Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 285, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 July 1986 — Page 5

People in the news Pinching of stewardesses nets probation MIAMI (AP) A man who pleaded guilty to assault for pinching female flight attendants has been given three years’ probation. But U S. Magistrate Samuel Smargon told Gary Patrick Mastro on Thursday, “If you have even so much as a beer in the next three years and we learn about it, you’re going to do the time.” Mastro, 27, of Naples, was indicted on charges of interfering with the crew of a Northwest Orient flight from Fort Myers to Minneapolis in May. He was allowed to plead guilty to the misdemeanor assault charge. Mastro testified at an earlier hearing that he had been served eight screwdrivers at one time by the stewardesses. His attorney, Paul McKenna, in arguing for probation, told Smargon, “This man has a fear of flying. That’s why he took the eight drinks.” Smargon ordered Mastro to write letters of apology to the three stewardesses involved. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) “The Nashville Sound” goes global Saturday when the Voice of America broadcasts one hour of the Charlie Daniels Band’s 12th annual Volunteer Jam concert. The VOA, the radio network of the United States Information Agency, will broadcast the country-rock concert starting to a potential audience of 120 million. Additional segments will be taped for later broadcast over several of VOA’s 42 language service stations. It’ll be the third consecutive year that VOA will broadcast part of the concert. The 10-hour concert at the 17,000-seat Starwood Amphitheater will feature Daniels and his band, plus two dozen other performers whose names are not announced in advance. Word has slipped out, however, that the Allman Brothers Band plans to reunite at the concert, marking the first time they have played together in nearly 10 years. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Sarah Vaughan, Kenny Rankin, Cleo Laine, Herbie Hancock and other artists have recorded a jazz anthem that organizers hope will raise $1 million for hungry Americans. “We are trying to take some of the weight off the starving people in America,” Michael Mclntosh, who formed the Jazz to End Hunger organization and brought the more than 80 performers together, said Thursday. Mclntosh said the Jazz to End Hunger effort was put together after his disappointment over the exclusion of jazz in the Live Aid concerts. “The jazz community was overlooked by both Live Aid and ‘We Are The World.’ There are legendary musicians who wanted to help, but were never asked,” he said.

Former 'Dynasty' cast member discloses he's victim of AIDS

LOS ANGELES (AP) AIDS, which has killed “Dynasty’s” Rock Hudson, has afflicted a former member of the TV series’ cast, actor Paul Francis Keenan. Like Hudson, Keenan, 30, who appeared in five episodes in 1982 and eight in 1984, is speaking out strongly about the disease and the need to help victims. But going beyond Hudson’s revelations, Keenan said he contracted the disease through sexual contact with another man. “I don’t believe that AIDS is something to be ashamed of, something that I should have to keep a secret,” said Keenan, who found out he had AIDS about seven weeks ago. “I am very proud of who I am, very proud of the things I’m trying to do.” He did keep his homosexuality a secret when he was working in image-obsessed Hollywood, the actor said during a telephone interview Thursday from New York City, where he was recently hospitalized at St. Clare’s Hospital and Health Center. “When I was 18,1 came out of the closet. ... My family knew. Everyone who was a peer knew. When I was acting and my career started to take off, it was suggested to me that I go into a closet I had never known. When I left Los Angeles about IV2 years ago, I decided I wouldn’t do that anymore.” Keenan, who played Todd Chandler on the daytime TV soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” portrayed stableman Tony Driscoll on the ABC-TV nighttime soap “Dynasty.”

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GOLDIE HAWN: A mom again LOS ANGELES (AP) Actress Goldie Hawn was feeling terrific after giving birth to an 8-pound, 4ounce baby boy by Caesarean section, her publicist said. Wyatt Russell, whose father is actor Kurt Russell, was delivered at 8:28 a.m. Thursday at a Los Angeles-area hospital, said publicist Heidi Schaeffer. The family planned to return to their Aspen, Colo., home after Miss Hawn leaves the hospital, said Ms. Schaeffer. Miss Hawn, who starred in the movie “Private Benjamin,” has two other children Oliver, 9, and Kate, 7. Their father is actor Bill Hudson. Russell has a son, Boston, 6, whose mother is actress Season Hubley. Russell stars in the recently released “Big Trouble in Little China.” • NEW YORK (AP) Julie Andrews and Kitty Carlisle Hart helped Broadway take time out to remember composer-lyricist Alan Jay Lemer, who created such classics as “Camelot,” “My Fair Lady” and “Brigadoon.” “He was a consummate craftsman,” Miss Andrews told 1,500 people Thursday at the Shubert Theater. Lemer, an Oscar- and Tony-winning lyricist, playwright and composer who received the Kennedy Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this year, died of lung cancer June 14. He was 67. Miss Hart, who said she had known Lemer “longer than almost anybody in this theater before most of you were born,” read a letter from composer Frederick Loewe, Lemer’s collaborator from 1946 to 1962. “Ironically, it was Alan who was always wanting to know what I wanted him to say about me at my memorial. ... But fate changed all that,” wrote Loewe, 85, who lives in Europe. “It won’t be long, however, before we’ll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.”

His last acting job was the male romantic lead in the 1984 CBS-TV movie “Summer Fantasy,” opposite Julianne Phillips, who later married rock superstar Bruce Springsteen. Keenan said he is not worried about whether he’ll ever get another job in Hollywood. “When you have AIDS, you really have to face the fact that this could be a fatal disease,” he said. “You’re dealing with things that are more important than the narcissistic Hollywood type of life. “I believe that my focus is to be healed from this disease and to live. Whatever else happens after that, happens.” Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which cripples the body’s immune system and leaves its victims vulnerable to life-threatening infections and cancer, is caused by a virus believed to be passed through blood and semen, but not through casual contact. It has struck more than 21,000 people in the United States, killing more than 11,000, according to the national Centers for Disease Control. Keenan said Hudson, who was 59 when he died Oct. 2 of complications from AIDS, was only a friend. They never worked together, despite their appearances on the series, and it’s “absolutely not a possibility” that he contracted AIDS from Hudson, he said. Keenan, who is undergoing therapy at St. Clare’s, wants to use his illness to call attention to those who suffer from AIDS.

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