THE BUZZ Andy Edelstein; Noel Holston; Jack Millrod 'Dean Wormer' lines that brought down the house
FAST CHAT Noel Holston Rob Morrow appears to have himself another prime-time hit. The actor, who was catapulted to TV stardom when he was cast in 1990 as Dr. Joel Fleischman, the fish-out-of-water New Yorker in the Alaska-set "Northern Exposure," is heading the cast of "Numb3rs," playing an FBI agent who gets crime-solving help from his younger brother, a math professor with a beautiful mind.
You can dance to it BY GLENN GAMBOA After years of lobbying The Recording Academy, the dance-music community has finally gotten some Grammy respect.
20 years later,an ’80s revival BY RAFER GUZMÁN There's no telling what new outfit J.Lo will wear to the Grammy Awards Sunday night, but rockers should consider a more old-fashioned dress code.
On the short list... Selected nominees for the 47th annual Grammy Awards: For a complete list of nominees, go to www.newsday.com.
Latin in name or not, Grammys are still golden Ed Morales Despite the addition of the Latin Grammys that are held in September, the traditional Grammy Awards are still of major importance to Latin music artists trying to break out, as well as established ones. This year, for every Julieta Venegas, who is riding a sudden surge of popularity lifting her from obscure PJ Harvery-en-Español status, there is a Marc Anthony trying to reassert the fabulousness that his shadowy marriage to J-Lo has interrupted.
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Another fox leaves the coop Marvin Kitman Michael Powell, who is stepping down next month as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, was a hero in every media boardroom in the nation.
NEW ON DVD MOVIES: "Arthur 2: On the Rocks"; "Donnie Darko" (director's cut); "The Motorcycle Diaries"; "My Architect"; "Oh God! Book II" (wide screen); "Richie Rich" (wide screen)"; "Saw"; "Taxi"
TAKE 5 ‘Love Boat’ lore Andy Edelstein With Valentine's Day arriving Monday, many folks' thoughts turn to love. Because we spend way too much time thinking about television, our thoughts turn to "The Love Boat." Here are five things you may not have known about the long-running romantic anthology:
The wizard of songs BY BLAKE GREEN A hundred years ago Tuesday, Harold Arlen made his entrance into the world he would later bless with the music for "Stormy Weather," "One for My Baby," "Over the Rainbow" and a few dozen other highlights of the great American songbook.
ASK AMY Amy Dickinson DEAR AMY: My sister is marrying her husband again after 11 years of bliss, except this time in the Catholic Church after their annulments were finally granted. They were previously married by a justice of the peace.
Today's birthdays Former test pilot Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager, 82; actress Kim Novak, 72; actor George Segal, 71; actor Bo Svenson, 64; actress Carol Lynley, 63; singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees), 63; actress Stockard Channing, 61; talk show host Jerry Springer, 61; singer Peter Gabriel, 55; actor David Naughton, 54; rock musician Peter Hook, 49; actor Matt Salinger, 45; singer Henry Rollins, 44; actor Neal McDonough, 39; singer Freedom Williams, 39; actress Kelly Hu, 37.
SINGLE FILE Susan Deitz DEAR SUSAN: My boyfriend's mother is driving me crazy. I'm sure you'll pinpoint my problem when I tell you he's an only child, and I'm pregnant with our first child. When I say that, I mean his and mine, but it's been made amazingly clear to me that when she says "our baby," she's not including me. Here's the last straw:
Haute Chocolate BY BLAKE ESKIN CHOCOLATE: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light, by Mort Rosenblum. North Point, 290 pp., $24.
TALKING WITH REDMOND O'HANLON A JUNGLE EXPLORER TAKES TO THE HIGH SEAS BY JAMES MARCUS Has Redmond O'Hanlon gone soft on us? His earlier books found this inveterate traveler marching across the Amazon basin in search of the elusive Yanomami tribe, or tracking a Congolese version of the Loch Ness monster called Mokélé-mbembé. In comparison, his latest production, "Trawler" (Knopf, $25), would seem to be a holiday frolic. No longer will the author journey to the ends of the Earth, no longer will he drag his backpack and beer gut through some godforsaken, malaria-infested swamp. This time around, O'Hanlon has gone fishing.
BEST SELLERS 1. THE BROKER, by John Grisham (Doubleday)
Love letters to reading Laurie Muchnick Awards always inspire controversy, and literary awards more than most. There are just so many books out there, and everyone has such different tastes that it's nearly impossible to agree on the best book of any given year. It's hard to even agree on the ground rules: Should an award be given for huge ambition imperfectly achieved, or for perfection on a smaller scale? Should a book's popularity have anything to do with it? When I was a judge for the National Book Critics Circle Award a few years ago, we gave our fiction prize to Penelope Fitzgerald's "The Blue Flower" - a small gem - over Don DeLillo's "Underworld" - a flawed attempt at the Great American Novel. Controversy ensued. This year's National Book Award fiction jury nominated five obscure novels by women who live in New York while ignoring Philip Roth. Did the jury have a responsibility to honor a wider variety of books, or to give a nod to books that sold well?
The never-ending story BY JENNIE YABROFF THE SEVENTH BEGGAR, by Pearl Abraham. Riverhead, 352 pp., $25.95.
Victory at sea BY JOSH OZERSKY THE CONFIDENT HOPE OF A MIRACLE: The True Story of the Spanish Armada, by Neil Hanson. Knopf, 489 pp., $35.
BOOKENDS BY JAMES MARCUS GOD LIVES IN ST. PETERSBURG AND OTHER STORIES, by Tom Bissell. Pantheon, 212 pp., $20.
Editor on ice BY HENRY ALFORD FRONT ROW: Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor-in-Chief, by Jerry Oppenheimer. St. Martin's, 377 pp., $24.95.
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