Johansson

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.

Wake Forest's Bea Bielik and Notre Dame's Michelle Dasso advanced to the women's singles final and Virginia's Brian Vahaly and Arkansas' Oskar Johansson will meet in today's men's final at the T. Rowe Price National Intercollegiate Clay Court Championships at the Suburban Club of Baltimore County in Pikesville. Bielik, the nation's No. 14-ranked player and No. 3 seed, needed just 50 minutes to beat Mississippi's No. 28 Julie DeRoo, 6-0, 6-2, in yesterday's semifinals. Bielik yielded only five points in the 14-minute first set. Bielik will face No. 18 Dasso in today's final.

A tale of strangers igniting sparks in a strange land, Lost in Translation amounts to beautiful frustration. The talented young writer-director Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides) conceives her second picture as a Tokyo-set duet between Scarlett Johansson as a neglected newlywed and Bill Murray as an over-the-hill movie star with a moribund marriage back home. But this movie registers like a pop song that enters the mind only in fragments because, as a whole, it lacks the style or substance to be memorable.

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.

LANDOVER -- Goalie Don Beaupre put on a show for the 15,655 at the Capital Centre last night, as he led the Washington Capitals to a 3-1 National Hockey League victory over the Minnesota North Stars.Beaupre, winning his 18th game of the season, stopped shots with his stick, gloves and pads; he made diving saves, sliding saves and lunging glove saves. In all, he stopped 33 shots.The only shot to elude him was during a power play in the third period. Former Philadelphia Flyer Brian Propp scored on a shot from the left circle that caromed off the far post and into the cage behind Beaupre.

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.

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)

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.

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.