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People in the news 'Ben Casey' freed after auto arrest LOS ANGELES (AP) Vince Edwards, star of the old "Ben Casey" television series, was freed on his own recognizance after being arrested on a Texas warrant which accuses him of keeping a car that was only a loaner. The 57-year-old actor was arrested Thursday at his Marina del Rey home by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies on a warrant for investigation of felony theft of services, said the actor’s attorney, Peter Knecht. Edwards allegedly failed to return a 1984 Toyota Supra GT, worth $14,000, which he was loaned under a contract to do commercials for Medi-Quick Inc., a medical group based in eastern Texas. The car was to be returned June 28. He was released about 12 hours after the arrest, Knecht said, and the case was continued until mid-September. “Obviously this man is not into stealing Toyotas,” Knecht said, adding that Edwards had never been arrested before. Medi-Quick Inc. operates three family practice clinics in Beaumont and Orange, Texas. • Wednesday, while his teammates were resting up for a game in Los Angeles against the Dodgers, Terry Forster was out filming the video, which is scheduled for release in September and, according to his agent, Mark Polan, has already been accepted by MTV. According to the video script, Forster, wearing a tattered baseball uniform, is shipwrecked on a dessert island (the Isle of Chocolate Cones), where he has a series of adventures before finding, as Polan put it, “happiness, fast food and break-dancing.” In making what is known in the trade as a “rap video,” Forster, who is backed by a female vocal group known as the Lovehandles, doesn’t so much sing as speak such lines as “Fat is in, stuff your face and don’t be thin.” Polan, acknowledging that his client has no music background, said that in addition to his avoirdupois, Forster had one advantage: “a real resonant deep voice” that could lead him into a lucrative offseason career. “Actually,” Polan said, “he’s not that bad. But Bruce Springsteen needn’t worry.” • LOS ANGELES (AP) AIDS victim Rock Hudson is in “a fabulous frame of mind,” and has a healthy appearance but complains about hospital food, his publicist says. “He’s reading and doing crossword puzzles,” Dale Olson said Thursday after he visited the 59-year-old actor at UCLA Medical Center. “He jokes, is receiving visitors. He looks vital.” Hudson complained about bland hospital food and asked friends to prepare home-cooked treats for him, including Mexican meals, Olson said. Hudson remained in fair and stable condition, a hospital spokeswoman said. The actor entered the hospital July 29 for treatment of acquired immune defiency syndrome. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Comedian Joan Rivers, one of the first Hollywood entertainers to become involved in raising money for AIDS research, says Rock Hudson should not have tried to hide the fact that he had the deadly ailment. “I think the way the situation was handled was horrendous,” Miss Rivers, substitute host for Johnny Carson on the “The Tonight Show,” said in an interview with syndicated columnist Marilyn Beck. “His people knew the truth all along and should have just come out and acknowledged it was AIDS,” Miss Rivers, 52, said in quotes confirmed Thursday by her publicist, Richard Grant.

'Even Reagan affected by TV film violence'

URBANA, 111. (AP) Everywhere he looks, Thomas Radecki sees violent entertainment: toys, games, books, sports, television even the Christian Broadcasting Network, which carries old cowboy shows on its cable system. “CBN is telling us the message of Jesus Christ is to kill bad guys hate your enemy and go blow his guts out,” said Radecki, the ardent chief and founder of the National Coalition on Television Violence. Radecki, a 39-year-old psychiatrist, asserts that even President Reagan is affected, saying, “He’s into violent Clint Eastwood fantasies that are clouding his thinking about what is best to do for our nation.” The coalition, established in 1980, routinely tallies murders, fisticuffs, shootings and other violent acts on TV and interprets other research on the effects of violent entertainment. Radecki defines violence as the deliberate use of force against a person or the threat of force with a weapon or fist. A violent act could be a murder, a fistfight, a push, a slap or a spanking, even done in the context of a slapstick comedy. Not considered violent are verbal abuse, property

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NEW CITY, NY. (AP) Rolling Stone Mick Jagger is summering somewhere in Rockland County, northwest of New York City, it was reported Thursday. The account in the Westchester Rockland Newspapers quotes Jane Rose, a spokeswoman for Jagger, as saying Jagger and his longtime girlfriend, Jerry Hall, have rented a house in Rockland over the past “month or two.” No community was specified. Ms. Rose said the couple would stay in the county until the end of August, when Miss Hall is expected to give birth to the couple’s second child. “Whether he stays or goes depends on how much people respect their privacy,” Ms. Rose was quoted as saying. “If people know, he has to leave. If there’s a problem, he’s gone.” LOS ANGELES (AP) Actress Donna Reed will receive more than $1 million in a settlement ending an episode of off-stage intrigue over her loss of the role of Miss Elbe in “Dallas,” her attorney said. The agreement was reached Monday in negotiations with an attorney for Lorimar Productions, producer of the hit CBS prime-time soap opera, Michael Donaldson said. Miss Reed will receive her regular salary of $17,250 a week for the 1985-86 season and $19,838 a week for the 198687 season, for a total of more than $1 million, Donaldson said. A request to halt production of the show was denied. Miss Reed, 64, sued Lorimar for $7.5 million for breaking her three-year contract after the company replaced her with Barbara Bel Geddes, who originated the role of matriarch of the oil-rich Ewing family. Miss Bel Geddes gave up the role in 1984 when she underwent heart surgery. LONDON (AP) Princess Anne, once referrred to in the British press as "Princess Grump” and “Awful Annie,” was toasted as “our true princess” in one of the country’s daily tabloids. The occasion was Anne’s 35th birthday Thursday, and the tabloid Mirror used the occasion to praise her for her work as president of Save the Children Fund, which has taken her to several Third World nations. The Mirror once described the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II as a sharp-tongued “sourpuss ” • MASHPEE, Mass. (AP) Without her usual psychedelically painted hair and vivid makeup, rock star Cyndi Lauper has been able to pass unnoticed on Cape Cod while recuperating from abdominal surgery. "Half the people here didn’t even know it was her,” said Donna Campisi, owner of Campisi’s hairdressers in the New Seabury Shopping Center, where Ms. Lauper stopped. “She was very mellow, very plain, very sweet. She’s very nice.” Floral designer Allen Rush of the Forget-Me-Not Florist told the newspaper that the singer’s friends and family had ordered several hundred get-well bouquets and floral arrangements sent to Ms. Lauper over the past few weeks.

damage, sanctioned physical contact in sports and horseplay. Thus a playful pie fight would not count, but a pie in the face intended to harm would. His coalition publishes a widely distributed newsletter that also reaches several thousand newsrooms around the country, often gaining publicity for its findings. But his positions have also gained him criticism, including charges that he misrepresents his credentials, exaggerates other research conclusions and plays on hysteria to make his point. “You can make a lot more noise if you attack something with the Chicken Little approach you can get on the networks if you say the sky is falling,” said Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children’s Television. Radecki said his concern stemmed from his days in medical school, when he went to the movie “A Clockwork Orange” then saw a nurse and “had this fantasy of me kicking and beating” her. He became convinced that violent entertainment could trigger real violence and warp attitudes to the point that “we are taking a serious chance of causing the end of the world.”

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