Aurora

On January 7, 2005, CARLOS D. PALMA; beloved husband of Suzuko Palma; devoted father of Earl, Dean and Baron Palma;cherished brother of Evangeline Palma and Aurora Fidel. Friends may call at the family owned Evans Chapel of Memories - Parkville 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM Sunday. Services & Interment will be private.

THE EVENING STAR. By Larry McMurtry. Simon & Schuster. 637 pages. $23.FIFTY pages into "The Evening Star," Larry McMurtry's long sequel to "Terms of Endearment," I hated it. Fifty more pages and I began to think, well, maybe it isn't so bad after all. Another 50 pages and I was so enthralled with Aurora and Rosie and the General and Patsy and Melanie and Tommy and Teddy and Jane and Bump that I could hardly put the book down.The funny thing is, I was back to hating it again. Reading this book, I felt the way I do when someone convinces me I should watch the hottest new sitcom on TV. I am appalled that I'm wasting my time on such drivel.

On November 11, 2003, GREGG WILLYARD COREY, beloved husband of the late Salena Nicole Corey (nee Pollay), and devoted father of Aurora Divine Corey, dear son of Bonnie Joyce Corey (nee Gregg) and Vernon Littleton Corey, Jr., loving brother of Van Littleton Corey, III of Frederick, MD and David Dwyer Corey of Waco, TX, dear nephew of Gordon Dwyer Gregg of Dayton, OH and John Frank Gregg of Trinidad, TX. The family will receive friends in St. John's Episcopal Church, Huntingdon, 3009 Greenmount Ave., Baltimore, MD 21218, on Sunday, from 7 to 9 P.M. A Service of the Holy Eucharist will be offered in the church on Monday, November 17, at 11 A.M. Interment Druid Ridge Cemetery.

HOLLYWOOD -- The rights to novelist Larry McMurtry's new novel "Evening Star," the sequel to his best-selling "Terms of Endearment," will probably end up at Paramount Pictures, the studio that made the Oscar-winning 1983 film. "Terms of Endearment" starred Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson and Debra Winger and won Oscars for MacLaine, Nicholson and writer-director James L. Brooks.A studio source confirmed that although the deal has not been completed, it would be shortly. Mr. McMurtry's agent also confirmed the imminent sale to Paramount.

On January 30, 2004, LOUIS H. AQUINO, beloved husband of the late Aurora "Anita" (nee Agnello) Aquino; loving brother of Alfred and Rudolph Aquino, Catherine Amato, Rita Dulin and the late Joseph and Christopher Aquino and Rose Cannaliato. Also survived by many nieces and nephews.A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Evans Chapel of Memories - Parkville on Monday 10 AM. Interment Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery. Visiting Sunday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM.

Aurora Loan Services LLC, the mortgage-lending subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., has laid off 160 employees in Gaithersburg as the parent company moves to scale back its home-loan business in response to turmoil in the industry and in the secondary market where investors trade mortgage debt. The layoffs were disclosed in a notice filed with the state Labor, Licensing and Regulation Department. Aurora originates both prime and subprime mortgages. A Lehman spokesman said yesterday that the company closed a regional operating center in Gaithersburg last month.

BOSTON -- At 38, Rudy Kluiber is frank in admitting what he's looking for: a few good stocks and one good woman. So far, he's doing great on the stocks.In fact, in a stock market where small is suddenly beautiful, there are many bigger names but few have been putting up bigger numbers.Over the last 12 months, Kluiber's State Street Research Aurora Fund was up a stunning 73.45 percent, ranking it No. 1 out of 424 similar small-cap funds tracked by Lipper Analytical Services. Year-to-date, Aurora ranks No. 2, up 55.01 percent -- this after a 56.57 percent gain in 1996.

"Kiss of the Spider Woman" is, by its very title, about accepting the kiss of death. But the core of the story is about two extremely different men who learn to accept and eventually respect each other.Cellmates in a Latin American prison, they have an intricate and layered relationship, and it's depicted in a magnificently intricate and layered musical, whose national touring production at the Mechanic Theatre is as grand as the Broadway original.One key to the way in which the show is constructed lies in its most beautiful song, "Dear One" -- the gem of John Kander and Fred Ebb's lush score.

The state has purchased easements to preserve two Baltimore County farms. The 97-acre Jenkins property, a crop farm in the 12400 block of Park Heights Ave. in the Owings Mills area, would be preserved under a $576,480 easement purchase approved this week by the state Board of Public Works, officials said. The board also approved an easement purchase of $264,110 for the 55.9-acre Zodhiates property, a tree farm in the 4200 block of Beckleysville Road in northern Baltimore County, officials said.

There couldn't be a more timely movie version of the European immigrant experience than The Golden Door. In an era when TV newscasters can accuse illegal immigrants of spreading leprosy, this tale of a Sicilian family sailing to America a century ago shows U.S. fear of the outsider posing as pseudo-science even at Ellis Island. The Golden Door (Miramax) Starring Vincenzo Amato, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo. Directed by Emanuele Crialese. Rated PG-13.