Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 233, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 June 1984 — Page 6

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, June 7,1984

People in the news Indy missing from Jackson's tour? NEW YORK ( AP) The itinerary of superstar Michael Jackson and his brothers is one of summer’s hottest topics for music fans, and ABC News says it knows the cities where performances will be held. Jackson, who went solo to record such hits as “Beat It,” Billie Jean and “Thriller,” is teaming up again with his family for the tour, which was to have begun June 22 in Lexington, Ky. However, Bill Pickett, an executive of Rupp Arena in Lexington, has said the concert date may have to be pushed back, and ABC said today that Lexington’s designation as the first stop “is now in question.” According to ABC’s “Morning News” and "Good Morning America,” the list of the cities where the Jacksons will play includes Boston, New York, Washington, Miami, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and either Dallas or Houston. Seattle and Lexington may also get a dose of Jackson fever, ABC said. The network said the list was “in nonparticular order” and there may be last-minute changes. The tour is expected to attract 2.5 million fans. The Jacksons are guaranteed at least S4O million, ABC said. • HENRIETTA, N.Y. (AP) A community group plans to protest an appearance by singer Linda Ronstadt because she has performed in racially segregated South Africa, a spokesman said. The group plans to hand out leaflets about South Africa’s apartheid system outside the Red Creek Inn on Tuesday if Miss Ronstadt appears there, said Art Grimwood of the Rochester Ad Hoc Committee Against Apartheid. Miss Ronstadt was to be a guest on a show to be taped at the inn by Rochester TV station WXXI and shown by the Public Broadcasting Service in November. Tickets are sold out. “We have had no written communication from this group. I do not know what their position is, and we are going ahead as planned,” Sandra Steeves, a WXXI spokeswoman, said Wednesday. • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Television and education have sacrificed “the exceptional for the sake of ;ome universally achievable mediocrity,” ABC News anchor Ted Koppel told graduating seniors at Harvard University’s Class Day ceremony. “Television embodies mediocrity. Its economic framework is designed to appeal to the greatest number, the lowest common denominator,” Koppel, 44, said Wednesday. Koppel, host of the interview show “Nightline,” said television news reporters “are obsessed with immediacy and thrcve on confrontation,” diminishing television’s value as a thoughtful and reflective medium. “And yet I do propose television as both the medium for excellence and the means toward telescoping time,” he said. “We have lost, in education as in television, a clear sense of purpose.”

Today's TV programming

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PITTSBURGH (AP) Mother Teresa, Michael Jackson and Andrei Sakharov are among the world’s 10 most huggable people for 1984, according to the International Hug Center. John McKenzie, president of the Pittsburgh-based center, said Wednesday that the 10 were chosen in honor of the third annual International Hug Day on June 15. The list includes actor Danny Kaye; NBC weatherman Willard Scott; Petra Kelly, leader of Germany’s Green Party; Virginia Satir, author and past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology; Richard Bach, author of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”; Norman Cousins, author of “Anatomy of an Illness”; and Ling Ling, the celebrated panda at Washington’s National Zoo. The 10 were chosen for appearing “approachable like you could go and hug them” and are “concerned about the connection between all people,” McKenzie said. The nonprofit group, which considers everyone a member, entered Martin Luther King and Mohandas K. Gandhi into the Huggers Hall of Fame for giving “the world an eternal hug.” • BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Barbra Streisand, whose movie “Yentl” was passed over in this year’s Oscar balloting, was named the National Organization for Women’s 1984 Woman of Courage for her 15-year effort to bring the movie to the screen. In a ceremony Wednesday night at the Beverly W'ilshire Hotel, NOW said Miss Streisand, 42, “demonstrated unique and unusual courage in the face of nearly insurmountable odds.” Miss Streisand starred and sang in, co-wrote, directed and produced the film. At the ceremony, Miss Streisand said she completed the movie, about a 19th-century Jewish woman who disguised herself as a man to get a religious education, to show “that nothing’s impossible, that we as women have a right and an obligation to become all that we are, all that we imagine.” Actress Jane Fonda and former California Gov Edmund G. Brown Jr. were among about 650 people who attended the awards ceremony. Past winners have included former first lady Betty Ford and actor Alan Alda.

© BUSINESS REPORT © GUNSMOKE ffi TWILIGHT ZONE 10:30 0 © TONIGHT Host: Johnny Carson O ALL IN THE FAMILY O ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE ® MOVIE *V4 "National Lampoon s Class Reunion" (1982, Comedy) Gerrit Graham. Michael Lerner. (1 hr., 25 min.) o © TRAPPER JOHN, M.D. Riverside’s blissful life as a newlywed is interrupted by a woman claiming to be an old flame (R) (1 hr., 10 min.) ® LOVE BOAT © LATENIGHT AMERICA Scheduled Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and nutritionist Judith Stern on whether fast foods are good or bad. (1 hr.) ffi ALFRED HITCHCOCK 11:00 O PERRY MASON Q BARNEY MILLER © ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE ffi CANNON 11:30 0 © LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN Guests: tennis star Andrea Jaeger, comedian George Miller, window washer-psychic Morris Fonte. (R) (1 hr.) o FAMILY ® MOVIE ★★ "Brannigan" (1975, Mystery) John Wayne, Richard Attenborough (2 hrs., 30 min.) © GREAT CHEFS OF SAN FRANCISCO © EYE ON HOLLYWOOD 11:40 O © MOVIE ** “You Can’t Go Home Again” (1979, Drama) Lee Grant, Chris Sarandon. (1 hr., 20 min.)

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