NEWS LITE : PRE-OSCAR SHINDIG CUTS CATTY COMMENT.Fashion-challenged actors will have a half hour of safe time before this year's Academy Awards. Geena Davis will be host of an officially sanctioned Oscar pre-show on March 21, crowding out Joan Rivers and others who have made watching the stars walk into the ceremony a lucrative television business in itself. ``The one thing I can guarantee that it will not include is anyone yelling, Who made your dress?'' Davis said Sunday. The Oscar telecast is moving to a Sunday night this year. Davis' pre-show will be telecast on 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. at 5 p.m. PT, and the ceremony itself will follow a half-hour later. During the pre-show, others will be barred from televising stars entering the theater. That puts a crimp crimp a regular wave formation of small dimensions, e.g. the crimp of wool fibers epitomized in the Merino breed and its derivatives. crimp marks marks made by wrinkling the x-ray film while holding it between the fingers. in the pre-show plans of people like Rivers, who judges the actors and actresses on what they are wearing. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and ABC saw a booming new pre-show business and wanted in. ``We wanted to be in control of this kind of material and programming,'' said Robert Rehme, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hamlisch heading to Washington Marvin Hamlisch will leave the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland. History Founded in 1916, the Baltimore Symphony was initially a branch of the municipal government. In 1942 the Orchestra became a private institution. next year to become the principal pops conductor for the National Symphony in Washington. Hamlisch's four-year tenure in Baltimore ends in June 2000. Hamlisch, who previously revitalized the pops series of the Pittsburgh Symphony, helped increase revenues 10 percent each year during his first two full seasons in Baltimore, BSO BSO Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Excision of both ovaries President Jon Gidwitz said. Hamlisch wrote the score for the Broadway hit ``A Chorus Line'' and several scores for films and television and has won three Academy Awards, two Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe Awards. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for drama From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway for his work on ``A Chorus Line.'' Mulgrew mulling returning to stage Capt. Kathryn Janeway may be ready to abort her mission. The New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. reported Sunday that Kate Mulgrew, who plays the captain on ``Star Trek: Voyager,'' wants to leave the show. The newspaper said Mulgrew is tired of 80-hour work weeks and that she wants to devote more time to her teen-age children and upcoming marriage to Tim Hagan, a Cleveland politician. Mulgrew also complained Friday to TV critics in California that she was fed up with Hollywood because it lacks intimacy and a sense of community. She said she wanted to return to theater work in New York. After Mulgrew's comments were reported, Paramount, which owns the UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation network where ``Voyager'' airs, issued a statement in which Mulgrew said she ``cannot imagine not participating in (the show's) entire run, whatever that may be.'' Hosting gig grabs Stewart on 2nd try When Jon Stewart got an offer to host ``The Daily Show,'' he almost turned it down - again. Back when the Comedy Central program was conceived in 1996, Stewart turned down the job, and former ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network sportscaster Craig Kilborn got the spot instead. But when network executives recently called looking for someone to replace Kilborn, Stewart took the job, albeit a little reluctantly. ``I wasn't looking for anything to sink my teeth into,'' he said in Sunday's edition of Newsday. ``I was looking just more for a hammock, someplace to lie down and rest and go back to the normal gentle buzzing in my head.'' Stewart, 36, begins anchoring the show today. The comedian got his first big break as the host of an MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. talk show in 1993. The next year, he moved on to a late night syndicated show that was canceled after one season. Since then, he's been a guest on other talk shows and appeared in movies, including ``The Faculty,'' now in theaters. Case gives Jagger's ex-wife satisfaction Bianca Jagger's help won't be needed after all. The former wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger came to New Orleans to lend her support to an 18-year-old who was scheduled for retrial retrial n. a new trial granted upon the motion of the losing party, based on obvious error, bias or newly-discovered evidence. (See: newly-discovered evidence) today on a capital murder charge. Instead, she met Shareef Cousin's family to celebrate prosecutors' decision not to retry re·try tr.v. re·tried , re·try·ing, re·tries To try again. Verb 1. retry - hear or try a court case anew rehear Cousin. ``This is a day to rejoice because justice has been done,'' Jagger said. ``Shareef Cousin was sentenced to death at 16 years old for a crime he did not commit.'' Cousin became one of the nation's youngest Death Row inmates when he was convicted in January 1996 of shooting a man outside a restaurant. But appeals revealed that key evidence was withheld from the defense during the trial, and charges were dropped Friday. Cousin remains in jail, where he is serving a 20-year armed robberies sentence. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 photos PHOTO (1) Climatically convoluted For more than a week Mother Nature's message has been a contradiction to that of these street signs in Yellow Springs, Ohio Yellow Springs is a village in Greene County, Ohio, United States, and is the home of Antioch College. The population was 3,761 at the 2000 census, and was estimated at 3,665 in July 2005 (a -2.6% change). . A fresh coat of snow began covering the already existing snow, sleet and freezing rain Sunday. Pat Auckerman/The Xenia Xenia (zē`nēə), city (1990 pop. 24,664), seat of Greene co., SW Ohio; inc. 1814. It is a trade and industrial center in a farm area. Rope and twine, plastics, potato chips, valves, and hydraulic lifts are among its manufactures. Daily Gazette (2) Blowfish A secret key cryptography method that uses a variable length key from 32 to 448 bits long. It uses the block cipher method, which breaks the text into 64-bit blocks before encrypting them. kisses Dean Felber, bass player for Grammy-winning rock band Hootie and the Blowfish, kisses his new wife, Laurie Anne Hutchinson, after their wedding Saturday at the Unitarian Church in Charleston, S.C. Singer Darius Rucker served as best man, and bandmates James ``Soni'' Sonefeld and Mark Bryan were among the groomsmen. Erik Campos/Associated Press (3) HAMLISCH |
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