Just to make sure no one is left out, NBC is repeating the Seinfeld finale.
And just to make sure the power of the series’ popularity isn’t wasted, the network is squeezing the rerun in on Wednesday, the last day of the rating sweeps period in which viewers are counted to determine commercial rates.
“Although millions of people enjoyed Jerry Seinfeld’s farewell last night, our phones have been lit up and we’re aware that millions of other Seinfeld fans weren’t able to watch this historical TV event,” NBC Entertainment President Warren Littlefield said in Los Angeles.
Travolta’s squishy, delicious lips
Kelly Preston has smooched some of the sexiest actors in Hollywood. Her favorite is the guy she kisses all the time.
Husband John Travolta puckers up like nobody else, the actress who played Tom Cruise’s girlfriend in Jerry Maguire and once lived with George Clooney says in the June issue of Redbook in New York.
“He’s got the most squishy, delicious lips, I swear,” said Preston, 35. “They are dreamy! They are just . . . you get drunk on them. He’s the best kisser I’ve ever kissed.”
The actress with credits including Addicted to Love, Twins, Nothing to Lose and Citizen Ruth rated Cruise as a good kisser in their Jerry Maguire sex scene, a part of the film that was easier for her to make than it was for her husband to take.
“I had to force myself to look at that scene,” Travolta said. “Tom joked with me a little bit about it, but I didn’t really think it was that funny. I had to kind of swallow my pride.”
U.S. may not be so terrible after all
John Grisham’s advice to recent graduates is “leave the country.”
Speaking at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg on Friday, the author of The Firm and A Time to Kill was promoting volunteerism overseas, not a permanent exodus to foreign shores.
“Pack up your bags and go someplace where you are needed, where you can help people,” Grisham said. “Just go for a year or two.”
Those who do may learn that the United States isn’t so bad compared to other countries, he said, and in terms of official corruption, overseas experience might show that “the boys in Washington are amateurs compared with the rest of the world.”
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It’s the 137th day of the year; 228 days are left in 1998. On this day:
* In 1946, President Harry Truman seized control of the nation’s railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
* In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education ruling, which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
* In 1987, 37 U.S. sailors were killed when an Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf. Thought for today: “Christ died for all men, not just the ones you know and like.”
_ Anonymous
Today’s birthdays: Actress Maureen O’Sullivan, 87; actor Bill Paxton, 43; boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, 42.
