NEWS LITE : PITCHER'S SALARY BUYS REAL ESTATE.Kevin Brown may call Georgia his home, but that doesn't mean he's going to live like a nomad while he's pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers "Dodgers" and "Brooklyn Dodgers" redirect here. For the American football team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (football). For the Eastern Basketball Association team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (basketball). . Brown, a former Georgia Tech star, and his wife, Candace, have bought the former Beverly Hills home of musician John Fogerty for $3.8 million, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Saturday. The Browns also purchased the lot next door for $1.5 million. In the off-season, the Browns will live at the new home they're building on 60 acres in his hometown of Macon, 80 miles southeast of Atlanta. The Dodgers raised the eyebrows - and ire - of several other teams in December by signing Brown to a record seven-year, $105 million contract. City buys church; minister settles suit Televangelist tel·e·van·gel·ist n. An evangelist who conducts religious telecasts. [Blend of television and evangelist.] tel Robert Tilton, whose ministry was rocked by scandal in recent years, has sold his church building and settled a million-dollar fraud lawsuit filed by his first wife, The Dallas Morning News reported Saturday. The city of Farmers Branch, a suburb of Dallas, is paying $6.1 million for the 4,800-seat World of Faith church building and grounds, and plans to convert them into a convention center, the newspaper reported. Details of the settlement between the 52-year-old preacher and his first wife were not disclosed. Marte Tilton sued her ex-husband, the church and longtime church attorney J.C. Joyce of Tulsa, Okla., for more than $1 million in 1996, charging they reneged on a written agreement to support her and a church school she ran. The couple were divorced in 1993. Tilton's ministry grossed as much as $70 million a year through television and mail solicitations before media reports and lawsuits in the early 1990s began accusing him of false promises of prayer and healing. Julio Iglesias has new son to sing to International crooner Julio Iglesias, 55, became a father again early Saturday when girlfriend Miranda Rijnsburger, 33, gave birth to a baby boy at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. Rodrigo Iglesias Rijnsburger debuted at 4:43 a.m. weighing in at 7 pounds 2 ounces. Pop was present at the birth. Rodrigo is the couple's second child. Michael Alexander was born in 1997. The singer has three other children from a previous marriage. Venezuelan official takes a husband Irene Saez, the former Miss Universe who was elected governor of the tourist island of Margarita last month, has married a Venezuelan lawyer in a secret ceremony in Atlanta. In a television interview Saturday, Saez, 37, confirmed she tied the knot with Venezuelan lawyer Humberto Briceno. ``From now on we begin a new life, a life in family,'' she told the Globovision TV network. Local newspapers said the 1981 Miss Universe escaped the glare of publicity by holding an intimate, secret ceremony last Wednesday. She was elected governor of Nueva Esparta state, where Margarita is located, in March after the incumbent governor died. LEIS FOR EVERYONE: ``Baywatch'' finds new home in aloha state After a seven-year drought, Hawaii's tropical beauty will again become a weekly fixture in living rooms around the world. ``Baywatch,'' the popular syndicated television series starring David Hasselhoff and his crew of buff and busty bust·y adj. bust·i·er, bust·i·est Full-bosomed. Adj. 1. busty - (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight lifeguards, is moving from Los Angeles to the crystal blue waters of Hawaii. The show will debut next season as ``Baywatch Hawaii.'' ``It's going to be a blast,'' cast member Brooke Burns said Friday on Waikiki Beach. Hasselhoff is expected to remain with the show, although there will be some cast changes. The story of how Hawaii snatched the show from Australia and then solved a wage dispute with a tough Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor boss has all the makings of a television drama itself. With a guarantee of 22 episodes and an option for a second season, the production is expected to pump $20 million annually into Hawaii's stagnant economy and bolster the slumping tourist industry by showcasing the islands around the world. ``Baywatch'' currently is broadcast in 148 countries and translated into 41 languages for 5.7 billion viewers. ``This program will give us exposure that we couldn't possibly afford,'' Gov. Ben Cayetano said. After the 12-year run of ``Hawaii Five-0'' and eight-year run of ``Magnum PI,'' Hawaii hasn't had a successful weekly series since ``Jake and the Fatman'' left the islands in 1992 after four years. ``Baywatch'' executive producer Gregg Bonann, who created the show 10 years ago, said it was getting stale in Los Angeles and he wanted to freshen fresh·en v. fresh·ened, fresh·en·ing, fresh·ens v.intr. 1. To become fresh, as in vigor or appearance: freshened up after the day's work. 2. it Down Under. Also, ratings were declining while costs were increasing, he said. ``Why I didn't think of Hawaii first is a very short story. Along with many, many other producers, we didn't think it was affordable,'' Bonann said. ``That shows how stupid I was.'' When word got out, April Masini, who helped Hawaii land the 1998 Miss Universe Pageant, called Bonann and pitched Hawaii. State officials then put an incentives package together that included $2 million in soundstage and shoreside facilities improvements. Mag tests brainpower brain·pow·er n. 1. Intellectual capacity. 2. People of well-developed mental abilities: a country that doesn't value its brainpower. Noun 1. of blondes The question of IQs in Hollywood doesn't come up very often unless: 1) You're watching any Melanie Griffith movie, or 2) Some actress who claims to be a genius crosses and uncrosses her legs while wearing no undies in ``Basic Instinct,'' then claims the director tricked her into doing it. But the loonies at Maxim magazine are a skeptical lot, so they deconstructed the rumored IQs of a few of Hollywood's blonds (bottled or otherwise): ``Sharon Stone, reported IQ: 154. Einstein evidence: Entered college at 15 on a scholarship; self-described as `fiercely intelligent.' Then again: Tried to impress a 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 Times interviewer by deconstructing Ayn Rand's `Atlas Shrugged' while wearing a see-through blouse.'' ``Jayne Mansfield, reported IQ: 163. Einstein evidence: When a TV producer refused to see the big-busted Marilyn Monroe wannabe in 1954, she shrewdly sent him a note reading `40-22-34.' She got the job. Then again: With her star dimming in the mid-'60s, took career advice from Church of Satan The Church of Satan is an organization for those who practice self-preservation as articulated in The Satanic Bible, written in 1969 by Anton Szandor LaVey. leader Anton LaVey - and passed on a role in `Gilligan's Island!' '' ``Madonna, rumored IQ: 140. Einstein evidence: parlayed a so-so voice and a pointy point·y adj. point·i·er, point·i·est Having an end tapering to a point. brassiere into a zillion-dollar enterprise. Then again: She once told David Letterman's audience that piddling in the shower cures athlete's foot athlete's foot: see ringworm. athlete's foot Form of ringworm that affects the feet. In the inflammatory type, the infection may lie inactive much of the time, with occasional acute episodes in which blisters develop, mostly between the toes. .'' Men pay price for new vigor ``Abnormal hair growth, speech disorder speech disorder Articulation deficiency, dysfluency, speech disturbance, voice disorder Audiology Any of a group of defects in speech involving abnormal pitch, loudness, or quality of sound produced by the larynx Neurology A disorder of impaired or ineffective , amnesia, loss of libido, hallucination hallucination, false perception characterized by a distortion of real sensory stimuli. Common types of hallucination are auditory, i.e., hearing voices or noises and visual, i.e., seeing people that are not actually present. , anorexia, tinnitus Tinnitus Definition Tinnitus is hearing ringing, buzzing, or other sounds without an external cause. Patients may experience tinnitus in one or both ears or in the head. , skin discoloration dis·col·or·a·tion n. 1. a. The act of discoloring. b. The condition of being discolored. 2. A discolored spot, smudge, or area; a stain. Noun 1. , hiccups Hiccups Definition Hiccups are the result of an involuntary, spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm followed by the closing of the throat. Description , sleepwalking sleepwalking /sleep·walk·ing/ (slep´wawk?ing) somnambulism. sleep·walk·ing n. The act of walking or performing another activity associated with wakefulness while asleep or in a sleeplike state. , eye-rolling hostility, euphoric mood, dry mouth, agitation, confusion, insomnia, abnormal thinking, abnormal skin odor, depression, increased sweating, flatulence flatulence /flat·u·lence/ (flat´u-lens) excessive formation of gases in the stomach or intestine. flat·u·lence or flat·u·len·cy n. The presence of excessive gas in the digestive tract. , abnormal dreams and belching belching see eructation. .'' - the possible side effects of Viagra, from a Wall Street Journal story. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) More than castles made of sand Damon Farmer of Versailles, Ky., readies his sand sculpture Saturday for competition at the annual Spring Sand Celebration in Port Arkansas, Texas. Farmer calls this sculpture ``The Storyteller.'' David Pellerin/Associated Press (2) TILTON |
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