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Friday, October 31, 2003
THE BATTALION
Rosie O’Donnell, publisher in court
battle over demise of Rosie magazine
By Samuel Maull
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Lawyers for Rosie O'Donnell and the pub
lisher of her now-defunct magazine, Rosie, squared off in court
Thursday, each charging the other with destroying the publication
by seeking complete control.
“Ms. O’Donnell walked away from the magazine, causing it to
shut down in its second year of publication and causing hundreds
of people to lose jobs and Gruner + Jahr to lose millions of dol
lars,” Martin Hyman, lawyer for publisher
Gruner -1- Jahr USA, said in opening statements
in a Manhattan courtroom.
The magazine, launched in 2001, folded soon
after O’Donnell resigned in September 2002.
G+J is seeking $100 million from O’Donnell;
she asks $125 million in a countersuit.
O'Donnell, wearing a bright red coat over a
O'Donnell black shirt and pants, listened attentively to
opening arguments, but showed no reaction.
She is expected to take the witness stand during the trial.
Hyman said the dispute began after a newly hired editor chose
a cover photo of O’Donnell for the August 2002 edition that the
entertainer deemed unflattering.
Hyman said the editor, Susan Toepfer, ignored O’Donnell’s
request to use another photo — and O'Donnell saw that as a sign
she was losing control of the magazine. From that moment on, he
said, O'Donnell was determined that either Toepfer wouldge
she would.
In her opening statement, O’Donnell’s lawyer Iona
Schofield defended O’Donnell’s decision to walk away fromtls
magazine, saying the publisher breached an agreement thatgai;
her control of the magazine’s editorial content.
She agreed with Hyman that the disputed cover photob!
upset O’Donnell, but that her client saw that as a sign thatbs
wishes with regard to the magazine were not being respects
Schofield said O’Donnell f bund Toepfer difficult to workwijl
and wanted the previous editor, Cathy Cazender, to return.
“She wanted things to return to the way they were when sis
was in control,” Schofield said.
The trial is expected to feature differing accounts d
O’Donnell’s style as the editorial inspiration of Rosie, whic
subsumed the venerable, but failing magazine McCall’s.
A key prong of the dispute is how the magazine reported 15
circulation numbers.
Lawyers for O'Donnell are expected to contend that G+Jdel
erately overstated its subscriber base to make the magatis
appear healthier than it was. O’Donnell’s contract allowed her;;
walk away from the magazine if it posted particularly highte
es.
The trial comes as O’Donnell prepares to launch “Taboo";
boisterous musical about the 1980s pop phenomenon Bor
George — and starring Boy George in a different role—tk
O’Donnell has confidently predicted will win a Tony Award.St*
is the $10 million show’s producer and single investor.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Travolta to act as master of ceremonies
for First Flight Centennial
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — John Travolta will be the master of
ceremonies for the final day of the First Flight Centennial cele
bration Dec. 17.
The actor, who has logged 5,000 hours as a pilot, will speak to
the sold-out crowd of 35,000, announced guests and fly his
Boeing 707 in a 100-plane squadron that will soar over the Outer
Banks during the celebration. The final plane in the squadron will
be a replica of the Wright brothers flyer.
Travolta’s visit will be on the last day of a six-day celebration
Dec. 12-17 at the Wright Brothers National Memorial to mark the
100th anniversary of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first successful
powered flight on Dec. 17, 1903.
Tickets for Dec. 17 have sold out. Weeklong passes are no
longer available, though tickets for Dec. 13-16 are still available.
Tickets cost $10 a day for adults and aren’t needed for Dec. 12.
Kim Sawyer, a program coordinator for the First Flight
Centennial Commission, said Travolta’s representatives contacted
event organizers to voice his interest in the program.
“He is very interested in aviation and was excited about the
event,” Sawyer said. “My sense is that he is as excited to be here
as we are to have him be part of the program. ... His heroes are the
people honored here.”
In December, the 49-year-old actor served as master of cere
monies at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in
Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of the yearlong series of
events commemorating the Wright brothers flight.
Gwen StefanTs new clothing line
to feature bumflaps
NEW YORK (AP) — Gwen Stefani’s new line of clothes,
L.A.M.B., has all the hallmarks of the No Doubt singer’s style: biki
ni tops, Rasta-inspired colors, low-slung pants, even bum flaps.
Bum flaps?
“That’s one of her signatures, she’s been wearing them for a
while,” her head designer, Annie Younger, said Wednesday.
A bum flap is a piece of fabric that looks like half of a pleated
skirt, and it can be attached to the back of pants, worn slung across
one hip or stacked for a layered effect.
After designing a collection of L.A.M.B. handbags for
LeSportsac, the spring collection will be the first try at a clothes line
for the 34-year-old singer, who has also branched out into acting,
playing Jean Harlow in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “The Aviator.”
Stefani’s style — an amalgam of skater punk, street style and
1940s glamour — is evident throughout the line.
Her music is incorporated into the clothes, with lyrics sewn into
waistbands and vintage military-style patches that say “Just a Girl,”
from No Doubt’s 1996 breakout single, and “Hysterical
Confession,” a line from a song on No Doubt’s 2000 album “Return
to Saturn.”
One T-shirt is adorned with Stefani’s handwritten essay onik
origins of L.A.M.B.. which stands for “love angel music baby”®
was also the name of a beloved dog.
"Anything Goes" at sale of Cole
Porter's birthplace
PERU, Ind. (AP) — The sale of jazz composer Cole Porter's
birthplace was a duet of sorts, but it wasn't harmonious.
Two men bought the house at a Miami County tax auction las
week. But the bidders weren't partners — they split the property
which was sold in two separate parcels.
The house where Porter was born rests on two neighboring lots
which were divided for the auction last Thursday, said Michele
Mullins of the county treasurer’s office.
Local resident Brian Boyce won one parcel with an SSOOproxybii
but a Michigan man outbid him on the second, which sold for$9,001
Boyce said he was considering having the historic house
restored and converted into a bed and breakfast.
Keith Wegner, the other bidder, said he also hoped the house
could be restored.
“I hope some historical society takes it over,” said Wegne;
“I'd like to see it fixed back up and become something thecouu
ty can be proud of.”
Both bidders must wait a year before making any such move
The original owner can regain the property if he pays the overdue
taxes and penalties within that time.
Porter was born in Peru in 1891 and wrote more than 1,501
songs for stage, movies and television, including such standards
as “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “Anything Goes.”
Douglas, Zeta-Jones host Nobel
Peace Prize concert
OSLO, Norway (AP) — When the organizers of the annua;
Nobel Peace Prize concert asked Michael Douglas to host the
event, the actor asked if his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones. could
lend a hand.
“That was our first choice, but we didn’t dare to ask for both
at the same time,” concert organizer Odd Arvid Stroemstadsaid
Thursday. “It didn’t take us long to say ‘yes.’”
Douglas and Zeta-Jones will act as co-masters of ceremonyai
the Dec. 1 1 concert in Oslo, the day after Iranian lawyer, write;
and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi accepts her 2003 Nobel
Peace Prize.
Tim McGraw, the Chieftains accompanied by Rosanne Cash
the Cardigans, opera stars Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu
Senegal's Orchestra Baobab and Broadway performer Marti;
Yates are among those scheduled to perform.
The traditional Nobel concert will be carried live in more that
100 countries.
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