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THE BANNERGRAPHIC April 5.1991

People in the news Evansville is set for baseball flick EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Actress Debra Winger could spend her summer playing baseball if negotiations for a new Penny Marshall movie work out. Winger is considering taking the lead role in the movie, “A League of Their Own,” her spokeswoman said. The Columbia Pictures film, to be directed by Marshall, would be filmed in Evansville. It’s about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which operated in the Midwest from 1945 to 1954. Winger was an Oscar nominee for her roles in “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “Terms of Endearment” • LOS ANGELES (AP) For actress-producer Victoria Principal, working in front of and behind the cameras is the only way to go. “If that means I’m ambitious, that’s OK. I am ambitious,” Principal said. “I’ve always been very candid about my ambitions.” Principal, perhaps best known as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the nightime soap opera “Dallas,” left the show in 1987 to pursue other projects, including producing the movies “Naked Lie” and “Blind Witness.” Her latest production, “Don’t Touch My Daughter,” in which she also stars, is to air Sunday on NBC-TV. • PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) A woman linked romantically by gossip columnists to her neighbor, Sen. Edward Kennedy, denies she’s involved with the Massachusetts Democrat. She says she hasn’t even talked to him in months. Dragana Lickle, 36, who is involved in a custody and child-support dispute with her husband, attorney Garrison duPont Lickle, issued the denial Thursday following reports that Kennedy was to testify in the case. “Mrs. Lickle is simply a neighbor and a friend of Sen. Ted Kennedy,” said a statement by her attorney, Louis Williams. “She has no other involvement with him and in fact has not been in contact with any of the Kennedy family for over 90 days.” Calls after business hours Thursday to Kennedy spokesmen were not immediately returned. Kennedy’s scheduled March 12 deposition for Lickle’s attorneys was canceled after the judge ruled the senator was subpoenaed improperly. Relations between the senator and Mrs. Lickle have been the subject of wide speculation. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee Ernie Ford and former Louisiana Gov. Jimmie Davis are among five nominees for induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Only one will be inducted Sunday. Ford, founder of the Gospel Music Association, which sponsors the Hall of Fame, featured gospel songs on his TV show of the 19505. His “Hymns” album in 1956 was the first gospel album to go gold. Other nominees announced Tuesday: • Davis, who recorded more than 25 gospel albums. • Gloria Gaither of The Gaither Trio. • Dottie Rambo, a composer of 1,500 songs. • Bob Benson, a record and music publishing executive. He died in 1987.

Penn & Teller arrive on Broadway

NEW YORK (AP) David Copperfield doesn’t live here anymore. There are no tuxedo-clad, rabbit tuggers on stage at Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theater where Penn and Teller, those terminally hip pranksters of mirth and magic, are currently holding forth in their latest entertainment “The Refrigerator Tour.” The show, which opened Wednesday, is called “The Refrigerator Tour” because the evening opens with a 450-pound, frost-free Amana dropping from the heavens on our two heroes. The guys are not flattened, of course, but they are stymied for a moment about what to do as an encore. WHAT PENN AND Teller have come up with is a mixed bag of old and new, and the results provide only middlin’ to fair fun. Some of the team’s older bits seem a little shop-worn now. Have frequent television appearances dulled their novelty? Particularly laborious is an extended segment that involves the revelation of a biblical quotation in a glass jug suspended high above the stage. The payoff isn’t much for all the huffing and puffing the trick requires. The same goes for the reappearance of Mofo, the Psychic Gorilla, a phony simian who should be retired to a cut-rate camy show. Penn and Teller are at their best when they are debunking the mystique of magic. They take special

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Florida Republicans are trying to draft Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf to run for the U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Bob Graham. Former state GOP chairman Henry Sayler and St. Petersburg businessman Jack Latvala are behind the drive to bring the commander of the allied forces in the Persian Gulf War into the race. They mailed thousands of announcements to Florida Republicans on Thursday. “The people who know him feel he’s a good Republican on all the issues,” state GOP chairman Van Poole said. “His friends in the Tampa Bay area are very excited about us trying to talk him into it. He’d be a breath of fresh air in the U.S. Senate if he decided to run.” • LOS ANGELES (AP) Super hot singer Celine Dion remains based in her native province atop the picturesque Laurentian Mountains, about a 45-minute drive from Montreal. The home emphasizes one of the most essential aspects in her life: water. Dion’s first English album, “Unison,” is not only catching the ears of her English-speaking compatriots, but of those in the United States as well. The first single released domestically, “Where Does My Heart Beat Now,” soared into the top five of Billboard’s Top 100 and Contemporary Adult surveys. “I have a swimming pool and how can you say,” the French Canadian turns to her manager to translate the thought into English, “Whirlpool bath,” she says with a laugh. “I love water, I’m always in my bath,” Dion said. “It’s true. My manager’s always on the phone, and me, I’m always in the bath. One day a blue bath, the next a pink one.” Dion cherishes the relaxing moments. There are very few because, at this point, she has only one desire. “It’s a big, big dream and I know it’s not for tomorrow,” she said, “but I would love to be known everywhere, and sing everywhere and go as far as possible in my career and maybe one day sing in other languages.” • BURBANK, Calif. (AP) Bruce Willis is a detective who teams up with Damon Wayans, a former football player, to solve the murder of the athlete’s girlfriend in Warner Bros.’ “The Last Boy Scout.” Principal photography has begun on the Geffen Pictures presentation, an action-thriller being directed by Tony Scott. The movie is being filmed entirely in and around the Los Angeles area. Willis and Wayans’ investigation of the murder uncovers a plot involving blackmail, extortion and a major political figure, as well as a threat to the future of professional football. Also featured are Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Halle Berry and Danielle Harris.

pleasure in showing you how a trick is done. By letting us in on the secret, the sleight of hand becomes that much more fascinating. THERE ALWAYS HAS been an element of violence to their creepy sorcery, and the best of it can be unnerving particularly if you haven’t seen it before. The possibility of harm or bodily injury permeates many of their sketches but is at its most threatening in the finale when Teller attempts to pull bait out of an assortment of fearsome traps. It’s a powerful statement in support of animal rights. Penn, the husky, tall one with a ponytail, never stops talking, and his verbal harassment eventually takes its toll. Something sinister lurks behind Teller’s goofy smile, but he’s easier to take. For much of the show he is silent, letting his gymnastic ability and just plain weirdness carry the show. THERE IS ONE interesting sidelight to “The Refrigerator Tour,” the duo’s second visit to Broadway. The first time out, the audience seemed to be in genuine terror that the burly Penn would coerce them into assisting with the duo’s foolishness. Now they can’t keep theatergoers from running over each other on their way to the stage. Their audience certainly knows what to expect, and for a show that depends a lot on surprise, that isn’t a very good sign.

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