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A8 Journal and Courier Monday March 13 2000 Movie stars viewed as Oscar favorites On the Net http7Avvvwsagawardscorn Screen Actors Guild award winners American director honored by guild Mendes EXTINCTION I Mutations a major source of concern Continued from Page A1 BEE off the cholesterol Continued from Page A1 On the Net WELLS faith has provided her with comfort Continued from Page A1 formers who went on to win Oscars in lead acting cate gories The guild has a 50 50 record on predicting Oscar winners for supporting roles inally he argues this threat to humanity is much greater than that of nuclear weapons because those are hard to build By contrast he says these new technologies are not hard to come by fered a glimpse of how the Oscars might shake out In the previous five awards shows the actors guild has chosen nine of the 10 per to replicate themselves He points to nanotechnol ogy the emerging science that seeks to create any de sired object on an atom by atom basis and agrees that it has the potential to allow inexpensive production of smart machines so small they could fit inside a blood ves sel Genetic technology mean while is inexorably generat ing the power to create new forms of life that could re produce What deeply worries him is that these technologies col lectively create the ability to be so good for your health But now no asking where the beef js US beef consumption rose 2 percent in 1999 to 662 pounds per person according to the US Department of Agriculture as the meat enjoyed its best year since the 1980s actoring in higher prices consumer spending on beef shot up 5 percent to $492 bil lion according to Chicago based marketing firm Tech Series: Edie alco The So pranos Ensemble Acting TV Dra ma Series: The Sopranos Male Actor TV Comedy Series: Michael ox Spin City emale Actor TV Come dy Series Lisa Kudrow riends Ensemble Acting TV Comedy Series rasier Male Actor TV Movies or Miniseries Jack Lemmon Oprah Winfrey Presents: Tuesdays With Morrie emale Actor TV Movie or Miniseries: Halle Berry in troducing Dorothy Dandridge Life Achievement Award: Sidney Poitier The Associated Press mother met until after his death of the things I al ways hear is that people re member him as a kind per Wells said care who you were or what walk of life you were from He would be willing to talk to you He care what semble acting think any of iis thought anyone would watch the show in the Gandolfini said figured people would just think it was a bunch of lunatics from New Sidney Poitier was honored with the life achieve ment award The tribute in cluded clips from such Poiti er films as Lillies of the ield To Sir With Love and In the Heat of the Night Like the Directors Guild of America awards held Satur day night the sixth annual Screen Actors ceremony of ty in January love to win an Oscar for the Mendes said this is an award in its own right because it comes from Before Spielberg received the lifetime award the audi ence viewed clips from his movies including Jaws Raiders of the Lost Ark Em pire of the Sun and times they say school There is a lot of fear in school a lot of people afraid 'Hie teen agers inspire her as does her faith spirituality I have made it aith that there is another life my belief that he has gone to a better place has provided a lot of She anticipates a tough test this spring Her accused killer is scheduled to stand trial April 11 in Tippecanoe Superior Court II Rahman is charged with murder robbery conspiracy to commit posses sion of marijuana and pos session of marijuana National Beef Association: By Reed SaxonThe Associated Press HONORED BY PEERS: Angelina Jolie displays her award Sun day night for Outstanding Performance by a emale Actor in a Supporting Role at the Sixth Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles Jolie won for her role in Girl Interrupted unleash self replicating mu tating mechanical or biologi cal plagues These would be replication attack in the physical comparable to the replication attack in the virtual world that recently caused the shutdowns of ma jor commercial Web sites you can let something loose that can make more copies of Joy said in a telephone interview is very difficult to recall It is as easy as eradicating all the mosquitoes: They are every where and make more of themselves If attacked they mutate and become immune That creates the ppssibil whose DreamWorks SKG time achievement award List studio released American Beauty you to the studio for giving a bloke from Eng land a movie about the American suburbs and let ting me make the movie I wanted to he said Mendes an acclaimed stage director won the guild en Globe for American Beau award for his first feature film It stars Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening as a couple whose dysfunctional relationship and their rela tionships with the people around them erupt The award was presented by Spielberg who won last guild award for Sav ing Private Ryan and this year received the life Here are winners of the 6th annual Screen Actors Guild awards: Male Actor Motion Picture: Kevin Spacey American Beauty emale Actress Motion Picture: Annette Bening American Beauty Supporting Male Acton Motion Picture: Michael Caine The Cider House Rules Supporting emale Actor Motion Picture: Angelina Jolie Girl Interrupted Cast Motion Picture: American Beauty Male Actor TV Drama Se ries: James Gandolfini The Sopranos emale Actor TV Drama Today she reaches out to the teens as well try to be very open and she said let them bring up the violence She wonders why some kids feel the need to carry guns ask why Is it coming from home from television? Many several competing baptismal sites along the river Most worrisome to the Palestini ans and to some extent the Israelis is that the itinerary which begins with a 27 hour visit to neigh boring Jordan includes a stop at a newly developed spot on the eastern bank of the river that the Jordanians claim is the site Biblical scholars say it is impossible to prove the loca tion of the baptismal site al though they do not discount the Jordanian claim Instead they say Christian pilgrims simply should believe that a visit to the Holy Land brings them close to the sites sacred to their faith Nonetheless Arafat is said to fear that if the pope tours the Jordanian site and does not also stop at the one near death about 20 of his friends met at Zion Cemetery in lora where he was buried They huddled over candles braving the chilly night air and said prayers shed tears and shared memories At 11 pm the time of his death a smaller group visited the Vil anyone else thought about lage Pantry where Wells was shot They held a second can dlelight vigil and left flowers was a good Wells said took away or at least helped us deal with the The memory of Lucas is still strong among his fellow students some of whom his than $1 million a month into economy and pro viding tax revenues to the governing Palestinian Au thority On the nearby bibli cal Mount of Temptation the sleek new cable cars a $10 investment by a wealthy Palestinian family are drawing tourists Although not as well known to most pilgrims as Bethlehem or Jerusalem Jericho also contains a num ber of Christian sites in cluding the sycamore tree under which the tax collec tor Zachariah is believed to have spoken with Jesus edge sacred site The most significant site is on the edge on the western shore of the Jordan River There according to many Christians Jesus was baptized by John or more than 1000 years Christians have been drawn to the area the remains of churches and monasteries hundreds of years old have been found nearby The baptismal site is in side a closed military zone that has been controlled by Israel since the 1967 Middle East War Nonetheless Arafat did ask the pope to visit it 'and his reasons illu minate some of the complex ities John Paul will face dur ing his Holy Land sojourn The spot known in Arabic as Kasar al Yehud is one of ity of empowering individuals for extreme evil If we do anything the risk is very high of one crazy person do ing something very What further concerns him is the huge profits from anv single advance that may Therefore he reasons the seem beneficial in itself It is always hard to see the big ger impact while you are in the vortex of a Joy wrote have long been driven by the overarching de sire to know that is the na ture of quest not stopping to notice that the progress to newer and more powerful technologies can take on a life of its The Directors Guild award firms up position as front runner for the Acade my Award on March 26 Only four times in the 52 year his tory of the Directors Guild awards has the winner failed to receive the Oscar Mendes also won a Gold has come back says Ray Lekan co owner of the 51 year old Paulina Market which had one of its best years ever in 1999 thanks to beef slowly becoming more popular again shaken off the choles terol onus the gray cloud been over it for so many he says Beefs glory days may hot last Production is forecast to fall 3 percent this year driv ing prices still higher because of the liquidation of breeding herds during down years And marketing research By David Germain The Associated Press LOS ANGELES An nette Bening and Kevin Spacey won top acting hon ors Sunday from the Screen Actors Guild for their roles as a dysfunctional couple in the suburban satire Ameri can Beauty positioning them as frontrunners at the Oscars later this month American Beauty also won the ensemble acting award The movie leads all contenders with eight Oscar The Oscars cer emony is March 26 Spacey who already has a supporting actor Oscar for The Usual Suspects thanked his American Beauty co stars saying they were reason I was able to come to work every He also praised director Sam Mendes and said this' is my best work you are the Bening thanked her co stars and family including husband Warren Beatty and their three children She is eight months pregnant with their fourth child thing to all the ac tresses out the 41 year old Bening said wait to have a baby Do it Angelina Jolie won the problem will not be states but rogue Joy acknowledges that to some people this may all sound like science fiction ter Y2K happen Some people will feel free to dis miss this saying everything will work Joy is less clear on how such a scenario could be pre vented The nationwide craze for the low carbohydrate high protein diet has made beef a diet staple for many Taking a page from the poultry cookbook the beef industry has been roasts to fully cooked ground beef and rrqcrowaveable pot roasts and stews it has been flooding supermarkets since late 1998 with heat and serve products that can be preparedin 10 minutes industrygotjthe mes said The casino which caters primarily to Israelis is re ported to be pouring more Jericho it will appear that a papal seal of approval has been given to the Jordanian claim Jericho and Pales tinian tourism thus might lose out in the race to cash in on the nearly 3 million people expected to Visit Israel and the Palestinian areas this year Late last month mayor made the case for his claim are 27 different sto ries in the Bible on the bap tism and 22 of these say that Jesus Christ was baptized on the Palestinian side of the Sidr declared course I heard this I read it But even if the pope wants to tour the site such a visit will require permission from the Israeli army Until six months ago Kasar al Yahud was open to pilgrims only a few times each year Now it is open five days a week but visits must still be arranged in advance Arafat also hopes to use the papal visit for his own po litical and diplomatic bene fit as do the Israelis for theirs Vatican officials have said the pope is determined to avoid such traps but the Palestinian Authority presi dent clearly wants the Jeri cho tour in part because it would allow him to stretch out the hours the pope spends in Palestinian ruled areas and shorten those spent in Israel ficer of the Natiotihl' Cattle Beef Association a skyrocketing in crease butitsavs consumers 1 enthusiasm for beef Several factors explain the ve nutrition In latest beefing up of America Among them: With the US economy soaring people are eating out provides zinc iron protein more than ever and high cost and several vitamins The items such as steaks and oth industry even claims er choice cuts of beef are more lean red meat can be part of popular a cholesterol lowering diet By Aynsley loydThe Associated Press BOOMING BUSINESS: Ed iglewicz owner of ancy oods in Skokie III leans on a dis play case during a busy Saturday afternoon His store registered a 1 3 percent increase in beef sales last year She has already sat through the trial of alleged nomic Inc xx 1 accomplice Kevin Davison Jr 17 Davison was acquitted of robbery and convicted of con spiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy to commit posses sion of marijuana Police say Davison and Rahman had planned to steal marijuana from Wells the night of the fatal shooting Davison is scheduled to be sentenced March 30 in Tippecanoe Superior Court II trial is a really difficult thing completely phys ically Wells said the murder trial I have no idea what to leads take Screen Actors Guild honors shows chicken wilf surpass stressing convenience and beef as meat of speed rom rotissene style choice by 2005 But last modest jump brought huge relief to an industry that has been standing in place while' those pesky birds chicken and turkey fly up from behind years seeing beef de sage says Chuck Levitt mand stabilize? meate analyst for AlbraiTrad Schroeder chief executive of jng Corp in Chicago knew il neeueu prepare more quick preparation A $30 million yearlong marketing tamnaiem have renewed interest and launched last fall' has what uwuvcuui vaiio tui aggiua I other words it beef is good for you The campaign focuses pn the nutrients beef nounced this year he is leav ing Spin City because of his fight with dis ease received the award for male actor in a comedy series for the second straight year were kind enough to give me one of these last ox said referring to the guild statue so you know they really scare small ox said backstage he plans to continue acting but wanted out pf the grind of a weekly TV series Besides working with a foundation ox said he plans to have fun just my kids to school that kind of stuff Just having five minutes to actually fig ure what the hell that crayon drawing Lisa Kudrow was honored as female actor in a comedy series for riends The cast of rasier won the ensemble acting award for a comedy series Edie alco and James Gan dolfini won female and male acting honors in a dramatic series for the acclaimed mob drama The Sopranos The supporting female actor HBO series also won for en award lor her take on a hos pitalized sociopath in Girl Interrupted Michael Caine took the supporting male ac tor honor for his role as an ether toking abortionist in The Cider House Rules Jolie also won a Golden Globe for Girl Interrupted and the guild award was another boost for her Oscar prospects very aware of how an Oscar can help your Jolie said backstage sounds corny but the nomi nation my first time maybe my only time and going to enjoy Michael ox who an By David Germain The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The di rector of Oscar nominated American Beauty won the top award from the Di rectors Guild of America for his dark satire of suburban family strife In accept ing the award Saturday night Sam Mendes talked about the di rectors who have influenced his work including Alfred Hitchcock Billy Wilder and Clint Eastwood And he thanked Steven Spielberg love them all he said backstage I love List just a little bit Spielberg also paid trib ute to his directing heroes including Orson Welles Aki ra Kurosawa and Robert Wise thanking Wise for ting me sneak onto the set of The Spielberg is one of the four past Directors Guild winners who did not win an Oscar for The Color Purple in 1985 The others were Anthony Harvey for The Lion in Win ter from 1968 rancis ord Coppola for The Godfather from 1972 and Ron Howard for ApoZZo 13 from 1995 town where the biblical Joshua fought his legendary battle might get a miss this time say officials close to the visit Casino draws Israelis This town of 15000 boasts a cable car ride a sprawling resort village a modem soc cer stadium and a $50 mil By Rebecca Trounson Los Angeles Times JERICHO West Bank Granted Yasser Arafat said the visit of Pope John Paul II to the Holy Land later this month was shaping up as an arduous jampacked journey But might his holiness con sent to add one short stop: in Jericho believed tobe the oldest inhabited town? lion casino all of which have Hosting Arafat at the Vat opened in the last two years ican last month the pope gra In the works are a high rise ciously accepted the invita hotel an international air tion But first he had a ques port and major infrastructure tion for the Palestinian leader projects to upgrade according to accounts of the water and roads system meeting circulating here: A European style health Where exactly is Jericho? spa designed to compete with The Palestinians ytere un popular Israeli resorts on the daunted by the mo Dead Sea Just to the sputh is inentary lapse If John Paul under discussion the mayor stops oencno uunng ms six day Holy Land tour it will give a significant boost to their ef forts to put this ancient palm studded basis on the map as a destination for Christian pil grims and other tourists After all says Mayor Ab del Karim Sidr Christian tra dition might hold that Jesus was bom in Bethlehem spent his youth in Nazareth and was crucified arid resurrected in Jerusalem he came five times to says the mayor a devout Muslim with unabashed enthusiasm for his Christian tourism potential think the pope should visit Jericho The itinerary for the March 21 26 visit is still in flux and a stop in Palestin ian ruled Jericho has not been confirmed Some offi cials arranging the tour say the llth hour addi tion would create unneces sary complications in a sched ule already burdened by re ligious political and cultur al considerations The carefully balanced itin erary announced so far in cludes visits to the Western Wall most sacred site and Al Aqsa mosque the third holiest spot in Islam The pope will meet Jewish Mus lim and Christian religious leaders as well as Israeli and Palestinian political figures Bowing to sensitivities on both sides he will tour Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and a Palestinian refugee camp near Bethlehem Given all that the little lldq Jericho pushing for papal appearance 1 I i 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