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D2 THE HARTFORD COURANT Saturday, January 6, 2001 PAT SEREMET'S 111 EVERYDAY i i 4 Faircloth, according to Women's Wear Daily. A sketch of the column dress, which will take three women 100 hours to complete, was unveiled in Thursday's edition of the fashion-industry newspaper. Faircloth, who has a studio at the upscale Dallas boutique Lilly Dodson, designs nearly all of Bush's daytime and social-occasion clothes. He met Bush in 1993, just before her husband became Texas governor. It took just moments for Crawford, Texas, before Bush leaves for Washington.

"That way it will be even more closely guarded by the Secret Service," he said. Bush's mother-in-law, Barbara, wore a sapphire-blue satin-and-velvet gown to the 1989 inaugural festivities. Hillary Rodham Clinton chose a blue-violet beaded gown with sweeping overskirt for the 1993 inaugural balls and a glittering gold gown in 1997. Mel Scouting Locations For Vietnam Picture i i i 3 i Bush to choose the inaugural gown. "I know Laura and her taste really well," the 41-year-old designer told Women's Wear.

"It's all about Mel Gibson this week was scouting possible locations for a proposed Vietnam film in Cusseta, a west Geor ASSOCIATED PRESS MARK LENNIHAN DESIGNER BETSEY JOHNSON, left, and her daughter, Lulu, who covers up after her dress flew open, walk down the runway following Betsey's spring 2001 show in New York in September. The Wethersfield native has been named Jane magazine's gutsiest woman of the year. classics and inter preting them for court ruling that the creators of "Seinfeld" did not violate Michael Costanza's privacy rights when they created the character. The Long Island man sought $100 million. Costanza, 43, claimed the defendants violated his privacy rights by using his "name, likeness and persona" to create the neurotic and nutty character.

Costanza said he and Seinfeld had been friends at Queens College. He said he and the sitcom's Costanza, played by Jason Alexander, had similar physical and personality traits. "Seinfeld" publicists say the character was based on Larry David, the show's chief producer. Today's Birthdays Pollster Louis Harris is 80. Bluegrass performer Earl Scruggs is 77.

Former automaker John Z. DeLorean is 76. Author E.L Doctorow is 70. Singer Doris Troy is 64. Actress Bonnie Franklin is 57.

Rock musician Kim Wilson (the Fabulous Thunder-birds) is 50. Singer Jett Williams is 48. Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is 48. Movie director Anthony Minghella is 47. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson (Mr.

Bean) is 46. Golfer Nancy Lopez is 44. singer Eric Williams (BLACK-street) is 41. Rock musician Michael Houser (Widespread Panic) is 39. John Singleton is 33.

Actor Danny Pintauro the is 25. Wire Reports Included gia town bordering Fort Ben- -4- -i A i rung. Sur 7 A her style. She's an extremely intelligent woman with lots of self-confidence, and she The Gutsy Designer Viewed Thighs And Tits Wethersfield-born kooky New York designer Betsey Johnson has been named one of the gutsiest women of 2000 by Jane magazine. Why? Because Johnson sent former Playboy playmates, instead of skinny models, down the runway during New York Fashion Week in September.

The JanuaryFebruary issue of Jane says, "It was refreshing to see soft thighs, a little belly and (gasp!) a zit here and there being flaunted so unapologetically." Other "gutsy" picks by the magazine's editors include: Elaina Richardson, president of Yaddo, an artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Ruth Simmons, president of Brown University; and feminist Gloria Stein-em. The magazine's wimpiest women of 2000 include rapper Lil' Kim and wild-child hotel heiress Paris Hilton. Love Lost Her Footing Courtney Love is suing her boyfriend's ex-wife, claiming the woman ran over her foot in a Volvo costing her a movie role and is "on a mission to destroy her." The Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit claims Lesley Barber is "obsessed" with Love because she blames the singer-actress for the end of her marriage to Jim Barber. The complaint, filed Dec. 15, alleges assault, battery, trespassing, infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy.

It seeks damages in excess of $1.5 million and an injunction against Barber to "prevent further harm." Love claims that since April 1999, Barber has en- rounded by admiring Feb. 3 at a concert featuring gospel, pop and classical music. "I cannot think of a finer way to honor one of the world's most compassionate and generous women," Norman Easter- 8 VA. I aitresses at the Four Winds res- knows what works for her." Faircloth also designed taurant, he ASSOCIATED PRESS CAN LIFE GET ANY BETTER as a blonde? Gone-blond golfer Tiger Woods watches Florida State play Oklahoma during the Orange Bowl Wednesday at Miami's Pro Player Stadium. was a commander with the 11th Air Assault Division in the 1965 battle of la Drang Valley, the American forces' first major confrontation with North Vietnamese Army regulars.

Court: Kot That There's Anything Wrong With That Jerry Seinfeld is the master of his former television domain. He and his producers won a New York appeals court ruling that says a lawsuit over the George Costanza character should be dismissed. The unanimous decision by the State Supreme Court's Appellate Division on Thursday upheld a lower a peacock- pointed toward retired Lt Gen. Hal Moore and colored wool boucle suit with brown stitching and a blue overcoat wmspereu: "He's the real brook, the theater's general director, said. The theater's auditorium was named for former President Carter, who "was born in near trimmed with hero." Moore, co-author of the "We Were Sol camel hair for Bush to gaged in a "campaign of stalking and harassment" against her, hiring private investigators to spy on her, pestering her with prank calls and threats, and, on June 4, driving straight at her in a Volvo.

Love says she jumped out of the way but the car rolled over her foot As a result, Love says, she was unable to complete physical training for the upcoming film "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars," and lost the role. Natasha Hen-stridge now stars in the movie, which is due in theaters in August. It's Not A Battleship, But It'll Have To Do A new 6-foot Steinway grand piano at the recently renovated Rylander Theatre in Americus, will be dedicated in honor of former first lady Rosalynn Carter. Carter's friends and Rylander supporters bought the piano, to be dedicated wear at the swearing- diers Once and in ceremony, the Young," smiled when newspaper said. LAURA BUSH He plans to hand-deliver the inaugural he heard Gibson's remark, then said Gibson could play him in a movie based on the 1992 book.

"I had always thought that wardrobe to by Plains, at his 75th birthday celebration in 1999. Laura Bush Goes Bold Laura Bush will be the lady in red at the inaugural balls Jan. 20. the Bush i family t' John Wayne rancn. KrS.

would have been in the ideal choice. But Mel will She chose a red-scoop-neck, embroidered gown by Dallas- do." Moore, who lives in Auburn, HAVE A TIP FOR PAT? Pat Seremet can be reached by e-mail at Seremetcourant.com or by phone at 860-241-6742 or 800-524-4242, Ext 6742. based designer Michael The Not So Little Dirty Secrets About Fast Food Cooking With Beer MARY JO K0CHAK1AN FAMILY AFFAIRS and old newspapers used as litter, are also being fed to cattle. A study published a few years ago in Preventive Medicine found that in Arkansas, 3 million pounds of chicken manure were fed to cattle in 1994. According to Dr.

Neal D. Bernard, who heads the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, "chicken manure may contain dangerous bacteria as salmonella and Campylobacter, parasites such as tapeworms antibiotic residues, arsenic and heavy metals." At my house, at least, the fast food is over. Mary Jo Kochakian can be reached via email at slaughterhouse, the story is stomach-turning. "Far from their natural habitat, the cattle in feedlots become more prone to all sorts of illnesses. And what they are being fed often contributes to the spread of disease.

The rise in grain prices has encouraged the feeding of less expensive materials to cattle, especially substances with a high protein content that accelerate growth Current FDA regulations allow dead pigs and dead horses to be rendered into cattle feed, along with dead poultry. The regulations not only allow cattle to be fed dead poultry, they allow poultry to be fed dead cattle," he writes. Also, "the waste products from poultry plants, including the sawdust has changed the labor market agriculture, meat production and has been especially effective in resisting government attempts at regulation. Schlosser spends time with fast-food workers in Colorado and with a guy who's trying to make a go of a franchise. He checks into the flavor industry, which happens to be located along the New Jersey Turnpike, to report on what qualifies as "natural." Chapter 7, though, is where you leave burgers behind, as Schlosser reports on the transformed meatpacking industry.

A generation ago, meat cutting was a well-paid union job, and ground beef was produced locally. Now massive slaughterhouses pay little and rely on uneducated immigrants to take the wretched jobs. There are issues of food safety as well as justice. "American meat production has never before been so centralized: Thirteen large packinghouses now slaughter most of the beef consumed in the United States. The meatpacking system that arose to supply the nation's fast-food chains an industry molded to serve their needs, to provide massive amounts of uniform ground beef so that all of McDonald's hamburgers would taste the same has proved to be an extremely efficient system for spreading disease," Schlosser writes.

The dangers of E. coli have been well reported, Schlosser writes, but the problem is larger "Over the past two decades scientists have discovered more than a dozen other new food borne pathogens." On a packinghouse "kill floor" Schlosser sees poorly trained workers rushing to keep up with the line of carcasses. "The slaughterhouse tasks most likely to contaminate meat are the removal of an animal's hide and the removal of the digestive system. The hides are now pulled off by machine; if a hide has been inadequately cleaned, chunks of dirt and manure may fall from it onto the meat Stomachs and intestines are still pulled out of cattle by hand; if the job is not performed carefully, the contents of the digestive system may spill everywhere. The increased speed of today's production lines makes the task much more difficult." So, very often, feces wind up in the meat Meatpackers have fought off efforts at greater regulation.

Incredibly, the government has no authority to demand a recall of contaminated meat. "It can only consult with a company that has shipped bad meat and suggest that it withdraw the meat from interstate commerce," Schlosser writes. In a 1997 E. coli outbreak at Hudson Foods in Columbus, the company waited weeks before issuing any kind of announcement about tainted meat, then announced a voluntary recall of 20,000 pounds of ground beef. As food-safety advocates and the media paid attention, the recall began expanding, eventually extending "to 35 million pounds, most of which had already been eaten." Even before cattle arrive at the Co to one.

wnmH You and fast food: It's over. Here is a certain end to our filthy habit of feeding kids at the trough of the drive-through. Once you read "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser and you should that will be the end of your cheeseburger procurements. "Filthy," we find, is an appropriate word. But there is so much to this investigation of what fast food has wrought where to begin? Schlosser, a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, begins rather slowly, at the genesis of McDonald's, which, innocently enough, was just a postwar California burger stand.

You might even be lulled into thinking the book is more hand wringing or ranting over suburban sprawl, ugly plastic signs, icky food, etc. Hardly. There's no snide attitude here. Rather, a long, hard look at an oddly ignored behemoth. (Plus, some laughs along the route to utter disgust.) Fast food has changed culture, particularly in its unimpeded exploitation of kids with toys and tie-ins.

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