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D2 THE NEWS-PRESS, LIFESTYLES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2005 CELEBRITY BUZZ CHRIS WADSW0RTH WBBH history becomes a little clearer if i milestone in the world of televi-sioa The ubiquitous weekly TV Guide underwent a transformation. Instead of the digest-sized tome of the last 50-plus years, readers found a full-blown, magazine-sized version in their mailboxes and on newsstands. The publication now has a heavier emphasis on celebrity news and offers more detailed "national" television listings. "National" is the key word there. Local listings such as WINK-TV, Fox4 and NBC2 no longer appear in TV Guide.

If part of an effort to cut costs and attract new subscribers after years of declining readership. Now for a shameless plug: Southwest Florida television fans looking for local listings can turn to the Teleview section Sundays in The News-Press. Chris worked in television news for 10 years before coming to The News-Press. If you have news tips or questions about local television and radio broadcasters, please contact Chris by e-mail or by phone at 344-4863. average household receives around 100 channels with poker and gardening shows and other niche programs giving people a greater chance of finding something they want to watch.

COMINGS GOINGS NBC2 sports reporter Chris Long has been promoted to weekend sports anchor, following the departure of Dan Sheldon Also Kara Kenney from South Bend, Ind, is the new Collier County reporter. Across the hall on ABC7, former morning anchor Dave Leval has left for a job in Huntsville, Ala, after he was bumped to a reporting position. Meanwhile, Heather Klein, coincidentally coming from Huntsville, is the new ABC7 Collier County reporter. Later this month, Carlos Torres from Dothan, Ala, will start at ABC7. He'll report for the station's new 10 am show.

NEW TV GUIDE Last week marked a major A few weeks back, I wrote about the interesting histories behind the call letters of local television stations. At the time, we were able to identify Joe Buerry as one of the B's in WBBH (NBC2) and Howard Hoffman as the but no one knew who the other was. A copy of that article made its way to Buerry, who now sells advertising for KWNR-FM, a country music station in Las Vegas. Turns out the other was for Jackson Burgess, a wealthy area man who was the first investor to sign on to the startup station. Eventually, a total of eight men, including four local doctors, launched WBBH on Dec 18, 1968.

"It was an exciting period of my life," said Buerry, who chose the call letters himself and says the first stands for his last name. Tve got some ego being a salesperson." After leaving WBBH, Buerry went on to manage WEVU-TV (now WZVN-TV ABC7) for six years before heading west Over the years, he lost touch with Mary-Kate Olsen drops out of NYU NEW YORK What would Bob Saget say about this? Mary-Kate Olsen, who shared die role of Michelle with her twin sister, Ashley, on the 1980s comedy "Full House," has dropped out of college, early in her sophomore year, according to a published report "Mary-Kate Olsen has taken an approved leave of absence from New York University to focus on her increasing responsibilities as co-president of Duals tar Entertainment Group and to pursue personal interests," her publicist, Michael Fagnotta, was quoted on People magazine's Web site Friday. Olsen's twin sister, Ashley, also co-president of Dualstar, will remain at NYU. A message to Pagnotta from The Associated Press wasn't immediately returned Friday. Mary-Kate, 19, spent six weeks at a treatment center for an eating disorder in summer 2004.

Since starting out as babies on "Full House" Saget played their father the twins have created a multimedia empire with a clothing line, feature films, direct-to-video movies and other merchandise. Mary-Kate, a brunette, and Ashley, who is blond, became co-presidents of Dualstar when they turned 18. Each is estimated to be worth more than $150 million. Sen. Clinton to escort talk-show hostess BURBANK, CALIF.

Ellen DeGeneres will get a fancy tour guide when she takes her talk show to Manhattan next month. New York Sea Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed to DEAR ABBY Doing 21 rite of passage alcoholic shots foolish show DeGeneres around the city during the comedian's Thanksgiving Week visit "We'll go DEGENERES see some theater, and we'll hang out and do some stuff there. We'll go to clubs," DeGeneres said during Thursday's taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." DEAR ABBY: I am the mother of four children, ages 18 to 25. A "practice" they discuss among their friends is the "rite of turning 21," which is to drink 21 shots of hard alcohol I'd like to think my children are intelligent and informed enough to know how dangerous this could be, but when I mention it I get the standby, "Everyone does it" or "It's fine." I worry myself sick over this, not only for my own kids, but for all young adults. Please shed BRIDGE: FAMOUS NORTH 97 AKQ1098 KQJ83 WEST KJ Y97653 J643 4102 EAST 41086532 YA1042 A74 SOUTH AQ4 YKQJ8 752 965 MEDIA MATTERS Hoffman, Burgess and the others and doesn't know where they are today.

A search of The News-Press archives also turned up no details on the current whereabouts of the men. WHOLE LOTTA TV WATCHIN' GOING ON According to Nielsen Media Research, which measures television viewing in the United States, the average American family views eight hours and 11 minutes of television each day. That's up 10 minutes from the year before and up 56 minutes from a decade ago. Industry watchers attribute some of this to the explosion of cable channels available. The 'J life.

DEAR ABBY www.dearabby.com some light on this practice. Perhaps they will listen to you. I'm not naive enough to think they won't drink, but 21 HAND It goes without saying that partners are not supposed to discuss a hand while it's in progress. This is especially true of" the two defenders. Of course, we all know that in many bridge games the chatty ones this rule is broken all the time.

The most famous hand on record where this rule was violated was, surprisingly enough, in a national pair championship some years ago, with four Life Masters at the table. The bidding was astonishing. South should have passed but opened one club. He had traveled hundreds of miles to play in the event had paid his entry fee and East Dble could overturn a habit that was considered just another regular part of your routine. SAGITTARIUS (Nov.

22-Dec. 21) Suddenly, the potential of a situation crystallizes in your mind. Envisioning is halfway to making it so. Hold the image in your head as you go through your daily activities. CAPRICORN (Dec.

22-Jan. 19) When you hear people talking around the proverbial water cooler, you'll wonder what happened to good old-fashioned compassion. Be the example. Lost souls will be enlightened by your view. AQUARIUS (Jan.

20-Feb. 18) Pull out that list of places you'd like to go "someday." Your someday is coming, and this is the ideal time to find a decent price for transportatioa Exceptional luck with the opposite sex FRIDAY LADIES' NIGHT Ladies Drink Any Drink FREE 7-12 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO Mary-Kate Olsen (right) and Ashley Olsen arrive at a party at New York's Museum of Natural History in September 2004. "You'll go to the clubs," Clinton replied. DeGeneres also congratulated Clinton on her 30-year marriage to former President Clinton. "He's the kind of person you really want to be married to for 30 years because he washes dishes," Clinton said.

She added that Clinton is feeling much better since his heart bypass surgery and is working hard on his foundation and other international efforts. Penn Teller appear in underwater TV show NEW YORK Penn Teller will go "Off the Deep End" in an NBC special to air Nov. 13. The two-hour show will be the first magic special ever performed entirely underwater, NBC said Wednesday. It was filmed in the Caribbean, off the coast of Grand Cayman and the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas.

Penn Teller will make a submarine "disappear," do tricks with sharks and "psychic" dolphins, and perform a new "superillusion" in which they walk on water. "We've been living in the Las Vegas desert for years. Nothing but cactus, sand, scorpions and Wayne Newton," Penn Jil-lette, the vocal half of the duo, said in a statement "And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking." The Associated Press Herons Glen Golf and Country Club RESTAURANT GRAND BALLROOM Open To The Public Let us set the stage fir lasting Reception! up to 400 people 6,000 square-foot Ballroom Breathtaking Country Club Setting Herom Neat Reitaurant (239) 731-4545 www.heronsglenballroom.com shots is not the best birthday gift to themselves. WORRIED MOM, MISSOULA, MONT.

DEAR WORRIED MOM: Your children are mistaken. Binge drinking isn't "fine" and not everybody does it Rapid consumption of alcohol, particularly in large amounts, is extremely dangerous. It has been known to cause severe illness, coma and even death. This is a topic that has wanted his money's worth. West, clearly a great believer in the right of free speech, then made a takeout double that did not fit the minimal requirements for that bid in any respect North, who didn't know what was going on but knew a good hand when he saw one, made the sensible bid of six clubs.

East looking at two aces, didn't care what was going on, and vociferously expressed his doubt that this contract could be made. West on lead, struggled a while and finally tried the king of spades as a desperate measure. Declarer gratefully won with the ace and led a club to the jack, losing to the ace. East returned a spade, and when South won with the queen, East almost fell off his chair. After declarer led a club to the queen, collecting West's ten, East also is featured.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Your faith has been strong, but you need to see tangible results now. Ask for a sign, and the stars deliver one right away. You'll not only be inspired by it, but you'll also inspire others. ARIES (March 21-April 19) It's not that you're old, but you are in a rather mellow mood.

With all the stress in your life lately, you look forward to being "chilled out" Dining in and watching a movie might be all the excitement you need. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Something you thought was over is really just beginning. Surprises like this make you doubt your intuitioa Don't worry. Your intuition hasn't failed you were thinking too smalL GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Seriousness is overrated. What DREAM BIRTHDAYS OCTOBER 17, 2005 Actress Marsha Hunt is 88.

Actor Tom Poston is 84. Actress Beverly Garland is 79. Actress Julie Adams is 79. Daredevil Evel Knievel is 67. Country singer Earl Thomas Conley is 64.

Singer Jim Seals (Seals Crofts) is 63. Singer Gary Puckett is 63. Actor Michael McKean is 58. Actress Margot Kidder is 57. Actor George Wendt is 57.

Actor Bill Hudson is 56. Actor Sam Bottoms is 50. Astronaut Mae Jemison is 49. Country singer Alan Jackson is 47. Movie director Rob Marshall is 45.

Animator Mike Judge is 43. Actor-comedian Norm Macdonald is 42. Singer Rene' Dif is 38. Reggae singer Ziggy Marley is 37. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick ('N Sync) is 34.

Rapper Eminem is 33. Singer Wyclef Jean is 33. Actress Sharon Leal is 33. Rock musician Sergio Andrade is 28. South dealer.

Neither side vulnerable. The bidding: South West North 1 Dble 6 Opening lead king of spades. appeared in my column before, in the form of letters from concerned members of the healthcare profession and from grieving parents. The rite of passage that your children are dis- -cussing can be a "passage" right out of this life and into the next Only a fool or someone very immature would take that kind of risk. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O.

Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. BY STEVE BECKER could contain himself no longer. He leaned forward, red-faced, and whispered to his partner so gently it could be heard at the far end of the room: "You idiot! You could have led a heart, a diamond or a club, and we would have beaten the hand. Instead, your nimble brain had to pick a spade." South, who was neither blind nor deaf, greeted this information with cocked ear. He knew East to be a good analyst and if East thought a diamond lead could beat the hand, it meant East was void.

So declarer played a club to his nine, drawing East's last trump, then led a diamond and finessed dummy's eight He had to, to make the slam. Tomorrow: Point count is doubly usefuL you need is a bit of ridiculousness to put everything back in the proper CANCER (June 22-July 22) You can't close your heart not even if you try. You're so sensitive to what people need and how they feel now. It's nearly impossible for you not to do something to try to make the situation better. LEO (Jury 23-Aug.

22) It not so wrong to dream about a thriving business, the big house and the expensive car. But it's not about what you acquire, it's who you become along the way. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept 22) You're hardwired to believe that you must always be moving in order to be productive, but it's not true. Inspiration comes when you are most relaxed.

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In 193L, mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. (He was released in 1939.) In 1933, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany. In 1941, the U.S. destroyer Kearney was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Iceland; 11 people died. HOROSCOPES TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (October 17) This year is huge for you in terms of leaping to the next level of fulfillment in many areas of your life.

Over the next three months, you simultaneously shed old ways and submit to new rules. Family supports your radical decision in December. Travel goes well then, and you could decide to move, too. Aries and Gemini are affectionate partners. Your lucky numbers are: 26, LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct.

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