Scully

Sister Marcella Scully, a retired Seton High School and St. Joseph College biology teacher, died of Alzheimer's disease Oct. 24 at Villa St. Michael, her order's retirement home in Emmitsburg. She was 79. Born Marcella Regina Scully in Wildwood, N.J., she entered the Daughters of Charity in 1946. She earned a bachelor's degree from St. Joseph College in Emmitsburg in 1956, where she taught in the 1960s and 1970s. She also had a master's degree and a doctorate in microbiology from Catholic University of America.

NEW YORK -- Gillian Anderson, better known as Agent Dana Scully, has just stepped off the stage at the Jacob Javits Convention Center and is making her way through some 6,500 fans to the autograph table. Jessica Barrett, a 17-year-old fan from Stockholm, N.J., offers an instant analysis of Anderson's performance in the hourlong question-and-answer session with audience members that just ended."I love Scully, totally love Scully," Barrett says. "But, after seeing Gillian Anderson, I have to tell you I think she's an airhead, total airhead."

This may be Gillian Anderson's big movie moment, but don't think she's nervous. The actress is maintaining an almost Scullyan unflappability even as "The X-Files" looks to be as big of a hit as the TV show that spawned it."I'm really kind of casual about it all," Anderson said when she phoned the film desk this week. "I'm excited that the numbers are staying high for the week, and I'm curious about how next weekend will do. I have to say I'm finally relaxed."Finally? "There was just a lot of press centered around the opening of the film and other commitments," she said.

Is reading about dunks, home runs, touchdowns and the like on one of those neat little sports pagers or from an online service the same thing as seeing them happen?That's the issue before a three-judge federal panel, and the answer could have dire consequences for the way game information is disseminated.A Manhattan federal judge last month issued an injunction against Stats, Inc., which gathers scores and information, and Motorola, which makes the pagers, stopping them from providing NBA scores.

PHILADELPHIA -- Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers, under the direction of their club owner, Peter O'Malley, assisted the survivors of Roy Campanella in making funeral arrangements.This week, the Dodgers will do the same for the family of Don Drysdale.It is part of the Dodgers' way, Tommy Lasorda, the manager of the team, explained quietly yesterday, what you do when there is a death in the family.And there has been death in the Dodgers' family this season. Too much death to comprehend at times, too much to soothe away with platitudes and somber remembrances.

Hard as it is to believe, Cal Ripken really might be worth $10 million a year.At first glance, the pay scales of baseball, which topped out this year with Ryne Sandberg's $7 million contract, seem out of control, an escalating spiral that keeps ticket costs rising.But specialists who study baseball finances say the skyrocketing salaries are grounded in solid economics. Teams such as the Chicago Cubs can and do pay Sandberg's tab because the second baseman is bringing in that much revenue and more, they say.And there is every reason to think the salaries -- which now average $1.08 million a year -- will continue to rise.

If he listened hard, John Scully could hear the faint humming that came from three tiny motors as they steadily stretched his right leg to make it just as long as his left.Over the course of three weeks, a computerized device that fit over his leg like a cage lengthened his leg 1 millimeter a day -- a total of three quarters of an inch by the time it was turned off yesterday.Welcome to robotics in medicine."They told me a dog had it on before me," quipped Mr. Scully, a nine-year veteran of the Atlanta Falcons football team, looking not the least bit worried as he faced reporters at the James Lawrence Kernan Hospital in West Baltimore.

Anyone who has been around the block more than once knows that old habits die hard. But the experiment of breaking away from the customary crash in front of the telly for World Series games proved rewarding enough to occasion future repeats.While viewers were being anesthetized by meaningless replays, interminable commercial breaks, annoying graphics and superfluous crowd shots, all to the accompaniment of audio equipment turned up to full blast on CBS, over on radio Vin Scully and Johnny Bench have been a joy.The way Scully describes the radio assignment is superb: "You show up with a canvas and your brushes and you go from there, painting a picture."

It's late at night, and Jon Miller is on the radio from the West Coast. You're stiff, sore and increasingly frustrated while trying to piece together some furniture using instructions written in Swedish. But then Miller goes into his Vin Scully, and you can laugh again.Does Miller get a little more off-the-wall when he broadcasts Baltimore Orioles games from the Pacific time zone? Not only did he go into his Scully earlier this week, but he Scullied something about Moliere and Paris and what did they know about sliders during the 17th century in France?

A fully automatic and computerized device that lengthens and strengthens upper and lower limbs seems to psychologically benefit the patient while it works its magic.That's the word from John Scully, an offensive lineman and nine-year veteran of the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. Scully is the first human patient to be fitted to a preproduction model of the new device in Baltimore."I had so many other things to worry about, it was a relief not to have to think about turning any knobs and maybe turning them too much or too little," Scully said yesterday.

That terrific TV critic Joyce Millman rightly called the first chaotic X-Files movie, The X-Files: Fight the Future, "an overgrown sweeps episode." Ten years later (and six years after the series' demise), The X -Files: I Want to Believe resembles those TV-series reunions that bring the cast of a hit together for a not-so-special occasion. The plot about a clairvoyant defrocked priest, Father Joe (Billy Connolly), who may lead the FBI to a kidnapped agent, sutures together tropes from serial-killer movies, horror classics such as The Body Snatcher and Frankenstein, medical suspense films like Coma and psychic jamborees like The Dead Zone.

Sister Marcella Scully, a retired Seton High School and St. Joseph College biology teacher, died of Alzheimer's disease Oct. 24 at Villa St. Michael, her order's retirement home in Emmitsburg. She was 79. Born Marcella Regina Scully in Wildwood, N.J., she entered the Daughters of Charity in 1946. She earned a bachelor's degree from St. Joseph College in Emmitsburg in 1956, where she taught in the 1960s and 1970s. She also had a master's degree and a doctorate in microbiology from Catholic University of America.

If you've been wondering what happened to Gillian Anderson, the actress who played Agent Scully in The X-Files, she hasn't been abducted by aliens. The 37-year-old actress, who lived in England as a child, moved to London three years ago, where she's been pursuing a career on the West End stage and in low-budget, independent films. Anderson was in New York to publicize Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, a film in which she has a very small, but very funny, part. She is also in Bleak House on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre.

On Tuesday, January 24, 2006, SHIRLEY MARY (nee Scully), beloved wife of George M. Frock, devoted mother of Joanna Simmons, Georgeanna Carroll and her husband Lee and Barbara Brandjes and her husband Michael, sister of Robert Scully and Brother Bonaventure Scully, C.F.X., loving grandmother of Kelly, Bill, Christian, Patrick, Tom, Gretchen, Bridgette, Braegan and Angela. Also survived by eight grandchildren. Friends may call at St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church, 101 Church La., Pikesville Saturday 11 to 12 noon.

As late as the 1970s, New York cartoonist Al Capp could still complain that abstract art was "the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled, to the utterly bewildered." No more. Today, abstraction is ensconced in the pantheon of 20th-century modernist art. Audiences once outraged or puzzled by Picasso's violent distortions and Pollock's artful drips now take them in stride. So two new exhibitions on view in Washington - Sam Gilliam's retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Sean Scully's Wall of Light series at the Phillips Collection - offer an intriguing opportunity to examine quite different paths abstract painting has taken in the hands of contemporary masters born just a decade apart.

On September 6, 2005, PETER W. "Pete" SCULLY, SR., of New Freedom, PA. Husband of the late Margaret G. (nee Batzer) Scully, father of Patricia M. Stephens and Peter W. "Pete" Scully, Jr. Also survived by four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and is predeceased by a brother John Scully. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, September 10, at 11 am from J.J. Hartenstein Mortuary, Inc., 24 Second St., New Freedom, PA. Friends may call at the mortuary on Friday from 6 to 8 pm and on Saturday from 10 to 11 am. Interment will be at the convenience of the family.

On November 14, 2004, KAREN ANN SCULLY beloved wife of Michael S. Scully, devoted mother of Jack and Logan Scully, loving daughter of Greg Richards and Ann Boteler, dear sister of Colin Boteler, Kevin Boteler and Emily Richards, granddaughter of Thelma Richards. Also survived by a host of family and friends. The family will receive friends on Wednesday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P. M at the Donaldson Funeral Home & Crematory, P.A., 1411 Annapolis Road, Odenton, MD. A funeral service will be held on Thursday 11 A. M at St. Andrew on the Bay Catholic Church, Annapolis, MD, Interment Lakemont Memorial Gardens, Davidsonville, MD. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hospice of the Chesapeake, 445 Defense Highway, Annapolis, MD, 21401.

WASHINGTON -- An internal investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services confirms that top Medicare officials intentionally withheld data from Congress showing that Medicare drug benefits would probably cost much more than the White House acknowledged. A report on the investigation, issued yesterday, says that the administrator of Medicare, Thomas A. Scully, threatened to fire the program's chief actuary, Richard S. Foster, if he provided the data to Congress while lawmakers were considering huge changes in the program last year.

WASHINGTON - House Republicans shut down yesterday an inquiry by Democrats into whether the Bush administration acted illegally or inappropriately last year when it withheld from Congress its estimates of the true cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill. At issue are allegations that then-Medicare administrator Thomas A. Scully threatened to fire his top actuary if he gave lawmakers his analyses showing that the costs would be higher than Bush administration officials were saying publicly.

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats, reacting to disclosures that Thomas A. Scully, the former Medicare administrator, had prevented his chief actuary from sharing information with Congress, said yesterday that they believed a federal law had been violated and called on the General Accounting Office to investigate. In a letter signed by 18 senators, including the minority leader, Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, and Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the lawmakers cited a provision in an appropriations measure that bars using federal money to pay the salary of any employee who "prohibits or prevents, or threatens to prohibit or prevent" another employee from communicating with Congress.