Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 177, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 March 1986 — Page 6

The Putnam County Banner Graphic, March 6,1986

People in the news Crosby just wants to play his guitar DALLAS (AP) Rock singer David Crosby is being transferred at his own request from a Dallas jail to a Texas Department of Corrections unit in Huntsville, officials said. Crosby, 44, was sentenced in 1963 to five years in prison for possession of cocaine and possession of a firearm in an establishment licensed to sell liquor. He was being held in the Lew Sterrett Center while the sentence is on appeal, but the former member of the Crosby, Stills and Nash group decided to transfer to state prison because he can earn time toward parole there, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Ewell said. Ewell said Crosby requested a guitar in county jail, but officials would not allow him to have one. “I think he thinks he has a better chance to get to play guitar at TDC.” • MIAMI (AP) Don Johnson has filed as 2 million lawsuit against a real estate broker who allegedly disclosed that the “Miami Vice” television star was planning to build a home on posh Star Island. The suit charges that Gerald Llorens, a broker with Wimbish Realty Inc., broke an oral agreement not to publicly reveal any information about Johnson’s property on the island between Miami and Miami Beach, the price of the property or any specific terms of the transaction. Johnson hired Llorens last August to find property where he could build a single-family home. The deal was completed Feb. 10 and shortly afterward The Miami Herald published a front-page arficle on it. As a result, Johnson said he will be forced to obtain additional security for his home and charges the disclosure injured and interfered with his “lifestyle, security, privacy and individual personal rights.” The suit seeks $500,000 in compensatory damages and $1.5 million in punitive damages. • LONDON (AP) - Irish singer Bob Geldof and UNICEF have announced simultaneous worldwide sponsored runs on May 25 to raise money for African famine relief. “This is really for the 10-year haul. What we had, in effect, last year (the Live Aid concerts and best-selling famine-relief records) was the 100-yard dash,” said Jim Grant, executive director of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund. Geldof, who started the British artists’ famine relief group Band Aid with an all-star Christmas record in 1964 and went on to organize the Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia last summer, said Wednesday he would run in one of the events. “We anticipate in every street in every country, someone running, in sympathy with everyone else around the world,” Geldof said. • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton, who has pushed breakfast cereal and batteries on television, will now be doing commercials for a giant hospital chain. In a pair of 30- and 60-second spots, Retton will talk about how Humana hospitals near Louisville and in Richmond, Va., treated her right knee, which she injured six weeks before the 1984 games in Los Angeles, the company said.

Say it ain't so, Joe Montana impostor leaves before honeymoon

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) A woman’s plan for a Hawaiian honeymoon with Joe Montana were shattered by a San Francisco 49ers official who said her Montana wasn’t the quarterback who already is married and was visiting Indonesia. Pamela Jones got the call from 49ers spokesman Jerry Walker on Tuesday, one day after she was married to a man claiming to be Joseph Charles Montana. The Rev. Bob Nelson of Southern Hills United Methodist Church, who officiated, said the groom told him, “I wouldn’t want you to be embarrassed later, preacher. I am Joe Montana, the football player. The San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback.” Nelson said he didn’t believe the man at first. “He didn’t look big enough to play in the NFL. But he was so sincere. And he looked a little like Montana,” he said, adding that Miss Jones kept telling him, “‘Bat lie told me he was Joe, and he had the NFL jaScet.’” Telephone calls to the real Montana’s hometown of Monongahela, Pa., and to the 49ers’ office in Redwood City, Calif., showed the Montana here was phony, Nelson said. He called the couple and told them he wouldn’t sign the marriage certificate and therefore, they weren’t married without some answers. Miss Jones remained unconvinced until Walker called and said the impostor may have been the man who showed up in Nashville recently, ‘'walking around there wearing a Super Bowl jacket and telling people he was Joey.”

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JOHN BARBOUR 10 days or bust

LOS ANGELES (AP) ABC has given John Barbour exactly 10 nights to get his act together or get off the air. Part of the network’s promotion for “The Barbour Report” says he is auditioning for a spot following “Nightline” at midnight. One ad says, “John Barbour has 10 days to make history or he is history.” Barbour, a former producer-reporter for “Real People,” has put together a nightly half-hour show of humorous essays, comedy in the news, and light features. ABC will broadcast “The Barbour Repent” five nights a week for two weeks beginning Monday. He said there’s not enough stance-taking on TV. “I miss expressing my opinion. I miss anyone on television expressing an opinion. You see it done so seldom, even humorously. One of the few people you see expressing an opinion nationally is Andy Rooney on ‘6O Minutes.’” Barbour is also taking another unusual approach. The show will be touted as coming “almost live from Van Nuys, Calif.,” a part of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. Rhonda Bates, the 6-foot-5 actress who appeared on “Speak Up, America,” and several situation comedies, will conduct the man-on-the-street interviews for the “Barbour Poll.” • BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - TV talk-show host Phil Donahue, who described Bethlehem as a sick or dying industrial city, has apologized to Mayor Paul Marcincin and said he might bring his popular show here. In his book, “The Human Animal,” Donahue used Bethlehem as an example of the nation’s changing industrial climate. But Marcincin wrote to Donahue to say that the city’s economy has a positive side and opportunities in diversified businesses have replaced lost steel industry jobs. In a reply to the mayor, Donahue said he would like to bring his show to Bethlehem, but that budget and scheduling problems kept him from promising an early appearance. LOS ANGELES (AP) Cartoonist Walter Lantz, the Oscar-winning creator of Woody Woodpecker, was honored with a sidewalk star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in ceremonies complete with a human-sized woodpecker character. More than 200 fans witnessed the dedication Wednesday of the star, between those of Errol Flynn and Lily Pots in front of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. It was the 1,823 rd star implanted in the Hollywood and Vine walkway. Lantz, 85, has been a cartoonist since he was 16 and has been under contract with Universal Studios for 57 years.

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