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MORE NOTABLE WOMEN

by Kathy Wolfe

Politicians, entrepreneurs, athletes, performers and philanthropists — Women have made their mark in every walk of life. This week, Tidbits takes a closer look at some of the more notable ones.

• Before she was Coco, she was Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, born in France in 1883. She opened a mil-linery shop in Paris in 1912 after a four-year career as a café singer. In 1922, she introduced a perfume, simply named Chanel No. 5, named such because a fortune teller had told her five was her lucky number. In 1926, she introduced the “little black dress” and was known for saying, “Fashion fades; only style re-mains the same.” • Although women were not given the right to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, women in the state of Montana had that right before ratification. In fact, Montana had already elected the U.S. Congress’ first woman, Jeannette Rankin, in 1916. She is remembered as the only vote against entering World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. She had also voted against the U.S. entry into World War I.

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Sometimes brash, sometimes bawdy, The Divine Miss M is undisputedly one of the world’s great-est entertainers. Follow along as Tidbits brings you some of her life’s highlights. • Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Bette Midler gradu-ated as senior class president and valedictorian of that city’s Radford High School in 1963 and went on to study drama at the University of Hawaii. The daughter of a seamstress and a house painter, Midler worked at a pineapple processing plant as a teenager. • Midler’s mother named her after actress Bette Davis; in fact, her full birth name was Bette Davis Midler. Her mother named Midler’s sisters Susan and Judy, after actresses Susan Hayward and Judy Garland, respectively. Sadly, on a trip to New York City to see Midler star in Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof,” sister Judy was stuck and killed by a taxi. • Midler’s debut album, “The Divine Miss M,” pro-duced by Barry Manilow, came along in 1972, with sales of three million copies its first year. It was fol-lowed by another blockbuster album the next year. Manilow was not only her musical director in the early years; he acted as her pianist as well. • An appearance on “The Tonight Show” with John-ny Carson in the 1970s gave Midler’s early career a huge boost. She was also the final guest on Car-son’s farewell show in 1992. The only other guest on that show was Robin Williams. Midler sang “One for My Baby and One More for the Road” to Carson, bringing tears to the normally cool-as-a- cucumber host.• The title song from the 1979 movie “The Rose” earned Midler her first Gold single and first Gram-my Award. The song was No. 1 on the Billboard charts for five weeks, and the soundtrack album had sales of over two million records. In addition to her Grammy, she was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her starring role as a rock-and-roll singer, reminiscent of Janis Joplin. Al-though she didn’t win the Oscar, she did capture the Golden Globe for the performance. • The 5’1” diva married German performer Martin von Haselberg in 1984. The Las Vegas wedding was officiated by none other than an Elvis imper-sonator. The couple has one daughter, Sophie, who was named for songstress Sophie Tucker. • In 1979, Midler was put on Screen World’s list of the top 12 “Promising New Actors of 1979.” She has shown her acting versatility by easily crossing from drama (“For the Boys” and “Beaches”) to com-edy (“Ruthless People” and “Down and Out in Bev-erly Hills”). She was a witch in “Hocus Pocus” and a robotic wife in “The Stepford Wives.” • In addition to music and movie roles, Bette Midler is also an author, having penned “A View from A Broad” in 1980, and a charming children’s book of verse, “The Saga of Baby Divine” in 1983. • Fans of educational television will recognize Midler’s voice as that of Woody the Spoon on the PBS series “Vegetable Soup.” • Two of Miss M’s hits are on the American Film Institute’s “100 Years of the Greatest Songs” list — “Wind Beneath My Wings” and “The Rose.” Her many accomplishments include four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, a Tony and sales of more than 15 million albums.

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Iverson,” “Silly Little Game,” “Run Ricky Run,” “The 16th Man,” “Straight Outta L.A.” and “June 17th, 1994.” Also included is more than two hours of bo-nus material.

“American Pop” (R) -- Animator Ralph (“Lord of the Rings,” “Fritz the Cat”) Bakshi’s ambitious tale of the history of American pop music follows the lives of four generations of a Jewish-American family of songwriters and musicians from the turn of the 20th century through World War II, the ‘60s and finally to ‘70s punk rock. Featuring the music of Jimi Hen-drix, The Doors, Pat Benatar, Janis Joplin, Benny Goodman and more, this is probably Bakshi’s fin-est motion picture.

TV SERIES

“Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper”“Best of Soul Train”“SpongeBob SquarePants” Season Six, Volume 2 “Hoarders” Season Two: Part One “Taxicab Confessions: New York” Parts 1, 2 & 3“Boy Meets World” The Complete Fourth Season“Bonanza” Official Second Season V.1

TOP TEN MOVIES1. Megamind (PG) Will Ferrell, Tina Fey2. Unstoppable (PG-13) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine3. Due Date (R) Robert Downey Jr., Zack Gali-fianakis4. Skyline (PG-13) Eric Balfour, Scottie Thomp-son5. Morning Glory (PG-13) Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford6. For Colored Girls (R) Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine7. Red (PG-13) Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman8. Paranormal Activity 2 (R) Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat9. Saw 3D (R) Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor10. Jackass 3D (R) Johnny Knoxville, Ryan Dunn

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of November 6, 2010

Top 10 Video Rentals1. Predators (R) Adrien Brody2. Sex and the City 2 (R) Sarah Jessica Parker3. How to Train Your Dragon (PG) animated4. The Karate Kid (PG) Jaden Smith5. Jonah Hex (PG-13) Josh Brolin6. A Nightmare on Elm Street (R) Jackie Earle Haley7. Get Him to the Greek (R) Jonah Hill8. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) Robert Downey, Jr.9. Robin Hood (PG-13) Russell Crowe10. Splice (R) Adrien Brody

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Sex and the City 2 (R) (Warner)2. How to Train Your Dragon (PG) (Dream-Works)3. Predators (R) (20th Century Fox)4. The Girl Who Played With Fire (Music Box Films) (R)5. The Karate Kid (PG) (Sony)6. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) (Paramount)7. Hocus Pocus (PG) (Buena Vista)8. Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season Two (NR) (Warner)9. The Blind Side (PG-13) (Warner)10. The Hangover (R) (Warner)

PICKS OF THE WEEK

“Shrek Forever After” (PG) -- After a disappoint-ing third film, this fourth and final installment of the “Shrek” series is as refreshing and funny as the first two movies. After growing tired of the domestic routine, Shrek makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to get his roar back. And in a turn taken from “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Shrek discovers that maybe his world would be a bet-ter place if he put things back to the way they were -- and he has only 24 hours to reverse the contract.

“Fox 75th Anniversary Collection” -- If you just bought your first DVD player, have an extra $500 and need an instant movie collection, you definitely need to grab this massive 75-film collection from 20th Century Fox. It includes timeless classics like “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Miracle on 34th Street,” beloved musicals like “South Pacific,” Hello, Dolly,” “The Sound of Music” and “The King and I”; the war epics “Patton,” “MASH” and “The Longest Day;” sci-fi landmarks like “Planet of the Apes,” “Star Wars,” “Fantastic Voyage” and “Avatar;” and tons of Oscar-winning dramas and classic comedies. Sure, the price is steep, but it averages out to a little more than six bucks a movie, so it’s actually a pretty great deal -- and there isn’t a bad film in the bunch.

“ESPN Films 30 for 30 Gift Set Collection” Vol-ume 1 (NR) -- This six-disc set of ESPN’s award-winning documentary series is a must-have for every sports fan. The collection features the first 15 films from the series, directed by such filmmakers as Barry Levinson and Peter Berg: “Kings Ransom,” “The Band That Wouldnt Die,” “Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?,” “Mu-hammad & Larry,” “Without Bias,” “The Legend of Jimmy the Greek,” “The U,” “Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks,” “Guru of Go,” “No Crossover: The Trial of Allen

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¥ It was comedian-turned-U.S. Senator Al Franken who made the following sage observation: “Mis-takes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”

¥ Those who study such things say that 1 percent of the world’s lizard species have no males. The females reproduce by parthenogenesis, which pro-duces offspring that are clones of their mothers. ¥ Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook, So-ny’s eReader -- it seems that everywhere you look these days people are reading onscreen. You may not realize, however, just how long digital books have been around. The first e-book was manual-ly typed into a computer way back in 1971, when Michael S. Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, chose the Declaration of Independence to be the first literature so digitized. ¥ A woman in Tennessee was once arrested for bik-ing while intoxicated -- and she was on a stationary bike at the gym at the time. ¥ According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if you’re like the average American, you drink 22.7 gallons of coffee every year. The surprising thing about that statistic isn’t how much it is, though -- it’s how little. It seems that in the 1940s, Americans were drinking twice that amount of java. ¥ If you look at the innards of a Boeing 747 airplane, you’ll find a whopping 171 miles of wiring. ¥ If you consider surface area covered rather than population, the world’s largest city is in Inner Mon-golia, where Hulunbuir covers more than 160,000 square miles.

***Thought for the Day: “Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are con-vinced beyond doubt that they are right.” -- Laurens Van der Post

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MORE NOTABLE WOMEN (continued):• Twin sisters with unusually similar names born in 1918 went on to exactly the same profession. Esther Pauline Friedman and Pauline Esther Fried-man both became advice columnists within months of each other. Esther Pauline was known for 56 years as Ann Landers, dispensing frank, some-times controversial advice to millions of readers. Pauline Esther wrote under the byline Dear Abby for 39 years until she was diagnosed with Alzheim-er’s Disease.• Journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran took on the pen name of Nellie Bly to write for a Pittsburgh newspaper back in 1885 and concentrated her early efforts on the working conditions of female factory workers. When her editor reassigned her to the society and gardening sections, she rebelled and traveled to Mexico as a foreign cor-respondent. At age 23, she went undercover at a women’s insane asylum, faking insanity to probe reports of brutality at the New York facility. After en-during filth, starvation and abuse for ten days, she penned an exposé that created such a racket that an additional $850,000 was dispatched to the asy-lum in short order. At age 25, Bly undertook a trip around the world reproducing the fictional journey of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days.” She finished her 24,899-mile trip in just over 72 days, actually meeting Jules Verne during a stop in France. After an early retirement from journalism, she invented and patented a steel barrel, whose design is still in use in today’s 55-gal-lon oil drums.• A natural brunette, comedienne Lucille Ball start-ed her career as a blonde model named Dianne Belmont in 1933 and landed a movie role shortly afterward in that year’s “Roman Scandals.” She ad-opted her trademark red hair in 1942 at the advice of MGM Studios. She and husband Desi Arnaz hit the small screen in 1951 when “I Love Lucy” made its television debut. When she became pregnant in 1952, it was written into the sitcom’s plot, and the episode depicting Little Ricky’s birth aired on exactly the same day that Lucy delivered son Desi Jr. Lucy and her son were featured on the cover of TV Guide’s very first issue, in 1953. She and Desi Sr. divorced after 20 years. Lucille Ball was the first woman to own her own film studio, and over the course of her long career, appeared in 72 mov-ies and received 13 Emmy nominations, with four Emmy Award wins.

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1. ANATOMY: What is a more common name for the patella?2. MOVIES: For which film did Sally Field win an Oscar as best actress in 1984?3. SCIENCE: What basic unit is used to mea-sure the flow of electrical current?4. MYTHOLOGY: Who was the Roman god-dess of youth?5. GEOGRAPHY: Which body of water lies east of Athens, Greece?6. THEATER: Who composed the operas “Ma-dame Butterfly” and “Tosca”? 7. TELEVISION: What was the name of the pa-triarch in the family saga “Bonanza”?8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What color is the gemstone called the peridot?9. MUSIC: Which singer/songwriter wrote and performed the song “Dear Abby”?10. LITERATURE: Who authored the King Ar-thur legend poems called “Idylls of the King”?

ANSWERS1. Kneecap2. “Places in the Heart”3. Ampere4. Juventas5. Aegean Sea6. Puccini7. Ben Cartwright8. Green, ranging from yellow-green to olive green9. John Prine10. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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1. Name two of the three third basemen to have 40 home runs and 20 stolen bases in the same season.2. How many times did the Minnesota Twins make the playoffs during the 1990s?3. Who was the last primarily defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy?4. The Detroit Pistons’ run of six consecutive appearances in an NBA conference final (2003-08) was the longest such streak since when?5. Who holds the Montreal Canadians’ modern-day mark for most goals in a single postsea-son?6. Penn State’s 109-match winning streak in women’s volleyball (2007-10) was the second-longest in NCAA Division I team sports history. Who holds the longest streak?7. Name two of the four male South African golfers to win the British Open.

ANSWERS1. Alex Rodriguez (2005, ‘07), Chipper Jones (1999) and Mark Reynolds (2009).2. Only once, when they won the World Series in 1991.3. Charles Woodson of Michigan, in 1997.4. The Los Angeles Lakers made eight con-secutive appearances (1982-89).5. Yvan Cournoyer had 15 goals in 1973. 6. The University of Miami (Fla.) men’s tennis team won 137 consecutive matches (1957-64).7. Ernie Els (2002), Bobby Locke (1949, ‘50, ‘52, ‘57), Louis Oosthuizen (2010) and Gary Player (1959, ‘68, ‘74).

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• How many women drove pink Cadillacs because of Mary Kay Ash? At age 45, this cosmetics entre-preneur had worked many years for Stanley Home Products but finally resigned after being passed over for promotions in favor of men she had her-self trained. It was her plan to write a book that would aid women in business, but the book end-ed up being a business plan for a new company, and in 1963, she and her husband began Mary Kay Cosmetics with a $5,000 investment. She wrote three best-selling books, and her business philosophy, “Mary Kay on People Management,” became part of the business course curriculum at Harvard Business School. Although Ash passed away in 2001, today there are more than 1.8 mil-lion independent consultants in 30 worldwide mar-kets. Fortune magazine has added the company to its list of “The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America.” • Financial guru Suze Orman became inter-ested in fiscal responsibility as the result of a fire. As her father’s restaurant went up in flames, she watched him run into the burning building to res-cue the cash register that contained every dime he had. He exited the building, money in hand, but with third-degree burns covering his body. Says Orman, “That’s when I learned that for some peo-ple, money is more important than life itself.”• Although best known for penning a novel about four sisters that was loosely based on her own family, Louisa May Alcott also served as a nurse during the Civil War. This author of “Little Women” caught typhoid fever and suffered for the remain-der of her life from mercury poisoning as a result of the treatment for the typhoid. • The life of the first woman prime minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, had humble beginnings. Growing up as the daughter of a fa-ther who owned a couple of grocery stores, she enjoyed swimming and playing hockey. In col-lege, she studied chemistry, and after graduation, went to work as a research chemist for a plastics company, followed by a stint as a chemist helping develop a method for preserving ice cream. After her marriage to Denis Thatcher, she began study-ing for the bar. At age 28, she became a barrister specializing in tax law, and later that year, became the mother of twins. At 45, Thatcher was Britain’s Secretary of State for Education and Science, and in 1979 she was elected Prime Minister. Although she had the longest continuous period of office of any 20th-century Prime Minister, she had the sec-ond-lowest approval rating of any post-war Minis-ter. Following her time in office, Thatcher went on to serve as Chancellor of the College of William and Mary in Virginia and Chancellor of the Univer-sity of Buckingham.

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