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Actor Tom Cruise doesn’t approve of Brooke Shields’s method to get through postpartum depression after giving birth to her first child, daughter Rowan. In Shields’s new book, Down Came the Rain, she admits to taking medication to cope with the depression. Cruise had a small role in Shields’s movie Endless Love 24 years ago. In an interview with TV show Access Hollywood, Cruise said, “I care about Brooke Shields because I think she is an incredibly talented women, but look at where has her career gone.” Cruise’s religion, Scientology, does not approve of mind-altering medication of any kind. “When someone...

BARNES & Noble just lost A customer. This week a reader stopped in at the branch on Union Square where, he wrote us, "I went up to the fourth floor to buy a copy of Bob Barr's book 'The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeach ment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton,' which is buried in the Current Affairs section. Unfortunately, Michael Moore was on the fourth floor 'speaking.' When I told the guards that I wanted to buy a Bob Barr book in the Current Affairs section, I was told I would not be able to (since Moore...

A state appeals court has rejected Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's call to appoint a guardian for the fetus of a disabled rape victim, blocking what abortion-rights activists called a bid to expand the legal rights of the unborn. Judges from the 5th District Court of Appeal ruled against the governor Friday in the case of J.D.S., a woman who was impregnated while living in a southwest Orlando group home licensed by the state. The opinion upholds an earlier decision by an Orlando judge and -- at least for now -- blocks the courts from appointing guardians for fetuses of incapacitated...

Gov. Jeb Bush said he wants to see judicial candidates with diversity, character, and a philosophy of judicial restraint, while Supreme Court Chief Justice Harry Lee Anstead said integrity is a key ingredient. Both were giving advice October 8 at the annual Judicial Nominating Commission training seminar in Tallahassee. New and experienced commissioners got advice about everything from what questions to ask candidates to potential conflicts of interest, sprinkled with war stories from current and former JNC members, including some who went through the process and became judges. Bush came into the training session as a member the Bar's Judicial...

Gov. Jeb Bush choked back tears Tuesday at an anti-drug summit as he talked about his 24-year-old daughter's struggle with drug addiction. "I want to thank you on behalf of my wife for your prayers and for your quiet counseling in the last few months about our daughter Noelle," Bush said. The governor was several minutes into a standard anti-drug speech when he paused, looked down, turned red, put his hand over his lips and choked back a quiet sob. "I knew I was going to do this," Bush said softly, glancing at his wife, Columba, sitting next to him....

Just saw that C-Span is going to have Bernard Goldberg on in a Forum at 11 a.m. this morning: Media Distortions of the News Close Up Foundation Bernard Goldberg, CBS (The beginning and end of this live program may be earlier or later than the scheduled times)

Jury awards $425,000, punitives are up next A Santa Clara County jury found that two disgruntled workers maliciously libeled their former employer and two managers in cyberspace, awarding $425,000 in actual damages and setting the stage for punitive damages to follow. "I am thrilled that the jury saw through the fog of claims that this is supposedly protected opinion versus false and malicious facts," said Lynne Hermle, the Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partner who represented Varian Medical Systems and two of its executives. The eight-woman, four-man jury found that defendants and research scientists Michelangelo Delfino and Mary Day had libeled ...

Most states provide for the election of judges, and judicial candidates in many of those states face limits on what they may say and do that would clearly be unconstitutional for any other candidates. The limitations are intended to preserve the appearance of judicial impartiality. The question in a case the Supreme Court accepted today is when do such limitations cross the line and violate the First Amendment guarantee of free speech? The justices agreed to hear a First Amendment challenge to a Minnesota rule that prohibits judicial candidates from announcing their views on "disputed legal or political issues." The ...

"Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw is the latest TV big shot looking for a plane ride into Afghanistan. Brokaw, 61, who is still in New York, joins Dan Rather on the list of newsies who have asked the Navy for permission to meet up with U.S. soldiers at a Dolangi airstrip about 65 miles southwest of Kandahar. The strip was seized by Marines earlier this week and is being turned into the U.S. forces' "Forward Operations Base." An NBC News spokesman confirmed that Brokaw had applied for access to the Marine base, but "he's only going if he could advance ...

NBC News is reporting that Sarah Brady has lung cancer because of her addiction to cigarettes. She earlier switched to low tar cigarettes on the theory they would be "healthier" but got lung cancer anyway.

I have a question which I hope someone here will answer. I was gone for the weekend (away from my computer), but read the lead article in the Sunday paper (the Orlando Sentinel). I believe the article originally came from the Washington Post about alleged conflict between the administration & the military, causing Taliban targets to repeatedly escape annihilation. I've been trying to find the article here. I tried backtracking, through 50 posts at a time, back through the next 50 posts, etc. I finally got through Mondays posts, only to find very few posts for Sunday, Nov. 18th. In ...

CNN president Walter Isaacson has come to the defense of his thin-skinned correspondent Christiane Amanpour with a letter to the Wall Street Journal denying she is a "second-rate . . . diva of parachute journalism." Those were just some of the words Tunku Varadarajan used in a Nov. 12 piece on the Journal's op-ed page critiquing today's female war correspondents. Amanpour's "faint foreign accent is misinterpreted as erudition by Americans," wrote Varadarajan, an Indian educated in Britain. "Equally puzzlingly, her alluring dark looks are thought to convey an anti-Barbie seriousness of mind. "War is a time for instant expertise from ...

The Supreme Court of Florida has changed its long-standing law on slip & fall cases, basically saying that, when a plaintiff claims he was injured because he slipped on something and fell, it will be presumed the store was at fault. The underlying facts of the case involved the stereotypical slip-on-a-banana-peel scenario. In sum, the opinion held: “[W]e adopt the following holding to be applied to slip-and-fall cases in business premises involving transitory foreign substances. We hold that the existence of a foreign substance on the floor of a business premises that causes a customer to fall and be injured ...

I can't believe that in a relatively conservative place like Orlando, the majority of the people are voting to give Hurricane aid to Cuba! (Maybe Janet Reno CAN win the governorship) The poll provides 2 "Yes" options, and 2 "No" options. I prefer the first option -- that providing aid to Cuba merely tightens Castro's grip upon the island.

<p>An Internet gag has produced a New York State Democratic Committee Web site that Bill Clinton could really get behind. Visitors to nydem.org find images of naked women and sex toys under the banner "Euro Teen Sluts!" The official party site is located at nydems.org - with the "s" - but that's news to Queens City Council hopeful Tony Avella. His campaign site features links to endorsements by prominent politicians, but several lead right to the bogus party committee site. A committee rep says they are attempting to buy the domain name, "to avoid further confusion."</p>

An exit poll showed that 72 percent of American Muslims voted for Bush and 19 percent for Nader By Anayat Durrani , November 20, 2000, 07:24 AM FLORIDA - As America restlessly awaits the announcement of the next president of the United States, American Muslim groups have already determined the impact American Muslim voters have had on the election. According to two separate exit polls, American Muslims cast votes overwhelmingly for George W. Bush. An exit poll released on Friday conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations reveals that 72 percent of American Muslims voted for Bush and nineteen percent ...

Everyone should watch NBC News at the 6:55 p.m. point. They spotlite Mike Moran and his discussion of his brother, John! They also replay the clip where Mike tells Osama to kiss his royal Irish ass!

Like ELVIS PRESLEY during World War II, many of today's hottest young stars could be drafted for the fight against terrorism. ET caught up with entertainment's next generation, to get their thoughts on the possibility! "Definitely. I'll be the first one to go," *NSYNC heartthrob LANCE BASS told ET. "My whole family was in World War II, and Vietnam, everything, so I would definitely go. I would definitely serve my country." "That '70s Show"'s ASHTON KUTCHER was equally gung-ho: "I'd go in a second," he said. "If they really need me and they think I'm going to help out, I'll ...

Entertainment Tonight reported that host Ellen DeGeneres was "disappointed" that the Emmys were cancelled because of the bombing. She reportedly said something along the lines of how she is concerned for the innocent people of Afghanistan. That was, apparently, the sum total of her concern.

WESH, Channel 2, is hyping an interview with Jesse Jackson to air at 11 p.m. Something about the choice between World War (without his help) and World Peace (with his efforts).