Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 88, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 December 1986 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC, December 13,1986

People in the news Newman, Turner cop film awards

LOS ANGELES (AP) Paul Newman has been named 1986’s best actor, Kathleen Turner top actress and Woody Allen best director by the National Board of Review. The English film “A Room With a View” was named best picture in the results announced Thursday. Newman won for “The Color of Money” while Turner won for “Peggy Sue Got Married.” Allen won the directing award for “Hannah and Her Sisters,” the runner-up for best picture. Dianne Wiest, from “Hannah and Her Sisters,” was named best supporting actress, and Daniel Day Lewis, who appeared in “A Room With a View” and “My Beautiful Laundrette,” won best supporting actor. Franco Zefferelli’s “Otello,” from Italy, was named best foreign-language film. The 69-year-old National Board of Review is made up of U.S. critics, researchers, authors and scholars. The awards will be presented Feb. 9 in New York. • NEW YORK (AP) Vanessa Williams, the Miss America who renounced her title after Penthouse magazine printed nude pictures of her, is marrying her publicist, her father said. Miss Williams, 23, will marry Ramon Hervey in a small ceremony Jan. 3 at St. Francis Xavier Church in New York, Milton Williams, a schoolteacher in suburban Westchester County, said Friday. “We didn’t intend it to be a big thing,” said Hervey. Miss Williams, who in September 1983 became the first black Miss America, met Hervey shortly before a news conference she held in July 1984 to renounce the throne. “He was brought in to help with all that,” her father said. “He provided a lot of help and insight, and she relied on him heavily.” • LOS ANGELES (AP) Frank Sinatra said it would take three years to respond to all the get-well cards and gifts he got as he recovered from surgery, so he placed a thank-you advertisement in a national newspaper. “Dear Hearts,” began the ad in USA Today on Friday, the singer’s 71st birthday. “My warmest thanks to everyone around the country for your kind thoughts, prayers, good wishes and gifts. I wish I could respond to each and every one of the marvelous people who took the time to send cards and letters. “If it is possible to hug thousands of people at one time, this is my chance. I love you all.” A 12-inch section of Sinatra’s large intestine was removed during emergency surgery in November. “He’s feeling great, much, much better,” said his publicist, Susan Reynolds. Sinatra is scheduled to make his first public appearance since leaving the hospital at a Monday night gala to celebrate the reopening of New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Dear Abby Men-only tale benefits only Louie the louse

DEAR ABBY: Twice this past year my gentleman friend went to a benefit for a sick friend. Both times he went without me, saying it was for men only. I had no reason to doubt him and forgot all about it. Afterward he casually said they went very well and a lot of money was collected for said friend. I thought it was nice, until one night while we were at a party, several women mentioned what a good time they had at both benefits. Louie immediately changed the subject. Two days later we met two other women friends of his while taking a walk. Louie hadn’t seen them since the two benefits. He nearly went through the sidewalk when they commented on the great time they had at the benefits. Now he tells me that next week there is going to be another benefit, and this one also will be for men only. What do you think? KITTY IN NYC DEAR KITTY: I think you would benefit enormously if you got rid of Louie. He’s not behaving like either a gentleman or a friend.

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NEW YORK (AP) Actress Phylicia Rashad of “The Cosby Show” has given birth to a girl, NBC announced Friday. Mrs. Rashad, who plays Bill Cosby’s wife, Claire Huxtable, on the hit NBC situation comedy, is married to NBC sportscaster Ahmad Rashad. “Mother and daughter are doing fine,” said an NBC spokesman. The baby, named Condola Phylea Rashad, was bom Thursday about 5:20 p.m. in an unidentified New York hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces and was 22 > 4 inches long, NBC said. The baby is the Rashads’ first child. The birth was taking place at the hospital at the same time “The Cosby Show” was being taped in front of a studio audience. Director Jay Sandrich announced the birth over the “squawkbox” to applause from the studio audience and a beaming Bill Cosby. • John Madden, who figures he has averaged 100,000 miles a year on trains since he quit as coach of the Oakland Raiders in 1978 and vowed never to fly again, thought he had experienced all the interesting problems that rail travel can offer, from snowstorms and derailments to the truly bizarre: “Once a guy who had just robbed a bank in the Midwest jumped on my train, but they got him off at the next stop.” Madden, recounting his experiences in a phone conversation Thursday from Chicago, where he was what else? waiting to catch a train, now has a new rail tale to tell. “Until this week,” he said, “I never missed a connection because of a prison break.” TV’s most colorful football analyst, who’ll work Saturday’s Broncos-Redskins game at Mile High Stadium, had planned to leave Grand Central Terminal via Amtrak at 7:20 Tuesday night for a 3 p.m. train from Chicago to Denver the next day. His timetable was derailed when three prisoners escaped from Sing Sing, leading to a series of electrical-power shutoffs that allowed the police to search the nearby tracks. “We didn’t leave New York until 9:30,” he said. “Then, when we got to Ossining, we were stopped while troopers with shotguns ran around outside.” When the train ground to a halt in Ossining, he recalled, it was jammed with people, some unnerved, some not. “One woman threatened to jump off the train,” he said. “A young girl tried to get everybody to sing Christmas carols, but nobody would join her, so she wound up drinking toasts to the prisoners.” Madden, one of whose Miller Lite commercials shows him cowering in fear when his train goes into a tunnel, was able to endure the four-hour wait in the dark thanks to the resourcefulness of Amtrak personnel. “They used flashlights,” he said, “to keep the bar in the club car open.”

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DEAR ABBY: A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I were outside when we noticed a neighbor attempting to get into his car. He was obviously very drunk and in no condition to drive. (He could hardly walk.) My husband took his car keys away from him, and tried to talk him into going home. He refused and demanded that my husband return his keys. They argued for about 10 minutes, then this drunken neighbor became very belligerent, physically overpowered my husband and retrieved his car keys. Then he got into his car and took off like a bat out of hell. That’s

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when we called the police. Please understand, we never get involved in other people’s business, but this was important. The neighbor was picked up. When we questioned our friends, parents, etc., we were told that it wasn’t our business, and we could have been sued for harassment. Abby, if it wasn’t out business, whose business was it? By the way, we’re not a couple of old fuddyduddies. We are a 29-year-old couple who have a drink or two ourselves once in a while but not when we’re driving. Please comment. PEOPLE AGAINST DRUNKS DEAR PEOPLE: It is your business, my business, and the business of every person to do whatever is necessary to prevent a drunk from driving. You acted responsibly when you confiscated the man’s car keys and called the police. Others could learn from you. * * * (To get Abby’s booklet, “How to Be Popular: You’re Never Too Young or Too Old,” send a check or money order for $2.50 and a long, stamped (39 cents), self-addressed envelope to: Dear Abby, Popularity, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038.)

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