WILMINGTON, N.C. — Driving rain from a storm system moving up the East Coast brought flooding to parts of North Carolina on Thursday, caused soggy morning commutes in the Northeast and prompted worries of additional flooding as far north as Maine. Tornado watches were issued from North Carolina to New Jersey. In North Carolina, the nearly 21 inches collected in Wilmington since Sunday topped Hurricane Floyd’s five-day mark of 19 inches set in 1999.
LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Johnson won’t be adding the title of sole “Survivor” to his winning resume. The silver-haired 67-year-old former coach of the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins was the third person voted off the Nicaragua-set 21st edition of the CBS reality TV competition Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan is back in rehab. A person close to the actress says the 24-year-old star has entered a facility for the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction. This is the fifth rehab stint for the troubled star. She was released from court-ordered rehab last month after spending 23 days at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
That I didn’t know him until nearly his 80s, that it was only briefly, that I didn’t really figure in his life, didn’t matter. Once you were welcomed into his orbit, that is where you remained. As if you had always been there.
Shining shoes as a boy, shining onscreen as a star, shining even among the blinding bright lights of Las Vegas that became his adopted home, Tony Curtis was never less than a megawatt personality, one that always seemed lit by a childlike glow of wonderment.