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...seen much of Ally McBeal since its first season. He was in prison for a year on drug-possession charges, and his cell-block mates probably preferred Monday Night Football in that time slot. Now, however, the Oscar-nominated actor, recently released from incarceration, is jumping at a gig on the show, which may need him as much as he needs it. In the ratings last week, Ally lost to a show called Best Commercials Never Seen 3. Show publicists confirmed that, starting with the season premiere, Downey will appear in eight episodes as a "mysterious stranger with a knack...
...from his wheelchair and positively embarrassng wife Dana, whom he called his "medicine" through six months of hard rehab after the accident that left him paralyzed. "I have a confession to make," he joked. "This was a cheap ploy to get you all here. I could use a directing gig right away!" After the laughter died down, he got serious, noting that his father had joined a labor union while in college and later became a hard-core Communist, making politics a big part of his upbringing and his life, even when he was a Hollywood star in the Superman...
...side. I play clubs in New York City and Washington, D.C. And occasionally I play political gatherings, like a big Washington black-tie dinner earlier this year. In 1998, I performed at the Democratic Leadership Council's retreat in New Orleans. This proved to be a great gig, allowing me entr?e to the no-reporters-allowed meeting while giving me the chance to hone my schtick...
...trouble, Chuck and Anita each week send out up to three or four packages of frozen or freeze-dried venom, usually to pharmaceutical and chemical companies. It's a hard way to make a living, even when it is supplemented by income from odd jobs like the technical-adviser gig Chuck landed for the 1990 film Arachnophobia. So for most of the past decade, Chuck handed scaled-back day-to-day operations of Spider Pharm to Anita--a former machinist from Czechoslovakia who has become as smitten as her husband with spiders--while he worked for American Cyanamid, helping...
HELEN THOMAS Septuagenarian scribe gets new gig with Hearst. Will she cover President DiCaprio...