Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 68, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 November 1990 — Page 8

THE BANNERGRAPHIC November 21,1990

People in the news Comeback due for Mill! Vanilli? LOS ANGELES (AP) Exposed as lip-syncing frauds, the Milli Vanilli duo say that rather than come clean about the sham, they once took a dialect coach on tour with them to help them shed their foreign accents. “Every time we gave an interview, the reporters would hear my French accent or Rob’s German accent and they’d say, ‘No way. How could these guys have sung the songs?”’ Fabrice Morvan said in Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times. “WE DIDN’T WANT TO DO any more interviews,” said his partner, Rob Pilatus. “The more we talked, the worse things got.” Dialect Accent Specialists in Los Angeles was hired in August 1989 and paid by Arista Records to accompany Pilatus and Morvan and help them sound more like the singing voices they mouthed on their hot-selling album, they told the Times. On Monday, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences stripped Milli Vanilli of its Grammy after its producer confirmed rumors that Pilatus and Morvan were just front men on the album that won them best new artist honors in February. The pair met reporters Tuesday and heaped blame on their German producer, Frank Farian. They claimed he took advantage of them when they were down and out in Munich. “Wc were seduced, we were abused and we felt very guilty,” Pilatus said. THE DECEPTION BEGAN to unravel at a 1989 concert when their audio system playing the album “Girl You Know It’s True” started to skip like a broken record, the rimes reported. The recording at the Bristol, Conn., show kept rerunning the lyrics: “Girl you know it’s, Girl you know it’s ..." “I knew right then and there it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli,” Pilatus told the newspaper. “When my voice got stuck in the computer and it just kept repeating and repeating, I panicked. I just ran off the stage.” Pilatus and Morvan, both 25, said at Tuesday’s news conference that they had been pressing Fanan to let them sing on the next album. PILATUS SAID HE AND Morvan were offered $4,000 each to become Milli Vanilli when they were living in a Munich housing project and were so poor they had to steal food. “You get something, but for that you make a pact with the devil,” Pilatus said. Pilatus, bom in New York and raised in Germany, and Morvan, a native of Guadaloupe in the French West Indies, intend continue to their musical career minus the Milli Vanilli name. The new monicker? “Rob and Fab. the German and the French,” • LOS ANGELES (AP) Axl Rose, lead singer of the hard rock band Guns ’N Roses, won a temporary restraining order against the neighbor he is accused of hitting over the head with a wine bottle. Gabriella Kantor, who lives in the same condominium complex as the rock star, was ordered Tuesday to stay away from Rose, his wife, Erin, and their guests. A judge will decide Dec. 4 whether to make the order permanent. Rose was arrested Oct. 30 for investigation of assault after an altercation with Kantor. No charges have been filed, although Rose has been accused of hitting her with a bottle. Rose’s lawyers described Kantor as “a potentially dangerous rock ’n’ roll groupie ... upset that she is not a part of (Rose’s) social and or professional life.”

Miss America flap

Pageant threatening to keep Miss Texas out

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) There’ll be no Miss Texas in next year’s Miss America Pageant unless the state pageant severs all ties to its former chairman for allegedly making lewd comments to contestants, the national pageant says. B. Don Magness, voluntary chairman of the Texas pageant for 20 years, resigned in August, just before this year’s national contest. But he stayed on the pageant’s board of directors, saying news reports depicted him unfairly. AFTER A TWO-MONTH investigation, national pageant director Leonard Hom said Tuesday he will strip the Texas contest of its franchise barring its winner from the Miss America competition unless Magness stays off the state board for at least three years. “The fundamental requirement imposed by all of the volunteers running local and state pageants across this country is to conduct themselves with dignity and professionalism,” Hom said in a statement. Magness did not return a call to his office in Fort Worth, Texas, where he is city director of public events, but he planned a news conference today.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Ed Begley Jr., who played a doctor on television’s “St. Elsewhere,” is being called on to try to cure some of the traffic ills plaguing smoggy Southern California. Begley was named chairman Tuesday of an advisory committee to the Southern California Rapid Transit District, which runs buses and is building a subway system in the nation’s most populous county. Begley, who now plays a dad on the new NBC series “Parenthood,” will convene the Citizens Advisory Committee once every three months beginning in December to make recommendations to the transit agency. NEW YORK (AP) Muhammad Ali flew to Iraq to share a Thanksgiving meal with U.S. hostages in Baghdad, an anti-war group said. The three-time heavyweight champion, who adopted the Moslem faith in the 19605, was to arrive in the Iraqi capital Wednesday, said Gavrielle Gemma, spokesman for the Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East. The Louisville native will meet with unspecified Iraqi leaders before sharing a Thanksgiving meal with several Americans refused permission to leave Iraq, she said. Ali was not representing the coalition, but the group helped him with travel arrangements, Gemma said. NEW YORK (AP) NBC newswoman Faith Daniels, who appears on the early morning show “Today,” will have a longer work day after New Year’s with her own show, network sources say. The program will occupy the daytime slot now filled by the low-rated soap opera “Generations,” sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said Tuesday. Daniels will continue on “Today,” sources said. NBC refused to confirm the report of Daniels’ new job or the cancellation of “Generations.” • LOS ANGELES (AP) Madonna and a neighbor are suing each other over trees and shrubs in her back yard that block a city view, and the singer will get a chance to tell her side of the story in court. Madonna, singer of such hits as “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl," inherited the dispute from a previous owner when she moved into the Hollywood Hills home. Neighbor Donald Robinson sued the previous owner for allegedly failing to trim the foliage, then sued Madonna. Madonna’s countersuit claims Robinson trespassed on her property in 1989, “making threatening, abusive and derogatory statements” and “cutting various trees and plants.” Trial has been scheduled for Nov. 30. Superior Court Judge Sally Disco ordered Madonna to be there.

Magness had said previously that the state board didn’t have the votes to bounce him. THE TEXAS PAGEANT is among the nation’s largest. During Magness’ tenure as chairman, 18 Miss Texases have made it to the national contest’s top 10; two of them, Phyllis George and Shirley Cothran, won. \Life magazine article in August quoted Magness as yelling, “Come on in, sluts! ” to a group of Miss Texas contestants. He was quoted as making other sexually explicit remarks as well. Magness acknowledged making the remarks but said they were in jest. He complained that the magazine article was negative and unfair. Later news reports accused Magness of other improprieties, including trying to influence the outcome of local pageants, making advances to a beauty queen and having a contestant model swimsuits alone for him. Barry Hall, the new chairman of the board of the Miss Texas Pageant, had no immediate comment on the national pageant’s decision. “We’ll bring it up before our board and it will be addressed,” he said by telephone from Dallas.

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