Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 81, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 December 1990 — Page 6

THE BANNERGRAPHIC December 7,1990

People in the news Perfume stink over for Liz LOS ANGELES (AP) The courtroom stink over Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion perfume evaporated when the legendary actress reached an agreement with her former boyfriend. j Miss Taylor retains control of the Passion perfume line, which has earned S7O million, under terms of the agreement announced Thursday. Her ex-boyfriend Henry Wynberg will drop a lawsuit against the actress in which he claimed he developed the fragrance, and Miss Taylor will drop a Countersuit against Wynberg. • “It means I’m vindicated and it proves the perfume, Passion, is something I worked a year and a £alf for,” Miss Taylor said after Superior Court Judge poleman Swart announced the settlement. Both sides will pay their own legal fees and no money will change hands, said Miss Taylor’s attorney, Neil Papiano. Swart said the settlement was made “with prejudice,” meaning neither Wynberg or Miss Taylor fan raise the issue again. ■ Attorneys for Wynberg, a former used car salesman who was Miss Taylor’s boyfriend between her (wo marriages to actor Richard Burton in the 19705, said they would bring up the Academy Award-win-ning actress’ highly publicized bouts with alcohol and obesity. r Miss Taylor’s attorneys said they would bring up Wynberg’s guilty pleas to charges of statutory rape, providing underage girls with drugs in return for sex and taking pornographic photos of young girls. '■ Miss Taylor, 58, acknowledged she was glad to hvoid the trial. ' “It’s not something I was looking forward to, but I Xvas willing to fight as long as I had to,” she said. I I NEW YORK (AP) Pop posers Rob Pilatus and iFabricc Morvan of Milli Vaniili were stripped of their because they synched when they should Jhave sang. Now they face a $l2O million lawsuit for .'allegedly stealing music from the 19605-era band JBlood, Sweat and Tears. J Singer David Clayton-Thomas said in court papers failed Thursday that the melody of “Spinning Wheel,” .which he wrote in 1968, was used without his perJmission on the Milli Vaniili album, “Girl You Know Jit’s True.” ; “This suit is about the song they didn’t write on Jthe album they didn’t sing,” said Clayton-Thomas’ i’lawyer, Robert Marcus. “The words may change but I ‘the melody lingers on.” Pilatus and Morvan were forced to give back a Grammy they won for best new artist after it was ‘revealed they did not sing the album’s songs and jwere lip-synching the words in concerts. | At at news conference in Manhattan, Marcus Iplayed tapes of “Spinning Wheel” and the Milli Vaniili song “All or Nothing.” The lawyer said the melody lines of the choruses are identical. The Milli Vaniili record does not credit ClaytonThomas. On the album, group producer Frank Farian and two others are credited with writing the song.

The nuclear family? Homer Simpson will avert meltdown in series

WASHINGTON (AP) There will be no more three-eyed fish on “The Simpsons,” whose producers say they’re cooling their nuclear industry jokes after touring a real power plant. j But don’t have a meltdown, Simpsons fans. | The prime-time cartoon show will continue to rib i the industry in its third season next year, but in a j more responsible way, Executive Producer Sam j Simon said this week. 1 SIMON SAID THE FOX Broadcasting Co. ; program had been guilty of “cheap shots.” The U.S. Council for Energy Awareness, a nuclear I industry group, told Simon in a February letter that J the show “offended a lot of people in the energy in- ! dustry.” I “Ata time when we should be concerned about I where we’ll get enough electricity to fuel our ! economy later in this decade, you are confusing and I frightening your viewers by portraying nuclear power plant personnel as bungling idiots,” the letter said. Top “idiot” on the council’s list was Homer, father of the Simpson family and an employee of the fictitious Springfield nuclear plant Homer seems to care less about safety than about having enough tartar sauce for his fish sticks. IN VARIOUS EPISODES, Homer gives away the plant’s blueprints to a foreign exchange student his boss tries to bribe a plant inspector with a bushel of cash and three-eyed “Blinky” is found swimming near the plant. “I agree with you that in real life Homer Simpson would not be employed at a nuclear power plant. On the other hand, he probably wouldn’t be employed

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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) From the totally bald Telly Savalas to the merely thinning Bruce Willis, the Hair Farming Co. can’t pay a celebrity to promote its product Company founder Jacqueline Sabal said she’s also approached Frank Sinatra, James Caan, Corbin Bemsen, Julio Iglesias, Jackie Mason and George Carlin without success. “I’m having a heck of time getting these movie stars to admit they’re losing their hair,” said Sabal, who invented an herbal scalp cleanser called FoliKleen 2000, which she claims helps slow hair loss. “Everyone on that list there, I’ve either spoken to them or to their agents,” Sabal said. “They laugh at us.” LOS ANGELES (AP) Gary Coleman, star of the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” left an Arizona hospital after treatment for problems stemming from kidney disease. The 22-year-old actor was hospitalized last week and released Thursday, said his spokesman, Michael Gerety, who declined to reveal where Coleman was treated. A Tucson University Medical Center source who requested anonymity said Coleman was admitted under the name Milos Shea. Coleman lives in Tucson. Bom with kidney defects, Coleman underwent twe unsuccessful kidney transplants. • CHICAGO (AP) A chair that touched Madonna’s tush brought $225, but the big bucks went for celebrity seating from City Hall and the White Sox’s old stadium as furniture linked to the famous was auctioned to feed the hungry. A rocking chair used by first lady Barbara Bush when she read to children during a stop on her literacy campaign brought S6O at Thursday’s auction. An orange plastic stadium seat thrown in by Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight sold for $l5O. In all, 32 chairs fetched $5,085 for the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which distributes 20 million pounds of food a year throughout northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana. The Chicago Literacy Council provided the chair used by Mrs. Bush, while Knight who has been known to throw a chair in the heat of a basketball game turned over one of his own. “It’s going to live for a million years,” the buyer said of Knight’s chair, which the coach autographed. “It’s going to outlast me, and probably you, too.”

anywhere,” Simon said in a Feb. 5 letter to Carl Goldstein, a vice president of the energy group. Although they did little initial research, he said the “Simpsons” creators seemed to accurately represent worker conditions the cafeterias, lunch pails and radiation warning signs. The writers placed Homer in a “sector” to illustrate an impersonal bureaucracy, then discovered some plants actually used that term. But Simon also said the tour also “changed a lot of people’s minds. I think the facts are pretty powerful that it’s a clean and safe and important source of energy. While some of the shows were in the works before, we really backed off that as a source of comedy. No more three-eyed fish.” But the show will still feature jokes about what evil Springfield nuclear plant owner Montgomery Bums terms his “nuclear, nuclear family.” FOR EXAMPLE, PLANS CALL for Homer to avert a nuclear meltdown. “He’s kind of asleep at the wheel and wakes up when there’s an alarm, and doesn’t know which button to press, so he goes eeney-meency-miney-mo and hits a button and does avert a meltdown,” Simon said. “He becomes a hero and feels guilty about it. It’s not a politically charged episode.” And Homer is to begin a dinner grace with this: “Thank you for nuclear power, which has yet to cause a single fatality ... at least in this country.” Simon said the producers had a practical reason for placing Homer at a power plant. “It was really just for the joke that this boob had a position where he could possibly make a mistake and destroy the world,” he said.

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