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THE HERALD 4A THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2005 people: AND FROM MICHAEL COMPILED WIRE HERALD BY HAMERSLY REPORTS STAFF BIRTHDAYS Cartoonist Jim Davis (Garfield) is 60. Keyboardist Rick Wright (Pink Floyd) is 60. Actress Sally Struthers is 57. Guitarist Steve Morse (Deep Purple) is 51. Actress Elizabeth Berkley is 33.

Singer Afroman is 31. Stones roll back with a 'Bang' The birth of the universe was a pretty big deal but not as important as the first new Rolling Stones record in eight years, reports The Bigger Bang, the band's first studio effort since 1997's Bridges to Babylon, is set for release Sept. 6 in the United States, Virgin Records announced Tuesday which not so coincidentally was Mick Jagger's 62nd birthday. The new disc will drop a day earlier overseas. In addition to the lead single, Streets of Love, the album includes two Keith Richardssung tunes; This Place Is Empty and Infamy.

Among the 16 cuts on Bang Watts, Richards, Jagger and Wood of the Rolling Stones are: Rough Justice, Back of My Hand, Laugh, I Nearly Died Bang. The eight-year lapse suggested longtime guitarist and Oh No, Not You Again, between studio albums is the Ron Wood was missing from which the Stones previewed in longest in the band's 43-year many of the recording sesMay at New York's Juilliard history, although the Stones sions, a press release Tuesday School after announcing its did issue the live album No confirmed Wood was indeed a forthcoming world tour. Security in 1998 and the great- part of Bang. One track earning some est-hits compilation Forty The Stones kick off a 35- prerelease controversy is Licks in 2002. date North American tour Sweet Neo-Con, which appar- Bang was recorded during Aug.

21 at Boston's Fenway ently takes aim at the Bush late 2004 and early 2005 in Park. The road show which administration's foreign pol- France. Drummer Charlie makes a stop Oct. 17 at Miami's icy. Watts, who spent much of AmericanAirlines Arena Don Was, who produced last year receiving treatment will feature rotating A-list the band's previous two studio for throat cancer, played on all opening acts, including Beck, sets, Bridges to Babylon and the tracks.

(He's fully recov- Black Eyed Peas, Maroon 5, 1994's Voodoo Lounge, was ered and will tour with the John Mayer, Pearl Jam and behind the board again for band.) Although early reports Joss Stone. William H. Macy left No coke coma handcuffed, naked A lawyer for Kate Moss Fargo star William H. says the British supermodel Macy thought he was being has accepted substantial libel tricked when prop managers on the set of new low-budget movie Edmond appeared to lose the Macy key to his handcuffs during an embarrassing nude scene, reports IMDB.com. The actor was left standing wearing nothing but a sock to cover his genitals during a prison scene in the new David Mamet film.

"They marched me down this long hallway," he said. "I'm buck naked. I'm manacled behind my back and my feet are manacled. I do the scene four times and the property guy comes up and says, 'OK, we got "He says to the actor who is playing the cop, 'Gimme the who says, 'I don't have the he continued. "I said, 'Oh, that's really funny you've lost the The prop guy said, 'No, it isn't funny this is really they found the key.

I tell ya, low-budget i is not for sissies." Jodie Foster back in director's chair Jodie Foster will direct and possibly star in a drama about U.S. sugar barons, reports Daily Variety. Foster, 42, who first sprang to Foster worldwide fame three decades ago as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver, has signed on to direct the movie Sugar Kings, being produced by Tribeca Films for Universal Pic- tures. The movie, based on a Vanity Fair magazine article, tells the story of a young lawyer who takes on powerful American sugar barons who exploit immigrant sugar cane cutters. The Vanity Fair article focuses on Alfy and Pepe Fanjul, who owned a sugarmanufacturing empire in Florida and were accused of treating 20,000 sugar cane cutters as slave labor.

Foster has directed four movies, including Little Man Tate and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. TELEVISION Soper ready to ride into sunset I WFOR-CBS4 weatherman Bob Soper's retirement Wednesday after 26 years in the South Florida news market touched off a storm of fond memories. BY HOWARD COHEN Hurricanes, heat and even an unceremonious firing from a former employer couldn't do TV weatherman Bob Soper in after 26 years in the South Florida market. HELPING COMMUNITY: But the lure of retirement Television weatherman proved more potent than unwanted blow- Bob Soper, who retired visiting hards like Andrew, Ivan or Wednesday, was active Dennis for WFOR-CBS4 in helping a number of institution Soper. community "On July 1, I turned 62 and organizations.

felt it was time to cash in the chips and see how it "Unfortunately, we'll be Soper said Wednesday after- coming back at the end of noon from his newly sold August in the pinnacle of Coral Gables home before hurricane season. You can't heading to the studio for one win 'em all," Soper said, last time. chuckling. The much-respected TV WFOR plans to replace personality bid his audience Soper with David Bernard, a adieu on Wednesday night's hurricane specialist out of 11 p.m. broadcast the final New Orleans.

Bernard starts day of the summer's Nielsen Aug. 15. ratings sweeps period. Soper's colleague, Bryan "He's meant so much to Norcross, says he will miss us said WFOR-CBS4's his pal's expertise and amianews director Shannon ble nature on the set. High-Bassalik.

"First, there's "I'm very sorry to see him the professional side, the go," Norcross said Wednesweather credibility. After 26 day. "One of the reasons I years in this market, he came to CBS4 is because knows it like the back of his Bob was there and that there hand and whether it was a would be some load-sharing. hurricane or a sunny day, he Bob has a lot of experiwas informative and did it ence and in a town where with personality. you have critical situations, "Then there was the com- experience counts.

We draw munity side," she continued. on each other so that's "He was the most active man been very valuable." in the community going Soper, who says he first out to do auctions and char- brought up the 'R'-word ity balls and brought so about three years ago but much there as well." was persuaded by WFOR to Soper's off-camera work stay longer, admits it will included serving on the feel odd to see and hear boards of various organiza- someone else doing the tions, including the March of weather broadcast after so Dimes, Juvenile Diabetes, long. WLRN and. Project Newborn. His most beloved project, Soper said, was helping Actors' Playhouse raise money during its annual auctions, a role he's played for 14 years.

"He's the epitome of professionalism," said Actors' Playhouse executive producing director Barbara Stein. "It's sad for the whole community but he's coming back to do our auction next year so we're lucky. We went from raising $30,000 to raising $185,000. He's made a difference in our organization's ability to become important. Those dollars help to build the Miracle Theater and go into our endowment account.

We wouldn't be where we are today without him." Soper's immediate plans include a month-long vacation in Malta, Italy, where he plans to be many miles away from Florida for at least part of the hurricane season at his sister-in-law's home. Susan and I were talking about that. She said it does feel weird. I describe it as both happy and sad," Soper said. "It's hard to say what will happen when it's 1 in the afternoon and I think, 'I have to get ready for work' and now I don't.

It's going to be weird. But I'll work on it between naps and resting." The couple plan to move to a new home in Palm Beach County's Wellington area to be closer to two of their four grandchildren. Before Soper's 13-year tenure on WFOR, he spent an equal amount of time on WSVN-7 before being replaced. The station then felt that Soper's no-nonsense approach wasn't stylish enough. "It's mostly been a great ride," Soper says.

"There have been rough patches but you forget the rough patches. It's sort of like the rain. You can't appreciate the sun until you get rain." Check out heraldsubscriptions.com Start, temporarily stop or resume your home delivery service Make a payment Check your account status Report a service problem Sign up for EZ Renew Welcome The Miami Herald The Herald 4587 2x6 Smart Solutions. Stay ahead with The Herald and our media partners. CBS WFOR ARTHUR TEELE UPDATE The latest information about and reaction to the Art Teele suicide and investigation.

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Underwood You sexy veggie If only Bo Bice had cut down on the ribs. Carrie Underwood, who beat out Bice to win the American Idol crown in May, was voted the "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" in PETA's annual online poll, reports The Associated Press. She shares the honor with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. More than 13,000 votes were cast in the contest run by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal rights group announced. Underwood, a 22-year-old Oklahoma native, wore a for Vegetarian" T-shirt on the Fox show.

Martin, 28, and his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, made headlines when they gave their 1-year-old daughter, Apple, a vegan birthday cake. Underwood and Martin beat out other famous veggie lovers including David Duchovny, Reese Witherspoon, Avril Lavigne, Joaquin Phoenix and Prince. In other Idol news, the nasal voice of Mikalah Gordon, the wailing 2005 American Idol finalist who stayed longer than she deserved, has paid off. USA Today reports that Gordon, 17, has been cast in a recurring role on Fran Drescher's new WB sitcom, Living With Fran. Gordon, who bears a resemblance to the Nanny star, will play "cousin Brianna," who'll sing at a bar mitzvah in the premiere episode.

My parents did not trust me with anything. I mean, I had to pee in a cup every night. KELLY OSBOURNE, on growing up in the land of Oz. damages from a newspaper that alleged she had collapsed into a coma after taking cocaine, reports The Associated Press. An article published in Britain's Sunday Mirror and on the newspaper's website in January alleged that during a visit to Barcelona i in June 2001, Moss collapsed into a drug-induced coma and had to be revived after taking large amounts of cocaine.

"The allegations are untrue," Moss' lawyer, Gerard Tyrrell, said Wednesday. Tyrrell said publisher Mirror Group Newspapers Limited accepted that the allegations were false and should not have been published. He said the two parties had agreed on a substantial figure in damages, but he did not say what the amount was. The newspaper's solicitor, Philip Conway, acknowledged that the allegations made against the model were wrong, and apologized for the distress and embarrassment caused. Cruise Tom tops celebrity meltdown poll Tom Cruise's sofa-hopping incident on Oprah Winfrey's talk show has topped a new poll to find the Wildest Celebrity Meltdowns.

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