Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 71, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 November 1986 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC, November 22,1996

People in the news Kidney failure claims Colonna LOS ANGELES (AP) Jerry Colonna, the mustachioed, saucer-eyed comedian who made more than 12 overseas tours to entertain troops with Bob Hope during three wars, died Friday of kidney failure following a long illness. He was 82. Colonna died at 4:19 p.m. at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, with his wife, Florence, by his side, said Nursing Supervisor Michelle Patterson. Colonna appeared in a number of light comedies with Hope, including “Road to Singapore” in 1940, “Star Spangled Rhythm” in 1942 and “Road to Rio” in 1947. “He was a dear friend, a great entertainer whom I traveled all over the world with for 25 years,” Hope said in a statement issued through his spokesman Ken Cantor. “He provided millions of laughs for millions of people,” Hope said. “He delighted the entire world with his unique style of comedy a great loss to the entertainment industry. I’ll miss him.” Cantor said Hope, 83, would preside at Colonna’s funeral, but no date was immediately set. • NEW YORK After weeks of arduous negotiations involving top corporate management at CBS, Bill Moyers told his colleagues at CBS News Thursday that he was, after all, cutting his professional ties with the network. Moyers, whose contract expired last Saturday, had said early this year that he was going to leave CBS and had entered agreements with the Public Broadcasting Service to set up his own production company and produce documentaries and other programs. Moyers’s dissatisfaction with CBS News became public this fall and fed the atmosphere of turbulence that ultimately forced the resignation of Van Gordon Sauter as CBS News president in September. Moyers’s departure from CBS News is the second in his career. After several years at PBS in the 19705, he returned to CBS with the promise of essentially recreating his acclaimed public television series “Bill Moyers’ Journal” for CBS. But that role at CBS never quite materialized; instead, Moyers found himself linked to program ideas that he said he found inappropriately commercial (such as a prime-time news program with a regular feature on rock musicians), and he was stung by the cancellation of his “Our Times” series, a moderate success in 1983. • SANTA MONICA, Calif (AP) Actress Ava Gardner was in good condition at St. John’s Hospital, where she has been fighting pneumonia for more than six weeks, a hospital spokeswoman said. “Her doctor is still tentative about a discharge date,” Terry Starkman said Friday. Miss Gardner, 64, flew to Los Angeles from her London home and checked into the hospital Oct. 6 for treatment. She originally was expected to be released three weeks ago. A leading lady of the 1940 s and 19505, her film credits include “The Barefoot Contessa,”

Abby Z Making hubby miserable her goal

DEAR ABBY: Fifteen years ago, when I was 43 and pregnant with my seventh child, I found some pictures of a pretty young girl in my husband’s wallet. Steve swore he didn’t know how they got there, but I’m not stupid. I had enlargements made and hung them all over the house. My kids thought I was nuts, and Steve and I have been fighting ever since. Last year I had a tap put on our phone and I learned plenty. Steve and this girl, Jill, have been seeing each other for 15 years and they have a 9-year-old son together. Jill’s married and has two sons with her own husband. Steve and I own our business and if it weren’t for me we wouldn’t have anything. He can hardly read and write, and he needs me to do all the paperwork. I called up Jill’s husband and told him everything. He couldn’t believe it. He said Jill was a perfect wife and mother. And get this she never misses a Sunday at church! I called her minister and told him all about her, and all he said was, “If she were perfect she wouldn’t need to go to church.” To make a long story short, Jill’s husband is giving her a divorce because (as he told me) after 15 years, Steve and Jill must really love each other, and he wants her to be happy. He told me I ought to do the same for Steve. I said, “Over my dead body.”

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NEW YORK--Although she seems to specialize in playing ditsy kooks-most recently in “Nobody’s Fool”-Rosanna Arquette is deadly serious about the responsibilities of her profession. So the disaster of the Sean Penn-Madonna ad-venture-comdey “Shanghai Surprise” came as no surprise to her. SHE’D CO-STARRED WITH Madonna in Susan Seidelman’s delightful “Desperately Seeking Susan,” which “was presented as a Madonna movie,” she says. “In ‘Susan,’ Madonna simply played herself,” the assured veteran of such films as “Baby It’s You,” “After Hours” and “Eight Million Ways to Die” claims. “But when you want to be an actress you have to work at learning your craft. That’s why so many models and rock stars have a hard time surviving in movies. “THEY THINK ‘WOW! I’m going to be an actress ■ now ! ’ Farrah Fawcett is one exception to the rule. She really has paid her dues. She’s worked and grown. There’s no easy way.” • Kathleen Sullivan, co-anchor of the ABC World News This Morning since 1982, is leaving that post to do a health and fitness-related program for the network, she announced this week. Sullivan, 33, who helped anchor ABC Olympic coverage in 1984, will appear for the final time in her newscaster role Wednesday morning. She was one of the first news anchors on the Cable News Network (CNN) prior to joining ABC. • lOLA, Kan. (AP) Farrah Fawcett gave an autographed T-shirt, Jack Nicklaus contributed a golf ball and Miss Piggy donated some books to help some lola High School students get to Europe. The school’s Foreign Language Club plans to auction more than 150 celebrity items Sunday, with the proceeds used to help pay for a weeklong trip by six members next spring. The students were surprised by celebrities’ response to their request for contributions, said club President Brenda Johnson. Tammy Wynette sent an autographed record, and Alan Alda gave a signed script from an awardwinning episode of television’s “M-A-S-H.” Autographed photographs and posters were sent by Raquel Welch, Bob Hope, Cheryl Tiegs, Johnny Carson, Clint Eastwood, Andy Warhol, John Travolta, Phyllis Diller and Bob Newhart.

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Abby, I hate my husband and want to make his life miserable. What should I do? I know he loves Jill, but why should I step aside after what he did to me? HURTING BAD DEAR HURTING: Don’t make any decisions while you are in this bitter, vengeful state. You desperately need to vent your anger and unload your hostility. See a counselor and try to get your emotions under control. Then decide if you will be better off with him than without him, under the circumstances. Living to make someone miserable will only make you a miserable old woman in the end. Think about it. * * *

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DEAR ABBY: A family problem has arisen recently and I’d like your opinion. My parents’ divorce was final a year ago. They had been married for 33 years. Every year our family (parents and seven brothers and sisters) go to Colorado on a skiing trip. This year my dad wants to bring his girlfriend along, and our mother refuses to go if the girlfriend goes. My older sister says Mom and Dad are divorced so Dad has the right to bring anyone he wants, and Mom has nothing to say about it. I say, this is a family trip, and Dad’s girlfriend is not “family” she’s just a girlfriend so she should stay home, especially since she and Dad would share the same cabin if she went along. What is your opinion? And would your answer be any different if my Dad and this girlfriend were married? DEBATING IN DALLAS DEAR DEBATING: Dad’s girlfriend? No. If she were his wife. Si. * * * (For Abby’s booklet, “What Every Teen-Ager Ought to Know,” send a check or money order for $2.50 and a long, stamped (39 cents), self-ad-dressed envelope to: Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038.)

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