Columbus Day Parade
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Tabloid News
'American Media, Inc'
Editors and reporters scrambled Monday to put together next week's issues of The
National Enquirer, Globe and Star as investigators scoured the supermarket
tabloids' headquarters for evidence of anthrax.
The FBI closed American Media Inc.'s office in Boca Raton early Monday after the
bacterium was found in the nose of a co-worker of Bob Stevens, who died Friday
from the extremely rare inhaled form of anthrax.
Three of American Media's six tabloids - the Enquirer, Globe and Star - were
scheduled to go to press Monday, even as more than 200 employees lined up
outside a clinic in Delray Beach to be screened for anthrax. The company also
publishes the Sun, National Examiner and Weekly World News.
Editors were split between the company's accounting office in Delray Beach and
its office 40 miles to the south in downtown Miami, laying out pages and
arranging copy for issues scheduled to hit the newsstands Oct. 16.
In 1999, American Media, which already owned The National Enquirer, Star and
Weekly World News, bought Globe Communications Corp. for $105 million. The deal
gave American Media the rights to Globe, Sun and the National Examiner.
American Media
Guess who owns 'American Media, Inc.'?
It should be part of the story, but isn't.....
Entertainment News
Alex's Entertainment Report
Alex
The new Baywatch movie will have lifeguard Mitch Buchannon back from the dead - thanks to a whale. In
the final episode of the famous TV series Buchannon, played by David Hasselhoff, was killed in an
underwater explosion. But in the forthcoming movie, fans learn that Buchannon never actually died, instead
he was saved by a migrating whale who takes him to a desert island. Former cast members including Gena
Lee Nolin and Carmen Electra will resurface to visit Buchannon when he returns back to civilization.
`````
Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank helped rescue more than a dozen cats and dogs from apartments near
Ground Zero in the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center. The actress was at the Humane
Society in midtown, where she had taken two of her dogs to see the vet, when the calls started coming in
for help. One was from Howard and Carol Claybo whose 2-year-old labrador Lola had been trapped for
almost four days in their apartment building near the World Trade Centre, after security personnel sealed
off the area. Swank quickly arrived at the scene and talked her way past police barricades. Then she
strapped on a gas mask and trudged up 31 flights to rescue the dog. Howard Claybo says, "It was really
way beyond the call of duty."
`````
Movie star Val Kilmer has turned his ranch in New Mexico into a park for lost bears. Kilmer has teamed
up with America's The Wildlife Center Inc. to care for injured bears and he has provided the group with
space on his land to set up an overspill refuge. And Kilmer is now looking at projects to raise funds for the
organization. He says, "It's the most satisfying thing I've been able to use my land for."
`````
A major media buyer has acknowledged that some of its clients asked that their spots be pulled from
Tuesday night's Dateline NBC, which recounted the events aboard United Flight 93 that went down in
Pennsylvania on Sept. 11. Kris Magel, an executive with Optimedia, told today's (Friday) Wall Street
Journal that some advertisers are "wary of news programming that could touch on tragedy. ... If you have a
funny ad, you don't want to be in Dateline after someone speaks about the loss of a husband."
`````
C-SPAN chief Brian Lamb has sharply criticized the U.S. Capitol Police and Senate officials for imposing a
news blackout Tuesday after 98-year-old Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina fell ill on the Senate
floor. Lamb told the Washington daily Roll Call that the incident demonstrated why Congress should not
be able to control the images of what occurs on the floor. "We never like the fact that the Senate and the
House sets this thing up to protect their own," Lamb remarked. "It is very uncomfortable when something
like this happens." The A.P.'s Curt Anderson, chairman of the Daily Gallery's Standing Committee of
Correspondents was more blunt, telling Roll Call: "It concerns me when you have a potentially huge news
story unfold on the floor of the Senate and the press has no access." Thurmond was treated for dehydration
and returned to work the following day.
~~ Alex
Alex's Site
Glamour Magazine Interview
Condoleezza Rice
Because of current events, the members of President Bush's cabinet are in the spotlight.
But there's still an awful lot the public has to learn about National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who, for some reason, gave these "Five Things You
Don't Know About Me" to the next issue of Glamour:
1. "Foreign policy wasn't always my goal. I'd studied to be a pianist, but
realized that I'd likely end up playing at a piano bar rather than Carnegie Hall."
2. "I love to shop. On a Sunday, don't be surprised if you see me at one of the
malls in Washington, D.C."
3. "My dream job is to be NFL commissioner. I love football, especially the
Cleveland Browns."
4. "I can sleep almost anywhere. Once I was even able to catnap while flying
over Israel's Gaza Strip in a helicopter manned with machine guns."
5. "I do have a life. Informing the President about national security is a big
responsibility, but I do manage to see friends and family."
Condi Speaks
Koresh, Glamour Magazine is not exactly where I would expect to read an interview
with a real National Security Adviser, let alone one who wants to be football
commissioner someday...
BartCop TV!
Visit the site at BC TV
The 'Vidiot' never seems to rest!
Every show on TV must be listed--days worth of reading there.
For an amazing variety of information on an astounding array of tv programs check out
BC TV!
Singing For Lunch
Liza At The White House
Liza Minelli performs at the White House as part of a Columbus Day celebration
October 8, 2001. Minelli sang two songs during her performance, finishing with
"New York, New York."
Photo by Win McNamee
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/bush/columbus/day/20011008/wasw114d?r=/photo/topic/disaster
Is it just me, or does she look like she's channeling her mother?
Another Fund Raiser
"United We Stand"
Rock 'n' roll luminaries including Mick Jagger, Aerosmith and Kiss will perform
at an eight-hour concert in Washington D.C. on Oct. 21 to raise funds for
victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, organizers said on Monday.
Also in the line-up are pop stars Michael Jackson, Ricky Martin and Aaron
Carter, soul icons James Brown and Rev. Al Green, and rival boy-bands 'N Sync
and Backstreet Boys, promoter Clear Channel Entertainment said in a statement.
Clear Channel spokeswoman Rachel Gary said about 18 to 20 acts would perform.
Additions will be announced when details are confirmed, she said.
The ``United We Stand'' concert will take place at RFK Stadium, beginning at
noon EST. Tickets go on sale Oct. 12. Ticket prices will be announced in a few
days, Gary said.
All money raised from will benefit the American Red Cross Relief Fund, the
Pentagon Relief Fund and The Salvation Army Relief Fund.
Jagger, who has a solo album due in stores on Nov. 13, will have a busy weekend.
The day before, he will perform at the ''Concert for the Americas'' at Madison
Square Garden in New York City, another fundraiser. Also on that bill are fellow
British rock legends Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and the Who, as well as James
Taylor, Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp, Goo Goo Dolls, Macy Gray and Melissa Etheridge.
"United We Stand"
New! Updated!
BartCop Astrology
Check it out at BC Astrology.
"Guitar Greats" is still on hiatus, but, this week, it's a look at 'The Birth of
Aviation', and a relevant USA horoscope courtesy of Marc Penfield.
Very interesting reading!
Picking Up Where BC Left Off...
"Boondocks" (5 Oct01)
Cancelled Or Postponed?
The Emmy Awards
Hollywood tradition dictates the show must go on -- but the television community
now seems poised to throw in the towel on the 53rd annual Emmy Awards.
After two postponements, trying to mount any sort of full-scale kudocast at a
time when world events are changing by the minute would likely be an exercise in
futility, most industry insiders said Sunday. The common consensus: This year's
Emmys were probably never meant to be.
Some industry insiders are already suggesting there could be a middle ground
between going forward with a full-scale Emmys and killing the event completely.
Others think CBS might do well to take the already prepared video packages
saluting the heroes of Sept. 11 and intersperse them with clips of the winning
shows to create a sort of mini-Emmys, free of any pomp or circumstance.
A final decision is expected within the next 72 hours.
Making 2001 the year without an Emmys would have serious financial consequences.
On top of all the coin already lost forever due to the dual
postponements -- think security costs, catering, setting up the
Shrine -- canceling the kudocast for good would likely deny the academy and CBS
another big chunk of money.
CBS has already paid the academy a license fee of close to $4 million; it's
unclear whether CBS would want its money back should the show not go on. CBS'
insurance may cover the amount.
Some are already suggesting that CBS automatically get the rights to next year's
Emmys -- though that wouldn't help the academy.
International broadcast outlets, meanwhile, would almost certainly want a refund
if the kudos are never handed out.
There's also the question of whether the 3,000 or so people who bought tickets
to the kudocast and the post-show Unity dinner would ask for refunds. Each event
is priced at up to $600 per person, bringing the academy several million in
revenues. Academy reps hope many execs, thesps and producers will agree to
support the organization by not asking for their money back.
Choosing to reschedule the Emmys would incur costs of its own, however, for
other parts of the TV community. Assuming limo companies and security guards
don't offer refunds for services scheduled to be rendered Sunday, studios,
networks and the academy would have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars
again on those same services.
If CBS and the academy go ahead with the kudos, some suggest the event wouldn't
take place until November -- or possibly even January. That's because it seems
hard to believe many execs or thesps would be willing to once again go through
another day like Sunday -- with the year's biggest TV event canceled just five
hours before it was set to begin.
Emmys - Cancelled or Postponed?
Reversal Of Roles?
Scripting Scenarios?
In a reversal of roles, government intelligence specialists have been secretly
soliciting terrorist scenarios from top Hollywood filmmakers and writers.
An ad hoc working group convened at the University of Southern California just
last week at the behest of the U.S. Army. The goal was to brainstorm about
possible terrorist targets and schemes in America and to offer solutions to
those threats, in light of the aerial assaults on the Pentagon and the World
Trade Center.
Among those in the working group based at USC's Institute for Creative
Technology (ICT) are those with obvious connections to the terrorist pic
milieu, like ``Die Hard'' Steven E. De Souza, TV writer David
Engelbach (``MacGyver'') and helmer Joseph Zito, who directed the features
``Delta Force One,'' ``Missing in Action'' and ``The Abduction.''
But the list also includes more mainstream suspense helmers like David
Fincher (``Fight Club''), Spike Jonze (``Being John Malkovich''), Randal
Kleiser (``Grease'') and Mary Lambert (``The In Crowd'') as well as feature
screenwriters Paul De Meo and Danny Bilson (``The Rocketeer'').
In August 1999, the Army awarded USC a five-year contract to create the
Institute for Creative Technologies with a mandate to enlist the resources and
talents of the entertainment industry, videogame-makers and computer scientists
to advance the state of ``immersive,'' or virtual reality, training simulation
for soldiers.
Scripting Scenarios?
What's Up 60%?
Dave's Ratings!
Ratings for "Late Show" have swelled about 60 percent over last year in the wake
of David Letterman's tearful return six days after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
But "Late Show" officials say ratings - good or bad - are not exactly on their
minds right now.
"Ratings have never seemed less important to us right now," said "Late Show"
executive producer Rob Burnett.
"It's something you always have to focus on a little bit if you have a TV show,
but at the moment the ratings seem even more trivial than they usually do as a topic."
All the late-night shows took about a week off following the attacks. And each
subsequently faced the daunting task of figuring out when it would be OK to add
jokes to their shows.
"The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, "Late Night" with Conan O'Brien and "The Late
Late Show" with Craig Kilborn all returned the night after Letterman, on Sept. 18.
But Letterman's ratings have been skyrocketing the most ever since.
"It is a lot of flying by the seat of your pants," Burnett said. "Every day
feels different from the day before. Every week feels different from the week before.
"It doesn't surprise me that Dave is the person people watch to set the agenda
of how these shows are to be done.
"The furthest thing from any of our minds was how the numbers would be
affected," Burnett said. "It's just not the focus for us right now. I think the
focus continues to be how to navigate through this odd time in comedy.
"There's no one's judgment that I trust more than Dave's," Burnett said. "He
always has this enormous sense of what to do and how to do it.
"That's mostly what the conversations are, what kind of material feels right to
be doing," he said.
Dave Letterman's Ratings
New!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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In The Kitchen With BartCop
Philanthropical Donation
Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson, the king of late night, is shown in this May 22, 1992, file photo
at the close of the Tonight Show after 30 years on the air.
Carson told officials at the Elkhorn Valley Museum and Research Center in
Norfolk, Neb., that he will donate several Emmy awards, magazine covers and
other awards and memorabilia for a permanent display honoring himself. Since his
retirement, Carson, a Norfolk native, has donated millions of dollars to the
city and area projects.
Johnny Carson
Update
Joan Rivers
Maybe she was just being extra peevish because she was dropped from the Emmy
Awards ceremony (set for last night before it was canceled), but comedienne Joan
Rivers is now the center of a firestorm of criticism over the cruel wisecracks
she made last week about her former fiancé Orin Lehman.
As you read in Page Six on Friday, Rivers went on Howard Stern's radio show and
ranted about octogenerian Orin and the company he's now keeping. ("Two old Euro
hookers," she called the prominent women in question.)
"It's disgusting that she could attack a war hero and great New Yorker like
Orin," a close family friend tells me. "As for her claim that she dumped him - I
tell you, Rivers would have walked down Fifth Avenue naked if it would have got
him to marry her."
Joan Rivers
Final Tribute
Mark Bingham
Gay activists not usually inclined to cheer for Republicans applauded when
Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani hailed Mark Bingham, the openly gay p.r.
executive who helped thwart the terror hijackers who tried to crash a plane into
Washington. Both Pataki and Giuliani, who were featured speakers at the Empire
State Pride Agenda's benefit dinner Thursday night at the New York Sheraton,
hailed Bingham as a hero for rushing the terrorists who hijacked United Airlines
Flight 93, causing the jet to crash into a Pennsylvania field.
The gala dinner, hosted by Marlo Thomas, marked the 10th anniversary of the
Empire State Pride Agenda, a statewide lobbying group dedicated to ending
anti-gay discrimination. The thunderous applause that accompanied the mention of
Bingham's name was only matched when a group of gay firefighters, cops
and E.M.S. workers took a bow at the dais.
Bingham, a muscular, 6-foot-5 rugby player, was among a group of passengers who
thwarted the terrorist scheme that would have made the events of Sept. 11 even
more nightmarish.
Bingham, 31, has become something of a gay icon since his death. Sen. John
McCain eulogized him at his funeral in San Francisco on Sept. 22, saying
Bingham "grasped the gravity of the moment, understood the threat, and decided
to fight back at the cost of his life." There is already talk of erecting a
statue of Bingham in the Bay Area.
Bingham, who owned a p.r. company, The Bingham Group, with offices in San
Francisco and New York, called his mother, Alice Hoglan, 50 minutes after
Flight 93 took off from Newark to San Francisco and told her the plane had been
hijacked. Bingham and three or four other passengers took on the hijackers
at 35,000 feet.
It's a good bet that Bingham made the terrorists know pain. A national
championship rugby player when he was an undergaduate at Berkeley, Bingham more
recently played for the San Francisco Fog, a gay rugby team. "I finally felt
accepted as a gay man and a rugby player," he told a friend. "My two
irreconcilable worlds came together."
Mark Bingham
"For All Practical Purposes"
rush
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who commands an audience of 22
million listeners a week, veered away Monday from discussion of the U.S. air
strikes on Afghanistan to drop a bombshell of his own -- telling his audience
he has lost his hearing and may never regain it.
``I am, for all practical purposes, deaf,'' Limbaugh, 50, said, although he
vowed to continue working. ``I have lost my ability to hear. I have not yet lost
my ability to communicate,'' he said.
He said his hearing has continued to deteriorate since May when he discovered he
heard nothing in his left ear. Limbaugh said he was exploring surgical
procedures and other measures to restore or retain what's left of his hearing.
While many listeners and radio industry executives had noticed something was
amiss and that Limbaugh was sounding different as of late, most had not
suspected deafness.
``Something seemed a little different in his speech pattern,'' said Phil Boyce,
program director for WABC-AM in New York, who has worked with the Florida-based Limbaugh.
Boyce said he believed that calls into the show were being transcribed onto a
teleprompter for Limbaugh to read.
rush
Music News
Melissa Etheridge
Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge gave a rare acoustic performance as part of
the annual ``Bite of Las Vegas.''
She opened with Woody Guthrie's ``This Land is Your Land'' and played several
hits from earlier albums as well as her current single, ``I Want to be in
Love,'' from her latest release, ``Skin.''
Etheridge said her best memory of Las Vegas was the opening of the Hard Rock
hotel-casino in 1995 because ``they brought in a bunch of celebrities.''
Staying at the trendy Mandalay Bay hotel-casino, Etheridge said she hadn't had a
chance to visit the resort's spa.
``I've been too busy gambling and smoking,'' she said.
Melissa Etheridge
When Is A Lie Not A Lie?
Clarence Thomas
A biography of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas contends he discussed the
Roe v. Wade abortion decision with at least three people before his confirmation
hearings, even though he told a Senate committee he had not.
Under Senate questioning in 1991, Thomas said he had never debated the contents
or outcome of the 1973 Supreme Court decision that found a constitutional right
to abortion, and had no personal opinion about it.
``Clarence Thomas, a Biography'' by Andrew Peyton Thomas, includes interviews
with three people who say Clarence Thomas discussed the case in varying detail
in conversations in the mid-1970s through the 1980s.
While working for the Reagan administration in Washington in the 1980s,
according to the book, Thomas talked about the case with then-Assistant Attorney
General William Bradford Reynolds, and with a friend, Armstrong Williams, who
went on to become a conservative commentator and radio host.
``I know we discussed it. I think that he thought little of Roe v. Wade,''
Reynolds is quoted as saying. While Thomas did not state his views as forcefully
as Reynolds, who said he found the decision ``constitutionally bankrupt,'' it
was clear from their conversations that Thomas took a dim view of the decision
on constitutional grounds, Reynolds said.
Williams said both Thomas and he opposed the decision.
``He would also talk about where the Supreme Court ... erred on some of these
decisions,'' Williams said in the book. ``He thought they weren't interpreting
the Constitution but trying to make law.''
A spokeswoman for the high court said Justice Thomas would have no comment on
the unauthorized biography.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices O'Connor, Thomas, Breyer and
Antonin Scalia attended President Bush's Sept. 20 address to a joint session of
Congress, and departed from the court's tradition by applauding at some points.
Thomas Biography
Music News
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan and his band opened a 35-city national tour in the Pacific Northwest
with a blend of vintage protest songs, his own classics and work from a new album.
They opened with a rollicking, bluegrass ``Wait for the Light to Shine'' at
shows Friday in Spokane and Saturday in Seattle.
The singer-songwriter - who has managed to articulate the experience of at least
one generation - delighted his audience in Seattle with occasional dance steps
and a wave of his cowboy hat as he left the stage after a two-hour set.
He next stops in Medford, Ore., on Tuesday. He and the band then swing south and
east, wrapping up Nov. 24 in Boston.
Dylan's Tour
"Q" Does Shakespeare
John de Lancie
John de Lancie went from playing Q on ``Star Trek: The Next Generation'' to
reconstructing a musical version of Shakespeare's ``A Midsummer Night's Dream''
for the Pasadena Symphony.
``I sat for hours reconciling the loose pages of music by Erich Wolfgang
Korngold and the script I had written,'' de Lancie said Sunday. ``It was very
labor intensive and fascinating for someone who isn't a trained musician.''
De Lancie is credited as the artistic director, writing the script for the
Oct. 20 performance that includes the orchestra, two choirs, soloists and
dancers. It also features actor Kurtwood Smith, the loving but square dad in
Fox's ``That '70s Show,'' who will play Bottom, the weaver.
``Our goal has been to invigorate the concert hall with 'A Midsummer Night's
Dream' in a manner that's multidimensional and accessible to a diverse
audience,'' de Lancie said. ``We want to attract people who may not normally
attend symphonic concerts.''
John de Lancie Does Shakespeare
SAG Elections Heating Up
It's 'Rhoda' vs. 'Short Stuff'
SAG Election
Heating Up
Melissa Gilbert
Valerie Harper
The lingering shock of Sept. 11's attacks gave even hard-core activists pause
for a few weeks. But with voting beginning Oct. 12, mudslinging started again
last week between supporters of presidential aspirants Melissa Gilbert and
Valerie Harper.
In terms of recognition, it's a draw, with Harper best known as the wisecracking
sidekick on ``The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' and later as star of offshoot
``Rhoda'' and Gilbert as the adorable Laura Ingalls Wilder on ``Little House on
the Prairie.''
This is also the first time that the two leading candidates for the presidency
have been women. The union has had only two female presidents in its 68
years -- Patty Duke and Kathleen Nolan.
For the 98,000 SAG members, the election offers a referendum on the regime of
outgoing president William Daniels -- with Harper promising more of the same and
Gilbert knocking it at every opportunity.
Harper, who has an 18-member slate, is viewed as the favorite due to an
endorsement from Daniels and her first-place finish last year among 74 Hollywood
board candidates. She has taken a diplomatic tone, calling her campaign Actors
Moving Forward, while continuing to perform on Broadway in ``The Tale of the
Allergist's Wife.''
``It's been sort of the best and worst of times in New York because the reality
of what happened Sept. 11 is still really with us,'' Harper said. ``And I would
like very much to see the long-standing New York-Los Angeles animosity
dissipated because it hurts no one but ourselves. It makes us look ridiculous.''
Gilbert has taken a decidedly feisty tone, calling her campaign Restoring
Respect. She's declared, ``The guild's failures regarding runaway production and
nonpayment of residuals are symptomatic of a deeper problem: the leadership's
lack of respect for members, for SAG employees, for our allies and for
professionalism.''
Here are key issues that have emerged this fall:
- Runaway production to cheaper locales like Canada and Australia:
Harper backs countervailing tariffs;
Gilbert has opposed them.
- Talent agents, whose operations are regulated by SAG:
Gilbert favors deregulation;
Harper opposes it.
- Participation in last year's bitter six-month strike against advertisers:
Harper showed up at dozens of events;
Gilbert has been blasted for not participating.
- Streamlining the 107-member board:
Harper is for it;
Gilbert says more time is needed.
Ballots for the election will be mailed to SAG members on October 12. The
deadline for the return of ballots is October 31. Results will be announced
November 5.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011007/en/industry-actors_1.html
Valerie Harper's site is Valerie Harper
Melissa Gilbert's site is Melissa Gilbert
First Person Diary
Ray Berry
Ray has temporarily (I hope), suspended 'Bush-Toons'. In its place, he has put
his daily diary of life in Manhattan since Tuesday.
Ray has great observational abilities, and a wonderful way with words.
To visit & read, www.bush-toons.com
Sad News
Tom Laughlin
Brawny actor Tom Laughlin, best known as the karate-kicking rebel from the
``Billy Jack'' cult movies, has been diagnosed with cancer that is inoperable
because of a heart condition.
The 72-year-old star of the 1970s-era action-thrillers ``Billy Jack'' and ``The
Trial of Billy Jack'' plans to visit clinics in Florida, Texas and Boston to
seek alternate treatments for the cancer at the base of his tongue.
``It's a real mystery because he doesn't smoke or drink or do anything that
would have caused this,'' family friend and spokeswoman Layne Wilson said Friday.
Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center told the actor they could not operate on
the cancer because he has a serious heart condition that makes surgery too risky.
The actor who played the half-Indian vigilante in the Billy Jack films lives
near Santa Barbara with his wife and frequent co-star, Delores Taylor.
Tom Laughlin
In Memory
Will Counts
Will Counts, whose photograph of a white crowd jeering a black girl captured the
drama of the 1957 Little Rock, Ark., desegregation crisis, died of cancer. He
was 70.
Counts, who died Saturday, taught photojournalism at Indiana University for 32
years, retiring in 1995. He had lived in Bloomington since 1960.
Before turning to teaching, Counts worked as a photographer-editor for the
Arkansas Democrat in Little Rock, Ark., and for The Associated Press in Chicago
and Indianapolis.
He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for photographs he took during the
September 1957 desegregation battle at Little Rock's Central High School.
Despite a court order, Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus ordered the National Guard
in to prevent black students from entering. Faubus' action prompted President
Eisenhower to dispatch federal troops to desegregate the school.
One of the photos showed a 15-year-old black student, Elizabeth Eckford, outside
the school with a crowd jeering in her wake. It was named by The Associated
Press as one of the top 100 photographs of the 20th century.
Counts' work is contained in books including ``The Magnificent 92: Indiana
Courthouses,'' and ``A Life is More Than a Moment: The Desegregation of Little
Rock's Central High.''
Counts earned an education degree at Arkansas State Teachers College and later
earned master's and doctoral degrees from IU.
Survivors include his wife, Vivian; his daughter, Claudia Counts, former
Associated Press enterprise photo editor; a son, Wyatt Counts; a stepdaughter,
Katie Lattimer; and a stepson, Bob McRae.
Will Counts
In Memory
Dougie Millings
Dougie Millings, the tailor who helped create the Beatles' famous collarless
suit, has died. He was 88.
In the 1960s, Millings' workshop in London's bohemian Soho district outfitted a
stream of celebrities including the Beatles, Warren Beatty and Sammy Davis
Jr. - as well as more prosaic civil servants and diplomats.
His Soho shop adjoined a coffee bar frequented by Britain's first generation of
rock stars, including Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele and Adam Faith. His suits soon
became fashionable with musicians, and in 1963 Beatles manager Brian Epstein
asked Millings if he could create ``something different'' for the Liverpool foursome.
Millings recalled that he'd sketched a picture of a round-collared suit he'd
been experimenting with, ``and that was that.''
Millings crafted the wardrobe for the Beatles' first U.S. tour in 1964 and went
on to make some 500 outfits for the band. After the Beatles' demise, he made
fashions for Paul McCartney's band Wings, including those worn on the cover of
the ``Band on the Run'' album.
He is survived by his wife, Lilian; a daughter and a son, Gordon, who continues
to operate the family tailoring business.
Dougie Millings
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
