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Entertainment The Grand Island Independen in Big Blue deserves bear hug Connie Chung Opinion Chung Movie based on book (AP) Hunter People WEDNESDAYS Crossword answers Yeltsin A I Duchovny Restaurant Saloon EVENING SPECIALS Super Quiz beWSWORKs Ed Answers on Page 9 A AMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS ONLINE ia Richard Gere GIT CERTIICATES AVAILABLE 3602 West 2nd St 384 8799 on her desk then auditioned for the movie as a lark Her debut brought some gushy press focusing on her overnight suc cess came from out of nowhere with I acted be she says course people were going to go is going on? Who is this But if it been for success with who knows what would have happened to 1 When Danny Boyle the director of her newest film was casting the movie he recalls: sounds cheesy but as soon as she walked in the room I knew she was live my life with the notion that fate is sort of in she says during an interview punctuated by lots of giggling and as well as need She remembers how she just happened across the script for Diaz has been evoking such re sponses from men ever since a pho tographer spotted her at a party gave her his card and said your parents call It take long before she was established at the Elite modeling agency And soon with virtually no acting experience she was cast in in which she admitted ly rode the coattails of Jim Carrey who already had broken through with Ventura: Pet dawned on me that little kids see adults like Kriegman ex plains these lumbering clumsy creatures not real quick not that smart walking around a a ay up So Bear really is a grown up however frolicsome Not so much a sB Be By razier Moore AP Television Writer ducer who also masterminded Explains It want a program good for parents and kids to experience together be cause it deals with things they all go through or instance the pressing issue of a lost belonging which happens to be the theme of the episode being taped this day Kriegman says he wrote the script after his 3 year old son mis placed a cherished blanket can be a he notes with a shudder crisis parents and their kid Soon Bear will perform a num ber called But while the shot is readied the upper half of Bear takes a break on its puppet rack Meanwhile puppeteer Noel MacNeal is clad in his harvest gold Bear bottom and a shirt as he works out the steps As he shuffles about the Blue House living room he holds aloft his right hand (which soon will bring face to life) as his fingers practice the lyrics A cutup who resembles comedian Jon Stewart MacNeal points out with pleasure that Bear like most animal characters are human first then an animal Bear is back and forth Yes he owns a home But he sniffs the camera lens and picks berries He likes reading a good book but he also likes swing MORGAN REEMAN IN Kiss The Girls (R) 7:009:30 NOW SHOWING! Eves at 7:00 9:20 Sat Sun Matinee 1:00 3:20 Visit us at wwtheindependentcom or access us through NewsWorks at wwwnewsworkscom Subject: THREE A KIND Identify the classification Into which each set of three falls (eg Bay leaf dill mint: Herbs and spices) That's because we're part of Newsworks the most comprehensive news and information source on the web With news and views from over 125 online newspapers So you can get "from the source" reports and more perspectives on stories that are important to you Visit us at wwwtheindependentcom your gateway to NewsWorks Bobbitt leaving talk shows for simple life ALLON Nev (AP) John Wayne Bobbitt is leaving talk shows and porn movies behind for the sim ple life Bobbitt 30 moved last month Thursday Pork Picatta CITY LIMITS 123 South ront Downtown Grand island I Know What You Did Last Summer (R) 7:00 9:00 NEW YORK (AP) Ewan Mc Gregor wanders into the hotel suite looking lost tired in need of something But what? or anyone who saw his heroin chic film the flip guess could be: A fix! Cameron Diaz catches sight of him while being interviewed 'and asks: you going He mutters that he needs an jection of A little TLC seems like just the Rx But all he manages to say is: came in to say He gets a friendly hug and kiss from his co star in the new romantic black comedy Life Less Ordi and when he turns to leave she gives him a playful boot in the rear I feel much better he says As' it turns out he DID need a fix Only it was a few seconds of sweet ness from a 25 year old slender blonde he craved not drugs he is MacNeal concedes with a grin still in touch with his inner calls Kriegman who is directing this episode and a pro duction assistant fetches up per and helps MacNeal re occupy it rom then on he can see what doing only with a tiny TV monitor mounted at his waist The total freight that Bear repre sents is some 40 unventilated pounds But despite this heft and aptly stooped gait MacNeal ani mates him with balletic grace And miked all the while he supplies chipper speaking voice Songs however he prerecords Now at signal a tape is played back and Bear swings into action as he mimes these lyrics: does something go when it loses itself? Hiding in the cupboard or on the But when nose snuffles the bookshelf he knocks a book to the floor Never losing character he draws his left paw across his throat to gesture On the next take as MacNeal navigates bulk in a backward step toward the bookshelf a small table gets bumped Theatrically Bear freezes Then winces OK says Krieg man your Bear nods from Las Vegas to this small north ern Nevada farm town where four of his five brothers live He said he just wants to find a job and go fishing and camping want people to get to know me for who I am and not what the media makes me out to he said want to let the past be gone and move he said in Lahontan Valley News and allon Eagle Standard did a couple of adult movies but do not want to make a career out of it because my parents want me Bobbitt said he is writing a book about his life His ex wife Lorena cut off his penis with a knife accus ing him ot sexual assault ine penis was reattacneci ana Ms Bobbitt was found innocent by reason of insanity The Original Western Adventure TUESDAY DAY NIGH 8 PM CT NEW YORK Most TV hosts just say hello This one gives the viewer a hello sniff "Wait a says Bear catching a familiar scent as he greets you at the door sweet! Kinda like His nose is pressed quizzically against your TV screen Sniff sniff sniff YOU! YOU smell like HON EY! Or do you smell this sweet all the latterer But charm to spare from in the Big Blue a Muppet populated play space for preschoolers This delight ful new series from the Jim Henson Co guarantees all comers a smell of a good time The star is Bear a 7 foot champi on of good cheer who shares his two story Victorian with a mouse bear cub pair of purple otters and Dayg lo hued lemur Together they investigate a sin gle theme in each episode a birth day parly the arrival of autumn the meaning of Then come nightfall Bear gazes skyward to re flect upon his day with Luna the Woman in the Moon and they sing a goodbye song in the Big Blue airs on Disney Channel weekdays at 9 am and weekends at 6 and 6:30 am a lot of ways I think this is more like a storybook than a TV se says Mitchell Kriegman creator and executive pro A ridley Theatre GRAND GRAND ISLAND 381 1553 HEPOPCORNvery? 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(R) LOS ANGELES Thompson is top form in a gonzo report he filed for Time magazine from the of and Loathing in Las Thompson whose journalism is a mix of sub stance induced fantasies and straight reportage wrote how he rescued a roller skat ing girl named Heidi from the clutches of two Great Danes and crashed Johnny car into a waterfall I said to Heidi this is it We must have taken a wrong he writes She responds: very strange and you know why do shook my head softly and drank some he replies Depp plays Thompson in the screen adaptation of his 1971 book Thompson has a cameo appearance RESHMAN LEVEL Ash gum palm Answer 2 Iris violet snowdrop Answer 3 Who Police Queen Answer Nate's Daily Specials Line 384 8654 record of this young visit is gone lost through a rob said foundation director April Hamilton want to challenge the street people and Dumpster divers to try to find this The family doesn't want their last name used Hamilton said the car was parked in a lot when the thief broke a win dow ripped out the back seat and stole the film from the trunk AL PACINO IN Devils Advocate ohj you BRAD PITT IN Seven Years In Tibet (PG 13) 7:00 9:45 5 "Thank God or Mark Chesnutt (Decca) 6 "Love Is The Right Place" Bryan White (Asylum) 7 "If You Love Somebody" Kevin Sharp 0 43 Asylum) 8 "Something That We Do" Clint Black (RCA) 9 "How Do I Get There" Deana Carter (Capitol Nashville) 10 "Today My World Slipped Away" George Strait (MCA Nashville) Our web site has a world of views PHD LEVEL 7 Dippers Divers Darters Answer 8 Elektra Carmen aust Answer 9 Jane Ken Kurt Answer Boris Yeltsin to visit India in January MOSCOW (AP) Boris Yeltsin will visit India in January as part of his push to strengthen Rus ties to the leading nations of Asia Deputy oreign Minister Igor Ivanov called the visit Jan 19 20 a in relations be tween the two countries Having lost its superpower sta tus Russia is seeking strong ties with Asian nations as a counter bal ance to American power and influ ence Yeltsin met with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto over the weekend in Siberia and travels to China for a summit this weekend Take Isaac Super Quiz to a PhD Score 1 point for each correct answer on the reshman Level 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the PhD Level Catch of the Week resh Blue Marlin 4 uesday November 4 1 997 Tuesday Shrimp and Veggie Tempura or actress Cameron Diaz is sort of in Wednesday Shrimp and Scallops Marinara Thompson Busch Light Night $225 Pitchers all night long 50( Bowls of Chili 50t Chili Dogs 50( ries Thursday: Miller Lite Night IGRAXD ISLAND MALL 384 6768 playmate for the likes of Tutter the Mouse Treelo the Lemur and the other hand puppets that Bear tow ers above he is their genial caretak er The Associated Press Bear welcomes guests to his blue house at the opening of the Disney Channel's ''Bear in the Big Blue House" ing eating food of all lands and tak ing long And MacNeal might have added that Bear (like his co habitants) wears no clothes opting instead for his furry altogether But why a bear of all things to run this busy household? NEBRASKA ETV NETWORK WMfr jjy Ad made possible by Nebraskans for Public Television Hl wwwpbsorg A ROOPS A CONESTOGA MALL 381 2444 EC sTh pTT yB o' A Video footage with girl Duchovny stolen VANCOUVER British Columbia (AP) Video of a 16 year old cancer victim's meeting with David Duchovny on the'set of the was stolen from the car The footage along with photographs of the meet ing were taken Saturday night dur ing the weeklong visit to the set The visit was arranged by the Make A Wish oundation of British Columbia The Ole Cowl Palace is joining ABC News NEW YORK (AP) She get along well with Dan Rather Now Connie Chung is teaming up with Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer The veter an broadcast er joined the ABC News team on Monday where she will contribute to the newsmagazines and and be avail able as a substitute anchor woman Her return to network news comes two years after she left CBS under a cloud fired after a two year stint alongside Rather on the evening news and com plaining that she was made the scapegoat for the low ratings anxious to get to Chung said in a conference call with ABC executives and re porters She signed a multiyear contract believed to be worth at least $1 million per year During the past two years Chung tried to develop a syndi cated talk show with her hus band Maury Povich But that deal fell through and Povich de cided to continue his own show leaving Chung free to make her own deal am particularly delighted at this because I have been af ter her for a long ABC News Chairman Roone Arledge said She ignited a debate over journalistic ethics after an in terview in which House Speak er Newt mother said her son had described first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as a Just before the remark Chung had told Kathleen Gin grich it would be between you and Not only did ABC executives say they concerned with the fallout from that inci dent Arledge said he blamed CBS officials for the controver sy more than Chung and indi cated they hung her out to dry A HB1 BY KN BUMS i LEWIS CLARK EIT S1T Music hits The Associated Press COUNTRY SINGLES Copyright 1997 Billboard Broadcast Data Systems 1 "Love Gets Me Everytime" Shania Twain (Mercury) 2 "ln Another's Eyes" Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks (MCA Nashville) 3 "Honky Tonk Truth" Brooks Dunn (Arista Nashville) 4 "Everywhere" Tim McGraw (Curb) Rocket Man (PG) 7:00 9:15 ANTHONY HOPKINS IN The Edge (R) 7:15 9:40 I AS iSeME1 'TssBL f'a IBteKSSSn I bMEBbHb I i MTOwKa I nJ at A 1 STB I I I I I 11 a mm olslc A A HUS aMdIqK sMg uu 0 arM aTdMM sJBd In a WbTl HBTy oS OP Ie i i cb ILL NS test A iE AW IE ER 4 i A ridley Theatre GRAND GRAND ISLAND 381 1553 Busch Light Night $225 Pitchers all night long 50( Bowls of Chili 50t Chili Dogs 50( ries Thursday: Miller Lite Night HIGH STAKES THRILLER! 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