PEOPLE : CRITIC GIVES WOMEN TWO THUMBS DOWN.If theater critic John Simon John Simon could refer to:
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But here he goes, lamenting to Women's Wear Daily Women's Wear Daily (WWD) is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called "the bible of fashion."[1][2] It is the flagship journal of Fairchild Publications, Inc.[3] WWD's publisher is Ralph Erardy, Sr. : ``The women who end up in the theater, for the most part, are very unattractive. If you're attractive, you go into TV, movies and modeling. What's left for the theater is not very appetizing to look at.'' Connery tells Scots to bond at the polls Sean Connery is circulating a letter among his countrymen urging them to vote in the May 1 election for Scottish National Party Scottish National Party n → Partei, die für die Unabhängigkeit Schottlands eintritt candidates, who stand for a Scotland independent of Britain. ``I am proud to come from Scotland, and my dearest wish is to see Scotland free,'' writes the actor. ``Everywhere I go in the world, people want to know . . . why we tolerate our affairs being run by someone else's government. If the SNP SNP Scottish National Party Noun 1. SNP - (genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily wins, so does Scotland; it's simple as that.'' The SNP, which holds four seats in the British Parliament, seeks total freedom from Britain. Scotland has been under British control since 1707 but has its own legal and education system. Madonna mulls digs in jolly old England Madonna is house-hunting in Britain and is apparently considering a $7.35 million mansion where pre-King Edward VII carried on an affair with actress Lillie Langtry. ``I think she fell in love with it,'' said owner George Apter. ``She was worried about security, but our house has a high wall and railings, so it is ideal.'' Madonna has said she'd like her daughter, Lourdes, to go to school in Britain, noting, ``At least people read books here.'' Jackie O.'s will going into print Three years after her death, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has a new book coming out. ``The Last Will and Testament of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'' - featuring a copy of her will, photographs, her death certificate and a chronology of her life - is being published by Bill Adler with Carroll & Graf. ``She is one of the great icons of our time, and many people will want a piece of what she was about,'' said Adler, who has written, edited or packaged more than 120 books, including ``The Uncommon Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.'' Wills are in the public domain once they've been probated, so Adler simply sent someone to court to make a copy. ``A lot of people will view this as an invasion of privacy invasion of privacy n. the intrusion into the personal life of another, without just cause, which can give the person whose privacy has been invaded a right to bring a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity that intruded. , but it's not as if I stole it from her home in the middle of the night,'' he said. The book will cost $18. Onassis died of cancer in 1994. Her will directed her children and the John F. Kennedy Library The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy. It is located on Dorchester's Columbia Point in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and was designed by the architect I.M. Pei. in Boston to choose whatever they wanted from her possessions and sell the rest. An auction of her property last year yielded $34.5 million. Fire on TV sparks call for emergency Is it real, or Copperfield? Flames on a woman's television screen looked so real to a passer-by that he called an emergency dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. to report a house fire. Judy Somonick of Indiana, Pa., was sitting in her living room Monday night with the lights out, watching magician David Copperfield's special on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. . Firefighters pounded on her door to tell her there was a fire in her home. The firefighters soon realized the only ``fire'' was caused by the special effects on television. Chocolate-flavor carrots aimed at U.K. children British parents have a new weapon in the age-old battle to get children to eat their vegetables: chocolate-flavored carrots. Baked bean-flavored peas, cheese-and-onion cauliflower cauliflower (kô`lĭflou'ər, käl`ĭ–), variety of cabbage, with an edible head of condensed flowers and flower stems. Broccoli is the horticultural variety (botrytis); both were cultivated in Roman times. and sweet corn with just a hint of pizza taste are other offerings in a line of ``Wacky Veg'' vegetables on sale this week by the Iceland supermarket chain. Among juvenile food critics, reviews were mixed. ``Chocolate is meant to be for pudding. I don't really like carrots much anyway, but these are horrid,'' said George Savill, 8. ``I think the carrots are a little bit tasteless, but I would buy them. But then, I like most vegetables anyway,'' added Poomtham Pukdeetana, 16. Iceland, which specializes in frozen foods, produced the new products in cooperation with the British charity Cancer Research Campaign. It aims to help parents give their children a more balanced diet balanced diet n. A diet that furnishes in proper proportions all of the nutrients necessary for adequate nutrition. balanced diet . ``I think it is a serious attempt to do something helpful. I don't think it's frivolous,'' said Gordon McVie, the Cancer Research Campaign's director-general. He pointed out that chocolate and honey have been used for years to flavor cereals. ``My background is science, and I believe in experiments, and this is an experiment in changing behavior patterns,'' he said. The firm tested different types of flavored vegetables on a panel of children ages 7 to 10. Some veggies Veggies of Nottingham, also known as Veggies Catering Campaign, is a campaigning group based in Nottingham, England, promoting ethicalbum alternatives to mainstream fast food. didn't pass the test: bubble-gum broccoli, prawn-cocktail cauliflower and toffee-apple sweet corn. Dad evicted DeGeneres after outing Ellen DeGeneres says she was thrown out of the house after she told her father and stepmother she's gay. ``The woman he's married to has two daughters, and they asked me to move out of the house after that,'' DeGeneres, 39, says in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer airing tonight, five days before her TV character in ``Ellen'' comes out. The actress says her first sexual experience with the same sex was at age 18 with her best friend. ``We saw each other - you know; we both had boyfriends and we were double-dating,'' she said. ``But we were together. Nobody knew.'' And yah, she has dabbled dab·ble v. dab·bled, dab·bling, dab·bles v.tr. To splash or spatter with or as if with a liquid: "The moon hung over the harbor dabbling the waves with gold" with men: ``Didn't like it.'' She says she kept wondering a la Peggy Lee: Is that all there is? CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Cub report Cincinnati Zoo keeper Dawn Strasser reacts to the affections of a month-old Amur leopard cub, one of two at the facility's nursery. Associated Press (2) Connery (3) Onassis |
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