Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 300, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 August 1990 — Page 3

People in the news Honest, Abe, it’s a reprieve, ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Abe Lincoln, the robot, beat Kermit the Frog in a quiet civil war at Disneyland. Disneyland will keep the “Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln” show, which park officials had planned to close this weekend. No longer would the nation’s 16th president rise from his chair, 51 times a day, to deliver excerpts from his speeches. Park operators reportedly planned to replace the show with a new Muppets attraction. But tourists and park employees were irked by the idea and Disneyland officials apparently backed off from their plans for now. “If you’d asked a few days ago, I’d have said that being a 25-year-old attraction, its popularity has passed,” said park spokesman Paul Goldman. “But there seems to be a lot of sentiment for Lincoln.” For one park visitor, 12-year-old Abby Hangsleben of East Grand Forks, Minn., Kermit just can’t compare to Honest Abe. “Lincoln was president Kermit is a frog,” she said. Reports had circulated for months among Disneyland’s 8,000 employees that the Main Street opera hall, which houses the Lincoln show and exhibits honoring park founder Walt Disney, would be turned over to Kermit Miss Piggy and Big Bird. Last week, officials said the Lincoln exhibit would be closed on Sunday for the “refurbishing” of the opera house. NEW YORK (AP) Ex-Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant says his heavy metal band was wrongly accused of slipping Satanic messages in its albums long before the current Judas Priest flap. “I mean, who on Earth would have ever thought of doing that in the first place? You’ve got to have a lot of time on your hands to even consider that people would do that,” Plant said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Plant said if his band had used the backward masking, where the lyrics can only be heard by playing an album backwards, it might have included a message more money-driven than malicious. “I figure if backward masking really worked, every record in the store would have ‘buy this album’ hidden in it,” Plant said. In Reno, Nev., a judge ruled Friday that hidden words do exist on an album by the British rock band Judas Priest. But the judge ruled they were not placed there intentionally and the group was not responsible for a suicide pact formed by two young fans. NEW YORK (AP) Singer Curtis Mayfield, paralyzed by an accident at a Brooklyn concert 11 days ago, was transferred Friday to a spinal care treatment center near his Atlanta home. Mayfield, accompanied by his wife and son, left Kings County Hospital Friday for the Shepherd Spinal Center in Atlanta, said a spokesman at the Brooklyn hospital. The singer-songwriter was about to take the stage at an outdoor concert on Aug. 13 when a sudden gust of wind toppled a light tower, critically injuring Mayfield, 48.

Dear Abby Stay out of this kitchen to avoid the heat

EDITOR’S NOTE: Abby is on a two-week vacation. Following is a selection of some of her favorite past letters. DEAR ABBY: I am an older woman living alone in a small apartment. Sometimes a neighbor or a not-too-close friend will stop by to visit, which I appreciate. I always offer her a cup of tea. If she accepts, I turn on the TV in the living room so she can watch it while I go into the kitchen to prepare the tea. Does she stay put in the living room and watch TV? No. She follows me into my kitchen and stands over me. I have to ask her to please move so I can open the door of the cabinet. Abby, when I get unexpected company, there may be a few dirty dishes in my sink and the place isn’t as tidy as it could be. This is very embarrassing and nerve-wracking. Will you tell your readers to please stay out of people’s kitchens unless they’re invited? WANTS TO BE ALONE DEAR WANTS: I have the perfect solution for you. Clip this poem and tape it to the door of

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NEW YORK (AP) Actress Dana Delany is tired of showing how virtuous she can be. The Emmywinning “China Beach” star says she wants to be a “bad girl.” “I want to play different characters. I want to do comedy, somebody who’s not so heroic. Somebody who’s bad,” Delany says in the September issue of GQ magazine. She’s wanted to play those types of roles since she was a kid, says Delany, who portrays nurse Colleen McMurphy on the television show. “My favorite actress growing up was Gloria Grahame. That’s who I want to be. A bad girl,” she said. “You get lots of Irish-Catholic girls wanting to be bad girls.” Although she’d like to move on, Delany acknowledges her “China Beach” role was a perfect fit “It was like somebody had read my diaries; the way she felt was so honest I felt like the character was me.” NEW YORK (AP) Milton Berle has an illegitimate son he sometimes runs into at Hollywood parties, but the comedian has never disclosed their relationship, an associate confirmed. “My son always comes up to me and says, ‘Hello, Milton. How are you?’ Little does he know he’s talking to his father,”’ the National Enquirer quoted Berle as saying in its Sept. 4 issue. Michael Bass, producer of a television special Berle is preparing on his 75 years in show business, said Friday the Enquirer story is accurate. Berle, 82, says his 51-year-old son was bom to an actress he met at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “It was very early in our careers and neither of us was looking for any long-term involvement,” he said. He refuses to tell his son the truth “because his mother is still alive, and I keep silent out of respect for her. I want to wait until she dies.” He did not identify her. Berle has married twice and has four children. NEW YORK (AP) Connie Chung got booed and hissed in absentia when she sent a videotaped apology to a journalists’ convention where she was to have given the keynote address. The 44-year-old Chung last month put her CBSTV series, “Face to Face With Connie Chung,” on hold, saying she wanted to try to have a baby. In a videotape screened Friday before the Asian American Journalists Association, she made no mention of why she couldn’t attend, other than to say, “It was very important for me to be here.” Some in the audience showed their displeasure. “I wish I could be there with you,” Chung said. “If I could have been, I would have been.”

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your kitchen: STAY OUT OF MY KITCHEN by Susan Sawyer Please stay away from my kitchen From my dishwashing, cooking and such; You were kind to have offered to pitch in But thanks, no, thank you so much! Please don’t think me ungracious When I ask that you leave me alone; For my kitchen’s not any too spacious

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By Bil Keane

MILTON BERLE Enquirer’s right

And my routine is strictly my own. Tell you what: You stay out of my kitchen With its sodden, hot, lackluster lures When you’re here, stay out of my kitchen And I promise to stay out of yours! * * * DEAR ABBY: Will you join me in nominating for “Boob of the Year” those perfectly healthy, active (and usually young) individuals who park their cars in spaces clearly marked “Handicapped”? ANAHEIM DEAR ANAHEIM: A “boob” is one who makes a stupid mistake. An able-bodied person who would deliberately deprive a physically handicapped person of a more convenient parking place is worse than a boob. He’s an inconsiderate, selfish hog. (P.S. He’s also “handicapped”; he has a character deficiency.)

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