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Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
June 18, 2002
President George W. Bush announced a "new doctrine" according to which
the United States will permit itself to launch preemptive attacks on
countries and organizations that have or might have weapons of mass
destruction.
Bush Administration officials were reportedly annoyed
with Attorney General John Ashcroft for overstating the "dirty bomb"
angle in the arrest of Jose Padilla, who was demoted from "potential
bomber" to "scout" in a matter of days. President Bush said that
Padilla was "a bad guy and he is where he needs to be detained."
Justice Department officials said that they decided to hold Padilla as
an "enemy combatant," because they don't have enough evidence to
charge him with an actual crime, but said they would not try him
before a military tribunal, because he is an American citizen. One
official remarked that "he's going to stay in the can until we're
through with Al Qaeda."
Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense,
told American sailors in Bahrain that Saddam Hussein is a "world-class
liar" who already has chemical weapons and could soon have nuclear and
biological weapons, too.
A car bomb blew up outside the American
consulate in Karachi, Pakistan; at least 11 people, none of whom were
Americans, died.
Rumsfeld, who said that he had "seen indications"
that Al Qaeda is operating in Pakistan, recently mused that "there are
no knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known
unknowns, that is to say there are things we now know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't
know." He also noted that "the absence of evidence is not evidence of
absence."
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
--Roger D. Hodge
'Virtual Slave Labor'
Tulsa, OK
From JD
< snip>
''A recent example comes straight from the American heartland -- Tulsa, Oklahoma -- where 53 Indian men spent months working under conditions that their attorneys
have called "virtual slave labor." Their employer was the John Pickle Company, a manufacturer of oil pipelines and pressure vessels on the desolate western limits of town... ''
Virtual Slave Labor for Indian Workers at Oklahoma Pickle Plant
~~ JD
Thanks, again, JD!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Today was traumatic. Tossed 2 turkeys & a ham from the defrosted freezer from hell. The cumulative guilt of nuns long dead, and the sin of wastefulness are nagging at me. ; )
Mo-the-lizard is nearly back to what passed for normal, and her appetite has moved up a notch. Going to have to buy more crickets...LOL
A few years back, we drove cross-county. If there's a 'vacation' this year, looks like we'll drive to somewhere near Albuquerque and then head west, taking 3 to 5 days.
There will also be the break in October for JulieFestWest.
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II', and follows with the movie 'Deep In My Heart'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Lauren Ambrose and Moby.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Jackie Collins, Morris Chestnut and Ralphie May.
NBC has reruns of 'Ed', 'The West Wing', and 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Jamie Lee Curtis, Matthew Lillard and Alanis Morissette.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan is Elvis Costello.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Lil' Kim and Wyclef Jean.
ABC starts the evening with 3 reruns - 'My Wife & Kids', 'Jim', and 'Drew Carey'. Then it's a fresh (but, overly maligned) 'My Adventures In Television', followed by a fresh 'State v. ' with Cynthia McFadden.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Jay Thomas (comedian), Dennis Miller (comedian), Monica Crowley (Faux News Commentator), and Scott Ritter (Faux News Military Analyst).
The WB has 2 reruns of 'Dawson's Creek'.
Faux starts the night with reruns - 'Simpsons', 'Grounded For Life', and 'Bernie Mac'. Then, there's a 30-minute version of 'American Idol: Search For A Superstar'.
UPN has the weekly rerun of 'Enterprise', followed by a rerun 'Wolf Lake' (which has such a wonderful cast).
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Or reviews?
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Stonewalls on Deep Throat ID
John Dean
Thirty years and a day after the break-in at the Watergate complex that would bring down a president, former White House counsel John Dean called a press
conference to reveal who Deep Throat was - then stonewalled.
The fact that he didn't really know was announced in advance, but it didn't stop 200 people, mostly journalists and political junkies, from converging on
a free lunch Tuesday to hear him say it.
Dean's latest Deep Throat theory was to be published this 30th anniversary week in a 40,000-word e-book by the online magazine Salon.com. But at the last minute,
he said, denials from his choice suspects were so strong as to force a postponement.
Among those present Tuesday was former Sen. George McGovern, the South Dakota Democrat who ran against Nixon in 1972 on a platform to end the Vietnam War and lost in a landslide.
He said he didn't have any idea who Deep Throat was, nor did he bear any grudges over losing the election to a president who would be forced from office by Watergate two years later.
"Too much time has passed to carry any anger," said McGovern, who turns 80 next month.
But he appeared on the verge of tears when Dean, recalling two conversations he had with McGovern after the Watergate scandal, said, "I decided I was talking
to a more presidential person than the one I had just left the service of."
John Dean
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Named Anchor of ABC's 'This Week'
George 'Judas' Stephanopoulos
Former Clinton White House aide George 'Judas' Stephanopoulos will take over as anchor of the Sunday morning public affairs show "This Week" starting in September, ABC News announced on Tuesday.
Stephanopoulos, 41, who joined ABC News in 1997 as a political analyst for "This Week," will replace current co-hosts Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. Terms of his contract with the Walt Disney Co.-owned
network were not disclosed.
The move, which was widely expected, returns "This Week" to a single-moderator format for the first time since Donaldson and Roberts replaced David Brinkley after he retired in 1996.
Stephanopoulos said as host he would "build on the base" created by his predecessors, with weekly newsmaker interviews and round-table discussions featuring veteran columnist and commentator George Will.
Roberts will remain with ABC News as an on-air commentator. She also is a senior news analyst with National Public Radio.
The 68-year-old Donaldson, a 35-year ABC News veteran who has covered three U.S. presidents as White House correspondent, will remain with the network as a reporter
and substitute anchor for "Nightline" and contribute to ABC's prime-time news magazines. He also will continue to anchor his nationally syndicated daily radio program, "Live in America."
George 'Judas' Stephanopoulos
Rhino Co-Founder Going Retro Again
Richard Foos
Richard Foos, who created Rhino Records with Harold Bronson and revolutionized the use of music catalogs in the 1980s and '90s, is raising a new banner, Retropolis Entertainment,
with former Rhino and Warner Music Group executive Robert Emmer.
Retropolis, currently a two-man operation, is being structured in a manner similar to Rhino before its acquisition by Warner Music in late 1998: the label will acquire and license
catalogs to release single and multiple artist compilations as well as decades-old albums that have never been properly done on CD.
"This is a time of great opportunity," Foos said. "We started Rhino when the music business was slumping (in 1978), and there's a slump now. There's still a market of baby boomers that are underserved."
The duo's first project is "Red, White and Rock," a multidisc set related to an eponymous PBS special that was shot in Pittsburgh by WQED. The disc features original recordings by
the acts appearing in the special, among them Tommy James and the Shondells, Jerry Butler, and the Shirelles, as well as other '50s and '60s hits by American artists. Retropolis also
has the rights to the DVD of the concert. Initially, the CD set will be available only through PBS pledge drives; it will then hit retail as part of a tiered marketing approach.
Foos said the new company is in negotiations with four of the five majors for a distribution deal and a possible alliance structure that could allow Retropolis to handle a label's
reissue projects, much as Rhino did with Atlantic in the 1980s and '90s.
Richard Foos
Entered Hospital
Bobby Brown
Singer Bobby Brown entered a Virginia hospital Tuesday for treatment of an infection, a family spokeswoman said.
Brown, 33, was traveling with wife Whitney Houston in their tour bus when they stopped at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, said
Nancy Seltzer, a Los Angeles publicist.
Seltzer said Brown had a fever, but she said she did not inquire about the nature of the infection.
Brown was being treated intravenously with an antibiotic and would be kept at the hospital overnight.
At the time, Brown and Houston were traveling from Atlanta, where Houston was recording an album, to their home in New Jersey, Seltzer said.
Bobby Brown
To Play King Kamehameha
'The Rock'
He played an ancient warrior in the action film "The Scorpion King," and now The Rock says he wants to play Hawaii's most famous warrior-king, Kamehameha the Great.
A movie about the warrior who united the islands into the Kingdom of Hawaii would be the first feature film based on the life of a Hawaiian king.
The World Wrestling Entertainment star, also known as Dwayne Johnson, said last week that he's working on a deal to play King Kamehameha, who ruled from 1795 to 1819.
"Sony Pictures has just purchased the rights and (the project) will be in development for myself to play King Kamehameha in a movie based on his life," he said.
'The Rock'
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Will Not Seek Reelection
Jesse Ventura
Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, the maverick former professional wrestler whose 1998 election stunned the political establishment, announced on Tuesday he would not seek a second term.
"I'm like Che Guevara: My job is to lead the revolution and then hand it off to someone else," the 50-year-old former Navy SEAL told Minnesota Public Radio. "I feel it's time to go back to the private sector."
On the day he announced his decision there was a new controversy boiling on the sidelines. The Minneapolis Star Tribune had reported that Ventura's 22-year-old son, Tyrel,
had been using the governor's official residence for parties without his parents' knowledge, angering staff who complained about having to clean up.
He was reported to be still weighing his options on a second term as recently as March while on a trip to Germany. But in remarks made then, Ventura said U.S. career politicians
were "more interested in self-service than public service."
While Ventura was elected on a Reform Party ticket, he later said the party founded by Ross Perot had become "dysfunctional."
Jesse Ventura
Cutting Back, Way Back
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is quickly becoming the Johnny Carson of daytime TV - taking more and more time off from her daily show as it winds down.
Winfrey, who's ending "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2006, will do only 29 weeks of original shows - down from 37 - for each of the next two seasons, according to
Broadcasting & Cable magazine.
After that, she will cut back her on-air time even more drastically -working only 20 weeks in the '04-'05 season and a measly 15 weeks in the final season ('05-'06).
Her show, however, is sold in 90 percent of the U.S. during those last two seasons, according to B&C.
Oprah Winfrey
Unpaid Advocates & Goodwill Ambassadors
United Nations
Film star Angelina Jolie said working with the United Nations on refugees "changed my life," singer Harry Belafonte spoke about the "power of our adversaries" and
Irish politician Mary Banotti warned Washington of the "dreadful tragedy" of unsafe abortions.
Lending some glamour to the United Nations, more than 40 Hollywood stars, athletes, writers and other public figures, gathered Tuesday to discuss how they used their
names to fight poverty, AIDS and war.
All are unpaid advocates for the world body. Some, like writer Elie Wiesel, were chosen by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as a peace messenger
for the United Nations as a whole. Most others are "goodwill ambassadors" for U.N. agencies on refugees, development, population, children and AIDS.
The celebrities last met in October 2000 when they talked about the rewards of using their fame to promote key U.N. causes as well as their frustrations with the U.N.
bureaucracy. This time frank exchanges took place behind closed doors after opening speeches.
But both Belafonte and Banotti, a prominent Irish politician and member of the European Parliament, pointed to the conservative policies of the Bush administration.
Belafonte noted the United States was the only country in the world that had not ratified a landmark children's rights convention.
"Perhaps it's not that we are not doing a good enough job, but that we underestimate the evil will of our adversaries," he said.
For a lot more, United Nations
In Toronto
Cher
Pop-Sängerin Cher zeigte sich bei ihrem Konzert im kanadischen Toronto am Freitag leicht bekleidet dem Publikum.
Foto: Mike Cassese
NASCAR Movie Next
Britney Spears
Pop princess Britney Spears is moving full speed ahead with her movie career, signing a deal with NASCAR to star in a feature film set in the world
of stock car racing, NASCAR officials said on Monday.
Writing and planning for the as yet untitled movie is still in its early stages but Spears is expected to play the fictional daughter of a successful
NASCAR team owner who inspires a former driver to return to the sport.
Spears, who made a respectable screen acting debut in February in the girl road and friendship movie "Crossroads", has formed her own production
company -- Britney Spears Productions -- to develop and produce the project.
NASCAR (National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing) is the second-highest rated sport on U.S. television with a 75-million-strong fan base,
particularly in the southern United States. The movie will feature real NASCAR drivers, tracks and competition.
Britney Spears
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
'Mouth Of The South'
Ted Turner
Outspoken media mogul Ted Turner was quoted Tuesday as saying Israel was engaged in "terrorism" against the Palestinians that could be compared to the suicide bomber attacks on Israelis.
Right now, aren't the Israelis and the Palestinians both terrorizing each other?" the 63-year-old billionaire founder of 24-hour news network CNN said in an interview with the Guardian newspaper.
"The rich and the powerful, they don't need to resort to terrorism ... The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers -- that's all they have.
"The Israelis...they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make the case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
At least 1,401 Palestinians and 511 Israelis have been killed since the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation began in September 2000 after peace talks stalled.
Ted Turner
Alicia Keys
Roberta Flack
Soul legend Roberta Flack kept her eye on the door during her sold-out show at the Blue Note this weekend, and between songs asked, "Where's my girl? Where's Miss 'You Can Buy Me Diamonds'?"
Flack was referring to Alicia Keys, who had reserved a table for six (including her pal Justin Timberlake) and wanted to join Flack in a couple of songs.
Toward the end of the set, Flack seemed to get annoyed but remained hopeful. "I'm getting mad. I'll just have to keep singing till my girl gets here."
But the young R&B star never arrived. Instead, the crowd sang along to the 1973 hit "Killing Me Softly."
Roberta & Alicia
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In Australia
Carpet Snake
Snake handler Peter Morningstar has his brow bitten by a 7 kilogram (15.5 pound), 3 meter (10 feet) long carpet snake during a photo shoot for a newspaper in Brisbane,
Australia, Thursday, May 30, 2002, after Morningstar removed the snake from a roof of a house. Reptile lover Morningstar has been bitten by non-venomous snakes before
and this time the snake bit off more than it could chew leaving only small puncture marks on Morningstar's face.
Photo by Ric Frearson
Keeping Hopes for Reunion Alive
Grateful Dead
Former members of the Grateful Dead are keeping alive plans for a reunion this summer.
Promoter Clear Channel Entertainment has appealed a Walworth County highway committee's decision to deny it a permit. The committee said last week that Alpine Valley Music Theatre and the East Troy area could not handle the enormous crowd expected for the Aug. 3-4 concert.
The event was expected to draw 200,000 fans, but only 35,000 are allowed at Alpine Valley, said Odell R. Gigante, chairman of the highway committee.
Meanwhile, band members say they're looking for other venues in the region.
The sold-out "Terrapin Station — A Grateful Dead Family Reunion" would be the first time Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir have staged a
concert together since the 1995 death of Jerry Garcia, the Dead's leader and founder. The four surviving members played together unannounced in the San Francisco area in 1998 and in January.
John Kunz, executive director of Clear Channel, which operates Alpine Valley, did not immediately return calls Monday. He has said the company may be able to
resolve some of the committee's issues.
Grateful Dead
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'The Greatest Game Ever Played'
Historic Golf Saga
"The Greatest Game Ever Played," a nonfiction Hyperion book written by "Twin Peaks" co-creator Mark Frost about golfer Francis Ouimet's unlikely 1913 U.S. Open victory over Harry Vardon. Frost will write
the script and produce with David Steinberg and Larry Brezner.
Ouimet, a former caddy, was the first amateur to win the Open. The only way any of his rivals would know him was if he'd carried their clubs.
"Francis grew up low to middle class and worked at the country club as a caddy," said Frost, who came across the story as he watched the U.S. come from behind to win the Ryder Cup in 1999. That match was
capped by a 40-foot putt by Justin Leonard that prompted an announcer to compare it with a shot Oiumet had made on the same course in the Open. Frost, an avid golfer who shoots in the low 80s, hopes the
story has the kind of historical tone in golf that "Seabiscuit" has in horse racing.
"He wanted to erase the idea that he was hired help, so he used golf as a trajectory to become a respected member of the Boston community, a stockbroker and ... president of the Boston Bruins," Frost said.
'The Greatest Game Ever Played'
Magazine Columnist
Pamela Anderson
She's gone from "Baywatch" babe to "V.I.P." vixen. Now, Pamela Anderson has a new gig as a magazine columnist.
Anderson will write a monthly feature for Jane magazine starting in September called "Pam Honestly." She'll focus on issues including domestic abuse, women's health and parenthood.
The idea for Anderson's column came when the 34-year-old said she was dissatisfied with a recent cover story that was written about her. After several e-mail exchanges, Pratt
asked her to contribute to the magazines new celebrity-written column, "This Celeb Trusts Us," for the August issue.
Anderson was so chock full of ideas, Pratt said, the magazine asked her to be a monthly contributor.
Pamela Anderson
Newspapers Columnist
Amy Fisher
Amy Fisher, who spent seven years in jail for shooting her lover's wife in the head, has been hired by a Long Island newspaper to write a biweekly column.
"She's a natural writer," said Robbie Woliver, editor-in-chief of The New Island Ear, which will publish Fisher's first column on July 3. "If she wasn't able to
write, we wouldn't have her do this column. We were very, very surprised. The Amy Fisher we found was a little different than the 16-year-old girl that we remember."
Woliver asked Fisher — who is now 28 — to write a story about her account of life after prison. That story will appear in the June 20 edition of the free newspaper,
which is available only on Long Island.
"We're giving her every journalist's dream: to write about whatever they want," Woliver said. "She has this access that other people don't have. People want to talk
to her. People that are really reclusive have shown great interest in talking to her."
Amy Fisher
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Snarky Gossip
Michael Jackson
The King of Pop's antics with Al Sharpton and Johnnie Cochran didn't get any attention in the U.S., so Michael Jackson has taken his road show to England. In an
unprecedented and unprovoked attack, Jackson unfurled a banner at London's Equinox nightclub Sunday that read: "Sony Kills Music!" He also called Sony Music boss
Tommy Mottola "the devil." The needle-nosed soprano, who blames the label for the poor sales of his latest album, babbled: "Sony tried to destroy 'Invincible' because
they couldn't stand the thought that the artist had out-thought the company. I'm only going to do one more album for them. It will be a box set with two new songs. I
can give them any old songs. I'm a free agent now." Mottola declined to fire back, but a Sony exec raged: "This guy has all the nerve. Sony put no less than $30 million
into making that album and $30 million into marketing it, but there's nothing we could do when Michael decided he didn't want to do promotions, marketing or a tour. This
is a sad attempt to get a record deal and publicity."
Michael Jackson
Commemorative Trees For Singers
London's Hyde Park
Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Shirley Bassey and Ronan Keating are branching out in London.
The singers will get their own commemorative trees in London's Hyde Park after performing at a charity concert there on June 29, park officials announced Tuesday.
The only performer to have received a tree before is tenor Luciano Pavarotti, for his celebrated performance in the park a decade ago.
Park officials are deciding which species to give the stars and where to plant the trees.
The concert is expected to raise $750,000 for the Prince's Trust, a charity Prince Charles established.
Commemorative Trees For Singers
Art Exhibit
Lorenzo Quinn
Artist Lorenzo Quinn, son of late U.S. actor Anthony Quinn, peers through one of his sculptures during the opening ceremony of his exhibition in Solothurn, Switzerland, Sunday, June 16, 2002.
Photo by Juerg Mueller
Russian Film Industry
'Zvezda'
A fervently patriotic tale of a soldier's bravery and young love, "Zvezda," or Star, would once have been a sure-fire box office hit.
Instead, the premiere of what was billed as the Russian film of the year was dwarfed by the release of a flurry of Hollywood blockbusters, including the latest "Star Wars" epic.
Tucked into a leafy bend on the Moskva river, the sprawling Mosfilm studios were once the center of the Soviet Union's prolific film industry. Home to cinema greats Sergei Eisenstein and
Andrei Tarkovsky, Mosfilm produced some 100 films a year at the height of Soviet power.
Now, the flagship studios produce at most 30 Russian films a year, only a tiny percentage of which will ever make it to the country's cinemas. Most are shelved.
Russia's film industry has suffered the aches and pains of post-Soviet society, dwindling state subsidies and encroaching Hollywood blockbusters.
For a lot more, 'Zvezda'
Joins Measles Fight
Jane Seymour
She couldn't actually administer the vaccinations, but Jane Seymour, who starred in the CBS drama "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," lent her celebrity to a campaign aimed at
eliminating measles in Africa on Tuesday.
Seymour, with eight Los Angeles school children and a documentary film crew in tow, toured vaccination centers set up as part of The Measles Initiative — a five-year,
continentwide American Red Cross campaign.
Measles, a highly contagious disease that can be fatal, was once common in North America and Europe and still kills more than 450,000 children a year in Africa.
A weeklong drive to vaccinate 14 million Kenyan children began Monday, with help from the government and the Kenya Red Cross.
Jane Seymour
More Republican Family Values
Keith Westmoreland
Tennessee State Rep. Keith Westmoreland, R-Kingsport, was arrested this weekend on charges of exposing himself to children at a hotel swimming pool.
According to the Walton County Sheriff's Department, Westmoreland, 55, exposed himself to a crowd of people gathered poolside at a Miramar Beach hotel Friday night.
"Eyewitnesses alleged that Westmoreland walked naked among them, exposing his sexual organs for more than an hour by poolside, and then again at the hot tub indoors," a sheriff's department spokesman said Monday night.
The representative was arrested on five charges of indecent exposure and was released from a Walton County jail Saturday on a $3,500 bond.
Westmoreland is a business consultant who has served in the Tennessee House since 1992. He serves on the House Judiciary Committee, helping to make laws in Tennessee.
He was county executive for Sullivan County from 1986 to 1990, and chief deputy for the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department for a decade prior to that.
He was a law enforcement instructor at Walters State Community College from 1976-78, and served in the Air Force from 1964-68.
Keith Westmoreland
Comedy Angers Adoptive Parents
'My Adventures In Television'
The mother of twin toddlers adopted from China, Nancy Kennon was excited when she heard that an ABC comedy, "My Adventures in Television," was going to feature a Chinese adoption.
What she saw earlier this month appalled her.
Character Lindsay Urich adopts because a therapist says she has a lot of love to give, then gives the baby away after finding motherhood inconvenient. A fictional TV executive begs her to give
the baby as a gift to a vain star. Urich tells a friend who holds the baby, "you break her, you bought her." And when one woman muses that the baby looks cute enough to eat, a man says he doesn't
eat Chinese babies "because a half hour later I'm hungry and have to eat another."
She and other parents have protested to ABC; the network couldn't provide a count of how many. A major advertiser, Kodak, has expressed displeasure and pulled all ads from future episodes. Even one of the actors has apologized.
ABC and the sitcom's creator said those who are offended should realize that the show — soon to disappear from the network's schedule — is a satire about callous television executives.
Tolan said he believed that people who treat babies as fashion accessories were ripe for ridicule. One of the show's jokes was that adoptive parents could get a prettier baby
by offering blue jeans as a bribe.
'My Adventures In Television'
Oh, puh-leeze! The show is satire. I can remember one job (about 25 years ago) where we had a pool on which upper-management person would be the next to adopt a Vietnamese orphan. Yes, this form of shallowness has existed for a
long time in LA.
Babies as fashion statements. Look what Joan Crawford started...
More power to ''My Adventures In Television'' for addressing it.
Sick of Timberlake Talk
Britney Spears
No matter where Britney Spears goes, she can't escape the reminders of her recent breakup with 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake.
"You go out to a club, and people say, 'Are you fine? Are you fine?' And it's like, 'I'm here, aren't I?'" the 20-year-old pop singer says in the July issue of InStyle magazine. "What
if I was some weakling and I was like, 'Whaaa!' Crying!"
Spears says she and Timberlake, 21, split amicably: "We're climbing two different mountains. His priorities are different from mine right now."
Britney Spears
Prime-Time Nielsen Ratings
Top 20 Shows
Prime-time ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research for June 10-16. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with rating for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses.
An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation. The rating is the percentage of the nation's estimated 105.5 million TV homes. Each ratings point represents 1,055,000 households.
1. (3) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 10.9, 11.5 million homes.
2. (X) "NBA Finals Game 4," NBC, 10.8, 11.4 million homes.
3. (5) "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 9.9, 10.4 million homes.
4. (14) "Becker," CBS, 8.7, 9.2 million homes.
5. (29) "48 Hours-Monday," CBS, 8.2, 8.7 million homes.
6. (35) "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," NBC, 8.0, 8.4 million homes.
7. (39) "Crime and Punishment," NBC, 7.6, 8.0 million homes.
8. (16) "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.5, 8.0 million homes.
9. (64) "Dateline NBC-Sunday," NBC, 7.2, 7.6 million homes.
10. (25) "Yes, Dear," CBS, 7.0, 7.4 million homes.
11. (50) "American Idol-Wednesday," Fox, 6.9, 7.3 million homes.
11. (24) "The King of Queens," CBS, 6.9, 7.3 million homes.
11. (X) "The Price Is Right: U.S. Army," CBS, 6.9, 7.3 million homes.
14. (2) "Friends," NBC, 6.8, 7.2 million homes.
15. (39) "60 Minutes II," CBS, 6.6, 7.0 million homes.
15. (X) "NBA Finals Tip-Off-Game 4," NBC, 6.6, 7.0 million homes.
17. (57) "20/20-Friday," ABC, 6.5, 6.9 million homes.
17. (29) "CBS Sunday Movie: The Negotiator," CBS, 6.5, 6.8 million homes.
19. (X) "AFI's 100 Years, 100 Passions," CBS, 6.2, 6.5 million homes.
20. (68) "American Idol-Tuesday," Fox, 6.1, 6.5 million homes.
Prime-Time Nielsen Ratings
Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
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