Beatty

Two months ago, when Sgt. Derick Beatty's children wrote letters to Santa, video games and kitchen sets topped their carefully crafted lists. But this week, with their father scheduled to return home after a year in Afghanistan and with a little prodding from their mom, 8-year-old D.J. and 5-year-old Learic revised their registries, ranking the return of their dad No. 1. Those wishes came true yesterday - on the spot - when Beatty surprised his children...

WASHINGTON -- At a Beverly Hills ceremony this week honoring die-hard liberal Warren Beatty, director Rob Reiner warmed up the crowd by announcing that he would like to be picked as the actor's vice president. Television's Roseanne Barr explained why she would run against the screen star. Actress Goldie Hawn testified to his character. And comedian Gary Shandling called him cute.Their talk was all a tease, of course.And, ultimately, so too might be Beatty's quest for the presidency.But for now, at least, Beatty's White House flirtation is getting semi-serious treatment.

"I hate false modesty," says presidential candidate Milton Armitage. "How can I lose this election? I'm handsome, cultured, debonair, attractive, and I'm manly."Manly Milton from TV's "The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis" was played 40 years ago by none other than the equally handsome and manly Warren Beatty, whose flirtation with a presidential candidacy continues. Beatty, as is often the case with public figures, has a sitcom skeleton in his closet.TV Land, a cable channel dedicated to vintage re-runs, will broadcast the 1959 "Smoke Filled Room" episode at 9 p.m. Sunday, part of a Beatty-inspired "Dobie" mini-marathon from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. (Check your TV listings for channel information.

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They talked for three hours over Chinese take-out. The hosts' children romped about, with no hired help in sight. Ad man Bill Hillsman, "just some schmo from Minneapolis," hung out last week in Los Angeles "talking about some stuff" with none other than actor Warren Beatty.Beatty, a telegenic 62 years of age, has become the celebrity wild card in the 2000 presidential race by hinting he might run for the White House."After 35 years of liberal activism as a Democrat, I am being urged by some people to spend 40 years of fame on a presidential campaign," Beatty wrote Aug. 22 in the New York Times.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Actor Warren Beatty sketched out the script for a liberal presidential campaign last night -- but did not say whether he would play the leading role himself.Before a huge turnout of reporters and Southern California liberal activists, Beatty offered few clues on whether he intends to launch a long-shot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.Instead, he called for sweeping campaign finance reform, lashed President Clinton's record, and portrayed both of the current contenders for the Democratic nomination as cautious centrists in thrall to large contributors.

`Beatty for President' reflects need to fill Democratic left's voidThe Sun's snide editorial "Beatty for President" (Aug. 22) dismissed Warren Beatty's interest in running for the Democratic nomination for president, declaring "no one begins public life as President."That a widely known, well-established civic activist such as Mr. Beatty should undertake to shift the Democratic Party from its current centrist policies toward its more traditional liberal stances deserves more than The Sun's disdain.

HOLLYWOOD'S efforts to deliberately rankle conservatives continue unabated. The latest attempt is Warren Beatty's "Bulworth," which opened nationwide earlier this month.The film has a number of things going for it. Beatty's movie -- he's the co-writer, director and star -- is screamingly funny. In some parts, it is brutally honest.Beatty plays California U.S. Sen. Jay Bulworth, who suddenly loses his mind and, during his re-election campaign, starts uttering truth instead of drivel. He tells a Jewish group that he includes all "the big Jews" on his speaking tours and includes an obligatory derogatory remark about Louis Farrakhan in his speeches.

Join members of the Frederick Scottish Association to celebrate the life of Susanna Beatty, Frederick County's first woman pioneer, with a wagon train and Scottish Festival this weekend at the Beatty-Cramer House, the oldest extant home in Frederick County.During the event, a wagon train re-creating Susanna Beatty's journey from the Hudson Valley of New York in 1732 will wind through northern Frederick Country with stops in Emmitsburg and Thurmont en route to the Beatty-Cramer House. The wagon train will camp at the Loy Station Covered Bridge (pictured)

TOLCHESTER -- Starfleet Academy in rural Kent County? Well, yes, that's what Kenneth E. Beatty has in mind.To be precise, the 68-year-old former teacher-artist-Scout leader planning the Delmarva Space Training Center for a 24-acre abandoned Nike missile base about 20 nautical miles across the Chesapeake Bay and a world away from downtown Baltimore.The orbiting U.S. Sen. John Glenn, it seems, isn't the only American bent on contributing to the space program late in life.If Beatty's dream becomes reality, bright young people from across the nation would be arriving each week for intensive training in an array of futuristic fields including solar and wind energy, propulsion, robotics, telemetry engineering and astronomy.

On February 16, 2009, MARY IDELLA BEATTY; beloved wife of the late James Ogden, Leonard Windsor and Russell Beatty; devoted mother of Gary, James and Wenzel Ogden, Carolyn Schwanke and Sherrie Cyr; loving sister of Betty Habicet, Jean Whitehead and the late Grace Williams. Also survived by 15 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the family owned and operated MCCULLY POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME. P.A., 237 E. Patapsco Avenue (Brooklyn), on Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Friday at 11 A.M. Interment to follow in Lorraine Park Cemetery.

In a week, Holly Beatty, 34, and her partner of seven years, Jessica Leshnoff, 30, will be married in a Jewish ceremony in Washington, where they met. They'll celebrate at a reception for 200 guests with Middle Eastern food, a disc jockey and dancing, and a large wedding party with a dozen attendants. The reception hall will be awash in romantic hues of ruby - on the tablecloths, vases, silk flowers and lighting. And the couple, engaged since December, have vowed to banish all thoughts of Beatty's recent layoff.

No one will ever be able to accuse Nathalie Beatty of being a wallflower - in either her style or her personality. This "professional volunteer" is known for carrying off a cutting-edge style. Just check out her outfit as she co-chaired the Ruth Shaw Fashion Show at the Baltimore School for the Arts. The 41-year-old Baltimore resident credits her Egyptian-born mom. "I was definitely influenced by my mother's European aesthetic, but I've always had my own strong opinions about what I like.

On July 21, 2008 ELIZABETH MARY (nee Beatty) beloved wife of the late Harold Queensbury, Sr.; loving mother of Jere Queensbury, Demetrius Beatty, Kalani Queensbury, Harold Peter Queensbury, III and Luis Arroyo III; devoted fiancee of Luis Arroyo, Jr.; cherished grandmother of 19 grandchildren; dear daughter of the late Walter Beatty and Hedwig (nee Kraus); loving stepdaughter of Walter C. Holden. Also survived by five sisters and four brothers. Friends may call at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue Saturday and Sunday, 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held at the Greater Faith Hope Tabernacle, 1900 E. 30th Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, Monday 10 a.m. Interment Arbutus Cemetery.

Two months ago, when Sgt. Derick Beatty's children wrote letters to Santa, video games and kitchen sets topped their carefully crafted lists. But this week, with their father scheduled to return home after a year in Afghanistan and with a little prodding from their mom, 8-year-old D.J. and 5-year-old Learic revised their registries, ranking the return of their dad No. 1. Those wishes came true yesterday - on the spot - when Beatty surprised his children...

Those who survived the Great Depression of the 1930s have a tough, no-nonsense take on what work is. If when I was young I'd told my father I was looking for fulfilling work, he would have looked at me as if I'd just arrived from Mars. Here the Pennsylvania poet Jan Beatty takes on the voice of her father to illustrate the thinking of a generation of Americans. -- Ted Kooser "My Father Teaches Me to Dream" You want to know what work is? I'll tell you what work is: Work is work. You get up. You get on the bus. You don't look from side to side.

On July 30, 2006, MARGARET A. ELBURN (nee Lunn); beloved wife of the late Robert L. Elburn and cherished mother of Vickie L. Beatty and her husband Raymond; devoted grandmother of Raymond Beatty, Jr. and John Beatty; loving Mom to her pets, Butchie, Blackie, Nuce and Tabby. Also survived by many nieces, nephews and friends. Friends are invited to call at Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home, Inc., 3631 Falls Road, on Tuesday and Wednesday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services will be held at the funeral home on Thursday, at 10 A.M. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.

"We call the film Elf 2," joked Stephen Gaghan, the creator of Syriana, with a hint of desperation. The second feature as a writer-director for the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Traffic (2000), Syriana offers an ambitious look at Big Oil and its corrupting effects on governments and intelligence agencies here and abroad. Gaghan is in the enviable position of opening his new film Dec. 9, when Academy voters grow hungry for Very Important Movies. But he's also in the unenviable position of rolling it out during a holiday when audiences are likely to want video-game systems humming - or, as in the case of the 2003 hit, Elf, Will Ferrell dancing - in their heads rather than visions of assassins or suicide bombers.

On September 21, 2005, CAROLYN S. (nee Beatty), beloved wife of the late Ernest H. Adelung, Sr.; devoted mother of Deborah, Joanne, Ernest Adelung, Jr., Cynthia Reall, Kimberly Adelung, and the late David Adelung; dear sister of Millard Beatty and Jeanne Bagwell. Also survived by 14 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale), on Monday at 10 A.M. Interment Moreland Memorial Park.

On Saturday July 2, 2005 EDITH M. BEATTY, 95, formerly of Baltimore, died at Green Acres of Gettysburg; beloved wife of the late Albert T. Beatty, loving daughter of the late Loren and Vira Belle (Baldwin) Beckwith, mother of the late Albert G. Beatty. She is survived by one son, Eugene M. Beatty of Hanover, one daughter, Joan I. Taylor of Littlestown, 10 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. Funeral service on Tuesday, July 5 11:30 A.M., at Little's Funeral Home, Littlestown, with Chaplain Eddie D. Miller, of Asera Care Hospice, officiating.