'Housewives' creator 'tapped' Sheridan to be funny

By Natalie Finn and Baker Machado, E! Online

Marc Cherry insists he did not give Nicollette Sheridan a "wallop on the head," as she says he did.

When asked by his attorney Thursday in court to describe his version of what went down on Sept. 28, 2008, the "Desperate Housewives" creator testified that he "tapped her on the side of the head" while trying to be... funny?

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Cherry recalled that Sheridan approached him to discuss why he'd cut a humorous line she was supposed to say to her onscreen husband to close a scene. The line, which quoted a Beatles song, was going to be expensive to license, so Cherry said that he told Sheridan that he wanted Edie Britt to do some physical comedy instead.

Sheridan looked "confused," Cherry said, so he "tried to help her" by demonstrating what he meant.

"I tapped her on the side of the head," he testified, after which Sheridan got an "odd look" on her face and yelled at him, "You hit me!" before storming off.

"What the heck just happened?" Cherry recalled saying to director Larry Shaw, who, he said, replied to Cherry, "Yup, directing is hard."

Cherry described his assistant driving him over to Sheridan's trailer so he could get her back on the set. "I didn't feel comfortable being alone with her in that trailer," he said.

Cherry maintained that he was not "agitated" with Sheridan in the weeks leading up to their run-in, as the actress alleged in her testimony. She claimed that Cherry hit her "upside the head" when she tried to discuss her script concerns with him and that she didn't report the incident to ABC honchos because she feared "retaliation" from her boss.

An internal investigation eventually got underway after then-ABC executive Mark Pedowitz saw a story about the allegedly scandalous incident in a tabloid -- and Cherry says he had no problem with that.

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"I wanted there to be an investigation because I wanted everybody to know what happened," Cherry testified Thursday.

Though he insists the decision to kill off Edie Britt was made at least four months before their argument, Cherry said that he waited to tell Sheridan until Feb. 10, 2009 -- the "last possible second to tell her because the script came that night and we were to shoot the next day."

Cherry denied Sheridan's claims that he "just" came to that decision, and that he had been considering the death of another character, as well, before settling on Edie.

Also Thursday, Sheridan's attorney read aloud an email sent from Cherry's assistant, Jason Ganzel (who drove his boss to Sheridan's trailer on the day in question) to "Desperate Housewives" executive producer Sabrina Wind.

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"Marc was showing Nicollette how to play her exit of the scene and they just finished rehearsing," Ganzel wrote, per the email text. "As they were going over the different buttons to the scene, Marc was demonstrating one of the options which included tapping Nicollette on the head. She asked that he not touch her and stormed off the set. Marc and I went to her trailer where Marc apologized. She forgave him and said she understood that he was just showing her how to play the button of the scene."

Wind testified that she didn't remember who wrote Edie's ultimate death scene, in which she's electrocuted after crashing her car into a utility pole.

"The idea that nobody would expect us to kill off a character of that magnitude" contributed to the idea to kill Edie, Wind said, adding that they could "play up that Edie was a bitch and had alienated the rest of the neighborhood."

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Japan Disaster: A Year Later: Without a blueprint

Reporting from Shichigahama, Japan ??

On a cold and gray recent Sunday afternoon, a standing room crowd of more than 100 residents packed the community center of this small seaside city to observe an unusual job interview.

Five architects made presentations to a design jury, hoping for a chance to design a replacement for the local middle school, heavily damaged a year ago by the earthquake and tsunami that killed an estimated 19,000 people, including at least 58 here, and destroyed more than 120,000 buildings.

Kumiko Inui, a 42-year-old rising star of the Tokyo architecture scene, ultimately won the competition with an impressive design featuring tall glass-wrapped classroom wings paired with smaller wooden pavilions in a lush tree-covered landscape.

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But an ugly reminder of the disaster loomed over the presentations: A three-story-high pile of tsunami debris, visible through large picture windows along the side of the room, that didn't so much mock the architectural discussion as dwarf it.

As Japan nears the anniversary of the disaster this Sunday, such scenes are playing out all over northeastern Japan. Huge, neatly sorted piles of debris dot the Tohoku region, symbols of a recovery that has stalled at the cleanup stage.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, his approval rating in danger of sinking below 30%, has faced wide criticism for failing to articulate a broad vision for rebuilding. The national Reconstruction Agency wasn't officially launched until February, 11 months after the disaster.

And though Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and other leading Japanese architects have joined emerging talents like Inui in sketching out thoughtful plans for new housing and civic architecture, their efforts have so far garnered little support from politicians in Tokyo.

The most intractable issue is whether the hardest hit fishing villages, already losing population before the disaster, should be rebuilt as they were or consolidated. In a broader sense, the nation has struggled with basic issues at the core of reconstruction, particularly the way the tsunami has exposed gaps between rich and poor, young and old, rural and urban, and between the nation's technological haves and have-nots.

In much the same way that Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath gave Americans a discomfiting picture of their own society, the events of March 11 have laid bare a Japan more divided than the national discourse here lets on.

"The tsunami attacked our poorer communities and [has] shown us how much they were already struggling," said Masashige Motoe, a professor in the department of architecture and building science at Tohoku University in Sendai. "No one wants to see that. No one wants to face it."

Sendai, a coastal city of 1 million people, has become an unlikely post-disaster boom town. Though its coast was heavily damaged by the tsunami, the majority of the city stayed dry, and significantly, its political structure remained intact.

Along wide and tree-shaded Jozenji Avenue, the area around the Sendai Mediatheque ? a 2001 building designed by Ito and famous among architects around the world ? is bustling. A video widely circulated on the Internet, shot from underneath a table inside the Mediatheque as the earthquake raged, showed the building shaking violently. But the minor damage it suffered was repaired months ago.

Sendai's relative good fortune has boosted its population, which had been slowly ebbing before the disaster, and given it a leg up in recovery planning. After intense negotiations with residents of its coastal neighborhood, an area along Arahama Beach that was wiped off the map by the surge, the city has decided to prohibit all construction in a half-mile-wide strip along the ocean.

It plans to turn that land into a park while fortifying its sea wall and relocating 8,500 residents to higher ground. The city is still in talks with homeowners about buying their land so they can find new property inland.

"This is a very delicate process and we want to have as much consensus of the citizens as possible," said Jun Umenai, director of Sendai's office of recovery projects.

In the towns and fishing villages devastated by the tsunami to the north of Sendai, that search for consensus has in many cases stymied the recovery process. In Onagawa, a town of 9,000 where steep, narrow valleys flow directly toward the sea, the damage still looks biblical: Three concrete buildings were ripped from their foundations and lie sideways in the muck.

Onagawa's mayor, Nobutaka Azumi, settled last year on a plan to consolidate the 15 fishing villages that the city oversees, citing declining populations and dimming economic prospects there. But he was pushed out of office by older residents who aggressively opposed the idea. A new mayor has vowed to rebuild every last village.

That sharp disagreement over reconstruction goals has repeated itself in the smaller towns along the Oshika Peninsula. In early March the central government approved $3.75 billion in rebuilding grants for 59 villages and towns, part of a larger fund of $120 billion earmarked for recovery projects. (Much of that larger fund is designated for repairing roads, bridges, train lines and other infrastructure, along with paying for the temporary housing that still holds more than 300,000 displaced residents.) But the lack of consensus on basic issues calls into question precisely how the grant money will be spent.

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'Lethal Weapon,' buddy-cop films, turn 25

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By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Twenty-five years ago today, the buddy cop movie was born.

Sure, other movies had police officers who were friends -- "Dragnet," anyone???But on March 6, 1987, "Lethal Weapon" hit theaters and the genre would never be the same.

Mel Gibson (years before his many controversial remarks) and Danny Glover played the mismatched partners, with Glover as a steady?family man and Gibson as the wild man who walks into a hail of gunfire and steps out on ledges because he really doesn't care if he lives or dies.?

The film, the first in what would become a hit series, earned four out of four stars from Roger Ebert, who wrote that the film "thrilled me from beginning to end."

"Lethal Weapon" naturally inspired plenty of similar movies, in which partners of many differing temperments and backgrounds teamed up to fight crime. Some?also became classics?("48 Hours," "Bad Boys"). Some did well, but?turned into?a punchline ("Turner & Hooch," which paired Tom Hanks with a dog). Some made such a star out of one?character that they're rarely thought of as buddy-cop movies, though they fit the genre?("Beverly Hills Cop").

The concept can still work?in the 2000s?-- see Simon Pegg's "Hot Fuzz" for proof.

But it's hard to find a film that did it better than Gibson and Glover back in the mid-1980s, when U2's "Joshua Tree" was the hot album, gas cost less than a dollar?a gallon and "Alf" was an enormously popular TV show.

At one point, a sergeant tells Glover's character, "The guys of the 80s aren't tough. They are sensitive people." Oh no no no. These '80s guys were tough, and also crazy.

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Russia arrests protestors after Putin triumph

Police arrested dozens of Russians protesting Vladimir Putin's crushing victory in presidential elections that the opposition denounced as illegitimate and international monitors said were skewed.

Western powers reacted warily to the prospect of Putin returning in a May inauguration to the Kremlin for a six year term from his current job as premier, urging a full investigation into the reports of violations.

Some 20,000 people turned out in Pushkin Square in central Moscow chanting "Russia Yes! Putin No!" as hundreds of helmeted riot police stood by on guard, an AFP correspondent said.

Most of the rally dispersed peacefully but police moved in to disperse hundreds of people who refused to leave the square. Amid frantic scenes, they arrested dozens by dragging them to waiting police vans, an AFP correspondent said.

Among those arrested were Russian anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny and two other opposition leaders Sergei Udaltsov and Ilya Yashin. "Hello to everyone from the police van," Navalny wrote on Twitter after his arrest.

Moscow police also roughly arrested dozens of protesters at a separate unsanctioned event near the central election commission, including the leader of the Other Russia radical opposition group Eduard Limonov.

An AFP reporter saw nearly one hundred detained at an unauthorised meeting in Putin's native Saint Petersburg, including leaders of the local liberal opposition party Yabloko.

According to official results, Putin won around 64 percent of Sunday's ballot in easing his way back to the seat he held for the maximum two terms from 2000-2008 before his four-year stint as prime minister.

His Communist Party challenger Gennady Zyuganov refused to recognise the results after winning just 17 percent while the billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov sprang a surprise to finish third despite building his base from scratch.

Election-rigging claims have shadowed these polls just as they had done at parliamentary elections in December that were followed by three months of the biggest anti-Kremlin demonstrations since Soviet times.

"Our aim is elections within the year. Otherwise the revolution is inevitable, even if we do not want revolution, we want free elections," said Putin's former prime minister turned bitter Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov.

Putin's fans earlier staged their own highly-choreographed rally in front of the Kremlin that the city estimated at 15,000 strong, and which included a call to "protect our victory".

International observers led by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the campaign had been massively tilted in Putin's favour and was followed by major irregularities in the vote count.

"Conditions (for the campaign) were clearly skewed in favour of... Vladimir Putin" while the vote count was "assessed negatively in almost one-third of polling stations observed due to procedural irregularities," they said.

Russia's independent monitoring group Golos published a report that showed Putin winning less than 51 percent and said the polls "were neither free nor fair."

The West gave a wary greeting to the comeback of the man who has often pursued an antagonistic foreign policy.

The US State Department said it looks forward to working with Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin once election results are certified and urged the authorities to probe voting irregularities.

Britain called his victory "decisive" but noted that the OSCE had "clearly identified some problems". The European Union also urged Russia to address the reported shortcomings.

But German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- representing Russia's biggest trading partner in Europe and a critic of Putin in the past -- was due to congratulate Putin on Monday evening while France said it had "no doubt" about who won.

Full results showed Putin winning 63.60 percent of the vote -- better than most pre-election forecasts and well ahead of Zyuganov's 17.18 percent.

The billionaire Prokhorov beat the veteran populist Vladimir Zhirinovsky to third with 7.97 while former upper house speaker Sergei Mironov brought the rear.

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Josh Johnson starts, helps Marlins beat Cardinals

By STEVEN WINE

AP Sports Writer

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updated 3:14 p.m. ET March 5, 2012

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) - Josh Johnson retired the first five batters but failed to make it through the second inning in his first game since May for the Miami Marlins, who beat the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 Monday in the spring training opener for both teams.

After a smooth start, Johnson gave up a single, a double and a walk and departed with the bases loaded. He threw 41 pitches, including third strikes to Jon Jay and Matt Holliday in the first inning.

Johnson made only nine starts last year before right shoulder inflammation ended his season.

Kyle Lohse, who led the Cardinals last year in victories and ERA, pitched the first two innings and allowed only one runner - Greg Dobbs, who homered.

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]LiveScience.com - Sea turtles are known for the amazing migrations they make, swimming long ocean distances to return to their birthplace to hatch their young.

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