Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 124, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 February 1988 — Page 6

THE BANNERGRAPHtC February 2.1988

People in the news Priest praises Springsteen NEW YORK (AP) Bruce Springsteen is a “Catholic minstrel” whose most recent album may have been “a more important Catholic event in this country than the visit of Pope John Paul II,” the Rev. Andrew Greeley says. The pope “spoke of moral debates using the language of doctrinal positions that appeal to (or repel) the mind,” while Springsteen “sings of religious realities sin, temptation, forgiveness, life, death, hope —in images... from his Catholic childhood,” the priest writes in the Feb. 6 issue of America magazine. Springsteen’s images, Greeley argues, “appeal to the whole person, not just the head, and that will be absorbed by far more Americans than those who listened to the pope.” John Paul II should take no offense, because “troubadours always have more importance than theologians or bishops,” insists Greeley, a sociologist, best-selling novelist and frequent contributor to America, which is published by the Jesuit order. • BLUE ISLAND, 111. (AP) Former ABC “World News Tonight” co-anchor Max Robinson was released from the hospital where he was treated for nearly two months, a spokesman said. “All I can say is he was released (Monday) morning,” said St. Francis Hospital spokesman Chuck Green. “I’m sure his vital signs and everything were stabilized before he was released.” Robinson, 48, was admitted to the hospital Dec. 4 in critical condition, but officials refused to give information about his medical problem at his family’s request. Robinson, the first black to anchor a daily network news show, was for six years one of three co-anchors on “World News Tonight” before becoming a coanchor on WMAQ-TV, Chicago’s NBC affiliate. • NEW YORK (AP) Tony Award-winning playwright Harvey Fierstein and actress-comedian Anne Meara helped launch a workshop where panels will be made for addition to a quilt in memory of AIDS victims. “It’s a way of saying, ‘I miss this person, I’m proud of knowing this person,”’ Ms. Meara said Monday. “I’ve made quilts for people I have lost. I have more quilts to make,” Fierstein, author of “Torch Song Trilogy,” said, noting that 28,000 people have died nationwide of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The Center Quilt Workshop being run at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Manhattan is an outgrowth of the national Names Project, which created the quilt. The quilt was part of a demonstration last October at the Mall in Washington. The project originated in San Francisco.

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The following are the top record hits and leading popular compact disks as they appear in next week’s issue of Billboard magazine. Copyright 1988, Billboard Publications Inc. Reprinted with permission. HOT SINGLES 1. “Could’ve Been” Tiffany (MCA) 2. Shade of Winter” Bangles (Def Jam) 3. You Tonight” Inxs (Atlantic) 4. Change” Expose (Arista) 5. Want to Be Your Man” Roger (Reprise) 6. “Hungry Eyes” Eric Carmen (RCA) 7. Have I Done to Deserve This?” Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield (EMI-Manhattan) 8. “Say You Will” Foreigner (Atlantic) 9. of Love” Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) 10. “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man” Prince (Paisley Park) TOP LP’S 1. “Faith” George Michael (Columbia)-Platinum (More than 1 million sold). 2. Tiffany (MCA)-Platinum 3. Dancing’ Soundtrack” (RCA)-Platinum 4. “Kick” Inxs (Atlantic)-Platinum 5. Michael Jackson (Epic)-Platinum 6. “The Lonesome Jubilee” John Cougar Mellencamp (Mercury)-Platinum 7. Whites nake (Geffen)-Platinum 8. “Hysteria” Def Leppard (Mercury)-Platinum 9. “Cloud Nine” George Harrison (Dark Horse)Platinum 10. “Out of the Blue” Debbie Gibson (Atlantic) COUNTRY SINGLES 1. “Wheels” Restless Heart (RCA) 2. “Tennessee Flat Top Box” Rosanne Cash (Columbia)

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The 1988 Man and Woman of the Year, as named by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, are comics Steve Martin and Lucille Ball. Miss Ball, 76, will be honored with a parade through Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., and presented with the traditional “pudding pot” Feb. 16 at the Hasty Pudding Theater. THE 42-YEAR-OLD Martin, with recent film successes in “Roxanne” and “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” will receive his award at the Feb. 23 premiere performance of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 140th annual musical extravanganza, “Saint Misbehavin.’” Since 1951, the Woman of the Year Award and since 1967, the Man of the Year Award have been presented to performers who have made a “lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment.” Miss Ball’s credit include more than 80 films, as well as starring roles on Broadway and her enduring TV character in the old “I Love Lucy” series and its sequels. MARTIN, OF COURSE, started his career as a stand-up comic and has gravitated toward feature films with his two most-recent successes preceded by the critically-acclaimed “All of Me,” and the less-than-acclaimed ‘The Jerk,” “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” and “The Man With Two Brains.” • DETROIT (AP) Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give her seat on a segregated bus to a white man 32 years ago triggered a boycott and a landmark civil rights case, celebrated her birthday with about 350 people. Mrs. Parks, who turns 75 on Thursday, said the gathering Sunday left her “just about speechless” “I can hardly think of a thing to say,” she said. “But this has been a great day.” Among those attending were Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. and U.S. Appeals Court Judge Damon Keith. The celebration marked the start of a nationwide drive to raise $1 million for the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development here, named for Mrs. Parks and her late husband and aimed at helping young people. Mrs. Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 1,1955, resulted in a boycott and a court case that ultimately outlawed racial discrimination on transportation systems.

3. “One Step Forward” The Desert Rose Band (MCA-Curb) 4. “Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star” Merle Haggard (Epic) 5. in His Arms Again” The Forester Sisters (Warner Bros.) 6. Won’t Take Less Than Your Love” Tanya Tucker with P. Davis & P. Overstreet (Capitol) 7. Please Baby” Dwight Yoakam (Reprise) 8. “Face to Face” Alabama (RCA) 9. “Sure Thing” Foster & Lloyd (RCA) 10. “Too Gone Too Long” Randy Travis (Warner Bros.) ADULT CONTEMPORARY SINGLES 1. “Could’ve Been” Tiffany (MCA) 2. Stay Away From You” Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine (Epic) 3. “Everywhere” Fleetwood Mac (Warner Bros.) 4. “Hungry Eyes” Eric Carmen (RCA) 5. “Seasons Change” Expose (Arista) 6. “She’s Like the Wind” Patrick Swayze & Wendy Fraser (RCA) 7. 1 Want Is You” Carly Simon (Arista) 8. “I Live for Your Love” Natalie Cole (EMI-Man-hattan) 9. “The Way You Make Me Feel” Michael Jackson (Epic) 10. “Twilight World” Swing Out Sister (Mercury) TOP POP COMPACT DISKS 1. Inxs (Atlantic) 2. “Faith” George Michael (Columbia) 3. Momentary Lapse of Reason” Pink Floyd (Columbia) 4. Nine” George Harrison (Dark Horse) 5. Like the Sun” Sting (A&M)

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