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Effort to bring trick-or treating to Pines fails
Berlin authorizes activity, expects visitors
By Daniel Valentine, Daily Times Staff Writer
  
BERLIN — The Town Council has again authorized trick-or-treating in Berlin on Oct. 31, while officials in Worcester County’s most-populated community continued to reject such plans.

While Berlin officials said unanimously this week that children in costumes can go door-to-door to ask for candy from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Halloween, Ocean Pines officials recently rejected a similar plan.

The plan was proposed by Chris Llinas, a new board member and father of two who used trick-or-treating as a campaign promise.

‘‘Ocean Pines started as a seasonal community for retirees, but it has evolved into a year-round community populated by people of all ages,’’ he said. ‘‘The majority of children go to Berlin or Ocean City. We make up a quarter of the population in the north. We should take responsibility for our kids.’’

But other board members disagreed, saying it was unsafe for Ocean Pines children to walk around a sprawling community that has no street lights.

As an alternative, the community holds a fall festival in White Horse Park where children get candy, go on hay rides and participate in other Halloween-related events.

‘‘It’s really a safety factor,’’ said Judy Boggs, president of the community board of directors. ‘‘I remember trick-or-treating in a community where houses were close together and well-lit. Here in Ocean Pines, (children) would have to walk three miles down dark roads just to get the same candy they could get at the fall festival.’’

They also go to Ocean City or Berlin.

‘‘We get a lot of kids from Ocean Pines and the farm areas,’’ said Berlin Mayor Rex Hailey. He estimates about 600 trick-or-treat in the town each year.

 

''West Wing'' opens door to TV terrorism themes

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC drama ``The West Wing (news - web sites)'' opens its new season on Wednesday with a hurriedly produced special episode on issues raised by the Sept. 11 attacks on America, becoming the first of several shows to embrace terrorism themes the networks initially avoided.

Next week, CBS plans to broadcast an episode of its new CIA (news - web sites) drama ``The Agency'' dealing with a potential anthrax attack on the United States. The following week, NBC will open the third season of its police and fire drama, ``Third Watch,'' with a trio of episodes about the attack on New York's World Trade Center.

And Fox is proceeding next month with its CIA drama, ``24,'' starring Kiefer Sutherland as a counter-terrorism expert racing to foil a political assassination, though producers have removed shots of an exploding airplane.

But ``The West Wing,'' starring Martin Sheen as fictional President Josiah Bartlet, is the first show to reverse the initial impulse of prime-time dramas to shy away from anything having to do with the events of Sept. 11.

On that day, four hijacked commercial jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center twin towers in New York, the Pentagon (news - web sites) near Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania, leaving 5,766 people dead or missing.

Neither producers of the show nor NBC executives would comment on the episode, but ``The Agency'' executive producer Wolfgang Petersen voiced a new sense that entertainment programming is ready to confront the Sept. 11 tragedy.

``Instead of walking away from it, we'll get into it,'' Petersen told trade paper Daily Variety. ``That's what (the CIA) is dealing with.''

A RACE TO THE FINISH

Since NBC executives last week gave the go-ahead for the special ``West Wing'' segment, series creator Aaron Sorkin and the Emmy-winning show's cast and crew have raced to put the episode together under a painfully tight production schedule.

The effort also forced NBC to postpone the series' official season opener by two weeks, and to air a rerun last week.

Seeking to avoid the appearance of exploiting a tragedy, NBC and the show's producers have been deliberately vague about the episode, to be titled ``Isaac and Ishmael.''

A network statement said only that it deals ``with some of the questions and issues currently facing the world in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks on the United States.''

Some reports suggest the episode's narrative may not expressly refer to terrorism but to an act of violence against the United States and that Sorkin was seeking to make a point about tolerance in the midst of America's current crisis.

NBC has said cast members would introduce the episode out of character at the outset of the show, which has been written as a stand-alone episode and not part of the show's serial story line that ended last season with Bartlet deciding whether to seek a second term after disclosing he suffers from multiple sclerosis.

Churning out a special episode under short deadlines posed considerable production hurdles for the show, and forced cast members to memorize a lot of dialogue very quickly. With the final scene shot Monday, producers had only two days, as opposed to the usual 21, between completion of principal photography and the broadcast, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Meanwhile, ``Third Watch'' now plans to launch its season Oct. 15 with an unscripted, documentary-style episode in which cast members interview real-life police officers, firefighters and paramedics in New York City. Two more episodes over the following two weeks will focus on the lives of the fictional characters one day before the actual World Trade Center attack, and one week after.

On Oct. 11, exactly one month after the attacks, CBS will broadcast a previously postponed episode of ``The Agency'' that deals with CIA agents thwarting an bioterrorism attack on Washington. But the original series opener, which refers to Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and a fictional plot to blow up a London building, remains indefinitely shelved.

Reuters/Variety REUTERS

 


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COURTNEY LOVE SUES NIRVANA
Courtney Love filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group, Geffen Records, the surviving members of Nirvana -- Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic -- and Nirvana L.L.C., a partnership formed in 1997 to manage the affairs of Nirvana, in a Los Angeles Superior Court on September 28th.

The suit cites three causes of action, including declaratory relief, asking that the contract between Nirvana and Geffen be recinded and that all rights pertaining to Nirvana revert to Love, and breach of contract for an undisclosed amount.

The contract dispute echoes Love's own with Universal regarding her band Hole. Love is trying to dissolve that contract under the seven-year statute law, which states that, under California labor laws, personal service contracts are limited to seven years.

At press time Grohl and Novoselic's attorney, Warren Rheaume, had not had an opportunity to review the complaint but did say, "This litigation is not going to change Dave and Krist's objective, which has always been to get Nirvana's music in the hands of the fans."

Love also has a lawsuit pending against the former Nirvana members seeking to effectively dissolve Nirvana, L.L.C., the partnership to manage the affairs of Nirvana, formed between Love, Frances Bean Cobain (her daughter with late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain), Grohl and Novoselic. That lawsuit, which was filed in June, has held up the release of a Nirvana box set, scheduled to coincide with the ten year anniversary of the band's breakthrough, Nevermind. The forty-five-track set had been slated for an October 23rd release date, but was put off indefinitely due to the lawsuit.

 

 

Kim Basinger In Talks To Be Eminem's Movie Mom
Rapper scheduled to begin shooting film based on his life later this month.

Oscar winner Kim Basinger is negotiating to star as Eminem's mother in a film loosely based on his life.

 

In the still-untitled flick, slated to begin shooting in Detroit later this month, Eminem plays a character named Jimmy — a young man who learns to express himself through music and struggles to transcend his bleak circumstances (i.e., the trailer parks of Michigan).

 

Brittany Murphy ("Girl, Interrupted") and Mekhi Phifer ("Shaft") have been cast as Jimmy's girlfriend and best friend, respectively, according to a Universal Pictures spokesperson. Eugene Byrd ("Whiteboys") will play a black rapper named Wink, a role originally written as a white character and considered by Giovanni Ribisi.

 

Dr. Dre and Eminem are composing music for the movie and its soundtrack. The picture is expected to hit theaters next year (see "Film Based On Eminem's Life Coming Into Focus").

 

Basinger and the film's director, Curtis Hanson, previously collaborated on 1998's "L.A. Confidential." Her performance in that film earned her a supporting actress Oscar, and Hanson won for best adapted screenplay.

 

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