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...heart: in a one-sided series, the underdogs DETROIT PISTONS overran the storied Los Angeles Lakers to take their first NBA basketball championship in 14 years. The happiest man in the Motor City was Pistons owner Bill Davidson?whose Tampa Bay Lightning had won ice hockey's Stanley Cup a week earlier...
...DIED. EDMUND M. DIGIULIO, 76, Oscar-winning film-technology pioneer; in Malibu, California. DiGiulio developed special equipment for director Stanley Kubrick's movies, including A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. His inventions included the Steadicam, a widely used camera-stabilization system. In 2002 he received a technological lifetime achievement Academy Award...
...thing to develop these tools and another thing to integrate them into the world of fire and law enforcement," says Ellis Stanley, director of the Los Angeles emergency preparedness department. "Robin is working to establish a relationship with rescue workers so that when the technology arrives on the scene, they don't say, 'What is this?' They say, 'Let's get to work.'" --By Wilson Rothman...
...Outside of Broadway, these performers aren't household names. Menzel, the winner, played a bridesmaid in the indie movie "Kissing Jessica Stein." Murphy has some minor currency for Trekkies as Captain Picard's beloved Ba'ku babe in "Star Trek: Insurrection" or, for TV cultists, as Stanley Tucci's scheming wife on the first season of "Murder One." Pinkins' only non-Tony nomination was for Best Supporting Actress in a soap opera ("All My Children" in the early 90s). Chenoweth and D'Abruzzo have been seen, fleetingly, on "Sesame Street" - the first as Ms. Noodle, the second as a puppeteer...
Professor Emeritus Stanley Cavell recently published the book Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of Moral Life, which marries moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new philosophy of looking at life and learning to live with oneself...