Ellroy projects head to screen new films and series
Film writer James Ellroy sees three works adapted for TV and film. USA Network plans James Ellroy's Los Angeles miniseries airing September 2002. Robert Greenwald directs the adaptation of My Dark Places into a feature film. A BBC documentary Feast of Death seeks U.S. distribution. Naomi Judd returns to Ashland and Ironton Ohio for a Summer Motion food drive. Nadia Comaneci becomes U.S. citizen after an 11 year journey, recalling her 1976 Olympic perfection and eventual move from Romania.
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Romania
Nicolae Ceausescu
Hungary
United States
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Cher on Reality TV and public debasement
Cher criticizes modern reality TV as cruel and naive, reflecting on past fame in The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour with Sonny Bono who died in 1998. She recalls feeling like a paper doll while fitting Bob Mackie outfits and worries about public scrutiny.
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History Journal Highlights From Notable Dates
Key milestones span centuries from Canada becoming a self governing dominion in 1867 to Gettysburg beginning in 1863. The 1943 pay as you go tax withholding started, Bikini Atoll test in 1946, and Princess Diana born in 1961 later dying in Paris in 1997 at age 36.
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Great Britain
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Bikini Atoll
Pacific
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Princess of Wales
Sandringham
England
Paris
Birthdays for Actors and Dancers This Week
Today’s page notes several birthday ages for celebrities including Pamela Anderson at 34 Olivia de Havilland at 85 Jamie Farr at 67 Twyla Tharp at 60 Deborah Harry at 56 Dan Aykroyd at 49 Sly Tyler at 24 and Pamela Anderson listed again.
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Pamela Anderson
Olivia Deay Havilland
Jamie Farr
Twyla Tharp
Deborah Harry
Dan Aykroyd
Sly Tyler
Kansas University radicals plan first reunion in Lawrence
Dozens of former 1960s campus activists from the radical era, now older and tamer, plan a reunion in Lawrence from August 2 to 5. The Journal-World features their plans in Monday’s issue.
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Tamer
Kansas University
Lawrence
Journal- World
Hollywood uses robots and scavenger hunts to market films
Hollywood exploits the Web to hype films with alpha fans. Robot calls, emails from "mother," and prop hunts accompany Spielberg's A I Artificial Intelligence. Microsoft and Warner Bros. promote with XBox tie ins. Fox and others pre build audiences months before release with fake campaigns and online stunts.
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Michael van Gorkom
Santa Monica
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
20Th Century Fox
Microsoft
Warner Bros
A.I
van Gorkom
Evan Chan
Jeanine Laila
Bangalore University
Chet Atkins Dies A Pillar Of Country Music At 77
Chet Atkins, famed Tennessee guitar virtuoso and Nashville Sound pioneer, died Saturday in Nashville at age 77 after cancer surgeries. A prolific producer and session musician with 13 Grammys, his influence spanned Elvis Presley Hank Williams Sr and the Everly Brothers, shaping country, jazz, and rock. He spent two decades at RCA then moved to Columbia, collaborating with major artists and recording more than 60 albums.
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Country Music Assn
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Hank Snow
Silver Bell
Roy Orbison
Jim Reeves
Charley Pride
Dolly Parton
Jerry Reed
Waylon Jennings
Eddy Arnold
Columbia
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