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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 1,1991

People in the news Ex-kid star held in store robbery LAS VEGAS (AP) An actress from the popular television show “Diff’rent Strokes” was jailed after allegedly robbing a video store clerk at gunpoint. Dana Plato, who played 13-year-old Kimberly Drummond on the long running show, was arrested Thursday after she approached officers investigating the robbery and the clerk pointed her out as the suspect, said Las Vegas Metro Police Lt. Charles

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woman’s apartment behind the video store. MISS PLATO, 26, WAS booked for investigation of armed robbery and use of a deadly weapon in commission of a crime. She remained in county jail on $20,000 bail. The arrest was the latest in a series of real-life problems for actors on the program, which ran from 1978 to 1984 on ABC and NBC and still is seen in reruns. Star Gary Coleman, whose growth was stunted by a congenital kidney disorder, fought a bitter legal battle with his parents over whether he was mentally fit to handle his own affairs. Co-star Todd Bridges, who played Coleman’s brother for eight years, was involved in a lengthy scries of arrests ranging from carrying a concealed weapon to attempted murder. In the latter case, Bridges was acquitted on attempted murder and assault charges in connection with the 1989 shooting of a crack cocaine dealer. Miss Plato played the daughter of actor Conrad Bain, whose wealthy character was left to raise the young sons of his recently deceased, black housekeeper. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) When Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” came out in 1960, posters for the film warned that “No one will be admitted after the picture has started.” The man who wrote the book on which the classic thriller was based would have been happy not to show up at all. “I don’t feel comfortable attending such films,” Robert Bloch said in an interview in an interview this week from his home in Los Angeles. “I’m quite squeamish about them.” Bloch will be present this weekend as a special guest at the World Horror Convention in Nashville. But don’t expect him to see any of the films. He said he’s reluctant to check out the latest hair-raiser, “Silence of the Lambs.” “I’d have to nerve myself up to go,” he said.

Christian Brando gets 10 years

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) Marlon Brando made a tearful plea for lenient sentencing for his son in a manslaughter case. But a judge sentenced Christian Brando to 10 years in prison. The younger Brando, 32, was sentenced Thursday for killing Dag Drollet, his half-sister’s lover, at his father’s mansion last May. In rambling testimony before his son was sentenced, the actor portrayed Christian as a “basket case” drug and alcohol abuser whose parents failed him. “Most people have some good and bad aspects,” Brando said. “His mother came as close to being a negative person, and as cruel and unhappy a person as I’ve ever met.” BUT THE FATHER added: “You always tend to blame the other parent, but I know I could have done better.... But I did the best I could.” Brando and his first wife, Anna Kashfi, were married for about a year but then waged a 16-year custody battle for Christian, who was five months old when the couple separated. Christian Brando pleaded guilty last month to voluntary manslaughter, insisting Drollet died accidentally in a struggle. Christian Brando said he was angry with Drollet for beating his pregnant half-sis-ter, Cheyenne Brando. Prosecutors alleged the killing was premeditated. A probation officer recommended the minimum sentence of three years, citing chemical-induced brain

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Davidaitis. The clerk had recognized the woman as the actress when she held up the store, despite an allblack disguise that included sunglasses and a hat, Davidaitis said. He said $l6O was taken in the robbery. “The clerk called police and said she had been robbed and that she thought she recognized the girl as the actress in ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ ” he said. Davidaitis said police later found a pellet gun that resembled a 9mm pistol in the woman’s apartment behind the

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MEL GIBSON Likes cursed roles

NEW YORK (AP) Mel Gibson’s fans may think of him as a man of action, but the actor says he feels right at home playing men cursed with the inability to make up their minds. Gibson stars as Hamlet, the thinker who wasn’t sure whether “to be or not to be,” in the latest adapatation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. “You’re never really supremely happy, except in short spurts in your life,” Gibson told Parade magazine in its March 3 weekend editions. “I certainly have times when I feel like chucking the towel in, pulling up roots and going to some island somewhere but then you realize that you must never abandon hope,” he said. Gibson, 35, had played Shakespeare on stage before becoming a film star. Also appearing in the film are Glenn Close as Gertrude and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Actor Bruce Davison, nominated for an Academy Award for “Longtime Companion,” has had more than his share of challenging roles. He co-starred with hundreds of rats in “Willard,” played a child molester in the prison film “Short Eyes” and relived the ’6o’s student riots in “The Strawberry Statement.” “My kid sister was 12 before she was allowed to see a movie I’d made,” Davison said in an interview. In “Longtime Companion,” his role as a father figure to a group of gay friends earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. It already has won him a Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Award. “Longtime Companion” deals with the impact of the AIDS epidemic. Davison had done several other productions dealing with the AIDS epidemic, including the play “The Normal Heart” with Richard Dreyfuss in Los Angeles. “There are people living that life every day,” Davison said. • TULSA, Okla. (AP) Evangelist Oral Roberts is recovering well from surgery to open a narrowed artery, his son says. Richard Roberts, vice president of Oral Roberts University, said doctors determined the two-hour surgery Thursday was completely successful. “In fact, the surgeon said while he was opening one artery, he checked the arteries around it and found they were all clear.” Roberts said his mother, his wife and he were in the Hillcrest Medical Center recovery room when his 73-ycar-old father awoke. “My dad looked around and said, ‘l’m hungry and I’m thirsty,” he said.

damage and no self-esteem. “I’m sorry,” the defendant told Drollet’s family before the sentencing. “It’s not my family, it’s me. I’m at fault in this. If I could trade places with Dag, I would.” MARLON BRANDO SOBBED during the hearing when he described the night of the killing. He said he asked police to unzip the body bag after the shooting so he could kiss Drollet goodbye. “As much as it may not be believed, I loved Dag. He was the father of my grandchild,” Brando said. Brando mumbled, as he often does on screen, and at times his words faded further into a whisper. The actor said his son entered a room and announced, “I killed Dag. He’s dead, Pop. I didn’t mean to do it. He went for the gun and it went off.’” Abruptly, Brando turned to the Drollets, who are Tahitian, and spoke to them in French. “You are the grandfather and grandmother of the baby, and I am also the grandfather of the baby,” he told them. “I can’t go on with the hate in your eyes. The solution is in your hearts. I regret (this) with all my heart,” Brando said. AS SUPERIOR COURT Judge Robert W. Thomas sentenced him, Christian Brando bowed his head. He showed no reaction. Sheriff’s deputies took the younger Brando away. It was not immediately known where he would serve his prison term.

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