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64 Diane Ladd Actress 58 Garry Shandling Comedian 53 Joel Coen Movie director 52 Howie Mandel Game show host 43 Don Cheadle Actor

Margaret-Ann Howie is warming up the congregation."We magnify him!" Howie bends low from the waist and swings her arms up, then side to side."We laud him!" She slides to the left."We honor him!" She slides to the right."Amen!" the congregation is with her all the way. They mimic her moves, perfectly in beat with the pumping music.On this gloriously warm evening, a group of women have come together in praise of the Lord. They are here to worship Him. They are here to glorify Him. They are here to burn off fat and whip their bodies into shape.

In Sunday's editions, an article about the state high school tennis championships incorrectly listed the school for players Howie Edelstein and Matt Hanna. They are from South River.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 5/28/97

A developer, an entertainer and a former school board member will be honored today for sustained contributions to the arts in Howard County.The Howard County Arts Council will present its annual "Howie Awards" during the Business and the Arts Luncheon at the Columbia Inn. Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Gallery, is the featured speaker.The winners are L. Earl Armiger, president of Orchard Development Corp. of Ellicott City; Slim Harrison, an American folk musician and storyteller; and former school board member Deborah D. Kendig.

Census figures show that nearly 40 million Americans, or 15.3 percent of the population, were without health insurance sometime during 1993, and that's just one dynamic of the complex health care crisis on which Congress refused to act. But today This Just In wants you to know that not all politicians are so shortsighted. There's at least one right here in Baltimore who wants to do something about the health insurance crisis -- as it affects dogs and cats.Monday night, Nick D'Adamo, city councilman from Baltimore's 1st District, introduced bill No. 1000 on "health and accident insurance for pets."

Columbia Assn. wins 'Howie'The Howard County Arts Council announced that the Columbia Association has been named the 1992 recipient of the annual "Howie Award" for outstanding support of the arts by a business.The council praised the association for its commitment to the arts, including the Columbia Arts Center; Slayton House with its theater and dance studios; Oakland, which houses the Maryland Museum of African Art; the Summer Lakefront Program; its support of local arts organizations through the Columbia Foundation; and its leadership in helping establish the Columbia Festival of the Arts.

The Howard County Arts Council will present the 1993 Howie Awards at the Seventh Annual Business and the Arts Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 21 at the Columbia Inn.The Outstanding Artist Award will be given to Ellen Kennedy, one of the founders of the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo). The Outstanding Arts Educator Award will be given to Valerie Costantini, chairwoman, Performing Arts Division of Howard Community College. The Outstanding Business Supporter of the Arts Award will be given to the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.The luncheon's featured speaker will be Marcellus W. Alexander Jr., vice president and general manager of WJZ-TV.

The Howard County Arts Council will present the 1993 Howie Awards at the Seventh Annual Business and the Arts Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 21 at the Columbia Inn.The Outstanding Artist Award will be given to Ellen Kennedy, one of the founders of the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo). The Outstanding Arts Educator Award will be given to Valerie Costantini, chairwoman of the Performing Arts Division of Howard Community College. The Outstanding Business Supporter of the Arts Award will be given to the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company.

Don't ask Howie to describe "Howie.""There's no way to describe it," says funny guy Howie Mandel of his series of four CBS summer comedy specials. "I don't know what it is. It's everything I've ever wanted to do, and CBS allows me to do it.""Howie," which debuted this week in the 8:30-9 p.m. Wednesday slot, is culled from several special performances before a theater-in-the-round audience of 3,000. It features stand-up, improvisational skits, surprise guest shots (some involving animals) and a band with sax-man Clarence Clemons.

To Dennis Miller, America is a pretty uptight place. People all want you to think like they do, says the inherently cynical comic."Yeah, it just seems to me to be a place where the oft-used phrase is 'politically cor ect,' " Mr. Miller said in a telephone interview last week from Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was vacationing with his wife, model Ali Espley, his 13-month-old son Holden and his in-laws. "There's a politically correct way to think, and if you deviate from that then, it's not quite McCarthyism, but . . ."

Ailing Hargitay to stay with show A representative for Mariska Hargitay says the actress has a partially collapsed lung, but will appear on all of this season's episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Hargitay's spokesman, Gary Mantoosh, declined further comment. Hargitay, 44, won an Emmy last year for her role as Detective Olivia Benson on the show. Baby Affleck has a name Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, both 36, have named their newborn daughter Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck.

One of the worst things about any big trouble is the way it isolates us at the precise moment we're most in need of comfort. It matters not one whit if the people sharing our dinner table or office cubicle are going through the identical crisis, because no two traumas are exactly the same. Every loss, every grief is as individual and specifically coded as a set of fingerprints. That's one of the main insights to be gleaned from David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

64 Diane Ladd Actress 58 Garry Shandling Comedian 53 Joel Coen Movie director 52 Howie Mandel Game show host 43 Don Cheadle Actor

As a writer, choreographer, director, actress, radio host and, for nine years, chairwoman of the Glenelg Country School performing arts department, Carole Graham Lehan said she rarely works alone. `That's the thing about performing arts," she said, "you have to adapt and collaborate with other people and use what gifts they bring to the table." That is why she feels conflicted about being singled out to receive the Howard County Arts Council's Outstanding Arts Educator Award this year, she said.

NEW YORK -- Orioles starter Kris Benson did not leave the New York Mets on his own terms last winter, but he said he carries no hard feelings into his first start against his former team. Benson was set to oppose Mets ace Pedro Martinez yesterday. "It's just going to be a regular game against a good team," he said Friday. Benson had a solid 2005 season for the Mets, going 10-8 with a 4.13 ERA. But the Mets traded him in the offseason amid speculation that they were tired of the antics of his wife, Anna.

NEW YORK -- Orioles starter Kris Benson did not leave the New York Mets on his own terms last winter, but he said he carries no hard feelings into his first start against his former team. Benson will oppose Mets ace Pedro Martinez today. "It's just going to be a regular game against a good team," he said. Benson had a solid 2005 season for the Mets, going 10-8 with a 4.13 ERA. But the Mets traded him in the offseason amid speculation that they were tired of his wife Anna's antics. The Orioles acquired him for disappointing reliever Jorge Julio and starter John Maine.

Rated NC-17 (sex, nudity). Sun score: *** 1/2 Writer-director Michael Cuesta's L.I.E. (short for Long Island Expressway) bravely tackles adolescence, sexuality and perversity by treating them as they really are: conditions of unfathomable complexity that defy categorization but are ignored (or oversimplified) at mankind's peril. Howie Blitzer (Paul Franklin Dano) is a teen-age loner, though not by choice: His mother is dead, his father's a swindler, his friends a directionless bunch burglarizing homes in Long Island.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The tree arrived in a little box and without fanfare close to four decades ago, a seedling given by a brother in California to his sister here. For years it grew in a pot until Cary Ellen Howie decided, finally, it was big enough to go in the ground. And there it is today, rising gracefully to 51 feet, about five stories tall, in her backyard. In a city filled with pines, poplars and oaks soaring to 100 feet and higher, one might not think twice about a tree half that height.

Margaret-Ann Howie is warming up the congregation."We magnify him!" Howie bends low from the waist and swings her arms up, then side to side."We laud him!" She slides to the left."We honor him!" She slides to the right."Amen!" the congregation is with her all the way. They mimic her moves, perfectly in beat with the pumping music.On this gloriously warm evening, a group of women have come together in praise of the Lord. They are here to worship Him. They are here to glorify Him. They are here to burn off fat and whip their bodies into shape.

In Sunday's editions, an article about the state high school tennis championships incorrectly listed the school for players Howie Edelstein and Matt Hanna. They are from South River.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 5/28/97