probably alteration of Yiddish snoyts, snout, muzzle, from German Schnauze.] Noun 1. like an eggplant. Is the real you a bit thin up top? Brace for an effigy EFFIGY, crim. law. The figure or representation of a person. 2. To make the effigy of a person with an intent to make him the object of ridicule, is a libel. (q.v.) Hawk. b. 1, c. 7 3, s. 2 14 East, 227; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 866. 3. as bald as a balloon. When a Dutchman or Dutchwoman hits the half-century mark, he or she is said to be ``seeing Abraham'' or ``seeing Sarah'' - a reference to the biblical couple who were too old to have children until an angel of the Lord intervened. `Same old' Cher has following Cher isn't the only one dressed outrageously at her concerts. The audience usually includes drag queens done up in the style of their fashion idol. ``It's been 35 years of drag queens, so I'm a connoisseur,'' Cher told the Pasadena gathering of the Television Critics Association The Television Critics Association (or TCA) is a group of approximately 200 United States and Canadian journalists and columnists who cover television programming. They meet in the Los Angeles area twice a year, in January and July, in conferences known as Winter and Summer on Thursday via satellite. Her Las Vegas concert will air 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 later this summer. One man so impressed Cher that she ended up including him in her act. ``There were several nights we'd be working across the stage from one another and I would look at him. It was really kind of eerie because he does me so well,'' she said. Cher is on her first concert tour in eight years, propelled by the success of the dance single ``Believe,'' her biggest hit in 25 years. ``Everyone says I've reinvented myself, but I'm pretty much the same that I've always been and doing pretty much the same things,'' she said. ``I'm just the same old same old.'' News Lite is compiled from Daily News Staff and Wire Reports. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) McBRIDE (2) Pitting man against pole Steve Stapp of Aurora, Colo., competes in the caber toss at the Pikes Peak Highland Games on Saturday in Colorado Springs. The toss, a Scottish event, dates to the 16th century. Jay Janner/The Gazette (3) Signs depicting Sarah or Abraham are easy to spot in Netherlands. Ilya van Marle/Associated Press |
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