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December 31, 2000
NEW YORK-- (UNB/AP) - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II topped a poll of the man most admired by Americans, while New York Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton took the honors for most admired woman. The president and the pope each received 6 percent of the votes in a CNN/USA Today poll of 1,000 adults, released Friday. U.S. president-elect George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore followed with 5 percent. Hillary Clinton won in a landslide with 19 percent, while talk show host Oprah Winfrey and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tied for second with 4 percent each. President Clinton has led the poll every year since 1993. Hillary Clinton has also consistently ranked high, peaking at the height of the impeachment scandal in 1998 with 28 percent of the vote. --- ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) - Jesse Ventura, the former U.S. professional wrestler-turned politician, is writing a book to teach children about government. The Minnesota governor will make "absolutely nothing" from the book because proceeds will go to charity, attorney David Bradley Olsen said in Saturday's issue of The Star Tribune of Minneapolis. The book will be licensed by Ventura for Minnesota Inc., a nonprofit foundation that has also licensed Ventura action-figure dolls, T-shirts, and shot glasses. Ventura has written two other books, "Do I Stand Alone?" about his experiences as governor, and "I Ain't Got Time to Bleed," an autobiography that hit the New York Times best-seller list. --- LOS ANGELES (AP) - Television producer and best-selling author Stephen J. Cannell said he's torn by the potential for a Hollywood writers strike this year. As both a writer and producer, the creator of shows such as U.S. television shows, "The Rockford Files" and "The A-Team," said he understands both sides of the struggle. "It's really too bad we can't open with our best offers on both sides of the table and say, 'Look, we all have a lot to lose here, let's not screw around," he said. Cannell said that during the last strike by the Writers Guild of America in 1988, his union activism nearly landed him in a picket line outside his own production company. "I told (the strike captain) I certainly didn't mind picketing, but you can't make me picket my own company, because I'd feel like a complete fool," Cannell recalled in a column published Saturday in the Los Angeles Times. |