Extreme heat wave bakes southeastern Europe
A blistering heat wave in southern and eastern Europe shatters records with temperatures up to 111 degrees across Turkey Bulgaria Greece Romania and Italy. Hospitals report crowded wards amid heat related illnesses and officials fear more deaths as fires rage and public spaces open to vulnerable residents.
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Friedan ex husband fights back against memoir accusations
Carl Friedan says Betty Friedan attacked him with knives and inflicted bruises during their 22 year marriage. He calls her charges part of her lunacy and says she was an aggressive dynamo at home, while she says he is not a wife beater and moved on with her life.
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Sarasota, Fla
New York Post
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Good Morning America
Carl
NAACP
Risk and fame meet in The Perfect Storm weekend
Author Sebastian Junger notes risk lovers are often college educated while fishermen accept danger out of necessity. The Perfect Storm earned 41.7 million in the holiday weekend, ahead of The Patriot 21.7 million, placing third behind Men in Black and Independence Day. Junger says thoughts on dangerous work came after a chainsaw injury.
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Ebastian Junger
George Clooney
Mel Gibson
Twin Peaks cafe fire devastates North Bend site
A fire damaged the Mar-T Cafe in North Bend Washington, gutting the rear third and causing about 250000 in losses. A break in and theft preceded the blaze with a $450 take reported. A reward is offered for info and the owner hopes to reopen before the Twin Peaks Festival in August.
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A Break for Paltrow Delays New Film Roles
Gwyneth Paltrow plans an eight month break before resuming acting. She was to begin Say It Isn’t So but the Farrelly brothers film has been pushed to next year. She will then shoot Possession with Aaron Eckhart this fall while Ben Affleck films Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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Crystal to Direct HBO 61 Docudrama in Detroit
Crystal will spend two weeks in Detroit directing and filming baseball scenes for the HBO project 61 about the 1961 Yankees race to break Babe Ruths record. Tiger Stadium will stand in for Yankee Stadium with visual effects and production design creating a vintage 1961 look. Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane play Maris and Mantle.
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Hughes Biopic Moves Forward With The Passions Of Howard Hughes
Ian Ladd Jr. advances a Howard Hughes film using Terry Moore’s The Passions of Howard Hughes rights. A first draft is due in two weeks. Moore’s book is being reprinted despite earlier disputes over Hughes’s widow status. Ladd says the project will avoid Hughes’s youth and sex life and notes other Hughes projects are not advancing now.
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Terry Moore
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