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- Dying TV star Jade Goody's marriage grips Britain
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- SAG Rejects "Final" Offer
| Jane Fonda's Broadway Play Picketed By Vietnam Vets | Top |
| NEW YORK — It's been decades, but Jane Fonda still can't shake her "Hanoi Jane" image from the Vietnam War. About a dozen Vietnam veterans and other protesters on Saturday picketed the theater where the 71-year-old actress is starring in the Broadway play "33 Variations," telling passers-by that she had once visited their communist enemy in Hanoi. "Jane Fonda is a traitor," said Dan Maloney of the Gathering of Eagles, which bills itself as a national, nonpartisan veterans group. "She got on Hanoi radio and called every U.S. serviceman a war criminal." Fonda was tagged with the sobriquet "Hanoi Jane" after visiting the North Vietnamese capital in 1972, where she made radio broadcasts critical of U.S. policy and sat on an anti-aircraft gun laughing and clapping, as she describes in her autobiography, "My Life So Far." Though she still defends her anti-war activism, Fonda has acknowledged that the incident was "a betrayal" of American forces. "That two-minute lapse of sanity will haunt me until the day I die," she wrote. Fonda currently plays a musicologist in the Moises Kaufman play about reconciliation, set against the woman's obsession with Beethoven's 33 variations on a waltz. It marks her return to Broadway after 46 years. | |
| Dying TV star Jade Goody's marriage grips Britain | Top |
| LONDON — A British reality TV star who is dying of cervical cancer will go ahead with plans to get married Sunday in full glare of the cameras, her publicist said. Jade Goody, the in-your-face star who went from being the posterchild for British boorishness to an exemplar of bravery following her cancer diagnosis, is "very excited" to wed, spokesman Max Clifford told reporters. "She is as well as possible, but, knowing Jade, she will rise to the occasion. She's very resilient," Clifford said. He spoke outside the Down Hall Country House Hotel in eastern England where Goody plans to tie the knot with 21-year-old Jack Tweed. Goody _ known to most Britons simply as "Jade" _ is holding a celebrity wedding like no other. While there are the usual trimmings _ a helicopter, a fancy hotel, a television crew, a reported million pound (dollar) deal to secure photo and video rights to the ceremony _ the circumstances are far from typical. The bride, 27, is bald from chemotherapy; the groom is on probation after assaulting a teenage boy with a golf club. She'll have a pouch concealed under her designer dress for the painkillers; he'll be wearing an electronic monitoring tag. The brash and buxom Goody used to attract the media's ire like a magnet after being plucked from obscurity to play in "Big Brother," a British reality television show. Her eye-popping gaffes _ she infamously complained of being "an escape goat" and questioned whether English was spoken in the U.S. _ quickly made her such a target for ridicule that her own south London school defended itself by saying she wasn't a typical pupil. Goody cashed in on her notoriety with an autobiography, fitness videos and a line of perfume, but allegations of racism during a subsequent television appearance further clouded her reputation. But her image began to turn around last year when she was diagnosed with cancer during the filming of yet another reality television episode in India. Her decision to film her struggle with the disease _ to make as much money as possible to benefit her two young sons _ has drawn praise from all corners of British society. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called Goody's story "tragic." The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, said Goody was "a brave woman." "A lot of people might say 'well, it's better if she did everything in quiet,'" Murphy-O'Connor told Sky News television on Sunday. "But I think she's made a decision that she wants the last months of her life to teach people something." Others have noted that screenings for cervical cancer _ which can catch the disease when it is more easily treatable _ have spiked since Goody's condition hit the headlines. "It looks as though Jade Goody has done what no public health campaign has been able to do in the past, which is get widespread public attention on to the screening issue," British lawmaker Dr. Liam Fox told Sky News. | |
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| SAG Rejects "Final" Offer | Top |
| LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild board of directors on Saturday rejected the "last, best and final offer" by Hollywood producers for a new contract. The contract was rejected by 73 percent of SAG's board members, spokeswoman Pamela Greenwalt said in a statement. SAG called the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' demand for the contract to run for three years instead of two, "regressive and damaging." Producers insist the three-year contract would start when it is ratified, instead of when the last one expired, which would mean SAG would not be able to join with the writers' and directors' guilds to increase their bargaining power when their contracts expire in 2011. A statement released by the producers alliance said its offer was strong and fair and it had always sought a three-year deal, just as it had negotiated with other guilds and unions. "We simply cannot offer SAG a better deal than the rest of the industry achieved under far better economic conditions than those now confronting our industry," the statement said. AMPTP spokesman Jesse Hiestand declined to comment beyond what was in the statement. Greenwalt declined to comment when asked what the next step in negotiations would be. SAG is the last holdout among several unions that have agreed to long-term contracts. The guild has opposed the producers' previous offer, saying it failed to guarantee guild coverage in productions made for the Internet and failed to make residual payments on made-for-Internet content that is rerun online, among other issues. | |
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