Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 204, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 May 1984 — Page 5
People in the news Cocker 'crocked/ promoters claim VIENNA, Austria (AP) British pop star Joe Cocker and his manager were held in jail overnight and scheduled for a second court appearance today after court organizers claimed Cocker accepted money for a concert he was too drunk to perform. The 41-year-old singer and his European manager, Martin Biallas, were arrested Wednesday and had an initial court hearing that lasted about four hours. Organizers of the May Day concert claim Biallas was paid $16,000 but that Cocker was too drunk to go on stage. Cocker’s managers deny that. “What they want to do is bring all the facts and record them, so they have to go back today,” said Jonathan Blarner of Better Music Inc., Cocker’s American management organization. Frank Eyssen, a Biallas employee, complained by telephone from Hannover, West Germany, that Cocker was being unjustly harrassed by police and had been held incommunicado for several hours. Cocker’s managers said faulty instruments and equipment at the concert hall prevented the performance, and said they offered to put on a show at a later date. • PITTSBURGH (AP) Sometimes lively with the brass, sometimes sad with the double bass, Count Basie’s music has returned to the stage through his 16-piece band, which vowed “the show must go on” despite their leader’s death. “The band is still sad over the whole affair, But we’re going to do what we feel like he wanted us to do keep going,” said saxophonist Eric Dixon, who had been with Basie for 23 years. “Even when he was laying on his back and down and out, he told us to go make all the gigs as if he was there. That was it. We’re going to keep on playing if for anybody, then for him,” Dixon said. William “Count” Basie, among the last of the great jazz musicians from the “big band” era, died of cancer Thursday at age 79 in a Hollywood, Fla., hospital. “Our sadness is delayed and we’ve got a sense that the show must go on,” said vocalist Dennis Rowland. “We’re a little melancholy. The loss is monumental, but his music • will go on.” The show Wednesday night before 2,200 people at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts was a benefit for Mercy Hospital. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, was hospitalized in good condition after several days of tests for a chronic cough. “Mrs. Graham was referred to me from another physician regarding a chronic, persistent cough that has been present for many years,” Dr Tom DeMeester, chief of surgery for St. Josephs Hospital and Creighton University, said Wednesday. She was admitted “simply for evaluation,” he said.
Quiz show host Jack Barry dies
NEW YORK (AP) Game show producer-host Jack Barry, who maintained he was “punished for the sins” of others when his scandal-ridden “Twenty-One” was drummed off the air in 1958, has died of a heart attack at age 66. Barry was stricken while jogging near Central Park. He was pronounced dead at noon Wednesday at Lenox Hill Hospital, said Gene Shefrin, spokesman for Barry & Enright Productions. Millions of current game show buffs knew Barry as the long-time host of “The Joker’s Wild.” He also created or produced a long list of shows including “Concentration,” “Twenty-One," and “Tic Tac Dough.” Karen Cooper, nursing assistant administrator, said Barry was dead on arrival at Lenox Hill. A resident of Los Angeles, he was in New York returning from a trip to Europe with his wife, Shefrin said. Barry was in the middle of the TV game show scandals of the 19505. He and producer Dan Enright admitted their show “Twenty-One,” hosted by Barry, gave participants questions and answers in advance. But they said the practice was industrywide. One of the contestants, Charles Van Doren, won $129,000 and a job on NBC’s “Today” show. Van Doren later lost his TV job when he admitted he had participated in the scam. “Twenty-One” went off the air in 1958 and was the subject of an investigation by the New York district attorney’s office and a congressional oversight committee. Ultimately, all TV game shows were suspended, but no one was ever charged because there were no laws at the time against providing contestants with answers in advance. Barry was out of the limelight until 1963, when he returned to KTLA-TV in Los Angeles with a daily show and two game shows. “Everybody was doing it, not just Dan and I. Every quiz
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NEW YORK (AP) - Coca-Cola Co. and Pepsico Inc. appear headed for a battle of the superstars, pitting singers Julio Iglesias and Michael Jackson. Coca-Cola announced Wednesday that it had signed the Spanish-born Iglesias, 40, to appear in commercials in English, Spanish and other languages and said the company would sponsor a seven-month world concert tour by Iglesias. The deal with Iglesias, an international star who has sold more than 100 million records, comes only three months after rival soft drink maker Fepsi unveiled a series of television commercials made by Jackson, the recent winner of eight Grammy awards. Jackson was reportedly paid $5.5 million for the commercials. Terms of the deal with Iglesias have not been revealed. • PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) Country music fans got their cake and ate it, too, at a sold-out concert by singer Willie Nelson on his 51st birthday. About 17,500 fans sang “Happy Birthday” to the pigtailed Nelson as five giant cakes were rolled into Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum during his performance Monday night. Each cake, shaped like the state of Arizona, was 6 feet long, 4 feet wide and weighed more than 300 pounds. They cost a combined $2,500 and were donated by a local radio station. Everyone received a slice as they left the Coliseum following the 2Vi-hour show which also featured Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter. • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A movie based on the murder of 11-year-old Kathy Kohm will be filmed in southern and central Indiana beginning July 15, the film’s producers say. To be entitled “Kathy Cries For Justice,” the movie, budgeted at $2 million, hopefully will be ready for release at Thanksgiving, according to Vida Thomas of the Indy-G----500 Production Co. Ms. Thomas, the executive producer, said the film would be a drama based on facts. Miss Kohm disappeared while jogging near her Santa Claus home in 1981. Her body was found several weeks later in a remote area. She had been shot to death.
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