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By Susannah Meadows
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ASHCROFT
A Sharp Right Turn at Justice
BOOKS
It Takes a Gore
DONATIONS
Return to Sender--Now!
Falcone has denied any wrongdoing, and the Falcones' spokesman has insisted that the contributions came directly from the sale of weight-loss products. But a GOP source tells NEWSWEEK that as soon as party officials "got word" of the Falcone connection to Essante earlier this month, they chose to send the money back.
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THE SUPER BOWL
Gee, Mom, Why's the Chicken Blue?
1. Lendener, who won with her nacho-chip breaded chicken wheels, says that good football food 'has to be fun.'
2. Not just fun: 'It should be a party in your mouth.'
3. To get the party started, try using colorful, hot items like diced cherry peppers. 'Let's be honest: burgers and franks--it gets boring after awhile. As far as I'm concerned, the hotter the better.'
4. But, of course, not everyone likes such a pregame punch. So don't invite those people over.
5. No dairy--it can spoil.
6. If your team's losing, 'punish yourself' with some hot salsa.
7. Lendener tries to choose foods that 'do the colors of the teams that are playing.' She's rooting for the Giants. They wear blue.
TRANSITION
Strummer With A Smooth Style
Beat poet Gregory Corso's chronic misfitness played itself out in both his catch-as-catch-can personal life and the minutest details of his work: sedulously irrational juxtapositions of words. He died at 70.
Leonard Woodcock, who led the UAW through a bitter strike--and, in 1979, negotiated the re-establishment of U.S. relations with China--is dead at 89.
A jury acquitted Rae Carruth of first-degree murder, but found the former NFL star guilty of conspiring to kill his pregnant girlfriend Cherica Adams.
FESTIVALS
Holy (Cyber) Site
PATERNITY WATCH
This One Goes Out to All the Babies' Mamas' Mamas
JESSE JACKSON
'Family Man': Married to Jackie for 38 years
Other Woman: Karin Stanford, Rainbow Coalition co-worker
How We Heard: National Enquirer expose
Price Tag: $3,000/month plus $35,000 'moving costs'
Tarnished Rep?: Temporarily steps out of public life
MICK JAGGER
'Family Man': With Jerry Hall 23 bumpy years
Other Woman: Underwear model Luciana Morad
How We Heard: DNA test proves paternity
Price Tag: $6.7M to Hall in divorce
Tarnished Rep?: You kidding? He was cooler than ever.
BILL COSBY
'Family Man': Four decades with Camille
Other Woman: 'One time' with Shawn Upshaw
How We Heard: Cosby's 'kid' tries to blackmail him
Price Tag: $100,000 to Shawn over 20 years
Tarnished Rep?: Image took a hit, but paternity never proved
BORIS BECKER
'Family Man': Married to Barbara almost seven years
Other Woman: Angela Ermakova ('only oral sex,' he says)
How We Heard: London model publicizes paternity suit
Price Tag: Case pending in court
Tarnished Rep?: Shocked Germany, lost wife
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND
'Family Man': Met wife, Danielle, in the 1940s
Other Woman: Mistress Anne Pingeot
How We Heard: Two women together at funeral
Price Tag: Mistress and child lived at state expense
Tarnished Rep?: Mais non! Infidelity's as French as smelly cheese.
((((((THE BUZZ))))))
Live From New York, It's ... Thursday Night?
Fort Peacock For 16 years NBC's Thursday-night lineup has been 'a mighty fortress on a bluff, impervious to attack.' (N.Y. Times) Now CBS has declared war. Paging Dr. Benton!
Friendly Advice If NBC wanted to compete, it'd expand 'Friends' to an hour. 'I just don't get this 40-minute deal.' (Mediaweek) Viewers will tune out at 8:40 to catch the end of 'Survivor,' anyway. Even Joey knows that.
Must-See Money The 'Friends' will get paid more for the added footage? Yes, but 'the compensation will be ... "nominal"--which is to say your annual salary.' (Washington Post)
Saturday Night Dive Give Zucker kudos for cleverness, but his 'SNL' gambit seems 'iffy, despite the show's impressive creative potency.' (N.Y. Daily News) Only a third of the 90-minute show gets yucks--and that's after midnight, when anything is funny!
NEWSWEEK.COM LIVE VOTE
Are you excited for 'Survivor 2'?
1. Can't wait. This is going to be better than 'Cats'!
2. I'll watch it, but I'm in reality overload right now.
3. 'Temptation Island' is the isle for me. Why watch people eat rats when you can watch them hurt their loved ones?
4. Who cares? Ten more minutes of 'Friends'? Now that's good couch time.
PLACE YOUR VOTE ON NEWSWEEK.MSNBC.COM BY 5 P.M. EST, JAN.26.
LAST WEEK'S LIVE VOTE
14% The pandas. Aren't they the cutest?
26% The White House.
58% The Smithsonian.
**2%**A Wizards game. Maybe Michael Jordan will be there!
ENTERTAINMENT
Voices Only a Mother (or a Fan) Could Love
Jeff Goldblum
Piano and vocals for Born Free'ky
Lines like 'born freaky/like, um, uniquey.' Shoulda been born mute-y. (2 Stars)
Russell Crowe
The Photograph Kills with his band
Crowe can sing, but Aussie pop gives us Sydney Olympics nightmares (3 Stars) Brad Pitt
Sings MidTown as 'Johnny Suede'
Pitt's voice is weak and thin. Why didn't Jennifer put a stop to all this? (1 Star)
Mare Winningham
Sings folk ballad It's So Hard
Hardly a Hollywood heavy-hitter, but she's way too vocally talented for this CD (4 Stars)
Billy Bob Thornton
Vocals and drums on Island Avenue
Proves there are limits to what the writer/actor/director can do (2 Stars)
GIFTS
No, Dear, It's a W, Not an M
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Boots and Box-Step Edition
C.W. Bush + Eloquent address more compassionate than conservative. Will he govern that way? Laura Bush + America will warm to classy, literate, down- to-earth First lady. She's pro-choice, too! Clinton + The long goodbye. But how can we miss him if he won't go away. Rehnquist + Big winner. Elects prez, swears him in, gets to retire--and sports those wacky gold stripes. Ray + Universally acclaimed deal finally removes the stain on America. At last, a bright Starr. Dems - Let Ashcroft slither through pretending to be a moderate. Can't they spell filibuster?
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