Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 102, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1992 — Page 6

THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 2,1992

People in the news Procrastinators again perfect in ’9l predictions PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Procrastinators Club of America was right on the money with its 1991 predictions about Pee-Wee Herman, Wilt Chamberlain and Kitty Kelley. Not that there was any doubt. After mulling things over for a year, the club this week predicted a TV star will meet with a “Wee” bit of trouble in the wrong playhouse, Chamberlain will reveal a world’s record (he claimed 20,000 sexual conquests), and a “Kitty” will claw at the reputation of a former first lady with some “Frank” gossip. “We don’t make resolutions until after it’s happened. Making them first just creates a lot of stress,” said club president Les Waas. • DETROIT (AP) Rock guitarist Ted Nugent served venison to the homeless, boasting about the deer he killed himself with a bow and arrow. “I kill it, you grill it,” the 43-year-old Nugent joked Tuesday at a Salvation Army soup kitchen, where he ladled out 200 pounds of deer meat. The venison was donated by Nugent and other hunters to the Michigan Sportsmen Against Hunger program. The pony-tailed musician known as the Motor City Madman for his deafening rock ’n’ roll and boisterous stage antics shot three of the deer Tuesday. “This sends a message to the sporting community in this state that we all need to give,” he said. • NEW YORK (AP) Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, who attended a benefit basketball game where eight people were trampled to death, has donated $7,500 to the families of the victims. At a news conference Tuesday, Tyson said he left when the event became unruly and he saw people injured. “There was nothing I could have done. I was frightened. I didn’t know what to do,” Tyson said Tuesday. Eight people were killed and dozens injured Saturday when a a crowd of people swarmed into a gymnasium at City College of New York for a sold-out celebrity basketball game featuring rap musicians. ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) Robert Indiana, who created the “LOVE” logo later used on U.S. postage stamps, is being sued by a man who alleges the artist hired him to perform sexual acts. Jason Marriner, 23, alleges that Indiana first hired him when he was 12 for sexual acts and nude modeling. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Superior Court in Rockland, seeks unspecified punitive damages for alleged emotionaldistress. Indiana’s attorney, Jean B. Chalmers, dismissed the allegations as “utter balderdash.” Indiana, 63, was bom Robert E. Clark but adopted the name of his home state. His colorful representation of the word “LOVE” in a square with the “L-O” on top of the “V-E” the “O” tilted on its side made him famous in the 19605. • NEW YORK (AP) Peter Martins, the New York City Ballet’s artistic director, married the ballet’s star dancer, Darci Kistler. The couple were married in a private ceremomny in Martins’ native Denmark during Christmas week, said ballet publicist David Gray, who offered no other details.

Bush pans ‘JFK’ movie’s theory

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) President Bush said Thursday he sees no reason to doubt the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John E Kennedy. But Bush also said he does not believe Oliver Stone’s controversial new movie, “JFK,” should be censored. THE NEW FILM HAS revived conspiracy theories with its assertion that top U.S. political and military leaders arranged the 1963 assassination to prevent Kennedy from pulling troops out of South Vietnam. Bush, at a news conference, at first scoffed when asked if he was troubled by the impact the movie might have on America’s young. “I don’t know much about the movie. I haven’t

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LOS ANGELES (AP) soap opera, “Days of Our Lives” star Deidre Hall wed novelist and producer Steve Sohmer at Sohmer’s 17th century manor house outside London. Sohmer, former president of Columbia Pictures, is the author of “Favorite Son” and producer of last year’s Emmy awards broadcast. Miss Hall wore a gown designed by “Dynasty” clothesmaker Nolan Miller for the New Year’s Eve wedding, said publicist Cheri Ingram. © BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) People all over the America turn in for the night to the sound of Doc Severinsen’s orchestra. And yet, only one small record company had any interest in making an album of the “Tonight Show” sound. Severinsen and the orchestra recorded two albums this fall “Once More ... with Feeling” and “Merry Christmas from Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Orchestra” at Amherst Records, a Buffalo company of six people. “I would say, “The Tonight Show’ has almost 15 million viewers every night Don’t you think there would be a market there?’” Severinsen said in a telephone interview. “They would say, ‘No, man, you can’t play that stuff.’” Severinsen will leave the show in May when Johnny Carson steps down. Severinsen and the orchestra will go on tour in June. • ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. (AP) Bobby Vinton is aching to get back on the charts. “It’s like putting the life back in your veins,” he said while preparing for an appearance this week at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino. “You diminish without action.” Vinton had such hits in the ’6os and ’7os as “Roses Are Red,” “Sealed With a Kiss” and “Blue Velvet.” His latest effort is a duet with George Bums, “I Know What It Is to Be Young, But You Don’t Know What It Is to Be Old,” due out in February. The 95-year-old Bums is considering doing concerts, hitting the talk shows and making a music video, but Vinton, 56, said that’s too much for him. “He’s putting me to shame,” he said. • NEW YORK (AP) When Sylvester Stallone locks himself in his garage and breaks out his canvas, paints and brushes, the result can sometimes resemble one of his movies. “I have a full-on street fight with that canvas. I go to war,” the 45-year-old star of the “Rocky” and “Rambo” movies said in the December issue of Connoisseur magazine. Stallone said his painting style is expressionistic. “All my paintings are done out of angst, anger, happiness or something,” he said. He is also an avid art collector who owns about 200 19th- and 20th-century works, including a pair of portraits of himself by Andy Warhol.

seen it, and there’s all kinds of conspiratorial theories floating around on everything,” said Bush, an avid movie fan. “ELVIS PRESLEY IS rumored to be alive and well someplace, and I can’t say that somebody won’t go out and make a movie about that,” he said. But on a serious note, the president added, “I have seen no evidence that has given me any reason to believe the Warren Commission was wrong.” But Bush said he was not suggesting “that Mr. Stone be censored.” Bush said he made no attempt to review the Central Intelligence Agency files on the assassination when he ran the agency in the mid-19705. “I didn’t have any curiosity,” said Bush. “I saw no reason to question (the Warren Commission report). Still see no reason to question it”

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