Dole becomes a tar heel
Salisbury, N.C. Elizabeth Dole bought the childhood home where her 100-year-old mother still lives, giving her residency in the state she wants to represent in the U.S. Senate.
Dole had not lived in North Carolina for 40 years before taking title to the property. A deed is dated Dec. 26, 2001.
Dole used the address when she changed her voter registration last year from Kansas to North Carolina.
Dole, who is seeking the Republican nomination to replace the retiring Jesse Helms in the Senate, bought the home for $350,000. The house was valued at $221,145 for tax purposes in 1999.
'Snob' typecast fine, thank you
New York Dame Maggie Smith says it is easier to be typecast in film than in theater.
"I'm always in costumes and period things, wandering around in wigs," Smith says in an interview with Newsday published Sunday. "If they want one of those snobbish English nasty people or whatever, I get into that bracket."
Smith's latest character is the tea-swilling, bridge-playing, drawing room despot Constance, Countess of Trentham, in the new film "Gosford Park." The film, directed by Robert Altman, is a murder mystery set in a country mansion during the 1930s.
Smith has won two Oscars, for best actress for her work as an eccentric teacher in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and as best supporting actress for "California Suite" in 1978.
A lot to live up to
London Kate Winslet, a Golden Globe nominee for her role in movie "Iris," attended the film's British premier Sunday night.
The movie "Iris" which also stars Dame Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent is a love story about the well-known British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and her husband, John Bayley. It traces the writer's life from her early days as a young novelist through her Alzheimer's disease and death in 1999.
"It is hard because Iris was such an intellectual, and I am not. And when you have Dame Judi portraying her in later life it is quite frightening, and you know there is a lot to live up to," Winslet, 26, said.
Ignore this court summons
Los Angeles The WB informs you that you have been selected for jury duty in state Superior Court.
Ha ha ... it's just a joke.
But some people weren't laughing when they received the e-mail hoax sent as a promotion for the network's new practical-joke program, "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment."
Nearly 7 million subscribers to the eUniverse humor Web site were sent the phony summons, which had the subject line "Jury Duty Notification," and a bogus court seal.
The WB only sent the release to people who signed up to receive satiric messages, according to a network statement.
"No harm or confusion was intended," the statement said.
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