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66 THE HERALD 4A FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2004 people AND FROM COMPILED WIRE HERALD BY REPORTS STAFF MICHAEL HAMERSLY BIRTHDAYS Comedian Dick Martin is 82. Actor Gene Hackman is 74. Actress Vanessa Redgrave is 67. Vice President Dick Cheney is 63. Singer Jody Watley is 45.

Actor Christian Bale is 30. Actor Wilmer Valderrama is 24. Local twist Jennifer Lopez is "brokenhearted" over her split with Ben Affleck a breakup partly caused by the couple's inability to choose between living in her Miami Beach mansion or his Hampton Island, estate. J.Lo was even planning her wedding right up until the dinner where the split occurred, reports the New York Daily News. The Bronx bombshell has talked for the first time about the painful breakup from her Gigli costar, who would have become her third husband.

"I am extremely brokenhearted," Lopez told Star magazine's Victoria Gotti. "I put enormous effort into my relationship with Ben, but in the end, I realized I needed to put my personal and professional life back together." Lopez's rep claimed, "Miss Lopez has not, and will not, talk to the press." But Gotti says "the quotes are unequivocally and completely above board and on the record." Even though Ben's gambling and his reluctance to Carter and Hilton From sex star to wedding belle? Hotel heir-head Paris Hilton and new Backstreet boyfriend Nick Carter are reportedly plotting to copy Britney Spears and marry in a Las Vegas chapel, reports IMDB.com. The sexy socialite and Carter have been inseparable since they started dating just after Christmas, and now they're planning to exchange wedding vows in a romantic Valentine's Day ceremony. "When they are together they can't keep their hands off each other," says a source, "and Paris really wants to be taken seriously and Nick does that. Since they've been together he has really helped calm down her wild partying and has a tremendous effect on her." In less wholesome Paris news, Rick Salomon, Hilton's partner in the now infamous infrared sex tape, has offered to settle his $10 million slander suit against the Hilton family but the terms of the settlement are unlikely to tempt the high-rolling hotel clan, reports Salomon reportedly contacted Paris' father and proposed to drop the suit if he lets Salomon distribute the sex tape on a pay-per-view basis.

Right because that's just what every proud papa wants for his daughter. Osbourne It's bleepin' over Someone stick a fork in The Sharon Osbourne Show because it's done, reports TV Guide Online. Warner Bros. has reportedly pulled the plug on the syndicated talkfest, which has struggled in the ratings since its debut in September. In an interview with USA Today, Osbourne says she asked to be released from her contract in December following husband Ozzy's near-fatal ATV crash.

GIRLS CLOTHING 'Boys Are Stupid' products pulled by some retailers Under pressure from protesters, some retailers withdraw merchandise with anti-boy cartoons. BY DAVID CRARY Associated Press NEW YORK The T-shirts and pajamas are meant to be funny, with cartoon captions like "Boys Are Stupid Throw Rocks At Them." But some protesters, encouraged by a fathers-rights talk show host, are unamused and have pressured three retail chains into dropping the merchandise. The products in question an array of girls' clothes and accessories are manufactured or licensed by David Goliath, a T-shirt company based in Clearwa- ter. Its chief designer, Todd Goldman, has created a series of cartoonish graphics used on the merchandise with what he intended to be humorously anti-boy themes. "Boys Are Smelly Throw Garbage Cans At Them," says one.

"The Stupid Factory Where Boys Are Made," says another. "I have a very quirky, sarcastic sense of humor," Goldman said in a telephone interview. "Most people just love the cartoons. If a few people don't like them, they don't have to buy them." The graphics have been in use more than two years, but only recently came to the attention of Glenn Sacks, a commentator MORE INFORMATION Stab BOYS ARE STUPID THROW ROCKS AT THERE! ED T-TIME: Victoia Evangelou holds one of the controversial T-shirts. For more information, visit the website at www.davidandgoliath tees.com/new/home.asp? mode or Glenn Sacks's site atwww.hisside.com who hosts His Side, a weekly radio show aired in Los Angeles and Seattle that is sympathetic to the fathers' rights movement and often at odds with feminists.

At Sacks' urging, listeners and supporters have contacted targeted retailers by e-mail and other means, urging them to stop selling the David Goliath products. At least three retail chains, Seattle-based Bon-Macy's, California-based Tilly's, and Claire's Stores, a an international chain, say they will no longer carry the contested items. "I'm sorry if I sound like a humorless zealot, but I just don't see the humor in it," Sacks said in a telephone interview. "My 11-year-old son, whatever the joke is, he just doesn't understand it, either." He contended that many marketers, while wary of offending women and minorities, "have developed a moral blind spot toward disparaging males." Sacks argues that the "Boys Are Stupid" products promote anti-male violence; some of his supporters have challenged groups that combat domestic violence against women to endorse their campaign. Goldman thinks the idea that he is promoting violence is ridiculous.

"If you look at the violence in rap songs, in video games that's what they should be concentrating on, not a cartoon T-shirt," he said. CALIFORNIA Lloyd Bucher, captain of captured spy ship, dies SAN DIEGO (AP) Former Navy Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher, who commanded the spy ship USS Pueblo when it was captured by North Korea in 1968 and helped his crew survive months of brutal captivity, only to nearly face a court-martial back home, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 76. The Pueblo was monitoring communist ship movements in international waters near the North Korean coast when it was attacked by torpedo boats Jan.

23, 1968. One sailor taken wounded was beaten confession. During bers said, of lumber, their teeth BUCHER soldiers. After 11 BUCHER was killed and 82 were prisoner. Bucher, who was when the Pueblo was shelled, and tortured into signing a their captivity, crew memthey were beaten with pieces burned on radiators and had kicked out by North Korean months, the crew was released, some of them crippled or nearly blind because of malnourishment.

The ship remained in North Korea, where it became a tourist attraction. "The man was a giant," said Stu Russell, who served under Bucher and is president of the USS Pueblo Veteran's Association. "Being the focal point between the Koreans and the crew, he took the brunt of everything. No matter who did what, he was always punished. I simply don't know where he got the strength and courage to go through what he did." A Navy Court of Inquiry recommended that Bucher face a general court-martial for allegedly failing to defend the Pueblo, which was loaded with intelligence information.

Navy Secretary John H. Chafee turned down the court-martial, saying crew members "have suffered enough." Bucher remained angry that commanders had failed to come to his aid. "The U.S. at that time had enormous military forces in the western Pacific within five minutes flying time of us," Bucher said in 1988. "I would have thought something could be mustered to come to our aid.

But everybody just forgot we were there." In 1989, the Pentagon agreed to give prisoner of war medals to Bucher and the crew. Until then, the U.S. government had maintained they were detainees rather than POWs because United States and North Korea were not at war. TONIGHT ON CBS4 GOOD VIBRATIONS CBS4'S DR. SEAN KENNIFF SHOWS YOU HOW UNDETECTABLE VIBRATIONS CAN HELP IMPROVE YOUR BALANCE TONIGHT AT 5 11 to J.Lo's breakup 7 Lopez commit were causing a rift, J.Lo was choosing designs for the wedding invitations as late as Jan.

6. But at a fateful meal at the Beverly Hills restaurant Matsuhisa what Lopez calls Pryor joins PETA's fight against KFC PETA's not even close to retracting its claws in its fight with KFC. As part of the animal rights group's international campaign to pressure the fast-food chicken giant to crack down on its suppliers' cruel treatment of birds, PETA has enlisted the help of Richard Pryor. New ads feature the legendary comedian urging people to join him "in boycotting KFC restaurants until the company agrees to meet PETA's simple demands to eliminate the very worst abuses." Billboards featuring Pryor will run in Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, and a print-ad version will appear in the top 10 AfricanAmerican newspapers including African American News Issues in Houston and West African News in New York. Pryor joins PETA in calling on KFC to replace crude and ineffective electric stunning and throat-slitting with controlled-atmosphere killing; and phasing out the forced rapid growth of chickens, which causes metabolic disorders and lameness; improvements that are supported by members of KFC's own animal-welfare advisory panel.

Pryor is the latest in a growing roster of celebrities who have joined PETA's KFC campaign. Seinfeld star and exKFC pitchman Jason Alexander had his contract with KFC canceled after PETA enlisted him to speak to company execs about the suffering of chickens. PETA has had additional high-profile support from actress Pamela Anderson, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, rock icons Sir Paul McCartney and Chrissie Hynde, comedian Dick Gregory and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume. I raged against God all my life. My story is one of rediscovering my faith.

A blasphemous, irreverent and profane man finds God at the age of 60. 'Basic Instinct' screenwriter JOE ESZTERHAS, on his new memoir, "Hol- Herald.com WEATHER UPDATES FIND WEATHER FORECASTS AND RADAR IMAGES UPDATED EVERY 15 MINUTES. WWW.HERALD.COM CLICK ON WEATHER "The Last Supper" Ben refused her ultimatum to set a date. No word on whether Lopez will give back Affleck's 6.1-carat pink diamond engagement ring. Jackson Jacko and his 'Jesus juice' Michael Jackson gave wine to the 13-year-old cancer patient at the center of the molestation charges he's battling but concealed it inside a Coke can, reports Newsday.

The incident reportedly occurred during a February flight from Florida, and partially explains the charges of "administering an intoxicating agent with intent to commit a felony" that the beleaguered pop star is also fighting in Santa Barbara County, court, according to Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth. In the March issue, Orth reports that Jackson refers to white wine as "Jesus juice," and red wine as "Jesus blood," and usually drinks them out of soda cans so that nobody around him will know he's consuming alcohol. Calls to Jackson's attorney Mark Geragos were not immediately returned. Orth, citing the singer's former business manager, Myung-Ho Lee, writes that only Jackson's "inner people know" his code names for the beverages, adding that it "tells you that the boy spent 'quality time' with Michael." The boy and his siblings have said that "all the kids around Michael" knew about "Jesus juice" and that Jackson told them, "Jesus drank it, so it must be good." Orth also says that on at least one other occasion, Jackson allegedly gave alcohol in soda cans to minors. In the Vanity Fair piece, Lee describes a similar incident involving a 13-year-old boy in Japan in 1998.

During the boy's visits with his family to Jackson's Neverland Ranch, Jackson is said to have told his accuser "Girls are tattletales," making it clear that he didn't want the boy's sister or mother around. The boys ultimately got to sleep with Michael, while their mother was put in a guest house, the magazine says. WARN Herald 91.3FMNEWS ARTS BEAT ED BELL IS JOINED BY BOBBY RODRIGUEZ WHO DETAILS THE 12TH ANNUAL RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL. DIRECTOR NICOLE GUILLEMET SHARES THE EXCITEMENT OF THE 21ST-ANNUAL MIAMI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. 1-2 P.M.

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