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...keep HELEN MIRREN off the world stage. The Oscar-nominated actress, brave enough to go stark naked in Calendar Girls, was all set to visit Sudan's Darfur region this week to use her celebrity status to call attention to the genocide there. A surge in violence prompted Oxfam, the sponsor, to cancel the trip, but Mirren refused to make her exit. After a minor script adjustment, she is now headed to northern Uganda, another African hot spot, where 18 years of war have driven more than 1.6 million people from their homes, including some 20,000 children abducted...
INJURED. DICK EBERSOL, 57, chairman of NBC Sports; after a chartered plane carrying him and two of his sons, Teddy, 14, and Charlie, 21, crashed on takeoff; in Montrose, Colo. Teddy, Ebersol's youngest son with his wife, actress Susan St. James, was thrown from the jet and killed on impact when it landed on him. The pilot and a crew member were also killed. Charlie was hospitalized along with his father, whom he dragged from the plane to safety. Both are expected to recover...
...game-show history ended last week when California real estate agent NANCY ZERG beat Jeopardy!'s human encyclopedia, KEN JENNINGS. The dethroned champ, who is about to get taxed for taking home $2.5 million in winnings, missed a Final Jeopardy question about H. & R. Block. Zerg, a former actress, didn't have long to celebrate after ending Jennings' 74-game streak. She lost on the next show...
...Questions for Whoopi Goldberg" [Nov. 22]: She is an amazing actress, but Goldberg and the rest of Hollywood should stick to what they are good at. Since when do we care about actors' political views? I pay to watch their movies, not to hear their opinions. Goldberg's statement that the U.S. "is being pushed into a religious column" was all wrong. This country was founded by religious people. But our Founding Fathers are truly rolling in their graves right now because we have forgotten what they based this country...
...Wong Kar-Wai, the powerhouse art-film duo who between them have won eight Oscar equivalents in Hong Kong and two Cannes Film Festival awards? There’s also Jeon Ji-hyun, whose romantic comedies have set her up to be Korea’s next leading female actress. And Stephen Chow, Hong Kong’s answer to Ben Stiller, who writes unconventional and intelligent comedies. Apparently, we just aren’t ready to see Asian people in everyday life, when they’re not in period films depicting them recklessly hacking off each other?...