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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 14,1991

People in the news Madonna, Ice hit Evansville EVANSVILLE (AP) The latest celebrity to hit town in Evansville is rap singer Vanilla Ice, who visited Madonna at her temporary during filming of her latest movie. The rap singer visited Madonna over the weekend in McCutchanville, a town outside Evansville where the actress-singer is staying while she completes filming in “A League of Their Own,” a movie about a women’s baseball league that also stars Geena Davis and Tom Hanks. The arrival of Vanilla Ice, whose debut album, “To The Extreme,” topped music charts earlier this year, prompted People magazine to rush in a reporter. “They wanted me to come down to see if anyone has seen them in public holding hands or nuzzling or anything like that,” said Jana Wilson, an Indianabased stringer for the magazine. The two stars saw the movie “Frankie & Johnny” Friday night at a local theater, The Evansville Courier reported. That movie is directed by Garry Marshall, brother of “League” director Penny Marshall. Free-lance photographer John Blair said he went to Madonna’s home Friday to take a picture of her with a music award that will be presented by an English magazine in a few weeks. Blair said that as he was leaving, he met Vanilla Ice in the kitchen. He told the rap singer that his son and daughter were big fans, and Vanilla Ice asked if they’d like his autograph. He signed one paper and added “Peace and Chill” for Blair’s 8-year-old son, Will. He signed another with “Peace and Love,” for Blair’s 11-year-old daughter, Stephanie. • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) 1958 Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur Atler told Kentucky audiences her goal is to help relieve fellow victims of their shame. Van Derbur Atler, 54, finally came public this year with her secret that her father, millionaire Denver businessman Francis S. Van Derbur, had sexually abused her from an early age. “By any legal definition I was raped from age 5 to 18,” when she became Miss America, she told audiences in Louisville and Lexington Saturday. “I have no more shame,” she said. “It took me 53 years to figure it out.” When Van Derbur Atler was invited to be part of this year’s Miss America Pageant, she asked to be introduced as an “incest survivor.” Her goal now, she said, is to use her prestige to “make the word ‘incest’ speakable” so it can be stopped and its victims relieved of their shame. She said she has received 2,000 letters from other victims and counseled actress Roseanne Arnold, formerly Roseanne Barr, who recently announced that her father had sexually abused her. Van Derbur Atler said she didn’t realize she had been sexually abused until she was 24. Until then she had protected herself by “dividing” into two children The night child “was so ugly, so unacceptable, so degraded, so humiliated that she never left the room,” she said. • EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio (AP) Martin Sheen posted $250 bail after he and 32 other protesters were arrested for climbing a fence around a hazardouswaste incinerator under construction. “I don’t look forward to this kind of activity, but you do what has to be done,” the actor said after being freed Sunday. All 33 were charged with trespassing. Most chose to stay in jail pending a court appearance Tuesday. Environmental groups, including Greenpeace, staged the protest Sunday against the 21 ’/2-acre plant.

Swaggart facing new scandal

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Allegations that Jimmy Swaggart picked up a prostitute have rocked his ministry three years after a scandal involving a streetwalker nearly ruined him. Rosemary Garcia, 31, of Indio, Calif., said she was with the evangelist when he was stopped by police and cited for traffic violations in California last week. “For sex, I mean that’s why he stopped me, that’s what I do, I’m a prostitute,” Ms. Garcia said. “He asked for sex.” SWAGGART HAS NOT commented on the woman’s allegations. He was not charged with any sex-related offenses. Swaggart’s son, Donnie Swaggart, said at Sunday services at Swaggart’s Family Worship Center: “It may be looking like midnight and we may be beaten, but I’m going to ask you to praise the Lord. We need your prayer.” Donnie Swaggart told the congregation of 1,800 that his father and mother did not attend because they

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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw were married in a traditional Jewish ceremony at his Long Island estate. Harrison Ford and Dustin Hoffman were among 100 guests Saturday night at the ceremony. Spielberg produced and directed some of Hollywood’s most successful films, including “Jaws,” “E.T. The Extraterrestrial,” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Capshaw co-starred in the “Raiders” sequel “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” The marriage is Spielberg’s second and Capshaw’s third. They have two children and are expecting a third in February. • KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Ricky Skaggs says he tried pop, but it just wasn’t him. “I knew when I was singing them that I wasn’t digging it,” Skaggs said of the songs on his “Love’s Gonna Get You” album, recorded after winning the Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year award in 1985. Skaggs said his managers suggested he branch out, but he never gave up on bluegrass and acoustic music. His next album, “Coming Home to Stay,” was a “deliberate statement that I don’t care if I sell 50 albums, I’m gonna be Ricky Skaggs, no matter what,” he said in Sunday’s The Knoxville News-Sentinel. • BOSTON (AP) Joe Mantegna, who stars in the movie “Homicide,” is used to crime stories. Besides playing criminals and cops, he’s read fiction such as “Farewell, My Lovely” and “After Dark, My Sweet,” for Books on Tape. Mantegna, who played a good-hearted mobster in “Things Change,” portrays a Jewish detective in “Homicide,” David Mamet’s study of paranoia, fear and anti-Semitism. He also starred in Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow” on Broadway. Mantegna said he wasn’t bothered when he got leading roles in plays but only bit parts in films. “I never felt frustrated, because I’ve always been very patient about my career,” Mantegna said in Sunday’s Boston Herald. “I never was an overnight success on any level, so regardless of how much time it took I enjoyed everything I did.” His other movies include “Alice” and “The Godfather Part III.” • LOS ANGELES (AP) Regis Toomey, a veteran of 200 films who gave Jane Wyman what was once Hollywood’s longest screen kiss, died Saturday. He was 93. Toomey, who died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s Hospital and Health Center in Woodland Hills, made his film debut in 1925. In “You’re in the Army Now,” released in 1941, he and Miss Wyman made motion picture history with a kiss lasting 185 seconds. He also appeared in “The Big Sleep” and “Mighty Joe Young.”

needed to rest “physically and spiritually.” In 1988, a rival minister released photos of Swaggart with a prostitute. Swaggart confessed tearfully to an unspecified sin and was forced to resign from the Assemblies of God, the nation’s largest Pentecostal denomination. SWAGGART’S MINISTRY could fold as a result of the latest scandal, said David Harrell, an expert in televangelism. “Unless there is some extraordinary explanation for this, it is a devastating blow,” said Harrell, a history professor at Auburn University. Among the worshipers Sunday, Mary Dugan said: “As far as I’m concerned, in God’s word it says, ‘You forgive, you forgive and you forgive.’ With Jimmy, that’s between he and God. We all make mistakes and fail time and time again.” Swaggart also faces a series of lawsuits by his creditors and a SlO million judgment against him and others for defaming preacher Marvin Gorman

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