Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 159, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 March 1988 — Page 8

THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 14,1988

People in the news Cosby enjoys public attraction LOS ANGELES (AP) Comedian Bill Cosby won four People’s Choice Awards and the movie “Fatal Attraction” won three from an admiring public that also bestowed honors on Cybill Shepherd, Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston. “This is particularly special for me,” said Miss Shepherd, named favorite female TV performer, despite a shortened “Moonlighting” role last year due to her pregnancy. “When you’re out of the limelight, you’re pregnant with twins and gain 45 pounds and you go through this enormous change, it always goes through the back of your mind, ‘Are they going to forget?’ “It’s really nice to know they didn’t forget” THE PUBLIC CHOSE the winners in the 14th annual People’s Choice Awards, broadcast Sunday night by CBS. Winners were determined by a Gallup poll of 5,000 people older than 12, a statistical representation of nearly 196 million people. Cosby was named favorite male TV performer for the fourth consecutive year and favorite all-around male entertainer for the third. He also won a new award all-time favorite TV star while his toprated NBC-TV series, “The Cosby Show,” won its fourth comedy program award. NBC’s “L.A. Law” was the favorite TV dramatic program. “THREE MEN AND A BABY” won for comedy movie and “Fatal Attraction” for dramatic motion picture. Its leads, Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, were picked top motion picture performers. “I want to thank you as my favorite father, and a supporter,” Douglas told his father, Kirk Douglas, who presented the award. Clint Eastwood was chosen all-time favorite movie star, an award presented by Jimmy Stewart. Miss Parton won favorite all-around female entertainer, and favorite female performer in a new TV program for ABC’s “Dolly.” Kenny Rogers won his eighth award as male musical performer, tying with Cosby, Burt Reynolds and Barbara Mandrell as an eight-time winner of an individual category. IN OTHER AWARDS, Oprah Winfrey dethroned Johnny Carson as favorite television talk show host, Miss Houston was the favorite female musical performer, the group Bon Jovi was chosen favorite rock group, and Barbra Streisand was the favorite all-time musical star. John Ritter was the favorite male performer in a new TV program for ABC’s “Hooperman,” while Kirk Cameron of ABC’s “Growing Pains” and Keshia Knight-Pulliam of “The Cosby Show” tied for favorite young TV performer. The top new TV dramatic program was “thirtysomething” on ABC, while NBC’s “A Different World” and “My Two Dads” tied in the new TV comedy category. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A country music buff is hoping readers will go gaga over his new bode featuring baby pictures of more than 150 country music stars, including Glen Campbell, Willie Nelson, Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Dolly Partem, Ronnie Milsap and the Oak Ridge Boys. Paul Randall, a radio personality, gathered the photos for his book, “Baby Photos of the Country Stars,” which also includes current pictures of the performers and trivia questions about their careers. Randall is a former publicist for RCA Records in Nashville and has written two previous bodes.

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NEW YORK (AP) Courtney Gibbs, the newly crowned Miss USA, says she’s tone deaf and can’t dance, which is one reason why she entered the pageant: It has no talent requirement. “The Miss America Pageant has a talent division, and I really don’t have a talent that fits into any category,” the 21-year-old Ms. Gibbs told this week’s People magazine. Ms. Gibbs, Texas’ fourth-consecutive winner of the pageant, said she hopes her talent is “speaking, because I want to go into broadcasting, but you can’t do that fra: three minutes in front of the judges. “I mean, I was a model for seven years, but I don’t think they’d understand me modeling clothes for three minutes.” • BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) The Directors Guild of America has honored Bernardo Bertolucci with his second directing award for “The Last Emperor,” in what could bode a triple-crown award season for the Italian movie director. Bertolucci, who in January won a Golden Globe for directing “The Last Emperor,” picked up the DGA award Saturday night in ceremonies held jointly at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and in New York. An Academy Award next month would make it a Bertolucci sweep. Only three times in the 40-year history erf the DGA award has it failed to coincide with the Academy Award winner for best director. The last time was in 1985, when Steven Spielbeig’s directorial colleagues gave him the nod for “The Color Purple,” while the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences didn’t even nominate him. The Oscar went instead to Sydney Pollack for “Out of Africa.” Other top DGA winners Saturday were Will MacKenzie, who received the TV comedy directing award for an episode of NBC-TV’s “Family Ties” called “‘A’ My Name is Alex”; and Marshall Herskovitz, who won the nighttime dramatic series award for his pilot for ABC-TV’s “thirtysomething.” • THIS WEEK’S CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS: Actor Michael Caine, 55, comic Billy Crystal, 41, Prince Albert of Monaco, 30, and composer Quincy Jones, 55, were Monday’s birthday boys, while Tuesday means No. 75 fra actor Macdonald Carey, No. 47 for Beach Boy Mike Love and No. 44 for Sylvester Stewart of Sly and the Family Stone fame. Wednesday’s cake-and-candle set includes comic Jerry Lewis, 62, actor Erik Estrada, 39, rock singer Nancy Wilson of Heart, 34, and former First Lady Pat Nix cm, 76. Adding a year Thursday will be actor Patrick Duffy, 39, actor Kurt Russell, 37, and actress Lesley-Anne Down, 34. Friday’s list includes former Miss America Vanessa Williams, 25, author George Plimpton, 61, and actor Kevin Dobson, 45. Next Saturday means No. 33 for actor Bruce Willis, No. 52 for actress Ursula Andress and No. 72 for author Irving Wallace.

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