Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 107, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 January 1984 — Page 6

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People in the news O'Neill weapons charges misfire WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) Actress Jennifer O’Neill’s ex-husband says he feels good now that a weapons possession charge against him has been dropped. State Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Martin ruled Tuesday that there was insufficient evidence that John Lederer, 36, owned the gun with which Miss O’Neill accidentally shot herself on Oct. 22,1982 The ruling came on the third day of Lederer’s non-jury trial in which Miss O’Neill, star of “Summer of ’42,” was a key witness. Lederer was charged with possessing the .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver and had admitted he owned the gun. However, a legal technicality prevented prosecutors from entering his admission at the trial. Miss O’Neill, 35, who has fully recovered from her wound, pleaded guilty last March to a weapons possession charge and was given a conditional discharge. “I feel good,” Lederer said after the ruling. “I’ve been in the Twilight Zone about this. I don’t feel as if I’ve beaten something.” # SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) George Lucas’ plan to reorganize his ranch has been approved by county planners, but the filmmaker’s bid to enlarge his staff from 185 to 300 had to be dropped. The creator of “Star Wars” says he will continue living at the 1,735-acre Skywalker ranch in San Marin County. “My entire film career has been in Marin,” Lucas said. “I moved here right after college. Other areas have been wooing us and me, but I’m not interested. That’s not going to change.” Members of the Marin County Planning Commission said Monday they were concerned about the effects of any expansion of the ranch 45 miles north of San Francisco. Approved were plans to relocate a special effects building, add an archives building, change roads and put up an electric fence. • CHICAGO (AP) Chicagoans could read columnist Mike Royko in either of the city’s major newspapers today, as the town’s legendary print wars took a new twist. The Pulitzer Prize winner forsook his contract with the Chicago Sun-Times and joined the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, a day after international publisher Rupert Murdoch’s News America Publishing Inc. officially took over the Sun-Times, a tabloid daily. “He puts out rather frivolous newspapers,” Royko, 51, said Tuesday of Murdoch, adding that he moved to the Tribune because “Mr. Murdoch doesn’t own this paper.”

Jackson tops Grammy nominees

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) The new crop of nominees for the record industry’s top honors, led by Michael Jackson’s best-selling “Thriller,” shows once again that commercial success is the surest route to Grammy gold. All five nominees in two of the three top categories record and new song of the year have at some point occupied the top spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. Of the album of the year nominees, only Billy Joel’s “An Innocent Man” and David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” failed to reach No. 1 on the LP charts. Winners in a record 67 categories will be announced at the Natibnal Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences’ 26th annual awards ceremony, set for telecast Feb. 28 on CBS. Jackson’s “Thriller” has been the No. 1 album 24 weeks though not consecutively and was responsible for 11 of Jackson’s record dozen nominations including record, album and separate song of the year nominations for “Billie Jean” and “Beat It,” both No. 1 singles. The versatile Jackson also picked up male vocal performance nominations in pop, rock and rhythm & blues categories; two R&B songwriting nominations; and with “Thriller” co-producer Quincy Jones a nomination for producer of the year. , Jackson and Paul McCartney are up for the best pop group vocal award for “The Girl Is Mine,” another “Thriller” track. And Jackson also turned up in the children’s record category for his narration and vocal work on “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” Another No. 1 album, the soundtrack to the film “Flashdance,” also cleaned up with nine nominations, including album of the year and best original TV or film score. Two No. 1 singles from the LP, Michael Sembello’s “Maniac” and Irene Cara’s “Flashdance ... What a Feeling,” are competing for record of the year, and “Maniac” earned a song of the year nomination for Sembello and co-writer Dennis Matkosky. Britain’s popular rock trio, The Police, held the No. 1

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ELLIOTT GOULD: Like own life TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Actor Elliott Gould sees striking similarities between the character he plays in “Over the Brooklyn Bridge” and his own struggles as a Jewish boy growing up in a Jewish neighborhood. The 45-year-old Gould, who grew up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y., where the picture was made, arrived in Israel on Monday for the movie’s world premiere. He stars as Albie, a struggling Jewish grocery store manager who falls in love with a gentile girl. “It takes a long time to grow up and understand order, tradition and ritual,” the actor told reporters in his Tel Aviv hotel suite, reflecting on his own years of youthful rebellion. “As Albie says in the picture, ‘I have to make my own life.’” The picture co-stars Sid Ceaser, who plays Albie’s religious uncle. • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Gov. George C. Wallace’s name has been extended into another generation with the birth of his grandson, 7-pound, 4-ounce George Corley Wallace IV. The son of Kelley and George C. Wallace 111 was delivered at 6:40 p.m. Tuesday in the birthing room at Saint Margaret’s Hospital. The newborn’s father, who goes by the name George Jr., said both his wife and son were doing fine. “He’s a beautiful boy. He has my father’s mouth and my wife’s eyes blue eyes,” the child’s father said. “We’ve got another generation here.”

'Say, Say, Say' tops Here are the latest national record charts from Billboard magazine: POP SINGLES: 1. “Say Say Say” by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson; 2. “Owner Of A Lonely Heart” by Yes; 3. “Say It Isn’t So” by Daryl Hall and John Oates; 4. “Union Of The Snake” by Duran Duran; 5. “Twist Of Fate” by Olivia Newton-John. BLACK SINGLES: 1. “Joanna” by Kool and the Gang; 2. “If You Only Knew” by Patti Labelle; 3. “Let The Music Play” by Shannon; 4. “Time Will Reveal” by Deßarge; 5. “Baby I’m Hooked” by Con Funk Shun. COUNTRY SINGLES: 1. “Slow Burn” by T.G. Sheppard; 2. “Ev’ry Heart Should Have One” by Charley Pride; 3. “In My Eyes” by John Conlee; 4. “You Made A Wanted Man Of Me” by Ronnie McDowell; 5. “The Sound Of Goodbye” by Crystal Gayle. TOP ALBUMS: 1. “Thriller” by Michael Jackson; 2. “Can’t Slow Down” by Lionel Richie; 3. “What’s New” by Linda Ronstadt; 4. “Synchronicity” by the Police; 5. “Metal Health” by Quiet Riot.

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