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People in the news Cosby drops opening mural

NEW YORK (AP) Bill Cosby has dropped a colorful mural shown during the opening credits of “The Cosby Show” in a dispute with a teacher whose Harlem students inspired the artwork. The dispute involves a mural painted on a Harlem building by children at the Creative Arts Workshop for Homeless Children, and a similar painting shown on the top-rated NBC series. Workshop director Brookie Maxwell said the children who painted the original, ‘‘Street of Dreams,” should get credit on the TV show and be paid if the idea is marketed. “I’ve ordered it taken off the show. It has nothing to do with the kids. Has to do with this woman, who is trying to hold us up,” Cosby said Tuesday. “It’s the principle of the thing,” said Cosby, the highest-paid entertainer in the world. NBC spokesman Rosemary O’Brien said that three weeks of negotiations between the workshop and the show’s producer, Carsey-Wemer Co., had failed. “All we wanted was credit for the children,” said Vivian Pollack, a lawyer for the workshop. “At no time did we make any specific financial demands, nor until last night did Cosby or Carsey-Wemer offer any financial settlement” CINCINNATI (AP) Norm Charlton and other Cincinnati Reds are mad CBS refused to introduce the whole team when it took the field against the Oakland A’s in the World Series. Only starters got personal introductions Tuesday before Game 1. “I guess five minutes of commercials is more important to them than giving recognition to each individual player, which is pretty bogus, I think,” said Charlton. “It would take too much time to introduce all of the non-starters because the game would start late,” said CBS producer Ric LaCivita. “We have an obligation, as does baseball, to get the game up and going so more kids could watch it before they go to sleep.” LaCivita said all players will be introduced before Games 2 and 4. • ENGLAND (AP) Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio will portray Maid Marian, and Alan Rickman will play the sheriff of Nottingham in Morgan Creek’s “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” which stars Kevin Costner in the title role. The Warner Bros, release, currently shooting for 13 weeks in England and France, is set for release next year. The production is currently shooting deep in the ancient forests of Central England, where Robin Hood’s legendary Sherwood Forest has been recreated. This adaptation of the classic tale of the swashbuckling hero of Nottingham Forest also stars Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater. • SAN ANTONIO (AP) Former Mayor Henry Cisneros will be host of a new syndicated series of T'' specials featuring interviews with Texas celebrities. “Texans,” scheduled to debut in April, will be shown in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The first show will feature former Dallas Cowboy coach Tom Landry, country-western singer Janie Fricke and Dr. Red Duke, a trauma surgeon in Houston, executive producer Bob Phillips said.

Kids barred from rappers’ trial

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Sheriff’s deputies are under orders to check IDs at the courtroom door to keep youngsters from listening to the obscenity trial of the rap group 2 Live Crew. Broward County Judge June Johnson also ruled Tuesday that jurors cannot have transcripts of the raucous adults-only concert last June that prompted the rappers’ arrest and set up a legal test of the limits of free speech. Instead, they’ll have to try to make out the dirty words on a murky audio tape of the 45-minute concert that police tried with little success to enhance. JOHNSON CLOSED THE trial to observers under age 18, to the disappointment of some fans. “I listen to 2 Live Crew in the car and at home but now they say I can’t listen to it in the courtroom,” 13-year-old Lisette Lopez said after she and four friends were told to leave. Band leader Luther Campbell and rappers Mark “Brother Marquis” Ross and Chris “Kid Ice” Wongwon are charged with obscenity for a June 10 concert at a Hollywood nightclub. They could get up to a year in prison and SI,OOO in fines. The rappers’ arrests came four days after a federal judge pronounced the group’s album “As Nasty As They Wanna Be” obscene. The album includes

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NEW YORK (AP) Carly Simon’s so vain. The 45-year-old singer said she’s trying to “come to terms” with getting older but acknowledged it’s been difficult. “In five years maybe I won’t be so attractive. People won’t whistle at me on the street anymore,” she said in an interview for the TV show “Personalities.” “I’m not above having those fears or apprehensions about losing my attractiveness, or whatever,” Simon said. “Even though inside I know that sexuality is something to do more basically with who you are ... than how old you are.” Simon, whose hits include “You’re So Vain” and the Oscar-winning “Let The River Run,” said her fear of growing old started at about age 26. “Inside me, there’s a part of me, a little voice saying, ‘Oooh, I wish I was 39 again’ or ‘I wish I was 25 again,’ or whatever,” she said. • LONDON (AP) Peter Ustinov didn’t get much time to chat with the queen when the actor was knighted at Buckingham Palace. Ustinov, best known for his movie role as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, was one of 130 recipients of honors bestowed Tuesday by Queen Elizabeth 11. “She said, ‘I hear you’re still as busy as ever,’ which I thought was very nice,” Ustinov now Sir Peter recalled. “I said, ‘Yes, I’ve just been to Australia and New Zealand,’ and by that time the next man was on.” Ustinov has been promoting his latest book, a novel about God and Satan setting out together on a world fact-finding mission called “The Old Man and Mr. Smith.” In Australia and New Zealand he was on tour in a one-man show. The son of Russian and French parents, Ustinov served for years as a roving ambassador for UNICEF and UNESCO. He rose to stardom in such films as “Spartacus,” for which he won an Oscar. LOS ANGELES (AP) Marcel Montecino, a college dropout who spent years popping pills, gambling and getting nowhere playing piano in bordellos, at bar mitzvahs and in New Orleans clubs, has finally struck it rich writing. “I can spit on a piece of paper and someone will give me $50,000,” he said. Montecino, 45, earned $250,000 for his first screenplay, “Improper Conduct,” scheduled to be released next year. Tom Cruise dished out $1 million for his second novel, “Big Time,” published in August. Montecino’s first novel, “The Crosskiller,” was a best-seller two years ago with 900,000 copies printed. Montecino, who wrote dozens of songs with his wife before they separated in 1989, said he regrets never hitting it big with a song. “It broke my heart,” he said. “I haven’t played the piano in two years, but eventually I’ll go back.”

references to oral and anal sex and sexual violence against women. THE CONCERT TAPE contains more than explicit, violent sex, prosecutor Leslie Robson said in opening arguments Tuesday. She said Campbell and other band members can be heard profanely denouncing Sheriff Nick Navarro, who ordered their arrest, and Gov. Bob Martinez, who called for a crackdown on their music. Also, Campbell pressed the head of a woman toward his crotch, and rapper Ross exposed the breast of a young woman dancing on the stage, the prosecutor said. “He knew there was something wrong,” Robson said. “That there was a problem, that there was a controversy, that there was something wrong with that material that would open him up to some kind of liability.” DEFENSE ATTORNEY Bruce Rogow warned jurors that the lyrics might offend them but said that they must disregard their feelings in judging whether the words meet the legal definition of obscenity. “This is not about offending people.... This is about a legal test,” Rogow said. “This is political speech. Protected speech.”

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