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2 CHICAGO TRIBUNE | LIVE! | SECTION 3 | TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009 Farrah Fawcett is being treated for anal cancer that has spread to her liver and has been hospitalized for a complication from a routine treatment, a producer who worked with the actress and her doctor said Monday, The Associated Press re- ported. In separate phone interviews with AP, Fawcett’s producer and her doctor said that Fawcett is in a Los Angeles hospital, recovering from complications from a medical procedure in Germany, and is “not on death’s door,” as the producer, Craig Nevius, put it. Nevius, who has worked with the ac- tress, confirmed that the 62-year-old “Char- lie’s Angels” star, who has been fighting cancer since 2006, was hospitalized in Los Ange- les because of a blood clot that was likely a side effect of treatment. Nevius said Fawcett is expected to leave the hospital in a few days. Meanwhile, Redmond O’Neal (left), Fawcett’s son with Ryan O’Neal, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of bring- ing narcotics into a jail facility and was being held on $25,000 bail. Bleak news on Farrah Fawcett disputed AP PHOTO 2004 In a peculiar interview with the “Today” show’s Matt Lauer on Monday, disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer made reference to his personal demons, er, “grem- lins,” and acknowledged that, yes, it did occur to him that someone, somewhere would figure out that he was seeing a high-priced call girl. “It crossed my mind,” he said of getting caught. “But you ignore the obvious at certain moments because you simply don’t want to confront it.” While emphasizing that what he did was “egregious” (he used the word twice) and saying there is “no excuse for his behavior” (repeated three times), a tense but self-assured Spitzer also noted that he has faced his flaws. “I have tried to address these gremlins, confront them,” he said, of- fering a tantalizing image but few specifics. Also intriguing: Spitzer told his inter- viewer that the call-girl period did not last long “in the grand context of my life.” How long did the period last in the humble context of an ordinary life? We still don’t know. —Nara Schoenberg Spitzer: The gremlins made him do it Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson reportedly have split, according to Usmagazine.com, which details a Friday night fight and Saturday a.m. lock change. ... Trista and Ryan Sutter, stars of the first season of “The Bachelorette,” have welcomed their second child, a girl named Blakesley Grace Sutter, People.com reports. ... Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen reportedly were married again Saturday in Costa Rica, AP reports. A photographer with Agence France-Presse said a bodyguard for Bundchen shot at his car after he refused to give up his camera. ... Kiefer Sutherland and Chace Crawford have been named to co-star alongside rapper 50 Cent in the drug drama “Twelve,” according to Variety. 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APRIL 23 - MAY 17 MARK’S GOSPEL ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Porchlight Music Theatre Theatre Building Chicago 1225 W Belmont Tickets 773-327-5252 www.porchlighttheatre.com TONIGHT AT 7:30 PM! TOMORROW AT 2 & 7:30 PM! (312) 902-1400 • BroadwayInChicago.com Ford Center/Oriental Theatre • Groups (312) 977-1710 “Shock value is really important when showing up,” she says, applying Corvette-red lipstick. A moment later, she pauses, as- sesses her progress, then declares: “No, more makeup.” She applies Preparation H under her eyes, which tightens the skin and gets rid of the morning shadows. A natural brunet, she lightens her eyebrows to complement the blond wig. To warm up her vocal cords, she drinks water and sighs loudly, melodically and—it seems, to the uninitiated listener— obscenely. After 20 minutes in front of the bathroom mirror, Guccione moves to an upright piano in the living room, where she sings scales. Then, a snippet from Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi.” Her first attempt at a high note sputters, causing her to break into laughter. “It’s too early in the morning for a high D,” she says. She has a reliable regimen, a ritual. “Are you going to sing with me? Give me some good luck?” she asks Quesadora, one of her three small dogs. As Guccione again launches into scales, the tiny bichon frise howls along, on pitch. “The first time she sang with me, she wet the couch,” Guccione says, laughing. People are much the same, in a strange way. “I love the art form,” Guccione says of opera. “It can evoke such emotion in people. It’s healing, in a way. It gives you permission to have all these emotions.” Guccione herself has been moved to tears after a job. “There was one job where I had to go to this nursing home,” she says. “It was a 50- year-old woman who had a stroke, lost her sight, but loved opera. And for her, I sang genuine opera arias. That made my day. That was really special.” Moments later, she slips on a furry vest, braids and a horned helmet. She looks, for all intents and purposes, like Bugs Bunny from the cartoon “What’s Opera, Doc?” But it’s the stereotype people are attracted to, she says. “It’s kind of like introducing opera and making it approachable for people who might otherwise be intimidated by it,” she says. “It shouldn’t be intimidating. The bot- tom line of opera is: It’s about life.” Taking one final look in the mirror, she says, “I think I was born to be a blond.” And with that, she grabs her spear, tilts her viking helmet up and heads out the door to her next conquest. [email protected] Diva delivers one-of-a-kind song Singer Rose Guccione warms up her vocal cords before a personal appearance. TOM VAN DYKE/ TRIBUNE PHOTO Continued from Page 1 By Patrick T. Reardon TRIBUNE REPORTER Laughter makes the world go ’round. But why? That’s the question the 20th annual Chi- cago Humanities Festival will address this year with programs Oct. 17 in the Hyde Park neighborhood and from Nov. 4 through Nov. 15 in scores of venues, mainly in and around the Loop. “Laughter is deeply, deeply important, but not lofty like last year’s theme, ‘Thinking Big,’ ” says CHF executive director Stuart Flack. More down to earth, and just the thing for a world battered by economic woes. But he warns: Don’t expect a comedy festival. “We’re not going to have people doing stand-up,” he says. “We are going to have people who are well-known comedians, but ask them to reflect on the subject and think about the subject in people’s lives. “There will be scholars there, and, let’s say, we’ll have a program on the 1st Amendment and comedy which could talk about Lenny Bruce and George Carlin’s ‘Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.’ ” CHF staff members are still working to nail down participants, but Flack said they will include anthropologists, economists, historians, neuroscientists, poets, musi- cians, writers and artists. Among those committed to appear are cartoonists Matt (“The Simpsons”) Groening and Lynda Barry; psychologist Irene Pepper- berg, an expert on animal intelligence and humor; Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the 2007 book “Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy,” and Firoozeh Dumas, author of “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America.” Flack says that a major focus of the festival will be on ways various ethnic and racial groups use and experience humor. For instance, the festival is hoping to offer a program on Cantinflas, whose legal name was Mario Moreno, the comedian and actor who was a pioneer and major influence on the Mexican film industry. Efforts are also under way to bring come- dian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory to the festival. “It’s a great moment to have laughter as our theme,” Flack says. “People need to laugh in good times and in bad.” [email protected] During the last two decades, the themes of the Chicago Humanities Festival have ranged across the wide spectrum of human thought and expe- rience. Here’s a list: 1990 Expressions of Freedom 1991 Culture Contact 1992 From Freedom to Equality 1993 From Communication to Understanding 1994 Crime and Punishment 1995 Love & Marriage 1996 Birth and Death 1997 Work & Play 1998 He/She 1999 New & Old 2000 NOW! 2001 Words & Pictures 2002 Brains & Beauty 2003 Saving + Spending 2004 Time 2005 Home and Away 2006 Peace and War 2007 Climate of Concern 2008 Thinking Big 2009 Laughter Themes to think about FACE TIME Cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of “The Simpsons,” will take part in this year’s Chicago Human- ities Festival, which will tackle the theme of laughter. AP PHOTO 2005 Chicago Humanities fest really is a laughing matter SOUND BITE “I don’t have a Twitter, a MySpace or a Facebook or anything like that. I kind of value ... people not knowing where I am or what I’m do- ing.” —Zac Efron, telling People.com that he avoids the latest technology LOS ANGELES —Chris Brown has plead- ed not guilty to threatening and assaulting his girlfriend, fellow music superstar Rihan- na. The 19-year-old R&B singer appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday alongside his attorney, Mark Geragos. He entered his plea in a soft voice while his mother sat in the first row, red-eyed. Brown was charged in March by Los Ange- les County prosecutors with felony assault likely to cause great bodily injury and mak- ing criminal threats. He was arrested nearly a month earlier after police said he was in- volved in an early morning altercation with a woman who identified the “Run It!” singer as her attacker. Court records list Brown’s victim as “Rob- yn F.” Rihanna’s real name is Robyn Rihan- na Fenty. If convicted, Brown could be sentenced to probation or nearly five years in prison. —Associated Press Chris Brown pleads not guilty in assault
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Farrah Fawcett is being treated for analcancer that has spread to her liver and hasbeen hospitalized for a complication froma routine treatment, a producer whoworked with the actress and her doctorsaid Monday, The Associated Press re-ported.
In separate phone interviews with AP,Fawcett’s producer and her doctor saidthat Fawcett is in a Los Angeles hospital,recovering from complications from amedical procedure in Germany, and is “noton death’s door,” as the producer, CraigNevius, put it.
Nevius, who has worked with the ac-tress, confirmed that the 62-year-old “Char-lie’s Angels” star, who has been fighting
cancer since 2006, washospitalized in Los Ange-les because of a blood clotthat was likely a sideeffect of treatment.
Nevius said Fawcett isexpected to leave thehospital in a few days.
Meanwhile, RedmondO’Neal (left), Fawcett’sson with Ryan O’Neal,
was arrested Sunday on suspicion of bring-ing narcotics into a jail facility and wasbeing held on $25,000 bail.
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In a peculiar interview with the “Today”show’s Matt Lauer on Monday, disgracedformer New York governor Eliot Spitzer madereference to his personal demons, er, “grem-lins,” and acknowledged that, yes, it did occurto him that someone, somewhere would figureout that he was seeing a high-priced call girl.
“It crossed my mind,” he said of gettingcaught. “But you ignore the obvious at certainmoments because you simply don’t want to
confront it.”While emphasizing that
what he did was “egregious”(he used the word twice) andsaying there is “no excusefor his behavior” (repeatedthree times), a tense butself-assured Spitzer alsonoted that he has faced hisflaws.
“I have tried to addressthese gremlins, confront them,” he said, of-fering a tantalizing image but few specifics.
Also intriguing: Spitzer told his inter-viewer that the call-girl period did not lastlong “in the grand context of my life.”
How long did the period last in the humblecontext of an ordinary life?
We still don’t know.
—Nara Schoenberg
Spitzer: The gremlinsmade him do it
Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson reportedly have split, according to Usmagazine.com,
which details a Friday night fight and Saturday a.m. lock change. ... Trista and Ryan Sutter, stars of
the first season of “The Bachelorette,” have welcomed their second child, a girl named Blakesley
Grace Sutter, People.com reports. ... Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen reportedly were married
again Saturday in Costa Rica, AP reports. A photographer with Agence France-Presse said a
bodyguard for Bundchen shot at his car after he refused to give up his camera. ... Kiefer Sutherlandand Chace Crawford have been named to co-star alongside rapper 50 Cent in the drug drama
“Twelve,” according to Variety.
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“Shock value is really important whenshowing up,” she says, applying Corvette-redlipstick. A moment later, she pauses, as-sesses her progress, then declares: “No, moremakeup.”
She applies Preparation H under her eyes,which tightens the skin and gets rid of themorning shadows. A natural brunet, shelightens her eyebrows to complement theblond wig. To warm up her vocal cords, shedrinks water and sighs loudly, melodicallyand—it seems, to the uninitiated listener—obscenely.
After 20 minutes in front of the bathroommirror, Guccione moves to an upright pianoin the living room, where she sings scales.Then, a snippet from Giacomo Puccini’s“Gianni Schicchi.” Her first attempt at ahigh note sputters, causing her to break intolaughter. “It’s too early in the morning for ahigh D,” she says.
She has a reliable regimen, a ritual. “Are you going to sing with me? Give me
some good luck?” she asks Quesadora, one ofher three small dogs. As Guccione againlaunches into scales, the tiny bichon frisehowls along, on pitch.
“The first time she sang with me, she wetthe couch,” Guccione says, laughing.
People are much the same, in a strangeway.
“I love the art form,” Guccione says ofopera. “It can evoke such emotion in people.It’s healing, in a way. It gives you permissionto have all these emotions.”
Guccione herself has been moved to tearsafter a job.
“There was one job where I had to go to
this nursing home,” she says. “It was a 50-year-old woman who had a stroke, lost hersight, but loved opera. And for her, I sanggenuine opera arias. That made my day. Thatwas really special.”
Moments later, she slips on a furry vest,braids and a horned helmet. She looks, forall intents and purposes, like Bugs Bunnyfrom the cartoon “What’s Opera, Doc?” Butit’s the stereotype people are attracted to, shesays.
“It’s kind of like introducing opera andmaking it approachable for people whomight otherwise be intimidated by it,” shesays. “It shouldn’t be intimidating. The bot-tom line of opera is: It’s about life.”
Taking one final look in the mirror, shesays, “I think I was born to be a blond.”
And with that, she grabs her spear, tiltsher viking helmet up and heads out the doorto her next conquest.
Diva delivers one-of-a-kind song
Singer Rose Guccione warms up her vocal cordsbefore a personal appearance. TOM VAN DYKE/
TRIBUNE PHOTO
Continued from Page 1
By Patrick T. ReardonTRIBUNE REPORTER
Laughter makes the world go ’round. Butwhy?
That’s the question the 20th annual Chi-cago Humanities Festival will address thisyear with programs Oct. 17 in the Hyde Parkneighborhood and from Nov. 4 through Nov.15 in scores of venues, mainly in and aroundthe Loop.
“Laughter is deeply, deeply important, butnot lofty like last year’s theme, ‘ThinkingBig,’ ” says CHF executive director StuartFlack.
More down to earth, and just the thing fora world battered by economic woes. But hewarns: Don’t expect a comedy festival.
“We’re not going to have people doingstand-up,” he says. “We are going to havepeople who are well-known comedians, butask them to reflect on the subject and thinkabout the subject in people’s lives.
“There will be scholars there, and, let’s say,we’ll have a program on the 1st Amendmentand comedy which could talk about LennyBruce and George Carlin’s ‘Seven Words YouCan Never Say on Television.’ ”
CHF staff members are still working tonail down participants, but Flack said theywill include anthropologists, economists,historians, neuroscientists, poets, musi-cians, writers and artists.
Among those committed to appear arecartoonists Matt (“The Simpsons”) Groeningand Lynda Barry; psychologist Irene Pepper-berg, an expert on animal intelligence andhumor; Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the2007 book “Dancing in the Streets: A Historyof Collective Joy,” and Firoozeh Dumas,author of “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir ofGrowing Up Iranian in America.”
Flack says that a major focus of the festivalwill be on ways various ethnic and racialgroups use and experience humor.
For instance, the festival is hoping to offera program on Cantinflas, whose legal name
was Mario Moreno, the comedian and actorwho was a pioneer and major influence onthe Mexican film industry.
Efforts are also under way to bring come-dian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory tothe festival.
“It’s a great moment to have laughter asour theme,” Flack says. “People need tolaugh in good times and in bad.”
During the last two decades, the themes of theChicago Humanities Festival have ranged acrossthe wide spectrum of human thought and expe-
rience. Here’s a list:
1990 Expressions of Freedom
1991 Culture Contact
1992 From Freedom to Equality
1993 From Communication to Understanding
1994 Crime and Punishment
1995 Love & Marriage
1996 Birth and Death
1997 Work & Play
1998 He/She
1999 New & Old
2000 NOW!
2001 Words & Pictures
2002 Brains & Beauty
2003 Saving + Spending
2004 Time
2005 Home and Away
2006 Peace and War
2007 Climate of Concern
2008 Thinking Big
2009 Laughter
Themes to think about
FACE TIME
Cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of “The Simpsons,” will take part in this year’s Chicago Human-
ities Festival, which will tackle the theme of laughter. AP PHOTO 2005
Chicago Humanities festreally is a laughing matter
SOUND BITE
“I don’t have a Twitter, a
MySpace or a Facebook or
anything like that. I kind of
value ... people not knowing
where I am or what I’m do-
ing.”—Zac Efron, telling People.com that he
avoids the latest technology
LOS ANGELES —Chris Brown has plead-ed not guilty to threatening and assaultinghis girlfriend, fellow music superstar Rihan-na.
The 19-year-old R&B singer appeared in aLos Angeles courtroom Monday alongsidehis attorney, Mark Geragos.
He entered his plea in a soft voice whilehis mother sat in the first row, red-eyed.
Brown was charged in March by Los Ange-les County prosecutors with felony assaultlikely to cause great bodily injury and mak-
ing criminal threats. He was arrested nearlya month earlier after police said he was in-volved in an early morning altercation witha woman who identified the “Run It!” singeras her attacker.
Court records list Brown’s victim as “Rob-yn F.” Rihanna’s real name is Robyn Rihan-na Fenty.
If convicted, Brown could be sentenced toprobation or nearly five years in prison.
—Associated Press
Chris Brown pleads not guilty in assault
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