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QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali has released a short statement to CNN regarding the passing of the group's singer, Kevin DuBrow.

According to The Associated Press, a neighbor summoned police and paramedics Sunday (November 25) to the Las Vegas home where the 52-year-old Dubrow was pronounced dead at 5:20 p.m., police and coroner's officials said.

There was no forced entry at the house, and no suspicious circumstances were reported, police Officer Jose Montoya said.

The cause and manner of death were not immediately known, pending an autopsy and toxicology results, Clark County coroner's spokeswoman Samantha Charles said.

"I'm at a loss for words. I've just lost my best friend," Banali told CNN. "Out of respect for both Kevin and his family, I won't comment further. There's going to be a lot of speculation out there, and I won't add to that. I love him too much."

QUIET RIOT hit the top of the charts with its 1983 album, "Metal Health", considered by some sources as the first heavy metal album to hit No. 1. The album was driven by the group's cover of SLADE's "Cum on Feel the Noize", which hit the Top 40.

Natural disasters have quadrupled in two decades: study

More than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago, British charity Oxfam said in a study Sunday that largely blamed global warming.

"Oxfam... says that rising green house gas emissions are the major cause of weather-related disasters and must be tackled," the organisation said, adding that the world's poorest people were being hit the hardest.

The world suffered about 120 natural disasters per year in the early 1980s, which compared with the current figure of about 500 per year, according to the report.

"This year we have seen floods in South Asia, across the breadth of Africa and Mexico that have affected more than 250 million people," noted Oxfam director Barbara Stocking.

"This is no freak year. It follows a pattern of more frequent, more erratic, more unpredictable and more extreme weather events that are affecting more people."

She added: "Action is needed now to prepare for more disasters otherwise humanitarian assistance will be overwhelmed and recent advances in human development will go into reverse."

The number of people affected by extreme natural disasters, meanwhile, has surged by almost 70 percent, from 174 million a year between 1985 to 1994, to 254 million people a year between 1995 to 2004, Oxfam said.

Floods and wind-storms have increased from 60 events in 1980 to 240 last year, with flooding itself up six-fold.

But the number of geothermal events, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, has barely changed.

Oxfam urged Western governments to push hard for a deal on climate change at a key international meeting that runs December 3-14 on the Indonesian island of Bali.

Rich Western nations and the United Nations must act to "make humanitarian aid faster, fairer and more flexible and to improve ways to prepare for and reduce the risk of disasters," it said.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Bali aims to see countries agree to launch a roadmap for negotiating cuts in climate-changing carbon emissions from 2012.

The Oxfam study was compiled using data from the Red Cross, the United Nations and specialist researchers at Louvain University in Belgium.

Mexico funds will protect butterflies

PRIETO, Mexico - President Felipe Calderon unveiled a sweeping plan Sunday to curb logging and protect millions of monarch butterflies that migrate to the mountains of central Mexico each winter, covering trees and bushes and attracting visitors from around the world.

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The plan will put $4.6 million toward additional equipment and advertising for the existing Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, covering a 124,000-acre swathe of trees and mountains that for thousands of years has served as the winter nesting ground to millions of orange- and black-winged monarch butterflies.

Calderon said it would help boost tourism and support the economy in an impoverished area where illegal logging runs rampant.

"It is possible to take care of the environment and at the same time promote development," the president said.

The new initiative is part of ongoing efforts to protect the butterflies, which are a huge tourist attraction and the pride of Mexico. In some areas, officials can even be found standing guard along highways and slowing cars that might accidentally hit a butterfly flying across the road.

The plan also meshes nicely with one of Calderon's main policy planks: protecting the environment and combatting global warming. He has drawn up a national anti-global warming plan and committed to plant some 250 million trees in 2007.

While the monarch butterfly does not appear on any endangered species lists, experts say illegal logging in Mexico threatens its existence in North America because it removes the foliage that protects the delicate insects from the cold and rain.

"By even taking a single tree out near the butterfly colony you allow heat to escape from the forest and that then jeopardizes the butterflies," said Lincoln Brower, professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Florida and at Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Va.

Brower, who has studied the insects for 52 years, described the Mexican nesting grounds as "the Mecca of the whole insect world."

The reserve already receives some $36.4 million in government funding, and its staff includes a team of park rangers who patrol the area equipped with assault rifles and body armor searching for armed gangs of lumber thieves.

The World Wildlife Fund and the Mexican Fund for Nature Conservation say the efforts are paying off. They say this year saw a 48 percent drop in illegal logging, compared to a year ago.

"We're gaining ground in the fight against illegal logging," Calderon said.

Each September, the butterflies begin their 3,400-mile journey from the forests of eastern Canada and parts of the United States to the central Mexican mountains. The voyage is considered an aesthetic and scientific wonder.

The butterflies return to the U.S. and Canada in late March, where they breed and cycle through up to five generations before heading back south. Scientists say they are genetically programmed to return to Mexico, where they settle into the same mountains their ancestors inhabited the year before.

According to Brower, sometimes they even return to the exact same trees ― probably because previous monarchs have marked the area through a mechanism scientists don't yet understand.

The monarchs that spend the winter in Mexico do not reproduce until they return to the U.S. and have a much longer life span than those born in the spring and summer.

Omar Vidal, director of the World Wildlife Fund's Mexico program, applauded Calderon's plan.

"This is the longest migration of all insects, a unique phenomenon and a natural wonder and Mexico has the biggest responsibility to protect them because they come here to hibernate," he said.

Brower said the monarch isn't at risk of extinction because it can be found in Mexico, Canada, the U.S., most of South America and even parts of Australia and New Zealand. But disappearing habitat could threaten a delicate migratory route that has existed for an estimated 10,000 years.

"The whole migratory phenomenon which involves two continents and over a million square miles could just go down the drain," he said.

'Baby Grace' mystery leads to Texas pair

DALLAS - A man and woman who never reported her toddler missing have been arrested by investigators searching for the identity of a girl whose body washed ashore in a storage bin in Galveston Bay.

Authorities are awaiting DNA test results but believe the girl is 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers of Spring, said Galveston County sheriff's Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo.

The girl's mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, and Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 24, reportedly told relatives that she was taken in July by someone claiming to be an Ohio social worker. But they never told police she was missing, Tuttoilmondo said.

After police searched their suburban Houston home, they were arrested early Saturday and charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence, Tuttoilmondo said. The couple remain jailed in lieu of $350,000 bail each.

It's unclear whether they are married, Tuttoilmondo said. Riley's father lives in Ohio.

Tuttoilmondo declined to say what was found or what the couple may have said about Riley's disappearance.

The two have attorneys, but Tuttoilmondo could not immediately provide their names.

Last week, authorities said the families of eight missing children from across the United States were being asked to provide DNA samples. Tuttoilmondo said they were selected from 110 cases of missing children who matched a description of the girl being called "Baby Grace." The child was described as being 2 or 3.

After hearing about the discovery of the girl in a plastic storage bin Oct. 29, Riley's paternal grandmother, Sheryl Sawyers, called Texas authorities to see whether a missing-person report had been filed in Riley's case. When she saw a sketch of Baby Grace, she thought it might be her granddaughter.

Sheryl Sawyers said she has not seen Riley since Kimberly Trenor moved with the girl to Spring this year to marry Zeigler, whom she met online, the Galveston County Daily News reported Sunday.

Sawyers said that her son and Kimberly Trenor had Riley while they were teenagers and that the three of them lived with her in Mentor, Ohio, for about two years.

The girl's grandfather, Ray Sawyers, told The Associated Press on Sunday that authorities had asked his family not to comment about the case.

Riley's father, Robert Sawyers, 20, has said he hopes his daughter is not Baby Grace.

"I think she might be, but I'm hoping she's not," Robert Sawyers told the Houston Chronicle for a story in Sunday's online edition. "The picture I have and the picture of Baby Grace is so similar ― it kind of scares me."

History going to school in Annapolis

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Annapolis is a college town in love with history. Now history is coming to Annapolis in the form of a Middle East peace conference, offering students a close encounter with world events.

Though it's unlikely the 4,400 students at the U.S. Naval Academy will get a firsthand glimpse Tuesday of the talks on campus, the midshipmen surely will pay attention, said Glenn E. Campbell, an academy graduate and vice president of the Historic Annapolis Foundation.

"There is a tremendous amount of interest among the faculty and the students of international diplomacy and peace efforts," Campbell said.

Political science is the No. 1 major among midshipmen, according to the school's public affairs office.

Campbell said holding a peace summit at a place where future Navy and Marine officers learn to wage war is not as odd as it may seem. The Naval Academy's tight security and proximity to Washington, about 30 miles away, make it a natural location for diplomatic efforts, he said.

The academy has played host to NATO meetings and academic diplomacy summits. In 1999, Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev visited the campus and dined with midshipmen, Campbell said.

The campus will be closed Monday and Tuesday to general visitors, but classes will meet, spokeswoman Deborah Goode said. She said some classes probably will monitor news coverage of the conference, but she wouldn't say how else the summit might affect campus life, including the Army-Navy Week pranks that traditionally precede the Army-Navy football game to be played Dec. 1 in nearby Baltimore.

Army, which has been known to kidnap Navy's billy goat mascot, gave no hint of a truce.

"Clearly, the cadets at West Point will take the increased security measures into consideration during that week," said U.S. Military Academy spokesman Frank DeMaro in West Point, N.Y.

The Naval Academy's traditional pregame pep rally will be held Wednesday night as planned, Goode said.

Just down the street from the Naval Academy stands private St. John's College, a liberal arts school with a curriculum based on the "great books" of the Western Hemisphere. Spokeswoman Rosemary Harty said St. John's classes won't follow the peace summit because students there learn about politics by reading and discussing the classics.

"They're reading Thucydides, they're reading Aristotle," Harty said. "They know about politics from something Aristotle would write on politics, not from something written by any contemporary politician."

But sophomore Daniel Lewkow sees the peace conference as a chance to expose his 450 cloistered colleagues to the outside world through coverage in Epoch, a quarterly, current-events magazine he helped found. The magazine was seeking press credentials to cover the summit, he said.

"There's not really much of a knowledge about political events at St. John's," said Lewkow, of Richmond, Va. "I feel that it's almost a duty of mine to educate people on the news of the world."

Senior Elizabeth Burlington, editor of the campus-focused newspaper, The Gadfly, said she had heard little about the summit and wasn't planning to cover it.

"It's not that people don't care ― it's just that we're so caught up in things that happened 200 years ago or 2,000 years ago that it's hard to focus as a community on this one thing. Honestly, sometimes we just forget there's this outside world, especially during essay-writing periods," she said.

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The official pre-election campaign has not started in the United States yet, but the unofficial version of it full of rumors and slander is in full swing already. Candidates running for presidency in the USA have been defamed in all possible ways. Anonymous emails, regular mail letters, leaflets stuck on buildings and underneath windshield wipers accuse the candidates of most grievous sins imaginable.



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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was said to have a lesbian relationship with her aide, Huma Abedin. Someone else vilified Clinton's central Republican opponent, former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani: an anonymous individual wrote on his or her blog that Giuliani's wife was involved in a program to kill innocent puppies to test medical products.

Other front runners - Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson - are less popular in dirty election tricks. They were smeared as a Mormon and a corrupt playboy respectively. Barack Obama was portrayed as a Muslim extremist despite his Christian beliefs, The Times reports.

Experts say that the current campaign promises to become the dirtiest one in the history of the United States. It is always cheap and very easy to malign an adversary than to convince electors in their virtues.

Needless to say that politicians can do nothing to put an end to slanderous information. They realize that it is a part of the package. The best thing to do here is to ignore all the rumors. "People say a lot of things about me, so I really don't pay any attention to it. It's not true, but it is something that I have no control over. People will say what they want to say," Hillary Clinton says.

However, the haters do not give up. They continue to send spam in an attempt to stain reputations of U.S. presidential candidates. One of mass-mailed missives says: "Mitt Romney has a family secret he doesn't want you to know." "Those dark suspicions you hide deep inside yourself about Mormonism are trying to tell you something. Trust your instincts! ... The light of truth will burn through the smoke and mirrors of Mitt Romney's movie star looks and crafty words!"

The rumor of Hillary Clinton's lesbian love affairs started in August of 2007 by Village Voice editors Michael Musto. Hillary and her aide, Huma Abedin, do live together at home and on the road, but the only way to nail Clinton would be to catch them together in a lesbian action.

The anonymous e-mails and letters began dropping into inboxes and through front doors this summer.

One claimed that Hillary Clinton was having a lesbian affair with Huma Abedin, her beautiful aide. Another online mass-mailing cautioned of the "dark secrets" of Mitt Romney's Mormonism. A blogger claiming to support John McCain said that Rudy Giuliani's wife supported the killing of "innocent puppies". Flyers appeared on cars accusing Barack Obama of being a Muslim extremist. An anonymous website said that Fred Thompson was a corrupt playboy.

Welcome to South Carolina, the foulest swamp of electoral dirty tricks in America. This state's primary race has already become the sleaziest leg of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Here, political operatives know only one way to win: take your opponent's head off. The Palmetto State's primary follows hard on the heels of Iowa and New Hampshire and is the candidates' first foray into the Deep South. For Republicans, in particular, it is crucial: since South Carolina gained its first-in-the-South status in 1980, no Republican has received the party nomination without winning the state.

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"South Carolina is a do-or-die state again," said Rod Shealy, a veteran Republican consultant, over a meal of fried pork and beans in his favourite diner, the Lizard's Thicket. "The attacks are already coming on a daily basis. And with the anonymity of the internet, we're going to see new lows in dirty politics that would have been unimaginable recently."

Mr Shealy knows a thing or two about dirty politics. In 1990, when running his sister's campaign for lieutenant governor, he paid an unemployed black fisherman facing felony charges to run for Congress to increase white voter turnout. He was convicted of breaking campaign laws.

Mr Shealy is among a small band of political consultants who wield enormous influence in South Carolina. They are bitter rivals and all learnt their trade from Lee Atwater, a South Carolina native and the first President Bush's notorious and venal attack dog. Dirty politics ran in his blood. He once explained that the way to win a campaign lay in "strippin' the bark off an opponent".

The most grizzled political veterans until recently believed that the apogee of their state's slash-and-burn mentality was reached in 2000, when John McCain's presidential ambitions were emasculated by operatives working for Mr Bush.

After losing badly to Mr McCain in New Hampshire, the Bush team knew � as one operative says � that they had to "chop him up" in South Carolina. Flyers appeared saying that Mr McCain had fathered an illegitimate child with a black woman (he and his wife have an adopted Bangladeshi girl). A whispering campaign was started claiming that his five years as a Vietnamese prisoner of war had made him mentally unstable. His wife was a drug addict, people were told in anonymous telephone calls. Mr Bush and his former chief strategist, Karl Rove � another Atwater protégé � always denied any involvement. But Mr McCain's campaign never recovered.

The brutality of South Carolina's Republican primaries has until now involved the state's hatchet men putting the party's establishment candidate � Mr Bush in 2000 � back on track after upsets in Iowa or New Hampshire. What is different this year is that at least four Republican candidates � Mr McCain, Mr Romney, Mr Giuliani and Mr Thompson � are all heading to South Carolina with a realistic chance of winning the state. That means that the traditional two-man showdown will be replaced by a multi-candidate massacre among a group of men ripe for attack.

"The question this year is not whether the race will be dirtier than 2000," said Will Folks, the former spokesman for Mark Sanford, the Republican Governor of the state. "The question is, when will it cross that threshold?"

The man who masterminded the destruction of Mr McCain in 2000 is Warren Tompkins, known by some operatives in South Carolina as the "God of Hell". He has been hired this year by Mr Romney. He has already had to answer questions about his tactics.

The anonymous anti-Fred Thompson website PhoneyFred.org was traced to his consulting company.

He claimed that it was the act of an errant employee acting independently. Mr McCain has hired Richard Quinn, another of the state's top consultants. Mr Folks says that the Tompkins and Quinn camps are using two websites, The Shot and The Palmetto Scoop respectively, which masquerade as objective blogs but in reality peddle daily dirt on opponents.

" A picture of Mr Giuliani wearing drag at an event when he was New York's mayor has appeared frequently. The day after scurrilous anonymous phone calls were made to New Hampshire voters about Mr Romney's Mormonism this week, The Palmetto Scoop claimed that it was a ruse by the Romney campaign "to drum up sympathy for the candidate." Mr Romney will need all of Mr Tompkins's hardknuckle guile in a state where many social conservatives view Mormonism as a cult. The night before a Republican debate in May several conservative activists received an anonymous, eight-page letter entitled Mormons in Contemporary American Society: A Politically Dangerous Religion?

Nobody is sure who is behind the attacks on Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama, but the claims of lesbianism and Islamic extremism have found fertile ground on right-wing websites. Mr Obama, a Christian, was forced to deny the rumours at a campaign event on November 9.

Lee Bandy, who has written about South Carolina politics for 40 years, says of the Republican campaign: "The race is so close this year there is no telling what these guys will do to win. And a guy like Rudy Giuliani is a prime target."

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LOUIS -- With the Rams just 1 yard from the end zone, a win slipped through Gus Frerotte's fingers.

The backup quarterback fumbled the snap on fourth-and-goal from the Seattle 1 with 27 seconds left Sunday, allowing the Seahawks to hold on for a 24-19 victory.

Frerotte picked up the loose ball but was tackled at the 5, ending the Rams' modest two-game winning streak after an 0-8 start. The Seahawks have won six straight against the Rams, who are 0-5 at the Edward Jones Dome this season after being dominant at home in recent years.

''We were fortunate today,'' Seattle coach Mike Holmgren said. ''I don't think we played our best football.''

Seattle (7-4) won its third straight by rallying for 17 unanswered points in the second half after falling behind 19-7.

St. Louis (2-9) had one last chance when Seattle's Josh Brown missed a 52-yard field goal with 2:44 to go. The Rams took over at their own 42 and drove to the 4 with just over a minute to play.

Frerotte, who was brought in after Marc Bulger left with a concussion in the first quarter, missed a wide-open Isaac Bruce on first down, then threw a 2-yard pass to Drew Bennett. On third down, Steven Jackson ran to the 1, setting up the doomed final play.

The center, Andy McCollum, was in only because starter Brett Romberg left earlier in the game with an ankle injury.

McCollum wasn't sure what happened.

''I thought he had it,'' he said. ''I blocked my guy. I didn't know it was loose.''

Frerotte (20-for-32 for 161 yards and one interception) had no explanation: ''It's pretty obvious -- it just came out. You know, it wasn't a perfect exchange.''

Bulger was hurt on a sack by linebacker Leroy Hill. He will be evaluated daily.

Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Gus Frerotte fumbled the ball at the one-yard line with under 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter and Seattle held on for the 24-19 triumph over the St. Louis Rams at the Edward Jones Dome.

Facing a 3rd-and-goal from the two with 36 seconds left, Steven Jackson was stopped at the one. Then, after calling a timeout on fourth down, the Rams needed only a touchdown to take the lead. But Frerotte botched the snap and was tackled at the five-yard line.

Matt Hasselbeck completed 21-of-38 passes for 249 yards with one touchdown and an interception for Seattle (7-4), which has ripped off three straight wins. Maurice Morris rushed for 79 yards on 16 carries and Deion Branch caught five passes for 92 yards with one score. Bobby Engram had 70 yards on seven receptions.

Frerotte, who replaced Marc Bulger in the first quarter, threw for 161 yards on 20-of-32 passing with one touchdown and one pick for the Rams (2-9), who had their two-game winning streak broken. Bulger completed 3-of-5 passes for 32 yards and one interception before leaving the game with a concussion.

Jackson rushed for 90 yards on 23 carries with one touchdown, and Bruce caught six passes for 63 yards and one score.

"It was just a great win," said Morris. "Everyone came together and we kept driving and fighting. We stayed close enough to come back and get this win."

The Seahawks scored 17 unanswered points in the second half.

After St. Louis went three-and-out to open the second half, Seattle marched 51-yards before stalling at the Rams 15. Josh Brown kicked a 33-yard field goal to make it a 19-10 St. Louis lead with 9:36 left in the third.

The teams traded punts, and on the Rams' next possession, Frerotte's intended pass to Holt near the far sideline was picked off by Marcus Trufant at the Seattle 33.

On second down of the ensuing drive, Morris rushed through a gaping hole down the middle of the field for 46 yards, setting up a 1st-and-10 at the St. Louis 21. Three plays later, Hasselbeck connected with Branch on a slant route for a nine-yard touchdown, cutting the deficit to two, 19-17, with 3:22 left in the third.

In the fourth quarter, Hasselbeck orchestrated a 10-play drive that began at his own 20-yard line. He completed three straight passes to Branch, Morris and Engram to move the ball to the Rams 40. After a 3-yard run by Morris, Hasselbeck hooked up with Branch for 18 yards, putting the ball at the 19.

Then, on 3rd-and-1 at the 10, Morris was stopped for no gain, but Will Witherspoon was whistled for a face mask, which moved the chains. On the next play, Leonard Weaver bulled his way into the end zone for a 5-yard score to complete the comeback and give Seattle its first lead of the game, 24-19.

Brown missed a 52-yard field goal, giving St. Louis excellent field position with 2:44 remaining in the fourth. St. Louis drove to the one-yard line before Frerotte's costly gaffe.

"I am disappointed in the fact that we didn't win the game," said Rams coach Scott Linehan. "The second half had something to do with that. There are a lot of things I can look back on, but not going out and being able to put the points on the board offensively like we needed to be able to finish the game. The effort was there, the guys were straining and fighting to put ourselves in position to win the football game, so that was disappointing for us."

On their first possession of the game, the Rams were facing a 3-and-7 from the Seattle 26, but Bulger was sacked and fumbled the football. Offensive lineman Rob Petitti pounced on the loose ball at the 43, pushing the Rams out of field goal range.

Donnie Jones' ensuing punt was downed at the two, pinning the Seahawks deep in their zone.

After a false start penalty backed Seattle up to the one, Morris was tackled in the end zone by Adam Carriker for a safety.

Dante Hall gave St. Louis excellent field position, returning the free kick to the Rams 47. Then, on the first play of the drive, Jackson busted through the line and scampered 53 yards for a score, giving the Rams a 9-0 lead with 8:30 left in the first quarter.

Seattle's Josh Wilson returned the ensuing kickoff 89 yards to make it a 9-7 game.

Later in the quarter, Frerotte came in at quarterback for the Rams after Bulger left the game with a concussion.

St. Louis was forced to punt, but Nate Burleson fumbled during the return and Eric Bassey recovered the ball for the Rams at the Seattle 30-yard line.

The Rams extended their lead to 16-7 when they covered 30 yards on six plays, capped by Bruce's 15-yard touchdown reception with 28 seconds remaining in the opening quarter.

A Jeff Wilkins 23-yard field goal with 8:07 left in the second quarter made it a 19-7 game and put the finishing touch on a 12-play, 60-yard drive that ate up 6:07 of the clock.

Seattle looked to trim the deficit before the half, but Hasselbeck was intercepted in the end zone by O.J. Atogwe.

Game Notes

The Rams recorded a season-high five sacks...St. Louis remains winless at home, 0-5...Seattle improves to 4-1 against the NFC West...Seattle has won six straight against the Rams...Seattle snapped a two-game road losing streak...Seattle outgained the Rams, 302-265...St. Louis dominated the time of possession, 35:17 to 24:43...Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander missed the game with a knee injury.

Gus Frerotte
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Gus Frerotte St. Louis Rams ― No. 12
Quarterback
Date of Birth: July 31, 1971 (1971-07-31) (age 36)
Place of Birth: Kittanning, Pennsylvania
Height: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Weight: 233 lb (106 kg)
National Football League Debut
1994 for the Washington Redskins
Career Highlights and Awards
Pro Bowl selection (1996)

Career History
College: Tulsa
NFL Draft: 1994 / Round: 7 / Pick: 197
Teams:

Washington Redskins (1994-1998)
Detroit Lions (1999)
Denver Broncos (2000-2001)
Cincinnati Bengals (2002)
Minnesota Vikings (2003-2004)
Miami Dolphins (2005)
St. Louis Rams (2006-present)

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Gustave Joseph Frerotte (born July 31, 1971 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania) is an American football quarterback playing for the St. Louis Rams of the NFL. He attended Ford City High School in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Frerotte is 33-30-1 as an NFL starter through the 2005 season. He signed a contract with the St. Louis Rams in the 2006 offseason, where he will spend his time as the backup to Marc Bulger.


[edit] College career
At the University of Tulsa, he finished his college career as the school's 2nd-ranked all-time passer behind T.J. Rubley, a teammate from 1991-92. During his career he threw for 5,480 yards and 32 TDs on 432-of-860 passing. His 2,871 passing yards as a senior were the most by a Tulsa QB in 28 years. As a sophomore, Frerotte handled punting duties for the team and averaged 35.5 yards per punt. As a redshirt freshman, he was forced into starting role for 8 games in 1990 after Rubley was injured, starting his 1st career game at Oklahoma. During his time as an undergraduate, he joined the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.


[edit] NFL career
His pro career started with the Washington Redskins as a 7th round draft pick in the same draft where the Redskins selected Heath Shuler with the #3 overall pick. However, by the next season Frerotte was the starting quarterback due to Shuler's injuries and struggles adjusting to the pro game and would remain the Redskins' starting QB until Opening Day 1998. Frerotte was selected to one Pro Bowl team in 1996, but may be better remembered by an incident in which he injured himself by ramming his head into a padded cement wall in celebration of a touchdown in a 7-7 tie against the New York Giants on Sunday Night Football, spraining his neck.

In 1999, he played for the Detroit Lions, where he backed up Charlie Batch. Frerotte stepped in for the injured Batch and started for the Lions in the playoffs. In Frerotte's first playoff start, he was defeated by the Redskins. In 2000, he started for the Denver Broncos after Brian Griese was injured and led the Broncos to the playoffs, falling in the opening round to eventual Super Bowl Champion Ravens. He remained the Broncos' backup until the end of the 2001 NFL season. He joined the Cincinnati Bengals in 2002, winning the starting job before giving way three games in to the season to Jon Kitna and under the soon to be fired Dick LeBeau. In 2003 and 2004, Frerotte backed up Daunte Culpepper and did a great job commanding the offense when he played, earning him a chance to work for the Dolphins starting job in 2005. He guided the Dolphins to a 9-7 record, starting 15 games and throwing for 18 touchdowns against 13 interceptions, including 2 touchdowns in an upset victory over the Denver Broncos in Week 1. He completed 52% of his passes and finished the season with a 71.9 quarterback rating. He is currently the primary backup for the St. Louis Rams.

He lives with his wife Ann, and three children Gabe, Gunnar and Abby.

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The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
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Kowalski, Skipper, and Rico (with his dynamite)The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper is a computer-animated short produced by DreamWorks Animation (with soundtrack by Media Ventures young-gun James Dooley), released in movie theatres and on DVD in 2005. The 12-minute film showcases the adventures of four penguins, sometimes known as the Madagascar Penguins, who live in the Central Park Zoo and are trained as spies.

It premiered in theaters on October 7, 2005 with the stop-motion film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The short was later included on the later editions of the Madagascar DVD, which was released on November 15, 2005.

The short was directed by animation veteran Gary Trousdale, produced by Teresa Cheng, and written by Michael Lachance.

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1 Plot
2 Voice cast
3 Trivia
4 Running Gags
5 External links



[edit] Plot

Skipper as seen in the short.In the story, the youngest penguin on the team, Private, slips out of the zoo on Christmas Eve to find a present for a lonely polar bear named Ted. While roaming the streets of Manhattan, he is captured by an old lady who mistakes him for a chew toy for her vicious dog, Mr Chew. The other three penguins, Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico, rescue Private from the old lady's apartment before it's too late. At the end of the film they invite Ted to their home. But he had already invited guests, resulting in a massive sing-a-long to a parody of Jingle Bells.


[edit] Voice cast
Tom McGrath .... Skipper
Chris Miller .... Kowalski
Christopher Knights .... Private
John DiMaggio .... Rico
Elisa Gabrielli .... Old Lady
Bill Fagerbakke .... Ted the Polar Bear
Sean Bishop .... Doorman, TV Announcer
Mitch Carter .... Additional Voice
Rif Hutton .... Additional Voice
Richard Miro .... Additional Voice
Hope Levy .... Additional Voice
Lynnanne Zager .... Additional Voice
Manel Fuentes .... Skipper (Castilian version) (uncredited)

[edit] Trivia
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The old lady who captures Private in this short film also played a cameo part in Madagascar as the lady who beat up Alex the lion (and Melman the giraffe briefly) with her bag in Grand Central Terminal.
This is the first time Rico, one of the penguin characters from Madagascar, speaks English saying "eggnog" and later "kaboom" (since the Hewlett-Packard advert starring the penguins). In the original film, he is mute except for saying the Japanese word "Hai" (meaning "yes") while preparing sushi.
Gloria's name isn't mentioned throughout the entire short film, but Marty, Alex and Melman are.
An Alex the lion toy can be seen in the old lady's room. It is destroyed by Mr. Chew, the old lady's dog.
During the scene where Private gets catapulted from the Christmas tree and crashes in the kitchen, the announcer from the TV says "...and Ryan is down!" This could be a very subtle reference to Private Ryan.
During the sing-along at the end, look closely at the penguins. (They're on the gate that surrounds their habitat.) Look on the right to see one of the penguins dancing with the bowling pin Skipper mistook as Private.
During the fight with the poodle, slow motion is used, as well as Skipper gesturing with his hand, alluding to The Matrix.
The name Rico and Kowalski are used from other movie e.g. Rico (from Starship Troopers) and Kowalski (from Stargate)




[edit] Running Gags
Rico is constantly regurgitating a piece of dynamite out of his stomach and asking Skipper's permission to use it.
Nobody except Skipper knows the "penguin credo" - "never swim alone." � The other penguins also confuse the Walrus credo ("Ha-da-da, ha-da-da doo-da dee-da!") with the other Penguin credo - "never bathe in hot oil and Bisquick."
In an attempt to get a better view of Private while on the streets of New York, Skipper, Rico and Kowalski try to blend in with passing Catholic nuns.
When trying to catch up with Private the penguins attach a grappling hook to a taxi. The licence plate of the taxi reads "I8BIGAPEL" i.e I ate big apple (New York)
During the battle, Skipper uses Rico as a machine gun for cover fire, using swallowed mints as bullets.
In a reference to the first film, Skipper makes several references to curse words, i.e "Hoover Dam" or "Shiitake mushrooms".
It is possible that the name "Mr. Chew" is a reference to a website of pornographic content by the same name.


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I'll be home for the holidays" assumes ulterior motives when the person returning to the fold is on the lam.
In ABC Family's "Christmas Caper" premiering Sunday, Cate Dove needs a haven after a bungled grand-theft burglary.





We meet Cate (Shannen Doherty) as she shimmies down a rope to break into a mansion. She and her partner, Clive (Conrad Coates), bypass the rather inept security guards to steal a huge diamond. The homeowner returns as they are about to make their getaway; he abandons her.

Quick-witted and nimble, Cate manages to escape, but not before her photo is caught on security cameras and soon distributed to law enforcement agencies everywhere.

Meanwhile, her sister, Savannah (Sonya Salomaa), who could give Type A's a bad rap, is stuck in an airport on the islands. Planes can't fly because of a tropical storm, and Savannah's baby sitter must leave. When we meet her children, the baby sitter's needs become quite understandable.

Savannah and her husband call everyone they know. People would rather contract a disease than watch Parker and Annie (Josh Hayden, Natasha Calis). Parker is a juvenile delinquent, but not a very good one, and Annie is a complete know-it-all and rather grating.

Finally, with no one left to call, a week before Christmas, Savannah tries her ne'er-do-well sister, Cate.

Cate needs a place to hide, so this seems logical. Still, wouldn't the police consider looking at her sister's home? Wouldn't it make sense for her to cut and dye her dark tresses rather than just head to Comfort?

Doherty laughs when presented with these leaps of logic.

"It's ABC Family; it's a Christmas movie," she says from her home just outside Los Angeles. "I am that moviegoer, and somebody will be sitting next to me and say, 'That's not even possible.' And I say, 'Yes, it is, because it's in a movie!' As a movie, it's fun.

"It's entertainment," she says. "We are not performing brain surgery or trying to change anybody's opinion about the world. It's entertainment, and that's it."

Once viewers accept Doherty's take on the movie, it becomes more palatable. Still, those who expect linear plot lines will wonder why her high school boyfriend, Sheriff Hank Harrison (Ty Olsson), does not put together the clues.

As Doherty worked with these two children, she became close to them.

"How adorable are the two kids?" Doherty asks. "She's 9 years old. She (Calis) is so good, and just the most respectful, sweet kid. My time on the set was spent with them. And when we had our lunch break, she came with me ― the boy, too. They were in my trailer with me. We ate and played games."


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casey calvert

Casey Calvert, guitarist for post punk/ rock band Hawthorne Heights, was found dead early Saturday morning. Calvert was 26-years-old.



According to several accounts Calvert appeared healthy on Friday night while spending time with friends before going to sleep for the night. Those same reports indicated that Calvert passed away at some point while sleeping.



Calvert's sound played a big role in Hawthorne Heights and its highly successful second album If Only You Were Lonely which debuted at #3 on the Billboard charts and produced the hit single "Saying Sorry."



Hawthorne Heights had a show in Detroit, Michigan on Friday night and was scheduled for a show on Saturday in Washington D.C.



The official site of Hawthorne Heights posted a message on their front page stating:



"Today is probably the worst day ever. Its with our deepest regrets that we have to write this. Casey Calvert passed away in his sleep last night. We found out this afternoon before sound-check. We've spent the entire day trying to come to grips with this and figure out as much as possible. At this time we're not sure what exactly happened. Just last night he was joking around with everyone before he went to bed. We can say with absolute certainty that he was not doing anything illegal. Please, out of respect to Casey and his family, don't contribute or succumb to any gossip you may hear. We don't want his memory to be tainted in the least. Casey was our best friend. He was quirky and awesome and there will truly be no others like him! His loss is unexplainable. As soon as we know more we will let you know."

WASHINGTON - Authorities are trying to figure out why a guitarist from a popular band died Saturday. It happened just hours before the band Hawthorne Heights was set to perform at D.C.'s 9:30 Club on Saturday night.

Band members said Casey Calvert, 26, apparently died in his sleep. They said they realized what happened just before a sound check Saturday afternoon.

It was unclear exactly where Calvert was found.

Band members said in a statement on the band's official Web site that Calvert didn't show any signs of trouble the day before.

"Just last night he was joking around with everyone before he went to bed," they wrote Saturday.

The band also said Calvert was not "doing anything illegal" before his death.

"Please, out of respect to Casey and his family, don't contribute or succumb to any gossip you may hear. We don't want his memory to be tainted in the least. Casey was our best friend. He was quirky and awesome and there will truly be no others like him! His loss is unexplainable," the release went on to say.

Hawthorne Heights recently soared to No. 3 on the Billboard charts with their album, "If Only You Were Lonely."

History
Originally known as A Day in the Life, after one album (Nine Reasons to Say Goodbye), an EP, Paper Chromatography (which was later re-released as part of the compilation From Ohio With Love), and significant line-up changes, the band changed its name to Hawthorne Heights. On the DVD portion of The Silence in Black and White, drummer Eron Bucciarelli states that the band took their current name from the author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Their first album The Silence in Black and White, was released in 2004. The album was slow to build sales at first; however, soon the video for the song "Ohio Is for Lovers" began getting airplay on MTV, and the band enjoyed breakout success at radio as well as a growing nationwide fan base, and the album became Victory Records' highest selling debut. The Silence in Black and White peaked at number 56 on the Billboard charts.

When their second album If Only You Were Lonely was released on Feb 28, 2006, it debuted at number 3 on the Billboard charts, powered by the lead single "Saying Sorry" which has received regular airplay on MTV, VH1 and Fuse. The band performed on the 2006 Nintendo Fusion Tour.


Incident with Ne-Yo
In February of 2006, as the band was readying the release of If Only You Were Lonely, Victory Records issued two statements to fans through the band's mailing lists as well as their MySpace page, stating that "ROCK music needs your support"[6] and that "the #1 slot that belongs to us." They also pleaded with fans to go into chain stores and make sure Hawthorne Heights CDs are in stock and to sabotage the sales count of Ne-Yo's record In My Own Words, which was being released the same day. The statement said:

" As for Ne-Yo, the name of the game is to decrease the chances of a sale here. If you were to pick up handful of Ne-Yo CDs, as if you were about to buy them, but then changed your mind and didn't bother to put them back in the same place, that would work. Even though this record will be heavily stocked and you might not be able to move all the stock, just relocating a handful creates issues: Even though the store will appear to be out of stock, the computer will see it as in stock and not re-order the title once it sells down and then Ne-Yo will lose a few sales later in the week."[7] "

They ended their rallying cry with by quoting Winston Churchill: "Victory at all costs, Victory in spite of all terror, Victory however long and hard the road may be; for without Victory, there is no survival."[8] Later, group members claimed that the statements were issued by their record label, Victory Records, without their consent.[9] On August 7, 2006, the band announced they would be leaving Victory Records, and sued the label for breach of contract, copyright and trademark infringement, fraud and abuse.[10] Victory Records then countersued for breach of contract and libel in September 2006.[11] In October 2006, a Chicago judge dismissed two of the three main claims in the band's suit, ruling that the trademark and copyright violation allegations were unsound.[12] On March 5, 2007 a federal judge in Chicago ruled that Victory Records does not hold exclusive rights for the band's recording services and that the band can record for any label. Specifically, the Judge stated: "The agreement contains no exclusivity provision, nor does any of its language appear to prevent [the band] from recording elsewhere during the life of the agreement".[13] The judge later reaffirmed this ruling on May 17, 2007, stating that Hawthorne Heights is still contractually bound to deliver two albums to Victory, but may record albums which are released elsewhere.[14]


Wild Justice Records Lawsuit
On October 16, 2007, Wild Justice Records sued Hawthorne Heights for breach of a verbal contract, stemming from a dispute over the management company's share of the band's revenues.[15]


Currently
The band has written 21 songs for their upcoming third album, and is "eager to start recording."[10] However, a third CD cannot be released until their legal issues are taken care of.

Hawthorne Heights recently released a demo for their new song "Come Back Home" on their MySpace page. It is one of the fourteen tracks that made it on to the new album. The album will be produced by Howard Benson. A second song was released on their Myspace, a cover of Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet With Butterfly Wings". Along with the song "Come Back Home," two other new songs, "Rescue Me" and "The End Of The Underground," are both rumored to be on their new album, as the band is playing the latter two on their current tour.

While the song "Come Back Home" is a lighter song in contrast to previous works, the band also briefly added umbrellas to their logo to help promote the release of their custom Mountain Dew bottles, which depict the same artwork. On their current tour, they have reverted back to the double H. This time with a bulleye between the two.


Death of Casey Calvert
Music website Absolutepunk.net is reporting that guitarist Casey Calvert died on November 24, 2007.[16] This is also posted on the main Hawthorne Heights website. The D.C. Fox affiliate has reported that Calvert used an inhaler for acute asthma and, pending official toxicology results, this condition could have caused his death.

mona lisa smile

For centuries, art lovers and academics have debated over the smile on the face of the Mona Lisa, one of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces, which is now housed in the Louvre in Paris.

Nowadays, at any rate, the smiles of Indonesian people leave foreigners, be they first-time tourists or expatriates, guessing.

The problems start for foreign tourists as soon as they arrive at the airport, just because they misinterpret the smiles of tip-hungry airport officers or mischievous taxi drivers. The tourists easily fall prey to hoteliers or souvenir hawkers who look friendly but turn out to be little more than extortionists.

More difficulties await foreigners if they want to do business here. The bureaucratic labyrinth they have to go through is full of people with broad, smiling faces, but the hospitality can quickly turn to hostility if the prospective investors refuse to provide "grease" money.

Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik is right in asking ordinary people to flash their smiles in support of the government's effort to boost tourism with Visit Indonesia Year 2008, which will be inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Jan. 1.

The minister has also called on local administrations to facilitate investors by simplifying licensing procedures for the establishment of tourist facilities, such as hotels and resorts.

The challenges facing Visit Indonesia Year 2008 may be much more onerous than Minister Jero has imagined. As an official dealing with culture, we assume that he knows it's quite easy to smile without necessarily being friendly, let alone helpful.

Long proclaiming itself to be a friendly nation, Indonesia raised many eyebrows across the world when thousands of people went on a rampage and looted shops during the May 1998 riots, or killed each other in the ethnic conflict between the indigenous Dayak and migrant Madurans, and in the sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians in Ambon and Poso.

The recent attacks on followers of Islamic sects provides further evidence that Indonesian people are prone to violence and the use of force to eliminate differences.

Scholar Azyumardi Azra has warned that the country's self-image of kindness, tolerance and hospitality must be questioned as local cultures have always been very partial to violence. Although there has been increasing unrest since the demise of authoritarian rule in 1998, there have been numerous ethnic conflicts since the 1950s.

Just ask expatriates and the foreign business community about the unfriendly environment they have to deal with when doing business here. An international political and economic risk consultancy has always ranked Indonesia at the bottom due to the rampant red tape in government offices, both in Jakarta and the regions. It also takes foreigners longer here to process business licenses and other documents than in other countries.

In many cases, nationalism has been hijacked to justify hostility to foreign investors, ironically at a time when Indonesia badly needs them to help the country overcome unemployment and eventually poverty.

The government may claim that foreign investment is still flowing in, but much of this is short term in nature, which means the investors can withdraw their money at any time.

This hostile reality will be the biggest hurdle facing Indonesia if it wants more foreigners to visit and spend their money here.

Smiles alone will not be enough to boost the tourism industry and other revenue-generating sectors. Foreign tourists and investors need Indonesian people who are eager and willing to help them, as quickly as possible, if necessary. They will stay longer if they feel secure, surrounded by people who are ready to lend a hand at any time it is needed. Smiles in the absence of proper service are worthless.

Foreign investors will commit to long-term involvement if both the Indonesian people and regulations are inviting and generous in terms of incentives.

Neighboring countries offer many facilities to foreigners, particularly those who want to invest, while Indonesia deliberately restricts, if not actually deters, them. This contradicts the claims that Indonesia is tolerant and open to the world.

It will require more than a tourism
Mona Lisa Smile
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Mona Lisa Smile

Directed by Mike Newell
Produced by Joe Roth
Starring Julia Roberts
Kirsten Dunst
Julia Stiles
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Ginnifer Goodwin
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) December 19, 2003
Running time 117 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $65,000,000
IMDb profile
Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American film that was produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. The title is a reference to the Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie. The film is a loose adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a novel by Muriel Spark, and the title also references that text.

Contents
1 Box office performance
2 Synopsis
3 Reaction from Wellesley alumnae
4 Campus Controversy
5 Trivia
6 Cast
7 External links

[edit] Box office performance
Costs (approximate):
Production: $65,000,000
Marketing: $25,000,000
Income:
United States: $63,860,942
Worldwide (excluding US): $76,972,150

[edit] Synopsis
Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and left as a first-year teacher from "Oakland State" University (thought to be a fictionalized University of California, Berkeley), leaves her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California in 1953, to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.

Watson tries to open her students' minds to their freedom to do whatever they want with their lives. She encourages her students to believe in themselves, to study to become career professionals, and to improve their economic futures. She uses her art teachings as a vehicle to put across her opinion to the young women; that her students needn't conform to stereotypes of women made by society, or the roles made for them by society, as women born to become housewives and mothers. She felt that women could do more things in life than solely adopt the roles of wives and mothers. In one scene of the movie, she shows her students four newspaper ads, and asks them to question what the future will think of the idea that women are born into the roles of wives and mothers.

Watson's ideas and ways of teaching are contrary to methods deemed acceptable by the school's directors; conservative women who believe firmly that Watson should not use her class to express her points of views or befriend students, and should stick only to teaching art. Watson is warned that she could be fired if she continues to interact with students as she has been doing.

Undaunted, Watson becomes stronger in her speeches about feminism and the future of women. She is a firm believer that the outlook of women in society needed to be changed if women were to achieve better futures, and that she needed to instill a spirit of change among her students.

Watson chooses to leave after the one year but, as she is leaving the campus for the last time, her students run after her car, to show their affection and to thank her for her lessons. Many people have noticed the film's similarity to Dead Poets Society even going so far as to refer to it as "the feminist Dead Poets Society" or "Dead Poets Society with girls" [1]. It was released on VHS and DVD on July of 2004.

[edit] Reaction from Wellesley alumnae
In a message to Wellesley alumnae concerning the film, Wellesley College president Diana Chapman Walsh expressed some degree of regret concerning the distressed reactions of some Wellesley alumnae to the film. Many alumnae who attended Wellesley during the 1950s felt that the film's portrayal of Wellesley as a stodgy, conservative college was inaccurate.

[edit] Campus Controversy
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During the filming of "Mona Lisa Smile", the Wellesley College campus broke into controversy surrounding the casting of student extras. The use of the phrase "not too tan" in a casting call for current Wellesley students sparked a fear that casting directors were using race to discriminate against potential extras. Producers claimed that they were merely stressing the importance of finding women that had the "look of 1953", but later their response to the growing concern was that the film could not reflect the current Wellesley demographic, and had to be "accurate" to the period.

Students presented their concerns to president, Diana Chapman Walsh to no avail, and began a campus-wide guerrilla campaign entitled "Too Tan for Mona Lisa Smiles", with a photo roster of African-American students denied the chance to participate in the film as student extras.

Student MAC, Jenna O. Bond-Louden, discovered that the film overrepresented the Asian student population, which was believed to be approximately 3 in 1953 (as the "Asian" ethnic group is not listed in the college's records), and significantly underrepresented African-Americans: only one of the about 200 extras were African-American in the entire film (although there were 12 African-American students enrolled, in a total student population of 1685).

The controversy spilled over into the local media, and producers considered a compromise would be hiring willing minority students to act as production assistants. The college released a press statement highlighting the realities of Wellesley in 1953, and defending their decision to allow the film to shoot on campus. When the film's lead cast was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, a select group of African-American students were allowed to attend the show's taping, including the "Too Tan for Mona Lisa Smiles" leader. The film's casting was never altered to accurately reflect the racial diversity of 1953; producers now claim they were not interested in making a "documentary," and accuracy was not necessary.

Students also protested the lack of concern by the studio for their ability to attend classes as normal with the blocking of pathways, streets, and buildings during the 8 days of shooting the film. Producers initially tried to adhere to the class schedule by not shooting in open areas immediately before and after classes, but that lasted only a short while. Student extras frustrated professors by missing class and important exams, and the entire campus began to speak out against the film's presence. The film was so intrusive to the quiet campus, that the board of trustees deemed that Wellesley College will never again open its doors to a film studio[citation needed].

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The classroom in which Julia Roberts teaches is in fact a Chemistry classroom in Columbia University's Havemeyer Hall, Havemeyer 309.
One of the soundtracks, Istanbul (Not Constantinople), was a favorite song of 1950's about the name change of Turkish city, Istanbul.
The office of Professor Bill Dunbar (played by actor Dominic West) is actually the Wellesley College quad; a grouping of four

deuce bigalow european gigolo

With no happy ending yet in sight to the labor standoff between Hollywood writers and studios, a group of screenwriters has posted a comedy short on YouTube that humorously explores some of the non-writing career options for members of the Writers Guild of America should they go out on strike.

In the film, Paul Guay, who co-wrote the 1997 Jim Carrey comedy "Liar Liar," working as a tailor, measures a man for a suit, while in another segment, Thomas Dean Donnelly, one of the writers on the 2005 action film "Sahara," is seen working the take-out window at a burger stand, telling a customer, "Cheeseburger, fries and a Diet Coke. Do you want to go more archetype than stereotype?"

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And there's Douglas J. Eboch, the original writer of the 2002 Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy "Sweet Home Alabama," who is shown working at a bowling alley handing a pair of shoes to a pretty girl and wanting to know her back story.

Titled "Heroes of the Writers Strike," the posting can be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7vHxw6El0E.

The film was written and directed by Gregg Rossen and Brian Sawyer, the comedy writing team behind the Jamie Kennedy television project "Model Family," which is set up at 20th Century Fox.

Rossen said the film was shot in one day last week in and around Santa Monica, and if you look closely, he noted, you can see an "orange hue" to the footage that was caused by the brush fires that were then raging across Southern California.

The film was designed to "keep people's spirits up" ahead of a possible strike, Rossen said. "There is a lot of concern from the writers' perspective. We wanted to show that the Internet is a viable means of distributing content, which is clearly one of the main sticking points in the negotiations."

But, he added, "it's all very tongue-in-cheek. It's not exactly what the writers are going to be doing [if there is a strike] but gives perspective. We want to support our fellow writers. It's good for people to laugh at something."

Rossen said the cast members in the film are his friends. They also include Harris Goldberg, who co-wrote the 1999 Rob Schneider comedy "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," and David Garrett, a co-writer on 2005's "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo."

Cindy Davis Hewitt and her husband, Donald, who co-wrote the English version of Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 animated feature "Spirited Away," are depicted reading "The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers" to their real-life newborn daughter.

Rossen said the response to the posting from fellow writers has been "uniformly positive," although a few didn't want to think about selling cheeseburgers should a strike be called, preferring instead to use the time off to hone other skills, such as fly fishing, teaching yoga or learning Portuguese.
neighborhood and bused into a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high. This responsible, resilient adolescent brings a distinct, funny spin to his everyday trials and traumas, in the critically acclaimed, single-camera comedy "Everybody Hates Chris." The series won the NAACP Image Award for Best Comedy and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and People's Choice Award in its first season. Filled with dreams that being a teenager would be really cool, Chris' entry into adolescence is turning out to be less than idyllic. Moved from the projects to the tough "Bed-Stuy" neighborhood of Brooklyn, Chris is still stuck in his older-brother role. As the family's "emergency adult," he's responsible for taking care of Drew, his taller, more assured brother, and Tonya, the baby of the family, when his parents are working. His rugged, cost-conscious father Julius works multiple jobs to support the family. Meanwhile, his strict, sassy mother, Rochelle, runs the household on a tight budget, while demanding the best for her children. With his mother determined to see him in a good school, Chris grudgingly faces numerous bus transfers each day to attend Corleone Junior High in the fiercely Italian neighboring South Shore. Despite being a constant target for the school bully, Chris' inherent charm and sharp wit enable him to survive these rough years. It also helps to have a partner in crime - Greg, another smart, nice kid - who can't fight. As Chris Rock pointedly reflects back, his younger self is set to discover what his family already knows - Chris' sharp, scrappy nature is going to take him places. But first, he's going to have to think, talk or run his way through one growing experience after another at home, at school and on any number of buses along the way. The series stars Tyler James Williams ("Unaccompanied Minors") as Chris, Terry Crews ("The Longest Yard") as Julius, Tichina Arnold ("Martin") as Rochelle, Tequan Richmond ("Ray") as Drew, Imani Hakim as Tonya and Vincent Martella ("Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo") as Greg. Co-creator and narrator Chris Rock ("Head of State"), co-creator and writer Ali LeRoi ("Head of State"), Michael Rotenberg ("King of the Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo film poster
Directed by Mike Bigelow
Produced by John Schneider
Written by Harris Goldberg,
Rob Schneider,
David Garrett,
Jason Ward
Starring Rob Schneider,
Eddie Griffin,
Jeroen Krabbé
Til Schweiger
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) August 6, 2005
Running time 83 minutes
Language English
Budget ~ US$22,000,000
IMDb profile
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) is the sequel to the 1999 film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Rob Schneider stars as Deuce Bigalow, a male prostitute who must go to Europe to help his pimp T.J., played by Eddie Griffin, find a murderer who is killing the greatest male prostitutes of Europe. Film critic Roger Ebert includes the movie in his most hated films list.[1]

Contents
1 Plot
2 Critics and revenues
3 Cast
4 External links
5 References



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Gigolos in Europe are being terrorized by a serial killer. In Malibu, Deuce's wife is dead from a shark attack. Deuce is called up by T.J. Hicks, his former pimp, who invites him to come to Amsterdam where T.J. is pimping. Deuce goes because he is suspected of complicity in some dolphin-related injuries in Malibu.

When he gets to Amsterdam, T.J. shows him his boat, or "float crib," which has water in the cabin. They go to a coffee shop where T.J. tricks Deuce into getting high on space cake. There, Deuce looks at a painting on the wall, and has an audio-visual hallucination of a maiden who tells him her turn-ons. Also at the coffee shop, T.J. and Deuce run into Heinz Hummer, the "gigolo with the most below."

After leaving the coffee shop, Deuce finds Heinz Hummer dead in an alley, but thinks he is just "wasted." Deuce takes the dead gigolo to T.J.'s float crib, where T.J. states that Heinz is dead. After he is seen dumping the body with Heinz Hummer's zipper open (in an attempt to confirm rumors that he is "extremely large"), T.J. is portrayed in the media as a gay gigolo killer. At least, he escapes. Deuce, on the other hand, is apprehended and taken to the police station where he is interviewed by Gaspar, who wants to know where T.J. is hiding.

After being released, Deuce finds T.J. at a chicken 'n' waffles restaurant, and T.J. claims Deuce is racist for figuring out that he would be at "the only chicken 'n' waffles place in all of Holland." After they leave the restaurant, Deuce recalls that he saw the real killer walking away from Heinz Hummer's body. Deuce says it was a woman, so they both figure it was a she-john, a former client of the murdered gigolos.

T.J. convinces Deuce to help find the real killer by becoming a gigolo again and visiting the former clients and root out the killer. They attend a meeting of the Royal Order Of European Man Whores (an organization of male prostitutes), but fail to attain a list of the clients. Afterwards, they get the list from Antoine, the professional gigolo who appeared in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.

Deuce and T.J. visit the first client on the list. Deuce is forced into diapers and treated like a baby by the client, while T.J. breaks into her residence and searches for evidence. T.J. finds a brand of lipstick which might be the kind found on all the victims. After leaving, Deuce finds Gaspar on the street and shows him the lipstick. Gaspar throws the lipstick in the trash, saying that the lipstick found on the victims "is a very rare one: Lavender Love #66."

As Gaspar enters the police station, his niece, Eva, approaches him and gives him his lunch, which he forgot. Gaspar sneezes on his way inside, and Eva slaps herself three times. Deuce helps her pick up the things she dropped and Eva explains to Deuce that she has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Deuce, a fish enthusiast, sees that she has a painting of a fish, so they go to the Amsterdam aquarium together.

At the aquarium, Deuce has an argument with a cigarette-smoking Frenchman who repeatedly insults Deuce while mocking Americans and making advances on Eva. Deuce eventually puts the uppity Frenchman in his place and him and Eva leave the park because Eva has to get to work. To his horror, Deuce discovers that Eva works in the pornographic film industry, having heard women moaning inside the building he left her at as well as the line of partially clad men and a donkey waiting outside. Deuce rushes inside only to find that Eva is merely a set designer, and not a performer.

Deuce continues to investigate different women from Antoine's book, which include a woman named Svetlana who was born near Chernobyl and has a penis for a nose, a hunchbacked woman, a woman with a laryngectomy, and a woman with gigantic ears. As typical of Deuce, he tries various methods of helping these women feel more comfortable about their disfigurements. He has the hunchbacked woman wear a cut-open backpack which hides her hump, gets the woman with a tracheotomy a job as an airport announcer and takes the woman with the penis for a nose and the woman with the huge ears to a plastic surgery clinic. However, both come out with the same disfigurement, having opted for breast enhancement surgery instead.

While visiting Eva, Deuce is snooping around and finds clothing similar to the one wore by the killer he saw the night Heinz Hummer died, as well as the Lavender Love #66 lipstick. Deuce rushes to the police department and tells Gaspar that he thinks that Eva is the man-whore killer. Gaspar is reluctant to believe this, and even drops many hints that he himself is the man-whore killer which Deuce does not comprehend.

Gaspar goes home to see Eva, who has uncovered the fact that he is the man-whore killer. He locks Eva inside his room, knowing that she cannot use doorknobs. Deuce rides with Gaspar to the Man-Whore Awards Ceremony under the guise of protecting the male prostitutes there. However, to Gaspar's surprise Eva is chasing them on a motorbike, shouting at Deuce that Gaspar is the killer. Gaspar pulls out a gun on Deuce and proceeds to tell him a story that, once, he was a man-whore hopeful and that while observing a demonstration on how to perform a certain sex act one of his classmates offers to let him use his penis-enlargement pump. While pumping, the demonstration ends and Gaspar is horrified to learn that the woman the sex act was being performed on was his fiancée and is so angry he continues to pump until his penis explodes. He blames man-whores for the loss of his fiancée and his penis, and plans to blow them all up at the ceremony.

At the ceremony, Deuce manages to evacuate the building by saying he is the man-whore killer and that he has a bomb. Deuce and Gaspar then have a sword fight with penis-shaped swords. Gaspar ultimately beats Deuce, but before he can run Deuce through he is interrupted by the woman with a penis for a nose and the woman with a tracheotomy, who sprays a liquid at Gaspar temporarily blinding him. Deuce them picks up one of the scattered award trophies littering the floor and clobbers Gaspar in the back of the head, knocking him out cold and taking the bomb detonator from him.

For his bravery, Deuce is given the Golden Boner award and the respect of his fellow man-whores. He shares a passionate kiss with Eva, and accidentally sets off the bomb with the statue's penis bumps the detonator button. Deuce and Eva then promptly leave the scene. The next day Deuce and Eva come to pick up T.J., who was released from jail after being captured after an earlier murder, and tells him that he is entering a brand new prostitution market; gay man-whoring. Deuce then treats the two to some food at the Chicken & Waffle restaurant and they walk off as the screen fades black.


[edit] Critics and revenues
Roger Ebert gave this film a very rare "zero star" rating, ranking it as the worst film of 2005. He also chastised Rob Schneider for his overly-zealous defence of the series, referring to an incident in which a Los Angeles Times critic called Schneider a "third-rate comic"; Schneider responded by calling the Times critic a "third-rate, unfunny pompous reporter" in a full-page open letter published in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Ebert includes this movie in his most hated films list.[2] On the television show Ebert & Roeper, Richard Roeper called the film "the cinematic equivalent of a bunch of 13 year old boys in a locker room repeating dirty phrases they've just learned."

Michael Medved also gave the film "0 stars", calling it "painfully unfunny" and saying "there's not a single laugh anywhere in this rancid, wretched, train-wreck [of a film]" [3]

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo became the lowest earning picture of 2005 for films opening at over 3,000 theatres, making only 22.4 million dollars.


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gus frerotte

With the Rams just 1 yard from the end zone, a win slipped through Gus Frerotte's fingers.

The backup quarterback fumbled the snap on fourth-and-goal from the Seattle 1 with 27 seconds left Sunday, allowing the Seahawks to hold on for a 24-19 victory.

Frerotte picked up the loose ball but was tackled at the 5, ending the Rams' modest two-game winning streak after an 0-8 start. The Seahawks have won six straight against the Rams, who are 0-5 at the Edward Jones Dome this season after being dominant at home in recent years.

''We were fortunate today,'' Seattle coach Mike Holmgren said. ''I don't think we played our best football.''

Seattle (7-4) won its third straight by rallying for 17 unanswered points in the second half after falling behind 19-7.

St. Louis (2-9) had one last chance when Seattle's Josh Brown missed a 52-yard field goal with 2:44 to go. The Rams took over at their own 42 and drove to the 4 with just over a minute to play.

Frerotte, who was brought in after Marc Bulger left with a concussion in the first quarter, missed a wide-open Isaac Bruce on first down, then threw a 2-yard pass to Drew Bennett. On third down, Steven Jackson ran to the 1, setting up the doomed final play.

The center, Andy McCollum, was in only because starter Brett Romberg left earlier in the game with an ankle injury.

McCollum wasn't sure what happened.

''I thought he had it,'' he said. ''I blocked my guy. I didn't know it was loose.''

Frerotte (20-for-32 for 161 yards and one interception) had no explanation: ''It's pretty obvious -- it just came out. You know, it wasn't a perfect exchange.''

Bulger was hurt on a sack by linebacker Leroy Hill. He will be evaluated daily.

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Asante Samuel returned an interception 40 yards for a touchdown and had a second pick to shut off a late Philadelphia drive as the Patriots beat the Eagles 31-28 Sunday night to run their record to 11-0.

It was only the second truly competitive game of the season for New England, which trailed 28-24 midway the fourth period. Laurence Maroney's four-yard run at the end of a 69-yard drive put the Patriots ahead of the 22-point underdog to stay.

Then Samuel's second interception finished the job. James Sanders added one in the final seconds, dropping Philadelphia to 5-6.

Elsewhere in the NFL Sunday, it was: Seahawks 24, Rams 19; Bears 37, Broncos 34, in overtime; 49ers 37, Cardinals 31, in overtime; Vikings 41, Giants 17; Bucs 19, Redskins 13; Jaguars 36, Bills 14; Browns 27, Texans 17; Bengals 35, Titans 6; Saints 31, Panthers 6; Oakland 20, Kansas City 17; and Chargers 32, Ravens 14.

At Foxborough, Mass., A.J. Feeley, a career backup replacing the injured Donovan McNabb at quarterback, outplayed Tom Brady for most of the game. But Wes Welker took advantage of the blanket coverage on Randy Moss to catch a career-high 13 passes for 149 yards.

Seahawks 24, Rams 19

At St. Louis, Rams backup quarterback Gus Frerotte fumbled the snap on fourth-and-goal from the Seattle 1 with 27 seconds left. Frerotte picked up the loose ball but was tackled at the 5, ending a last-ditch drive and the Rams' modest two-game winning streak after an 0-8 start.

Seattle (7-4) won its third straight by rallying for 17 unanswered second-half points.

The Rams (2-9) had one last chance when Josh Brown missed a 52-yard field goal attempt with 2:44 to go. The Rams took over at their 42 and drove to the four with just over a minute to play.

Frerotte, playing after starter Marc Bulger left with a concussion in the first quarter, missed a wide-open Isaac Bruce on first down, then threw a two-yard pass to Drew Bennett. On third down, Steven Jackson ran to the 1, setting up the doomed final play.

The Seahawks went ahead for the first time with 5:57 to play on Leonard Weaver's four-yard run.

Seattle rookie Josh Wilson returned a first-quarter kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown.


Bears 37 Broncos 34 (OT)

Robbie Gould's 39-yard field goal in overtime gave Chicago (5-6) the win at home.

After scoring two touchdowns in the final 5:17 of regulation, the Bears won the coin toss for overtime. They drove from their 24 to the Denver 18 and Gould delivered the winner to keep the flickering playoff hopes of the defending NFC champions alive.

The Bears got two long touchdown returns from Devin Hester in the second half, one on a punt, the other on a kickoff runback. They were trailing 34-20 early in the fourth quarter after an acrobatic 14-yard touchdown catch by Tony Scheffler for Denver (5-6).

Charles Tillman then blocked a punt and Brandon McGowan recovered at the Broncos 18. That led to a four-yard touchdown run by Adrian Peterson.

The Bears tied it with 28 seconds left in regulation on a three-yard reception by Bernard Berrian, who spun away from Champ Bailey and lunged to catch the pass from Rex Grossman on the right side of the end zone.


49ers 37 Cardinals 31 (OT)

At Glendale, Ariz., Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner was hit by Ronald Fields and fumbled in the Arizona end zone, and Tully Banta-Cain recovered for a touchdown that ended the 49ers' eight-game losing streak.

Neil Rackers, whose 19-yard field goal as regulation ended forced the overtime, missed a 32-yarder that would have given Arizona the victory moments before the decisive play.

Warner was 34-for-48 for 484 yards and two touchdowns, but was intercepted twice early. His completions included a desperation 48-yarder to Larry Fitzgerald to put the Cardinals (5-6) ahead 21-17 as the half ended.

San Francisco is 3-8 this season, but 2-0 against Arizona.


Vikings 41 Giants 17

With Peyton Manning in the stands in East Rutherford, N.J., Darren Sharper, Dwight Smith and Chad Greenway picked off passes by younger brother Eli Manning and returned them for touchdowns.

Sharper scored on a 20-yard return, Smith rumbled 93 yards and Greenway followed from 37 yards just a few plays later. The Vikings (5-6) set a team single-game record for interception returns for touchdowns.

Tarvaris Jackson threw a 60-yard touchdown pass to Sidney Rice just 41 seconds after the opening kickoff in helping Minnesota win back-to-back games for the first time this season. Ryan Longwell added two field goals.

The loss dropped the Giants (7-4) three games behind Dallas in the NFC East with five games to play.


Bucs 19 Redskins 13

Ronde Barber became Tampa Bay's all-time interceptions leader with his 32nd with 3:40 remaining and Brian Kelly picked off Jason Campbell's throw into the end zone with 17 seconds left.

The turnovers were the fifth and sixth forced by Tampa Bay's defence, which also recovered four fumbles to set up a touchdown and three field goals in the first half.

Tampa Bay (7-4) lost quarterback Jeff Garcia when he hurt his back on the first play. He remained on the sideline until visiting Washington pulled within a touchdown in the fourth quarter.

Campbell led a comeback by the Redskins (5-6) from a 19-3 halftime deficit. He was 30-for-49 for 301 yards.

The Bucs, who built their halftime lead on Earnest Graham's one-yard touchdown run and four field goals by Matt Bryant, held on despite being outgained 316-15 and not making a first down in the second half.


Jaguars 36 Bills 14

Fred Taylor ran for a season-high 104 yards and a touchdown and Josh Scobee kicked five field goals as the Jaguars (8-3) won their third in a row.

The loss by the visiting Bills (5-6) helped New England clinch the AFC East.

David Garrard hooked up with Reggie Williams for a 59-yard score that put Jacksonville ahead 29-14 with 2:39 remaining, then Maurice Jones-Drew added a 17-yard scoring run with 1:43 to play. Garrard was 23-for-37 for a career-high 296 yards and broke a team record for passes without an interception. He has thrown 201 passes without a pick.


Browns 27 Texans 17

Derek Anderson threw two touchdown passes, Jamal Lewis rushed for 134 yards and a TD and Kellen Winslow had 10 catches as the Browns (7-4) won their fifth straight at home and fifth in six games overall.

When Lewis barrelled in from the 1 with 5:48 left, the Browns led 27-10 and were far enough ahead that a late touchdown by the Texans (5-6) meant nothing.

Houston's Matt Schaub finished 22-for-36 for 256 yards and two TDs, but he was picked off twice.


Bengals 35 Titans 6

At Cincinnati, Chad Johnson had a career-high 12 catches, set the Cincinnati record for career receptions and scored three touchdowns.

Johnson gained 103 yards and scored his first touchdowns for the Bengals (4-7) since a loss in Cleveland on Sept. 16. He eclipsed Carl Pickens' club mark with his 531st career reception in the second quarter. His next catch was a 10-yard touchdown that broke the long drought and left the 65,489 fans wondering how he would celebrate.

He ran through the end zone, commandeered a television camera, peered into the viewfinder and swung it toward the field, drawing a 15-yard penalty for excessive celebration.

Johnson also had a two-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter and a three-yard score in the fourth.

Tennessee (6-5) has lost three in a row, giving up 28, 34 and 35 points during the slide.


Saints 31 Panthers 6

At Charlotte, N.C., Drew Brees shook off a slow start to throw for 260 yards and three touchdowns and run for another score for the Saints (5-6).

Marques Colston caught seven passes for 93 yards and a TD.

The Panthers (4-7) lost their fourth straight game, dropped to 0-5 at home and were booed again by their fans after another mistake-filled performance that led David Carr to be benched early in the fourth quarter.


Oakland 20 Kansas City 17

At Kansas City, Justin Fargas and LaMont Jordan each rushed for a touchdown and the defence came up with a big stop on fourth down, snapping a 17-game losing streak in the division for Oakland going back to 2004.

Fargas had 139 yards on 22 carries for the Raiders (3-8), who also snapped a six-game skid overall and a nine-game losing streak to the Chiefs.

Kansas City (4-7) got a huge day from rookie Kolby Smith, who rushed for 150 yards and two touchdowns.


Chargers 32 Ravens 14

At San Diego, a 36-yard run early in the third quarter pushed LaDainian Tomlinson past 10,000 career yards rushing, making him the 23rd player in NFL history to reach the milestone.

Philip Rivers threw two of his three TD passes to Antonio Gates. Rivers, who came in leading the NFL with 17 turnovers, didn't throw an interception for only the third game this season.

The Chargers (6-5) won for the fifth time in seven games following a 1-3 start.

The Ravens (4-7) lost their franchise-record fifth
Gus Frerotte
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Gus Frerotte St. Louis Rams ― No. 12
Quarterback
Date of Birth: July 31, 1971 (1971-07-31) (age 36)
Place of Birth: Kittanning, Pennsylvania
Height: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Weight: 233 lb (106 kg)
National Football League Debut
1994 for the Washington Redskins
Career Highlights and Awards
Pro Bowl selection (1996)

Career History
College: Tulsa
NFL Draft: 1994 / Round: 7 / Pick: 197
Teams:

Washington Redskins (1994-1998)
Detroit Lions (1999)
Denver Broncos (2000-2001)
Cincinnati Bengals (2002)
Minnesota Vikings (2003-2004)
Miami Dolphins (2005)
St. Louis Rams (2006-present)

Stats at NFL.com
Gustave Joseph Frerotte (born July 31, 1971 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania) is an American football quarterback playing for the St. Louis Rams of the NFL. He attended Ford City High School in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Frerotte is 33-30-1 as an NFL starter through the 2005 season. He signed a contract with the St. Louis Rams in the 2006 offseason, where he will spend his time as the backup to Marc Bulger.


[edit] College career
At the University of Tulsa, he finished his college career as the school's 2nd-ranked all-time passer behind T.J. Rubley, a teammate from 1991-92. During his career he threw for 5,480 yards and 32 TDs on 432-of-860 passing. His 2,871 passing yards as a senior were the most by a Tulsa QB in 28 years. As a sophomore, Frerotte handled punting duties for the team and averaged 35.5 yards per punt. As a redshirt freshman, he was forced into starting role for 8 games in 1990 after Rubley was injured, starting his 1st career game at Oklahoma. During his time as an undergraduate, he joined the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.


[edit] NFL career
His pro career started with the Washington Redskins as a 7th round draft pick in the same draft where the Redskins selected Heath Shuler with the #3 overall pick. However, by the next season Frerotte was the starting quarterback due to Shuler's injuries and struggles adjusting to the pro game and would remain the Redskins' starting QB until Opening Day 1998. Frerotte was selected to one Pro Bowl team in 1996, but may be better remembered by an incident in which he injured himself by ramming his head into a padded cement wall in celebration of a touchdown in a 7-7 tie against the New York Giants on Sunday Night Football, spraining his neck.

In 1999, he played for the Detroit Lions, where he backed up Charlie Batch. Frerotte stepped in for the injured Batch and started for the Lions in the playoffs. In Frerotte's first playoff start, he was defeated by the Redskins. In 2000, he started for the Denver Broncos after Brian Griese was injured and led the Broncos to the playoffs, falling in the opening round to eventual Super Bowl Champion Ravens. He remained the Broncos' backup until the end of the 2001 NFL season. He joined the Cincinnati Bengals in 2002, winning the starting job before giving way three games in to the season to Jon Kitna and under the soon to be fired Dick LeBeau. In 2003 and 2004, Frerotte backed up Daunte Culpepper and did a great job commanding the offense when he played, earning him a chance to work for the Dolphins starting job in 2005. He guided the Dolphins to a 9-7 record, starting 15 games and throwing for 18 touchdowns against 13 interceptions, including 2 touchdowns in an upset victory over the Denver Broncos in Week 1. He completed 52% of his passes and finished the season with a 71.9 quarterback rating. He is currently the primary backup for the St. Louis Rams.

He lives with his wife Ann, and three children Gabe, Gunnar and Abby.


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He's sold some 80 million records in the United States, which makes him the sixth best-selling artist in the country, right behind the Eagles and a notch above Pink Floyd.
That won't stop him from hearing the question: ''What have you done for us lately?''
The 58-year-old legend certainly hasn't been writing new pop songs. After dominating the airwaves in the '70s, '80s and early '90s with smash upon smash, Joel has been decidedly quiet in recent years. He hasn't released a new pop album since 1993's ''River of Dreams,'' a disc that hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and has instead focused on composing instrumental works.
He has remained active on the road, having toured for the better part of a decade on a co-bill with fellow piano man Elton John. In 2006, he finally ventured out on his first solo tour of the United States in years. That outing proved so popular he's staging a second trek.
Recently, Joel took the time to discuss the new tour and other subjects during a phone interview.

You've been inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Which one means the most to you?
Probably the songwriter. I'm from Long Island, so that was a lay-down. The Rock and Roll Hall of Advertisement Fame?
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The Eagles, ranked No. 5 in the nation by ESPN.com, used an imposing inside game to win two tournament games. With a starting front court averaging 6-9 and four reserves ranging in height from 6-7 to 7-0, Montverde routed Cardinal Gibbons 73-49.

Winter Park, without a single player taller than 6-6, got two tournament victories from a perimeter-oriented game, crushing host Mount Dora 67-30 in Saturday night's feature game.

Kyle McClanahan scored the first seven points of the game and wound up with 20 points in 16 minutes as the Wildcats substituted liberally after jumping to a 24-8 first-quarter lead. Austin Rivers added 12 points as nine of the 10 Winter Park players scored. All 10 got into the game in the first half.

Anthony Harley led Mount Dora (0-2) with nine points.

The Wildcats (2-0) are seeking their third straight trip to the Class 6A State Tournament and showed they have the potential for getting there.

"We have a very young team and we make mistakes," said Winter Park Coach David Bailey. "We have some guys with very high basketball IQs and we learn from our mistakes. Our kids play hard and we put a lot of emphasis on rebounding to overcome our lack of size."

Montverde (2-0) wore down Cardinal Gibbons (2-1) with size, athleticism and depth. Ten players scored for the Eagles. Marcus Capers led the way with 16 points. Dashan Harris and Femi Akinpetide each had 14.

Josh Nirenberg had 14 and Caleb Stokes added 13 for the Chiefs.

The only other team in the 12-team tournament to win two games was Eustis. Eustis defeated Union County 59-40.

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You know, rock 'n' roll - that's what I do. But songwriting is the hardest part of the job, so that's probably the one I appreciate the most.

After touring with Elton John for so many years, why did you finally decide to mount your own solo trek?
We were touring with Elton for about 10 years. . . . I got to do his songs, he got to do my songs, we got do our songs together, he got to play with my band, I got to play with his band - there were whole different combinations of things. But after 10 years, we were pretty much doing a stock greatest-hits show.
Elton was the opening act on the tour, he went on first. So, we'd be sitting backstage and Elton would be playing hit after hit after hit. We'd be sitting there saying, ''Oh, my God, we have to follow this?'' Well, if you try to go up there and do album tracks or obscurities, the crowd is going to go to the bathroom. So, we were doing greatest hits for 10 years, and that got a little old.

What can fans expect from these set lists?
You have to have a balance. The majority of the audience is there to hear the songs that it's familiar with, which are the hits. But . . . if that's all we played, then we'd get bored. . . . So, when it was time to consider going on our own, we thought, ''Well, this is a good opportunity for us to dig back into the archives and do album tracks and songs we like to do - songs that weren't hits.''
* BILLY JOEL performs Thursday at 8 p.m. at the EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $25 (upper bowl seating only) at 801-325-SEAT, all Ticketmaster outlets

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The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
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Kowalski, Skipper, and Rico (with his dynamite)The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper is a computer-animated short produced by DreamWorks Animation (with soundtrack by Media Ventures young-gun James Dooley), released in movie theatres and on DVD in 2005. The 12-minute film showcases the adventures of four penguins, sometimes known as the Madagascar Penguins, who live in the Central Park Zoo and are trained as spies.

It premiered in theaters on October 7, 2005 with the stop-motion film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The short was later included on the later editions of the Madagascar DVD, which was released on November 15, 2005.

The short was directed by animation veteran Gary Trousdale, produced by Teresa Cheng, and written by Michael Lachance.

Contents
1 Plot I'll be home for the holidays" assumes ulterior motives when the person returning to the fold is on the lam.
In ABC Family's "Christmas Caper" premiering Sunday, Cate Dove needs a haven after a bungled grand-theft burglary.





We meet Cate (Shannen Doherty) as she shimmies down a rope to break into a mansion. She and her partner, Clive (Conrad Coates), bypass the rather inept security guards to steal a huge diamond. The homeowner returns as they are about to make their getaway; he abandons her.

Quick-witted and nimble, Cate manages to escape, but not before her photo is caught on security cameras and soon distributed to law enforcement agencies everywhere.

Meanwhile, her sister, Savannah (Sonya Salomaa), who could give Type A's a bad rap, is stuck in an airport on the islands. Planes can't fly because of a tropical storm, and Savannah's baby sitter must leave. When we meet her children, the baby sitter's needs become quite understandable.

Savannah and her husband call everyone they know. People would rather contract a disease than watch Parker and Annie (Josh Hayden, Natasha Calis). Parker is a juvenile delinquent, but not a very good one, and Annie is a complete know-it-all and rather grating.

Finally, with no one left to call, a week before Christmas, Savannah tries her ne'er-do-well sister, Cate.

Cate needs a place to hide, so this seems logical. Still, wouldn't the police consider looking at her sister's home? Wouldn't it make sense for her to cut and dye her dark tresses rather than just head to Comfort?

Doherty laughs when presented with these leaps of logic.

"It's ABC Family; it's a Christmas movie," she says from her home just outside Los Angeles. "I am that moviegoer, and somebody will be sitting next to me and say, 'That's not even possible.' And I say, 'Yes, it is, because it's in a movie!' As a movie, it's fun.

"It's entertainment," she says. "We are not performing brain surgery or trying to change anybody's opinion about the world. It's entertainment, and that's it."

Once viewers accept Doherty's take on the movie, it becomes more palatable. Still, those who expect linear plot lines will wonder why her high school boyfriend, Sheriff Hank Harrison (Ty Olsson), does not put together the clues.

As Doherty worked with these two children, she became close to them.

"How adorable are the two kids?" Doherty asks. "She's 9 years old. She (Calis) is so good, and just the most respectful, sweet kid. My time on the set was spent with them. And when we had our lunch break, she came with me ― the boy, too. They were in my trailer with me. We ate and played games."


Your ThoughtsMore Stories By By Jacqueline Cutler
2 Voice cast
3 Trivia
4 Running Gags
5 External links



[edit] Plot

Skipper as seen in the short.In the story, the youngest penguin on the team, Private, slips out of the zoo on Christmas Eve to find a present for a lonely polar bear named Ted. While roaming the streets of Manhattan, he is captured by an old lady who mistakes him for a chew toy for her vicious dog, Mr Chew. The other three penguins, Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico, rescue Private from the old lady's apartment before it's too late. At the end of the film they invite Ted to their home. But he had already invited guests, resulting in a massive sing-a-long to a parody of Jingle Bells.


[edit] Voice cast
Tom McGrath .... Skipper
Chris Miller .... Kowalski
Christopher Knights .... Private
John DiMaggio .... Rico
Elisa Gabrielli .... Old Lady
Bill Fagerbakke .... Ted the Polar Bear
Sean Bishop .... Doorman, TV Announcer
Mitch Carter .... Additional Voice
Rif Hutton .... Additional Voice
Richard Miro .... Additional Voice
Hope Levy .... Additional Voice
Lynnanne Zager .... Additional Voice
Manel Fuentes .... Skipper (Castilian version) (uncredited)

[edit] Trivia
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The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

The old lady who captures Private in this short film also played a cameo part in Madagascar as the lady who beat up Alex the lion (and Melman the giraffe briefly) with her bag in Grand Central Terminal.
This is the first time Rico, one of the penguin characters from Madagascar, speaks English saying "eggnog" and later "kaboom" (since the Hewlett-Packard advert starring the penguins). In the original film, he is mute except for saying the Japanese word "Hai" (meaning "yes") while preparing sushi.
Gloria's name isn't mentioned throughout the entire short film, but Marty, Alex and Melman are.
An Alex the lion toy can be seen in the old lady's room. It is destroyed by Mr. Chew, the old lady's dog.
During the scene where Private gets catapulted from the Christmas tree and crashes in the kitchen, the announcer from the TV says "...and Ryan is down!" This could be a very subtle reference to Private Ryan.
During the sing-along at the end, look closely at the penguins. (They're on the gate that surrounds their habitat.) Look on the right to see one of the penguins dancing with the bowling pin Skipper mistook as Private.
During the fight with the poodle, slow motion is used, as well as Skipper gesturing with his hand, alluding to The Matrix.
The name Rico and Kowalski are used from other movie e.g. Rico (from Starship Troopers) and Kowalski (from Stargate)




[edit] Running Gags
Rico is constantly regurgitating a piece of dynamite out of his stomach and asking Skipper's permission to use it.
Nobody except Skipper knows the "penguin credo" - "never swim alone." � The other penguins also confuse the Walrus credo ("Ha-da-da, ha-da-da doo-da dee-da!") with the other Penguin credo - "never bathe in hot oil and Bisquick."
In an attempt to get a better view of Private while on the streets of New York, Skipper, Rico and Kowalski try to blend in with passing Catholic nuns.
When trying to catch up with Private the penguins attach a grappling hook to a taxi. The licence plate of the taxi reads "I8BIGAPEL" i.e I ate big apple (New York)
During the battle, Skipper uses Rico as a machine gun for cover fire, using swallowed mints as bullets.
In a reference to the first film, Skipper makes several references to curse words, i.e "Hoover Dam" or "Shiitake mushrooms".
It is possible that the name "Mr. Chew" is a reference to a website of pornographic content by the same name.