Valerie

BE NICE. Don't lie." Those four words sum up Valerie Bertinelli's philosophy. She delivers them with a characteristic girlish grin and a broad shrug that conveys "What - doesn't that make sense?"

On January 30, 2008, VALERIE G., daughter of Gertrude Tucker. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Sunday after 10 A.M. The family will receive friends at Israel Baptist Church, 1220 N. Chester Street on Monday at 10:00 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 10:30 A.M.

Valerie Griffin Aesthetician Spector + Krupp Center for Facial Enhancement, Towson Salary --$35,000 Age --31 Years on the job --Two How she got started --Griffin was a bartender and a manager of a hair salon before becoming an aesthetician or skin-care specialist. She knew she loved the salon and spa industry but didn't want to cut hair. She decided to go into skin care and graduated from the Von Lee International School of Aesthetics. After obtaining her Maryland license, she began working at Spector + Krupp.

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband seeking damages against Vice President Dick Cheney, former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and two others she accused of conspiring to disclose her identity. Plame and her husband, former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV, had alleged that Cheney, Libby, White House political adviser Karl Rove and former State Department official Richard L. Armitage had violated their constitutional rights in the events that led to Plame's being identified in news reports in the summer of 2003.

Avenue Montaigne makes what seems, at first, a bold statement: that art is entertainment, and drawing distinctions between the two is both foolish and self-defeating. The highbrow among us might beg to differ, arguing that there's no comparison between an Ibsen play and a soap opera. So might the more lowbrow, for whom classical music is a labor they don't care to endure. But, really, the vast majority of people understand that they like what they like, not for what it's called but for how it makes them feel.

It was cold - really cold - as Marvin Briscoe and Valerie McKeever and a team of city housing department employees fanned out across a swath of Park Heights yesterday in the icy morning air, the wind whipping up snow around them. But their clients, they assumed, were colder. Death Traffic fatality in Harford might be linked to snow.pg 3b

On January 19, 2007, 11 year old CASEY SMITH, loving son of Valerie Smith Boddie. Friends may call the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday after 9 A.M. Family will receive friends on Thursday in Power House World Ministries, 1901 Belair Road at 10:30 A.M., followed by funeral services at 11 A.M. Interment in King Memorial Park.

On December 14, 2006, CLARENCE B., beloved father of Clarence Jr, Beverly, and Valerie Landrum; also survived by 2 grandsons, 2 brothers and a host of other relatives. Friends may visit at the JAMES A. MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOME, 1701 Laurens Street on Tuesday 4 to 7 P.M. On Wednesday Mr. Landrum will lie in state at Wayland Baptist Church, 3200 Garrison Blvd. The family will receive friends 10:30 to 11A.M., followed by services.

Valerie J. Serio, a former paralegal and homemaker who during her four-year struggle with breast cancer became an inspiration to all who knew her, died of the disease Tuesday at her Ellicott City home. She was 48. She was born Valerie J. Smith in Washington and raised in Mitchellville. She was a 1976 graduate of Largo High School, where she played varsity volleyball. After graduation from the Washington School for Secretaries, where she studied to become a paralegal, Mrs. Serio worked for the next 14 years at the Washington law firm of Foley and Lardner.

V for Vendetta [Warner] $35 This spring's moderate box office hit V for Vendetta arrives in a two-disc set. Based on the popular graphic novel of the same title, the action-thriller stars Natalie Portman as a young woman who becomes embroiled with a charismatic freedom fighter (Hugo Weaving), who wears a Guy Fawkes mask. The special-features disc includes better-than-average documentaries on production design, Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 to destroy the British monarchy and the new wave in comics.