NEWS LITE : WILD-EYED IMAGE BAFFLES HARRELSON.Woody Harrelson admits he has expressive eyes. He's just not sure it's a good thing. ``I could say some people say I look kind of crazy,'' Harrelson says in Sunday's 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. . ``People who don't even know me, they say, you look crazy in your eyes. I don't see it, but I have that said enough times that I have to give it some weight.'' The star of numerous film including ``Natural Born Killers,'' ``The People vs. Larry Flynt'' and ``Kingpin,'' Harrelson can be seen in two holiday season releases: ``The Thin Red Line'' and ``The Hi-Lo Country.'' Harrelson got his start and won an Emmy playing bumbling bartender Woody Boyd Woodrow "Woody" Tiberius Boyd was a loveable albeit moronic character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Woody Harrelson. Woody came to Cheers at the beginning of the fourth season of Cheers in 1985. on ``Cheers.'' Social activism accompanied his movie success. He has protested against laws criminalizing the cultivation of hemp hemp, common name for a tall annual herb (Cannabis sativa) of the family Cannabinaceae, native to Asia but now widespread because of its formerly large-scale cultivation for the bast fiber (also called hemp) and for the drugs it yields. and against logging in A colloquial term for the process of making the initial record of the names of individuals who have been brought to the police station upon their arrest. The process of logging in is also called booking. old growth forests. He's the first to admit many movie fans have no sympathy for actors who use their celebrity to back social causes. ``Eventually people just want you to shut up,'' Harrelson said. Springer bouncer says stardom helps Jerry Springer's onstage bouncer, Steve Wilkos This article is about the person. For the talk show, see The Steve Wilkos Show. Steve Wilkos (born Steven John Wilkos on March 9, 1964), originally from Chicago, Illinois, is the former director of security on The Jerry Springer Show. , is a moonlighting Chicago cop who can forget about becoming the next Serpico. ``I'm never going anywhere on the Police Department undercover,'' because he's so widely recognized, Wilkos said in Sunday's New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 . His shaved head and imposing size (6 feet 3 inches, 225 pounds) add to Wilkos' prominence on the Springer show, where he is the first to jump in and break up the frequent scuffles between combative guests. Being well known for quelling trouble isn't all bad for his regular job, though. ``It helps being a little bit of a celebrity, because it calms situations down,'' Wilkos said. Writer-director tells familiar tale in film Writer-director Paul Schrader, best known as the scriptwriter script·writ·er n. One who writes copy to be used by an announcer, performer, or director in a film or broadcast. script of ``Taxi Driver taxi driver n → taxista m/f taxi driver taxi n → chauffeur m de taxi taxi driver taxi n → ,'' ``Raging Bull'' and ``The Last Temptation of Christ The temptation of Christ in Christianity, refers to the temptation of Jesus by the devil as detailed in each of the Synoptic Gospels, at Matthew 4:1-11, Mark 1:12-13, and Luke 4:1-13. ,'' is back doing what he knows best in his latest film, ``Affliction'' - trying to capture the struggles of men in deep personal conflict with themselves. Based on a Russell Banks novel, ``Affliction'' is the story of small-town cop Wade Whitehouse, played by Nick Nolte, who is trying to avoid continuing his family history of alcoholism and violence. ``Wade Whitehouse is a man not unlike the sort of men I've written about in the past,'' Schrader said in Sunday editions of The 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 Times. ``People who are trying somehow to have lives and do the right things but who can't figure out how to do it.'' Schrader wrote and directed ``Affliction.'' Among his dozen directing credits are ``American Gigolo'' and ``Light Sleeper.'' San Diego No. 1 on list of nation's fittest cities San Diego is the fittest city in the country, says Men's Health Men's Health Definition Men's health is concerned with identifying, preventing, and treating conditions that are most common or specific to men. magazine, and San Francisco is No. 2, followed by Denver, Seattle and Baltimore. The ratings are based on such factors as smoking, drinking and overweight percentages, chronic disease mortality rates, air and water quality, health club memberships, parks, numbers of sporting goods stores and number of ``burger joints.'' The five least fit cities are (from worst up) New Orleans, Columbus, Ohio; Milwaukee, El Paso, Texas; and Indianapolis. Chemist's Monopoly-style board game is infectious Been stuck with the bubonic plague bubonic plague: see plague. bubonic plague ravages Oran, Algeria, where Dr. Rieux perseveres in his humanitarian endeavors. [Fr. Lit.: The Plague] See : Disease lately? If not, you haven't played Dan Sullivan's new board game, Infection. The 34-year-old Fremont, Calif., lab supervisor has designed and produced the game, a sort-of Monopoly for the med-school set. Players start the game with five cards representing diseases from the common cold to anthrax anthrax (ăn`thrăks), acute infectious disease of animals that can be secondarily transmitted to humans. It is caused by a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis . The goal is to rid yourself of disease cards. Players die when they have four of the most severe diseases. Players can leave contagious diseases in squares marked ``public restroom'' or ``community swim center.'' If you land on one of those squares, you get the disease. Players also have money to pay for medical help. The idea had lingered in Sullivan's mind since 1983 when a friend asked him to think of an idea to make them rich. Sullivan, who has a doctorate in chemistry, has sold about 70 games since October. Infection is available for $28 at stores in Berkeley, Milpitas and Cupertino or send $30 to Sullivan at Earwig earwig, common name for any of the smooth, elongated insects of the order Dermaptera. Earwigs are small, with pairs of horny, forcepslike abdominal appendages, larger in the male than in the female, and short, leathery forewings that cover the membranous hindwings Enterprises, 1806 Milmont Ave., Box 102, Milpitas, CA 95035. His e-mail address is infectionearthlink.net. Charles off to ski without son William Prince William has this year opted out of the traditional weeklong skiing holiday with his father, Prince Charles, in the exclusive Swiss resort of Klosters, Buckingham Palace said Sunday. Charles and his youngest, 14-year-old Prince Harry, arrived Sunday in Klosters without William, who had decided to stay in Britain to ``do his own thing.'' Some royal-watchers said the decision showed the independent spirit of the 16-year-old. But others said William simply wanted to avoid the crush of photographers and reporters. Charles and Harry will be joined in Klosters by Princess Anne's 17-year-old daughter, Zara, who demonstrated her own free spirit last year when she flashed her stud-pierced tongue to photographers. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 photos PHOTO (1) Swinging for the end zone Wearing a football helmet, Dustin Wells, 11, uses a baseball bat to whack a tennis ball in an equipment-confused game he and his sisters were playing outside their home in Vacaville on Sunday. Steve McKay/Associated Press (2) CHARLES (3) HARRELSON |
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