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People in the news Ice forgets fine amid new fame DALLAS (AP) Rapper Vanilla Ice may have neglected to pay a $516.50 assault fine in the rush of sudden success, his former stepfather says. The 20-year-old also known as Robby Van Winkle of Dallas served a year’s probation but still owes the fine on the 1988 conviction. Police said Van Winkle sprayed a chemical into the eyes of a teen-ager, then beat him over the head and chased him and another boy across the parking lot of a grocery store. A warrant was issued for his arrest Feb. 7. Van Winkle, whose hit song is “Ice Ice Baby,” was in New York for the Grammy Awards Wednesday. He cannot be arrested outside Texas, a court official said. Defense attorney Larry Friedman said the fine would be paid. Byron Mino, the star’s former stepfather, said the family has been overwhelmed by his sudden success. “Some details from the past have been overlooked,” he said. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Sinead O’Connor says she’s hurt by all the attacks aimed at her following her comments on the war and the Grammy Awards. “It’s not easy to be the butt of a lot of venom and hatred that gets directed at you merely because you’ve said that you’re sorry over the fact that there’s a war happening and that you’d like to do something about it,” the Irish singer said on “The Arsenic Hall Show.” O’Connor opposes the war in the Persian Gulf and said she would not attend the Grammys because they celebrate the commercial side of popular music. Asked why she attended the recent American Music Awards, O’Connor said she went “purely to confirm everything that I’ve been thinking anyway.” “In the light of there being a world war, I wanted to see if any artists would say anything when they had the platform about the war and about how tragic it was,” she said. Several performers at the awards ceremony voiced support for the troops. MEMPHIS (AP) times a year at his new nightclub on Beale Street, where the blucsman first gained fame and legend has it modem blues were bom. 8.8. King’s Memphis Blues Club, a 350-seat restaurant and nightclub, will open May 3. “Memphis has been good to me my career started there, and my roots are still there,” said King, 65, who began playing clubs on Beale Street in the late 1940 s when paying customers took blues from the country into the city. “This is the first club to have my name attached to it,” King said Monday fron New York. “I will have a say-so on the food and entertainment, but the club will have a manager. I’m no businessman. I play guitar.” Under terms of contracts signed Monday in New York, King will play four times a year at the club, whose three buildings have been renovated with $550,000 in federal funds. King, known for his red guitar Lucille and songs like “The Thrill is Gone,” got his name “Blues Boy” working as a Memphis disc jockey.

‘Greek’ fired because of age?

NEW YORK (AP) Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, the 73-ycar-old sports handicapper, claims CBS used his comments about black athletes as an excuse to fire him because he’s getting old. Snyder has filed two $lO million legal actions within the past month against CBS, said a spokesman for his attorney, Raoul Felder. One is an age discrimination suit, the spokesman, Larry Weinberg, said Wednesday. THE OTHER LEGAL ACTION, a request for arbitration, seeks damages for defamation and breach of contract, among other claims. The arbitration request names CBS, several network executives and Brent Musburgcr, the ex-CBS commentator now with ABC. Court papers filed in conjunction with the arbitration petition said the firing aggravated Snyder’s health problems and prevented him from finding a new job. “We consider that the actions are completely without merit and don’t merit a response beyond that,” said Susan Kerr, director of communications for CBS Sports. SNYDER, A REGULAR on the “NFLToday” show, was fired Jan. 16, 1988, after 12 years with CBS. He was let go because of remarks he made to a reporter at WRC-TV an NBC-owned and -operated station in Washington who was getting comment from people in a bar about Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

THE FAMILY CIRCUS® By Bil Keane

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JAMES EARL JONES Shocked by salaries

NEW YORK (AP) James Earl Jones thinks too many Hollywood stars are getting paid too much. “I mean, what are you supposed to do with more than $5 million for a job?” the actor asked on the syndicated show “Personalities,” to be broadcast Thursday. “Of course, if you gave it to me, I would take it but, what star really deserves more than $5 million for a job?” Jones said. “It suggests to me that the other actors (on the project) are going to get a lot less than they should get.” Jones added that he wishes there were things that indicated the importance of actors “besides the size of salaries.” • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Johnny Bench has caught on to country music. The Hall-of-Fame catcher qualifies as an expert on country songs, according to country star Aaron Tippin. The two were part of Bob Hope’s tour that performed for the American military in the Persian Gulf in December. “He’s a walking country music jukebox,” Tippin said. “He surprised me with the lyrics he knew. You couldn’t stump him. You ask him a title, and he’ll whip off the lyrics and sing it.” Tippin’s “You’ve Got to Stand for Something” is a current hit on the country music charts. • PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) Donald Trump is willing to share his 118-room Mar-a-Lago estate for a princely sum by subdividing the 17-acre spread. Trump filed for approval Monday to keep the mansion intact while selling two-acre chunks for luxury home sites dubbed The Mansions at Mar-a-Lago. “We’re trying to create a very, very private, very exclusive enclave,” said architect Eugene Lawrence. Town approval of the move would allow cashshort Trump to keep the mansion, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and get some money back. • HOUSTON (AP) A judge postponed an arraignment for Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens and his brother, who arc accused of wrestling with an off-duty police officer at a nightclub last month. State District Judge A.D. Azios on Wednesday rescheduled the hearing for March 8 pending the outcome of a grand jury investigation. Mike Ramsey, attorney for the Clemens brothers, said there have been no indictments from the grand jury. “I’m hoping there might not be,” Ramsey said.

In the interview, Snyder said black people had been bred to be better athletes since the Civil War when “the slave owner would breed his big black with his big woman so that he would have a big black kid.” He said that if blacks “lake over coaching jobs like everybody wants them to, there’s not going to be anything left for the white people. I mean all the players are blacks. The only things that the whites control is the coaching jobs.” Snyder also said, “Black talent is beautiful, it’s great, it’s out there.” HE LATER ISSUED AN apology, as did CBS Sports, which called Snyder’s comments “reprehensible.” “By firing and repudiating Mr. Snyder, CBS quashed his dream, his dignity and his spirit. The network turned a man once full of life into a beaten man,” another Snyder lawyer, Jeffrey L. Liddle, said in court papers. Liddle said CBS contributed to Snyder’s health problems, including angina and diabetes. The lawyer also said Snyder has lost commercial endorsements and speaking engagements and has been unable to find new employment with other networks or cable stations. The age discrimination case is pending in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. The arbitration petition was originally filed in that court but was transferred Wednesday to U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

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