Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 62, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 November 1990 — Page 6

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC November 14,1990

People in the news Delta Burke in TV feud again LOS ANGELES (AP) Delta Burke is again accusing the producers of “Designing Women” of picking on her. In an interview with Barbara Walters to be broadcast on ABC Wednesday night, a tearful Miss Burke reopened the feud with Linda BloodworthThomason and husband Harry Thomason that flared over the summer. Miss Burke said the producers of the CBS series were upset with her weight gain and threatened to replace her as the shallow, sharp-tongued Suzanne Sugarbaker. “I do not want to be squashed down on the floor like I don’t matter, or have no brains and nothing I say means anything,” she said. The Thomasons did not respond to repeated calls Tuesday but denied Miss Burke’s allegations of mistreatment earlier this year. Despite the furor, Miss Burke said she wants to stay on the show. “I would like it to work better with everyone, but I have to be recognized and I have to be acknowledged,” she said. • NEW YORK (AP) A Renoir portrait of his nephew sold for $7.04 million at an auction of the artworks with which Greta Garbo was alone in her final years. The auction at Sotheby’s Tuesday night attested to the public’s enduring fascination with the reclusive actress and gave the otherwise slumping art market a glamorous boost. While one of Garbo’s Renoirs failed to sell, three other paintings from her apartment on Manhattan’s East Side sold for $15.9 million, near or above the level expected by the auction house. “People like to own things that have been owned by famous people,” said auctioneer John Marion. The contents of Garbo’s apartment being auctioned off this week are estimated to be worth at least S2O million. Much of the value is attributed to Garbo’s ownership of the works. Also the auction block this week are hundreds of other items from Garbo’s apartment, including a carpet estimated to be worth $50,000, upholstered chairs for SIO,OOO each, and a perfume bottle in the shape of a wizard worth S6OO. The actress lived alone for 37 years in the building. She filled the place with paintings and porcelain that she bought at Manhattan galleries, where she was known as G.G. or “Ms. Brown.” Also auctioned Tuesday was a collection of other Impressionist and modem paintings. The highest price went for Monet’s “Water Lillies,” which brought $9.45 million against a pre-sale estimate of $7 million to $9 million. • PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) Sonny Bono says he is exploring a run for U.S. Senate. The pop singer-tumed-mayor of this desert community said Tuesday he is contemplating a run in 1992 for the seat held by Democrat Alan Cranston. Cranston, who is battling prostate cancer, has said he won’t run again. Bono, a Republican, was the “I Got You, Babe” teenybopper idol of the ’6os and the butt of former wife Cher’s gibes on their TV show in the ’7os. “I’m sure there’s going to be some staunch Republican conservatives who ... may view me as a rock ’n’ roller,” Bono said. “I’m going to have some things to confront that may be difficult from an image viewpoint. “Hopefully, we can flip the coin on that”

Child’s Play 2’ tops box office

LOS ANGELES (AP) A killer doll named Chuckic wasn’t kidding around. His “Child’s Play 2” carved out the top spot at the nation’s box office. “Child’s Play 2,” currently showing at Ashley Square Twin Cinemas in Greencastle, took in 510.7 million over the weekend. The surrealistic thriller “Jacob’s Ladder,” about a Vietnam vet caught in a world of dreams and visions, dropped a notch to No. 2 in its second week, bringing in $5.08 million, Exhibitor Relations Co. reports. THE SPECTRAL ROMANCE “Ghost” was third with $4.3 million, followed by Kirstie Alley in the sex-and-death farce “Sibling Rivalry” with $3.02 million. Fifth with $2.5 million was “Reversal of Fortune,” about the Claus von Bulow murder case. “Ghost,” the highest-grossing film of 1990, has made $lB6 million in 18 weeks. The sleeper hit was written by Bruce Joel Rubin, who also wrote “Jacob’s Ladder.” It is also showing at Ashley Square in Greencastle Kevin Costner’s epic tribute to Indian life, “Dances With Wolves,” earned the highest per-screen

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Little Richard says he’d like Michael Jackson to play him in the movies. Eddie Murphy, he says, isn’t good looking enough. The 57-year-old piano-pounding rock ’n’ roller will be in Atlantic City on Saturday for a one-time appearance at Trump Taj Mahal. He said he is looking for a record deal and negotiating to create a syndicated variety show. He also is planning an autobiographical movie. “I want to see Michael Jackson as me,” he said. “There was talk that Eddie Murphy would do it, but I think he would talk too nasty, say things that don’t need to be said. And he’s not good looking enough to be Little Richard.” Little Richard, whose hits include “Long Tall Sally,” “Tutti Frutti” and “Lucille,” doesn’t jump around the stage as he once did, nor does he indulge in the drugs, liquor and frequent sex with both men and women that twice led him to leave rock ’n’ roll for gospel, in 1959 and in the mid-19705. “I think everything is under control at this age,” he said. “We don’t have to pay tolls, we just sing with a lot of soul, but we are still bold. ” • HOUSTON (AP) Paul McCartney’s birth certificate is for sale and could fetch $20,000, the auctioneer says. Auction house owner Ray Simpson said Tuesday he examined the paper, stamps and certification language and concluded it’s the real thing. The birth certificate was sold to an American investor by the former Beatle’s stepmother, he said. “I have no doubt about it at all. It is absolutely unconditionally guaranteed,” he said. The certificate shows that on June 18,1942, at 107 Rice Lane, James Paul McCartney was bom to James McCartney, a “centre lathe turner (aircraft factory),” and Mary Patricia McCartney of 10 Sunbury Road, Liverpool. LONDON (AP) Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was hit by a vehicle and broke his legs while directing traffic around an accident involving his car. Wood, 43, spent the night in Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon after the accident Monday. On Tuesday he said he was “fine and dandy.” After Wood’s wife crashed the family car west of London, the guitarist stepped out to direct traffic and was struck by another vehicle, police said. Police gave no cause for the crash of the Woods’ car. Jo Wood and the couple’s children Leah, 12, and Tyrone, 7, suffered minor injuries, police said. NEW YORK (AP) Linda Ellerbce, who left NBC in 1986 after it canceled her “NBC News Overnight,” may return in a daytime information series. She has taped a pilot for the show, she said Tuesday. She declined to comment further. After leaving NBC, she was co-anchor of ABC News’ “Our World.” The show was dropped after one season.

average of the year, grossing $598,257 on just 14 screens. HERE ARE THE TOP movie ticket sales for Friday through Sunday as tallied by Exhibitor Relations, with distributor, weekend gross, number of theater screens, average per screen, total gross and number of weeks in release. 1. “Child’s Play 2,” Universal, $10.7 million, 1,995 screens, $5,370 per screen, $10.7 million, one week. 2. “Jacob’s Ladder,” Tri-Star, $5.08 million, 1,262 screens, $4,030 per screen, $14.9 million, two weeks. 3. “Ghost," Paramount, $4.3 million, 1,713 screens, $2,512 per screen, $lB6 million, 18 weeks. 4. “Sibling Rivalry,” Columbia, $3.02 million, 1,455 screens, $2,076 per screen, $12.4 million, three weeks. 5. “Reversal of Fortune,” Warner Bros., $2.5 million, 661 screens, $3,816 per screen, $4.5 million, four weeks. 6. “White Palace,” Universal, $2.2 million, 885 screens, $2,490 per screen, $12.1 million, four weeks. 7. “Quigley Down Under,” MGM/UA, $2.14 million, 1,080 screens, $1,984 per screen, $13.7 million, four weeks. 8. “Memphis Belle,” Warner Bros., $2.12 million, 1,220 screens, $1,741 per screen, $21.9, five week. 9. “Marked For Death,” Fox, $l.B million, 1,321 screens, $1,421 per screen, $40.2 million, six weeks. 10. “Fantasia” Buena Vista, $1.7 million, 481 screens, $3,699 per screen, $22.4 million, six weeks.

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