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Show DailySHerald. Daily FEBRUARY 5, 2006 LIFE & STYLE EDITOR | Elyssa Andrus - 344-2553 - eandrus@heraldextra.com , ABC Ellen Pompeo, T.R. Knight, Katherine Heigl and Sandra Oh star on “Grey's Anatomy.” ‘Grey's’ gets plum spot after Super Bowl _Charlie McCollum KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS Early last year, Shonda Rhimes, the creator and executive producer of ABC's “Grey's Anatomy,” had a vision. Rhimes andhercast and crew hadfilmed 13 episodes of the hospital drama,but the network had yet to decide when(or evenif) the is telephonenumber, When shepocketed the note to read it later, he demanded sheread it: series would makeit onto the schedAnother theory of D.B. Cooper’sidentity was produced in 1995 by Duane Weber's widow Jo, who gave her ased husband's name to the FBI after Weber confessed on his death bed that he was Dan (D.B.) Cooper. Atfirst, she didn’t understand what he meant, so she headed: to the library. Her research revealed some uncanny coincidences; She said Weber hadan old knee injury he claimed camefrom jumping out ofa plane,talked in his sleep about leaving fingerprints on the plane's aft stairs, and had an almost identical likeness to the FBI's sketch ofthe hijacker. For now, the FBI continuesto sort through longlist of suspects to find the perpetrator. te petstats bee, As soont.as thé plane 10,000 fegt, despite ceeperi winds the : ‘the Columbia River, found a bodyor“pera ute. Many camaracla iesOyenoliboypling on ter, an 6-year lying the banks of the Columbia found more The Lost Colony than $5,000 of Cooper’s money buried in the sand, The rest has never turnedup. Things did not get off to a good start for the English colonists sentto settle the Chesapeake Bay area, according to North Carolina's state library history archive. When John White and the other 117 settlers came ashore,they planned to meet a small group who'd been holding claim to the land. But tradition holds that the only thing to greet the new settlers when they came ashore was a dried-out human skeleton. The Croaton,a friendly American Indian tribe, told the settlers that other American Indians, angered over the increasing influx of colonists, had attacked the earlier group,killing some and scaring the rest back on their ship. John White and company Richard McCoy,a Seen Young Uni versity student who taught Sunday school in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and was a decorated Vietnam War veteran. The FBI “Famous Cases” archivecited in the online encyclopedia web. reportsthat just four months er D. was leaving Denver, The hijacking seemed to match Cooper's to the letter: After handing a note toa flight attendant, the avid skydiver collected $500,000, loaded it in ule. At thatpoint, she told one of the show's other producersthat“if this shownevergoes,I'll just be selling episodesout of the trunk of my car. I couldjust hear me saying, ‘Want some“Grey's Anatomy?”A little bit of “Grey's Anatomy”overhere!’ ” But Rhimes never had the chance totry outherskill at street corner sales. “Grey's Anatomy” became last season's biggest surpris¢ hit. Thrownonto ABC’s Sunday night lein March as a temporary ‘replacementfor “Boston Legal,”the show about the loves and relationships of interns at Seattle Grace Hospital took off with viewersalmost immediately, quicklyeclipsing “Legal”inthe ratings. Whenit returned in September, its audience jumped to 20 million ndit became ABC's most talkedabout Sundayshow, out-buzzing « “Desperate Housewives.” Co-star Sandra Oh (“Sideways”) was nominated for an Emmyand last month wona Golden Globe for her performance. The series recently finished fourth in Television Week's semian- nual TV critics’ poll of top shows. Andtonight, it gets the viewerrich spot behind ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XL, a coveted showcase for anyseries. “Wechoseit because it's one of the best showsontelevision,and it's faining momentum,” says Stephen AicPherson,president of ABC Entertainment. “It's going to be a huge part of our future, and so we want to give it every boost we can.” Rhimes — whohadn't doneseries television until “Anatomy s' | the key ‘0 the show's success is that it isn’t a typical hospital dramaeven See DISAPPEAR, C2 thoughit includesthe trappings of See GREY'S, CZ Super Bowt: XL’s producers haveaplanfor every moment BrianMcCollum DETROIT FREE PRESS Seven hundred and twenty seconds. That's whatit comes downto. Twelve minutes. The Super Bow!halftime show, the world's most‘watched annual music event, involves millions of dollars, thousands of people and 15 months of preparation. Andit lasts 12 minutes. That figure doesn't come with any give-ortake this-or-that. Talk to the professionals behind today's halftime show featuring the Rolling Stones, and you dis.over new definitions for words like *“pragion Pirraaketbe tee ot ites tig MICHAEL CONROY/Ansocisetd Press: Singers who will perform Wonder, Aretha Frank kis to the start of Super Bowl XL, clockwise from top left: Stevie John Legend, Joss Stone, India.Arie, and Aaron Neville. ‘ pored over and discussed thoroughly beforehand. says Bob Toms, senior producer of ABC which is broadcasting this weekend's For Field festivities. “It's the culmination of a whole lot of work.” “People look at what we do and call us stress ,” says Don Mischer, executive producer for Super Bowl XL entertainment. “You just say to yourself, ‘If I'm g to fall on my butt, what better place to do it than in front ofa bil le?” Mischer, whose resume includes three Super mpics opening ceremony, this year; As of Mondin't settled on the songs day, Stevie Wonder for his pregame set, where he'll be joined bysoul crooners John Legend, Joss Stone and India.Arie for a Motownretrospective. As for the Stones, well . they're the Stones. Unlike every other performer today, and virtually every Super Bow! performer of the past decade, the band won't be playing along with the safety net of a taped track The Stones will be “live,live,live,” as one NFL executive stfessed — and stressed is whatit leaves Mischer. “With Paul McCartney last yearin Jacksonville, the decisions had all been made early, he'd See SUPER BOWL, C6 The Rolling Stones will perform at the Super Bowlhalftime show. WWW.HERALDEXTRA.COM — CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE on |