NEWS LITE : STUDIO FACES SUIT OVER PACINO FILM.The National Cathedral and sculptor Frederick Hart Frederick Hart or Freddie Hart may refer to:
BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) ., saying a central image in the Al Pacino movie ``Devil's Advocate'' is a distorted, sexually graphic copy of a religious artwork over the entrance to the suburban Washington cathedral. In the movie, human figures in a large sculpture on the wall of the Pacino character's apartment appear to come to life and engage in a variety of sex acts, said the federal lawsuit filed Thursday. The forms in the movie version are ``virtually mirror images'' of those in the cathedral's sculpture, the suit says. That 1983 sculpture, a bas-relief titled ``Ex Nihilo ex ni·hi·lo adv. & adj. Out of nothing. [Latin ex nihil ,'' depicts the creation, with male and female nudes emerging from a roiling background. Hart and the cathedral want to stop further distribution of the movie, saying it violates their copyright. Warner Bros. did not comment Friday. Clintons to holiday with seminars, sun President and Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
They also plan to bask in the sun in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Clintons plan to fly to Hilton Head Island Hilton Head Island An island off the southern coast of South Carolina in the Sea Islands of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a popular tourist resort. The town of Hilton Head Island, on the northeast coast, has a population of 35,200. , S.C., on Dec. 30 for two days of seminars and conversation with hundreds of other attendees. They move on to the Virgin Islands on New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. and plan to stay through Jan. 4. They followed a similar itinerary last year after the president's re-election victory, spending several days in a borrowed house on the island of St. Thomas. Opera singer may owe taxes to Italy The tax man wants to have a word with Luciano Pavarotti Noun 1. Luciano Pavarotti - Italian tenor (born in 1935) Pavarotti . Reports in the Italian media say the tenor is the first ``big fish'' tax authorities are going after in a new operation aimed at more than 100 rich and famous expatriates. The reports said Pavarotti is accused of failing to report about $6 million in income from concerts he gave abroad. His official residence is the tax haven Tax Haven A country that offers individuals and businesses little or no tax liability. Notes: There are several countries in the Caribbean that are considered tax havens. of Monte Carlo, but authorities reportedly claim he really lives in Italy, which taxes the worldwide income of its residents. The singer's accountant, Vanni Trombetta, told the Rome daily Il Messagero that Pavarotti ``has always declared income that non-residents are required to declare in Italy.'' Sweatshop sweatshop: see sweating system. labor again linked to Gifford clothing Kathie Lee Gifford is facing new allegations her clothing line was made in sweatshops, under conditions that 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 state's top prosecutor said ``resembled something out of a Charles Dickens novel.'' The owner of three factories in lower Manhattan that made Kathie Lee clothing for Wal-Mart was arrested Thursday and charged with violating labor laws by failing to pay minimum wage and overtime. Through a spokesman Friday, Gifford acknowledged her line was made in the factories where Chinese immigrants allegedly toiled 60 to 80 hours a week for low wages and sometimes no pay at all. She said her own monitors looked into the factories months ago, but failed to turn up abuses because they couldn't speak Chinese. Gifford ``is making every effort possible to fight sweatshops,'' said her spokesman Howard Rubenstein. ``She will cooperate . . . to help stamp out these abuses.'' Last year, Gifford was criticized when labor activists revealed that some of her line was produced in a Honduran sweatshop. Her husband, Frank Gifford, later visited a grimy grim·y adj. grim·i·er, grim·i·est Covered or smudged with grime. See Synonyms at dirty. grim  i·ly adv. New York factory with checks for workers who said they weren't paid. Gifford testified before Congress, attacking sweatshop owners as ``cockroaches cockroaches insects which may carry Salmonella spp. in their gut and play a part in the spread of the disease. .'' In the latest investigation, state Attorney General Dennis Vacco said conditions faced by workers making Kathie Lee clothing and other labels in New York ``resembled something out of a Charles Dickens novel.'' Vacco said employees at the Manhattan factories worked at times 24 hours straight and weren't paid for one 10-week period. As many as 100 workers at the shops were being paid below the state's minimum wage of $5.15 per hour, with no overtime - cheating workers out of at least $300,000, Vacco said. Sarandon protests her alma mater Susan Sarandon gave her alma mater a piece of her mind by returning an alumni achievement award it gave her 15 years ago. The Oscar-winning actress was upset over Catholic University's decision to rescind actor-director Joseph Sicari's alumni achievement award after he said he was a ``founding member'' of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACTUP ACTUP AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power , The Washington Post reported Friday. Catholic University cited a 1989 ACTUP protest in which several activists disrupted Holy Communion at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Sicari told the Post he took no part in the protest and said the university's move ``was like a Catholic witch hunt.'' The Post said Sarandon, who received the award in 1982, complained to university officials: ``If you are following the tenets of the Catholic Church, you should have mine back, too. I don't deserve it. I just think that this mixing of politics and religion is dangerous.'' CAPTION(S): 4 Photos PHOTO (1) PACINO (2) PAVAROTTI (3) Kathie Lee Gifford speaks at a White House news conference with President Clinton and her husband, Frank, in this 1996 photo. (4) SARANDON |
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