Burt

There are some defensive players in the National Football League who would gladly give a week's pay for the chance to knock a quarterback into never- never land. But Jim Burt isn't one of them. The New York Giants' nose tackle doesn't play football because he wants to hurt people. He plays football because he loves it and because it beats the hell out of selling insurance or driving a truck. He doesn't have a hit list on his towel or do a war dance when a quarterback he's knocked down doesn't get back up. "I don't like to see guys get hurt," Burt said.

9 tonight FOX Jimmy (Lucas Neff, left) hires Sabrina's (Shannon Woodward, center) cousin to babysit Hope when he returns to work. Burt (Garret Dillahunt, right) tries to get Virginia to quit smoking. Cloris Leachman also stars.

When Robert J. Burt Jr. decided to place an advertising sign outside his Conshohocken auto-body shop, he discovered that the shop's history created some snags. The business, located at 208 Fayette St., was established 56 years ago, pre-dating the borough's zoning code. When the area was declared a business district in 1965, the body shop became a "nonconforming use. " Therefore, Conshohocken zoning officer Walter R. Szwedkowski defined the proposed sign as a "nonconforming sign" because it would advertise a nonconforming use. The Conshohocken Zoning Hearing Board upheld Szwedkowski's interpretation Tuesday night, but took no action on Burt's request for a variance to permit the sign.

As sick and twisted codependent relationships go, the five-decade linkage of Burt and Linda Pugach - he a personal-injury lawyer-slash-movie producer, she a glamorous New York gal many years his junior - takes some kind of cake. Dan Klores' straightforward (and straight-faced) documentary, Crazy Love, lays out the details of this tragicomic affair. It began, unbeknownst to one of the participants, the then 21-year-old Linda Riss, quite literally as an affair. That is because when Pugach, owner of a giant ego, a spiffy nightclub and a private plane, first started squiring the lovely Ms. Riss around town, he was a married man. After he was found out and reneged on his promise to divorce, Linda called off the romance.

In the alterna-quirk spirit of Garden State and Juno comes Away We Go , the tale of a thirtyish couple ready to settle down but unsure of where. If home is where the heart is, then lovebirds Burt and Verona (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, both terrific) already have rent-free lodgings. But the expectant parents are looking for a physical, rather than metaphysical, place to raise their daughter. A place that lives up to their crunchy, Huck Finn-y ideals of America and parenthood.

When Burt Pressey and his wife, Lois, went looking for part-time jobs last month for a little extra holiday spending money, they didn't count on any transformative experiences. But soon after Burt, 46, donned his Santa Claus suit for the Moorestown Mall, and Lois, 44, persuaded the powers that be to hire her as an elf/ photographer, the Sicklerville couple's four-hour shifts with runny-nosed tykes at St. Nick's knee have been looking more and more like outtakes from a Currier & Ives catalogue.

At a family dinner, my cousin Burt and I were talking about the brevity of life. We were eating at my aunt's old place, which is now the apartment of Burt's daughter - a place where I would come to visit as a kid, where relatives now gone would ask me trick questions and where I was known as "Ritchie. " This place was like our family Smithsonian - a repository of a few artifacts and many memories. Burt referred to an old relative, now dead, who had come to America from Russia. "I could have been a revolutionary," Burt quoted him as saying, "but I got a cup of tea instead.

When Katie Wells was born with tragic physical defects in 1981, her mother filed a lawsuit, blaming the Ortho-Gynol spermicidal jelly she had used for a month after conception. At the trial, scientists testified that spermicidal jellies don't cause birth defects. Nevertheless, the judge awarded Katie's mother $4.7 million. Will-Burt Co., a small engineering company in Ohio, was recently sued because it had supplied parts for a scaffolding that had subsequently collapsed. There was nothing wrong with Will-Burt's products, but the contractor who had used the products to build the defective scaffolding had gone out of business.

DEAR ABBY: I'm a divorced, middle-aged professional woman with a Ph.D. who has been keeping company with a man my age for seven years. "Burt" treats me well. He takes me out, has helped with some major home renovation projects, sends me flowers and I enjoy his company. I'm perfectly happy in his world, and I like most of his friends. On the flip side, Burt is overweight, has a drinking problem and never finished college. My problem is, I can't bring myself to introduce him to those in my "professional circle.

Burt Reinhardt, 91, an early president of CNN who helped build the global news network in its formative years, died at his home near Atlanta on Tuesday. Mr. Reinhardt had suffered a series of strokes, said his daughter, Cheryl Reinhardt. "Without Burt Reinhardt, it is doubtful that CNN would exist today," said Tom Johnson, who in 1990 succeeded Mr. Reinhardt as the 24-hour network's chief. He joined CNN in 1979 as the network prepared to launch, his daughter said. Turner Broadcasting founder Ted Turner named Mr. Reinhardt president in January 1982.

9 tonight FOX Jimmy (Lucas Neff, left) hires Sabrina's (Shannon Woodward, center) cousin to babysit Hope when he returns to work. Burt (Garret Dillahunt, right) tries to get Virginia to quit smoking. Cloris Leachman also stars.

Thin as the screens on your summer windows and not as airy, the new musical called Burt & Me , which Act II Playhouse in Ambler is staging as a summer add-on to its schedule, is about a high school kid who hates having to play the piano until the fated day he discovers Burt Bacharach. This changes his worldview of musicianship. Bacharach wrote the music to the show Promises, Promises - now in revival on Broadway - and, with lyricist Hal David, some of the most tuneful, classy hits of the '60s through the '80s.

Burt S. Holland, 64, professor of statistics at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University, died of Lou Gehrig's disease Monday, June 21, at his home in Huntingdon Valley. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Jamaica (N.Y.) High School in 1962 and earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1966 and a doctorate in statistics at North Carolina State University in 1969. A son, Benjamin, said Dr. Holland joined the faculty of Temple University in 1970 and was chairman of the statistics department from 1991 to 1996.

DEAR ABBY: I'm a divorced, middle-aged professional woman with a Ph.D. who has been keeping company with a man my age for seven years. "Burt" treats me well. He takes me out, has helped with some major home renovation projects, sends me flowers and I enjoy his company. I'm perfectly happy in his world, and I like most of his friends. On the flip side, Burt is overweight, has a drinking problem and never finished college. My problem is, I can't bring myself to introduce him to those in my "professional circle.

In the alterna-quirk spirit of Garden State and Juno comes Away We Go , the tale of a thirtyish couple ready to settle down but unsure of where. If home is where the heart is, then lovebirds Burt and Verona (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, both terrific) already have rent-free lodgings. But the expectant parents are looking for a physical, rather than metaphysical, place to raise their daughter. A place that lives up to their crunchy, Huck Finn-y ideals of America and parenthood.

As sick and twisted codependent relationships go, the five-decade linkage of Burt and Linda Pugach - he a personal-injury lawyer-slash-movie producer, she a glamorous New York gal many years his junior - takes some kind of cake. Dan Klores' straightforward (and straight-faced) documentary, Crazy Love, lays out the details of this tragicomic affair. It began, unbeknownst to one of the participants, the then 21-year-old Linda Riss, quite literally as an affair. That is because when Pugach, owner of a giant ego, a spiffy nightclub and a private plane, first started squiring the lovely Ms. Riss around town, he was a married man. After he was found out and reneged on his promise to divorce, Linda called off the romance.

The great TV actors are never out of work for long. They migrate from series to series. Take Scott Wolf, who has starred on Party of Five, Everwood, and now The Nine. Not a bad resume. Hard to believe that grand career arc was launched one fateful night when macho icon Burt Reynolds squeezed Wolf's head like a casaba melon. Shortly after graduating from college, Wolf drove to Los Angeles to see if he could make it in showbiz. "I had done a Frosted Flakes commercial and a McDonald's ad," he says, "and was living from check to check on the residuals.

MONDAY "Celebrity Justice" reported on Burt Reynolds' pre-emptive suit against ex-girlfriend Pamela Seals. Yesterday "CJ" obtained the suit filed by Seals. Seals claims Reynolds requested she "quit her job and move from Florida to California to live with Reynolds and act as Reynolds' companion, homemaker in charge of the parties' household, caretaker for his minor child, social and business partner, organizer, assistant, consultant, confidant and advisor. " She claims Reynolds promised in return that he would "support and take care of [Seals]