NEWS LITE : SINGER DONE IN BY DENTAL WORK.The Godfather of Soul is feeling more like a grandfather these days. ``I got an upper plate put in,'' James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3 1933[1][2] – December 25 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul" and " said during his sixth annual Christmas Party in Augusta, Ga. ``I used to have a gap between my front teeth. Now that that's gone, I can't hit the high notes. I lost two octaves.'' However, the 65-year-old singer claimed at his midweek party in Augusta that he can still do on-stage splits. ``But I don't have to,'' he said. Elton John Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. tops list of concert grossers Elton John paved his yellow brick road with gold this year. John had the biggest-grossing domestic concert act of the year, taking in more than $40.6 million during his 53-show tour, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a year-end tally by Performance magazine, a concert industry trade publication. New-age star Yanni grossed $40.5 million in 101 shows, while Eric Clapton ($34.4 million, 43 shows), Garth Brooks ($33.9 million, 98 shows), and Janet Jackson ($33.3 million, 60 shows) rounded out the top five. Grosses for the top 50 shows of 1998 broke the $800 million mark, up from the 1997 total of $781 million. ``That's mostly because ticket prices went up,'' said Leiann Simpson, associate editor of Performance. Billy Ray adjusts his attitude, looks Billy Ray Cyrus is tired of being different. The singer wowed the music industry six years ago with his ponytail and the song ``Achy Breaky Heart,'' but says he now wants to be more like his country colleagues. ``I've adjusted my attitude and my appearance. I'm letting go of the past,'' Cyrus said. Cyrus has cut the ponytail, is recording with studio musicians instead of his band, and is singing songs written by others rather than himself. The change comes at the end of a rough year for Cyrus. His wife, Trish, miscarried; his stepfather step·fa·ther n. The husband of one's mother and not one's natural father. stepfather Noun a man who has married one's mother after the death or divorce of one's father Noun 1. was diagnosed with cancer; and his friend and former manager, Jack McFadden, died. ``It's been a pretty emotional time, but I feel like I've come back to earth,'' he said in Saturday's edition of The Tennessean. ``I take things a lot looser these days. And I'm enjoying it more than I ever have.'' His latest recording is ``Shot Full of Love.'' Soggy car blamed on computer A German couple out for a Christmas drive near Berlin ended up in a river - apparently because their luxury car's computer forgot to mention they had to wait for a ferry. The 57-year-old driver and his passenger were not injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in the incident, police said Saturday. Several companies sell computer navigators, some of which are attached to dashboards and serve as electronic road maps. Some offer traffic updates and Internet connections. The German couple was out driving Friday night when they came to a ferry crossing at the Havel River Havel River River, northeastern Germany. It flows south out of Mecklenburg to Spandau (in Berlin), where it is joined by the Spree River. Curving past Potsdam and Brandenburg, the Havel heads northwest to join the Elbe River after a course of 213 mi (343 km). in Caputh, six miles from Berlin. That information, however, was never stored in the satellite-steered navigation system A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. they were using, police said. The driver kept going straight in the dark, expecting a bridge, and ended up in the water. River traffic was stopped for two hours while the car was fished out about 13 feet from the river bank. ``You can't always blindly rely on technology,'' a coast guard police officer said. San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden a happy home Most San Franciscans say they're enjoying life in the city by the Bay. That's according to a survey conducted for Sunday's San Francisco Examiner The San Francisco Examiner is a U.S. daily newspaper. It has been published continuously in San Francisco, California, since the late 19th Century. History 19th century The beginning of the Examiner is a topic of some controversy. , which found that 87 percent of gay men and lesbians surveyed by San Francisco State's Public Research Institute said they liked living in San Francisco ``very much.'' That compares with 81 percent for heterosexuals and 77 percent for Asians, 79 percent for African-Americans and Latinos, and 81 percent for whites. PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. conducted the survey of nearly 700 people in May and June. Yemen allows draftees to pay their way out Yemenis can now avoid the country's compulsory two-year military service by paying the equivalent of $20. President Ali Abdullah Saleh Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh (Arabic: علي عبد الله صالح), born March 21, 1942, is the current President of Yemen. has approved a bill that allows men to avoid the draft by paying 15 percent of a conscript's monthly salary of $5.60 for the two-year period, the official Al-Thawra newspaper reported Saturday. That amounts to a total of $20. Economic analysts said the reason for the new law was to trim government expenses to bring them in line with financial reforms required by the International Monetary Fund. The government pays for housing, clothing and transportation for conscripts, as well as a monthly wage. Military service is compulsory for men over the age of 18 in Yemen, located on the southwest corner of the Arabian peninsula Arabian Peninsula or Arabia Peninsular region, southwest Asia. With its offshore islands, it covers about 1 million sq mi (2.6 million sq km). Constituent countries are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and, the largest, Saudi Arabia. . Yemen has a foreign debt of some $10 billion. Most of its 17 million people live in poverty. Mr. Rogers calls T-shirt unneighborly Would you be Mr. Rogers' neighbor if he were packing heat? Fred Rogers doesn't think so. The soft-spoken host of PBS' ``Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' this week sued a Texas-based novelty store for hawking T-shirts that display Rogers with his trademark sweater and smile - and a silver handgun. Instead of saying ``Won't you be my neighbor?'' the T-shirt, being sold by Gadzooks gad·zooks interj. Used as a mild or ironic oath: "Gadzooks! Is there a panic detector, akin to a smoke detector, that sniffs anxiety in the air?" George F. Will. Inc. stores, has Rogers, 70, saying, ``Welcome to my 'hood.'' ``It's bad for the kids,'' said Rogers' attorney, Thomas C. Wettach. ``It's sick humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was .'' Gerald Szczepanski, president of the 280-store chain, didn't immediately return calls seeking comment. In the lawsuit filed in federal court in Pittsburgh, Rogers and his company, Family Communications Inc., say they want the T-shirts destroyed. They say Gadzooks is infringing Rogers' trademark, violating his privacy and wrongly benefiting from his image. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Gadzooks store manager Alaina Hathaway displays the gun-toting Mr. Rogers spoof See spoofing. spoof - spoofing in Erie, Pa. Rich Forsgren/Erie Times News (2) BROWN (3) CYRUS |
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