The presiding rabbi was Philip Berg, whose center in Beverly Hills has attracted such luminous Kabbalah scholars as Sandra Bernhard, Roseanne, and Elizabeth Taylor. The Corn Is Green , she was under the impression that she was only lending her name to the project and was assuming no financial liability should the show tank. Billy Cosby wants to wean kids off video games and get them playing checkers, according the Associated Press. To that end, the Cos is backing the world's largest checkers tournament. The variant version for the tournament is called Cube Checkers and is played with numbered cubes instead of the traditional red and black discs.
Players also get to make two moves at a time.
It's curtains for dressmaker Isaac Mizrahi's fashion business. The Associated Press is reporting that, although the celebrated designer has long had the respect of his peers, his company has operated at a loss for years, and when the American branch of Chanel pulled its backing, the House of Mizrahi decided to close its doors. We told him there was a point beyond which we were not going to continue. Analysts point out that, while he was often hailed as the successor to Donna Karan or Calvin Klein, Mizrahi never established the same level of image identification with the average shopper, and therefore generally only sold about half his collection, while his competitors typically sold 70 percent of theirs. I don't know what it says about fashion.