Beatty
Won't Run for Prez; Bening Takes Film Time-out - "Want to
cast your ballot for Warren Beatty? Not this presidential election.
The actor has hinted for months he might make a run for the Oval
Office but refused to be pinned down on any specifics. Now the
politically minded actor says he's out of the running because he's
afraid his candidacy would "harm" the causes — such as
campaign finance reform — he's been championing..."
Web cam seeks ghost in library
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"On a cold winter morning in 1937,
a janitor grabbed his flashlight and headed down into the
pitch-black basement of the Willard Library to stoke the coal
furnace. But then, so the story goes, he was stopped cold in his
tracks by the ghostly vision of a woman dressed in gray, from
the veil covering her face down to her shoes..."
Georgia's
Not Fonda Jane - Many Americans still haven't forgiven Jane
Fonda for the infamous trek she made to Hanoi during the Vietnam
War, and now it seems that the former anti-war activist has found an
entire new generation to offend. The fitness maven and billionaire's
wife issued an apology on Thursday for telling a United Nations
group that parts of Georgia, where she's based with her hubby, media
mogul Ted Turner, were like "some developing countries,"
with children "starving to death" and people living in
"tar-paper shacks..."
Curtis
Mayfield, R&B star, dies at 57 -
"Dec. 26 — Paralyzed soul legend Curtis
Mayfield, whose stylings influenced artists of all musical genres,
died Sunday, a North Fulton Regional Hospital spokeswoman said. He
was 57..."