Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 265, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 July 1990 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC July 16,1990

People in the news Rapper falls to death at Indy INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A dancer for the rap group Heavy D & The Boyz died after falling 30 feet during horseplay at an arena, authorities said. Troy Dixon, 22, whose stage name is Trouble TRoy, died Sunday evening of injuries suffered in the fall, said officials at Wishard Hospital. Police said Dixon was standing on the third-level ramp at the Market Square Arena late Saturday when another group member, while fooling around, rolled a trash barrel down the ramp toward him. Dixon jumped on a 4-foot retaining wall to avoid the barrel and fell over backward to the ground, police said. “It was an absolute freaky accident,” said group manager Carol Kiricendaul. The Rev. Charles R. Williams, president of Indiana Black Expo, said the group had performed at the arena earlier Saturday as part of the Black Expo. The group, from Mount Vernon, N. Y., was on a 10-city tour and was one of the headline acts for Black Expo, which also featured the rap group Public Enemy. Kirkendaul said the group is in shock, and an upcoming concert in Detroit had been postponed. Heavy D & The Boyz won a Soul Train Music Award and a NAACP Image Award for their album “Big Tyme.” THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald was released from a hospital Saturday after being treated for exhaustion and dehydration, a hospital spokesman said. The 72-year-old singer was taken to the Bronovo Hospital last Monday after becoming ill in her hotel room. Dr. Clifford Booker, a friend and physician traveling with her, said Wednesday that Ms. Fitzgerald had nearly recovered from her condition but would cancel the rest of her European tour. Ms. Fitzgerald was billed as the headline act at this year’s North Sea Jazz Festival, which started Wednesday with a special concert in her honor. The tour also included appearances at music festivals in Montreux, Switzerland, and Antibes, France. The spokeswoman at the Bronovo Hospital said that Ms. Fitzgerald was released Saturday morning and was returning to her Los Angeles home. • MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) Newcomer Cynda Williams says she’s looking forward to her movie debut in Spike Lee’s new movie “Mo’ Better Blues,” even if actor Denzel Washington was snippy during shooting. In “Mo’ Better Blues,” which opens Aug. 3, Williams plays a young singer drawn to a moody jazz trumpeter, played by Washington. But Washington, who won an Oscar this year for “Glory,” was moody on the set and more than once reminded Williams that she was a newcomer, she said. “In rehearsals with him, I’d say, ‘Well, I think this about my character.’ And Denzel would say, ‘Well, I think you should just shut up, because you don’t know what you’re talking about,”’ she said. Until her big break, Williams said she supported herself by keeping books for a restaurant in New York, a job she quit just two weeks ago. “Everybody thinks once you get a movie, you’ve made it. That’s not true. You never know what will happen,” said Williams, who earned a theater degree in 1988 from Ball State University.

‘Here to Eternity’ steamier in raw form

CHICAGO (AP) “From Here to Eternity” were shocked by its strong language and sexy scenes. But even steamier was author James Jones’ original manuscript, a professor who found it says. Editors from Scribners publishing house in New York forced Jones to rewrite many lewd passages and tone down the language in the book about Army life in 1941. “IT WAS HEAVILY edited. Scribners was afraid of what would happen if the language was not toned down,” University of Illinois English professor George Hendrick said. “Rightly so, given the times. It was 1950. Censors would have banned it.” Hendrick, who found the 1,300-page manuscript while gathering Jones’ letters for a 1989 collection “To Reach Eternity,” said the original work was superior to what was published. “I think it is a better book. The language is grittier, more reflective of Army speech in prewar Hawaii than'the one Scribners published. The scenes were much better the way Jones wrote them, too,” he said from his home in Urbana, 111. Jones, who was stationed in Hawaii while serving in the Army in prewar Hawaii, complained about the editing demands but gave in because it was his first novel, Hendrick said. “I’M NOT BLAMING Scribners. They had to do what they did,” Hendrick said.

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I \ i TAMMY WYNETTE JANE PAULEY Fights foreclosure Nervous no more NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Foreclosure proceedings against county music star Tammy Wynette were dropped after the singer made a substantial payment on the $1.5 million estate, an attorney said. The proceedings bc fo ™ this month after Ms. Wynette was late in making her mortgage payment, said her attorney, Ralph Gordon. A local bank had already approved a loan to allow her to pay off the mortgage for the eight-acre estate, he said. Robert Doyle, an attorney for the estate’s previous owners, Mo and Naomi Lytle, said the proceedings were dropped after Ms. Wynette paid an undisclosed amount. Ms. Wynette had been hospitalized last week with bronchitis but was resting at home Saturday. The singer went to the emergency room of Breech Medical Center in Lebanon, Mo., and later transferred to a hospital in Nashville, said a spokesman for her record label, Epic Records. Ms. Wynette, 48, canceled a performance Saturday in Branson, Mo., because of the illness. • NEW YORK (AP) Jane Pauley has had it all even hives. The former “Today” co-host, now a fill-in anchor on the “NBC Nightly News,” told New York magazine that at age seven, she broke into hives after being punished for another child’s prank. “My eyes swelled up or something glamorous like that and my mother had to take me home from school,” she said. “Later she took me to a specialist who said that I was a nervous child who would have to be careful my whole life.” Pauley added: ‘This is good information for a kid who is anxious about life. Instead I grew up to do live television. I think it’s kind of funny.” Pauley got over her problems with hives and headaches years ago, the magazine reported in its July 23 issue. • THIS WEEK’S CEELBRITY BIRTHDAYS: Sunday meant another candle for singer Linda Ronstadt, 44, and actor Ken Kercheval, 55. Adding a year Monday was entertainer Ginger Rogers, 79. On Tuesday, it’s No. 73 for comedian Phyllis Diller, No. 78 for TV personality Art Linkletter, No. 56 for actor Donald Sutherland , No. 39 for actress Lucie Amaz and No. 55 for actress-singer Diahann Carroll. Wednesday’s cake-and-candle set includes actor Hume Cronyn, 79, comic Red Skelton, 77, and South African black leader Nelson Mandela, 72. Former presidential hopeful George McGovern, 68, celebrates Thursday, along with singer Vikki Carr, 49, and actor Dennis Cole, 47. Friday’s list includes actress Diana Rigg, 52, and singer Kim Carnes, 44, while Saturday means No. 66 for comic Don Knotts and No. 38 for funny man Robin Williams.

Even more sanitized than the novel was the blockbuster movie based on the book, starring Burt Lancaster and Frank Sinatra. “There are major changes. It’s a good story but lot one Jones wrote. The scene on the beach usually appears in film histories,” said Hendrick, referring to the torrid scene between Lancaster and Deborah Kenin the Hawaiian surf. If the book were published in 1990, Hendrick said, no changes would be made in the manuscript. “ABSOLUTELY, IT would be published today as it was,” he added. “It was a wonderful novel,” he said. After “From Here to Eternity” was published in 1951, Jones, who died in 1977 at age 55, gave the manuscript to Lowney Handy as a birthday gift Mrs. Handy, Jones’ lover, operated a writers’ colony in his southern Illinois hometown of Robinson, Hendrick said. HE FICTIONALIZED the affair with Mrs. Handy in his second novel, “Some Came Running.” But during a visit to New York for its publication, he met Gloria Mosolino and they married. # Jones wanted the manuscript back, but Mrs. Handy refused, and after her death in 1964, relatives stored the document in a garage. It ended up in a bank vault, where Hendrick found it

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