“Mr. Wizard” dies at 89.
Princes Harry and William give U.S. interview about Diana. Harry: “I mean – so after it happened we were always, you know, always thinking about it. And there's not a day goes by I don't think, you know, that I don't think about it once in the day. And so for us is a very slow and it's a lot – it has been a long time. Over the last 10 years I personally feel as though she has been… she's always there…She's always being a constant reminder to both of us and everybody else. And therefore I think when you're being reminded about it, it does take a lot longer and it's a lot slower. It's weird because I think when she passed away there was never that time, there was never that sort of lull. There was never that sort of peace and quiet for any of us – the fact that her face was always splattered on the paper the whole time.”
Provincetown begins archival undertaking to preserve its history.
Geri Halliwell trains with a beast.
CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves says sexism to blame for Katie Couric's low ratings on the CBS Evening News: “I'm sort of surprised by the vitriol against her. The number of people who don't want news from a woman was startling…Some of our changes didn't work. If TV news doesn't want to go the way of the newspapers, which are declining rapidly, then we have to try change.”
“Ex-gays” pissed that Montgomery County, Maryland is teaching kids that homosexuality is genetic: “According to the American Psychiatric Association, there are no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological cause for homosexuality. But now the Montgomery County Board of Education has done what science and medicine could not do by declaring in its newly approved curriculum that homosexuality is “innate” or inborn. The board could not produce any factual evidence for what it will now teach students — only political “pledges” and payoffs for last year's school board elections as claimed by gay rights activists.”
Reichen flaunts the family jewels for gay jewelry line.
John Travolta's entire family stays up all night and sleeps during the day to avoid paparazzi, the actor says: “We're like the Addams family or the Munsters, living sort of an odd, nocturnal life. My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around three, and I follow around seven. Right now, there's just you and me, and no one interfering in our space.”
Horse drowns during county “dunking” tradition: “The animals are ridden bareback into the water. When their feet come off the ground, they begin to swim. Tradition dictates that the horse's head should be dunked beneath the surface before it is ridden on to dry land again. But this distressed animal is thought to have pulled away from its owner in a panic, lost its footing and possibly broken a leg. It sank beneath the water and re-emerged but its rider continued the ritual, dunking the horse's head under the water. Again, the animal disappeared, but did not surface again. Worried onlookers began a human chain to pull the horse to shore. But by the time it was brought to the bank, it was dead. The rider fled.”
Massive wildlife migration discovered in Sudan: “More than a million animals, including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork, have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region.”
Tom Wolfe surprised to learn that Gus van Sant was directing an adaptation of his Ken Kesey chronicle The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Said Wolfe: “I'm really interested to see what they do,” he said. “The biggest problem will be the LSD trips that can be done so much better in print than on film.”
