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HAGERSTOWN -- Senior captain John Muse, one of three Westminster finalists, needed just one minute 33 seconds to dispatch Mike Dempsher of North Hagerstown for the 145-pound championship in the 12th annual Hub Cup at North Hagerstown last night.The victory raised Muse's record to 16-3, including 14 pins. One of his pins was in 20 seconds, fourth fastest of the program.The other Westminster finalists were senior Chris Reiter (20-4) at 125, a 6-5 loser to Steve Stone of Williamsport, and junior 215-pounder Kurt Rauschenburg, pinned in 3: 05 by E.B. Wallech of North Hagerstown.

Around this time last year, director Barry Levinson was still filming "Liberty Heights," the fourth installment in a cycle of films inspired by his early life in Baltimore. Throughout the fall, Levinson, his cast and crew had been filming in and around the city, transforming The Block, Pennsylvania Avenue and Park Heights into 1950s versions of themselves.Like "Diner," "Tin Men" and "Avalon" before it, "Liberty Heights" had all the earmarks of a typical Levinson Baltimore movie. But an early reading of the script and conversations with Levinson's colleagues suggested that there was something different about this one.For one thing, its subject matter -- race, religion and class and how they interplayed during the era of Brown vs. Board of Education -- was far more pointed than in Levinson's past films, where Jewish culture might have been suggested but was never the subject at hand.

"The Muse," Albert Brooks' fitfully funny comedy of Hollywood manners, is a strange animal. By turns biting and breezy, it also remarkably retrograde, ultimately sacrificing wit to less interesting likability. Even though the movie is full of Brooks's characteristically caustic lines, he winds up pulling his punches, resulting in a toothless series of vignettes rather than an insider satire on a par with, say, "Bowfinger."Not that Brooks hasn't come up with a terrific premise. He plays Steven Phillips, a middle-aged screenwriter who can feel his career sliding into irrelevance.

Jeff Gordon will, no doubt, be glad when this year is over.Not that it would be considered a bad year for most Winston Cup drivers -- he leads the series in victories with seven and in pole positions, also with seven.But for only the second time in five years, Gordon won't be the series champ. His longtime crew chief, Ray Evernham, has left for Dodge pastures. And now comes the announcement that five of the members of his vaunted "Rainbow Warrior" crew are leaving for the Robert Yates-owned Dale Jarrett team.

Westminster dominated the early matches, then held off a determined South Carroll bid to win their dual meet, 40-30, last night, earning a piece of the county regular-season title with the Cavaliers and North Carroll, all at 2-1.More importantly, the win gave the Owls the top regional seed and the home site next Wednesday in the state duals.In addition, Westminster likely will draw North Carroll in the first round, getting a chance to make amends for its only loss in a 13-1 season. South Carroll, another duals entrant, ended its regular season at 15-2.

When Westminster won its third straight county wrestling championship in February, five of the eight champions between 112-152 pounds were Owls. Three are now seniors and team leaders.Together, Kyle Burger, John Muse, and Chris Reiter have five county titles, two regional titles, and three state placings.Burger, with the least experience, has the largest haul -- county and regional titles at 125 pounds and 130 pounds, plus a sixth and a fourth in the state meet.Reiter and Muse began wrestling when they were 5, but Burger did not get interested until wrestling in a middle-school gym class.

Westminster avenged its only loss of the season by demolishing North Carroll, 41-17, for the Class 3A-4A North region championship last night.No. 8-ranked Westminster (14-1), at home by virtue of its top seeding, wasted little time in putting away the title, winning eight of the first 10 bouts for a 41-7 lead.Westminster moves on to the state dual-meet semifinals Saturday at Frederick High School. Last year, the Owls defeated Frederick in the semifinals, then lost a relatively close match to Arundel.

NEW YORK -- Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. agreed yesterday to buy Regal Cinemas Inc. for $1.5 billion and combine their other theater chains, creating the world's largest operator of movie theaters.The investment firms will purchase Regal for $31 a share, or $1.2 billion in cash, and take on $290 million in debt.Regal will be folded into KKR's Act III Cinemas and Hicks Muse's United Artists Theatre Group, together valued at $1.5 billion. It's the first time the rival firms have joined for an investment.

A woman injured both legs last night when she jumped from the second-floor window of a burning rowhouse in the 1800 block of N. Longwood St. in West Baltimore, said Battalion Chief Michael Moritz.The one-alarm fire was reported at 7: 41 p.m., Moritz said.Police said Barbara Aye, 35, was treated for leg injuries at Maryland Shock Trauma Center.She was a visitor at the house when the fire broke out.Unhurt were residents Patrice Muse, 39; Muse's daughter, Anesha Hubbard, 16; Charles Fisher, 69; and Charles Winstead, 33.Pub Date: 10/29/98

A Virginia woman was killed outside of Annapolis early yesterday when she ran across U.S. 50 into the path of a car, Anne Arundel County police said.Vonetta Maria Muse, 23, of Vienna was a passenger in a car eastbound on U.S. 50 near the Ridgely Avenue overpass about 2: 30 a.m. when the driver pulled onto the right shoulder.Police said that for a reason they have not determined, Muse got out, ran into the road and was hit by a 1988 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Russell E. Pedigo, 29, of Flint, Mich.

State lawmakers rejected on Thursday an attempt to make it easier for domestic violence victims to arm themselves. Victims advocates had opposed the idea, noting the danger of mixing guns and abuse. The attempt came in the form of a controversial amendment to a bill that would require judges to confiscate guns from the subjects of final protective orders. Supported by Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, that domestic violence initiative was approved earlier by the House without the victims amendment.

On September 25, 2008, EDWARD, father of Teresa Faul (Texas), Tracey and Ternise and Timothy Muse. Family will receive friends at Central Church of Christ, 4301 Woodridge Ave., Saturday 10 to 11 A.M. with memorial service to follow. Arrangements by Phillips Funeral Home, P.A.

Louise Muse, a dance instructor who taught ballet to hundreds of Baltimore students for nearly five decades, died Friday at Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 91. Raised in Dundalk, Ms. Muse began teaching at Estelle Dennis' dance studio in the 1950s after spending several years as a student under the legendary instructor. Ms. Muse taught girls from nearby St. Peter's school at the studio's original site in Towson as well as adults, according to Joan Shnipper, a former student. The studio moved to 13 W. Mount Vernon Place in 1966, where Ms. Shnipper said Ms. Muse kept teaching until she was 85. Many of the day-to-day operations of the studio were handled by Ms. Muse, and she took over entirely after Ms. Dennis died in 1996.

A beat-boxing donkey, a grape-obsessed fox, and a narcissistic peacock provide a modern twist to ancient tales in Glenelg Country School's premiere production of Aesop's Foibles. Collaborators Carole Graham Lehan and Tom French created the original script and score for Aesop's Foibles, inspired by the well-known collection of stories, Aesop's Fables. This farcical musical follows the story of Thalia (Maeve Ricaurte), a fledgling muse sent to help Aesop fill a tome with his imaginative stories.

When the captivating Rev. C. Anthony Muse took the pulpit at the funeral of a fellow state senator last month, he repeated a phrase throughout his eulogy like a gospel choir singing a refrain: "Well done, Senator Britt, we'll take it from here." To many listeners in the pews that day, the phrase was a poignant way for Muse to pay tribute to the late Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt and her long history as an activist. But the gay and lesbian attendees, who were shifting in the pews to exchange knowing looks, hoped the phrase meant something more.

Consumer-rights advocates and some legislators said yesterday that Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposals for addressing the mounting foreclosure crisis don't do enough to help homeowners now, but industry lobbyists argued in a Senate hearing that parts of the bills are onerous and need to be tweaked. O'Malley's administration has introduced a series of bills that would lengthen the time before a foreclosure can take place, create a new criminal statute on mortgage fraud and ban the conveyance of property in so-called foreclosure rescue schemes.

Taquila Muse of Catonsville brushes aside those who say people should be married before they live together. "I don't agree with that," says the 27-year-old. "I think you should get to know a person, everything about them, before you actually marry them." Tim McKinley of Huntington, N.Y., agrees. "I think you have a better chance of making it work if you've lived with someone for a while," says the 21-year-old Loyola College student. Living together is more common nowadays, but that doesn't mean it's gotten easier.

On August 19, 2007 WILLIE SR.; devoted husband to Mamie Muse. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Friday after 8:30 a.m. where the family will receive friends on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. followed by funeral service at 12 noon.

I'M VERY SHALLOW AND EMPTY, AND HAVE no ideas and nothing interesting to say," a pale blonde (Shelley Hack) who is the image of WASP pulchritude informs Woody Allen in Annie Hall. Michelle Pfeiffer is the prototype of the pale blonde, but she cuts against this insult to her type with every acting move she makes. The 49-year-old actress accepts her cover-girl looks while bringing her characters' hidden yearnings and confusions to the fore, and even their twisted villainy. In 2001's White Oleander she tore into the role of an impossibly beautiful and talented artist-mother -- a mother as bad news and muse -- who sees her daughter only as an extension of herself and involves the girl in preparations for a murder.

Creative Alliance Movie screenings The Creative Alliance's "Midnight Rambles" continues today at 7:30 p.m. with Harry L. Fraser's Spirit of Youth (1938), starring heavyweight champion Joe Louis, and The Broken Earth, a 1936 short film starring Baltimore's Clarence Muse. Admission is free. The Creative Alliance at the Patterson is at 3134 Eastern Ave. Information: go to creativealliance.org or call 410-276-1651. FYI Because of the Presidents Day holiday, the Nielsen TV ratings do not appear today.