Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 65, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 November 1990 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC November 17,1990

People in the news Record execs knew of fraud LOS ANGELES (AP) What did Arista executives know about Milli Vanilli’s fake singing and when did they know it? Group members and a former manager claimed record company executives at Arista knew the dreadlocked duo was faking it, even before the Grammy Awards ceremony in February. German producer Frank Farian this week confirmed longstanding rumors that the pair, Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, did not sing on the multi-platinum “Girl You Know It’s True” album. Farian said the two lip-synced for videos and live appearances. BUT PILATUS TOLD the Los Angeles Times Friday the pair had already admitted the truth to Clive Davis, president of Arista. “We told Clive Davis. We told Sandy Gallin (a Hollywood talent manager). We told everybody six months before the Grammy Awards,” Pilatus said. Milli Vanilli’s former manager, Todd Headlee, said their phony recording was common knowledge at the record company. “Everyone at Arista who worked closely with the group was walking on eggshells before the Grammy lip-sync performance last February,” Headlee told the Times. “When they walked off the stage clutching the trophy, I remember thinking to myself that they may not have deserved the Grammy for their performance, but they sure as hell did deserve an Oscar,” Headlee added. Roy Lott, executive vice president of Arista, denied the entertainers’ account. “THERE IS NO WAY that anyone ever could have know whether they sang or not,” Lott said. “We are merely a distributor of their records. Rob and Fab and Frank assured us that they sang on the record.” The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will decide next month whether to strip the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. “It was fraud and we’re appalled by it,” NARAS President Michael Greene said Friday. “But our hearts go out to these two guys, because they’re very easy targets.” Farian says he was forced to go public with the revelations when the boys told him they wanted to sing on the follow-up record. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Roseanne Barr isn’t singing the blues over the discord surrounding her shrieking rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.” In fact, the hit television comic says she wasn’t even nervous when she warbled “I Enjoy Being a Girl” on Thursday night’s videotaping of ABC’s “Into the Night” show. “You know, I got two standing ovations. So I think my career as a singer is back on track,” she said in an interview. But the star of TV’s “Roseanne” won’t b% doing any “patriot songs” after the drubbing she took for the way she sang the national anthem at a San Diego Padres baseball game this summer. “Any anthem or something, I’m not going to sing them anymore,” she said.

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DEAR ABBY: The holiday season is approaching and I am faced with my annual problem about Christmas. My husband and I have been married for four years; we have no children as yet, but we both have busy careers. Every year since our marriage, my husband wants us to spend a peaceful Christmas at home, but each year so far, we have given in to my family’s wishes that we spend Christmas Day with them. This involves our driving 250 miles round trip, since my family’s Christmases are always held at my brother’s home because he has young children. Last year, I suggested that the family get-together be held on either the weekend before, or after, Christmas. My parents and my brother promptly vetoed my suggestion. Trying to solve this problem without making someone angry makes my holidays miserable. Can you offer some advice? DREADING CHRISTMAS DEAR DREADING: You and your husband have the right to spend your Christmases in a manner that pleases you. Give your family and brother notice

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NEW YORK (AP) “Saturday Night Live” alumnus Joe Piscopo surprised everyone but himself when he popped the question to his son’s former babysitter during a videotaping of “The Howard Stem Show.” Piscopo, 39, proposed to 20-year-old Kimberly Driscoll as the WWOR-TV program was taped at its Secaucus, NJ., studio, said station spokesman Ellen Morgenstem. “This was not one of our planned segments,” she said. Piscopo had a jeweler deliver the engagement ring after the taping. It will be Driscoll’s first marriage and Piscopo’s second. Stem is a radio and television talk show host known for his confrontational style and explicit subject matter. • NEW YORK (AP) Look out Johnny, David and Arsenio: Ron Reagan, son of the former president, is getting his own syndicated late-night talk show. The show will be based in Los Angeles and coproduced by MCA-TV and Fox Television Stations Inc. The still-untitled show will be shown on the seven TV stations owned by Fox, and syndicated to other stations. Each one-hour program will feature talk, comedy and contemporary music. Reagan, 32, left ABC’s “Good Morning America” last summer after four years as a contributing reporter. FULTON, Mo. (AP) Actor Bob Cummings, who for decades preached healthy living as the key to vitality, says Parkinson’s disease has curbed his career. Cummings, a native of Joplin, Mo., retired from acting more than a decade ago, but that doesn’t stop producers from urging a comeback. “I read scripts, but I can’t do them because of it,” Cummings, 80, told The Fulton Sun. “People ask me to do the scripts, but I tell them I can’t. What if I should stumble and fall down?” He visited Fulton for three days last week for dedication of a sculpture carved from pieces of the Berlin Wall. The Sherman Oaks, Calif., resident starred in the 1942 movie “Kings Row,” adapted from a novel about tum-of-the-century Fulton. Cummings was reunited with “Kings Row” co-star former President Reagan, who spoke at the dedication. Cummings appeared in more than 100 movies and starred in his own 1950’s TV show. The long-time advocate of healthy habits wrote the book, “How To Stay Young and Vital.”

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