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People in the news Gospel honors for Amy Grant NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Crossover singer Amy Grant, voted artist of the year in the gospel field, says the family atmosphere in religious music makes her new honor special. Ms. Grant, a million-selling vocalist with particular appeal to teen-agers, shared major honors with perennial winner Sandi Patti when the Gospel Music Association announced its 1989 awards. Ms. Patti was voted Christian music ’js No. 1 female singer for the eighth straight year and won or shared four other awards. The new a cappella group, Take 6, won four categories, including best group at the 20th annual GMA awards show Thursday night. Ms. Grant broke Ms. Patti’s two-year reign as artist of the year and also won for best contemporary gospel album and short-form video, both for “Lead Me On.” Ms. Grant is best known outside gospel music for teaming with ex-Chicago singer Peter Cetera on the 1986 pop hit, “Next Time I Fall.” Ms. Patti, besides winning female vocalist of the year, won top inspirational song for “In Heaven’s Eyes,” No. 1 inspirational album for “Make His Praise Glorious,” choral collection album of the year for “Sandi Patti Choral Praise” and instrumental album for “A Symphony of Praise.” The instrumental award was for the musicianship of others on the album and not for her vocals. Take 6, which won two Grammy awards in February, added to its fast-growing trophy case even though the group has been singing together for only two years and has released just one album. In addition to group of the year, Take Six was voted best new artist, won top black gospel album for “Take 6” and No. 1 contemporary black gospel song for “If We Ever.” The Nashville sextet has been described as a cross between Bobby McFerrin and Manhattan Transfer. • BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) John Cougar Mellencamp has scrapped plans for a 10-city tour that was to have coincided with the release of a new album, his manager says. The album, “Big Daddy,” will be released May 9, but the tour, which was to have started in Indiana, has been canceled, manager Harry Sandler said this week. Sandler declined to discuss the reason for the cancellation. He said Mellencamp and his band are scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” next Saturday, and may have some other TV appearances lined up for next month. LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) The Deb of the Decade is getting down and dirty with the grease moneys. Corneha Quest planned to be down in the pits with a group of celebs and former pro drivers for Saturday’s Toyota Pro-Celebrity race through the streets of Long Beach. Other celebrities in the race are comedian Jay Leno, former pro football running back Walter Payton, and actors Danny Glover, Kelsey Grammer, Ricky Schroder and Brian Wimmer. Guest’s first movie, “Second Sight,” is due out this summer. She has written “The Debutante’s Guide to Life,” a tongue-in-cheek look at high society.

Dear Abby Her voice only accents other’s rudeness

DEAR ABBY: After much deliberation, I have decided to write to you for help. I was born in Rhode Island and lived there until a few years ago when I moved to Maryland. The problem: I have a “New England” accent, and am constantly coming into contact with people who bring it up. It’s one thing to comment on an accent and quite another to degrade it. I work in a personnel office and must talk to many people. I cannot tell you what I go through! One person an applicant from Guam has called several times. The last time he asked to speak to the lady with the “foreign accent”! One lady asked me where I was from because, she said, “It is obvious that you are not an American.” I have an accent. There is no doubt about that. I will go so far as to say that some people do not find a Midwestern accent very pleasant, but to call attention to it is rude. One man asked me where I was from, and when I said, “Rhode Is-

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Actress Kim Ulrich, who plays a young nurse on the NBC television series “Nightingales,” says she and her colleagues sympathize with critics who don’t like to see them running around in their underwear. “I think that the fact that we’ve had to do all the underwear scenes and all of the aerobic scenes, we’ve kind of banded together to fight them,” she said recently. Critics have complained the show focuses on sex rather than nursing and casts the nursing profession in a bad light. The actress, who plays the character Allyson Yates in the series, said she doesn’t enjoy those sexy scenes. “There are maybe a few people who do enjoy running around in their underwear, and I’m not one of them,” said the actress, who is married to casting director Robert Ulrich. CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) The Lone Ranger has been hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat Clayton Moore, known to generations of radio and television viewers as the masked man, was in stable condition Friday “undergoing tests and he’s resting comfortably,” said John Flaherty, a friend of Moore and his wife, Connie. Moore, 74, who lives in the Calabasas area northwest of Los Angeles, was admitted to an undisclosed hospital Thursday, Flaherty said. Moore’s wife asked that no other details be released. • LONDON (AP) Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman says he’s jittery over his latest role, a part in a London production of a Shakespeare play. The 51-year-old star, who won Academy Awards for his film roles in “Rain Man” and “Kramer vs. Kramer,” will play the part of Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice.” As he read through his part Friday with members of the cast, Hoffman admitted: “I know nothing about Shakespeare. I’m nervous.” His last stage part was in 1984. He has never acted Shakespeare or worked with an English cast. “It’s the first time in my life that I have memorized words written by a genius and I’m working with people who know their stuff,” he said. The play, which opens June 1, is scheduled for an 18-week run at London’s Phoenix Theater. NEW YORK (AP) —A supermarket tabloid has paid $60,000 to publish the first excerpts of an unauthorized biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The weekly Star said the first of five parts from “A Woman Called Jackie,” by C. David Heymann, will be on supermarket racks Monday. Book sales begin May 2. The New York Daily News, Cosmopolitan, New Woman and McCall’s have second serialization rights, USA Today reported.

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DEAR “FOREIGNER”: You don’t need a snappy retort. You need to change your attitude. When people comment about your accent, don’t take it as a putdown. They are probably just being friendly and trying to engage you in conversation. However, if it really bothers you, enroll in a speech class. * * * DEAR ABBY: Your advice about washing hands after going to the bathroom was all wrong. It’s more important to scrub them BEFORE. Better yet, both before and after, but especially before. Your genitals may be the cleanest part of your body bacteriologically; your hands are the dirtiest. When I was a straphanger commuter in New York City, the first thing I did after arriving to my office was to scrub away other people’s germs. MILLER SWANEY, SPRING HILL, FLA.

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