NEWS LITE : MORE FOR MOM, BUT NOT MERRIER.Amal Abdel-Fattah, 27, expecting twins, was not amused Friday when she delivered six girls between 4-1/2 and almost 5 pounds each - all well - at Cairo's Heliopolis Hospital. Officials said she felt grossly misled by her doctor and was ``hysterical and extremely angry.'' She conceived while still nursing her first-born. Bobbitt makes cut with painful past John Wayne Bobbitt is on a path to a more simple life. Saying he's through with the talk-show circuit and porno films, Bobbitt moved last month from Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. to Fallon, Nev., a small northern Nevada farm town where four of his five brothers live. He said he just wants to find a job and go fishing and camping. ``I want people to get to know me for who I am and not what the media make me out to be. I want to let the past be gone and move on,'' he told the Lahontan Valley News and Fallon Eagle Standard. ``I did a couple of adult movies but do not want to make a career out of it because my parents didn't want me to.'' Bobbitt, 30, also said he is penning a book about his life - and his wife, Lorena, who severed his, er, member. Fearing, loathing into millennium Hunter S. Thompson is in top form in a gonzo gon·zo adj. Slang 1. Using an exaggerated, highly subjective style, especially in journalism: "a hyperkinetic, gonzo version of Graham Greene" New Yorker. 2. report he filed for Time magazine from the set of ``Fear and Loathing fear and loathing - (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000). in Las Vegas.'' Thompson, whose journalism is a mix of substance-induced fantasies and straight reportage, wrote how he rescued a roller-skating girl named Heidi from the clutches of two Great Danes and crashed Johnny Depp's car into a waterfall. ``Well, I said to Heidi, this is it. We must have taken a wrong turn,'' he writes. She responds: ``You're very strange - and you 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. why, do you?'' ``I shook my head softly and drank some gin,'' he replies. ``No. I'm stupid.'' Depp plays Thompson in the screen adaptation of his 1971 book. Thompson has a cameo appearance. Ailing boy's record of `Files' trip taken Videotape of a 16-year-old cancer victim's meeting with David Duchovny on the set of the ``X-Files'' was stolen from the family's car. The footage along with photographs of the meeting were taken Saturday night during the family's weeklong visit to the set in Vancouver, Canada. The visit was arranged by the Make-A-Wish Foundation The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that grants wishes to children (2.5 years to 18 years old) with life-threatening medical conditions. of British Columbia. ``The record of this young girl's visit is gone, lost through a robbery,'' said foundation director April Hamilton. ``We want to challenge the street people and Dumpster divers to try to find this film.'' The family doesn't want its last name used. Hamilton said the car was parked in a lot when the thief broke a window, ripped out the back seat and stole the film from the trunk. News anchor hopes it's easier at ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. She didn't get along well with Dan Rather. Now, Connie Chung is teaming up with Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer. The veteran broadcaster joined the ABC News team Monday, where she will contribute to the newsmagazines ``PrimeTime Live'' and ``20/20,'' and be available as a substitute anchorwoman an·chor·wom·an n. 1. A woman who narrates or coordinates a newscast in which several correspondents give reports. 2. Sports A woman who is an anchor in a competition, such as a relay race. . Her return to network news comes two years after she left CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. under a cloud, fired after a two-year stint alongside Rather on the evening news and complaining that she was made the scapegoat for the show's low ratings. ``I'm anxious to get to work,'' Chung said in a conference call with ABC executives and reporters. She signed a multiyear contract believed to be worth at least $1 million per year. During the past two years, Chung tried to develop a syndicated talk show with her husband, Maury Povich. But that deal fell through and Povich decided to continue his own show, leaving Chung free to make her own deal. ``I am particularly delighted at this because I have been after her for a long time,'' said ABC News Chairman Roone Arledge. Chung joined CBS in 1971, covering politics from Washington. She switched to NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. in 1983, where she anchored weekend newscasts and ``NBC News at Sunrise NBC News at Sunrise was an early morning news program produced by NBC News from 1983 to 1999. The program featured the top news headlines of the morning, sports and weather reports, and business segments. .'' Rejoining CBS in 1989, she anchored the newsmagazine ``Face to Face with Connie Chung'' and began her awkward pairing with Rather in 1993. She ignited a debate over journalistic ethics after an interview in which the mother of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said her son had described first lady Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Not only did ABC executives say they weren't concerned with the fallout from that incident, Arledge said he blamed CBS officials for the controversy more than Chung. CAPTION(S): 4 Photos PHOTO (1) Getting feel for it Cybill Shepherd clowns around Monday 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 with her likeness made for England's Madame Tussaud's Wax Exhibition. (2) Connie Chung: Left CBS in 1995 (3) Thompson (4) Duchovny |
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