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Third Watch Goes to Ground Zero

WEST Wing" creator John Wells is taking advantage of another one of his high-rated dramas, "Third Watch," to deal with the Twin Towers tragedy.

Wells said he was urged by many of New York City's emergency workers - some of which are consultants for the show - to create the upcoming fictional and non-fictional episodes of "Third Watch" that will incorporate the events of Sept. 11.

The show follows the lives of New York emergency workers and fire fighters.

The season premier of "Third Watch" was postponed after the attacks while Wells and company got to work on new episodes to incorporate the tragedy - a move some critics say is exploitative.

On Monday, NBC will air a two-hour edition of "Third Watch" that will feature interviews conducted by Wells and one of the shows producers with real-life NYC firemen, police and emergency medical workers in the weeks that followed the terror attacks.

Wells said that he and others from "Third Watch" are donating their salaries from the special episodes to relief funds for emergency workers and the licensing fee the show usually charges the network to air "Third Watch" was partially waived for Monday's two-hour special.

Earlier this month Wells produced an episode of the Aaron Sorkin drama "West Wing" that dealt with the issues of terrorism by Islamic extremists.

Bookees in full swing over Survivor: Africa
October 12, 2001 -- LAS Vegas oddsmakers are all over the board as they rank who they think will outlast the other contestants on "Survivor: Africa."

The third instalment of the CBS reality show, which features 16 strangers competing against each other in Kenya's Shaba National Reserve, debuted last night.

Race and sports books managers at the Stardust, the Sahara and Bally's and Paris hotel-casinos have formulated odds on the survivability of each contestant after studying their biographies on CBS' Web site.

Stardust oddsmaker Joe Lupo has picked Ethan Zohn, a 27-year-old professional soccer player, as the favorite to win the $1 million top prize at 4-1 odds.

Lupo said he looks for someone athletic and easygoing to post as the front-runner.

"He's also a vegetarian and I thought this might help his endurance with food over there," he said.

The Sahara's Andy DeLuca also likes Zohn as the front-runner with opening odds of 6-1.

But down Las Vegas Boulevard at the Bally's-Paris Las Vegas Race and Sports Book, director John Avello has Zohn as a longshot at 30-1.

"Anyone can win these [shows]," Lupo said. "It's extremely hard to pick the odds and very subjective on my part. I make these odds as if I was going to hang them for real. I can see why there could be a wide deviation."

The odds are only hypothetical because state law prohibits wagers on events in which the outcome already is known. CBS, unlike the oddsmakers, knows how this contest ends.

Lupo's other favorites include bartender Silas Gaither, 23, at 5-1; high school basketball coach Clarence Black, 24, at 6-1; telephone technician Frank Garrison, 43, at 7-1; and marketing manager Lex van den Berghe, 38, at 8-1.

"The top four are all very athletic, which is really the reason why I picked them," Lupo said.

But the Stardust handicapper has little faith in the survival skills of postal carrier Diane Ogden, 42, and farmer Tom Buchanan, 46. Both are 50-1 longshots.

"When you look at the competitors, I can't see him winning," Lupo said of Buchanan. "His age played a factor. Most of the older people go [off the show]. They have to be very likable."

But DeLuca likes Buchanan at 7-1. His longshot is Jessie Camacho, a 27-year-old deputy sheriff from Orlando, Fla., at 100-1.

Avello's favorite is Black at 6-1, and he's also the only one to post a woman as a front-runner. He gives 29-year-old Kim Powers, a freelance marketer, the same odds as Black.- AP

PAY IT FORWARD MOVEMENT TAKES NATION BY STORM
The movement has been jerky at times, less like a locomotive than The Little Engine That Could. But social change is rarely fluid. With stops and starts, it builds momentum only after enough people are on board, and then only slowly.

Such is the case for the Pay It Forward project, a pyramid scheme of sorts evolving from fiction: Do something significant to help three people, then ask each to repay the favor by doing something significant for three others, suggests Pay It Forward the book, the 2000 movie and now the budding social movement. Three distinct favors become nine become 27 become 81 become 243 .... on and on until the human chain of goodwill breaks into a chorus of We Are the World or some similar sunny metaphor.

Thus goes the theory, idealistic in concept.

"It takes someone's spirit and enthusiasm to keep it going, however, and unless someone can do that, it sometimes gets put on the back burner," says Louise Koenig, principal of Northern California's Hill Middle School. The school was home two years ago to the very first — and short-lived — Pay It Forward project, which coincided with the release of the Catherine Ryan Hyde novel and had sixth-grade students there combusting with enthusiasm for one semester.

Hill's Amanda Jones, now 13, whose family made cranberry cakes for a half-dozen of their neighbors in Novato, likes the potential. "If people paid attention to it, it could really change the world," she says. "They think about it — and then they just don't ever do it."

But what began several years ago as an epiphany for Hyde, and developed simultaneously two years ago into a book (Pocket Books, $7.99) and movie, has legs today. Encouraged by Hyde's non-profit Pay It Forward Foundation, based in Cambria, Calif., the project is being fostered in ways small and large in such distinct places as Louisville, Ky., Boca Raton, Fla., and Medford, Ore., and cities in Thailand and Australia.

On Nov. 16 in the nation's capital, Hyde's foundation, in partnership with the Washington-based non-profit Caring Institute, will present its first $2,000 Caring Institute National Pay It Forward Awards to a school and a student.

Hyde, meanwhile, is working like a circuit rider to spread her gospel globally.

To kids at the Jetty Youth Center in New South Wales, Australia, who promised as a group to Pay It Forward after seeing the film this summer, Hyde sounded the charge. "Don't listen to any grown-up who says the world just is this way or just is that way, and there's nothing you can do," she wrote to them in an e-mail. "Tell them the world will soon belong to your generation, and you can have any kind of world you choose."

On Hyde's Web site (www. payitforwardfoundation.org), the movement can be tracked in random e-mail postings, usually upbeat and optimistic: "I paid it forward at a McDonald's." "I paid it forward to the homeless." "Paying it forward with used cars." "It could change the world; I'll do it in Thailand."

Like the philanthropy needed to drive its exponential math, Pay It Forward, it seems, is developing a life of its own. In Boca Raton, retired Palm Beach Post columnist Ellie Lingner and her physician husband, Charlie Bender, are giving away 500 bumper stickers that read "Let's All Pay It Forward."

"Somebody is behind me at every traffic light, so let them think about it," Lingner says. "They may laugh. They may hate it. They may think, 'What an idiot.' "

Or, like a stranger in the parking lot of a video store and friends at a Labor Day cookout, they may ask Lingner about this Pay It Forward thing and request a bumper sticker.

"We just have to reach a critical mass for it to become evident," Lingner told the Pay It Forward faithful on the foundation's Web site.

During a Columbus Day celebration in October, the Rogue Federal Credit Union in Medford will show Hyde's film to its employees and hand out 1,000 quarter-sized brass coins imprinted with "Pay It Forward Favor" and the Web address for Hyde's foundation.

"It's not hard to explain," says event coordinator P.J. Johnston of Rogue. "Just do something nice for three other people" and pass along a token.

About 230 miles north, a mayoral proclamation has dubbed Salem the "Pay It Forward City of Oregon." During the September launch of its Pay It Forward campaign, the city gave away kits explaining the concept to businesses and schools. In November, Hyde is scheduled to speak to students at the city's six high schools.

In Louisville, an assignment that began two years ago with a class of Fairdale High School English students reviewing Hyde's book online for Barnes andNoble.com has grown this year to include service for the school and community.

Teacher Steve Johnson says the students are excited by it, but like many students who encounter Pay It Forward, two questions stump them: "They're asking, 'What can I really do? ... What do I really have control over?' "

Encouragement, persistence

Similar to California's Hill Middle School, where students created an animated video and handmade brochures to explain the idea, enthusiasm is tempered by skepticism.

Hill's Dylan Valentino, 13, has planted flowers around the school, helped paint the district high school and donated a few hours of babysitting. But when it came time to explain the concept and generate a chain reaction, the dominoes just never fell. "Which is really disappointing in my point of view," she says. "But I still want it to work."

It can, with encouragement and persistence, Pay It Forward followers maintain.

Upon returning home from watching the movie with two of her 10 grandchildren, Boca Raton's Lingner received a phone call from a distraught friend in Vermont. Lingner and her husband opened their house to the friend, who stayed for two months.

Afterward, Lingner, who had been visiting her grandchildren in Georgia when she saw the movie, sent them an e-mail:

"Grandma just started paying it forward. How about you?"
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