Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 112, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 January 1992 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 14,1992

People in the news Sonny claiming anti-drug stand SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Sonny Bono says reporters covering his U.S. Senate campaign have no business asking if he used drugs during his Hollywood years. But he added: “I’m absolutely antidrug now, and I was anti-drug then.” In fact, the 56-year-old Palm Springs mayor said Monday, one of the reasons his singing career faded in the ’6os was that he and then-wife Cher did an anti-drug video at a time when other groups were doing songs glorifying drugs. “We weren’t part of the drug scene,” he said. But when asked if that meant he never experimented with drugs, Bono bristled. “That’s a stupid question. How about, ‘Did you clean your toenails?”’ he replied. “There are areas where the press shouldn’t be asking those questions. It’s none of your business.... Drugs are not an issue in my life. If you make something out of it, shame on you,” he added in a later interview. Bono, who is seeking the Republican nomination, also said he never registered to vote until he was 52, when he decided to run for mayor. But he said the matter should be “no big deal” in his Senate race. • LONDON (AP) Rock singer Bob Geldof was arrested and taken off an airliner when he and other passengers rebelled after waiting five hours to disembark, police said. Two officers took Geldof given an honorary knighthood in 1986 for raising millions of dollars for African famine victims off the Boeing 727 at Stansted Airport and put him in a police car on Sunday, airport police said Monday. Geldof was released without being charged. Other passengers also had grown restless and demanded to be let off the plane, but Geldof was the only one arrested, police said. He, his wife, Paula Yates, and their five-year-old daughter were returning from a vacation in Morocco. Heavy fog caused the plane to be diverted from Heathrow Airport to Stansted, 30 miles north of London, where runway traffic kept the jet from taxiing to the terminal for hours. • PUTNAM VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) The 19-year-old son of talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael was critically injured in a car accident also injured two passengers. Jason Soderlund of Montrose was listed in critical condition late Sunday at Westchester Medical Center, said Cindy Schneider, a spokesman for Raphael. He had undergone seven hours of surgery. Soderlund apparently lost control of his car before it struck a tree Saturday night about 60 miles north of New York. One of the two passengers injured, Michelle Kramer, 19, was listed in critical condition. The other was in satisfactory condition. Soderlund is the youngest of Raphael’s eight children, said Schneider. After the accident, Raphael “was very distraught, and she wasn’t thinking even an hour ahead,” Schneider said. Raphael is host of a syndicated show, “Sally Jessy Raphael.”

‘Hand That Rocks Cradle’ No. 1

LOS ANGELES (AP) “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” shoved Steven Spielberg’s “Hook” out of the top spot at the box office after five weeks. The Disney thriller starring Rebecca De Momay as a deranged nanny took in $7.7 million in its debut weekend, Exhibitor Relations Co. reported. THE PETER PAN TALE “Hook” was No. 2 with $6.4 million, for a five-week total of about S9O million. Barbra Streisand’s drama “The Prince of Tides” was third with $6 million, followed by Disney’s “The Father of the Bride” with $5.8 million. Disney’s third film in the weekly lop 10 was “Beauty and the Beast,” which was sixth with $4.8 million. It has taken in SB9 million, surpassing the record for an animated tale set by “The Little Mermaid” in 1989. “The Addams Family” dropped into 12th place but climbed past the SIOO million mark in overall earnings. HERE ARE THE TOP movie ticket sales Friday through Sunday according to Exhibitor Relations, with distributor, weekend gross, number of theater

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NEW YORK (AP) NBC is still negotiating with David Letterman, even though the late-night talk show host was said to be miffed at not getting Johnny Carson’s job. Letterman’s contract expires in April 1993. “The discussions we’re having with Dave right now would be to extend that far beyond that date,” network entertainment chief Warren Littlefield said. Meanwhile, Letterman is hosting a 90-minute special for his “Late Night” 10th anniversary. The program will be broadcast Feb. 6 from New York’s Radio City Music Hall. • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Gov. John Ashcroft says he’ll count the popular vote instead of Andy Williams’ solo voice in rating the country music shows in Branson. Williams recently described some of the shows as “crap.” “My view is that the American people have indicated their assessment of the value of Branson as a wholesome place of family entertainment,” Ashcroft said Monday. The governor has performed gospel music in Branson and on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Promoters say about 4 million people visit Branson each year. Williams’ $8 million Moon River Theater opens in Branson in May. MIAMI (AP) Two founding members of 2 Live Crew sued Luther Campbell, the rap group’s leader, claiming he cheated them out of more than $1 million in royalties. David Hobbs, 28, and Mark Ross, 25, filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court. Last month they filed a $2 million lawsuit in state court, claiming Campbell owed them royalties from record sales, concerts, merchandising, licensing and song publishing. Hobbs and Ross, known respectively as Mr. Mixx and Brother Marquis, are the group’s producers and songwriters. They say they started the group two years before meeting Campbell in 1986. “He used our friendship as a tool to manipulate us,” Hobbs said. Campbell has denied wrongdoing. • PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) Mary Stuart Masterson is recovering from a bout with the flu that forced a Princeton playhouse to cancel Sunday’s show after the audience was seated. Masterson is playing Irina in Chekhov’s “The Three Sisters.” “Flu has swept through the company and Mary Stuart Masterson ... was the last to get it,” said David Mayhew, director of marketing for McCarter Theatre. He said she would be back on stage Wednesday.

screens, average per screen, total gross and number of weeks in release. Figures are based on a combination of actual receipts and studio projections where actual figures weren’t immediately available. 1. “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,” Disney, $7.7 million, 766 screens, $10,020 per screen, $7.7 million, one week. 2. “Hook,” TriStar, $6.4 million, 2,254 screens, $2,850 per screen, $90.1 million, five weeks. 3. “The Prince of Tides,” Columbia, $6.0 million, 1,456 screens, $4,144 per screen, $40.1 million, three weeks. 4. “The Father of the Bride,” Disney, $5.8 million, 1,647 screens, $3,509 per screen, $51.3, four weeks. 5. “Kuffs,” Universal, $5.7 million, 1,411 screens, $4,005 per screen, $5.7 million, one week. 6. “Beauty and the Beast,” Disney, $4.8 million, 1,960 screens, $2,469 per screen, $88.9 million, nine weeks. 7. “JFK,” Warner Bros., $4.7 million, 1,183 screens, $3,992 per screen, S3B million, four weeks. 8. “The Last Boy Scout,” Warner Bros., $3.9 million, 1,741 screens, $2,229 per screen, $49.7 million, five weeks. 9. “Grand Canyon,” 20th Century Fox, $3.4 million, 364 screens, $9,368 per screen, $3.7 million, three weeks. 10. “Bugsy,” TriStar, $3.2 million, 1,253 screens, $2,539 per screen, $30.2 million, five weeks.

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