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Show DAILY HERALD Mdty, September X 2004 B3 Sarah Hughes back on ice around the country espy H THE CELEBRITY NEWS AND NOTES ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Sarah Hughes, the 2002 Olympic figure skating gold medalist, will fts skate with the Stars on Ice tour this season. Hughes will take a one-yeleave from Yale, where she was a freshman last year, and will make her debut with the show Nov. 27 in Lake Placid, N.Y. She will skate the entire y tour with Stars on Ice. "It's the one show that every skater dreams about becoming a part of ... the one show that offers the chance to work with Associated Press the world's top skaters, direcSarah Hughes, seen here in tors, choreographers and de2003, will skate with the signers," Hughes said Tuesday. "It will also help me grow Stars on Ice tour. as an artist, an entertainer and competitor." the with and Anton Sikharulidze Hughes will fellow 2002 Olympic champicouples who shared the pairs ons Jamie Sale and David andAlexei gold medal and Elena Berezhnaya Yagudin. ar ' - t 4 60-cit- a ft '."" ' 0 () CO Pel-leti- er r Coach Bobby Knight's antics topic of potential TV deal THE ASSOCIATED PRESS f. Q uv 7 y The life and times of Bob Knight could soon be inside America's living rooms. The fiery Texas Tech coach met with television officials last month in Los Angeles and gave, his approval for a sitcom deaL CBS and Paramount Television are exploring the development of a half hour comedy that could run by next year. Knight, 63, would serve as a consultant ahd said he might make guest appearances. "Right now it's still in an embryonic stage," Lindy DeKoven, who would serve as the show's executive producer, told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journa- l for TuesAssociated Press day's editions. "Right now we don't have a writer yet, so we Texas Tedi head basketball coach Bobby Knight could soon can't get into too much detail be the subject of a half hour But, it would be a half hour comedy based on Bobby's comedy. character." Knight was out of town which will decide whether to Tuesday and couldn't be reached for comment. make it a pilot. John Wentworth, executive The next step is for a writer to come to Lubbock and spend vice president of marketing and media for Paramount Teletime getting to know Knight at work and at home. vision, said the show would When the script is written, possibly be ready to run in DeKoven will take it to CBS, September 2005. -- i Jit i 0 CHRIS PIZZELLO Associated Latin guitarist Carlos Santana performs during Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. the 2004 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year Tribute in his honor, Press at the . Carlos Santana 'Not shucking and jiving, slipping and sliding' Since I can definitely say one of the two parties. I would like it better if we had a woman that, like you, I am a beam of light that comes from the mind president, seven of them, instead of one. ... American Indiarks Santana speaks of God, then I don't have to about the world like a squirm or interrupt people an, Mexican, Irish, African-AmericaWe need seven when they give me a compli- - . benevolent visitor women to really represent the ment. I can say, Thank you so from outside it. much. And I'm very happy that United States more from an inHis views may be into can romantic and idealistic, but the perspective. presence joy tegrity my bring Aft What are your thoughts guitarist is sincere. He was hon- your life." Aft You worked for free in on world events, like the war in ored as the Latin Grammys person of the year Monday for his 2003, donating the $2 million in Iraq? Santana: Peace has never dedication to education, the . profits from the "Shaman" al-in AIDS from dropping bombs. come AIDS tour combat other bum to and against fight Africa. What motivates your ' Real peace comes from enlightsocial endeavors. enment and educating people to , Santana, who won nine charity work? Santana: I'm very grateful behave more in a divine matter. Grammys for his 1999 album I do envision a world whece wathat I'm in a position to be of "Supernatural," talked to The Associated Press about his polit- service and give back. The peoter, electricity, food and education would be for freelinthe ical views, his upcoming CD and ple who I adore the most are . next 25 years for everyone on Doctors Without Borders and hew to absorb accolades withthis planet. That's the beginning out arrogance. (Nobel Peace Prize winner) Mr. Desmond Tutu, people who just of dismantling fear, anger and . Aft How do you endure a politics and religion. The real night of praise like being named rofi up their sleeves, they feed, evil in this world is politics and heal or bury. They don't have Latin Grammy person of the ' offices and all these expensive religion. Spirituality is the antiyear without letting it go to cars. Whatever money you give dote because it is free. your head? AP: Do you feel cynical about Santana: IVe been repeating them, it goes straight to medifor a long time that I am a beam cine. jth&state of America? ' Aft Your Web site had a fink Santana: I think American of fight that comes from the " vote. God. to That allows of mind me, t ''people are beautiful people, I encouraging people think our government is not by How do you feel about the the more I say it, to grasp that I'm more than Mexican, or a hu- American presidential race? ' . the people, for the people and all Santana: I don't really' feel too that kind of stuff. It's a group of man being. I am more than American or all the labels that corporations ... who want to tell good about asking anyone to vote at this time because I basiwe put on each other on this you how much insurance to buy for the things that they make cally don't have faith in either planet. ' Anthony Breznican THE ASSOCIATED PRESS G n. - . you afraid of. I pay my taxes, I obey the law, but that's not who I'm accountable to. I'm accountable to a higher force; Therefore, people honor me like this (Latin Grammy) award because I'm not shucking and jiving, slipping and sliding ... Aft Back to your music then, why did you release the CD "Food For Thought" through the Baj'a Fresh Mexican Grill restaurants? Santana: Helping children. Baja was committed to helping children. (The prof its for that disc went toward Santana's Foundation, which provides health and education to impoverished youth.) Aft How far along are you on your next album? Santana: I'm working on seven albums. I'm producing an album for Mr. Buddy Guy. I'm also working on the new Santana album, which I will turn into my friend and brother Mr. Cfive Davis. There's a possibility of new people contributing, like Los Lonely Boys, possibly Sting, maybe Sean Paul ... I have an instrumental album that I'm due to release sometime. It's like seven to 10 things that I'm working on, but I'm hot confused or scattered. Mi-lag- -- -- 'Star Trek actor gets Hollywood star THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "Star Trek" actor James Doohan famed for his portrayal of "Beam Me Up Scot-tthe intrepid engineer who y, kept the starship Enterprise warping across galaxies grinned and waved to fans Tuesday as he received a star ' on the Hollywood Walk of . Fame. It was expected to be the last public appearance of the performer, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and also suffers from Parkinson's disease, diabetes and lung fibro- NICK UT Associated sis. The ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard was the culmination of several days of farewell activities that brought Doohan back into contact with many of this longtime fans. George Takei, who played Sulu on "Star Trek," told the crowd "This is a galactic day in this town full of stars. "We've gathered from throughout this planet to say congratulations to you, Jim- . Press As hb daughter, Sarah, reaches in, James r i the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Tuesday. my," Takei said. Other "Star Trek" cast members to attend were Nichelle Nichols, who was Uhura on the series, and Walter Koenig, who played Chekov. Joely Fisher facing new peril in 'Wild Card' role Bridget Byrne tHE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' "Wild Card" has gotten wilder. Joeh Fisher, who plays private investigator Zoe Busiek on the Lifetime series, says the network "wanted us to be more in peril; they wanted the stakes to be higher so the cases weren't soriamby-pamby.- " More danger is just one of several changes in the series' It has a new time slot Sundays at 10 p.m. EDT. And Bus-- . g iek and partner Dan Lennox (Chris Potter) have a new boss M. Pearl McGuire (Loretta Devine), described by ' executive producer Doug Steinberg as a Lou Grant type "in charge of things and to act as a comic foi" Steinberg says there's also new emphasis on the case-of--; theweek stories being "about : bieser issues vou mieht see in ' uwume television the headlines. , Busiek in the But the show still plays up Actress Joety Fisher stars as private investigator Zoe - . ' what has been referred '.' to as its Lifetime series "Wild Cord" crime-solvin- . . ' I j " '., V"" " . "Moonlighting" qualities the banter and high jinks between. Busiek and Lennox. Also Busiek still has to juggle the demands of her work with being a mother to three children she inherited when her sister was killed. "The whole idea is that the show should be delightful," Steinberg says, with much of . that quality stemming from Fisher, whom he describes as "beautiful and normal at the same time ... serious but funny." Living up to that billing, Fisher arrives for tea to talk about herself and the series, coming from Nana's Garden, a business she owns with her mother, Connie Stevens, ss-singer and sister Tricia. It's a play space for children where their . mothers can also get lunch and a manicure. , The 3&yearold Fisher, who's married and has a year-ol- d daughter, openly talks about her struggles as a secondeneration show business chikl and the relationship with her father, singer Eddie Fisher, who was troubled actre- by substance abuse and wasnt around much for his kids. She describes it as "cyclical" in its ups and downs and "I've just got disappointed again." But she also recalls a time when her father told her, " "You are not just a singer, you are a zinger'... That was a help, because that was what he had to give. So I took it and wrapped it' up and kept it for myself. Asked if a career in show business was inevitable, she responds: "I would say so. I guess if you went to the deep psychology level, I was looking for love like anyone else and found it on astage.J';?t! According to family history, at about age 3, Joeh vanished fromi)ackstage in a casino where Stevens was singing. ' . Later she was discovered asleep in the strings section of the orchestra. "I told my mother I had wanted to hear the music from the inside,' Fisher recalls, and soon she was perfonning with .Stevens.'." Fisher's TV credits include playing Paige, friend to the title character on Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom "Ellen." She also was the talking baby's mom on the short-live- d sitcom "Baby Bob." Then came "Wild Card." Fisher relates to the qualities that make Busiek good at her job. "She's intuitive, good at unearthing the truth, good at getting people to open up to her." She also likes a certain aspect of the show, more akin to "Murder, She Wrote," "Hart to Hart," or "Remington Steele" than tod "CSI" and day's "Law & Order" crime dramas. She's pleased to read messages from female fans identifying her as "more like me than other actresses," referring to her more typical womanly shape even though in real life, she's skinnier than she appears on television. Fisher would like to have time for an exercise routine but "now I have a toddler . and a television show and I wonder when that would be!" , hard-edge- |