NEWS LITE : THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW.Paging Dr. Harmon, Dr. Harmon to the set, please. Mark Harmon For the musician of the same name, see . Mark Thomas Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American actor. As of 2007, Harmon is the star of the CBS series NCIS. , who played a doctor on the '80s medical drama ``St. Elsewhere,'' will play another M.D. next fall on the CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. series ``Chicago Hope.'' ``It's a done deal,'' a source close to the show said in TV Guide's June 22 issue. ``We're going to bring in more people in an effort to add some zest to the show.'' To make room for Harmon, Roxanne Hart, who plays nurse Camille Shutt, has been put on notice. ``We weren't happy with the direction the character was going,'' said the source. ``She'll appear in a few more episodes and then her contract will not be renewed.'' Harmon last appeared on television in last season's 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. flop ``Charlie Grace.'' Noonan's next babes to be 2-legged types Chris Noonan got taken in by a Babe and ended up rolling around with a bunch of animals. Next time, he's going after fewer legs and a lot more romance. ``I wouldn't be surprised if you saw a `Babe II' in maybe four years,'' the director of ``Babe'' told an audience of about 250 people - most of them children - at the Sydney Film Festival in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday. ``I don't think the final decision has been made yet,'' he said, ``but for my part I've decided . . . I'm moving on "I'm Moving On" is the debut single by Scott Cain, winner of the 2002 Australian Popstars series. The lyrics deal with the singer's decision to end a relationship in which he feels he is being emotionally abused. to other things.'' ``Babe,'' which won an Academy Award this year for visual effects. After directing 850 animals, Noonan said he craves a film only about humans. Art of hollerin' alive and well in N.C. town Most anybody can hum ``Amazing Grace "Amazing Grace" is a well-known Christian hymn. The words were written late in 1772 by Englishman John Newton. They first appeared in print in Newton's Olney Hymns, 1779 that he worked on with William Cowper. ,'' and a few can even muster the gumption to stand up in front of an audience and sing it a cappella a cap·pel·la adv. Music Without instrumental accompaniment. [Italian : a, in the manner of + cappella, chapel, choir.] Adj. 1. . That's too tame for Gregory Jackson. He opens up his throat, cranks up the volume and hollers it. And judges were so impressed when they heard him whoop-whoop-whoop and wha-hoo-hoo his way through the old hymn that they made him the winner of the 1996 National Hollerin' Contest The National Hollerin' Contest, first held in 1969, is an annual competition held in Spivey's Corner, North Carolina. The contest, held on the third Saturday in June, was inaugurated in order to revive the almost-lost art of "hollerin'," a sophisticated vocal tradition that . That victory Saturday makes Jackson the first three-time winner of the contest in his hometown of Spivey's Corner, N.C., a crossroads community of 49. He also holds the 1992 and 1994 titles. ``My grandfather taught me all about hollerin','' Jackson said. Contest president and founder Ermon Godwin put the competition together in 1968, thinking it would be a one-time event just for fun. ``Back then we planned on it being a front yard thing with barbecue and a few neighbors,'' Godwin said. ``On The Road With Charles Kuralt'' changed all that. After the CBS show covered the first contest, yearly crowds have grown to around 3,000. Godwin says the contest has saved hollering from becoming a lost art. It was a key part of rural life in America in the 1920s and '30s, when it was used as a way to communicate across acres of farmland. Attic was home to helmet worth about $250,000 SOURCE: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The woman spotted what looked like an old helmet in her attic near where the Halloween costumes used to be, cleaned it up and wondered if it might be worth some money. She lugged it downtown to the Philadelphia Civic Center The Philadelphia Civic Center was a complex of five or more buildings evolved out of a series of buildings dedicated to expanding trade which began with the National Export Exhibition in 1899. There were two important buildings on the site. , where Chubb's Antique Roadshow was offering people free appraisals of their junk, and what she found out left her speechless. Greg Martin, an appraiser A person selected or appointed by a competent authority or an interested party to evaluate the financial worth of property. Appraisers are frequently appointed in probate and condemnation proceedings and are also used by banks and real estate concerns to determine the market from San Francisco's Butterfield & Butterfield, informed her Saturday that the helmet was a 16th-century cabasset from Milan, Italy, forged from a single sheet of steel and covered with gold. ``It is really quite remarkable,'' Martin said. ``It was probably a parade helmet.'' And the value? About $250,000. ``Super,'' muttered the woman, who then put the helmet back in her bag, asked not to be identified, and left. ``She was completely stunned,'' said event spokeswoman Elisabeth Harmon. ``She was hoping for maybe a grand or two and finds out it's worth a quarter of a million? Heck, you'd be flustered flus·ter tr. & intr.v. flus·tered, flus·ter·ing, flus·ters To make or become nervous or upset. n. A state of agitation, confusion, or excitement. , too.'' The Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow is a British human interest television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom and appraise antiques brought in by local residents. It has been running since 1979. was making its second stop on a 13-city tour for a series on America's hidden treasures to be aired by PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, in January. Attic was home to helmet worth about $250,000 The woman spotted what looked like an old helmet in her attic near where the Halloween costumes used to be, cleaned it up and wondered if it might be worth some money. She lugged it downtown to the Philadelphia Civic Center, where Chubb's Antique Roadshow was offering people free appraisals of their junk, and what she found out left her speechless. Greg Martin, an appraiser from San Francisco's Butterfield & Butterfield, informed her Saturday that the helmet was a 16th-century cabasset from Milan, Italy, forged from a single sheet of steel and covered with gold. ``It is really quite remarkable,'' Martin said. ``It was probably a parade helmet.'' And the value? About $250,000. ``Super,'' muttered the woman, who then put the helmet back in her bag, asked not to be identified, and left. ``She was completely stunned,'' said event spokeswoman Elisabeth Harmon. ``She was hoping for maybe a grand or two and finds out it's worth a quarter of a million? Heck, you'd be flustered, too.'' The Antiques Roadshow was making its second stop on a 13-city tour for a series on America's hidden treasures to be aired by PBS in January. CAPTION(S): 2 photos PHOTO Mark Harmon: Healer? (2) Appraiser Greg Martin sho sho (shō), n See akashi. ws the 16th-century helmet from Milan, Italy. Associated Press |
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