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Born in Hollywood (but reared in Whittier, Ca., Richard Nixon's hometown), Lasseter decided to pursue animation after his mother, an art teacher, gave him a book about animation. "I realized people made cartoons for a living!" he says. One of the first eight students in Disney's animation program at California Institute of the Arts (Tim Burton was a classmate), Lasseter went on to work for Disney after graduation...
Sheldon Adelson, son of a Boston cabbie, is strolling down the loggia of the Doges Palace, Venice's famous landmark. Across the way he can see the city's other famous sites--the Clock Tower and the Campanile, the Bridge of Sighs and the Ca D'Oro. He stops to marvel at the craftsmanship of a carved quatrefoil atop one arch. A chiseled demon leers down at him. The 65-year-old Adelson mirrors the expression as he waves his arms at the surroundings. "You feel you're standing in the middle of St. Mark's Square...
...Volleyball vs. Fullerton (at St. Mary's, CA...
...McCartney family spokesman, Geoff Baker, all but confirmed Thursday the PEOPLE Magazine story that Linda McCartney, the 56-year-old wife of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, died at the family ranch in Tucson, AZ, and not in Santa Barbara, CA, as reporters initially had been led to believe. Baker said he misled reporters to protect Sir Paul and the couple's four children. "If I had said where she died, [the ranch] would have been overrun straight away, and they needed time, because of their grief," he said. "Morally, I have done nothing wrong, and legally I have done...
...singer George Michael, one of Princess Diana's favorite singers, was arrested for investigation of engaging in lewd conduct in a park restroom, police said Tuesday. Michael was arrested shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday outside Will Rogers Park in Santa Monica, CA, after an undercover officer on a crime suppression detail allegedly saw him engaging in a lewd act, Lt. Edward Kreins said. "I can't go into details of the lewd act," said Kreins, who noted that the singer was alone at the time. The British-born Michael gave police his real name, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, and then supplied...