Top In The Headlines:
Pondering a home theater
(Undated-AP) -- If the notion of a home theater tickles your
Christmas fantasies, a new magazine may help refine them.
It may also leave you salivating.
Robb Report Home Entertainment and Design is aimed at the
upscale buyer -- those able and willing to devote a room and
thousands of dollars to create their own private Bijou.
But publisher Mark Mendelsohn says you don't have to drop a
bundle to get into home theater.
For 500 dollars, he says you can buy a "home theater in a
box." It includes a receiver, a D-V-D player, and five speakers.
Mendelsohn says there are NO particular room requirements for
cheaper home theater systems. You can put one in a living room, a
den -- even a bedroom.
But he says the bigger the room, the more sophisticated the
equipment you'll probably want.
Hollywood Birthdays for December 19, 2002:
Today's birthdays: Country singer Bill Carlisle is 94. Country
singer Little Jimmy Dickens is 82. Actor James Booth is 72. Actress
Cicely Tyson is 69. Singer Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire is
61. Actor Tim Reid is 58. Singer Alvin Lee of Ten Years After is
58. Musician John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is 57.
Actress Elaine Joyce is 57. Country singer Janie Fricke (FRIK'-ee)
is 55. Actor Mike Lookinland ("The Brady Bunch") is 42. Actress
Jennifer Beals is 39. Actor Robert McNaughton is 36. Drummer Kevin
Shepard of Tonic is 34. Actress Kristy Swanson is 33. Actress
Alyssa Milano is 30. Actor Jake Gyllenhall (JIL'-en-hal) ("Bubble
Boy," "October Sky") is 22. Actress Marla Sokoloff ("The
Practice") is 22.
Today In Entertainment History
On December 19th, 1955, Carl Perkins recorded "Blue Suede
Shoes" at Sun Records in Memphis.
In 1957, the musical "The Music Man," starring Robert Preston,
opened on Broadway.
In 1975, the C.W. McCall single "Convoy" went gold in the U-S.
In 1980, Dolly Parton's first movie, "9 to 5," opened
nationwide.
In 1985, country singer Johnny Paycheck was arrested for
shooting a man during a fight in Hillsboro, Ohio. He was released
from jail in 1991.
In 1991, Oliver Stone's controversial film "J-F-K" premiered
in Dallas, where President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
In 1995, one person was killed and several others injured on the
set of the Disney movie "Gone Fishin'." A boat used in a stunt
went out of control and landed on a group of people.
In 1996, actor Marcello Mastroianni died of pancreatic cancer in
Paris. He was 72. He's best known for his roles in "La Dolce
Vita" and "Divorce Italian Style."
In 1997, the movie "Titanic" opened. It was the most expensive
movie ever made.
In 2000, musician Pops Staples of The Staple Singers died at his
home outside Chicago at the age of 84. He had been recovering from
a concussion suffered four weeks earlier. That same day, guitarist
Rob Buck of 10,000 Maniacs died of complications from liver
failure. He was 42.
