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Wednesday, August 30,1 Neil Caiman and Terry Pratchett Good Omens Published by Workman Publishing the end of time, a s in the hands of the An- The only problem istk •ist is a little boy in Tad- ngland, who would rat th his 'Wednesday, August 30, 2000 AGGIELIFE Page 5 A THE BATTALION Dose of reality ABC mini-series invades Baltimore hospital li /^i/i II m <J A NIC? ■i'TAYCE f'T Speeding Ticket? Have the Last Laugh! State-approved Defensive Driving course for ticket dismissal and insurance reduction. Convenient Saturday classes taught at 4.0 & Go Tutoring in College Station Taught by professional comic Bobby Bernshausen - ^ www.grinandtakeit.com n> DEFENSIVE DRIVING... COMEDY STYLE J ^ USA Training Company, Inc. 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Dr. Edward Cornwell lectures a belligerent gang member who has been shot in the back — even as he tries to save the young man’s life. , Later, he takes a group of boys from a tough Baltimore *! neighborhood to meet another shooting victim stuck in a hospital bed, showing how the culture of guns and violence is not glamorous Rjlike in the movies. Cornwell moves with the self-as- "isurance of an actor, even if he lacks -.George Clooney's brilliant smile or "Anthony Edwards’ dramatic timing. ». He is not acting, though. There is |-nothmg fake about the blood-soaked {sheets. Or the bullet wounds. Or Corn- •well himself, the chief of trauma surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. In the summer of reality television, he is as real as it gets, and one of the stars of a remarkable six-part documentary series on ABC that debuts Wednesday at 10 p.m. “Hopkins 24/7” depicts the inner workings of the Baltimore hospital in a narrative style with all the dra ma of “ER.” The camera follows a 14-year-old girl as she learns she has uterine cancer; a deaf child who wakes up from surgery and hears for the first time; a first-year intern struggling through a 100-hour workweek; and doctors meeting to discuss why patients died during surgery. Phyllis McGrady, senior vice president of ABC News, first conceived the idea in 1993 and finally conquered the logistical mountains to get it done. A family health emergency had forced her to spend a lot of time in a hospital. “I realized there was an entirely different world than any world that 1 had ever heard of,” she said. It consumed the people who worked or were treated there, almost to the point they were cut off from the outside world. To be able to tell the story, ABC needed a hospital willing to give the network unfettered — and probably unprecedented — access. ABC approached administrators at Hopkins and, after months of internal discussion, the hospi tal decided to take the leap of faith. “We were very separate entities,” McGrady said. “We were not partners in this project. I said to them, ‘We need to see what happens in the hos pital, warts and all.’ ” Ronald Peterson, president of Johns Hopkins Hospi tal and Health Systems, said he considered it a valuable way to illustrate some of the issues his institution faces: health care in an urban setting, the rigors of training doc tors and treating people while being squeezed by insur ance companies. ! ‘We’re cognizant that there are some potential risks along the way,” he said. “But we really think that we’re doing a service, not only to our institution, but to the aca demic medical industry at large and to the people being served by the institution.” Peterson seemed visibly relieved — as if he had wait ed weeks to exhale — after viewing piortions of the pre miere episode for the first time. “We need to see what happens in the hospital, warts and all” — Phyllis McGrady Senior vice president, ABC News -Stuart Huiv t introduction to the devil lionism as pure factprottl /ondrous antics of the devi l l piece of literature it is. | : conversation totheveiv [ heater conductors, thecii)| :s and literary critics if | f practical jokes, the devil ity upside down, el is that the devil is noted k is to reunite twolovefi f the paranoid Soviet rear 'St fantastic setting imagifr vith all the powers of the is that its page-to-page nyone can read and enjo)' However, after the wonde commentary of the Soviei 3ks by other Russian con- especially, Bulgakov’s no' 1 finish and still slipsina SCHWARZENEGGER D F Schwarzenegger honored for service BOYS TOWN, Neb. (AP) — The man most famous for bulging bi ceps, Terminator movies and Plan et Hollywood restaurants has been recognized for his lesser-known role as a mentor to disadvantaged youth. Arnold Schwarzenegger became the lat est recipient of a Boys Town youth service, award Monday, following in the footsteps of Mother Teresa and basketball great Michael Jordan. Schwarzenegger is the 16th re cipient of the Father Flanagan Award, but he is the first to receive it under the home’s new name, which was extended to Girls and Boys Town last week. “This is so special to me,” he said. “It’s so important that this comes from an organization that has spent almost 100 years ... to help so many children.” 1 The award recognized Schwarzenegger’s work promoting physical fitness. Many of the 1,200 in attendance had won a competi tion to be able to ask the actor a question. His first question was a simple one: Is he sometimes afraid to do -JasonBe*#' his own . movie T unts? Hls reply was just as simple. “The question I always ask in de ciding is, ‘Can you die?”’ he dead- panned. Don’t buy it Waste of pajtf Parks’ inducted into Ala. Academy MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — | Rosa Parks’ home state has hon- J ored her 45 years after her quiet t courage gave birth to the modern- I : People in the News day civil rights movement. Parks, 87, was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor on Monday, but poor health kept her from traveling from her home in De troit to receive the honor. “She appreciates being honored in her hometown for the work she has done,” said longtime friend Johnnie Carr, who stood in for Parks during the ceremony at the state Capitol. The Alabama Academy of Honor recognizes 100 living Alabamians, plus all living Alabama governors, for their contributions to the state. The current members elect each year’s new class; the latest in ductees replace four who died in the past year. Parks was riding a city bus after leaving her job as a Montgomery seamstress on Dec. 1,1955, when she refused to give up a seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the Mont gomery Bus Boy cott, where blacks refused to ride city buses for 381 days. The boycott catapulted a young Montgomery minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., to na tional prominence and led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision desegre gating public transportation. Trial date set for Marshall estate HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has scheduled a trial date for former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith’s battle to get a portion of her late husband’s estimated $1.6 billion estate. Selection of 12 jurors and four alternates will begin Sept. 22 with opening arguments likely six days later, Harris County Probate Judge Mike Wood said Monday. 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Howard Marshall II, who died at age 90 in 1995, 14 months after he married the former stripper he met in a topless club. One of Marshall’s sons, J. Howard Marshall III of Los Angeles, also is staking a claim, saying his father made an oral promise to in clude him in the inheritance. Both he and Smith are battling Marshall’s other son, E. Pierce Mar shall, who was the sole heir named in the last of six wills the elder Mar shall wrote. Pierce Marshall also asserts his father already had transferred to him most of Ihis assets before dy ing. According to Pierce Marshall, the estate was worth far less than $1 billion. A federal bankruptcy judge in Los Angeles said last month he is close to ruling on whether Smith, who uses the name Vickie Lynn Marshall in court, is due money on a separate claim against Pierce Marshall. Seeger diagnosed with Lyme disease BEACON, N.Y. (AP) — Folk singer and activist Pete Seeger has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, his wife says. Toshi Seeger, reached by tele phone Monday at the couple’s home in Beacon, said her husband had been feeling sick and recently learned of the diagnosis. Lyme disease is caused by a mi crobe that is spread to humans through a tick bite. The disease can cause headache, fever, stiff joints and fatigue. It can be treated ef fectively with antibiotics. Mrs. Seeger said it is not yet clear how severe a case Seeger has contracted. She said her husband was rest ing at home Monday. 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