People talk 6/25/03

Photographer wants court to dismiss lawsuit

LOS ANGELES -- A photographer Barbra Streisand is suing for putting photos of her Malibu estate on the Internet asked a court to dismiss the entertainer's action on grounds that it infringes on his right to free expression.

Lawyers for Kenneth Adelman also said in documents filed Monday that his photo of the property, along with more than 12,000 other aerial images posted on a Web site, "address a matter of serious public concern -- the preservation of the California coastline."

A Superior Court hearing on the motion was scheduled for July 14.

Streisand's lawsuit, filed May 20, seeks $10 million from Adelman and others for violating her right to privacy by identifying routes to enter her property and providing details on the residence's features that can't be seen from a public vantage point.

'Girls Gone Wild' loses rapper spokesman

NEW YORK -- Snoop Dogg isn't wild about "Girls Gone Wild" anymore.

The rapper, who appeared as the host on one of the raunchy strip videos, told The Associated Press he's done with the series because it doesn't feature women of color.

"If you notice, there hasn't been no girls of (ethnicity) at all on none of those tapes," Snoop Dogg complained during a recent interview.

"No black girls, no Spanish girls -- all white girls, and that (stuff) ain't cool," he said.

Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, said he plans to do his own version of "Girls Gone Wild" to "bring some flavor to the table" -- and to satisfy women of color waiting for their chance to go topless for the camera.

"They've been complaining to me like crazy," the 31-year-old rapper said. "They think I like the white girls because I'm on there with them, and I don't, I just did that for money."

TV work, family keeps Kelly Ripa on the move

RADNOR, Pa. -- Kelly Ripa seems to be keeping busy.

The co-host of "Live With Regis and Kelly" has added a starring role in a sitcom to her daily talk-show duties. She's also a mother to three children, including infant Joaquin Consuelos. She and her husband, actor Mark Consuelos, also have an older son and daughter.

"My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky," Ripa tells TV Guide in the June 28 issue.

This fall, she'll star in "Hope & Faith," a new ABC sitcom, besides her talk show with Regis Philbin. Ripa plays a washed-up soap star going back to live with her sister, Faith Ford.

Ripa, 32, said she told "Hope & Faith" producers she'd be bringing her children to the set. She insisted the sitcom be shot in Manhattan so she could continue work on the talk show.

Her husband said their family life is not as harried as it seems.

"People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock," Consuelos said.

Ripa says she eventually sees herself being a "full-time mom."

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MOSCOW -- Gina Lollobrigida took a turn in a new spotlight, opening the first exhibition of her sculptures at a Moscow museum.

A former art student and model, Lollobrigida began acting in movies in Italy just after the end of World War II. But she returned to art, first with photography and then sculpture.

She said her life in film heavily influenced her sculptures.

"My cinema -- the '50s, '60s -- is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be bad to show that kind of cinema where we could dream," Lollobrigida told reporters.

Some of the bronze works represent characters she has played, including Esmeralda in 1957's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Other sculptures include "My Friend Liza Minnelli" and "My Friend Marilyn Monroe."

The exhibit opened Monday. Lollobrigida, 74, said she'd wanted Moscow to be the first showplace for her works. She attended the opening Friday of the Moscow International Film Festival.

"Russian people -- there is an affection -- they have sympathy for me and they showed it to me many years ago and still today they are very faithful," she said.

After Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Lollobrigida's exhibit travels to Venice and Paris.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.'s Calvin Klein division has named apparel giant Kellwood Co. as its producer of a new women's sportswear line, to be sold in department stores in the United States as early as spring 2004.

Financial terms of the licensing agreement weren't disclosed.

"This is the right time for us to be launching this business, and I couldn't be more pleased about the people whom we'll be working with," designer Calvin Klein said in a statement.

The business will operate as a separate division of Kellwood. Calvin Klein Inc. will have design approval and will control branding, advertising and public relations.

The agreement was announced last week. The Calvin Klein women's line will complement the men's better sportswear business already being designed.

Phillips-Van Heusen, the world's largest shirt maker, acquired flashy design house Calvin Klein in December 2002 in a deal valued at $430 million.

Kellwood beat out Jones Apparel Group, which is on the hunt for new growth opportunities after a well-publicized feud with Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. Jones recently announced it was no longer producing Polo's highly lucrative Ralph by Ralph Lauren line.

Kellwood, which sells to mass chains and department stores, is a $2.2 billion marketer of apparel and accessories. Brands include Sag Harbor, Koret and David Dart.

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DEADWOOD, S.D. -- Kevin Costner, who filmed much of his Oscar-winning "Dances With Wolves" in South Dakota, has dedicated "Tatanka: The Story of the Bison" exhibit near Deadwood.

The exhibit features a bronze sculpture by Peggy Detmers that depicts three Lakota riders on horseback who are chasing buffalo off a cliff, a system used by Indians to kill a large number of buffalo, on which they depended for survival.

"You're seeing fully mature, skilled warriors that fed their families, that rode like the wind. And it's very poetic to me, even though it's a violent piece," Costner said.

"I like that there is a life and death struggle that's occurring up there and it occurred for thousands of years," said the 48-year-old actor-director, who commissioned the piece.

Costner, who was in Deadwood on Friday for the dedication, said the idea for the sculpture came as he filmed "Dances With Wolves," which featured scenes of buffalo on the South Dakota prairie. The 1990 movie won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and best director for Costner.

The exhibit, which marked its grand opening over the weekend, also features a living-history encampment and a restaurant that serves bison meat.