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People in the news Scabs trouble for announcers CBS’ Pat Summerall says it will be like “doing the third quarter of the first preseason game.” NBC’s Charlie Jones likens it to “building a sand castle from scratch.” The veteran play-by-play announcers were talking about what it will be like to broadcast NFL games Sunday, when teams of free agents, rookies and nonstriking veterans will take the field in place of the regular squads that have been shattered by the players’ walkout. Like NFL coaches, announcers are taking crash courses to learn the names, numbers, positions and abilities of the players that will represent the league this weekend. “You’re dealing with 45 unfamiliar faces (on each team),” Summerall said. “You don’t know their skills or their mannerisms. All you know is their number.” Jones and Summerall said the telecasts will reflect the unusual nature of the games. “It’s not Armageddon,” Summerall said. “I think we’ll treat them in a lighter way. We’ll also be more flexible because it’s really a news story as well as a sports story. You may see interviews of fans in the stadium and players on the picket lines. The whole focus won’t be on the game.” Although they’re both members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Summerall and Jones will cross picket lines to work Sunday’s games. AFTRA members don’t have the contractual right to honor picket lines of other unions. “We really don’t have a choice,” Jones said. “If our union honored the picket line, then I wouldn’t cross.” Summerall played 10 seasons in the NFL and is still a member of the Players Association. But he said he won’t feel guilty about crossing the union’s picket line. “I had a knee operation three weeks ago, and no one from the Players Association offered to help me out,” he said. “Fortunately, I didn’t need any help. But there are founding members who can’t walk, can’t pay their bills, and the current players haven’t done anything to help these people.” With both sides refusing to budge over free agency, some are predicting a long strike. But Summerall remains optimistic. “I just have a feeling,” he said. “When advertisers start dropping out and the networks have to give rebates, there’ll be great pressure to end the strike.” • NEW YORK Jessica Hahn has been subpoenaed to appear next week before a Bronx grand jury investigating the Wedtech Corp., according to people familiar with the case. They said she would be questioned about a SIO,OOO payment she received from a Bronx minister, the Rev. Aimee Garcia Cortese, who is a sister of Rep. Robert Garcia and also a former board member of the Rev. Jim Bakker’s PTL ministry. Hahn, a 28-year-old former church secretary from Long Island, achieved notoriety when she asserted earlier this year that she was forced in 1980 to have sex in a Florida hotel with Bakker. According to Hahn, Bakker’s organization later offered her $265,000 in an attempt to keep her from revealing the incident. Bakker has denied that he forced Hahn to have sex with him. Hahn, who is touring the country to promote an interview in Playboy magazine, is reportedly not a target in the investigation.

Dreaming of a pop music Christmas?

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service Madonna chirping “Santa Baby” and John Cougar Meilencamp crooning "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” are two of the more delightful novelties on “A Very Special Christmas,” an all-star seasonal album that A&M Records will release in mid-October. Proceeds from the album, which features the heaviest lineup of big-name rock talent to appear on any record since “We Are the World,” will benefit Special Olympics Inc., the year-round international sports training program for the mentally handicapped. Besides contributions from Madonna and Meilencamp. the album includes cuts by Bruce Springsteen (“Merry Christmas. Baby,”). U 2 (“Christmas. Baby Please Come Home”), Run-D.M.C. (“Christmas in Hollis”), Sting (“Gabriel’s Message”). Whitney Houston (“Do You Hear What I Hear?”), Bob Seger (“The Little Drummer Boy”), Bon Jovi (“Back Door Santa”) Stevie Nicks (“Silent Night”), the Pointer Sisters (“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”), Eurythmics (“Winter Wonderland”), the Pretenders (“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”), Bryan Adams (“Run Rudolph Run”) and Alison Moyet (“Coventry Carol”). “A Very Special Christmas” is the brainchild of

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LOS ANGELES (AP) The “Falcon Crest” romance continues between Dina Wells and Lance Cumson, but Lorenzo Lamas and Robin Greer, who portray the lovers on the CBS series, are breaking their real-life engagement. “Their decision to split was a mutual and amicable one,” Lamas’ publicist Eddie Michaels said Wednesday. “It was just a mutual decision that they did not want to be together any more,” he added. “We haven’t been told any more than that.” Lornas, 29, and Miss Greer, 27, met when the show went into production for the 1986 season, and had planned to marry next summer, Michaels said. Lamas, who was previously married and divorced, will still work with Miss Greer on the show, Michaels said. In the series, which is entering its seventh season, Miss Greer plays aerobics instructor Dina Wells, who is the lover of Lamas’ character, Lance Cumson. • SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Jim and Tammy Bakker, ousted leaders of the PTL television ministry, contributed a giant teddy bear and many other personal mementoes for an auction benefiting the local volunteer fire department. The Sevier County-Sevierville Fire Department hauled away three pickup truck loads of donations from the Bakker’s mountaintop home in nearby Gatlinburg. An olivewood carving of the Last Supper, inscribed “To Jim and Tammy Happy 25th Wedding Anniversary,” and a pencil drawing of Mrs. Bakker were among the couple’s donations for the Oct. 10 auction. “When they first called and told us who they were, we couldn’t believe it,” said firefighter Ronnie Davis, coordinator of the annual fundraiser. • NEW YORK (AP) A S2O million lawsuit against Boy George, brought by the mother of a songwriter who died of a heroin overdose in the British pop star’s apartment, has been dismissed. U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein ruled that courts in the United States had no jurisdiction because Boy George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, he lives in England. Sally Rudetsky, of North Woodmere, filed a $44 million suit in October against O’Dowd, lead singer of Culture Club, claiming that he failed to provide proper medical care for her 27-year-old son, Michael, after he became ill from taking heroin. The claim was subsequently amended to S2O million. Rudetsky was working with O’Dowd in Brixton, England, when he took heroin on Aug. 5, 1986. Rudetsky became ill and O’Dowd took him to his home and put him to bed. Rudetsky died of morphine intoxication the next day. The British coroner said the death was caused by “misadventure” and not any criminal activity.

Jimmy lovine, a rock producer, and his wife, Vicki, who spent a year preparing it. “I had always wanted to make a Christmas album, but I kept putting it off,” lovine said the other day. “Then after my dad passed away two years ago, I decided I had to do it quickly. But first I had to find the right charity. Then Vicki started working as a volunteer for Special Olympics. I went to several of their events and was very touched. One day she was invited to a party in California with Sargent and Eunice Shriver, who run the organization. When I met them I told them of my idea for a Christmas record, and the next day they called and said, ‘Let’s do it.’” The first 15 artists contacted by the lovines all agreed to donate their talents. Madonna instantly came up with the idea of “Santa Baby,” the 1953 hit for Eartha Kitt, and Meilencamp said he had always wanted to sing the 1952 Jimmy Boyd novelty, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” The U 2 single was recorded during a sound check before a concert in Glasgow. The Springsteen and Sting cuts were Bsides of singles not on albums. The rap group RunD.M.C. wrote their own song, “Christmas in Hollis.” What would ordinarily have been a multimilliondollar project was completed for only SIOO,OOO.

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