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DIED. EMILY COURIC, 54, Virginia state senator; of pancreatic cancer; in Charlottesville. Best known countrywide as the older sister of NBC's Today show co-host Katie Couric, she was regarded at home as a principled but not partisan Democrat who shared her sister's peppy charm. "Pancreatic cancer is not, as my sister says, the cancer of choice," Emily said...
...nearly superfluous one. What we will see Monday morning will be a live public execution in all but the most literal sense. Some 1,600 journalists will be in Terre Haute, their tape recorders and cameras trained on the expected throng of demonstrators. Jane Clayson will be there; Katie Couric and Charles Gibson will be in Oklahoma City, along with a contingent of reporters set to talk with victims' family members. We will know the instant McVeigh's death is declared. And already, we are seeing and hearing his crime and victims and their life stories recapitulated, his final acts...
...ingenuity of the contestants who, not allowed to go to a gym at night, tried to lose pounds by running up and down their hotel hallway. And I also discovered a uniformity in idol worship: when asked to list those they most admire, almost all named Oprah, God, Katie Couric and Julia Roberts, in that order...
...ingenuity of the contestants who, not allowed to go to a gym at night, tried to lose pounds by running up and down their hotel hallway. And I also discovered a uniformity in idol worship: when asked to list those they most admire, almost all named Oprah, God, Katie Couric and Julia Roberts, in that order...
...Though on TV he can sometimes seem dour and uncommunicative - as in a recent Katie Couric interview - I found him bubbly and friendly. He was pleased that in recent days he had just seen an old buddy, George Harrison, who was apparently in L.A. (though NOT at the EMI party he'd helped finance!). Simon was also tickled by the news that the cult 1978 Pythonesque film spoofing the Beatles, "The Rutles," in which Simon had a memorable cameo, was coming out on DVD with some outtakes of his memorable mock interview. It was interesting that he was more animated...