NEWS LITE : SNACK CRUNCHER'S CAREER BUSTING OUT.Ali Landry Ali Germaine Landry (born July 21, 1973) is a former Miss USA (1996), model and actress. She is recognized as the Doritos Girl from her popular 1998 Super Bowl commercial. In 1998, she was named by People magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world. , who did that impressive display of Dorito Puffs mouth-catching in that Super Bowl ad, suddenly finds herself in demand. ``It's like my life was turned upside down,'' said the actress, 24, Miss USA Not to be confused with Miss America. The Miss USA pageant is a beauty contest that has been held every year since 1952, with winners competing in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA. 1995. Soon, she'll do a week's co-hosting with Sinbad on ``Vibe.'' Landry says she's dating a pro football player (but won't say whom) and that 15 years of dance lessons helped her do the ad. ``I know one direction would be toward something like `Baywatch,' '' Landry added. ``But that's not really me. Brown gets 5 days in Florida DUI case Singer Bobby Brown buried his face in his hands and sobbed Thursday as he was convicted of drunk driving and ordered to spend five days in jail, and undergo drug and alcohol treatment. His wife, Whitney Houston, sat behind him crying as well. Jurors in Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla., deliberated about an hour after Brown's lawyer wrapped up his defense by attacking the handling of blood evidence and questioning police motives in waiting four months to charge him. Brown, 30, broke four ribs and a foot when his black Porsche spun out of control, jumped the curb and struck hedges and a street sign in Hollywood, south of Fort Lauderdale, in 1996. Police said he was speeding and lost control of the car, which was leased to his wife. Prosecutors said Brown's blood alcohol level was above 0.2 percent - more than double Florida's 0.08 percent limit - and blood tests showed the presence of drugs. Brown, 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. prosecutors, turned down a standard offer to first-time offenders that carried no jail time but required drug treatment. Judge Leonard Feiner sentenced Brown to five days in jail, a year of probation and suspended his license for a year. He also ordered him to pay a $500 fine, spend 30 days at a residential drug treatment center and serve 100 hours of community service. In addition, Brown must appear in prime-time anti-drug public service announcements. If the television networks refuse to give him free time, he must pay to air the spots. Lewinsky date quiet, coverage wasn't Extra! An uneventful date with Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted (after initially denying) to having had an "inappropriate relationship"[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. . Washington City Paper The Washington City Paper is a U.S. alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Founded in 1981 by Russ Smith, it shared ownership with the Chicago Reader from 1982 until July 2007, when it was bought by the Tampa-based Creative reporter Jake Tapper Jake Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is a journalist working for ABC News in Washington, DC. Born in New York City, he was raised in Philadelphia. For high school, he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1991 with a B.A. took the former White House intern to dinner Dec. 23. They had met in a bar when he bummed a quarter from her to play pool. They went to a Tex-Mex restaurant in Washington's funky Adams Morgan Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., centered at the intersection of 18th Street NW and Columbia Road NW. Adams Morgan is considered the heart of Washington's Latino community, and is a major night life area with many bars and neighborhood. She offered to pay her share. He gallantly refused. ``A sweet girl,'' Tapper writes about the woman now alleged to have had an affair with President Clinton. ``Nice.'' But the City Paper's coverage wasn't that quiet. Parodying tabloid sensationalism sensationalism, in philosophy, the theory that there are no innate ideas and that knowledge is derived solely from the sense data of experience. The idea was discussed by Greek philosophers and is shown variously in the works of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George , the weekly splashed its ``exclusive'' in tawdry color on its front page in editions that hit the street Thursday. ``Two-Bit Romance,'' screeched one headline. `` `Monica Lent Me a Quarter!' '' ``Big Shocker shock·er n. One that startles, shocks, or horrifies, as a sensational story or novel. Noun 1. shocker - a shockingly bad person bad person - a person who does harm to others 2. !'' says another. ``Intern Never Brought Up the President.'' At the time of the date, Lewinsky had already been subpoenaed to testify in Paula Jones' sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. lawsuit against the president. But Tapper didn't know that. He said he dropped her home before midnight and weeks later learned that his dinner partner was suddenly famous. ``My sum total experience is a meeting of eyes at a boring bar party and a B-minus date afterward,'' he said. ``If fate . . . hadn't intervened, who knows, maybe I'd be the only reporter in the world pursuing her.'' All the problems money can buy Whaddaya know, the $53 million that bazillionaire Bill Gates poured into the high-tech manse he had built for him and his wife, Melinda, didn't prevent glitches. The 45,000-square-foot complex in the affluent Seattle suburb of Medina, Wash., took seven years to build. It features a 20-seat theater, a 60-foot-long pool with underwater music, a 100-foot pier, a 20-car underground garage, an indoor spa, a 100-visitor reception hall, a $1.4 million caretaker's residence, an arcade, a lakeside pavilion and an indoor trampoline trampoline Resilient sheet or web (often of nylon) supported by springs in a metal frame and used as a springboard and landing area in tumbling. Trampolining is an individual sport of acrobatic movements performed after rebounding into the air from the trampoline. pit with a 20-foot ceiling. Dwellers can wear smart ``pins'' that signal their location within the house so heating, lighting and other comforts are automatically set to their tastes. But Gates tells Barbara Walters on ABC's ``20/20'' that one night, ``I brought up a big screen in my bedroom and for some reason the system stopped working. It was just sitting there shining. And I wanted to go to sleep. . . . So finally I had to get a blanket and put it over the screen.'' Talk about a low-tech solution! Bill also croons ``Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'' for Barbara. We kid you not. Gates is tickled pink about his 2-year-old daughter, Jennifer Katherine, and told Walters he sings her lullabies. So she asked him for a sample and he obliged. But once he started warbling, she had the good sense to cut him off. Actor gets serious about Alzheimer's He's the snobby snob n. 1. One who tends to patronize, rebuff, or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire, or seek association with people regarded as social superiors. 2. psychiatrist on NBC's ``Frasier,'' but off screen David Hyde Pierce David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is a Screen Actors Guild, Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his co-starring role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier alongside Kelsey Grammer. is lobbying Congress to increase federal funding for research into Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. . Pierce told a House subcommittee that Alzheimer's is becoming so widespread that most of its members might know someone who suffers from it. The disease afflicts 4 million Americans. ``Half of us in this room already have a time bomb ticking in our brains, counting down the days until we get Alzheimer's disease,'' said Pierce, whose grandfather died of it. ``We have to give the scientists the resources to defuse it before it detonates and destroys our minds.'' Pierce, who plays Niles Crane, brother of the sitcom's title character, asked budget writers in the House to allocate an additional $100 million in next year's budget for research at the National Institutes of Health. The current budget is $340 million. President Clinton has said a top priority will be to increase NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. funding by 50 percent over the next five years. The NIH performs most of the government's Alzheimer's research. For Jack, Bill's as good as it gets Jack Nicholson's take Thursday on the allegations of presidential hanky-panky: ``What would be the alternative leadership - should it be somebody who doesn't want to (have sex)?'' Nicholson, in Munich, Germany, offered a ``Bill, you're great. Keep on!'' to the beleaguered be·lea·guer tr.v. be·lea·guered, be·lea·guer·ing, be·lea·guers 1. To harass; beset: We are beleaguered by problems. 2. To surround with troops; besiege. president, who's facing a swirl of allegations that he had sex with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, then urged her to lie about it. Nicholson was in Germany to promote the release of ``As Good As It Gets.'' News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) Nicholson (2) Pierce (3) Bobby Brown kisses his wife, Whitney Houston, at his DUI trial. Associated Press |
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