NEWS LITE : MOTORCYCLE STUNT CONVEYS GROOM TO ALTAR.A 24-year-old farmer Sunday became the first person to jump a motorcycle across China's Yellow River. Then he got married. Zhu Chaohui sped his 250cc motorbike across the river's Hukou waterfall, which has a drop of 100 feet. He fell off the bike after landing on a runway on the opposite bank, the state-run Xinhua News Agency “Xinhua” redirects here. For other uses, see Xinhua (disambiguation). The Xinhua News Agency (Simplified Chinese: 新华社; Traditional Chinese: reported. He slightly injured a hand during the jump, it said. After the leap, Zhu got married in a special ceremony, it added. A Taiwanese stuntman stunt·man n. A man who substitutes for a performer in scenes requiring physical daring or involving physical risk. stuntman n → especialista m stuntman , Ke Shouliang, jumped 165 feet over the waterfall, China's second-highest, in a sports car in 1997. The waterfall is on the border between Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces in northern China. Zhu, who was born in a Shanxi village, started riding at age 11. Cole unimpressed by recent pop fare Natalie Cole, who cut her teeth on rhythm and blues rhythm and blues (R&B) Any of several closely related musical styles developed by African American artists. The various styles were based on a mingling of European influences with jazz rhythms and tonal inflections, particularly syncopation and the flatted blues chords. , says modern R&B lacks soul. ``I mean lyrics and passion, some understanding of communicating an idea beyond just jumping into bed,'' the Grammy-winning daughter of the late Nat ``King'' Cole said in Sunday's edition of The Orange County Register. ``There used to be songs that I would listen to and have to go look up words in the dictionary afterward, you know? What happened to smart music like that?'' she said. ``I don't have to look up any of this stuff now - and some of it I wouldn't want to look up.'' Cole, whose first album in three years, ``Snowfall in the Sahara,'' is due in stores Tuesday, isn't too fond of rap, either. She loved the work of the late Tupac Shakur, she said, but otherwise the angry posturing of rappers gets boring. Island is Gilligan'shome to this day Gilligan isn't worried about getting stranded on another island. ``I've got my flight man waiting,'' actor Bob Denver Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver (January 9 1935 – September 2 2005) was an American comedic actor best known for his role as Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island. Earlier, Denver had played beatnik Maynard G. , 64, who played the title role in the 1960s sitcom ``Gilligan's Island Gilligan’s Island comedy about a party shipwrecked on a South Pacific island. [TV: Terrace, I, 312–313] See : Castaway ,'' said during an appearance Saturday on Lake Erie's Middle Bass Island Middle Bass Island is an island of the U.S. state of Ohio, located in Lake Erie. The 805-acre (3.258 km²) island is shaped like the Big Dipper and is one of three Bass Islands located at the center of a group of 23 smaller islands. . More than 30 years after the show's prime-time run ended, fans still flock to see the bumbling first mate who always seemed to foil plans to get off the island where he and his six shipmates Shipmates was an American syndicated television show that ran for two seasons from 2001 - 2003. Reruns later ran on the cable channel Spike TV. The show was created by Hurricane Entertainment and the executive producer was John Tomlin. Chris Hardwick was the host. were stranded by a storm. The show's 98 episodes aired on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. from 1964-67 and can still be seen in syndication in more than 30 countries. Countess Sophie captured in wax Prince Edward Noun 1. Prince Edward - third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964) Edward Antony Richard Louis, Edward and his bride Sophie Rhys-Jones were immortalized Sunday at Madame Tussaud's waxwork museum. The wax figures wax figures, sculptures usually made of beeswax or tallow, which is susceptible to modeling, casting, and coloring. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans used wax to make sacred images or death masks. of the new Earl and Countess of Wessex, who were married Saturday, are on display with other members of the royal family. Museum designers and dressers spent the night working on a replica of the countess' wedding dress and copying the jewelry she wore. After the engagement was announced, Madame Tussaud's approached Rhys-Jones, who agreed to sit for the museum's senior sculptor, Stuart Williamson, on three occasions. Each waxwork costs about $49,200 to make and six months to complete. George Jones' SUV is a local curiosity It doesn't run and needs a rope to keep the hood from flying open, but for a Murfreesboro, Tenn., doctor, it's a sound investment. Raymond Turek says he has already been offered more than twice the $22,000 he paid for the sport-utility vehicle sport-u·til·i·ty vehicle n. Abbr. SUV A four-wheel-drive vehicle with a roomy body, designed for off-road travel. in which country music star George Jones almost died. Turek said he plans to lease the mangled 1999 Lexus LX470 to country music and car shows and donate some of the revenue to ``economically depressed people.'' Jones smashed the vehicle into a concrete bridge a mile from his Franklin, Tenn., home. The singer eventually pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and violating the state's open-container law. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Zhu Chaohui jumps over a waterfall in China's Yellow River. (2) Zhu Chaohui exults at his wedding, after the river junp. An Xiaohu/Associated Press (3) Cole |
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