Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 258, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 July 1990 — Page 3

People in the hews Legal clouds over Joel tour ATLANTA (AP) Billy Joel has finished the Atlanta leg of his “Storm Front” concert tour, but the singer may have to make another Atlanta date in Fulton County Superior Court. Joel’s former manager and one-time brother-in-law, Frank Weber, filed an sll million lawsuit against the rock star claiming breach of contract in his firing. JOEL SUED WEBER IN September for S9O million, claiming Weber used the entertainer’s money for interest-free loans, signed Joel’s name to documents without consent and put the singer’s money in highrisk investments despite instructions to invest conservatively. Weber’s suit, filed Tuesday, contends Joel dismissed the manager without cause and that Weber is entitled to 20 percent of Joel’s gross income because Frank Management planned the singer’s Atlanta tour. Daniel A. Gecker, an attorney representing Weber, said he chose to sue in Atlanta because “the Atlanta docket moves a lot faster than the New York courts do.” A SIMILAR LAWSUIT was dismissed in Richmond earlier this year for lack of jurisdiction, he said. Jane Sanders, a New York attorney representing Joel, said: “We view it as harassing tactics and a way to find a another judge to act in his behalf.” • NEW YORK (AP) Finally, some good news for Donald Trump. The cash-starved developer won a real estate tax fight with the city and saved $1.2 million on his 1989 taxes. Trump’s 56-acre waterfront property on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, assessed by the city at $44 million, was instead taxed at a rate $12.5 million lower after Trump made his case before the city Tax Commission. TRUMP WAS ONE OF 19,306 taxpayers who won assessment battles with the city for 1989. The full list of the winners which included the Andy Warhol estate and Alex DiLorenzo, owner of the building that housed the Happy Land Social Club where 86 people died in an arson fire was released June 29. Trump, whose cash flow problems have been well documented, saved $1.2 million in taxes with the reevaluation, the city Finance Department said. But that money went right back to the city Thursday, when Trump made a multimillion dollar semiannual property tax payment. Trump shelled out $2.2 million for his undeveloped West Side property, $1 million for Trump Tower and $900,000 for the Trump Parc condominiums. NEW YORK (AP) Harry Connick Jr., who has been described by some critics as the new Frank Sinatra, says he’s such a Sinatra “freak” that he has daydreamed of breaking into 01’ Blue Eyes’ house. “I just want to touch him,” the singer, songwriter and pianist said in an interview with USA Weekend magazine. “I just want to touch him. I just want to say, ‘Mr. Sinatra, you’re the king.’” ANOTHER OF THE YOUNG performer ’s dreams: to sing “Luck be a Lady” on stage with . Sinatra.

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But Connick, 22, who won a Grammy for the music to the movie “When Harry Met Sally,” is no Beatles fan. “That music is for second-graders,” he said. • BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) A policeman who thought he was stopping an underage driver’s summerjoyride found he had pulled over actor Gary Coleman. “He was so small,” said Undersheriff Santos Baca. “He had a pillow he was sitting on.” COLEMAN, 22, IS only about 4-foot-7 as a result of kidney disease and other health problems. Baca saw the “Diff’rent Strokes” television star behind the wheel of a rental car he was driving Thursday on Interstate 25 just north of Albuquerque. “I could barely see him in there,” Baca said. The undersheriff said Coleman politely explained he was heading from Dallas to Denver to visit his parents. He showed Baca a Colorado driver’s license that listed his occupation as actor. “Right away he struck me as a funny guy because he asked me, ‘What are you a policeman or a fireman?’ He wanted to know if he was speeding,” said Baca, who amiably sent Coleman on his way. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Bill Monroe, founder of bluegrass music, is making the move to the big screen. A film crew from Caporeale Studios of Cincinnati is in Nashville interviewing friends of the Grand Ole Opry great and gathering film footage for a documentary on Monroe’s life. “BILL’S SOMEWHERE IN the neighborhood of 80 years old,” said studio official Tom McGrail. “He’s afraid he might not be around much longer, and he’s looking at this as his legacy.” Monroe, who turns 79 in September, will be filmed performing this weekend at the Long Hollow Jamboree, the Grand Ole Opry and at a bluegrass festival Saturday at the Opryland U.S.A, theme park. McGRAIL SAID HIS CREW already has interviewed Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris and “a bunch of other bluegrass luminaries.” Others to be interviewed include Ricky Skaggs and Wynnona and Naomi Judd. “Bill’s a regular, old-fashioned radio cowboy,” McGrail said. “We’ve never seen him without his white hat. And he does a great stone face.”

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