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Beleaguered ‘Bird’ Sets Sights on Local KFC to Protest Farming and Slaughter Abuses For Immediate Release: December 13, 2005 Contact: Lindsay Rajt 757-622-7382 Fayetteville, N.C. — Bound to a wheelchair and repeatedly crossing the road in front of a local KFC, an activist in a giant chicken costume will lead a protest against KFC suppliers’ abusive treatment of chickens. Activists will pass out leaflets and hold signs that proclaim, "KFC Tortures Chickens." One activist will wear a body screen TV showing shocking undercover video footage of chickens in factory farms and slaughterhouses: Date: Wednesday, December 14 Time: 11 a.m.-12 noon...

Tactics include prank calls to voters, planted questions, vandalism MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The nervous young man with the bowl haircut stood up at the YWCA and asked Sen. John Edwards if he had "scammed the system" during his law firm days to avoid paying Medicare taxes for his employees. The question was so elaborately framed and so detailed that it appeared to have been scripted well in advance of the town hall meeting. Looking directly at the young man, Edwards asked which campaign he was working for and who had sent him. As the Democratic candidates for president stump across...

<p>LOS ANGELES — Getting together with Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn to chat about their movie The Banger Sisters is like eavesdropping on a conversation between women who have been best friends since childhood.</p> <p>Seated next to each other on a couch in Hawn's hotel suite, they giggle as they talk about their families. Sarandon tells Hawn how she wishes her daughter, Eva Amurri, 17, would date Goldie's son Wyatt, 16. They recall a time not long ago when Sarandon and her family stayed in Hawn's L.A. home with her family while Sarandon's beau, Tim Robbins, was doing theater. And suddenly the topic shifts to fish. "Did I tell you Kurt bought a boat?" Goldie asks before describing how Kurt Russell and her son Oliver Hudson boated up the coast to Vancouver in record time and the salmon they caught.</p>

Aug. 15 — Hollywood’s former golden girl, Gwyneth Paltrow, is set to shock audiences with steamy lesbian sex scenes. Paltrow is to star in a Miramax film called “Passion,” in which she plays a character who falls in love with a French countess. The flick hasn’t yet started filming, but according to sources, the script calls for explicit sex scenes between the two women. (snip)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Supermodel Cindy Crawford said Thursday she was considering taking a multi-million dollar trip into space with Russian cosmonauts. "I would go if I could be there and back in a week," Crawford told reporters during a visit to the Russian capital. "If they invite me, maybe, I don't know," said the 36-year-old U.S. model, whose personal fortune has been estimated at more than $30 million. Valery Korzun, the new commander of the International Space Station (ISS) joked earlier this month he would rather see Crawford aboard the outpost than Lance Bass of U.S. boy band 'NSYNC, who...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) Starting next year, boys will get to punch the clock, too.</p> <p>After a decade of successfully promoting ''Take Our Daughters To Work Day,'' its feminist organizers said Tuesday they will open the annual event to sons as well.</p>

TWENTY seconds. That, give or take a few seconds, is how long the beauteous movie star Kathleen Turner stands stark naked in "The Graduate," the weary new comedy that opened last night at the Plymouth Theater. This dimly lighted moment of exposure generated heavy-breathing headlines in London when Ms. Turner appeared there two years ago in the same play (inspired by the 1967 film of the same title), and it is presumably one big reason the show's New York incarnation has a $5.3 million advance ticket sale. (It doesn't hurt that the production features Jason Biggs and Alicia Silverstone, the...