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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 2001
Page
1
Nicole Kidman lashes out at press coverage of her miscarriage and split from Tom Cruise. She tells The Sydney Morning Herald the weeks since the breakup have been the toughest of her life and calls reports invasive and upsetting for her and her children.
Oscar winner Jodie Foster tells Liz Smith she is pregnant with her second child and due in November. She jokes about Scorpio birthdays with sisters, notes health foods and yoga, and says she enjoyed pregnancy with Charlie, who turns three in July. Foster declines to name the father.
Barbra Streisand criticizes Democrats in a three page memo calling them paralyzed and demoralized since Bush's election. She accuses Republicans of voter suppression harming minorities including blacks and elderly Jews in a contentious letter signed "Barbra."
On April 4 1968 Martin Luther King Jr was shot in Memphis Tennessee at age 39. In 1841 President William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia after one month in office, the first U.S. chief executive to die in office. In 1887 Susanna Medora Salter became the first woman elected mayor of Argonia Kansas. In 1975 a USAF transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashed near Saigon killing over 130 people, mostly children.
Today's birthdays include Maya Angelou age 73 noted for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Also listed are Kitty Kelley 59, Craig T. Nelson 57, Christine Lahti 51, Steve Gatlin 50, Robert Downey Jr. 36, and Nancy McKeon 35 in a concise celebrity roll.
When vacation starts there will be organized activities and camps to keep youths busy. Read full details Thursday in 18&Under.
Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky plays both Don Giovanni and Leporello in a PBS Great Performances adaptation filmed in Toronto. The 50 minute Don Giovanni Unmasked sets the 18th century tale in 1930s Hollywood with Leporello directing the Don’s erotic fantasies.
The Great Performances show Don Giovanni Unmasked airs on PBS at 7 p.m. today on Sunflower Cablevision channels 7 and 11. The profile notes Hvorostovsky, once nicknamed the Elvis of opera, now aims to shift his image from funky to serious after performing in Salzburg and at San Francisco Opera.
Orlando based Future Tribe Project mobilizes about 20 ravers to counter drug dangers and social stigma. They pass out condoms, volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, and push a nonjudgmental message that raves center on dancing and community. Local authorities push tighter after hour venue controls to curb underage access and safety concerns.
Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs says the 1980s New Wave group never truly split up, only paused. After a decade apart he tours with Tim Butler and John Ashton mixing old hits like Pretty In Pink with new material, aiming for a studio comeback.
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