All is forgiven; McCain to appear on Letterman

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All is forgiven

David Letterman and Sen. John McCain will get a chance to make up. The Republican presidential candidate is scheduled to appear on Letterman's "Late Show" Thursday. It will be McCain's 13th visit to the CBS program but his first since he angered Letterman by canceling last month. Letterman was unhappy when McCain sat for an interview with Katie Couric instead of him Sept. 24. At the time he said he first felt like a "patriot" to let McCain off his commitment to deal with the economy but "now I'm feeling like an ugly date."

J.R.'s clan marks 30th

On Nov. 8, J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen and other Ewing kin will mark the 30th anniversary of the TV show "Dallas" with a reunion and barbecue at Southfork Ranch. Cast members Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy will be on hand. The ranch is in the suburb of Parker, Texas, and tickets costing up to $1,000 each are being swallowed up by fans from Japan, Australia, Europe and the United States.

Box office

"Chihuahua" top dog

Walt Disney's comedy "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" repeated as the top film in U.S. and Canadian theaters for a second weekend, earning $17.5 million and beating out the debuts of a horror film and spy drama. "Quarantine" from Sony's Screen Gem's unit was second with $14.2 million, box-office tracker Media By Numbers said. Time Warner's "Body of Lies" earned $13.1 million.

Passages

Allan Spear, 71, a former Minnesota state senator who was one of the nation's first openly gay legislators, died Saturday of complications after heart surgery

William Claxton, 80, the master photographer whose images of Chet Baker helped fuel the jazz trumpeter's stardom in the 1950s and whose fashion photographs of his wife modeling a topless swim suit were groundbreaking years later, died from complications of congestive heart failure Saturday in Los Angeles.

The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., 93, who in his 27 years as dean of the National Cathedral in Washington raised his voice against McCarthyism, segregation, poverty and the Vietnam War while presiding over construction of the cathedral's Gloria in Excelsis Tower, died Oct. 3 at his home on Martha's Vineyard, in Massachusetts.

Today in History

1792: The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

1943: Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.

1944: American troops entered Aachen, Germany, during World War II.

Today's Birthdays

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 83. Singer-musician Paul Simon, 67. Singer-musician Sammy Hagar, 61. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., 50. Singer Marie Osmond, 49. Actress Kelly Preston, 46. Olympic silver-medal figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, 39. Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, 37. R&B singers Brandon and Brian Casey (Jagged Edge), 33.

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