Eddie

The star looks smashing in slinky silk, spike heels and bright-red lipstick. So wait. Who are we talking about? Could be Eddie Izzard. The lead actor of FX's ambitious new family chronicle The Riches has most recently been seen purveying his one-man stand-up shows on BBC America, attired in the sort of miniskirt-and-fishnets styling befitting the world's most famed transvestite comic. Or do we mean the character of his youngest child on The Riches? That would be the one who goes to town when big sister's outfits get handed down.

Memorial ServiceEddie Blind: A memorial services for Eddie Blind, 90, head starter at Maryland thoroughbred tracks who died Aug. 6, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.Also, the name of Mr. Blind's daughter, Joan Blind Long of Long Island, N.Y., was inadvertently omitted from his obituary published Aug. 9. The Sun regrets the error.Eddie Blind was known as the "maestro of the start."During his 32-year career as head starter at Maryland thoroughbred tracks, he opened the gate on an estimated 75,000 races.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- I'm zippin' across the state, one hand on my Big Gulp, the other on the wheel. I've got the music cranked. I've got the pedal to the metal. I've got visions of the Frown Prince, dancing through my head."Ed-die. Ed-die."Every year I beg for this assignment: The spring-training "interview" with Eddie Murray. It is the easiest workday in American journalism. Get the big "No!" from Eddie, pound the laptop for an hour, then hit the beach."Ed-die. Ed-die."I'm chanting his name now. I've got my entire day planned.

Tone is everything in a television series like Keen Eddie, the new comic cop drama premiering tonight on Fox. If it's off by even a little, the show seems too stupid to bear. But when it's on, it sparkles. The pilot for Keen Eddie misses more than it hits in the matter of tone. But the moments when things go right are enough of a joy to warrant a few more weeks of letting the show try to find its way before one renders a final verdict. By the standards of most network summer series, it already deserves a passing grade for attitude and spunk.

Because he regards all honest labor as human catastrophe, Eddie from South Baltimore, the semi-well-known bookmaker, finds himself at Pimlico Race Course on this Preakness Week with his friend Leon and a delusion that he knows what he is doing."

THE principal of a Lincolnton, N.C., high school has called off the annual homecoming dance because the kids refuse to knock off the sexually suggestive bumping and grinding and clean up their dirty-dancing act.In return, the students petitioned the county schools' superintendent to overrule the principal, but he refused. The ban stands.A senior named Eddie complained, "A dance is meant to be a place where people can express themselves and have fun. If that happens to be by dancing dirty . . . . why not?"

Eddie Tarver Jr., a retired restaurant cook who attracted a following at a Lexington Market raw bar, died of heart disease Friday at Sinai Hospital. The Gwynn Oak resident was 93, and leaves 108 descendants across four generations. Born and raised in Bullock County, Ala., Mr. Tarver moved to Baltimore in 1937. He lived in the 600 block of N. Carey St. for many years. He worked as a laborer in the 1940s in the foundries of Koppers Co. and Gibson & Kirk in Southwest Baltimore. In the 1950s, he became a chef at the old Dubner's Restaurant on Frederick Avenue and was a seafood handler at Gordon's Crab House near Patterson Park.

Welcome to Crazytown.  Episode 5 resumes with Tamra wanting to kick almost everyone out of her party. Even Lydia agrees that Alexis isn't getting bullied and doesn't have a problem with not feeding into her pity party. Gretchen and Heather play voice of reason and explain why Alexis was wrong for showing up to Tamra's party. Alexis is extremely upset that she attended as Vicki's guest and that Vicki didn't come to her rescue when she was kicked out. Tamra goes out to confront Alexis (with a glass of wine in her hand)

Edward Francis Grieves 3rd couldn't pass a stranded motorist without pulling over to offer his help, perhaps to have a look under the hood.He was handy at fixing things, his brothers said. Though he often cut or banged himself in the process, he persisted until he got the job done. "Some way or other he would always bleed in helping somebody," said his brother John, 28.Eddie Grieves, 30, died Sunday morning trying to help somebody.He had been driving southbound on Interstate 95 when he spotted a traffic accident on the northbound side near Moravia Road.

WITH THEIR $1 million gift, Eddie C. and Sylvia Brown have become the biggest donors to Baltimore's public library since Enoch Pratt's original 1882 bequest. An African-American collection bearing their name will be housed in a Central Library annex that is to be built in 2004. The Browns' generosity comes just eight months after their $6 million grant to the Maryland Institute College of Arts. It's just one of the Glen Arm couple's growing number of recent donations to institutions they cherish in their adopted city.