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May 28. 2003 Jlortlanò ©bserlier Page B3 Focus Paul A. Neufeldt 503-288-0033 pan@ daos.org graphics Affordable Design and Business Support Graphic Design • Logos • Signage ui I * 'tmw ■ M T Company Identity • Ad Design • • Web Design Outdoor Events THE EXPERIENCE WILL BE MUCH LIKE THE FIRST TIME YOU MADE LOVE. i ♦Hw'- J ASSUMING YOUR FIRST TIME WAS IN A ROOM WITH 150 OTHER PEOPLE. Ruben Studdard, from Birmingham, Ala., (above) won a close contest over Clay Aiken, from Raleigh, N.C., in the Ameri can Idol competition last Wednesday in Universal City, Calif. Studdard and other American Idol 2 finalists will perform in Portland on Aug. 27. Tickets go on sale next week. QUITAR BASED JAZZ IN BENEFIT si Jazz Violinist Objects to Casinos Jazz violinist Regina Carter isn 't a fan o f the casinos in her hometown o f Detroit. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File) (AP)— Jazz violinist ReginaCarter isn’t a fan o f the casinos in her hometown o f Detroit. “Bringing gambling was not the move,” Carter told The Associated Press in a re cent interview. “ In my mind, it didn’t really benefit the city financially.” The first o f D etroit’s three casinos opened in 1999. Although they’ve been credited with creating thousands o f jobs and generating millions o f dollars in rev enue, Carter doesn’t believe the casinos have improved the city economically. “ When you think about gambling in Atlantic City or in Las Vegas, people are going to those cities. They’re going to see the shows. T here’s more than just the gam bling, there’s an attraction to those cities,” she said. "In Detroit, no one’s coming there out o f Michigan. The people there who are gambling live in Detroit, and a lot o f them there can’t afford to gamble, so w e’re mak ing money o ff o f people that can’t afford to lose any.” Although Carter is a Detroit native, she lives in New York City. Her latest disc, "Paganini: After A Dream,” was released in April. E L E C T R I C A L R E P A IR S «-ELŒ TRICRL DIMSIMS iM M M M M M M M M M M M Five More Years of Airtime for Oprah Talk show host has decided not to retire (AP) — Television’s top talk show host, Oprah Winfrey, has had second thoughts about retiring. W infrey extended her contract with King World Productions by two more years, taking her through the 2007-2008 television season, and agreed to make more shows over the next few years than planned. At her last contract extension, Winfrey. 49, had said she would quit her show after the 2005-2006 season. “It’sftilfillingbeingabletodothis kind o f television,” Winfrey said, “and I believe continuing to have a voice and a platform to speak to the world is still the right thing to do." After a few years o f decline, rat ings for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” have increased this year. She’s also watched her one-time protege. Dr. in W infrey’s decision. "The most important thing is she feels like she is truly making aditfer- ence and that the audience she is speaking to is listening in substan tial numbers,” he said. Several ABC stations in large markets, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, have already renew ed “The O prah W infrey Show” for those extra two years. I* ó Talk show host Oprah Winfrey will continue her talk show through 2008. (AP Photo) Phil McGraw, start his own suc cessful talk show. Despite W inffey’splanstocall it quits, Roger King, CEO o f King World, said he never stopped ask ing her to stay. He said he sensed a change after Winfrey went to Africa last year to help the poor. “ I think she came back reinvigo rated, knowing that her vision is right, and she wants to stay with it," King said. Winfrey had planned to cut back from 145originalshowsayearto 100 in 2004 and 75 in 2005. Now she will do 130 shows per year for the last four years o f the deal. King said. Tim B e n n ett, p re sid e n t o f Winfrey ’scompany, Harpo Produc tions, said an increase in ratings among young people for the first time in several years played a part Berry Breaks Arm Filming Thriller Scene No word on when actress 1 will return to the set (AP) — Oscar-winning ac tress Halle Berry broke her right arm while filming a scene for the su p e rn a tu ra l th rille r “Gothika” in Canada. Berry, 34, was filming “one o f the more physically dem and ing scenes” when she was hurt last week, said Joe Everett, a spokesman for the Warner Bros, production. Everett did not have detai Is of the scene. Berry broke her ulna, a long Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry suffered a broken arm last week while filming a physically demanding scene for her new role in the supernatu ral thriller "Gothika." bone in the forearm, and was treated at a Montreal hospital and released, Everett said. The movie was in its fifth week o f a nine-week shoot. It was unclear when she might return to the set. Berry plays a criminal psychologist who wakes up to find that she is accused of murdering her husband and is a patient in the asylum where she works. “Gothika" is set for release in October. 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