NEWS LITE : SEINFELD RULES ON BROADWAY.Now that all the Jerry Seinfeld This article is about the comedian. For the character, see Jerry Seinfeld (character). Jerry Seinfeld (born Jerome Seinfeld on April 29, 1954 in New York City, New York) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and writer. Broadway tickets are gone - all 10 performances sold out in one day - the question is how high will the scalper trade take prices to one of the shows between Aug. 5 and 9. ``If `Lion King' can be scalped for $750 apiece, then Seinfeld tickets have got to sell for $1,500 because there are so few performances,'' said a Big Apple ticket broker. Even at the printed ticket price - $75 - Seinfeld becomes the highest-priced solo act in the history of Broadway. Tyson to be self for role in movie Mike Tyson is ready to take a swipe at acting. The boxer, who expects to return to the ring soon, has agreed to play himself in the film ``Black and White,'' 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 Tuesday. Set in the Big Apple, the script involves white prep school students who have a reckless infatuation with African-American hip-hop life, director James Toback said. The plot deals with the murder of an African-American child and the protection of the murderer by a white student's father. Tyson is involved because one of the central characters admires him. ``I've known Mike for years. I think he's going to be great,'' Toback said. Crawford pictured `naked,' not nude? Cindy Crawford will expose skin in the October issue of Playboy for what she considers the best of causes: hyping her Sept. 22 television special, ``Sex With Cindy Crawford.'' The model citizen said contradictorily that she was photographed ``naked - not everything but almost everything'' off. Tucker wants love or at least money Country singer Tanya Tucker wants more attention, and she's suing for $300,000 to get it. Tucker, 39, filed a federal lawsuit last week against Capitol Records, claiming the company neglected her latest album and paid too much attention to another artist. The lawsuit does not name the other artist. Tucker, who has been a recording artist for Capitol since 1986, said her records were successful until ``Complicated'' was released in 1997. She said Capitol made her switch producers and did little marketing for the album. So far, 147,000 copies of ``Complicated'' have been sold. That's better than Tucker's 1995 album ``Fire to Fire,'' which sold 104,000 copies, but worse than her 1993 album ``Soon,'' which sold 479,000 copies. A 1993 greatest-hits album sold 603,000 copies. A Capitol Records spokeswoman declined to comment Tuesday. Monument planned to unsafe products Connecticut already has museums dedicated to nuts and merry-go-rounds. The latest, the brainchild of consumer advocate Ralph Nader, is a bit less whimsical. Nader, a native of Connecticut, wants to build a museum dedicated to products that harmed people and the lawsuits they sparked. ``It's a major chapter of American history. It's a pillar of our democracy. Tort law A body of rights, obligations, and remedies that is applied by courts in civil proceedings to provide relief for persons who have suffered harm from the wrongful acts of others. protects the rights of injured people against the perpetrators of their harm,'' said Nader, who is trying to raise $5 million for the project. Among the planned exhibits of the American Museum of Tort Law in Winsted, Conn., are problem drugs, such as Thalidomide thalidomide (thəlĭd`əmĭd'), sleep-inducing drug found to produce skeletal defects in developing fetuses. The drug was marketed in Europe, especially in West Germany and Britain, from 1957 to 1961, and was thought to be so safe that , which was linked to birth defects birth defects, abnormalities in physical or mental structure or function that are present at birth. They range from minor to seriously deforming or life-threatening. A major defect of some type occurs in approximately 3% of all births. . Also on display will be silicone breast implants Breast Implants Definition Breast implantation is a surgical procedure for enlarging the breast. Breast-shaped sacks made of a silicone outer shell and filled with silicone gel or saline (salt water), called implants, are used. and other products that have led to litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . Another likely prominent feature: General Motors' Corvair, which was lambasted in 1965 in Nader's consumer book, ``Unsafe at Any Speed.'' Nader also hopes to install a mock courtroom in the museum, where lawyers would be invited to reargue re·ar·gue tr.v. re·ar·gued, re·ar·gu·ing, re·ar·gues 1. To argue again or repeatedly. 2. To debate again or present additional arguments for (a case or issue, for example), especially in a court of law: landmark consumer lawsuits. Is Sean seen as too much of a royal pain? The London Times reports that Sean Connery donates $7,871 a month to the independence-minded Scottish National Party Scottish National Party n → Partei, die für die Unabhängigkeit Schottlands eintritt . The magnitude of that figure adds fuel to speculations that Connery's politics are the reason he has yet to be knighted, says the New York Daily News. The Scottish Daily Record went on the record when Connery failed to make knighthood knighthood: see chivalry; courtly love; knight. in June, at the same time poking fun at the suave actor's pronunciation: ``Sean is shnubbed onsh more! . . . It is another shameful rebuff for Scotland's No. 1 son, verging on a national insult.'' QUITE A STORY; East, West stage song summit She wore a red rose in her hair. He had one tucked in his cap. And diplomats from more than 20 nations howled as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov cooed, pranced around the stage and serenaded each other as the star-crossed lovers in ``West Side Story.'' ``The most beautiful song I ever heard, Yevgeny, Yevgeny, Yevgeny, Yevgeny,'' belted out Albright. ``I just met a boy named Yevgeny. And suddenly that name means no zero-sum game Zero-Sum Game A situation in which one participant's gains result only from another participant's equivalent losses. The net change in total wealth among participants is zero the wealth is just shifted from one to another. for me.'' Forsaking his usual translator, Primakov sang back in English: ``Madeleine Albright. I just met a girl named Madeleine Albright. . . . And suddenly I find, she thinks she'll change my mind . . . for free.'' And then he ad-libbed: ``Never!'' The playful skit - renamed ``East-West Story'' - brought down the house at Tuesday night's banquet concluding an annual diplomatic forum sponsored by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), organization established by the Bangkok Declaration (1967), linking the nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. in Manila, Philippines. Not to be outdone out·do tr.v. out·did , out·done , out·do·ing, out·does To do more or better than in performance or action. See Synonyms at excel. , the Indian delegation produced a skit poking fun at their nuclear tests in May. ``Why such fuss over a few crackers in the Thar n. 1. (Zool.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. ,'' said one line in the song, referring to the desert where India stunned the world with the tests. ``They weren't as loud as Nevada and Lop Nor,'' the song said, mentioning the sites of U.S. and Chinese tests. But the Albright-Primakov production was clearly the show-stopper. To the tune of the snappy dance number ``America'' (``I want to live in America . . .''), Albright and Primakov alternated lines. Albright: ``Detargeting missiles was so easy.'' Primakov: ``With no enemy you are unhappy.'' Albright: ``I expand NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. to Hungary.'' Primakov: ``Biggest mistake in history.'' The entire Russian and American delegations came on stage for the finale, ``Tonight.'' ``Tonight, tonight. In harmony tonight,'' they sang. ``Tonight, tonight. We do not have to fight. Going mad. Launching bombs. Into space. ``Tonight, tonight. We are one bunch tonight. Don't you see. That is it. That is true.'' News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 4 Photos PHOTO (1) Meal moo-cher Lindsay Hand, 14, fends off a cow's attempt at some watermelon watermelon, plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of the family Curcurbitaceae (gourd family) native to Africa and introduced to America by Africans transported as slaves. Watermelons are now extensively cultivated in the United States and are popular also in S Russia. at a 4-H show in DeWitt, Iowa. (2) Madeleine Albright brought down the house at a banquet. (3) Nader (4) Tyson |
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