Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 113, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 January 1992 — Page 4

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 15,1992

People in the news Pretty tacky her role now LOS ANGELES (AP) “Pretty Woman” star Julia Roberts is a “tacky Tinkerbell from fashion Nevcrland” in the opinion of the acid-tongued Mr. Blackwell, who put the “Hook” actress atop his annual list of the 10 worst-dressed women. Country singer Wynonna Judd was second on the fashion critic’s list Tuesday, followed by actresses Delta Burke, Tyne Daly and Jodie Foster. Blackwell called Miss Judd the “shaggy songbird of country kitsch” and labeled Miss Burke an “antebellum atrocity" and ’’Hulk Hogan in sequins." Singer Carly Simon was No. 6, followed by actresses Faye Dunaway, Kathy Bates and Jane Seymour. Tenth was Dame Edna Everage, the creation of comedian Barry Humphries. Blackwell, whose real name is Richard Sylvan Selzer, has been releasing his worst-dressed list since 1960. For once, he had semi-kind words for frequent worst-dressed-list candidates Liz Taylor and Barbra Streisand, saying they looked nice for a change in 1991. • LAS VEGAS (AP) Oddsmaker Lenny Del Gcnio says "JFK” and “Bugsy” are even-money favorites to walk away with Best Picture honors at the Academy Awards ceremony in March. “Silence of the Lambs” is listed at 6-to-5 by the Las Vegas oddsmaker, with “The Prince of Tides” at 3-1 and the animated "Beauty and the Beast” at 5-1. Del Genio says there’s also an even-money deadlock in the Best Actor category. He lists Warren Beatty of “Bugsy” and Nick Nolte of “Prince of Tides” as the favorites there, while Jodie Foster of “Silence of the Lambs” is an even-money bet to take home the Best Actress award, he says. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Charlie Daniels plans to let Fidel Castro know he’s in the neighborhood when he performs for U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "We’ll be rockin’ so loud even Castro will wake up and join the free world,” the country music star said Tuesday. Saturday’s show will be Daniels’ second in Cuba. He also played for troops there in 1988. Daniels’ hits include “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and “The South’s Gonna Do It Again.” • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The Nashville Network presents “Emmylou at the Ryman” Wednesday night, fronting her all-acoustic band, the Nash Ramblers, in a concert at the Ryman Auditorium, longtime home of the Grand Ole Opry. "I never did get a chance to see a show there,” Ms. Harris said. “I also wish I’d seen Elvis. I didn’t get to do that, either.” Ms. Harris said she decided to change her band’s sound because she was having some throat problems and getting tired of doing the same thing. Her music was “like a field that’s been plowed too much, and instead of letting it lie fallow, I’ve changed the crop,” she said, adding, “Beans instead of com!”

Muggs missing link at ‘Today’

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) J. Fred Muggs, the “Today” show’s first big star, has gone from cute and cuddly to big and round, something that helped keep the chimpanzee off the program’s 40th anniversary special. Muggs was a svelte 13 pounds when he made his “Today” show debut in January 1953 at age 10 months. Now he weighs in at 175 pounds. “WITH HIS SIZE NOW, I’m not sure it would be practical to have him here in person,” said NBC spokesman Genevieve Wood. When the show celebrated its anniversary with a prime-time special Tuesday, it used footage of J. Fred, along with appearances by “Today” show regulars Bryant Gumbel, Willard Scott, Gene Shalit and others. “It’s a snub,” complained Muggs’ co-owner Buddy Mennella. “J. Fred has never gotten his due. He helped make that show what it is and now he’s just forgotten.” Mennella shares a spacious ranch home with coowners Roy Waldron and Jerry Preis that is filled with such Muggs memorabilia as a huge oil painting of the chimp and pictures of him with Judy Garland, Bob Hope and President Truman. “I’M PROUD OF WHAT he’s done,” Mennella said. “Some people live their whole lives and don’t accomplish what he has.” Muggs, who also turns 40 this year, was in diapers

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MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (AP) Delta Burke, bounced from the cast of “Designing Women” after last season, has landed right alongside another TV comedy heavyweight, Roseanne Arnold, on ABC. Burke will have a half-hour comedy series next fall, ABC Programming Chief Robert Iger told entertainment reporters. There are no immediate details about Burke’s character. Iger was asked if he could handle another actress with a “volatile reputation” like Arnold. Saying he has “an excellent relationship with Roseanne,” Iger explained that he doesn’t worry about reputations. He said he likes Burke, who lost her Suzanne Sugarbaker role on “Designing Women” as much because of her off-camera personality as her weight gain. Meanwhile, ABC also has lined up “Twin Peaks” creators David Lynch and Mark Frost for a half-hour comedy, “On the Air,” to be launched this spring. The series will revolve around a fictional 1957-era TV variety show called “The Lester Guy Show.” GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Former major league great Ted Williams is doing well after undergoing surgery at Shands Hospital, where he was treated last month after suffering a minor stroke, a spokesman said. Williams, 73, was listed in good condition Tuesday afternoon. “He is expected to be OK,” said Smith, adding Williams should be released within a few days. Dr. Arthur Day, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Florida, performed the surgery on Williams. It lasted just over two hours. Williams now lives in retirement near Crystal River, a prime sport-fishing area on the Gulf of Mexico west of Gainesville. Williams, voted into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1966, was the last major league player to finish the season with a batting average .400 or more. He hit .406 in 1941 while playing for Boston. • BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) Mike Wallace, sports editor of his high school paper, is heading back to his alma mater as honorary chairman of its 150th anniversary. The hard-boiled “60 Minutes” newsman will join other Brookline High School alumni, including “L.A. Law” star Alan Rachins and former Gov. Michael Dukakis, in launching the year-long celebration on June 14. Wallace was voted “Most Prominent Boy” n the Class of 1935 and gave the class oration. His activities included honor society, tennis and debate, according to the yearbook.

when he made his TV debut on “The Perry Como Show.” “Today” creator Pat Weaver saw him as the perfect gimmick to boost his show’s slumping ratings. An overnight hit, Muggs pulled in child viewers and later their parents. Former “Today” producer Richard Pinkham once estimated that Muggs’ saving the show was worth more than SIOO million to the network. Mennella said the only person who didn’t seem to like Muggs was Dave Garroway, the original “Today” host. “IT REALLY BOTHERED him,” Mennella recalled. “Here was this highly intelligent, respected newsman who had to pick up the newspaper every day and read how a chimp was the ‘read’ star of the show.” After leaving “Today” in 1957, Muggs appeared on “The Ernie Kovacs Show” and had his own local program in New York. For the last 10 years he has appeared at state fairs, college campuses and military bases. He also makes occasional commercials and shows up on the cover of TV Guide for its annual J. Fred Muggs Awards. Mennella, who notes that chimpanzees can live as long as 60 years, said Muggs is still in his prime. “I don’t even want to think about him dying,” he said. “He’s been like a son to me.”

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