Rockwell models want museum

ARLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – Some of the people who were models for Norman Rockwell’s painting are hopeful that a museum honoring his work will remain in the town where he spent 14 years.

The Norman Rockwell Exhibition and Gift Shop, a featured attraction on Arlington’s Main Street, is for sale. Owner Joy Hinrichsen, who operates the museum herself during the winter, said the old church housing the display needs to be repaired.

“This little building is where they used to square dance. Norman would walk over early. That way he could stand at the door and take their tickets and he could look everybody over,” Henrichsen said.

Sunday night ‘Anatomy’ changing

If it had happened only once, it could have been considered a fluke. But then Sunday night, it happened again. Now, we may almost have a trend on our hands.

For the second straight week, ABC’s young-doctors-in-love drama “Grey’s Anatomy” beat its Sunday-night lead-in, the heretofore indomitable “Desperate Housewives,” in the ratings on Sunday.

The show’s feat is all the more impressive for having taken place opposite heavier-than-usual competition from NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics, which had 18.6 million viewers in the 10 p.m. hour on Sunday.

Stewart, Trump snipe on ‘Apprentice’

Martha Stewart says that when she signed on to do a version of “The Apprentice” with NBC, she believed hers would be the only one on the air. There were even discussions that she would “fire” Donald Trump on the air to launch her show.

That, of course, didn’t happen, and “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart” became one of the higher-profile non-starters of the 2005-06 TV season. The show averaged just 6.6 million viewers for NBC in the fall and won’t return.

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