NEWS LITE : PENT-UP PASSION? G-RATED KISS TO CREEP INTO `X'.After six seasons of stalking UFOs and matching wits with ghosts, are agents Scully and Mulder ready for the - ulp! - ultimate supernatural adventure: love? Could be. The intrepid heroes of ``The X-Files'' finally will break the romantic ice with a single kiss on the Nov. 28 segment of the popular Fox TV drama. Lance Henriksen Lance Henriksen (born May 5 1940) is an American actor, painter, and potter. A versatile and prolific performer, his trademarks as an actor are his deep, gravelly voice, piercing stare, and chiseled, weathered features. , playing Frank Black, his character from TV's other cloak-and-dagger creepfest, ``Millennium,'' will guest-star in the episode, appropriately titled ``Millennium,'' with series regulars Gillian Anderson Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, best known for her roles as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series Bleak House. (Scully) and David Duchovny (Mulder). A Fox spokesman confirmed the amorous am·o·rous adj. 1. Strongly attracted or disposed to love, especially sexual love. 2. Indicative of love or sexual desire: an amorous glance. 3. plot development, which entered the pop-culture ether Tuesday via the Internet. The series will begin its new season Sunday, the first weekend of November sweeps ratings. Of course, conspiratorially minded fans - you know who you are - may suspect this undercover tryst has more to do with Nielsen sweeps than with pent-up passions. But, hey, we're sure it gets lonely working all those pitch-black nights. - Reed Johnson Reed Cameron Johnson (born December 8, 1976 in Riverside, California) is an outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League East division of Major League Baseball. He weighs 180 lb (82 kg) and is 5'10" tall. Celebrities of century join queen for banquet More than 300 of Britain's top achievers of the 20th century - from the worlds of sports, medicine, fashion, politics and entertainment - joined Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth, or Elizabeth, may refer to: Living people
Bohemia Among them was 93-year-old Abraham D. Beame, who was born in a poor East London East London, city (1991 pop. 240,474), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. The city grew around a British military post founded in 1847. Its harbor was developed from 1886, and today it is a leading South African port. neighborhood to Polish immigrants in 1906 and went on to become mayor of New York City The Mayor of New York City is the head of the executive branch of the Government of New York City. The office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within the city. in 1974-1977. Other guests at the lunch, given by Lord Mayor of London
The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the Mayor of the City of London and head of the Corporation of London. Lord Levene at his Mansion House, included the discoverer of DNA fingerprinting DNA fingerprinting or DNA profiling, any of several similar techniques for analyzing and comparing DNA from separate sources, used especially in law enforcement to identify suspects from hair, blood, semen, or other biological materials found at , Sir Alex Jeffreys; the inventor of cash dispenser machines, John Shepherd-Barrow; and the creator of the miniskirt miniskirt skirts hemmed at mid-thigh or higher; heyday of the leg in fashion world (1960s). [Am. Hist.: Sann, 255–263] See : Fads , '60s designer Mary Quant. Actor Sir Nigel Hawthorne, World War II singer Vera Lynn, ``Avengers'' TV star Dame Diana Rigg, playwright Harold Pinter and Beatles producer Sir George Martin were also at the lunch. So was former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Four hundred guests were selected by a committee from among 1,766 people nominated. High price paid for Menuhin violin An 18th-century violin owned by the late Yehudi Menuhin sold for a record price to an unidentified collector. Swiss dealer Musik Hug, in Zurich, would not disclose the price Monday, but he said it was ``approximately $1.25 million above what had ever been paid for a violin.'' The violin was made in Cremona, Italy, in 1742 by Guarneri del Gesu. Last year, Christie's in London said it sold a Stradivarius violin for a then-record $1.58 million. Menuhin died in March at age 82. Boss' wife loses her ear for music Bruce Springsteen postponed two shows in Minneapolis this week because his wife and bandmate, Patti Scialfa, has a perforated eardrum Perforated Eardrum Definition A perforated eardrum exists when there is a hole or rupture in the eardrum, the thin membrane that separates the outer ear canal from the middle ear. . No details were released Monday on how she suffered the injury. The Wednesday show was postponed until Nov. 28, and Thursday's show was put off until Nov. 29. The Boss has been touring with his E Street Band since July. Turner, Fonda ape Robin Hood Ted Turner, with wife Jane Fonda at his side, stood on a windy hill outside Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday to announce $50 million in conservation grants from his U.N. Foundation. Turner said 40 percent of the projects will be in Africa, while Asia and South America will also benefit. ``We are trying to be like Robin Hood, taking from the rich and giving to the poor,'' the CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. founder said. The foundation is one of two organizations set up in 1997 to administer Turner's donation of $1 billion to U.N. causes. Painter, Polygram settle art lawsuit The makers and distributors of the Robin Williams movie ``What Dreams May Come'' have settled a $2 million lawsuit by a painter who claimed they stole his visions of heaven. The terms of the settlement reached last week were confidential. The copyright infringement suit against Polygram Filmed Entertainment Distribution and Interscope Communications accused the filmmakers of using four of Louis Jones' landscape paintings without credit. The works had appeared on the covers of four books. ``They made a very generous settlement, and I'm very pleased with that,'' said Jones, who lives in Virginia Beach, Va. News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson may find TV-drama romance. (2) Menuhin (3) Turner |
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