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ENTERTAINMENT
THE UNIVERSITY OF DARBY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2006
Eastwood's son in 'Flags'
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — There's a new face among the soldiers in Clint Eastwood's World War II drama "Flags of Our Fathers"; Scott Reeves, the director's youngest son.
Reeves, 20, makes his big-screen debut as a Marine in one scene of "Flags," due in theaters Oct. 20. He and a bunch of other guys smoke cigarettes, play cards and listen to music while waiting to go into battle.
Obviously, Reeves is a fan of the movie, the latest in Eastwood's Oscar-worthy repertoire.
"Flags," which recounts the story
of one of the six Americans who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, is "the culmination of everything, of all his work combined coming to this," Reeves told AP Television at the movie's premiere on Monday.
"it's just one of the best things to work on — ever," he said.
Eastwood, who is married to his second wife. Dina, fathered both Reeves and an 18-year-old daughter, Kathryn, with ex-girlfriend Jacelyn Reeves, a former flight attendant.
Reeves is getting serious about acting. He has roles in the upcoming movies "Pride" and "An American Crime", both slated for release next year.
Rapper injured in car crash
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEWARK, N.J. — The rapper Cassidy was reportedly in critical condition at a New Jersey hospital following a car crash last week.
The 24-year-old Philadelphia artist, whose real name is Barry Reese, was a passenger in a sport utility vehicle that collided with another vehicle in Jersey City on Oct. 5, according to Sgt. Edgar Martinez, a police spokesman.
Cassidy was in critical condition at Jersey City Medical Center, The Jersey Journal of Jersey City reported in Tuesday's newspapers. A hospital spokeswoman did not immediately return a call Tuesday seeking information on his condition.
"He has multiple fractures of his face," his lawyer, Simon Rosen, said Friday. "He has a nasty scar from his ear to the corner of his mouth. He's on sedation to keep him from moving, and to keep him out of pain.
"It's scary looking, but he's a very strong young man," said Rosen, who did not immediately return calls
Cassidy was recently released from prison following his January conviction on charges of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault in what Philadelphia prosecutors called the planned ambush of a man who had argued with the musician's friends.
Tuesday. "He's a fighter. He'll come through this."
Jersey City police issued a summons for making an improper turn to the driver of the vehicle that collided with Cassidy's vehicle, Javier Trujillo Gonzalez, 36, of Carson City, Mich.
All five people involved in the crash were taken to local hospitals, but only Cassidy sustained serious injuries, Rosen said.
The rapper was heading to a recording studio in New York to work on an upcoming album when the crash occurred, his lawyer said.
A judge ruled that Cassidy was grossly negligent for supplying the guns that killed Desmond Hawkins and wounded two of his companions.
In this undated photo released by ABC, co-host Diane Sawyer, right, talks with actor Mel Gibson during an interview that will air on ABC's "Good Morning America," on Thursday and Friday. This is the first time Gibson has talked to the media since his drunken-driving arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic tirade on July 28.
'STUPID RAMBLINGS'
Mel Gibson revisits anti-Semitic remarks
SANDY COHEN ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson calls his anti-Semitic rant following his arrest for drunk driving in July "the stupid ramblings of a drunkard."
In an interview with Diane Sawyer set to air on "Good Morning America" on Thursday and Friday, Gibson says that though staying sober is a struggle, he has not had a drink in 65 days.
"All you can do is take another step, keep breathing," he says, according to a partial transcript of the interview released by ABC.
He adds that he plans to continue making movies and working to heal himself and those he offended.
Clean shaven and casually dressed in jeans and a blue checkered shirt, Gibson tells Sawyer he began drinking two months before sherriff's deputies arrested him in Malibu on July 28.
"Years go by, you're fine," he says.
"And then all of a sudden in a heartbeat,
in an instant, on an impulse, somebody
shoves a glass of Mescal in front of your nose and says, 'It's from Oaxaca.' And it's burning its way through your esophagus and you go, 'Oh man, what did I do that for? I can't put the toothpaste back in the tube'<sup>39</sup>
The interview with Sawyer is the first time Gibson has spoken to the media since sparking a scandal by unleashing what he later called "vitriolic and harmful words" during his arrest. Gibson told the arresting officer: "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," and asked him, "Are you a Jew?"
"The last thing I want to be is that kind of monster," he tells Sawyer in the interview.
Comedian dives into coastal conservation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Before she takes on the Oscars, Ellen DeGeneres is going to frolic with some coastal wildlife.
The 48-year-old comedian will become a virtual seal who heads up an environmentally conscious flock on the California Bay as part of a new Web site.
"I just think (seals) are adorable," she said. "I've always loved animals and I want to do anything I can to help."
DeGeneres is lending her famous name to Dawn Saves Wildlife, a Web-based program to educate visitors about how they can help save the environment and protect aquatic animals from pollution.
Site visitors can become virtual pelicans, penguins, ducks or seals and form "flocks" with their friends as they learn simple sea-saving steps such as recycling used motor oil and disposing of cooking grease in sealed containers.
The site aims to reach one million visitors, said DeGeneres, who will play host to the 79th Academy Awards gala on February 25.
Reed Saxon/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ellen DeGeneres, host of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," will become a virtual seal on an environmentally conscious Web site. The Web site is Dawn Saves Wildlife.
Malawi man: Madonna adopted my son
Pop vocalist visits projects that give assistance to orphans with AIDS
RAPHAEL TENTHANI ASSOCIATED PRESS
LIPUNGA, Malawi — Madonna has adopted a 1-year-old Malawian boy whose mother died a month after childbirth, the baby's father claimed Tuesday, saying he was happy his son was escaping poverty.
Malawian government officials said last week the pop star planned to adopt a Malawiian boy while she is in the impoverished African nation visiting projects she funds for AIDS orphans. However, they declined to comment on Yohane Banda's claim that his son David had been adopted by the singer.
Madonna has made no public comment since her arrival. Her publicist, Liz Rosenberg, said in a statement last week that the star was on a private visit working on projects for children, and dismissed statements from Malawian government officials that she and her husband, film director Guy Ritchie, planned to adopt a boy.
"I am the father of David, who has been adopted," Banda, 32, told The Associated Press Tuesday. "I
am very very happy because as you can see there is poverty in this village and I know he will be very well looked after in America."
He said his wife Marita died a month after the baby's birth from childbirth complications and the child had been cared for at the Home of Hope Orphan Care Center in Mchinji, a village near the Zambian border.
Banda said his son left the orphanage on Monday and was taken to the capital, Lilongwe, where Madonna and her entourage were staying in an upscale ranch.
Madonna has visited the orphanage at least once during her visit. Its director, Rev. Thompson John Chipeta, has refused to speak to the media.
Madonna arrived in Malawi Oct. 4 to visit her Raising Malawi project, which is setting up an orphan care center to provide food, education and shelter for up to 4,000 children. It will have projects based on Kabbalah, Judaism's mystical sect, which counts the 48-year-old singer among its devotees.
Madonna and Ritchie have a son, Rocco, 5, and the singer also
has a daughter, Lourdes, 9.
Banda, a farm worker who lives in Lipunga, a village about 50 miles from the orphanage, said he had been told that David would make regular visits to Malawi.
"He will know his roots." Banda said.
"The director of the orphanage came here yesterday and told us that David has been adopted by a famous American singer," Mwale said. "I am very glad for him because having grown up as an orphan myself, I know how tough life can be."
The child's grandmother, Asinei Mwale, said she learned about the adoption from Chipeta.
Malawi is among the poorest countries in the world, with rampant disease and hunger, aggravated by periodic droughts and crop failure.
Some 14 percent of its 12 million people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and an estimated 1 million children have been orphaned.
In many villages, grandparents or older siblings struggle to feed orphans.
judaism & christianity in the dead sea scrolls
HALL CENTER
FOR THE HUMANITIES
The University of Alabama
Rabbi Morris B. Margolies
Scholar and Curator of the Spring 2007 Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at Union Station, Kansas City.
Wednesday
October 11, 7:30 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union Reception to follow
less is free and open to the public. No masks are required. For more information contact the hall center at 785-684-4798, web
email at hallcentersku.edu, or visit our web site at
www.hallcentersku.edu.
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