Word: ellen
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...dress," far right, which she wore at a White House dinner in 1985, and the $151,000 "Elvis dress," below, as Diana has called it. Most of the gowns sold for $20,000 to $40,000, shockingly low to some bidders. "I bid on anything less than 20," said Ellen Louise Petho, who dropped $108,100 on four dresses that she intends to auction back home in Port Huron, Mich., for "other causes Di supports." The event made $5.7 million for charity, $1.8 million of it just from catalog sales...
DALLAS: America?s family entertainer defines family a tad too broadly, according to the 15-million member Southern Baptist Convention, which has decided to boycott Disney for its "gay friendly policies." Disney's worst offense? The decision to bring Ellen Degeneres' character out of the closet on the sitcom "Ellen," produced by Walt Disney Television and shown on Disney subsidiary ABC. Mouse Central is keeping mum. Last year, the Convention issued a warning to Disney about the evils of "Gay Days" at company theme parks and same-sex partner health benefits. Disney survived. Richard Land, executive director of the Southern...
...mail message, William E. Gienapp, a professor of American history described McGreevy and Ellen Fitzpatrick, another associate professor in history who is leaving Harvard, as "terrific colleagues...
...something to shake things up. Their solution? Frequent flyer miles. The Disney network announced it will give out miles on American Airlines to anyone who will watch their shows. The catch is that there's homework involved: You have to fill out questionaires to prove you watched shows like 'Ellen' and didn't just hear the highlights at the office. ABC did not say how many miles you could get through the program, or whether you would get more credit for watching an hour-long drama over a half-hour comedy. More important, there's no word on whether honchos...
...room," Tarses says, while insisting that "there was truly not a tremendous amount of disagreement." Sources describe at least one instance, however, in which Eisner overruled her. When Tarses' final schedule board was presented to him, Eisner reportedly noticed one prominent show missing--the newly outed sitcom Ellen. The omission, he said in front of several executives, was "inconceivable to me," and the show was put back on the schedule. (Tarses says the show was left off an early version of the schedule only because Ellen DeGeneres had said she didn't want to continue the series. "I love...