Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 48, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 October 1990 — Page 6

THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 29,1990

People in the news Hepburn at 83: Death a relief NEW YORK (AP) Katharine Hepburn says that getting old is “a bore” and that death will be a relief from reporters. Asked if she fears death, the 83-year-old actress told People magazine in its Nov. 5 issue: “Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn’t have to talk to you.” So why did she agree to an interview? “Soon it will be too late, and I’d rather do this myself than have others do it after I’m dead. They never get things straight,” she said. Getting old, she said, is a “B-O-R-E, when you find you’ve begun to rot.” A book of photographs shot over the last 15 years by John Bryson, “The Private World of Katharine Hepburn,” will be published in November. Hepburn also is hard at work on an autobiography, which she calls “a bunch of stories.” It is due out in August. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Kirstie Alley says she’s willing to pay the supermarket tabloids for the names of people who leak information to the reporters of Tinseltown. “Those sleazeballs who write this crap are so slimy they’ll gladly inform on their informants for money,” the star of “Cheers” and the new movie “Sibling Rivalry” said in Sunday’s The Tennessean. “I’m about to get a list of the people at Paramount who are feeding them stuff. I’ll make sure they won’t work there again.” “No way will I dignify those people by suing them,” she said. “I try to ignore everything, hoping people will realize what total lies they are telling.” RADNOR, Pa. (AP) Rap star Kurtis Blow says he’s playing it cool working as a consultant on a rap music story line for ABC’s “All My Children.” “There has been a lot of pressure from the network brass to keep our songs clean and commercial,” Blow said in the Nov. 3 issue of TV Guide. “Rap’s been getting a bad rap lately, so we are being very careful not to offend. “When I started out, rap was positive and fun,” said Blow, whose “Christmas Rappin’ ” went gold in 1979. “Somehow, the press zoomed in on the hardcore, negative stuff and it all got out of balance.” Blow is writing tunes, coaching actors and approving costuming and the lighting for club sequences on the soap opera. • BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) “Crocodile Dundee” star Paul Hogan and his bride, Linda Kozlowksi, have bought a $6.5 million English-style home with a stone waterfall. Hogan and Kozlowski, co-stars in the two “Dundee” films, married in May after starring in “Almost an Angel.” The comedy comes out in December. The two-story Beverly Hills house has three bedrooms, four baths and two maids’ quarters. It also has a tennis court, pool and spa.

Fat cat gets high-tech quarters

MUNCIE (AP) Garfield, the mischievous cartoon cat, has plush new trapping from which to plan his next misadventure. Garfield creator Jim Davis has built a $3.9 million high-tech home for the lovable feline and his fictional buddies Odie and Nermal. Davis’ new headquarters for Paws Inc. serves as the operational center for all products and services that use the orange feline. Three designers, 14 artists and 28 animators, audio-video producers and a support staff work out of the 36,000-square-foot site northeast of Muncie. DAVIS SAID HIS COMPANY’S new headquarters is a commitment to the environment and to the city. “It has the right ambience. It has good energy. In a creative environment such as this, we have to maintain a certain level of energy, especially in humor. I think it’s going to more than serve that purpose,” he said. The cartoonist pointed out that use of muted tones in decoration, as well as a lot of window space, would keep eyes focused on the outdoors and on the work, rather than on the building. The Garfield strip debuted in 1978 and is distributed by United Feature Syndicate to more than 2,100 newspapers worldwide. In 1986, Davis began another strip, U.S. Acres, which features farm animals. DAVIS’ ENVIRONMENTAL concerns are present throughout the building. There is a 5,500-square-foot, multi-level atrium with double-pane glass lined with heat mirror film between the layers, to allow the sun to light areas of the building.

THE FAMILY CIRCUS® By Bil Keane

“My costume is okay. Now I have to work on my cackle.”

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PAUL HOGAN $6.5 million home

RADNOR, Pa. (AP) Peter Horton, who plays Gary on ABC’s “thirtysomething,” predicts the show will last no longer than another season. “There’s just so much this bucket of ‘thirtysomething’ can give out,” said Horton in the Nov. 3 issue of TV Guide. “We’ve been mining it for more than three years, and we’re starting to scrape bottom. I don’t know how much more there is to say about this group of people.” But Horton, who plays a college professor who has trouble coming to grips with responsibility, said breaking up will be hard to do. “We have a huge, almost visceral attachment to the show and to each other,” he said. “We’ll all still be friends, but we’ll drift apart. It’s sad to think about.” • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Soviet ballerina Maya Plissetskaya, still dancing at age 64, says she’ll leave the stage forever only when audiences stop responding. “If I feel I can’t give people anything, then I will quit without regret,” she said. Plissetskaya, whose performances in “Swan Lake,” “Carmen” and “Don Quixote” were benchmarks, recently appeared in Buenos Aires in a ballet by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla. Plissetskaya, among a small group of ballerinas who have performed until late in life, says age isn’t as critical in dance as it is in sports. “In sports if you can’t beat the record, that’s it,” she said. • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Talk show host David Letterman has come up with several reasons the Oakland Athletics lost the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The A’s were “too busy choreographing nude locker room dance number for female reporters,” according to the No. 1 reason on the talk show host’s list of “Top 10 Oakland A’s excuses.” Among the other reasons were that the A’s were too busy worrying about the budget crisis and were upset that Sinead O’Connor refused to sing the national anthem. The Irish singer created a brouhaha this summer when she wouldn’t let the anthem be performed before a concert of hers. The No. 10 excuse: “Thought it was best out of 17 planned on stunning nine-game comeback,” Letterman, an Indianapolis native, said Friday night.

A variable-volume air system keeps the building’s temperature comfortable and, when weather permits, can introduce outside air into the building to conserve energy. Across the road from the complex is the building’s own sewage system. The solar aquatic system allows natural organisms to turn sewage and impure water back into safe, organic materials, leaving the resulting water as pure as swimming pool water. DAVIS EMPHASIZES recycling and environmental management by placing four wastebaskets, instead of one, around the building. There is a container each for aluminum, glass, paper and other trash to be taken to a landfill. “We’re concerned about it. We believe, as a group of people, that we cannot go ahead and live in a disposable society. We’ve got to start someplace and this is our contribution to that,” said Thom Huge, who is the voice of Jon Arbuckle, Garfield’s owner, in the animated specials. Davis has promoted reforestation and restoration of wetlands in Delaware County. He has done spots with Garfield to publicize such efforts of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The entire complex is wired with a fiber-optic system for telephones and computers, a system contained within a huge mainframe computer that can move 10 million bits of information a second. The system is also connected with similar systems in New York, Cincinnati and California. Davis said Paws is working with Nynex Corp., MIT and Digital Equipment Corp, to develop multimedia computer programs and systems for the management of all types of media.

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