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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2007
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Singer not allowed to perform
Army says advance notice needed if Baez wants to sing for troops at hospital
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez says she doesn't know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as she planned.
In a letter to The Washington Post published Wednesday, she said rocker John Mellencamp had asked her to perform with him last Friday and that she accepted his invitation.
"I have always been an advocate for nonviolence and I have stood as firmly against the Iraq war as I did the Vietnam War 40 years ago," she wrote. "I realize now that I might have contributed to a better
welcome home for those soldiers fresh from Vietnam. Maybe that's why I didn't hesitate to accept the invitation to sing for those returning
from Iraq and Afghanistan. In the end, four days before the concert, I was not 'approved' by the Army to take part. Strange irony."
The Post reported that Walter Reed officials did not respond to
diers) that thought I was a traitor," she told the paper.
Baez, 66, told the Post in a telephone interview Tuesday that she was not told why she was left off the program by the Army. "There might have been one, there might have been 50 (sol-
"In the end, four days before the concert, I was not'approved' by the Army to take part."
JOAN BAEZ Folk singer
requests for comm ent Tuesday, but that in an e-mailed statement published Monday on RollingStone.com, spokesman Steve Sanderson said the medical center received the request for
participation by Baez just two days before the concert.
"These additional requirements were not in the agreement/contract
and would have required a modification." Sanderson told the magazine's Web site.
Baez's manager, Mark Spector, told the Post that Mellencamp's management invited Baez to perform in March and handled the arrangements. But Mellencamp earlier told RollingStone.com: "They didn't give me a reason why she couldn't come. We asked why and they said, 'She can't fit here, period.'
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Joan Baez arrives for the 49th Annual
Grammy Awards on Feb. 11, in Los Angeles. In a letter to
The Washington Post published Wednesday,
Baez says she doesn't know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Water Reed Army Medical Center.
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Wife discovers bikini photos
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Philadelphia TVanchor Ayalaal speaks during an interview at station Lane, a 34-year-old anchor for KYW-TV e-mailed vacation pictures of herself in a bikini to NIH Network anchor Rich Eich. But the shots were intercepted by his wife, former Fox and ABC sports reporter Suzy Shuster who was not amused. The pictures were meant to be good fun between old friends, not an attempt to break up Eisen's marriage.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA — When a television news friend of NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen emailed him pictures of herself in a bikini, they were intercepted — by his wife.
Alycia Lane, anchor for Philadelphia's KYW-TV, said the vacation pictures were part of "harmless" banter between two old friends," not an attempt to break up Eisen's four-year marriage.
"I hope love comes to me. I'm not looking for it with a married man," Lane, recently divorced a second time, told The Philadelphia Inquirer in Wednesday's editions. "I have been the married girl who was cheated on."
The New York Post, which reported on the flap in a gossip column Tuesday, said Eisen's wife, former Fox and ABC sports reporter Suzy Shuster, got the e-mails in an account she shares with her husband and responded with a snarky letter
to Lane.
"Boy, do you look amazing in a bikini ... congrats! Whatever you're doing, (Pilates? yoga?) keep doing it — it's working for you," Shuster wrote, according to the Post. "Anyway, sorry but those seven e-mails you sent to my husband, Rich, well, oops, they came to the e-mail address we both use from time to time, but no worries, I'll forward the beach shots as well as the ones of you dancing with your friends on to his main address. Do you have it?"
Lane, 34, said that she was "mortified" by the whole story, and that she and Eisen have corresponded frequently since meeting nearly 10 years ago when she worked at a station in New York and Eisen worked for ESPN in Bristol, Conn.
Seth Palansky, a spokesman for NFL Network, said that neither Eisen nor his wife wished to comment Wednesday.
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"Our relationship has always been purely platonic." Lane said.
'Grey's Anatomy' actor to make ad for GLAAD
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NEWYORK—Isaiah Washington, who came under fire after using an anti-gay slur, will appear in a public service announcement on behalf of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network.
"We're gonna have — I want to say at least two versions of it at this point. We may broaden our message a little," the actor's publicist, Howard Bragman, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday.
Washington ran into trouble at the Golden Globe Awards in January after he used an anti-gay slur during a backstage press conference while denying had used it previously against 'Grey's Anatomy' castmate
T. R. Knight.
People magazine reported last October that Washington had allegedly used the slur during an onset dustup with costar Patrick Dempsey.
Knight said soon after the incident that he was gay.
After being criticized by GLAAD, a gay and lesbian advocacy group, and the ABC network.
planning to shoot the ad in the next few weeks.
A call to ABC seeking comment wasn't immediately returned.
"We're gonna have — I want to say at least two versions of it at this point. We may broaden our message a little."
HOWARD BRAGMAN Publicist for Isaiah Washington
Washington issued an apology and sought counseling.
Bragman said ABC, which is owned by The Walt Disney Co., was
Bragman said Washington, 43, plans to return to "Grey's Anatomy" next year.
"We've heard nothing to the contrary, and we have no plans to the contrary," Bragman said.
The Gay,
Lesbian &
Straight Education Network seeks to ensure that schools safely accommodate students of all sexual orientations.
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