CABARET VILLE MAGAZINE. P25. Cont'd from P24
GOSSIPS
McCartney's fans in space treated to
concert that's out of this world Photo: Paul
McCartney gestures during a concert in Anaheim, CA. It was Good Day Sunshine for the international space
station crew. NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery
Tokarev were treated to a live wake-up call of the Beatles classic in a
first-ever concert linkup to the space station. On Earth, former Beatle
Sir Paul McCartney performed the hit and another song, English Tea, on
Saturday night before a cheering crowd as part of his 11-week U.S. tour.
The
performance was beamed from the West Coast to the space station crew 335
kilometres above Earth and broadcast on NASA television, which showed
live feeds from space. McArthur and Tokarev bobbed up and down and
sipped from squeeze pouches through the show, getting a rousing cheer
from the audience. "I can't believe that we're actually transmitting to
space!" McCartney said. "This is sensational. I love it." McArthur, who
did a couple flips, noted McCartney's creative achievements and thanked
him for playing the songs. "That was simply magnificent," McArthur said.
"We consider you an explorer just as we are." It is a tradition to wake
astronauts up with recorded songs, but this marked the first time
astronauts listened to live music from space. The rock icon came up with
the idea after learning that NASA's Mission Control used Good Day
Sunshine to wake up the Space Shuttle Discovery astronauts in August
with word that conditions were favorable to return to Earth. The wake-up
call marked the space station crew's 44th day of a planned six month
mission in space.
Hatcher clears her name. Desperate Housewives star did not have sex romps in her VW van
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Teri Hatcher has settled with
a British tabloid that claimed she had sex romps in her VW van. The Desperate
Housewives star also got an apology from the National Enquirer.
Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher has accepted libel damages from a British tabloid which claimed she regularly had sex with men in a van outside her home, her lawyer told a court. The Daily Sport, which published the story in July and repeated it in August, agreed to pay “very substantial damages” and her legal costs, to print a front-page apology and promised not to repeat the allegations, lawyer Simon Smith said.
The
amount of damages was not disclosed. David Hirst, representing the Daily
Sport, said the newspaper accepted that the articles were entirely false.
“The defendant received the story from a source who it trusted, who in turn read
the allegation elsewhere,” Hirst said. Smith said Hatcher “is a proud single
mother to her seven-year-old daughter and naturally finds extremely insulting
the lurid suggestion that she neglects her daughter in order to have regular sex
with a series of men in a van parked outside her home. “Such allegations are
without any substance at all,” Smith said. “Although the claimant does have such
a VW van, which she keeps for nostalgic reasons, and which she occasionally uses
to take her daughter on family trips and holidays, that is where the similarity
ends.” Hatcher, who was not in court, issued a statement saying she had
“tolerated many ridiculous and fabricated lies and gossip in the tabloids” as
something that “just comes with the territory of fame.“But when a story appeared
about me, insinuating that I am an irresponsible and neglectful parent, I had to
draw the line,” she added. On Thursday, Hatcher accepted an apology from the
National Enquirer after it published a similar report as a “world
exclusive” by freelance reporter Patricia Nolan. The Enquirer statement
reads: “We withdraw and retract the statements in that article. In particular,
Ms. Hatcher has never engaged in sexual relations with men in a van parked on
her property, nor does she leave her child alone in her house while having
‘steamy romps’ with men in a ‘passion wagon.’ Ms Hatcher only uses her van for
camping trips with her daughter.”