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Halle Berry
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:35 AM PDT
Halle Berry
Desert Sun, Tue, 28 Jun 2005 4:07 AM PDT
Devil and 'Duke,''Doo' too http://www.desertsunonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050628/COLUMNS23/506280321/1215
After a slow week last week for celebrity spotters, stars from music, movies and television returned to the Coachella Valley, our starwatchers reported, just in time for another week's worth of desert celebrity sightings.
Devil and 'Duke,''Doo' too
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The Desert Sun
June 28, 2005
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After a slow week last week for celebrity spotters, stars from music, movies and television returned to the Coachella Valley, our starwatchers reported, just in time for another week's worth of desert celebrity sightings.
Devil went down to Indio
That's right, country music outlaw Charlie Daniels made a trip to the desert Sunday for a one-nighter at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino's Special Events Center in Indio and also blocked out some time for a sit-down with The Outdoor Channel's Tom Wopat, host of the cable network's "Circle of Honor." Wopat, you may recall, was Luke Duke on the popular good ol' boy CBS-TV hit "The Dukes of Hazzard." Daniels' interview, slated to air later this year, covered his band's recent tour to Iraq to perform for troops there and his fight against cancer. The program, the network says, "celebrate(s) great men and women who have made a significant impact in the world of the outdoors."
Costas living
Spywitnesses at Costas nightclub at the Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa in Palm Desert were busy this weekend. The stars came out Saturday, our spotter said, including semi-regular to this space, Matthew Lillard of "Scooby Doo" and "Scream" fame; singer/actor and Halle Berry's ex-husband Eric Benet; and David Lipper of the Disney kids' comedy "The Pacifier," starring Vin Diesel. Readers with long memories may recall Lillard making this space with his trip to Sullivan's steakhouse in Palm Desert in February.
Inspiring talk Writer, author, lecturer Dennis Kimbro brought down the house Saturday at the African-American Business Summit's luncheon at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage. Kimbro has appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" and NBC's "Today" and has been featured in Success Magazine, Black Enterprise, Ebony and Essence magazines.
Read all about it
It's not often that The Desert Sun makes its own list of star sightings, but check out "Herbie: Fully Loaded," the big-screen update of the Disney classic "The Love Bug," starring Lindsay Lohan. What should appear in one scene showing newspaper headlines of Herbie's storied career, but The Desert Sun's banner?
Serving the Coachella Valley since 1927 and TDS is ready for its close-up.
Eurweb, Tue, 28 Jun 2005 1:08 AM PDT
KEYS TO A NORMAL LIFE: Alicia loves the glitz, but also, pops zits. http://www.eurweb.com/story.cfm?id=21046
KEYS TO A NORMAL LIFE: Alicia loves the glitz, but also, pops zits. *"I love being back in New York," Alicia Keys told reporters backstage at a sellout concert last week at Cipriani’s Wall Street.
KEYS TO A NORMAL LIFE: Alicia loves the glitz, but also, pops zits.
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*"I love being back in New York," Alicia Keys told reporters backstage at a sellout concert last week at Cipriani’s Wall Street. The multi-talented artist, born and raised in the Big Apple, appreciates the globetrotting her profession demands, but says with a smile, there’s no place like home.
“It's the only place I want to be,” she tells Cindy Adams of the New York Post. This is a 24-hour town. No place else like it in the world. Atlanta or L.A., where you going to get a sandwich at 5 in the morning? No place. Only in New York.”
Keys says she’ll never forget life before “Songs in A Minor,” the debut album that catapulted the 24-year-old to superstardom.
“Yeah, I've won nine Grammys, but I know what it's like to live here and have nothing,” she says. “My mother struggled bringing me up. We lived in this tiny, tiny apartment. My first 16 years of life I didn't even have a bedroom."
But once her debut single “Falling” took over radio and money started rolling in, Keys suddenly found herself in the foreign situation of having everything at her fingertips.
"Y'know, when I first made it, I bought mom a house, bought myself recording equipment and went on my first-ever shopping spree,” she says. “I scared myself. I felt totally guilty. I spent more that one time than ever before in my whole life. It was my sister who told me, 'Go, girl . . . it's enough with those sneakers . . . ' But when I come home off that tour I'm like everybody else. Tomorrow I look forward to doing my laundry."
As previously reported, Keys’ nonprofit organization Frum Tha Ground Up, has an online celebrity auction running through June 30. Items up for bid include Shaquille O'Neal's personal Miami Heat courtside seats, lunch with Halle Berry on the "X-Men 3" set, private tennis lessons from Andre Agassi, attending the premiere of "An Unfinished Life" with Morgan Freeman in his limo and hanging with Keys herself during her upcoming taping of MTV’s “Unplugged” – all a far cry from separating the darks from the whites.
“I like doing laundry. I like doing things that make me feel normal,” she says of her downtime. “I'll do some movies, check any zit I might have gotten on my face, do laundry and go for a walk without makeup. One person, staring at me walking on the street, said to her friend, 'Look at that girl trying to look like Alicia Keys.'"
I always knew my brain cells buzzed when I saw Halle Berry ;) Silly Scientists.
Daily Dispatch, Tue, 28 Jun 2005 1:00 AM PDT
Features http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/06/28/Features/
Individual brain cells 'recognise' famous people
By Malcolm Ritter
EVEN a casual reader of fan magazines can recognise pictures of Halle Berry or Jennifer Aniston, no matter how the stars are dressed or wearing their hair.
Now a surprising study suggests that individual brain cells can do the same thing.
The work could help shed light on how the brain stores memories, an expert said.
When scientists sampled brain cell activity in people who were scrutinising dozens of pictures, they found some cells that reacted to a particular famous person, landmark, animal or object.
In one case, a single cell was activated by different photos of Berry, including some in her "Catwoman" costume, a drawing of her and even the words "Halle Berry".
The findings appear in a part of the brain that transforms what people perceive into what they'll eventually remember, said Dr Itzhak Fried, a senior investigator on the project.
The findings do not mean that a particular person or object is recognised and remembered by only one brain cell, Fried said.
"There is not only one cell that codes for Jennifer Aniston. That would be impossible," Fried said.
Nor do they mean that a given brain cell will react to only one person or object, he said, because the study participants were tested with only a relatively limited number of pictures.
In fact, some cells were found to respond to more than one person, or to a person and an object.
What the study does suggest, Fried and colleagues say in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, is that the brain appears to use relatively few cells to record something it sees.
That's in contrast to the idea that it uses a huge network of brain cells instead.
It's surprising that an individual neuron would react so specifically to a given person, said the study's other senior investigator, Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology.
"It's much more specific than people used to think."
Charles Connor, who studies how the brain processes visual information but who didn't participate in the new study, called the results striking.
Nobody would have predicted that conceptual information relating to Aniston, for example, would be signalled so clearly by single cells, said Connor, who works at Johns Hopkins University.
The "really dramatic finding," he said, is that a single brain cell can respond so consistently to completely different pictures of a given person.
"That will surprise everybody," Connor said.
The part of the brain the researchers studied draws heavily on memory as well as signals from what the eye sees, so the result may illustrate how memory is represented in the brain and how it relates to visual signals, he said.
He noted that in one participant, one brain cell responded both to Aniston and to Lisa Kudrow, her co-star on the TV hit Friends.
"That's a tantalising glimpse at how neurons represent concepts like membership in the cast of Friends, and could lead to much more extensive studies of how conceptual information is organised in human memory," he said.
The researchers tested eight people with epilepsy who'd had electrodes placed in their brains so that doctors could track down the origins of their seizures.
The electrodes monitored the activity of a small fraction of cells in a part of the brain called the medial temporal lobe.
The researchers kept track of which cells became activated as the participants looked at images of people, landmarks and objects on a laptop computer.
One participant had a brain cell that reacted to different pictures of Aniston, for example, but was not strongly stimulated by other famous or non-famous faces.
Oddly, when that participant was shown photos of Aniston paired with actor Brad Pitt, from whom Aniston later separated, the brain cell didn't respond.
"I don't know if it was a prophetic thing," Fried said.
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