THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
7A
》 ANNA NICOLE PATERNITY CASE
Stern not fighting for baby
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NEW YORK — Larry Birkhead has only kind words to say about Howard K. Stern, his former adversary in the Anna Nicole Smith paternity case.
"People blame him a lot, but Anna had her own mind too." Birkhead, the father of Smith's baby daughter, tells OK! magazine. "She had a choice and we were arguing and that what happens. I'm thankful that everyone can get along for Dannielynn. How could you not?"
Birkhead, 34, a Los Angeles photographer and ex-boyfriend of the late Playboy Playmate, had feuded with Stern, her longtime lawyer-companion, over the paternity of now 7-month-old Dannielynn. A court in the Bahamas ruled last week that DNA tests proved Birkhead is the father. Stern said he would not fight to retain custody of the baby.
Father and daughter are featured on the cover and inside the magazine's latest issue, on newstands Friday. A representative for OK! — which pays for its exclusive interviews — wouldn't disclose the terms of its deal with Birkhead to The Associated Press.
The magazine also has photos of Birkhead and Dannielynn.
Stern has been helpful, Birkhead said. "It seems unlikely, but he's been a great help. He's been with Dannielynn the last several months. He knows her likes and dislikes and things that could help me. He gives me credit when I'm doing good things and gives me tips on things I should do a little different."
Birkhead said Stern, who was listed on the birth certificate as Dannielynn's father, invited him to meet the baby about a month ago.
Dannielynn has been living in an oceanfront home in the Bahamas with Stern.
Birkhead isn't as generous with his comments on Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, who is seeking visitation rights.
"It's puzzling for her to display affection to me and then for the attorneys to say she's going for custody and Larry was just a sperm donor and a one-night stand," he said.
"Then they all come and shake my hand. You've gotta scratch your head and say, 'What's going on here?'
"I'm willing to listen to see what people want, but that doesn't mean I'm going to agree," he said. "I hope I don't have to fight for the baby."
Smith gave birth to Dannielynn in September in a Bahamas hospital, days before her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died from a lethal combination of drugs at her bedside. Smith died in Florida in February at 39, also from a lethal combination of drugs.
Is Dannielynn healthy?
"The doctors say she's fine and has met all of her developmental milestones," Birkhead said. "She's a really curious, alert baby."
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Larry Birkhead, left, and Howard K. Stern shake hands in front of the court after a paternity hearing April 10 in Nassau, Bahamas. DNA analysis released during the hearing has proven that Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead is the father of her infant daughter, an expert in genetic evidence said April 10.
'Night at the Opera' star dies
OBITUARY
Master of Ceremonies But Colley Mirr, rear, poses with the panel of the "To Tell The Truth" quiz show on CBS in 1957. Panelists from left to right are: Polly Bergen, Ralph Bellamy, Kitty Carlieh Hart and Hy Gardner. Hart died at age 96 Wednesday.
Kitty Carlisle Hart star of opera, film passed away at 96 from pneumonia
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BY ULA ILNYTZKY ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday.
Christopher Hart said his mother had been in and out of the hospital since contracting pneumonia.
"She passed away peacefully" Tuesday night at her Manhattan apartment, said Hart, who was at her side when she died. "She had such a wonderful life, and a great long run, it was a blessing."
She had been touring around the country in her one-woman show "Here's to Life" until getting sick.
Lewis said when he once asked her "why she would attend events every single night of her life, and dress up and be the grand dame Kitty Carlisle Hart, she said that the grim reaper was lapping at her feet. She had to outpace him."
David Lewis, her longtime musical director, said: "The show was about everyone she had known: Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and her wonderful relationship with her husband, Moss Hart."
A December appearance in Atlanta was her last, her son said.
Hart had appeared for years on the popular game show "To Tell the Truth" as a celebrity panelist.
The entertainer was also an advocate for the arts, serving 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from the first President Bush.
Well known for her starring role as Rosa Castaldi in the 1935 movie "A Night at the Opera," her other film credits included: "She Loves Me Not" and "Here Is My Heart," both opposite Bing Crosby; Woody Allen's "Radio Days"; and "Six Degrees of Separation."
She began her acting career on Broadway in "Champagne Sec," and went on to appear in many other Broadway productions, including the 1984 revival of "On Your Toes."
She made her operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1967 in "Die Fledermaus," and created the role of Lucretia in the American premiere of Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia."
From 1956 to 1967, she appeared on the CBS prime-time game show "To Tell the Truth" with host Bud Collyer and fellow panelists such as Polly Bergen, Johnny Carson, Bill Cullen and Don Ameche. The show featured three contestants, all claiming to be the same person. The panelists asked them questions to determine which was telling the truth. (The popular show also had runs, sometimes including Carlisle, in daytime and in syndicated versions.)
Hart's late husband was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote
"You Can't Take It With You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" with George S. Kaufman and won a Tony for directing "My Fair Lady" on Broadway.
Carlisle's film career began in 1934; in "Murder at the Vanities," she sings "Cocktails for Two," a song later made famous in a spoof version by Spike Jones.
"A Night at the Opera" the following year was the Marx Brothers' sixth film and their first for MGM, where they shifted after their career at Paramount sagged at the box office. MGM's Irving Thalberg added more romance to the Marxes' formula, bringing in Carlisle and Allan Jones to play the young opera singers in love, and the film became a huge hit.
Elegant and sophisticated then, and now — with hair, makeup and dress perfectly in place — Hart has been called a "great dame."
In a piece on CBS "60 Minutes" in 2000, Marie Brenner, author of "Great Dames: What I Learned From Older Women," said: "A great dame is a soldier in high heels. ... They lived through the Depression. They lived through the war.
"They were tough, intelligent and brassy women," said Brenner, who described Hart as a great dame.
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Photographs of Gere, 57, embracing Shetty, 31, and kissing her on the cheek were splashed across front pages of newspapers Monday in India — a country where public displays of affection are largely taboo.
videotape of the incident by next week, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
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Richard Gere commits 'obscene act'
In his complaint, attorney Poonal Chandra Bhandari accused the actors of committing "an obscene act" in a public place, which India's conservative society cannot tolerate, Press Trust of India said.
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NEW DELHI — Three lawyers filed complaints in Indian courts against actor Richard Gere and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty for kissing at a public function, a news report said Wednesday.
Such cases against celebrities — often filed by publicity seekers — are common in conservative India. They add to a backlog of legal cases in the country that has nearly crippled the judicial system.
Two other lawyers filed another complaint in a court in Ghaziabad, a town on the outskirts of the Indian capital, against Shetty and private television channels for showing videos of the kissing incident, the
The complaints filed Tuesday came a day after angry crowds in several Indian cities burned effigies of Gere after he wrapped Shetty in his arms and kissed her several times on her cheeks during an AIDS awareness event in the Indian capital.
On Tuesday, Magistrate Dinesh Chandra Gupta, in the northwestern Indian city of Jaipur, ordered private television news channel NDTV to provide the original
news agency added.
Shetty tried to end the controversy by saying that the hug and the kiss were not obscene and that the public was overreacting.
On Wednesday, her representative, Dale Bhagwagar, declined comment on the court complaints but said Shetty was paying a price for being an international celebrity.
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