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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.
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JAZZ IN BENEFIT
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Berry won the best-actress
Oscar for her role in 200 l ’s
“ M onster's Ball.”
She suffered an eye injury
whi le filming an action sequence
in Spain for 2002's James Bond
movie, “ Die Another Day.”
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