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TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART III

TABLE OF CONTENTS PARTS IV & V ARE ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES.

 

8-LIFESTYLE OF THE STARS

Kim: Kim Novak: "What would I be doing if I still lived here?" Kim Novak mused. She supplied her own answer: "I'd be spending my afternoons shopping on Rodeo Drive." Instead, she has chosen to live in a wooded paradise near Ashland, Ore. Called Windsong, it's a place she and her husband, Bob Malloy, share with golden eagles, geese, deer, elk and a host of other wild fauna, not to mention a barnyard full of farm animals. "We have two or three hundred acres (80 to 120 hectares), including two large islands," she reported. "The main channel of the (Rogue) river runs past the islands. A smaller tributary passes in front of our house. It has very little traffic, so we can enjoy it without the noise of the motor boats." It's a far cry from the Kim Novak of the 1950s and '60s, who kept the gossip columns agog with her romances. ..............................................................................75-77

9-NEWS OF THE STARS

Beyonce: Beyonce's lavish wardrobe is about to get even bigger: The singer-actress now has her own fashion label. Beyonce and her mother, Tina Knowles, who already styles many of her daughter's outfits, announced a joint venture to create a contemporary women's brand with Arthur and Jason Rabin, founders of manufacturer Wear Me Apparel/Kids Headquarters. "My mother and I share a love of fashion and style, and with this brand we're going to be able to share our vision of what is truly beautiful," the Destiny's Child singer said in a statement this week. "Our line will consist of fashions that I enjoy wearing and I want them to be appealing to my fan..........................................................................................................................78

Vanity The editor of Vanity Fair magazine has come under scrutiny for his activities within the entertainment industry and his involvement with people the magazine covers. Among the circumstances that have led to questions about Graydon Carter is a $100,000 "consultant fee" he accepted for his role in the production of the film A Beautiful Mind. That payment and other relationships Carter has within the entertainment industry were detailed Friday in two newspaper reports..................................................................................................78

Stallone: Actor Sylvester Stallone has sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and a production company, claiming they stymied his efforts to make a sequel and Broadway musical based on the Rocky film franchise. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeks unspecified damages against the studio and the production company. It also seeks an order allowing Stallone to proceed with a Rocky VI film. "He looks at litigation as the very of very last resorts," said Stallone's attorney, Gerald Margolis. "It means he's extremely sad, disappointed and put out by all of this."................................................................................................................................................................81

10-GOSSIPS

American Idol: Many would-be ``American Idol'' voters are disenfranchised by overburdened phone lines and by ``power dialers'' who hog the system, the magazine Broadcasting & Cable reported. According to the magazine's issue being released Monday, ``the only people choosing the next 'American Idol'' are the ones lucky enough to get through - or skilled enough to get around - tremendously overtaxed phone lines.'' Fox TV, which airs the talent contest, has failed to address the difficulties viewers must overcome to log votes, the magazine said. The show is a ratings winner and valuable property for its producers and Fox, but Broadcasting & Cable said the network is alienating viewers who repeatedly get a busy signal when they try to call in their votes. ........................................................................................................82

Kiss: Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has sparked outrage in Australia with comments seen as attacking Islam. "This is a vile culture and if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in the sands of God's armpit, you've got another thing coming," Simmons said during an interview on Melbourne's 3AW radio Thursday. "They want to come and live right where you live and they think that you're evil." The western world is under threat from extremists and a culture that treats women worse than dogs, he claimed in a segment of the interview that touched on the war in Iraq...........................................................................83

More gossips: Destiny's Child to marry Dallas Cowboy. Rupert, the nice All-Star, gets bonus...................................83-84

11-US ENTERTAINMENT

US Entertainment: Just because the wry vampire drama Angel is over doesn't mean it's the end of the world ... even if the final episode does include an apocalypse. Angel creator Joss Whedon - whose efforts to remake the show this year boosted ratings and garnered continued critical acclaim, but were not enough to keep it on the air - says the theme of the closing installment is "keep on fighting." That goes for the title hero himself, a 250-year-old vampire played by David Boreanaz, who is trying to redeem past decades of undead wickedness by helping the hopeless amid the supernatural evildoers of Los Angeles. "Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal down.....85-86

Murray: Bill Murray, who won a Golden Globe earlier this year for his role in Lost in Translation, received a lifetime achievement award at the Jacksonville Film Festival. Murray, 53, kissed the award -- a glass-and-wood turtle -- then made a face. "It smells like the ocean," Murray said at the ceremony Saturday night. "It's the only award I have that does." The Golden Globe was the first major acting prize for Murray, who gained fame in the 1970s as a goofball on TV's Saturday Night Live and continued that schtick in movies such as Caddyshack and Meatballs. Lost in Translation, about two lonely Americans who find friendship in a Tokyo hotel, earned Murray an Oscar nomination................................................................................87

Wicked: Wicked was chosen best musical of the New York theatre season, and I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright was named best play in awards given Sunday by the Drama Desk, an organization of theatre journalists and critics. Wicked, based on Gregory Maguire's cult novel about the witches in Oz before Dorothy arrives on the Yellow Brick Road, took six Drama Desk honours. Assassins, a revival of the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical, about presidential killers picked up four prizes, including the award for musical revival. The Lincoln Center Theater production of Henry IV received three awards, including a top acting honour for its star, Kevin Kline, who played Falstaff...........87

Pitt: Muscle-bound Brad Pitt fought his way through scrawnier competition to help the Greek epic Troy claim the top spot at the box office with $45.6 million. A handful of older movies aimed at teenagers continued to dominate the top 10. Lindsay Lohan's high-school comedy Mean Girls continued its strong run with $10.1 million for third place, dropping only 26 per cent in its third week. 13 Going on 30 fell only 28 per cent to earn $4.2 million for sixth place. Even the Olsen twins bomb New York Minute fell by a relatively small 37 per cent to earn $3.7 million in seventh place. Most movies this time of year see earnings drop 50 per cent or more each week. "These are very minimal drops, which shows that the most consistent audience right now is young girls," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations Co...90

12-NEWS FROM THE USA

USA : Bishop says no communion for some voters. Kerry derides American 'Arrogance' in Iraq. Gore endorses "The Day After Tomorrow".91

Janice Dickinson: Supermodel Janice Dickinson has survived a punishing childhood, various addictions and a truckload of bad relationships. She's done everything to excess -- and lived to tell about it. A recovering alcoholic -- "... even today, in my darkest moments, I want to drink so badly my entire body is screaming" -- Dickinson found it therapeutic to write down her feelings about the abuses she'd suffered as a child and the life issues she's suffered since. That writing became her first memoir, No Lifeguard on Duty, which told the story of how she became one of the world's top models during the 1970s. Now she's back with Everything About Me Is Fake . . . and I'm Perfect! (ReganBooks), in which Dickinson writes about some of her not-so-glamorous modelling jobs (swimming in a shark tank, passing out while wearing fur on an oppressively hot day) and being under constant scrutiny................................................................................................................................93

Miramax: Get ready for an earful -- or at least an eyeful -- from Harvey Weinstein. The famously bullish boss of Miramax Films is writing his memoirs. HarperCollins will publish the book, currently untitled, in 2006. "Harvey is someone we read about every day. Now, in this book, we will read the true story behind Miramax's amazing success, as only Harvey can tell it," Jane Friedman, president and CEO of HarperCollins, said Thursday. Financial terms weren't disclosed, but Weinstein will donate all profits to charity. According to HarperCollins, "The memoir will trace the lives of the Weinstein brothers (Harvey and Bob) from their lower-middle-class roots in Queens, New York, through the founding of Miramax...........................93

13-SCIENCE

Science: London under Attack reveals some serious gaps in the government's emergency planning system, which would come into force in the event of an attack. The docu-drama, to be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday, focuses on how the emergency services would cope with multiple terrorist explosions in the capital. The programme which features a fictional terrorist attack, has already been criticised by the Home Office, who declined to co-operate with the making of the programme and have called it "irresponsible and alarmist". The programme reveals that police, ambulance and fire services communications systems are incompatible with each other in London and across the UK and that in the deep underground, Metropolitan Police radios do not work. Radios incompatible: The communications system used by Civil Contingency Reaction Force (CCRF) - a specialist groups of reservists whose role is to help out in the event of disaster scenarios..........................................94

Science: Private Firm Blasts Man Into Space ....Green Veges Make Cancer Mortal ..................................................................94

Planet: The Ediacaran Period covers some 50 million years of ancient time on our planet from 600 million years ago to about 542 million years ago. It officially becomes part of the Neoproterozoic, when multi-celled life forms started to take hold on Earth. However, Russian geologists are unhappy their own title - the Vendian - which was coined in 1952, was not chosen. The decision was taken after a fifteen-year long period of consideration by expert geologists. "There's always been a recognition that the last part of the Precambrian is a special time before the first shelled animals, when there are these mesh-like creatures of uncertain affinity,"......................................................................................................................................................................95

Crops:  Genetically modified crops could form part of the answer to world hunger, according to a United Nations report. With the world population set to rise by two billion over the next 30 years, such crops could help meet food needs. Drought and insect-resistant crops could boost yields and incomes, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says. But it warns that biotechnology is no panacea and must focus on the needs of developing countries. Global attitudes:  The report comes days after the decision by US agri-chemical company Monsanto to stop marketing modified wheat because of consumer opposition...................................................................95-96

14-ART

Art and Bin Laden: Artwork inspired by the al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is one of the four pieces nominated for this year's £40,000 Turner Prize 2004.The four artists on the shortlist are Kutlug Ataman, Jeremy Deller, Langlands and Bell and Yinka Shonibare. The installation of video and photos from Afghanistan by Langlands and Bell, is called The House of Osama Bin Laden. The controversial UK prize is also very prestigious and was won last year by transvestite potter Grayson Perry. Kutlug Ataman, a Turkish artist who lives in the UK, is nominated for his "poignant and incisive video installations"...................................................................................................................97

Turner: Turner winner faces media whirl. Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry has described the first few hours of his new-found media fame after lifting the UK arts world's most prestigious award. Perry told BBC News Online he would have to get used to becoming "fashionable" now he had become part of the British artistic establishment. "It is going to be odd," said Perry, who used some of his prize-winning pottery to comment on the UK art scene. "I'll have to pick on someone else and find something else to rail against." Perry, a transvestite who wore a frilly dress at Sunday night's awards ceremony, said he had enjoyed his first post-Turner encounters with newspapers and broadcasters. Speaking to BBC News Online on Monday, he said: "I like the contrast between all the different journalists. This morning I came here to do Today (on BBC Radio 4), followed by breakfast TV. It was like bad cop, good cop......................97-98

House: House finds a new home in gallery: The two-storey, four-bedroom pebbledash house is an exact copy of where artist Michael Landy's parents live in Essex. Every tiny detail has been recreated, from flaking paint to a Neighbourhood Watch sticker in the front window. The piece, entitled Semi-detached, is said to be about the shared human experience of living in a space. It opens at the London gallery on Tuesday. The inspiration is Mr Landy's father, John, a tunnel miner who was forced to stop work when a tunnel collapsed on him in Northumberland in 1977. John Landy was permanently injured in the accident and is still unable to carry out most physical tasks......................................99-100

 Tate:  In pictures: Tate Modern anniversary......................................................................................................................99-100