Carrey tops list as highest paid comic actor
LA AP reports Jim Carrey will get about 20 million dollars to star in Cable Guy, making him Hollywood's highest paid comic actor. Filming begins in December for the Columbia Pictures project about a cable TV repairman who infiltrates a subscriber's life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Jim Carrey
Riddler
Carrey
Hollywood
Daily Variety
Columbia Pictures
Cardinal Bernardin Faces 20 to 25 Percent Survival Chance
In Maywood Illinois doctors diagnose pancreatic cancer in Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and report a golf ball sized tumor was removed. The 67 year old cleric has a 20 to 25 percent chance of surviving five more years and will undergo chemotherapy and radiation. He remained hopeful saying let’s get on with that walk I was supposed to take.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maywood, Ill
Joseph Bernardin
Warren Furey
Fighting Erupts In Bosnia As Siege Persists
Government troops attack Serb-held Ilijas near Sarajevo as 15 000 government soldiers mass for a push to break the siege. Serbs refuse to release 26 UN peacekeepers until four Serbs held by the UN are freed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
NATO
United Nations
Ilijas
Pale
Ists
Milan Gvero
Mt. Jahorina
Momcilo Krajisnik
Rebels Seize Hundreds of Hostages in Russian City
Gunmen demanding an end to the Chechen war seized 500 hostages in Budyonnovsk, threatening to kill them if Russian forces continued operations. Dozens of people died as police battled attackers who occupied city hall, police HQ, a bank, and a hospital amid continued fighting and mass deployment of troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Russia
Chechnya
Interior Ministry
Budyonnovsk
Hormone Therapy Linked to Higher Breast Cancer Risk
A New England Journal of Medicine study finds women on hormone therapy for five years or more have a 46 percent higher risk of breast cancer than nonusers. The risk grows with age, with a 60 year old on five years of estrogen facing about a 3 percent five year risk versus 1.8 percent for nonusers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New England Journal of Medicine
Graham A. Colditz
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bosnia
Associated Press
Jimmy Carter
Senate Armed Services Committee
Federal Security Service
Boris Yeltsin
Turkey
Akhstan
Ukraine
Black Sea
Georgia
Armenia
Caspiai
Hee
Rockport
CSRA
Blk. & Cord
Tan, Brnubhuk
Gortex Boots & Shoes
Leverett
Leverett S
Whiskey Rd
oYear Waray
Sauge
Sherwin-Williams