| Westside stories in brief | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:17:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Forest Grove: Forest Grove Chamber of Commerce's last "Ballots for Breakfast" voter's forum, from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Forest Grove Senior Center, 2037 Douglas St., will feature Forest Grove City Council candidates. They are Aldie Howard, Tom Johnston, Camille Miller and Ron Thompson. Breakfast buffet is $5. For more, call the chamber at 503-357-3006. Cornelius: Susbauer Road, south of Hobbs Road and north of Holladay Street, is closed through Nov. 5 while Washington County replaces a bridge over Council Creek. The project is funded by the Oregon Transportation Improvement Act Bridge Program. Cornelius-Schefflin Road is a detour route. For more, call Al Girard, project manager, at 503-846-7851 or e-mail algirard@co.washington.or.us. Forest Grove: Hand-made crafts, collectibles, live music, a free Italian soda and espresso bar, wine tasting and massages will be featured at Jennings McCall Center's seventh annual Seasonal Sampler and Holiday Bazaar from 9 a.m.... | |
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| | | Official: Ron Howard to take on Nixon | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:14:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Universal Pictures purchased the rights for Howard to direct an adaptation of Peter Morgan's play Frost/Nixon. Howard saw the show at the West End's Donmar Warehouse last week and immediately took to it. Frost/Nixon is about the famed 1977 television interviews between award-winning British journalist and best-selling author David Frost and former president Richard Nixon in 1977 on Frost On America. The infamous interviews took place a thousand days after Nixon's resignation. The two discussed The Watergate investigation, issues of world politics, the Supreme Court, Henry Kissinger's role and more. The play has sold out its limited run. In the play, Frank Langella is Nixon and Michael Sheen is Frost. As part of the deal, Morgan will remain connected to the project, adapting the work into a screenplay.... | |
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| | | Playoff-contending Mustangs have four sets of brothers | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 3:10:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | CLIFTON - Youll have to forgive Clifton football coach Ron Anello if he cant always identify every one of the more than 90 players on his team. You see, the Mustangs have four sets of brothers on the roster, including two pairs of twins: sophomores Nathan and Nathaniel Howard and juniors Steve and George Mena. I still cant tell them apart. I just call them twin, Anello said of the two sets of twins. To this day I dont know which one is which. During one recent roll call at practice, only Steve Mena was in attendance, and he actually duped his coach by making him think both brothers were present. I was the only one here, Steve said. When (Anello) was taking attendance, he said Mena twins and I just said Here real loud. The Menas and the Howards dont figure to play a role tonight when Clifton (3-1), No.... | |
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| | | David Kendrick: Fantasy sports: For drafts, Artest still full of risk | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 7:13:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | With NBA fantasy drafts just around the corner, many owners will soon start to ask themselves "Is Ron Artest worth it?"As in, "Is he worth the headaches?" Artest is one of the only players who is capable of scoring 20-plus points, hitting a few free throws, grabbing six rebounds, dishing out five assists and getting a couple of steals. When he's playing, Artest is often a fantasy star. But there's always that chance he'll rush into the stands or say something foolish and get suspended. The good news is there are signs that things are OK in Sacramento. He didn't cause any problems after his trade there last season and, in fact, he was a big reason for the Kings' trip to the playoffs. This summer, he played on the Kings' summer-league team in Las Vegas before going to New York's famed Rucker Park to play a few games.... | |
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| | | Reigning in Nova Scotia | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 9:40:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | A "HAPPY and excited" Paula Fairfax received her crown as Miss Nova Scotia, and looked forward to representing her province at the forthcoming Miss Canada pageant. Crowned by Sylvia McGuire, Halifax, the reigning Miss Canada, the teenaged student at Dartmouth High School said, "I was not prepared to win the title of Miss Nova Scotia but now that I have, I intend to represent the province as well as I can." She said it was "chance and circumstance" which led her to enter and win an earlier pageant for Queen of the Lakes. To please her younger sister, Lois, she represented the Senobe Aquatic Club in that event. Of her latest achievement, Fairfax said, "It is a real honour to represent my province, an honour almost any girl would be pleased about." Of the pageant, she commented, "All the girls got along extremely well; every one of them were queens as far as I am concerned." She said her parents, Rev.... | |
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| | | Police seek two more suspects in Davenport shooting | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:17:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Authorities believe four people are responsible for the drive-by shooting that killed a Davenport 19-year-old last week. Ron Millbrook and Terrill Lobley have been charged with killing Vincelina Howard outside her grandmother's home. Police have warrants out for two more suspects -- Don White Junior and a 14-year-old boy. All four are from Rock Island, Illinois. Police say the group drove a van by the Davenport home and opened fire into the backyard, killing Howard. Investigators believe the shooting was in retaliation for an earlier shooting in Rock Island, though it is unclear whether Howard was the intended target. Several other people were in the yard at the time but no one else was hit. Howard, who graduated from high school in June, was buried on Friday.... | |
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| | | Ron Howard Tries To Trick Outraged Catholics Into Seeing 'Da Vinci ... | | Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:14:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | "There's no question that the film is likely to be upsetting to some people," Howard told reporters. "My advice, since virtually no one has really seen the movie yet, is to not go see the movie if you think you're going to be upset. Wait. Talk to somebody who has seen it. Discuss it. And then arrive at an opinion about the movie itself."[...] One reporter asked the cast if they believed Christ was married. Star Tom Hanks quipped, "Well, I wasn't around." We doubt even Hollywood's Nicest Guy Hanks and his cheeky plea of ignorance will do much to abate the ireful condemnation of a planet of Catholics shouting bloody heresy. But Howard's novel "wait until you haven't seen the movie and then make up your minds" approach is so antithetical to every other defense ever put forward by a director of a controversial project, it could prove highly successful as a reverse psychology marketing tool--effectively nudging up international box office to record-breaking numbers as outraged believers snap up every available Da Vinci ticket in a worldwide "Boycott The Heretic Ron Howard's Advice Day." Ron Howard Answers 'Da Vinci' Critics [ABCNews/AP] .... | |
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| | | Howard to allow stem cells conscience vote | | Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:11:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | MARK COLVIN: Coincidence or a sign that the immigration Bill defeat has changed the way things stand? Just over a week ago the Prime Minister all but ruled out a free vote on the issue of embryonic stem cell research. Today Mr Howard's agreed to let Government members vote with their consciences. The Prime Minister told a special party room meeting that if the matter reached a vote. senators and MPs would be excused from voting along party lines. It's an issue emerging as the next challenge for the Coalition, with one senior Government figure saying it will divide the party room. The Democrats hope to have a Private Members' Bill on the matter before the Parliament by October. From Canberra, Samantha Hawley reports.... | |
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| | | Ron Howard Tribute Event Thinly Veiled Excuse To Trash Talk Absent ... | | Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 1:09:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Russell Crowe was not present at Sunday night's Museum of the Moving Image tribute to Ron Howard, presumably occupied with the exciting rebranding of his none-hit-wonder band, The Ordinary Fear of God (formerly Thirty Odd Foot of Grunt, saving, the $25 million per film actor recently explained, the expense of reprinting his TOFOG merchandise.) Seeing a prime opportunity in this Russelless evening to mock the self-serious superstar free of his glowering stares and the possibility of a knuckleballed dessert fork in the eye, many of the presenters had a field day at Crowe's expense: Michael Keaton said it was "bad news" that Crowe, who starred in Howard's "Cinderella Man" and "A Beautiful Mind," couldn't be at the Waldorf-Astoria gathering. "The good news is that we don't have to listen to his band.... | |
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| | | Howard To Follow In Dads Footsteps | | Posted Saturday, August 05, 2006 7:16:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | Actress BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD dreams of following in her father RON HOWARD's footsteps and become a director, but fears she'll struggle to live up to his Academy Award-winning achievements. The 25-year-old is currently working on a short movie so that she can practice without the risk of letting her dad down. Howard explains, "There's a short film I'm writing and directing. That's been my dream, but I've never talked about it because it's so weighted. Because my dad is a director, I really don't want to mess up. But a short film is a great way to learn and we got financing. I've got all these screenwriting books everywhere." 04/08/2006 17:06 .... | |
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