Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 91, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 December 1986 — Page 7

People in the news Carson to wed for fourth time LOS ANGELES (AP) Talk-show host Johnny Carson has asked Alex Maas, a woman described as his constant companion, to become his fourth wife. “All he did is confirm the fact they are engaged,” spokesman James Mahoney said late Tuesday. “I asked him because I’d heard rumors. They became engaged quietly late last week. There will be no formal announcement.” Carson, 61, who has hosted “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” for the last 24 years, has been married three times, most recently to Joanna Holland Carson, a former model. In July, the Los Angeles Times described Ms. Maas as Carson’s constant companion, a “beautiful blonde he met by chance on Carbon Beach” in Malibu. The couple has apparently known each other for a couple of years. Mahoney said he did not know when they planned to marry. • NEW YORK (AP) Mariette Hartley, a cohost of “The Morning Program” premiering Jan. 12 on CBS, is touting the show as an early-morning attentiongrabber. “My image of the show is that if you’ve got a cup of coffee in your hand and you’ve brought it to your mouth, that you spit it out at least once a morning,” Hartley said Tuesday. CBS described the format at a news conference attended by executive producer Bob Shanks, co-hosts Hartley and Rolland Smith, weatherman Mark McEwen and “sidekick” Bob Saget, a comedian. “The Morning Program” will open with the weather, brief newscasts will appear midway through the first two half-hour periods, and will feature entertainment news, instant surveys of a studio audience and home viewers, personal ads placed by screened applicants with follow-up reports, consumer tips and a daily comedy segment taped at a nightclub. Hartley, an actress, did a brief stint on NBC’s “Today” show a few years ago. Smith was a local television news anchor in New York. Saget is a standup comic, and McEwen comes from radio. • LONDON (AP) Opera star Placido Domingo has postponed a concert tonight and is demanding that the ticket prices be lowered. Concert promoters said he couldn’t draw a full house and was demanding excessive fees. Domingo’s announcement was made Tuesday night on a Thames Television talk show. “I decided to postpone because it was my belief that the prices for the concert were very very high,” the Spanish-born tenor said. “I do believe that when you sing in an arena it is to bring in a lot of people who can pay popular prices. I am sorry about the problems that might cause the promoter. I understand his situation but there must be different prices.” More than 4,000 people had bought tickets ranging from the equivalent of $22 to $72 to hear Domingo. Press reports said the arena may have been just half filled.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Shelley Long is leaving the NBC comedy “Cheers,” saying she turned down a contract extension to devote more time to her family and other interests. There was no word on how producers would end Miss Long’s five-year stint on the show, where she won an Emmy for best actress in a comedy series in 1983 for her portrayal of highbrow waitress Diane Chambers. The role also garnered Miss Long a pair of Golden Globe awards. “The ‘Cheers’ producers offered me an extension to my five-year contract that expires at the end of this season,” Miss Long said Tuesday in a statement. “It was a very difficult choice to make. We’ve done some really terrific work at ‘Cheers’ but I’ve decided to give priority to my family and to my newly established film production company in connection with Disney Productions.” • Yawn. Before you nod off, there’s some really boring news out of the Boring Institute this week. Its annual list of most-boring celebrities is out. And the most boring of them all in 1986 is talk show host Joan Rivers. “JOHNNY CARSON NEVER looked so good,” Alan Caruba, founder and sole member of the institute said, alluding to Miss Rivers’ challenge of Carson’s late-night TV reign. Rivers’ program, televised on the Fox TV network, “is dedicated to exploring the depths of vulgarity and bad taste,” continued Caruba, who annually takes it upon himself to publicize “major media overexposure during the past year.” Among runners-up to Miss Rivers are actors Don Johnson and Sean Penn, presidential offspring Ron Reagan and Patti Davis and Carson’s sidekick, Ed McMahon. What, no votes for Vanna White? MISS RIVERS TAKES OVER for 1985 winner Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the self-professed sex therapist. Most boring figure in 1984 was singer Michael Jackson, who is still one glove short of a full set. • SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) Legislative wrangling gave Gov. James R. Thompson a pain in the back, a spokesman says. The governor, who has had a disc problem for years, canceled his activities Tuesday and spent the day in bed, said spokesman David Fields. “He hasn’t had the problem for about 18 months, but stress and tension can aggravate it. “It flared up again during the legislative session.” Thompson’s back problems became apparent Dec. 5, the last day of the General Assembly’s fall session.

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