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Canine truffles good enough for humans
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Their Pawfections are all-natural, healthy options for dogs, among them Garlic Bears ($2.95 for 24), Poochie Smoochies (shortbread with carob centers, $2.95) and Corgi Cones (shown, peanut butter-based cookies with yogurt icing, 95 cents). Their truffles (shown, 69 cents) and popovers look good enough for humans to eat. Every Friday night the store hosts Yappy Hour from 5-8 p.m., serving complimentary coffee to human companions. On Saturdays it runs a Pet Networking night, also from 5-8 p.m., where dog owners of a particular breed can meet and mingle. Information: 262-4896.
Leno elbowed aside
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In addition to O'Brien, "Today" hosts Katie Couric and Matt Lauer will anchor an hourlong pre-ceremony show for the Sept. 22 Emmy awards, Zucker told the Television Critics Association.
O'Brien was asked if he was concerned that Leno might be hurt because he was bypassed. "That guy has so many cars," O'Brien said, jokingly, then added that Leno had called him to offer advice.
Many happy returns
As we begin the build-up toward the release of the second "Harry Potter" movie (at Christmas) and the fifth book by J. K. Rowling (who knows when?), Harry Potter fans who need a fix can get one by calling the Listening Library's Harry Potter phone line to hear a reading in honor of the boy wizard's birthday, which is today.
When you call (866) 855-6708 , you hear Grammy-winning narrator Jim Dale read a selection from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (the spine-tingling part where Harry lies watching the clock, waiting for it to strike midnight, when he will turn 11, just before his life changes forever). (That is a toll-free number, by the way.) The recording will be updated at the end of this month and about every two weeks thereafter.
Talk show in works
The syndication company King World has produced a pilot for a daytime talk show with former ABC correspondent Jack Ford and comic actress Alexandra Wentworth, the wife of George Stephanopoulos. The pilot — a sample installment — was shot last week in New York in front of a studio audience and will be shopped to stations as a daily program to be launched in the fall of 2003.
Wentworth, 36, is best known to TV viewers for her appearances on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and was a regular on the sketch-comedy series "In Living Color." Ford is under contract with ABC News but is no longer on the network's programs. He hosts ESPN's "The Sports Reporters II."
