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Forward thinking
An entirely subjective look at the week ahead
A look at what's going on this week.
By COLETTE BANCROFT
Published April 4, 2005
NO CAKE FOR THE PRESS
On Friday, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles will finally tie the knot at the Guildhall in Windsor. If you, like Queen Elizabeth, are not among the 200 people expected to attend the ceremony, you won't be able to catch it on TV either. The media have been barred, and after Charles' remarks during a Swiss ski trip Thursday were accidentally caught on a microphone - he called reporters "bloody people" and muttered"I hate doing this" as he posed for photos - it seems unlikely he'll change his mind. On eBay last week, bidding for four hours' use of a private room with a view of the Guildhall on the wedding day was up to $770. Charles and Camilla commemorative fridge magnets were going for $3.29.
GET JAMMIN'
If Michael Jackson can wear them to court, why shouldn't we wear them to work? Tuesday is International Pajama Day, founded last year to "help make the world a more comfortable place for all." The concept is simple: Wear your jammies all day. If enough people feel cozy and relaxed, the world just might become a better place. Or at least get some sleep. At the Web site, www.ipjday.org the founders suggest donating pajamas to shelters, hospitals and other organizations that help folks "share the warmth" of PJs.
NOT SO DIPLOMATIC
On Thursday, hearings begin before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the confirmation of John Bolton as U.S. envoy to the United Nations. They may be bumpy; a bipartisan group of 59 former diplomats signed a letter opposing Bolton's confirmation, and reports last week said all the Democrats on the committee had agreed to oppose him as well. Nominating him for this particular post is a little like hiring an atheist to be your church's pastor; in a 1994 speech, he said: "There is no such thing as the United Nations. . . . If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."
ISLAND INSPIRATIONS
On Saturday, three exhibitions open at the Arts Center, featuring works by artists with roots in the Caribbean and very different styles. Maria Emilia and Maria Brito are both natives of Cuba who came to this country as teenagers. Emilia's evocative multimedia works in "Life Performances 2002-05" depict "the journey of her alter ego," while Brito's surrealist paintings in "Reflections on the Human Condition" draw upon her experiences as an exile and refugee. "Vivid Perspectives" gathers lush acrylics by Jean-Claude Legagneur, a leading member of Haiti's artistic Ecole de la Beaute. The opening is 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the center, 719 Central Ave., St. Petersburg.
BIRTHDAYS IN BLACK AND WHITE
Sunday is the 158th anniversary of the birth of newspaper mogul Joseph Pulitzer, for whom the Pulitzer Prize is named. This is also birthday week for some other journalistic notables. Daniel Ellsberg, who turns 74 on Thursday, leaked the secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam to the New York Times in 1971, and the paper won a Pulitzer for its coverage. Seymour Hersh, who is 68 on Friday, won a Pulitzer in 1969 for his coverage of the My Lai massacre; his latest book is Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. Journalist and satirist Paul Krassner, who is 73 on Saturday, never won any Pulitzers, but the founder of the Realist, published 1958-74, was called "the father of the underground press" by People magazine (he demanded a paternity test).
- COLETTE BANCROFT, Times staff writer, 727 893-8435 or bancroft@sptimes.com
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