Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 114, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 January 1992 — Page 4

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 16,1992

People in the news Rock Hall adds Hendrix, Cash NEW YORK (AP) at this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, with Jimi Hendrix heading a list of creative string benders honored for helping change the sound of music. Also inducted Wednesday at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel were blues guitarist Elmore James, guitar builder Leo Fender and the Yardbirds, the ’6os band that launched the careers of guitar virtuosos Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. “It could be said they invented the thing we know as the rock band,” The Edge, U2’s lead guitarist, said of Clapton, Page and Beck. “After them, we’ve had an endless stream of young men traveling around the world and deafening people.” OTHER INDUCTEES included Johnny Cash, the Isley Brothers, Booker T. and the MGs, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Professor Longhair, Sam and Dave, rock promoter Bill Graham and songwriter Doc Pomus. The most lavish praise was heaped on Hendrix, the flamboyant performer who ended concerts by setting his guitar on fire. He died in 1970. “I think Jimi was the most original and explosive guitar player we have ever heard,” said Ahmet Ertegun, the rock hall’s chairman. “He was at one with his instrument,” said guitarist Neil Young. “There was no technique you could take note of, no chord I could recognize, no hand movement I could go, T know what that was.’” Hendrix was inducted along with fellow Jimi Hendrix Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. WHILE THE PLAYERS won praise, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards reminded the audience that it was Fender who “gave us the weapons.” The maker of the Fender guitar was the first to market successfully a solid-body electric guitar. LOS ANGELES (AP) The creator of “The Addams Family” TV series is suing the makers of the “Addams Family” movie for SSO million, accusing them of ripping off his ideas. David Levy, who holds rights to the 1964-66 series, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in state court. Among the defendants: Paramount Studios and Orion Productions, which sold Paramount the uncompleted film for about $22 million. “They appropriated his ideas and concepts,” said Levy’s attorney, Neil Papiano. “He named the characters, he put the concept together. He invented the characters ‘Thing’ and ‘lt’ completely.” Levy also contends he created patriarch Gomez Addams’ fencing expertise and wife Morticia’s sizzling bedroom talk, gave Uncle Fester enough voltage to light a bulb in his mouth and conceived butler Lurch’s organ playing. Paramount spokesman Harry Anderson said the studio had not seen the lawsuit and had no comment The movie has grossed more than SIOO million since its release last month. Levy created the TV characters based on cartoons drawn by Charles Addams for The New Yorker magazine.

Remains said Butch, Sundance

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A scientist who helped identify the body of Nazi Dr. Josef Mengelc says he may have found the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Bolivia, where legend has it the two died in a shootout. Forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow said he is “guardedly optimistic” that the bones uncovered in a cemetery in the Andean village of San Vicente last month are those of the American outlaws. A San Vicente man who said his father told him Cassidy and Sundance were buried there 83 years ago directed Snow to the single grave containing both sets of remains. Bodies are buried on top of one another in the cemetery. SNOW SAID HE WILL use computer imaging to try to produce pictures of two humans from the remains. He may also conduct DNA tests to see if there are any genetic similarities between the remains and descendants of the two men. Snow said physical and circumstantial evidence suggests Cassidy shot Sundance in the head, then killed himself while under attack by Bolivian soldiers. Skulls from both bodies contain bullet holes. “It sounds to me like... they may have been wounded, and Butch Cassidy shot Sundance Kid and shot himself,” Snow said. Newspaper accounts and a U.S. investigation indicate Cassidy and Sundance on the lam for a string

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NEW YORK (AP) Barbara Walters says there’s no catfight and never has been between herself and fellow ABC newscaster Diane Sawyer of “Primetime Live.” No claws were bared, she said, even when Sawyer landed the recent ratings-grabbing interview with Patricia Bowman, the accuser in the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, and Walters didn’t. People want to pit Walters against Sawyer whenever either of them gets a big interview, the “20/20” correspondent said. “It never happens with Sam Donaldson or Hugh Downs or Ted Koppel,” Walters noted. Sure, she added, she would rather be the one to gel the interview first, but if it’s a case of Sawyer getting it for ABC ahead of another network, she would “fight like crazy to have Diane get it” • BOSTON (AP) NBC veteran John Palmer says he couldn’t stand to be away from breaking news, so he took the anchorman’s job on cable’s “World Monitor.” “I went out of my mind during Desert Storm,” said Palmer, a former Middle East correspondent. “I would sit there drooling, watching CNN that was my own territory. I knew where I belonged and that was in a newsroom.” Palmer became anchorman last week of “World Monitor,” an international news show cm the fledgling Monitor Channel. Palmer, 56, worked for NBC for 26 years. • NITRO, W.Va. (AP) Rod Stewart doesn’t just sing about trains he builds ’em. The British rock star dropped into a Nitro hobby shop Tuesday to pick up supplies, said store owner Jerry Weeks. Stewart sang that night in Charleston. Weeks said Stewart bought paintbrushes, wood, plastic and “quite a bit of paint” and confided that h prefers building American to British models. Stewart, whose hits include “Maggie May,” was nominated for a Grammy last year for his version of Tom Waits’ “Downtown Train.” TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) Surf rocker Dick Dale has an heir worthy of his legendar surf guitar. An eight-pound boy, James Wayne Monsour, was bom Monday to the 53-ycar-old singer and his wife Jill, 23. Dale became known in the 1960 s as the King of the Surf Guitar with such hits as “Miscrlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin.’”

of bank and train robberies were killed in Novem ber 1908 in a gunfight with soldiers who tracked them to San Vicente. BUT SIGHTINGS OF them in following years came from all around the world. “Because they disappeared, the legends about what happened to them proliferated,” said Daniel Buck, a Washington historian who is working with Snow on the project for the British TV program “Nova.” Over the years, Snow has helped identify the bod) of Mengele, 19th-century American outlaw Elmer McCurdy and others. Last month he unearthed a skeleton that he said is about the same height -foot-11 —as the Sundance Kid was believed to be. He also unearthed a skull and some bones he believes were Cassidy’s. ACCORDING TO A 1909 investigation by the U.S. vice consul in Bolivia, the soldiers said they took part in a gunfight with two English-speaking outlaws holed up in a house. The battle ended, the soldiers said, when they heard cries and then two shots coming from the house. Suspecting a trick, they sat outside overnight. When they entered, they found the outlaws dead, according to the report. “They buried them the next da in the little cemetery in San Vicente,” the report said

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