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OH, NO! We talk all the time about Lindsay Lohan. There's going to be none of that. He's gonna stay normal." That's what Sharon Art, the strikingly attractive mother of 8-year-old actor Nicholas Art, said while watching her adorable boy sign autographs at Swifty's on Monday night. She added, "We'd rather he become George Clooney." Nicholas is the child who steals Scarlett Johansson's heart in the film version of The Nanny Diaries based on Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus' best-seller, about the harrowing experience of an Upper East Side nanny.

The Washington Capitals, whose locker room resembles a MASH unit, sent defensemen Calle Johansson, Joe Reekie and Stewart Malgunas for more X-rays and exams yesterday.The good news is that the Caps learned that Johansson's right wrist, injured in the team's 4-2 loss at Pittsburgh on Thursday, is not broken. They also learned that Reekie, who suffered a bruised nerve in his left foot in the same game, is day-to-day.The bad news is that Johansson's wrist is so badly sprained that he still will be out two to four weeks.

LANDOVER -- The Washington Capitals, it seems, spent a lot of time playing the ghost of Mario Lemieux yesterday. Finally, after two periods and trailing 2-1, someone noticed that the legendary No. 66 wasn't among the Pittsburgh Penguins cast but was back home with the flu.The Caps came out of the locker room in overdrive. Just 31 seconds after the resumption of play, Calle Johansson had a goal, tying the score.Six minutes and 10 shots later, Stefan Ustorf tapped in a rebound to put Washington in front on its way to a 4-2 victory, its sixth straight at USAir Arena.

Westminster Historic District Commission has nominated Greater Westminster Development Corp. and Johansson's Dining House for 1996 Maryland Preservation awards.Greater Westminster Development Corp. was nominated for an Educational Excellence Award for organizing the Westminster Business History Walking Tour, held April 27.The self-guided tour included 11 downtown businesses and three buildings at Western Maryland College, exploring the architectural and business diversity of the area.Johansson's was nominated for the rehabilitation of the Rosenstock-G.

WASHINGTON -- It has been 36 years since a relatively unknown Swedish boxer named Ingemar Johansson stunned the boxing world by knocking down champion Floyd Patterson seven times on the way to winning the world heavyweight championship.That was the first of their three title encounters, with Patterson winning the last two fights. Now good friends, who see each other at least twice a year, Johansson and Patterson yesterday recounted the days they monopolized the heavyweight crown while sharing the dais with ring legends Archie Moore, Carmen Basilio, Gene Fullmer and Kid Gavilan at the annual "Fight For Children" charity boxing show.

LANDOVER -- This time it was total domination, and the team doing the dominating was the Washington Capitals.Last night, with the best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarterfinal series tied at one game each, the Capitals simply pounded the Pittsburgh Penguins with a heart-pumping, 6-2 victory at USAir Arena.It was the kind of game Washington had promised itself. A full, 60 minutes.And it was the kind of game the Capitals' faithful have come to expect from rookie goaltender Jim Carey, who demonstrated why he is a top candidate for Rookie of the Year in the NHL.Carey made 21 saves before finally letting the puck in the net, and by that time, Calle Johansson, Keith Jones (twice)

C Last year, then-rookie defenseman Sergei Gonchar managed to make it into the Washington Capitals' lineup and stay there, despite seldom understanding the directions of coach Jim Schoenfeld.The 6-foot-2, 212-pounder simply didn't get it."Last year, sometimes, I just didn't know what was going on," said Gonchar, who came to the United States from his native Russia at the beginning of last season."I just didn't know what people were saying to me, what they were joking about, what the coach was saying," he said, his brown eyes widening.

QUEBEC -- It didn't take long for Washington's new defenseman, Mark Tinordi, to make an impression."It's just one game," he said. "We'll have to wait and see to find out the whole story."But in Washington's first game of the season, Saturday night in Hartford, Conn., it didn't take long to get an idea of what the future may hold.Tinordi and Calle Johansson played soldily all night and combined with Sylvain Cote, Jim Johnson, Joe Reekie and John Slaney to hold the Whalers to one shot over the last 13 minutes of regulation and five-minute overtime in the game that ended in a 1-1 tie.Tinordi, 6 feet 4 and 210 pounds, showed no qualms about leveling good, clean hits.

NEW YORK -- If the Washington Capitals are going to win one of the first two games at Madison Square Garden in their Eastern Conference semifinal series with the New York Rangers, they'll have to do it in Game 2 tomorrow, because there were no surprises for the Rangers last night.New York made the Caps pay for every mistake, and came away with a convincing, 6-3 victory for a one-game lead in the best-of-seven series."Our offensive production was opportunistic," Rangers coach Mike Keenan said.

LANDOVER -- Evidently there was nothing wrong with the Washington Capitals that a long week of practice couldn't fix.But after Capitals coach Terry Murray shuffled his lines last week, looking for more scoring, he admitted he didn't expect the scoring to come from Craig Berube, Sylvain Cote, Alan May and Calle Johansson.And yet, that's who delivered the offensive punch in yesterday's 4-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks.The success of the line changes showed up in good communication and sound defensive play that held the Blackhawks to 17 total shots.

Maryland's unemployment rate is creeping higher, though still trailing the national average. The state's struggling with a budget deficit, and many agencies, including the Department of Business and Economic Development, face sharp funding cuts. Yet Christian S. Johansson, the agency's new secretary, is bullish about Maryland's position in the recession. The 36-year-old Harvard MBA was tapped by Gov. Martin O'Malley in January to lead the agency, He knows that past governors have typically chosen DBED leaders with more experience, but Johansson said he believes he'll be judged more on the results he can deliver to businesses and workers across Maryland.

At a time of financial crisis, Gov. Martin O'Malley has chosen as the state's new economic development chief a thirtysomething Baltimorean whose private-sector experience includes a failed dot-com, two companies based out of his mother's home and a year at a consulting firm. O'Malley's choice of Christian S. Johansson to lead the state Department of Business and Economic Development might seem risky for a Cabinet post recently held by men decades his senior with far more experience in business and government.

2 Gov. Martin O'Malley plans to announce today the appointment of Christian Johansson, a Harvard University-educated entrepreneur who has run a Baltimore-based business and government alliance, as the state secretary of business and economic development. Johansson, who must be confirmed by the Senate, would replace David W. Edgerley, who resigned in December to pursue a career in the private sector or education. O'Malley has sought to reorganize the Department of Business and Economic Development, a process that emphasized efforts for the biotechnology industry and international trade and consolidated some functions.

BEIJING - He is the ultimate Swiss timepiece now. Gold, no less. Roger Federer has been pursuing a spot on the top platform of an Olympic victory stand for eight years and three Olympics, and it didn't seem possible that he had not yet made the climb. He has been the best tennis player in the world for long enough to have your son or daughter start and finish college, but the Olympics have always been his banana peel. Last night, it finally came to pass that dreams do come true, even for icons who have realized almost all of theirs.

Christian Johansson, who helped the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore shift to a more targeted approach in attracting business to the region, will step down as the organization's president and chief executive in July. The alliance, a private economic development marketing group, said yesterday that Johansson is leaving after five years at the helm to start a private equity firm focused on minority businesses. "He has been energetic and has gotten out into the community and helped expand our board and our reach tremendously," said Laura Gamble, chairwoman of the alliance's board and president of Bank of America-Maryland.

Standing at one of the 16 floor-to-ceiling windows inside his 20th-floor luxury condo, Christian S. Johansson brings to mind a popular movie scene -- you know, the one about being king of the world. Indeed, Johansson's lofty perch at the Harbor Court in downtown Baltimore is certainly fit for a king. Or at the very least, a successful 35-year-old bachelor who enjoys living in a residential building attached to a four-star hotel, complete with restaurants, a concierge and doorman, gym and more.

Celebrity sightings continued this weekend as the cast of He's Just Not That Into You worked and dined around town. Filming, which started Friday in Little Italy, will tentatively continue through tomorrow. Based on a self-help humor book, the movie brought stars Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly and Kevin Connolly to Baltimore for the past few days. In Mount Vernon, restaurants Thairish and the Helmand were temporarily redecorated Saturday with new lights, a new door and a new name: Red Seven.

OH, NO! We talk all the time about Lindsay Lohan. There's going to be none of that. He's gonna stay normal." That's what Sharon Art, the strikingly attractive mother of 8-year-old actor Nicholas Art, said while watching her adorable boy sign autographs at Swifty's on Monday night. She added, "We'd rather he become George Clooney." Nicholas is the child who steals Scarlett Johansson's heart in the film version of The Nanny Diaries based on Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus' best-seller, about the harrowing experience of an Upper East Side nanny.

Carroll Community College is offering "Secrets of Success for Small Business Owners from Small Business Owners." Owners of small businesses, or those thinking about starting a business, can eat with a successful small-business owner and learn the "secrets" of their success. Programs are: Breakfast with Carol Cahall of the Main Event Inc. from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Oct. 11 at Olive Leaf Cafe, 1001 Twin Arch Road, Mount Airy. Dinner with Bob Coffey of Coffey Music from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 24 at Johansson's Dining House, 4 W. Main St., Westminster.

Scarlett Johansson is too good and too hot for Woody Allen's Match Point. She brings down this homicidal London-set romance like a match igniting a Covent Garden opera house of cards. There's a lot of opera in this movie. As if the prominent placement of Crime and Punishment weren't enough to foreshadow gloom and doom, the onslaught of arias indicates that nothing will be easy for Johansson's struggling American actress, Nola Rice, and her ambitious Irish lover, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers)