Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from May 2003, page 2

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Slim margins, not Internet, affecting prices.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jim Mateja Q. I just purchased my first new car in years. What struck me was the wiggle room on the new-car price, yet the lack of movement on the value of my trade-in. Has Internet shopping made trade-in values non-negotiable?...

2005 Mustang to be a distillation of the past, but bigger.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Steven Cole Smith ORLANDO, Fla. _ When Ford stylists were designing the all-new 2004 F-150 pickup truck, they had photos of the Chevrolet, GMC and Dodge pickups tacked to the wall, knowing those were the key vehicles they had to...

Note to Big Food: Throw us a bone on ingredients.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Bob Condor WASHINGTON_Here are some of the numerous ingredients in Chicken McNuggets (besides chicken): water, salt, modified cornstarch. OK, the first two are straightforward. It's unclear how you "modify" cornstarch, but...

Reality check for `reality' shows.
May 30, 2003... The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Thursday, May 29: X X X Is America running out of nitwits? That would be the logical conclusion from this encouraging news in a recent New York Times article: Producers of...

A bicycle built for few.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Mike Conklin On their cross-country trip last summer, George Thomas and Terri Gooch found the Rockies a bit on the cold side, parts of Wyoming more hilly than expected, and the Mississippi Delta muggy. Fortunately, some...

How to ride in peace.
May 30, 2003... Tandem cyclist Sam Waterstreet offers these tips on keeping the peace on two wheels: _Have a bike that has the correct frame size for both riders and have the bike seats and handlebars adjusted to fit the riders. Like a pair of shoes, if...

High-stakes tests: The dog ate our common sense.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Marion Brady ``You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." Abraham Lincoln knew what he was talking about. Proof can be found in...

Seeking meaning at the Ohio.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Michael Kilian NEW YORK_I am sitting in the dark here in what must be the coolest, hippest, most intellectually dangerous theatrical space in Manhattan_Soho's Ohio Theater, on Wooster (with a name as square as "Ohio" in Soho...

Sweden's hottest bar has ambience down cold.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Julia Keller STOCKHOLM, Sweden _ He has heard the jokes. Brother, has he heard the jokes. "It's, `Hey, can I have some more ice cubes with my drink?'" says the bartender, "and I have to pretend I've never heard it before, you...

Jim's driveway: Capsules of Jim Mateja's auto reviews.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jim Mateja Jim's Driveway is capsules of Jim Mateja's auto reviews that appear in the Chicago Tribune. The digested version of the most recent reviews will replace older ones each week. The vehicles will be grouped by model year...

Looks are deceiving on upgraded LS.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jim Mateja Time for a change. Or in the case of the Lincoln LS, time for 500 changes, whatever it takes to get sales of the entry-level luxury sedan back to where they were in 2000, its inaugural year when 51,000 rolled out...

Abuse of disabled: A mostly ignored epidemic.
May 30, 2003... ORLANDO, Fla. _ In Milwaukee, a bus driver slapped a 9-year-old boy with Down syndrome and a school official threatened to tie the boy to a tree _ incidents caught on tape earlier this year. In Arkansas, a state center was cited for not...

Should the NHL go the international route.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Philip Hersh CHICAGO _ Permit those of us who know and love elite international hockey to contribute a knowing and rueful smirk to the recent discussions about how to increase scoring in the National Hockey League. The...

Neil Young's novel approach: keeping the music fresh.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Greg Kot LONDON _ Neil Young stares out at the audience from behind his harmonica rack and acoustic guitar. Save for a half-dozen pillar candles, a collection of guitars and three keyboards, he is alone. It is the first of three...

Long-awaited box set killed again.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Greg Kot Those holding their breath waiting for Neil Young to finally release his long-promised, long-delayed career anthology _ the multi-volume follow-up to his revered "Decade" retrospective _ might want to exhale. ...

Feature film of the week: `Crimes and Misdemeanors'.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jay Boyar ___ CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS 11 p.m. Sunday, June 8 WE (Women's Entertainment) ___ As its double title suggests, "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is like two movies in one. One of them is a...

Movie classic of the week: `Lifeboat'.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Crosby Day ___ LIFEBOAT 6:01 p.m. Saturday, June 14, and 8:01 a.m. Sunday, June 15 Fox Movie Channel ___ "Lifeboat" (1944) was one of director Alfred Hitchcock's most challenging undertakings. The...

From the typewriter . . .(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Mike Bianchi Running off at the typewriter . . . Since reporting in this space last week that the University of Miami had fired off a "cease and desist" logo infringement letter to little Umatilla High School, irate readers...

Old ABA opponents make for intriguing NBA Finals.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jerry Brewer ORLANDO, Fla. _ A Laker-less NBA Finals will begin Wednesday, and two dissimilar teams will play what many anticipate to be a competitive series, which could mean, above everything else, that parity has returned to...

Business events of the week ahead.
May 30, 2003... Byline: William Sluis While the economic backdrop has been brightening as worries about Iraq continue to recede, there is one area that stubbornly continues to lag behind. The job market is the weak link in any proffered guarantee about...

As U.S.-Russian relations mend, issue of Iran threatens a setback.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Alex Rodriguez ST. PETERSBURG, Russia _ The rancor over Iraq is behind them, but when President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet here this weekend, they face volatile questions about Iran that threaten to drive a...

Is NCAA planning on relaxing transfer rules?(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Mike Huguenin ORLANDO, Fla. _ An overlooked story is that the NCAA ruled earlier this week that RB Marcus Houston will be eligible this season for Colorado State after transferring from Colorado. Houston_a Denver native who...

Cubs routed by Astros.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: John Mullin CHICAGO _ Not even Sammy Sosa could save the Cubs this time. The return of the Cubs' right fielder from the disabled after toenail surgery was lost in a Houston Astros blitz of starting pitcher Shawn Estes and a...

U.S. lowers terror-threat level to yellow.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Bob Kemper WASHINGTON _ The Bush administration on Friday reduced the terrorism alert level one notch, to yellow or elevated, saying the threat of an attack on the United States had diminished over the last 10 days though "a...

Human-rights group criticizes U.S. for freeing war-crimes suspect.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Paul Salopek BAGHDAD, Iraq _ An international human-rights group sharply criticized the U.S. military in Iraq on Friday for mistakenly releasing a major war-crimes suspect. Human Rights Watch, a New York-based watchdog group,...

Vijay playing great golf, not talking to media.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Ed Sherman DUBLIN, Ohio _ Didn't get to ask Vijay Singh what he thought about Annika Sorenstam's 62 at the Kellogg-Keebler Classic Friday. There were no questions about how Singh handled taunts of "Go Annika" at Muirfield...

Weapons amnesty part of uphill struggle to quell lawlessness in Iraq.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: E.A. Torriero BAGHDAD, Iraq _ Shopping for a weapon of choice, neighbors often knock on the black gate of the Al-Rawi family house in a working-class section of Baghdad that looks like any other street in the sprawling capital....

Top women rout on schedule in French Open.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Charles Bricker PARIS _ The dog days of the women's tournament at the French Open began Friday with the usual routs, and there probably are going to be a few more one-sided matches before things get serious in the quarterfinals...

Perhaps Tyson belongs back behind bars.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Mike Downey CHICAGO Downey's Eleven: 1. Free speech has limits. Mike Tyson's "I just hate her guts... now I really do want to rape her" crosses all lines. It is a direct threat by a convicted felon to his previous...

In return to LPGA, Sorenstam shares lead with Jones.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Gary Reinmuth AURORA, Ill. _ Angela Stanford was sitting in the media room going over her 65 in the first round of the Kellogg-Keebler Classic when a loud roar erupted from behind the 18th green. "Annika's putting for an...

Kariya needs to shoot more.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Michael Russo ANAHEIM, Calif. _ Bryan Murray, who has been general manager in Anaheim two years, calls Paul Kariya "a Mighty Ducks lifer." Drafted fourth overall in 1993, Kariya has traveled through the good times and the bad...

Florida judge refuses guardian for fetus; Gov. Bush vows appeal.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Anthony Colarossi ORLANDO, Fla. _ A judge Friday denied a woman's request to be named guardian for the fetus of a mentally retarded rape victim in Orlando, raising the stakes in an abortion-rights showdown with Gov. Jeb Bush. ...

White Sox suffer horrid night.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Teddy Greenstein CLEVELAND _ White Sox manager Jerry Manuel wasn't around for the end of this debacle. Neither was third-base coach Bruce Kimm. Both were ejected after criticizing home-plate umpire Mark Wegner's strike zone,...

CART trying to re-establish itself.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Skip Myslenski INDIANAPOLIS _ The occasion was given the grand title of a summit and it was convened to discuss the condition of open-wheel racing in this country. It occurred only days before last Sunday's Indianapolis 500...

Students will scan for meals Akron school board OKs fingerprint system.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Stephanie Warsmith AKRON, Ohio _ Akron students will be fingerprinted beginning this fall to identify them in school lunch lines. This state-of-the art, futuristic technology is only being used in one other Ohio school...

Coast Guard's anti-terror workload a worry; other missions feared neglected.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Alex Fryer WASHINGTON _ Within hours of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, the U.S. Coast Guard moved its ships, planes and helicopters to protect the nation's shores and ports. In the Northwest, three 210-foot cutters...

HEADLINE HERE.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jeffrey McCracken Once upon a time, the word "launch" made General Motors Corp. and its executives cringe. Launch in auto industry vernacular means an automaker is rolling out a brand-new or greatly redesigned car or truck....

New-car launches now smoother, faster at GM.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jeffrey McCracken Once upon a time, the word "launch" made General Motors Corp. and its executives cringe. Launch in auto industry vernacular means an automaker is rolling out a brand-new or greatly redesigned car or truck....

Google gamers' word pairings a creative addiction.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Barbara Feder Ostrov Are you a creative type with an Internet connection and a vocabulary that's Brobdingnagian? If your stock of words includes little-used verbiage like that synonym for "big," and you can find an equally...

Presidents' spokesmen under more pressure with 24-hour networks.
May 30, 2003... Byline: David Jackson CRAWFORD, Texas _ Say what you will about Ari Fleischer, but not every White House press secretary has received send-off gags from David Letterman and Jay Leno, on the same night no less. One day after the White...

DOE sticks by the polygraph despite the machine's controversies.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Andrea Widener WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ Last fall, a panel of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences found that polygraph tests are unproven, and perhaps even dangerous, as a tool to search for potential spies at the nation's...

Scooter zips into the fast lane of fashionable street gear.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: James A. Fussell Sleek. Sexy. Italian-made. Robert De Niro drives one. So do Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Jessica Parker. Ferraris? Lamborghinis? Nope. Vespas. After a 15-year absence from the States, the...

Automotive Q&A.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Brad Bergholdt Q. I've noticed that several of the auto-repair shops in my area promote the fact that their mechanics are "ASE certified." What is this? Am I assured a better job will be done on my car by one of these shops? How...

The.(The Dallas Morning News)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Steve Davis DALLAS _ There was a day when I paid no more attention to temperatures and weather patterns than I did to polar bears. Why bother? I was in college. Things were different. Sleep was, somehow, more of a guideline...

Stay-at-home choice: More moms celebrate this victory for feminism.
May 30, 2003... The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Thursday, May 29: X X X For the first time since the advent of the women's movement a generation ago, U.S. government statistics show the number of women choosing to...

Family-leave law gets the support it deserves.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jane Eisner Imagine a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court declaring that the federal government has the power to enforce a law protecting women from discrimination in the workplace and encouraging men to share in the obligations of...

Nissan drums up distinction.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Mark Phelan "We're jammin'. I hope you like jammin', too." Why do I keep thinking about Bob Marley as I drive the new Nissan Maxima? The upholstery is leather, not hemp. It was developed in Japan, not Jamaica. It...

The news in Tabloid World.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Karen Heller Tabloid World is a parallel universe where panic prevails, exclamation marks flourish, and weight maintenance is a constant trauma. It's a world similar to ours, only much, much worse. Tabloids exist at the...

Getting personal with trainers.(The Dallas Morning News)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Steve Steinberg Personal trainers _ yeah, we all know the type. Jock or jockette in school. Buffed like a Marine's dress shoes. Totally wrapped up in their sweaty little world of pecs, abs, quads, glutes and delts. Oops....

Don't stiff yourself.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Michael Klepper What kind of grade are you making? Are your workouts pulling an A, B, C or worse? Evaluate yourself and be honest. I see so many who consider just making it to the gym as their workout! Then, when they finally...

What did the CIA know?
May 30, 2003... The following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Thursday, May 29: X X X Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared before the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5 and, with the help of reconnaissance photos and...

Tasty, but addictive?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Diane Evans With obesity on the rise, it's not surprising we look for culprits_beyond our own bad habits. Kraft Foods now is the target of a lawsuit that seeks to ban Oreo cookies in California, because the cookies contain...

Volkswagen and other car enthusiasts find plenty of ways to play decades-old game.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jenee' Osterheldt KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ On the East Coast they play Punch Buggy. On the West Coast and in the Midwest, it's Slug Bug. Some kids call it Beetle Bop; the hippies called it Love Bug. But no matter where you live...

A spectacle of myself.(The Providence Journal)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Philip Terzian WASHINGTON _ A half-dozen years ago, I went to see my ophthalmologist and, after the usual eyedrops and entertaining vision tests, he pronounced everything more or less normal. But for good measure, he wrote a...

Free At Last: Readers help us discover it's possible to eat well without gluten.(The Seattle Times)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Richard Seven SEATTLE _ I traveled to the Department of Transportation office building north of Seattle early one morning on a multi-tasking mission. I didn't go to discover the cure for gridlock. Too hard. I went for breakfast....

Sorenstam proved she belongs on course of her choice.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Bob Ray Sanders For the last three weeks I had promised myself that I would be at least one columnist in America _ the "world," maybe _ who would not write about golfer Annika Sorenstam. Not because I didn't want to. I had a...

Looking the future in the face.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Eric Adler KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ The trend is already apparent. Better eyes and whiter teeth. Clearer skin. Fewer wrinkles. Look around or look in the mirror. If you're anywhere between the ages of 18 and 80,...

Democrats seem to be afraid to challenge Bush.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Bill Ferguson Quite a few observers have noted that G.W. Bush's presidency bears striking parallels to that of Ronald Reagan. Reagan is remembered as a president who loved to cut taxes and who never hesitated to brandish...

Hate the weights? Try gymnastics for strength training.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Renee Stovsky ST. LOUIS _ Michelle Hasson hates strength training. But as a former cheerleader and high school athlete_she played soccer, water polo and ran track_she knows that lifting weights is an integral part of staying...

If Bush can find time, so can we.(The Dallas Morning News)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Aline McKenzie Think you have an excuse not to exercise? You're too busy? Try being the president of the United States _ a man who exercises up to an hour a day, even during times of crisis. He even has a treadmill on Air...

Fitness equipment is rated.(The Orange County Register)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Lisa Liddane Heart-rate monitors are a useful tool in tracking one's fitness performance. But how do you choose one? The most important feature to consider is accuracy. The June fitness issue of Consumer Reports has some...

Some studies back up the buzz on grape seed as antioxidant.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Shari Rudavsky The product: Natures Resources Grape Seed. The claim: That it promotes cardiovascular health, thanks in part to its ``proanthocyandolic oligomers.'' Key ingredient: Grape seed extract, derived from the...

Latest 'drug' dates back centuries.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Richard Harkness Q: I saw a TV report on a new hallucinogenic agent called Salvia that kids are taking. What exactly is it? A: Media reports about Salvia (Salvia divinorum), also called Diviner's Sage, may be news to many of...

New media ownership rules may threaten independent broadcasters.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jim Landers WASHINGTON _ The Federal Communications Commission is expected to relax media ownership rules soon and let broadcasters pursue more acquisitions. Chairman Michael Powell says Congress and the federal courts give the...

A listing of SportsPlus budget lines from past week.
May 30, 2003... Angels owner Moreno represents changing times in America BBA-MORENO-SPORTSPLUS:SJ_A one-time billboard magnate who lives in Phoenix, Arturo Moreno, 56, has surfaced at a time when almost a quarter of baseball's major leaguers have a Latin...

50 years later, Everest continues to fascinate.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Lee Hancock MOUNT EVEREST BASE CAMP, Nepal _ Beyond the brightly colored sea of tents, the listing outhouses and lean-tos, the bar selling Everest-brand whiskey, the clinic and the Internet cafe, the mountain soars above _ a vast...

Sampling of columns from Knight Ridder/Tribune contributors.
May 30, 2003... JOHN SMALLWOOD, Philadelphia Daily News, on LARRY BROWN: PHILADELPHIA _ Don't hate on the Portland Trail Blazers. The reasons Philadelphia had for wanting Maurice Cheeks to come home and replace Larry Brown as head coach are the same...

Immigration services begin to go online today.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Dena Bunis WASHINGTON _ Beginning this week, the nation's immigration service joined the computer age by inviting people to apply for green-card renewals and work permits online. For years, federal immigration officials have...

In spotlight, Mexico's first lady glitters, gets glares.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Laurence Iliff and Alfredo Corchado MEXICO CITY _ Long a lightning rod for criticism as well as adulation, first lady Marta Sahagun de Fox finds herself at the center of a media din in which questions are being raised about her...

Curious moves in Cincinnati, and other notes.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Paul Hagen PHILADELPHIA _ Jack McKeon swears this actually happened. The former Reds manager insists that when he returned to Cincinnati with the Marlins last weekend, Reds general manager Jim Bowden told him: "The problem with...

What Iraqis say: They like Americans as long as they don't stay too long.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Trudy Rubin BAGHDAD _ What do Iraqis think of their American occupiers? This question is especially important since the U.S. occupation of Iraq is so unusual. President Bush stressed to the Iraqi people that American troops...

No help for the working poor: Child tax credit vanishes.
May 30, 2003... The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Friday, May 30: X X X Congressional leaders had some tough last-minute choices to make last week as they struggled to trim $3.5 billion from the final $320 billion in...

Hyped tale of soldier's rescue isn't only war story in need of more digging.
May 30, 2003... The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Friday, May 30: X X X At a low point of the Iraq war, when unexpected Iraqi opposition seemed to threaten U.S. troops with a morass, America badly needed a hero. ...

Bush needs to make most of Mideast opportunity.
May 30, 2003... The following editorial appeared in the Detroit Free Press on Friday, May 30: X X X The linchpin for the less hostile, more democratic Middle East envisioned by President Bush is peace between Israelis and Palestinians. There is...

Is there life after `Life' for Madonna ?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Dave Ferman In her 20 years as a pop star, Madonna has faced stalkers, disapproving moral guardians and the endlessly prying eyes of the tabloids. And now she has a new and wholly unexpected opponent _ indifference. For...

Secret FCC plan to lengthen the leash on media ownership.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Jeff Gelles What do the National Rifle Association and the National Organization for Women have in common? What if I told you they were both opposed to a major change in public policy engineered by the Bush administration _...

Playwright's last, unpublished work to be staged in New Orleans.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Gary Holland PASCAGOULA, Miss. _ Playwright Tennessee Williams' last play, the unpublished "A House Not Meant to Stand" that is set in Pascagoula, will be presented in July at the Shakespeare Festival in New Orleans. The...

Concert CD, DVD give Zeppelin fans 8 hours of new stage material.
May 30, 2003... Byline: Thor Christensen Led Zeppelin was in the wrong place at the wrong time when it put out "The Song Remains the Same" in 1976, the year the punk revolution began. Critics ripped the concert film as a prime example of rock `n'...

Q&A with Led Zeppelin founder/guitarist Jimmy Page.(The Dallas Morning News)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Thor Christensen Pop music critic Thor Christensen recently spoke to Jimmy Page about the new Led Zeppelin concert releases, "How the West Was Won" and "DVD." Here are excerpts: Q: What finally got the projects going? A:...

`Out of Order,' premiering Sunday on Showtime.(The Dallas Morning News)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Manuel Mendoza Wayne and Donna Powers have spent their careers writing such fluffy Hollywood action-thrillers as "Deep Blue Sea" and the current release, "The Italian Job." Now they've created a TV series about a couple much like...

`Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh & Gauguin,' Sunday on A&E.(The Dallas Morning News)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Olin Chism Genius rarely arises in isolation, so it's not surprising that great artists often knew each other. But seldom are they thrown together quite as dramatically as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were. Their interaction...

`Wrong Turn'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2003... Byline: Chris Hewitt Virgina is for lovers, but West Virginia, apparently, is for flesh eaters. Superhuman, cannibalistic, Appalachian, mutant mountain men are the bad guys in "Wrong Turn," where it's not the sun making necks red;...

Two TV veterans tapped to run new series, `Las Vegas' and `Threat Matrix'.
May 30, 2003... LOS ANGELES _ Two TV veterans have been tapped to run new drama series at ABC and NBC. Gardner Stern, who most recently worked on FOX's "John Doe," has been named an executive producer and co-showrunner of NBC's "Las Vegas," while James...

Milla Jovovich to star in `Ultraviolet'.
May 30, 2003... HOLLYWOOD _ Ukrainian-born actress Milla Jovovich ("Zoolander") has signed on to star in the sci-fi thriller "Ultraviolet" for Screen Gems. Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer ("Equilibrium") will direct from his script. The story centers on a...