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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “Jarhead” — A Marine, Jake Gyllenhaal, and his comrades, Peter Sarsgaard and Jamie Foxx, form brotherly bonds while patrolling the Iraqi desert during the Gulf War./9:30 on FX n SPORTS Baseball — The Houston Astros face NL Central rival St. Louis and the always-dangerous Albert Pujols in Busch Stadium in this season’s first Jake Gyllenhaal edition of Wednesday Night Baseball./7 on ESPN2 n PRIMETIME “The New Adventures of Old Christine” — Christine takes a cranky, pregnant New Christine to a salon for some pampering while Richard plans a surprise wedding./7 on CBS
THIS WEEK’S LINEUP n EXPANDED LISTINGS TV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost. com
MILESTONES n BIRTHDAYS Loretta Lynn, country singer, 75; John Shea, actor, 61; Brad Garrett, actor, 50; Anthony Michael Hall, actor, 42; Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress, 33; Rob McElhenney, actor-producer, 33; Abigail Breslin, actress,14. n DEATHS Walter G. Cowan — A longtime New Orleans newspaper reporter and editor has died at the age of 98. Cowan was a former vice president of The Times-Picayune Publishing Corp. and a former president of the Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Association. The Times-Picayune reported Tuesday that he died over the weekend. His career began in 1936, when New Orleans was a multi-newspaper city. Carolyn M. Rodgers — A Chicago poet and writer who helped found one of the country’s oldest and largest black-owned book publishers has died. Rodgers was 69. The Chicago-based Third World Press said she died April 2 at Mercy Hospital after battling an undisclosed illness. The Chicago native wrote nine books, including “How I got Ovah.” Her work often delved into the experiences of black women.
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Minor replacing Eubanks on ‘Tonight’ Rickey Minor of “American Idol” is taking over as music director of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” NBC said. He replaces Kevin Eubanks, who made his May 28 departure date official Monday. In an announcement Tuesday, NBC says Minor is expected to debut on the show June 7. Minor is the music director of “American Idol,” whose season ends in late May. He will continue Rickey Minor to consult with “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller on various projects. Minor has also served as music director of the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards and “The NAACP Image Awards.” Eubanks has been aboard “Tonight” since Leno took over as host in 1992.
Warrants issued, again, for Quaid, wife Randy Quaid and his wife are once again wanted by authorities. The couple failed to show up for a court appearance in Santa Barbara Monday on charges they defrauded an innkeeper. Senior Deputy District Attorney Lee Carter says they also didn’t show up when their case was again called on Tuesday. Arrest warrants have been repeatedly sought and later Randy and Evi Quaid quashed for the Quaids, who were charged last year with failing to pay a $10,000 hotel bill. They pleaded not guilty in December and were released on $40,000 bail. Carter said that bail has now been forfeited. Randy Quaid has appeared in several films, including “Independence Day” and “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”
Octuplets mom to be on ‘Oprah’ The octuplets’ mother will appear on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ next week and discuss how she is raising her 14 kids, Nadya Suleman’s attorney said. Jeff Czech told the Orange County Register on Tuesday that Oprah sent a TV crew to film at Suleman’s La Habra home last week. He says Suleman went to a Los Angeles studio to film a remote interview with Oprah that is scheduled to air on April 20. The attorney says the interview covered “straight talk” about surviving with her family of 14 and Oprah asked his client “some hardballs.”
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Driving instructor busted for speeding A driving instructor in France taught three of his students a lesson about the consequences of speeding, when police stopped him for exceeding the speed limit — with the students in the car. Police immediately suspended the instructor’s license for four months after he was clocked at 83 miles per hour in a 60-mile zone on a highway off-ramp in Valence, in southeast France, according to local police commander Claude Bourrelly. The students had just taken driving tests when their instructor was stopped. It was unclear whether they passed their tests. The instructor’s boss at a driving school in Valence, Jean-pierre Mounier, said Tuesday he was ready to give the instructor another chance, calling him “a very good worker.”
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Documentary tracks human-canine connections LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Arnold spends her life breeding, training and matching service dogs for people with disabilities or special needs. It was her own quest for a dog that saw her through her darkest years when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her father’s death dimmed her chance for independence. “I remember not wanting to leave the house,” she said. “I felt very awkward, scared. It surprised me how frightened I was to be left alone. You feel so vulnerable.” Arnold has written a book, “Through a Dog’s Eyes,” that comes out in September. A PBS documentary based on the book and narrated by Neil Patrick Harris debuts April 21 at 7 p.m. Harris, star of “How I Met Your Mother” and a dog owner, said he was “wildly moved” by the documentary about the bond between the service canines and the people they help. “You can see it in the faces of these dogs,” he said. Arnold was 16 and carefree, enjoying life with her mother and eye surgeon father in Atlanta. Then doctors said she had multiple sclerosis and she found herself in a wheelchair. Her father tried to get her a service dog, but she was far down on the waiting list. So they decided to set up their own service dog training school, Canine Assistants, an
On TV “Through a Dog’s Eyes” premieres at 7 p.m. on PBS
Online Canine Assistants: www. canineassistants.org PBS: www.pbs.org Milk-Bone: www.MilkBone.com
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Michael Rodriguez with his dog, Louie, at the Canine Assistants training camp in Atlanta academy her father planned to fund by delaying his retirement. Three weeks later, he was hit and killed by a drunken motorcycle driver. But Arnold and her mother didn’t abandon the dream. They went to work and raised money for the school. It took 10 years, but they incorporated on Dec. 31, 1991, and started training their first dog in March 1992. Canine Assistants is now
among the largest service dog providers in the country. “Through a Dog’s Eyes” looks at Arnold’s treat-based teach-
ing methods. The film focuses on five people, their families and the dogs. Bryson Casey, 30, of Kansas City, Mo., served in Iraq as a captain with the National Guard. He came home and was in a car crash that left him a quadriplegic. He and his dog, Wagner, bonded instantly. “Some of the most healed people I’ve ever known are quadriplegics,” said Arnold. She is now 46, her disease is in remission and she is married to the academy’s staff veterinarian. Her mother died in 1997. In the last 20 years, Canine Assistants has given away 1,000 dogs; there is a waiting list of nearly 2,000.
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of challenged books NEW YORK (AP) — Stephenie Meyer, the hottest author for young people since J.K. Rowling, has a new link to the creator of “Harry Potter”: a place high on the list of books most complained about by parents and educators. Meyer’s multimillion-selling “Twilight” series was ranked No. 5 on the annual report of “challenged books” released today by the American Library Association. Meyer’s stories of vampires and teen Stephenie romance have Meyer been criticized for sexual content; a library association official also thinks that the “Twilight” series reflects general unease about supernatural stories. “Vampire novels have been a target for years and the ‘Twilight’ books are so immensely popular that a lot of the concerns people have had about vampires are focused on her books,” says Barbara Jones, director of the association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Christian groups for years have protested the themes of wizardry in Rowling’s books, which don’t appear on the current top 10. Topping the 2009 chart was Lauren Myracle’s “IM” series, novels told through instant messages that have been criticized for nudity, language and drug references. Last year’s No. 1 book, “And Tango Makes Three,” by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, is now No. 2, cited again for its story about two male penguins adopting a baby. Third was Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” for which the many reasons include drugs, suicide, homosexuality and being antifamily. Also cited were such peren-
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