NEWS LITE : NAMES IN THE NEWS HOPE'S WIFE A STAR IN HER OWN RIGHT.Dolores Hope Dolores Hope (born May 27, 1909) is a singer, philanthropist and the widow of legendary actor Bob Hope. She was born Dolores DeFina on May 27, 1909 in New York City and raised in the Bronx. She is of Italian and Irish descent. , wife of comedian Bob Hope, will receive a star next to her husband's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by in honor of her numerous appearances on stage and before U.S. Army troops. Hope will be honored Thursday with the Walk's 2,090th star. Bob Hope, Steve Allen and Phyllis Diller Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver on July 17, 1917) is a Golden Globe-nominated American comedian who is considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. are scheduled to attend the event. Dolores Hope launched her singing career in the 1930s 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 nightclubs. After meeting her husband, she joined his vaudeville act. She left singing when her children were born, but returned to the stage in the 1940s to help her husband entertain troops overseas. She also has a new album of love songs, ``That's Love'' and was scheduled to appear with Rosemary Clooney at New York's Rainbow Room For the Los Angeles nightclub, see Rainbow Bar and Grill. The Rainbow Room is a well-known upscale restaurant and nightclub on the sixty-fifth floor of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. for two weeks beginning on Mother's Day. Sparkling Jewel true to her ideals Fame, fortune and adoring fans haven't changed Jewel's values. ``I'm just a person who is honestly living my life and asking, `How do you be spiritual and live in the world without going to a monastery?' '' Jewel Kilcher says in the May 15 Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person . ``I just want to tell kids, `Come on man, get excited!' '' The 22-year-old singer who began performing with her father in Alaska at age 6 vaulted from obscurity - and poverty - with her Top 10 hits: ``Who Will Save Your Soul'' and ``You Were Meant for Me.'' Before her album ``Pieces of You'' came out, she was living in a van and performing in San Diego coffeehouses. ``I surfed, I wrote a lot, and all I owned was a backpack, a surfboard and a mattress,'' Jewel says of her days as a struggling artist. You've got to give NBC's Lauer credit Stay in school? There's no need if you want a career in television. Just ask 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. hunk Matt Lauer. Lauer, 39, co-host of the ``Today'' show, is a college dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human . He quit Ohio University in 1979 to take a television job, one class short of a bachelor's degree in telecommunications. Now he's trying to use his years in television This page indexes the individual year in television pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1900s 2000s
Lauer is doing an ``independent study project,'' namely writing a report arguing that his extensive on-air job experiences satisfy the academic requirements of the audio-video production class he never completed. He expects to take part in graduation ceremonies June 14. ``Yes, I'll be a member of the class of 1997,'' Lauer says in the May 2 Entertainment Weekly, ``which is really going to help me lie about my age later on.'' Marriage isn't for Hollywood couple Actor Kurt Russell didn't exactly pop the question, but he did give longtime partner Goldie Hawn a ring to symbolize their commitment to each other. The two have been together for 14 years but haven't gotten married. ``Goldie has a nice ring that I got her. And in front of the kids we had a little moment,'' Russell told the TV show ``Access Hollywood.'' In an episode to air Monday, Russell says the couple is secure enough to stay together without going through the wedding ceremony. ``The thing that says `they got married' is the guy gives the girl a ring,'' Russell said. ``So I gave Goldie this ring. That's for society; that lets everybody know she has a guy. ``The kids understood what I was saying, and they never had a problem with it. If they had, we would have talked about getting married.'' The couple have a son together and two children from previous marriages. Readers undertake their own Quixotic quix·ot·ic also quix·ot·i·cal adj. 1. Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality. 2. quest It was a quixotic tribute to Spain's greatest writer: a nonstop reading of the 17th-century masterpiece ``Don Quixote'' that took 27 hours and 815 readers. The round-the-clock reading of Miguel de Cervantes' epic of the chivalrous chiv·al·rous adj. 1. Having the qualities of gallantry and honor attributed to an ideal knight. 2. Of or relating to chivalry. 3. Characterized by consideration and courtesy, especially toward women. knight who tilts at windmills marked Spanish Book Day, drawing thousands of people to the Circulo de Bellas Artes center in Madrid, Spain. `` `Don Quixote' is without doubt the most important book in the history of literature and is a magnificent song to friendship,'' said Education Minister Esperanza Aguirre after taking her turn reading aloud for two minutes. Government officials joined Spain's luminaries of arts and letters Arts and Letters (1966-1998) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and bred by American sportsman, and noted philanthropist Paul Mellon, and trained by future Hall of Famer Elliott Burch, the colt began racing at age two. in the marathon reading last week. Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, and Spanish Book Day annually memorializes him. ``Don Quixote,'' Spain's mostly widely translated book, is the story of an idealistic knight who goes mad upon reading about chivalry chivalry (shĭv`əlrē), system of ethical ideals that arose from feudalism and had its highest development in the 12th and 13th cent. and carries out fantastic adventures with his companion, Sancho Panza. Kesey & Co. taking a new trip Psychedelic busload bus·load n. The number of passengers or the quantity of cargo that a bus can carry. Noun 1. busload - the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry bound for rock hall Author Ken Kesey and the surviving members of the Merry Pranksters headed out of Eugene, Ore., on Saturday in a replica of the psychedelic bus ``Furthur.'' The destination: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in and Museum in Cleveland. ``Pack your bags!'' Kesey shouted. ``Get on board. Forward, forward . . .'' The 1949 International, a converted school bus, will be part of a museum exhibit titled ``I Want to Take You Higher: The Psychedelic Era 1965-1969.'' Along the way, there will be stops in San Francisco, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Columbus, Ohio. ``The best thing about going out on this trip is going and seeing the people around the country and having them respond to us and us respond to them,'' said Ken Babbs. ``Every time we do this we find out the people of America are super. They're great.'' The original 1939 bus is crumbling out behind Kesey's house in Pleasant Hill, near Eugene. The Merry Pranksters' journey to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. was chronicled in Tom Wolfe's book ``The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.'' Also on board was Mountain Girl, otherwise known as Carolyn Garcia, an ex-wife of the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia. She recently won a major court ruling obtaining a share of his estate. ``This time it's not so uncertain and we have a sponsor from the museum, so that makes it a lot easier,'' Mountain Girl said. Even a few of the Pranksters' grandchildren were on hand. ``It really gives you a chance to see old friends and see what they're doing because I'm always amazed at how many of our old friends are still here,'' Kesey said. ``We thought they all died.'' The journey's progress is being tracked by a site on the World Wide Web called IntrepidTrips. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) JEWEL (2) Longtime partners Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have some fun with her children Oliver and Kate Hudson, left, and their son Boston Russell before last week's Los Angeles premiere of ``Breakdown.'' Associated Press |
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