plus 4, Tiger Woods' wife 'seeks half his fortune in divorce' - Newstrack India |
- Tiger Woods' wife 'seeks half his fortune in divorce' - Newstrack India
- Woods’ wife seeks half his fortune - Hindustan Times
- 1999 Oconee County High Warriors to reunite - Athens Banner-Herald
- Pittsburgh actor takes over Broadway lead - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- ELIN'S AFTER HALF TIGER'S £337M - Daily Mirror
| Tiger Woods' wife 'seeks half his fortune in divorce' - Newstrack India Posted: 15 Dec 2009 09:24 PM PST
London, Dec 16 (ANI): Tiger Woods' wife Elin Nordegren could get half the 337.5-million-pound fortune the sportstar has earned as she prepares to meet divorce lawyers, it has emerged. According to reports, the Swedish model has called in California's top celebrity divorce lawyer. It is believed that the 29-year-old, who was recently seen minus her wedding ring, will be meeting celebrity lawyer Sorrell Trope next week, reports The Mirror.
Trope, 82, a partner in Californian law firm Trope and Trope, has represented A-listers including Cary Grant, Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage and Britney Spears. Sources have claimed that Elin is planning to file for divorce in California - where the couple have a home - and not Florida, where they live. Under California law the "no-fault divorce", introduced in 1970, means there is an equal division of assets and property. A source said: "Mr Trope is the best divorce lawyer in the business and the divorce laws in California are much more favourable than most other states. "Elin can fight for half of what her husband has earned since they were married. And Trope can bust through any pre-nup - he's done it many times before." Meanwhile, Woods, 33, has confessed infidelity after he was reported of having romanced as many as 12 women. The world no.1 revealed has taken an indefinite break from professional golf to mend his personal life. (ANI) fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Woods’ wife seeks half his fortune - Hindustan Times Posted: 15 Dec 2009 10:57 PM PST
According to reports, the Swedish model has called in California's top celebrity divorce lawyer. It is believed that the 29-year-old, who was recently seen without her wedding ring, will be meeting celebrity lawyer Sorrell Trope next week, reports The Mirror. Trope, 82, a partner in Californian law firm Trope and Trope, has represented A-listers including Cary Grant, Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage and Britney Spears. Sources have claimed that Elin is planning to file for divorce in California – where the couple have a home – and not Florida, where they live. Under California law the "no-fault divorce", introduced in 1970, means there is an equal division of assets and property. A source said: "Mr Trope is the best divorce lawyer in the business and the divorce laws in California are much more favourable than most other states. Elin can fight for half of what her husband has earned since they were married. And Trope can bust through any pre-nup – he's done it many times before." Meanwhile, Woods, 33, has confessed infidelity after he was reported of having romanced as many as 12 women. The world no.1 revealed has taken an indefinite break from professional golf to mend his personal life. fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 1999 Oconee County High Warriors to reunite - Athens Banner-Herald Posted: 15 Dec 2009 09:24 PM PST In 1999, Bill Clinton was president, an ex-Mouseketeer named Britney Spears made her solo debut, people throughout the world were petrified of the pending Y2K meltdown, and several dozen young men at Oconee County High School were making history. PHOTOTABLE> 1999 Oconee County High Warriors Reunion  The 1999 edition of the Warriors' football team was the most successful in school history, posting a perfect 15-0 record that culminated Dec. 17 with a 17-7 victory over Mount Zion-Jonesboro for the Class AAA state championship. Coached by Jeff Herron - who since has won three more state crowns coaching at Camden County - the Warriors dominated the competition that year, winning by an average of 27 points a game. Indeed there was but one team that was as close as single digits to the team - Newton lost to OCHS 25-16. A decade has passed, and those young men - who now are all in their mid- to late-20s - will gather Saturday (19 Dec.) at the Oconee Civic Center with family, friends, coaches and boosters to celebrate the 10th anniversary of perhaps the top athletic moment in the county. "The time has really flown by," said David Seawright, who played defensive tackle for the Warriors and now is an assistant football coach at Social Circle. "It seems crazy to be having a reunion." "I'm very excited about the reunion," added Julius Hooper, who played center and now coaches at Apalachee. "I'm looking forward to seeing the whole team back together and seeing some old faces. I'm looking forward to catching up." While the Warriors were an experienced, talented bunch, there's little question that coaching played a tremendous role in the team's championship season. In the previous five seasons before Herron signed on in 1997, OCHS had compiled an unenviable 10-31 mark. Herron recalled that the program was in need of shaking up. "Our first objective was convincing the kids that we could win," said Herron, who was 8-4 in his first year at OCHS and 10-2 in 1998. "We told parents not to make plans for Thanksgiving, because we'd still be playing. We changed the uniforms, the helmets, the locker rooms. We changed as much as we had to in order to make them believe they had a chance to win." Herron said that because the team had gone 10-2 in 1998, he felt confident the Warriors would be able to sustain a long run in the playoffs. "We probably were thinking state," he said. "We went into 1999 thinking we had a legitimate chance to compete for a state championship - if we got lucky and didn't have injuries." "I wasn't really thinking about it at the time, but we had great camaraderie," said Hooper, a senior in 1999. "We had the talent, but I never really looked that far ahead. We'd had a bad freshmen year, and then coach Herron came in, and we bought into everything he offered us and took it one game at a time. It was an enjoyable ride." Although the Warriors won most of their games by lopsided scores, the season wasn't without its tense moments. Hooper remembers breaking his right hand in the third game of the season against West Hall and having to snap the remainder of the season with his left hand. And Herron won't soon forget the close game against Newton. "We were behind at the half in that game," he said. "And they started the second half with a good drive, and Tony Taylor intercepted a pass, and that became kind of turning point for that game and the rest of the season." "For me, the turning point was shutting out Stephens County," Seawright said. "They'd beaten us the two years before and I really wanted to beat them. By the time we played them, we all believed we could win any game." "For me, the most special game was at Woodward Academy in the third round," said Hooper of the 41-17 victory Dec. 3. "We'd been to the playoffs before, but we'd never moved past the second round. That game was a very emotional one." The players were making the most of their shared sense of purpose, and the school and community also joined in the movement. "The main things I remember was how involved the school and community was with the team," said then-Warrior Club president J.R. Whitfield, who now serves as president of the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce. "The stands were packed at every game, filled with students, and we had great participation on the road. Everybody wanted to be involved with the Warrior Club." "Everything was clicking," said longtime Warrior Stadium announcer and OCHS alum Ben Bridges. "It was the right combination of great football and community support. If the football team needed anything, the community dug in." Whitfield, who has kept stats for the team for nearly 20 years, added that there were several road games where the Oconee faithful outnumbered the hosts. Perhaps the most notable road game came Dec. 11, when OCHS faced off with Cairo (winning 17-7) in the state semifinals at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. "When the team went to the Dome, in the stands, from goal line to goal line, was a sea of blue," Bridges said. "It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen. It seemed like every student at the school had come to the game and painted themselves blue. There were games when we'd bring more people than the home team did." "The Dome was an incredible experience," Hooper added. "Being out there in front of our fans is an experience that no one can ever take away." But no one ever will forget the electricity in the Watkinsville air on that cold December night when the Warriors defended their home and won a state crown in the process. "I'd say we had 7,000 people there," Whitfield said. "When I got there at 5 p.m., I thought I'd come in a little early. But the parking lot was already filling up. Everybody wanted to be involved." "By 5:30, our side of the stadium was already full," Seawright said. "I will honestly say that was the most special championship," Herron said. "It was special because it was the first one, and it was special because we won it at home. We've won other ones in Valdosta and at the Georgia Dome, but it's not the same. Winning a state championship at home is a feeling schools won't ever have again. It was the perfect way to end the season." Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, December 16, 2009fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Pittsburgh actor takes over Broadway lead - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Posted: 15 Dec 2009 09:17 PM PST You've heard it before on stage and screen - the star goes down with an injury, the understudy is rushed into action without rehearsal, and a star is born. It's gone much like that for Matthew Hydzik, who yesterday took over as leading man Tony in the Broadway revival of "West Side Story." Hydzik, who honed his song-and-dance skills growing up in Sewickley and the Penn State School of Theatre, has understudied the role since previews in Washington, D.C., where original director Arthur Laurents reshaped the show, adding Spanish lyrics and dialogue. A few weeks into previews, before he had a full run-through under his belt, Hydzik was working with a physical therapist while a performance was going on in the theater, four stories below them. Suddenly, there was shouting over the monitors. Leading man Matt Cavanaugh (not to be confused with the former quarterback and Pitt coach) had been injured. "Cav got taken out by a set piece, so it was the most dramatic way ever to go on for the first time. ... There were about 10 people in black with Britney Spears mics saying Cav's going to the hospital, he can't go on. They said, 'We could send everyone home or do you know it? Can you go on?' " Hydzik said his fellow actors "were looking at me like dead man walking. They didn't know if I could hit a note or act. But everyone said have a good time, break a leg," and on he went. Luckily, they were at the point of the show of Tony's "Something's Coming," which Hydzik called "a list song, easy to get lost in." "There was hardly any acting," he admitted, "just the experience of it." That was the first time. Hydzik has been playing to Broadway crowds ever since, going on for Cavanaugh as often as once a week. Last week, after a brief vacation and a quick visit to his family in Pittsburgh, he returned to New York on Dec. 8, when he was to take photos for the marquee of "West Side Story's" Broadway home, The Palace Theatre. "Growing up, I've heard 'Something's Coming' a thousand times in some voice teacher's room, some studio ... It's funny to sing it now, because it's for an audience at the Palace, no less. It's a truly awesome experience." Hydzik has prepared for this moment most of his life, starting in the fifth grade. His mother, Cathy, a teacher at Edgeworth Elementary School, started a drama club and enlisted her son. His first play was "Knights of Mozart," as the maestro's father, and he was hooked. Hydzik studied his craft with local teachers such as the late Mario Melodia and Pam Gregg at the Edgeworth Club before heading to the Penn State theater department. He stayed for two years (he got his degree later) before heading out on a tour of "Rent." When he arrived in New York, he worked for a time as a bartender in Broadway venues such as the O'Neill, Hershfeld, Kerr, St. James ... sometimes more than one in a night. He also did sample sales work for retailers. "They hired only actors because they usually can present themselves pretty well. You get a well-educated person who knows how to dress up and smile," he said. "My sample sales job was at the Parsons School of Design, right behind the theater where 'Rent' is, and every day I was hauling boxes out was usually when they were doing 'Seasons of Love.' I'd be hearing it and hauling boxes and thinking, 'I'm so close!' " He landed an understudy role in the 2007 revival of "Grease" and eventually stepped up to the role of Kenicke. That job lasted until January of this year; he was with the company of "West Side Story" by March. Now, Hydzik is the star, singing some of musical theater's best-known and most-beloved songs. He called "Maria" and the balcony scene the "quintessential" pieces for actors in their formative years. Among his favorite moments is just before the first strains of "Maria," when he can feel the anticipation from the audience. "It's the do or die moment. The moment beforehand, they're doing all this Bernstein music, pounding, fighting, then everything is being pulled away. Onstage, you can hear the ropes to your left, the sound of everything being whisked away, and everything becomes dark. You can take as much time as you want to start. It seems like forever, you can take it in, and then decide, now I'm going to join in." Hydzik remains humbled by his success, even as he watches talented cast members, some who came out of theater programs, some who didn't. "We have kids in the cast born in 1991. For some, [a Broadway show] is their first pro job." Then he remembers two months of one-nighters, traveling on a bus, going to auditions without an appointment. He knows that a lot of people get burned out or give up. "On one end, I feel complete humility and good fortune," he said. "On the other end, I've been working hard, but I'm still at the point where the majority of the work I've done, I've never gotten paid for. It was many years, many hours, but right now completely outweighs the hours that came before." Sharon Eberson can be reached at seberson@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1960. fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| ELIN'S AFTER HALF TIGER'S £337M - Daily Mirror Posted: 15 Dec 2009 10:35 PM PST Tiger Woods' devastated wife has called in California's top celebrity divorce lawyer, say her friends. And Elin Nordegren - rocked by her husband's string of alleged affairs - could get half the £337.5million he has earned in the five years they have been married. The 29-year-old Swedish model, seen out in Florida yesterday minus her wedding ring, is believed to be meeting celebrity lawyer Sorrell Trope next week. And men in a removal van were yesterday seen taking what seemed to be several works of art from the couple's £1.7million home in Windermere, Florida, prompting speculation that the mum of two may be moving out. Trope, 82, a partner in Californian law firm Trope and Trope, has represented stars including Cary Grant, Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage and Britney Spears in a 60-year career. Elin is believed to be planning to file for divorce in California - where the couple also have a home - and not Florida. Under California law the no-fault divorce means an equal division of assets. This could mean that any pre-nup agreement Elin signed with the golf star will be torn up. Advertisement - article continues below » A source said: "Mr Trope is the best divorce lawyer in the business and California's divorce laws are much more favourable than in most other states. Elin can fight for half of what her husband earned since they were married. "And Trope can bust through any pre-nup. He's done it many times before." Last night, asked if he was acting as her divorce lawyer, Trope would only reply: "Not right now." Pals say she will spend Christmas in Orlando, Florida, with daughter Sam Alexis, two, and son Charlie Axel, 10 months, before filing for divorce in the New Year. Her husband, 33, has not been seen in public since smashing his £35,000 Cadillac on November 27. Since then, 13 women, including porn stars, cocktail waitresses and lingerie models, have been linked with him. And yesterday he faced further embarrassment over a TV interview recorded on November 17 and originally due to be aired on Christmas Day. Tiger told New Zealand's Sky Network that his family was "the best thing that ever happened" to him. He was then asked: "Family first and golf second - always be like that?" He answered: "Always." Meanwhile, Tiger's doctor Anthony Galea may be charged in his native Canada this week with giving athletes performance-enhancing drugs. Dr Galea's lawyer Brian Greenspan insisted any charges would be "minor" and insisted: "He looks forward to being vindicated." There is no suggestion Tiger was involved in any way. fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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