Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 112, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 January 1985 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 12,1985

People in the news Carson at top of most-eligible list NEW YORK (AP) Athletes, businessmen, entertainers, politicians and royalty are represented on Good Housekeeping magazine's list of 50 of the world’s most eligible bachelors. Eligible” seemed to mean rich as six- and seven-figure incomes prevailed on the list compiled by 10 female editors for the magazine’s February issue. Each of the 50 photos was accompanied by a biographical blurb. “Lives on Long Island but recently signed a $6 million Hollywood contract. Engaged, but no date has been set yet,” is the way the magazine described actor-comedian Eddie Murphy. Of late-night TV host Johnny Carson, it said: “Lives in Beverly Hills and is divorced from his third wife. He has a multimillion-dollar a year income from his NBC contract.” And Warren Beatty “lives in Hollywood and New York. The multifaceted star has never married, but he has been engaged twice and has romanced scores of women.” Also on the list: Chrysler chairman Lee lacocca, chicken king Frank Perdue, tennis star John McEnroe, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and his nephew, John Kennedy Jr.; former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., New York Mayor Edward I. Koch, Britain’s Prince Andrew, octogenarian George Burns and Mets outfielder Darryl Strawberry. Strawberry got married to his long-time fiancee on Jan. 5, apparently after Good Housekeeping’s publishing deadline. • NEW YORK (AP) Actress Lucie Arnaz and her husband were watching “African Queen” when Ms. Arnaz went into labor with her third child, who they named after her maternal great grandmother and Katharine Hepburn. Eight-pound Katharine Desiree was Ms. Arnaz’ first daughter, said spokesman Charles Pomerantz in Los Angeles. Ms. Arnaz, who is on vacation from an upcoming CBS comedy series, has long admired Ms. Hepburn, he said. She and husband Laurence Luckinbill were watching a videotape of Ms. Hepburn in “African Queen” when she went into labor, he said. • PARIS (AP) Former White House press secretary Pierre Salinger and the sultan of Brunei have teamed up to create a $150,000 literary prize for the best novel published in English, naming the prize after Ernest Hemingway. The idea for the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award came from Salinger, press secretary under President John F. Kennedy and now a correspondent for the U.S. television network ABC. The sultan of Brunei, Sir Muda Hassanal Bolkiah, is putting up the money. The Hotel Ritz on Paris’ Place Vendome, site of some of Hemingway’s more memorable escapades, figures prominently in the award planning. The prize, which has Hemingway family backing, is for the best novel published in English during the year.

Ex-Kiss star embraces film

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service Don’t think that because Gene Simmons is making his first appearance in a movie (“Runaway”) that he is giving up the limelight as one of the wild and wildly painted singers of the rock group Kiss. He is not about to leave a lifestyle that suits him to a tee. “The band is doing very well,” he said in a recent Los Angeles interview. “We’re in the middle of a tour and the album (“Animalize”) is already platinum. The group is not disbanding.” “Runaway” is the dark-haired actor’s first movie role, but it is not the first he has been offered. Anyone with a high profile gets strange offery,9Simmons says, and he took up acting lessons a couple of years ago in anticipation of that inevitable first movie. Those who see “Runaway” may come away unimpressed with writer-director Michael Crichton’s quasifuturistic cop drama in which star Tom Selleck and sidekick Cynthia Rhodes chase runaway robots, but they will find Simmons hard to miss. He is the villain of the piece, and he creates perhaps the most unambiguously nasty guy of the movie year. “If people think I’m good in this it’s because I have a good director and I did my homework,” he said almost expressionlessly. There was something a little cold about the way Simmons spoke throughout the interview, perhaps because he was tired or perhaps because his image on stage is sinister and he wanted to maintain it in this setting. In any case, he was remarkably frank about what it means to be a rock star, and how he sees his future in that kind of life. “I don’t want to do music forever,” he said when someone asked him if he intended to choose between music and movies. “I can’t imagine being 50 years old strumming a guitar and singing about your promiscuous affairs. Rock ‘n’ roll is

THE FAMILY CIHCUS, By Bil Keane "Can't we teach PJ to sit and stay so he'll quit followin' me?"

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Television star Ricky Schroeder has offered to go on a national tour to help find Laura Bradbury, a 3-year-old who apparently was abducted while on a family camping trip in October. “He said that he would do everything he can to make sure people are aware of Laura,” said Patty Bradbury, the missing child’s mother. “It’s really great that they’re offering to help.” Jeff Ballard, Schroeaer’s publicist, confirmed Friday that the 14-year-old star of the NBC series “Silver Spoons” will help with the search and will meet with the girl’s mother Monday to discuss the tour. Laura was last seen Oct. 18 while her family was camping at Joshua Tree National Monument in the desert 125 miles east of Los Angeles. • DETROIT (AP) Fans of comedian Eddie Murphy are descending in droves on Samuel C. Mumford High School in Detroit’s northwest side and scooping up gym T-shirts like the one Murphy wore in the blockbuster movie “Beverly Hills Cop.” For the past week, officials of the aging, 2,350-student high school have been struggling to keep up with orders for the shirts from all over the United States and a few foreign countries, school officials said. The shirts say “Mumford Phys. Ed. Dept.” • NEW YORK (AP) Singer Lena Horne wept upon receiving the Paul Robeson award for furthering civil rights through the arts, saying that before she met him. “I was just existing.” The award, presented Friday by the Actors’ Equity union, recognized Ms. Horne’s career from her debut as a 15-year-old dancer in the chorus lines of Harlem’s Cotton Club. Ms. Horne, 67, said she felt her color rendered her "invisible” until 1940, when meeting Robeson taught her that black artists could blaze trails for their race. “Until I knew Paul, and he was in my life, I had no schooling, I had no understanding about being an artist, I had no understanding about human beings I was just existing,” she said, bursting into tears.

all about promiscuity, you know. I would never do it (musical performance) past the point of being convincing to me or the audience. With acting there’s not that problem.” But he knows that to leave music is to leave a life of hedonistic pleasures a life he seems quite taken with. “Yes, fame has been what I thought it would be: women, limousines. Groupies are a lot of fun,” he said matter-of-factly. “It’s women, it’s adoration that’s why people go into music. Anyone who tells you anything different is lying. When I first put a guitar over my neck it was like bees to honey. “Rock ‘n’ roll literally means sex. The term comes from a Leadbelly song saying, ‘let me rock ‘n’ roll you all night long.’ He wasn’t talking about reading Nietzsche to her...” All of this, mind you, from a fellow born in Israel, raised in Brooklyn and educated at a college in tradition-steeped upstate New York. He has worked as a sixth-grade teacher in New York’s Spanish Harlem and as the “man Friday” to the editor of Vogue. “I was also a Kelly girl before they changed the name to Kelly Services,” he said. Kiss was created with the idea of using stage business and makeup to capture an audience, and it worked. That audience is young, but it is large. Simmons was asked why evil, sinister themes are so much a part of the act. “I don’t really see it as evil. Vampires, for instance, are really figures of pathos, sad figures.” He showed he knew what he was talking about by discussing in depth a scene from the 1931 “Dracula,” in which Bela Lugosi is seen to be almost pathetic in his desire to be really dead, not one of the undead. ‘“Ah, to be truly dead,”’ Simmons quoted, with sadness in his voice. As for Kiss, the singer acknowledges the reality that the group could go out of business “at any second.”

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