ZPROPLR : WILL YOU LET US KEEP USING OUR VCRS?Americans spend too much time in front of their TV sets when they could be reading a book, spending time "Spending Time" is the first single released by Christian artist Stellar Kart. The lyrics describe the band members desire to spend "more time with God". "Sometimes it’s a real struggle to spend time with God. outdoors or volunteering to help community organizations, a group urging people to turn off the tube for a week contends. For the second year, TV-Free America has designated the week of April 24 as National TV Turnoff The TV turnoff network (formerly TV-Free America) is an organization that tries to encourage children and adults to watch less television and so have more time for a healthier life and more community participation. It is a grassroots alliance of many different organisations. Week. Last year more than 1 million participated, said spokesman Monte Burke. The group estimates 3 million will take part this year. ``It's simply about millions of Americans taking a voluntary break from the tube and discovering for themselves that life may actually be more productive, healthy and fun with less tube and more time for other activities,'' said Henry Labalme, TV-Free's executive director. The average American, Burke said, spends four hours a day - or two months a year - watching television. French hiss Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Paul Belmondo (born April 9, 1933), is a BAFTA Awards nominated French actor. Career Born Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football. has lashed out at French movie distributors' deference to Hollywood's domination of the film industry. The 63-year-old actor, whose performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 film ``Breathless'' brought him international fame, is angry that his latest movie, ``Desire,'' is being shown in only 20 theaters across France. ``The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse See Trojan. Trojan Horse hollow horse concealed soldiers, enabling them to enter and capture Troy. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad] See : Deceit (application, security) Trojan horse of the American cinema,'' Belmondo told the Paris daily Le Figaro Le Figaro (English: The Barber) is one of the leading French morning daily newspapers. Its editorial line is conservative and has generally been supportive of the Rally for the Republic political party and its successor, the . ``I do not condemn the American cinema, I am against all forms of censorship. But I would like the public to be able to judge by itself.'' All that, and dental coverage Lawrence M. Coss didn't get a raise last year, but his $65.1 million bonus should make up for it. The little-known chief executive of a Minnesota company that lends money to mobile-home buyers wound up earning more than four times the compensation of such corporate chieftains as Michael Eisner Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) was CEO of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005. Early life Michael Eisner was born to a wealthy family in Mt. Kisco, New York, and raised on Park Avenue in Manhattan. of Walt Disney Co. Not bad for a guy who moved from South Dakota to Minneapolis 31 years ago and took a job as a used-car salesman. Coss, 57, is chief executive of Green Tree Financial Corp., a St. Paul-based company that finances manufactured housing and home improvement loans. Most of the bonus is on paper - the value of stock he received as a bonus based on the price of the stock in 1991. Dole lost in translation Sen. Bob Dole's got enough problems; he doesn't need Iranian papers calling him names. But the press there is in a dilemma over how to write headlines about Dole. See, the Kansas senator's surname in Persian means a veddy private part of the male anatomy, says Time. ``It's creating a serious issue for us,'' a Tehran journalist said. ``How can we write headlines using that word?'' Still only duet for opera star Luciano Pavarotti and paramour par·a·mour n. A lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship. [Middle English, from par amour, by way of love, passionately, from Anglo-Norman : par, by Nicoletta Mantovani are playing house. Ambushed by photographers when visiting a 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 art gallery with the opera singer this week, Mantovani was asked if she and Luciano are expecting to hear the patter pat·ter 1 v. pat·tered, pat·ter·ing, pat·ters v.intr. 1. To make a quick succession of light soft tapping sounds: Rain pattered steadily against the glass. of little feet soon. ``No, not right now!'' she said, pointing to her flat stomach. The 60-year-old tenor and his 26-year-old secretary have been living together for the past two weeks in Pavarotti's Manhattan pad, and Pavarotti gushes, ``We are together. We are very happy. . . . extremely happy.'' Mantovani said she was ``very sure'' of her love for Luciano. ``Love wins everything!'' Not - so - fast. Adua Pavarotti, Luciano's wife of 35 years, reportedly has won a whopping $150 million settlement plus half of his ongoing royalties for her and their three daughters. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) Jean-Paul Belmondo Huffing, puffing over cine ma (2) Luciano Pavarotti, 60, and Nicoletta Mantovani, 26, don't expect the stork stork, common name for members of a family of long-legged wading birds. The storks are related to the herons and ibises and are found in most of the warmer parts of the world. . Associated Press |
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