Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 63, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 November 1988 — Page 7

People in the news New round for Tyson, Givens NEW YORK (AP) Mike Tyson’s fights continue to take place outsidethe ring. Robin Givens, his estranged wife, filed a $ 125-mil-lion libel suit Wednesday against the undisputed heavyweight champion. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, the 23-year-old actress accused Tyson of holding her up “to public contempt, ridicule, embarrassment disgrace and prejudice” for remarks he made that were quoted by the New York Post AMONG TYSON’S QUOTES in the Post article that angered Givens: “She manipulated me... Now it turns out she was lying when she said she didn’t want anything from me.” “The nature of those two women (Givens and her mother, Ruth Roper) is to be mean and vindictive. She said she wants nothing, but she refused to sign a release.” “And she (Givens) stole money from me when we were together.” The Post was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which described the article as “false, defamatory, malicious and libelous.” The newspaper had no immediate comment TYSONS AND GIVENS, married Feb. 12, have filed for divorce. He is suing her in New Jersey and she is suing him in California. “The lawsuit is outrageous and ludicrous,” Howard Weitzman, Tyson’s lawyer, said. “This young lady once again is atempdng to shift blame from her conduct to someone else and blame them for any problems she perceives she’s having. “The lawsuit, it’s actually shocking to me,” Weitzman continued. “It opens up her character and background to public scrutiny.” NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Lead singer Bono of the rock ’n’ roll band U 2 says he hopes people focus on the group’s music rather than the band members. “People are trying to make us into stars, and we’re not,” Bono, whose real name is Paul Hewson, said Tuesday. “We’re musicians.” The group stars in a new movie “U 2 Rattle and Hum.” Hewson and U 2 bassist Adam Clayton are spending a few days in Nashville during a drive across the country. “We just got tired of L.A.,” Bono said. “We just rented a car and are driving around the U.S.”

Disney revives coonskin caps

LOS ANGELES (AP) Coonskin caps and flubber may make comebacks as NBC revives “Davy Crockett” and “The Absent-Minded Professor” for a new round of shows from Walt Disney Productions. The two shows will be part of a “wheel” of rotating series, specials and classics from the Disney library on NBC’s Sunday night “The Magical World of Disney.” “Davy Crockett” makes its debut Sunday with a two-hour movie of new adventures of the popular frontiersman. Tim Dunigan dons the coonskin cap to star as the “king of the wild frontier.” Johnny Cash plays Crockett as an elder statesman. THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY, Harry Anderson of NBC’s “Night Court” stars as Prof. Henry Craw- ■ ford, the forgetful inventor of lighter-than-air flubber, -Jn a one-hour episode of “The Absent-Minded * Professor” based on the two movie comedies from * the early 1960 s starring Fred Mac Murray. •: “Those two shows will appear regularly, and we’re * looking for a third action-adventure,” said executive * producer William Blinn, who wrote the “Davy - Crockett” movie. “Davy Crockett” as a TV series was a sensation on - ABC’s “Disneyland” in 1954-55. “Disneyland” was * Jhe sixth highest-rated show that season, and it wasn’t * Jong before kids everywhere were sporting coonskin * paps and singing its popular theme song. FESS PARKER PLAYED the original Crockett. * Buddy Ebsen was his sidekick, George Russell. Dis- * Pey filmed three episodes, making the mistake in the * Jast of killing off Crockett at the Alamo. Crockett was * brought back to life by popular demand and several * more episodes were made. “Davy Crockett” was actually television’s first * Jniniseries. In subsequent years, Disney aired such " miniseries as “The Saga of Andy Burnett,” “The •Nine Lives of Elfego Baca” and “Texas John ; Slaughter.” * • “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” made popular : by DePauw University graduate Bill Hayes of “Days I Jof Our Lives ” fame will be sung in the new " -shows, but only briefly, and Gary Grubbs plays the * role of George Russell. ** “We brought back ‘Davy Crockett’ because the - character is warm, likable and adventurous,” said

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SEAN CONNERY New movie role

NEW YORK (AP) —Actor Sean Connery gets his day in court for barroom brawling in the movie “Family Business.” The actor, who has portrayed the debonair spy James Bond, an aging but still-dashing Robin Hood and a street-smart Chicago cop who takes Eliot Ness in hand, gets into trouble this time as the patriarch of an Irish-American family. The movie, which also stars Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick, is about three generations of a family living in the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan. In the scene being filmed Thursday at State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, Connery is brought before a judge because of a barroom brawl, said publicist Bruce Bahrenburg. During the proceeding, the judge elicits information about the character’s long history of arrests. AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) Soul singer James Brown will make a public apology at a wrestling match-rock concert next month as part of his sentence on drug and related charges, officials say. In July, an Aiken County, S.C., judge sentenced Brown on charges of resisting arrest, carrying a pistol and drug possession for a May 18 incident near his Beech Island, S.C., home. As part of the sentence, Brown was ordered to perform a concert to benefit the Aiken chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police and Helping Hands Inc., a local organization aiding abused children. On Dec. 4, Brown will appear at the event at the Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center, Brown’s lawyer, A.H. “Buddy” Dallas, said Wednesday. The show will include performance by rock artists as well as wrestling matches, but Brown may not perform. Civic Center Manager Larry Rogers said he was told Brown would merely “make a public apology after the wrestling.”

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