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The www.sctimes.comIife Linda Taylor. Life editor. 255-8748 -77- 0 WfTSi Carolyn Hax 1 mw" HotDeh Compiled from Tunes staff and news services 'The Grudge' ousts 'Shark Tale' Make a positive life change by being a re Inside Brokaw prepares for his final election broadcast3C LOS ANGELES Movie-goers hold no grudges against Sarah Michelle Gellar, but they apparently have a beef with Ben Affleck. Gellar's fright flick "The Grudge" St. Cloud Times Monday, Oct.

25, 2004 1C la Ml got a jump on Halloween with a $40 million opening weekend to debut at No. 1, while Affleck delivered a holiday turkey with "Surviving Christmas," his critically drubbed comedy that came in No. 7 with just Sarah Michelle Gellar (est he stage $4.5 million. "Shark Tale," the top movie for three straight weekends, slipped to second with $14.3 million, lifting its total to $136.9 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Cooking with Becky Telfair St.

Cloud Woman's )assion jecomes a business ByAmyBowen abowenstcloudtimes.com Becky Telfair knows how to cook. The St Cloud woman combined her food skills with what she learned as a hair stylist. She started Rebecca Cooks, a personal chef service, I Newsmakers JACKSON. Wyo. Actor Harrison Ford is drawing the line if4' if right at his property against state ef-l forts to thin the elk herd.

Elk living near Fnrrl'c ranrh holnna to the larger Fall Unison Ford about a year mmm fx Creek Herd, which numbers 5,100, exceeding the state's population objective of 4,400 animals. State officials want to thin the heard to protect cottonwood habitat on the Snake River. They also are concerned about elk mingling with cattle because'of the potential for transmitting diseases and because elk may damage stored hay. ago. She's not a caterer.

Telfair does everything for her clients from meal HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Actress Marion Ross is 76. Actor Tony Franciosa is 76. Country singer Jeanne Black is 67. Singer Helen Reddy is 63. Rock musician Glen Tipton (Judas Priest) is 56.

Actor Brian Kerwin is 55. Actress Nancy Cartwright is 47. Country singer Mark Miller (Sawyer Brown) is 46. Rock musician Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 42. Actress Tracy Nelson is 41.

Actor Michael Boatman is 40. a Rock musician Ed Robertson Ladies) is 34. On the tube 'THE BROOKE ELLISON STORY' 7 and 9 p.m. Brooke Ellison true-life story would be extraordinary no matter who was telling! Photo courtesy of Grand Cas.no Comic legend performs this weekend at Grand Casino Mille Lacs it. Here, however, it is in masterful hands.

Christopher Reeve directed what would be his final completed project before his planning to Becky Telfair preparing the food in the clients' homes. She'll even bring her own cookware. Eventually, Telfair would like to run her business full time, she said. Why do this? I love cooking, and I know the career I have had for the last 32 years (is one) I can't have forever. I'm looking for a career change, and because of my passion for food, it was a logical way to go.

What made you think of this career? To get involved in becoming a personal chef, moneywise, it doesn't take a lot to get involved. How do you create menus? The menus are actually customized for each client through the United States Personal Chef Association. It has ongoing education. They're continually sending us information on how to upgrade our skills, but it's ultimately what the customer wants. If they have a favorite recipe, I'll make it Describe your clientele.

For the most part, I've worked with people who are eager to try something new. I've taught small cooking classes in the home, and I really enjoy that Have you always liked to cook? I've been cooking since I was 6 years old. However, I picked up some of my passion for cooking from my grandmother. I have always loved to experiment with food. What makes a person a great cook? You have to be a risk taker.

You have to be able to experiment with recipes, different ingredients and different tools. See PASSION, 3C Shrimp chowder recipe3C Brooke Ellison death. He gives the film a tone of intelligent understatement. He also has a superb cast. Ellison is played first by Vanessa Marano (as a cheery seventh grader, suddenly paralyzed by a traffic accident) and then by Lacey Chabert (as a brainy student in high school, college and grad school).

John Slattery is her dad, struggling with paperwork. The star of the film, however, is Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Brooke's mom. For 14 years, Jean Ellison has put her life on hold while living and working with her daughter. This is a moving story, told with restraint and humanity by the talented Reeve and Mastrantonio. More listings.

Page 2C. Chicago times One of Newhart's most surreal experiences of the year was seeing the unveiling of his statue in Chicago. "It was at a place I walked by a billion times," he said. Newhart grew up in Chicago and graduated from Loyola University in 1952. Before he started working the comedy club circuit, Newhart worked as an accountant and supplemented his income with radio comedy sketches.

Some of his tapes were discovered by Warner Brothers, and the rest is history. But what would have happened if he hadn't jumped ship for comedy? "I probably would've been with Enron doing funny books he said in his trademark monotone. Newhart was nominated for an Emmy Award for "guest actor in a drama series" for his three-episode stint on ER last spring. He's also completed work on "The Librarian," a TNT television movie starring Noah Wyle. The movie, which Newhart describes as 'The Da Vinci Code' meets 'Indiana is set to air in December on TNT.

"I enjoy television very much. I love the impact," Newhart said. "The power of television is enormous." Content But all of this television work doesn't mean Newhart would ever want another regular show. "It's a different time," he said, referring to the content airing on networks. "I'm very content with my contribution to television." By Liz Kohman lkohmanstcloudtimes.com In the past year, Bob Newhart's been blind on ER, pranced in tights on the big screen in "Elf" and witnessed the unveiling of his statue in Chicago.

The legendary comedian's horizons just keep expanding with age and so does his audience. Although he mastered the art of sitcom with "The Bob Newhart Show" from 1972 to 1978 and "Newhart" from 1982 to 1990 and successfully dabbled in movies, the stage still beckons Newhart He performs this weekend at Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Onamia. "In stand-up, it's the laughter. You go out there and make them have a good time," he said in a phone interview. "You just have to feel good about that." If you Who: Bob Newhart.

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Where: Grand Casino Mille Lacs Event Center, Onamia. Tickets: $25 to $32. Available at Grand Casino box offices and Ticketmas-ter.

Information: www. bobnewhart.com. The comedian has also been busy on the big screen. He co-starred with Reese Witherspoon in "Legally Blonde II: Red, White and Blonde," and played Will Ferrell's elf father in "Elf." "I was surprised when I went in for a wardrobe fitting," Newhart said. His character wore tights and a little suit, fitting of an elf.

"It was like someone was hugging you all day long." Web sitings WWW.NETFAMILYNEWS.ORG INDEX.SHTML This terrific site looks to keep the parents of tech-sawy kids up to speed on everything from IM culture to piracy and privacy. Book outlines new plan for a healthy marriage I Household tip I Free a tongue stuck to frozen I metal in winter by spraying WD-40 around the tongue. (,,: Source: "Joey Green's Encyclopedia of Offbeat Uses for Brand-Name Products," by Joey Green. Monday Family Family columnist Susan Reimer LA. Times Washington Post columnist They said it "A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles." Chinese proverb has been lost Fertel's approach requires that couples put the marriage first, with date nights and weekends away and a level of attentiveness to each other that most of us have not experienced since the early, heady days of dating.

These are not new ideas, and I have no doubt that shifting focus away from work or kids and back to the partner you have chosen for life is a good thing. But it is more difficult than ever because of the economic and time pressures under which families struggle today. Fertel believes the best thing we can do for our children is to provide them with the example, as well as the emotional comfort, of a good marriage. "If someone is having an affair, they know they are doing something wrong," he said. "But if the marriage is suffering because they are trying to be good parents, it is a righteous mistake, and the hardest one to see." Fertel made a fortune from a mail-order business he started and then sold.

The Wharton School of Business graduate is hoping this will be his next empire, but it will be one in which he passionately believes. Now the father of a 7-year-old boy and 3-year-old triplets (two boys and a girl), he is evidence that it is possible to put your marriage first, no matter what the level of chaos in the house. Susan Reimer is a columnist for the Baltimore Sun. She has published a collection of her columns in the book, "Motherhood Is a Contact Sport" You don't realize how out of shape you are until you are forced to climb a long flight of stairs, and the same can be said about marriage. You never know how out of shape your relationship is until a crisis hits.

Mort and Ari Fertel, who recently moved to Maryland from Florida, faced a more tragic crisis than most They lost a son and then twin daughters after only days of life, and they escaped their pain by running away from each other. "My wife became very depressed, and I immersed myself in work," Mort Fertel said. "But we didn't want to lose each other. We had lost enough. So we began to work on our marriage." That is the genesis of "Mar- help us reconnect, and there was nothing there," he said.

"We needed a new way of thinking about marriage." So, he wrote one himself, demystifying "love" and recommending steps to get your marriage back into shape. "That deep love which any expert would agree is the goal of marriage is perceived as a mystery," Fertel writes, achieved by accident and easily lost But he believes there are "laws" governing the health of a marriage just as diet and exercise determine your physical health. He recommends steps to "reconnect" with your spouse and rediscover the love that riage Fitness" (MarriageMax a new book as well as an approach to marriage that evolved from the Fertels' disappointment with traditional marriage counseling techniques: conflict resolution or effective communication. Neither enjoyed spending an hour a week digging up the past. And the communication techniques just helped them tell each other how miserable each was.

"I spent hours in libraries and bookstores looking for an approach or an expert that would Fight the flu There's debate about whether vitamins and herbal products help prevent the flu. A better bet is to pack your diet with foods rich in vitamin C. Ann Arbor registered dietitian Diana Dyer suggests oranges, grapefruit, kiwi, berries, carrots, sweet potatoes, sweet pepper, tomatoes, spinach, kale, broccoli, cabbage and brussels sprouts. She also recommends foods high in vitamin including avocados, nuts, seeds and wheat germ, as well as tuna, herring, mackerel and other fatty fishes, to help make white blood cells that fight infection..