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Annual pride parade, now known as New York City's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride March, takes on new celebratory tone in light of recent legal developments, including US Supreme Court decision striking down sodomy laws in Texas and Canada's decision to allow same-sex marriage; highlights of parade described; photos (M)
Showtime premium cable network lags behind HBO in subscriptions, earnings and acclaim; sixth season's premier of HBO's Sex and the City garnered strong media attention Showtime programming rarely receives; hiring by Showtime of seasoned television executive Robert Greenblatt as its new head of entertainment serves notice on industry that network plans to become more competitive; photos (M)
The United States Supreme Court's ruling to strike down laws against sodomy and Canadian decisions in support of same-sex marriages contributed to a more celebratory tone at New York City's gay and lesbian pride parade.
Scores of New Jersey foster children are being housed in psychiatric wards for months at a time, simply because state has nowhere else to put them; specialized children's psychiatric wards, of which state has nine, were conceived as triage stops, where severe mental and emotional problems could be diagnosed and treated, and children then moved on to long-term care in residential programs or returned to homes; but hospital administrators, child welfare officials and others say there is now no real alternative to lengthier stays, since few spots are available in residential after-care and even fewer foster homes are capable of taking in difficult children; photo of Trinitas Hospital ward in Elizabeth (M)
Orthodox Jewish congregation and its umbrella movement National Council of Young Israel are locked in bitter dispute over Council's decision to sell Manhattan building that houses congregation, which contends sale would destroy it and violate Jewish law; Rabbi Israel Wohlgelernter argues sale violates Council's mission, while Council criticizes congregation for taking dispute public and putting its interests above those of movement; photos (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 25, 2003, covering June 30, 2003.
Luther Vandross
Metallica
Radiohead
Annie Lennox
George Strait
2003Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (born 1924)[†]
Buddy Hackett was an American comedian and comic actor. Known for his raunchy material, heavy appearance, and thick New York accent, his best remembered roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Tennessee Steinmetz in The Love Bug (1968), and the voice of Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989). He was also a frequent guest on TV game shows and variety shows.
2003Robert McCloskey, American author and illustrator (born 1915)[†]
John Robert McCloskey was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year's best-illustrated picture book. Four of the eight books were set in Maine: Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, Time of Wonder, and Burt Dow, Deep-water Man. His best-known work is Make Way For Ducklings, set in Boston. In longer works, he both wrote and illustrated Homer Price and he illustrated Keith Robertson's Henry Reed series.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]