Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 190, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 April 1991 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC April 16,1991

People in the news Another child star is busted LOS ANGELES (AP) Adam Rich, the youngest Bradford on television’s “Eight is Enough,” was charged with burglary in a drug store break-in. Rich, 22, was on probation for drunken driving when he broke into a suburban pharmacy, Deputy District Attorney Andrew Diamond said Monday. Rich was freed on $5,000 bail. Jeff Ballard, a manager for Rich, refused comment on the charges. Rich broke into the store April 6 after a hospital refused to give him narcotic painkillers, authorities said. Two pharmacy windows were broken, but nothing was taken. Soon after the break-in, police saw Rich driving erratically and running lights and they arrested him, authorities said. Rich told police he was in pain from shoulder surgery and needed medication, Diamond said. Last year, Rich pleaded guilty to drunken driving and was placed on five years’ probation. In 1988 he went to the Betty Ford clinic to break a cocaine habit • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The ex-husband of country singer Lynn Anderson says their two children suffer when they visit their mother, and he wants permanent custody. “They come back tired, wound up, anxious,” Harold “Spook” Stream testified Tuesday. “They’re argumentative and hard to deal with. They don’t want to go back.” A year ago he won temporary custody of Gray, 11, and Melissa, 9. Stream, 42, lives with his new wife, Jamie Carter Stream, and the two children in Lake Placid, N.Y. Anderson, best known for the hit single “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,” was awarded custody in 1982 when the couple divorced. Stream got temporary custody while authorities investigated his allegations that Anderson physically abused her children. Anderson, 43, has refused to comment on the case. • NEW YORK (AP) Audrey Hepburn says her current role as UNICEF goodwill ambassador is one she’s taken nearly half a century to land. The 62-year-old actress was catapulted to fame in “Roman Holiday” and after that acted in many films in the 1950 s and ’6os. She left the spotlight to raise her two sons. In the May issue of Vanity Fair she spoke about UNICEF and a childhood that gave her an affinity for children in need. Hepburn was bom in Belgium, but the family moved to the Netherlands, where she endured the privations of World War 11. “I finished the war highly anemic, and asthmatic, and all the things that come with malnutrition,” she said. She recently told UNICEF volunteers, “I auditioned for this job for 45 years and I finally got it.”

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LOUISVILLE (AP) The judge who approved an agreement allowing Donnie Wahlberg to make public service announcements instead of facing an arson charge said he was disappointed by recent statements by the singer. “I would have hoped he acted like he accepted a little more responsibility for the situation,” Jefferson District Judge Jim Green said Monday after seeing Wahlberg interviewed on national television. THE 21-YEAR-OLD lead singer for the New Kids on the Block, was arrested March 27 after an early-morning fire at a hotel in downtown Louisville. The fire burned a small patch of carpet. Wahlberg was originally charged with arson, a felony. The charge was later reduced to misdemeanor criminal mischief. As ordered by the court, Wahlberg accepted responsibility for what happened at the hotel, apologized to the city and said he would refrain from making derogatory remarks about the city or anyone involved in the case. He was placed in a diversion program for first-time offenders and ordered to make the public-service videos on fire safety, drug abuse and drunken driving. If he completes the videos, the criminal charge against him will be dropped. THE TEEN IDOL SAID Monday on ABC s “Good Morning America” program that he sprayed a fire extinguisher on the ninth floor of the Seelbach Hotel before dawn on March 27. But fire investigators say that during his appearance in Jefferson District Court last Wednesday, he took responsibility for setting the fire. “We never charged him with setting off a fire extinguisher,” Fire Chief Russell Sanders said. “At no time have we changed our position. We have eyewit-

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DALLAS (AP) Former pro football player Tony Dorset! has been cast in an action-adventure film set during the Vietnam War, his press agent says. The 37-year-old former running back will star with David Canradine in “Kill Zone,” Milton Kahn said Monday. “They wanted a superstar’s name,” Kahn said from Santa Barbara, Calif. “Tony’s interested in show business. Why not Tony?” Dorsett will play a Marine on a secret mission to destroy an enemy dump. Filming in the Philippines starts this month under director Cirio Santiago. Dorset won the Heisman Trophy in 1976 and later played for the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos. A knee injury forced his retirement in 1989. • NEW YORK (AP) Gen. Colin Powell came home to the South Bronx and his old high school for the first time in 37 years to throw out the first ball at Yankee Stadium and make a stay-in-school pitch to youngsters. The 54-year-old chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was on his first major speaking tour Monday since the Gulf War. “I’m giving you an order,” he told about 200 students at Morris High School. “Stay in high school and get that diploma. Don’t do drugs, it’s stupid.... Don’t think you are limited by your background. Challenges are there to be knocked down.” Powell later tossed out the first ball at the YankeesWhite Sox game. He also met with players and signed baseballs in the locker room. • NEW YORK (AP) Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and Sir Georg Solti had the flu during two concert performances of Verdi’s “Otello” last week in Chicago. But they’re feeling better, they said Monday at Carnegie Hall, where they’re on stage again Tuesday night and Thursday. Pavarotti also said his voice is none the worse for all the coughing and the long, difficult role. “Even in bad vocal condition, I have not lost the voice,” he said. “I went to the doctor. He said my vocal cords were perfect.” In Chicago, Pavarotti said, “I was forced to drink and eat constantly to keep the throat open, during the performance. If I have to do it tomorrow, it is not out of lack of respect for my colleagues.” Solti is in his last year as Chicago Symphony music director.

nesses and physical evidence on the arson.” County Attorney Michael E. Conliffe, who didn’t see Wahlberg’s interview, agreed with Sanders. “THE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF charge is not a result of the fire extinguisher. I can tell you that,” Conliffe said. “My office amended the charge from arson to criminal mischief but not for the fire extinguisher.” George Salem, Wahlberg’s attorney, said his client has “emphatically denied” any connection to the fire, a point he and fire officials have disputed. “I don’t think it’s important, at this point, to say Mr. Wahlberg said that the criminal mischief charge arose out of the use of a fire extinguisher,” Salem said. “The chief said it arose out of him starting a fire. But because it was amended, they didn’t say that he committed criminal mischief by doing X-Y-Z. They just said they are amending the charge and I think everybody recognizes that something happened there; that Mr. Wahlberg was in someway involved in the conduct” IN COURT, WAHLBERG did not mention the fire or the fire extinguisher. But during Monday’s interview he said, “The only thing I did do in the hotel was shoot off a fire extinguisher, which was kind of a prank. There was no vodka, no lighter, no match.” Authorities had accused Wahlberg of pouring vodka on a hallway carpet and setting it afire. Salem said witnesses saw someone other than Wahlberg ignite the carpet. He said his client tried to put out the fire out with the extinguisher. “Someone may well have attempted to light a small quantity of vodka,” Salem said. “It was not Mr. Wahlberg. But Mr. Wahlberg, activating the fire extinguisher, generated a lot of smoke, and some people obviously confused that with smoke from a fire.”

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