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    The Battalion
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Actor eludes cancer, starts career anew
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) —
Robert Urich is back on track and
looking forward to the debut of a
TV series and his third child.
Urich, 51, said Monday he cel
ebrated his first anniversary of
being cancer-free this month.
“I really recommend this.
We need to celebrate life," he
said at a benefit for a domes
tic violence program.
Eighteen months ago, Urich
was diagnosed with synovial cell
sarcoma. After chemotherapy,
two operations and radiation
treatment, he said he is healthy
and looking forward to a big April.
Urich’s wife of 25 years,
Heather Menzies, is expecting a
baby in three weeks, and “The
Love Boat: The Next Wave” pre
mieres April 13. Urich stars as a
former Navy captain running a
cruise ship.
ithor of The Satanic Verses to receive free-speech honors
>SLO. Norway (AP) — Salman
hdie. the world’s most visible
> great.
Ide son 1
L,enajj 3r 'i r fhiding, will be honored Sat-
[ okis J ly for his free-speech struggle.
K)C0 l a . he University of Tromsoe will give
L British author an honorary doctor-
William Nygaard, the publisher
was shot and wounded in 1992
after putting out The Satanic Verses in
Norway, will also be honored.
“Nygaard and Rushdie are peo
ple who have paid a high price for
freedom of speech," said Tove Bull,
a spokesperson for the school in
the arctic city of Tromsoe.’’That
shows that freedom of expression
cannot be taken for granted.”
Rushdie has been in hiding since
1989, when the Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini declared The Satanic
Verses blasphemous.
Khomeini ordered the death of
Rushdie and anyone connected
with the book.
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Ljhicago Hope’ star finds niche in acting
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.OS ANGELES (AP) — For actress Stacy Edwards, the
. couple of years have gone like this: she won an eye-
:hing role in an independent film, In the Company
fenfanother in Primary Colors and, on TV, a con-
ling part in “Chicago Hope.”
>he won the heart of a man who reminded her of
:en crush Gene Kelly. Not bad at all, Edwards concedes.
‘I feel very fortunate and I’m just trying to enjoy it as
rmes,” she says. Does she have a theory to explain
career breakthrough?
‘This is a profession that does not have hard, fast
;s. I think it is sometimes just a matter of hanging in
re and not finally deciding to go pursue something
;. It can be frustrating at times,” she says, with a
tnterpoint giggle.
Ter greatest frustration now seems to be learning
v to recite complex medical terminology — “huge
rds I have to get my tongue around” — while feign-
acts of surgery as Dr. Lisa Catera on CBS’ “Chicago
pe” (10 p.m. EST Wednesday).
Meurosurgeon Catera joined the staff of Chicago
pe in the season’s fifth episode to help Dr. Aaron
itt (Adam Arkin), robbed of his surgical dexterity by
rainpneurysm.
‘She’s a real no-nonsense doctor, doesn’t play games
1 tells it like it is,” Edwards says of her character.
Like iany good hospital drama, “Chicago Hope” lets us
, c | i how i ts doctors manage with their hearts as well as their
^ L ids. So what romantic entanglements await Catera?
“They’re kind of leaning toward hooking me up with
tor, rk Harmon (Dr. Jack McNeil). We have the same
edu
haircut,” Edwards offers. “When I first came on the
show we were in the makeup trailer and I said, ‘You’re
not allowed to use my hair products. I just want you to
know that.’ ”
In the newly released Primary Colors, she plays Jen
nifer Rogers, a volunteer in the campaign of Clintonian
presidential candidate Jack Stanton (John Travolta).
“I was petrified during the (script) read-through. I
honestly thought I was going to spontaneously combust,”
she recalls. “It was so thrilling to be in one room with
Kathy Bates, Billy Bob Thornton, John Travolta, Emma
Thompson, Adrian Lester.... It really was a dream.”
The Glasgow, Mont., native, whose father’s Air Force
career took her around the world, started dreaming
young. She was already prone to dancing and putting
on shows in her bedroom when a 1974 movie about
Hollywood's golden musical years cinched the deal.
“When I was in third grade, my mom took me to see
‘That’s Entertainment’ and that’s when I discovered
you could actually do this for a living. I said, ‘That’s
what I’m going to do.’ I knew I wanted to be like Gene
Kelly and Cyd Charisse.”
At 18, Edwards won a scholarship to the school at
tached to Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance Company.
Theater classes introduced her to acting and she caught
her first break in 1986 with the daytime serial “Santa
Barbara,” in which she played naive Haley.
More TV and film roles followed, and In the Compa
ny of Men made her a hot name. Writer-director Neil
LaBute’s small-budget 1997 film is about two executives
who conspire to humiliate a young deaf woman.
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March 26-29 in the MSC and Rudder
The Oldest and Largest Student Run Science Fiction, Fantasy
and Horror Convention in the Southwest
Guests include:
Garth Ennis Robert Asprin
Author of the Myth Series
Tad Williams
Author of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
Brian Stelfreeze
Writer for DC Comics Hitman and Freacher
John McCrea
Artist for Hitman
Phil and Kaja
Foglio
Artists lor Magic: the Gathering and
other independent work
Co-Founder of Gaijin Studios,
Artist for Batman and
Maximum Velocity
Events include:
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