Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 302, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 August 1990 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC August 28,1990

People in the news Fans mourn Vaughan loss EAST TROY, Wis. (AP) Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan had beaten drugs and alcohol and fellow musicians said he was playing better than ever when he died in a helicopter crash shortly after a concert. Four others died early Monday after Vaughan, 35, and members of guitarist Eric Clapton’s entourage took off for Chicago in dense fog. Ronnie Lippin, Clapton’s spokesman, said there was no truth to reports that Vaughan had traded seats with Clapton to get an earlier flight. Vaughan, a two-time Grammy winner known for his rocking Texas roadhouse blues style, had shared the bill Sunday night with Clapton and guitarist Robert Cray. “HIS DEATH IS particularly sad, given that he’d cleaned up and was playing the best music of his life,” said Jeff Peterson of the “Austin City Limits” TV program on which the Texan had appeared. In Austin and San Antonio, hundreds of fans held candlelight vigils Monday night in memory of Vaughan. Some wore T-shirts from his concerts and copies of his trademark wide-brimmed felt hat. Vaughan had sought treatment for drugs after he collapsed during an engagement in London in the mid-1980s. “This might sound funny, but fortunately I collapsed,” Vaughan told The Associated Press last fall. “IN A SENSE, I KNOW this thing was coming, I knew I couldn’t keep going the way it was. I had a nervous breakdown. I had not been able to obtain any drugs for about two weeks, but the drinking was still going on. If I was awake I was guzzling something.” At the time of his death, Vaughan was looking forward to the release of an album in September recorded with his older brother, Jimmie, said Andy Schwartz, a spokesman for Epic Records in New York, which owns Vaughan’s label. Jimmie Vaughan, himself a well-known musician who formed The Fabulous Thunderbirds, was at the weekend concert. The helicopter lifted off at about 12:35 a.m. and the wreckage was found about 7 a.m. All the victims died on impact, said Walworth County Coroner John Griebel said. They included three Clapton associates: Agent Bobby Brooks, 34, of Los Angeles, bodyguard Nigel Browne of London, and Colin Smythe of London, a tour manager. The pilot, Jeff Brown of East Chicago, Ind., also was killed. CLAPTON, WHO LANDED safely in Chicago on another helicopter, said the victims “were my companions, my associates and my friends. This is a tragic loss of some very special people.” • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Country singers Reba McEntire and Randy Travis will be hosts of the 24th annual Country Music Association Awards at the Grand Ole Opry. The two-hour show Oct. 8 will be televised on CBS, starting at 8 p.m. Miss McEntire, a Grammy winner and 1986 CMA Entertainer of the Year, is known for such hits as “Whoever’s In New England,” and “The Last One To Know.” Travis has won the CMA newcomer award and two Grammys. His hits include “Forever and Ever, Amen,” “I Told You So” and “1982.”

‘Darkman’ bright at box office

HOLLYWOOD (AP) “Darkman” lit up box office cash registers while “Ghost” gained ground in the race for the summer’s top hit. “Darkman,” which pits a scientist-tumed-avenger against bad guys who disfigured him, opened with weekend receipts of $B.l million, according to figures released Monday by Entertainment Data Inc. “Darkman” is currently playing at Ashley Square Twin Cinemas in Greencastle. “GHOST” MAINTAINED its strong showing with $7.5 million in sales. The film has made $111.5 million and could soon pass “Total Recall” as the summer’s No. 1 hit. “Flatliners,” about medical students who flirt with near-death experiences, took in $5 million. “Presumed Innocent” grossed $4.6 million in fourth place. The Steve Martin gangster comedy “My Blue Heaven,” also currently playing in Greencastle, sold $3.8 million for fifth place. “Exorcist HI” was in sixth position, plunging 61 percent from its first-place opening with a weekend gross of $3.7 million. “Men at Work,” featuring Emilio Estevez and brother Charlie Sheen, opened in seventh place with $3.2 million. “Taking Care of Business,” a comedy starring James Belushi and Charles Grodin, slipped to eighth on $3.1 million.

ERIC CLAPTON Didn’t trade seats

HOLMDEL, N.J. (AP) Frank Sinatra says he’s no fan of Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, who refused to perform at a New Jersey concert if the national anthem was played. “She should leave the country. Her behavior is unforgivable. For her sake, we’d better never meet,” Sinatra told his audience Saturday night at the Garden State Arts Center. The Hoboken native’s remarks drew thunderous applause. O’Connor, best known for her hit “Nothing Compares 2 U” and her nearly shaved head, threatened on Friday to walk out on an audience of 9,000 if “The Star Spangled Banner” was played at the center, as it is before every show. Fearing trouble if the concert didn’t go on, the center’s staff relented. But O’Connor won’t be allowed back, said center official George Zilocchi. “No performer who does not agree to have the national anthem played will be allowed to perform,” he said. O’Connor said she opposed the playing of any national anthem before her concerts. “I don’t see what (anthems) have to do with me or my music or my fans,” she said. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The raunchy rap group 2 Live Crew says $13,867.56 is all it owes for an unauthorized parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman.” But attorneys for Acuff-Rose, the music company that holds the rights to the 1964 hit, told a federal court they weren’t satisfied with the offer. The Nashville publishing house, an arm of Opryland USA, sued 2 Live Crew on June 18, claiming the rap song “Pretty Woman” on the group’s “As Clean As They Wanna Be” album amounted to copyright infringement U.S. District Judge Thomas Wiseman on Friday ordered the money deposited into an interest-bearing account until the lawsuit is settled. Members of the group were arrested on obscenity charges in June after performing songs from their album “As Nasty As They Wanna Be” in Hollywood, Fla. • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Wayne Gretzky’s autobiography, now in your neighborhood bookstore, looks at hockey’s most famous player from a lot of angles. Consider this piece of trivia: The Great One wears size 10 shoes, but uses a size 8/2 skate. “Most people’s feet would go numb after about 15 minutes,” Gretzky wrote, “but my toes are doublejointed, so I can curl them up and not have it bother me. (Is this maybe more than you wanted to know about my feet?)”

IN NINTH AND FADING was the Mel Gibson war story “Air America,” which took in $2.5 million. “The Witches,” in a somewhat limited opening, collected $2.2 million in its first weekend for 10th place. “Wild at Heart,” David Lynch’s offbeat road movie, fell from its 10th place opening last week as sales dropped more than 40 percent to $1.7 million. Here are the top movie ticket sales for Friday through Sunday as tallied by Entertainment Data, with distributor, weekend gross, number of theater screens, average per screen, total gross and number of weeks in release. 1. “Dtrkman,” Universal, $B.l million, 1,786 screens, $4,510 per screen, $B.l million, one week. 2. “Ghost,” Paramount, $7.5 million, 1,766 screens, $4,232 per screen, $111.5 million, seven weeks. 3. “Flatliners,” Columbia, $5 million, 1,464 screens, $3,421 per screen, $32.3 million, three weeks. 4. “Presumed Innocent,” Warner Bros. $4.6 million, 1,327 screens, $3,501 per screen, $59.6 million, five weeks. 5. “My Blue Heaven,” Warner Bros., $3.8 million, 1,868 screens, $2,021 per screen, $13.2 million, two weeks. 6. “Exorcist HI,” 20th Century Fox, $3.7 million, 1,414 screens, $2,585 per screen, $16.6 million, two weeks. 7. “Men at Work,” Epic-Triumph, $3.2 million, 962 screens, $3,310 per screen, $3.2 million, one week. 8. “Taking Care of Business,” Disney, $3.1 million, 1,145 screens, $2,675 per screen, $9 million, two weeks. 9. “Air America,” Tri-Star, $2.5 million, 1,597 screens, $1,590 per screen, $21.9 million, three weeks. 10. “The Witches,” Warner Bros., $2.2 million, 879 screens, $2,527 per screen, $2.2 million, one week.

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