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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY OF DARY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2006
Actor puts Bel-Air home on market for $35 million
LOS ANGELES — Nicolas Cage is leaving Bair-Al.
The actor has put his home in the tony community on the market for $35 million.
He bought the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom house for $7 million eight years ago.
Cage
The 11,000- square-foot Tudor-style home sits on an
acre just above Sunset Boulevard. It has a two-story entrance, a front yard fountain, an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a two-bedroom guest house.
The 42-year-old actor won't be lacking for places to stay. He owns other homes in Southern California, and earlier this year bought a castle in Bavaria and a private island in the Bahamas, according to People magazine.
Cage won a best actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas." Earlier this year he played a cop tracking a missing child in "The Wicker Man" and a Port Authority officer in the Oliver Stone film "World Trade Center."
Celebrities raise awareness
about energy industry MALIBU, Calif. — Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities gathered to protest a natural gas facility proposed for a site 14 miles off the
Malibu coast.
"We have to use our voices and band together and stop this," Halle Berry said Sunday.
The gathering — also attended by Cindy
Brosnan
Crawford, Jane Seymour, Dick Van Dyke and Tea Leoni —was intended to raise awareness about how the energy industry has invested billions to liquefy and ship natural gas across oceans.
There are five facilities proposed for California, with three along the Southern California coastline. One of the world's largest energy companies, Australianbased BHP Billiton, is seeking to build the terminal off the coast of Malibu and Oxnard. A decision is expected next year.
BHP officials say the terminals would provide a reliable source of low-polluting energy. Opponents, however, say the terminals would not meet clean air requirements and could be terrorist targets.
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Brosnan, who hosted the protest, said his opposition to the terminals extends beyond the beach in his backyard. He plans to oppose other proposed terminals, including one in Long Beach and one in Port Hueneme.
'Harry Potter' star hopes to change image with play
NEW YORK—The world knows him as boy wizard Harry Potter. Now, Daniel Radcliffe wants the world to see him differently.
Next summer, the 17-year-old will take to a London stage in the Tony Award-winning drama "Equus" and will perform nude during one scene, Newsweek magazine reported in editions hitting newsstands Monday.
"Part of me wants to shake up people's perception of me, just shove me in a blender," he told the magazine in an exclusive interview on the set of the fifth Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."
In "Equus,"Radcliffe will play a"troubled young man with a religious-erotic obsession with horses,"the magazine reported.
Rapper may face charges for chaos during concert
BALTIMORE — Morgan State University police are considering whether to pursue criminal charges against rapper Lil' Wayne after someone threw money into a crowd during a performance, causing a melee that left three young women injured.
It was unclear whether Lil'
Wayne or a member of his entourage flung the bills into the crowd, said university Police Chief Adrian Wiggins. The artist will not be invited back to the campus, university officials said.
"It was as dangerous a thing to do as standing in a crowded movie theater and shouting, 'Fire,'" said Clinton Coleman, a Morgan State spokesman.
Coleman said the majority of the cash consisted of $1 bills, but there were some $5, $10 and $20 bills.
Two women, both age 20, suffered leg injuries and were taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital. A third was injured but refused medical treatment.
Lil' Wayne, whose legal name is Dwayne Michael Carter, was arrested in August on drug possession charges in Atlanta. He was nominated recently for three BET music awards.
Stolen notebook causes country music controversy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A music publishing company says a 59-year-old notebook that once belonged to the late country singer Hank Williams and is now in the hands of two collectors was stolen from its offices.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing officials say they learned it was missing only after a Chicago Sun-Times article detailed how the collectors acquired the notebook, which contains lyrics to several unpublished Williams songs and has a value as high as $250,000.
The company filed a stolen property report with police on Sept. 20.
Stephen Shutts and Robert Reynolds said they acquired the notebook this past summer after being contacted by an older Nashville-area woman last November. Neither man is suspected of any role in a possible theft, though it's unclear if they might face penalties for possession of stolen property. The notebook remains in their possession.
Associated Press
Tradition Keeper Appreciation Day
Wed., Oct. 25
Get spotted in your Tradition Keeper T-shirt on Wed., Oct.25, and you may win a prize!
We'll be giving away gift certificates to the KU Bookstores and a local pizza company. Remember to wear your TK shirt tomorrow. You never know where you might run into the Prize Posse on campus.
Pick up your benefits if you haven't done so already. The Adams Alumni Center is open Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
www.kualumni.org
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Anna Nicole Smith leaves the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 28, 2006, in Washington. Smith did not appear Monday in the Bahamas for a meeting requested by the attorney for an ex-boyfriend who claims to be the father of the reality TV star's 6-week-old daughter.
Baby's paternity in question
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
— Anna Nicole Smith didn't appear Monday for a meeting in the Bahamas requested by the lawyer for an ex-boyfriend who claims he is the father of her 6-week-old daughter.
Photographer Larry Birkhead has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles seeking a court order to demand Smith bring the baby to California for a paternity test.
Debra Opri, a lawyer for Birk head who traveled from Los Angeles to take a deposition
from Smith in the Bahamas, said she would use Smith's non appearance Monday to argue for dismissal of that challenge.
Smith, 38, a reality TV star and former Playboy playmate, moved to the Bahamas while pregnant with Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. Smith has said that her companion, lawyer Howard K. Stern, is the baby's father.
A Bahamian attorney for Smith said he believed Oprie needs to work through local courts to demand a test from
his client, who has obtained permanent residency in the islands.
A hearing is scheduled Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel died while visiting his mother in a Nassau hospital after the baby was born.
A private examiner has said Daniel Smith died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressants.
Associated Press
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