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People in the news Jobless to see Leno for free CHICAGO (AP) People out of work shouldn’t have to do without a few laughs, according to Jay Leno, who is letting the unemployed into two of his shows for free. Those showing unemployment compensation cards will be admitted without charge to the comedian’s Feb. 13 show at Zanie’s Comedy Club in Chicago and to his Feb. 14 performance at Zanie’s in suburban Mount Prospect. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Wednesday that Leno came up with the idea after learning of the long lines of unemployed people who turned out for jobs last week at a new hotel. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Hank Williams Jr., whose “Don’t Give Us a Reason’’ was a hit with Gulf War soldiers last year, has given the American Red Cross $31,588 in royalties the song helped generate. The musical warning to Saddam Hussein was written as U.S. soldiers were heading to the Middle East. Williams said at the time that he would give the royalties to the Red Cross to treat wounded soldiers. The money donated Wednesday came from sales of the album “America (the Way I See It),” which includes “Don’t Give Us a Reason.” • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) “Roots” author Alex Haley says he is busy writing another family history, this one focusing on his father. The effort includes a miniseries, which CBS plans to air in April, and a book, the 70-year-old Haley said in a speech at the University of Michigan on Tuesday. His father, a professor, had hoped his son would follow in his footsteps. Haley instead spent 20 years in the Coast Guard, including a hitch as the Guard’s first chief journalist Afterward, he wrote articles, a biography of Malcolm X and “Roots,” which traced his heritage back through slavery to Africa. • BALTIMORE (AP) Spy novelist Tom Clancy says he didn’t know the Rev. Sun Myung Moon provided the financing for a 1989 video that Clancy helped write to promote the Star Wars missile defense system. “If I had known back then, I don’t know how I would have reacted,” Clancy said. “I have nothing to do with those people at all.” Moon has served time in prison on conspiracy and tax charges and his Unification Church has been accused of brainwashing members. Moon’s sponsorship of the 45-minute video, “One Incoming,” was disclosed Tuesday in a PBS “Frontline” documentary. “Frontline” reported that Clancy sketched out a scenario for the video for free at a friend’s request. He also makes an appearance in the video.

Madden hot on outdoor Super Bowl

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minneapolis? It’s not your usual Super Bowl party town. “You can go to all those golf course places you like, but hell, you ought to get out into the elements once in a while,” CBS football analyst John Madden argues. “You ought to go ice fishing.” An appropriate sentiment for a game that’s replaced frostbite with rug bums, but what’s the point of playing the Super Bowl in the frozen north when it’s indoors? It’ll be 70 degrees in the Metrodome, and that’s lousy ice-fishing weather.

“THAT’S THE THING,” says Madden who travels from town to town via his own RV or train. “The elements come in when you’re getting from place to place and getting to the stadium, and that’s it. But at least it’s in Minneapolis. You don’t have to go to all the beautiful places and have brie all the time. You have to go to the Super Bowl and have sausage once in a while.” Let the record show that Madden, who will team

with Pat Summerall in calling the Super Bowl for CBS, is from Austin, Minn., due south of Minneapolis. “I’ve always felt they should do more of this, but play it outside,” Madden said. “Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh. Any team that has an NFL city ought to have a Super Bowl. The one great thing about

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DANA PLATO Prison-bound?

LAS VEGAS (AP) Dana Plato, the “Diff’rent Strokes” child star who robbed a video store last year, has been charged with violating terms of her probation and could go to prison for six years. The 27-year-old Miss Plato was arrested Tuesday. Authorities would not say how she violated terms of her probation. After pleading guilty last year to the video store holdup, she was placed on five years’ probation and ordered to perform up to 400 hours of community service and abstain from drugs and alcohol. Two other child stars of “Diff’rent Strokes,” Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges, have also had family and legal problems in recent years. NEW YORK (AP) Mariah Carey’s stepfather says he paid for her car, apartment and dental work before she was famous and she repaid him by trying to break up his marriage to her mother. Joseph Vian of Lake Hiawatha, NJ., is suing the singer for an unspecified share of the more than $1 million he says Miss Carey has earned since the release of her 1990 debut album. Miss Carey’s attorney, Peter Parcher, called the lawsuit “totally without merit.” Vian said in court papers Wednesday that Miss Carey promised he would share in her financial success, but instead “actively sought to break up the marriage” between him and her mother, Patricia Carey. Mrs. Carey has filed for divorce, Vian said. NEW YORK (AP) Tasteless Headline on Tacky Tic! The New York Post is in fashion. Designer Nicole Miller has taken the tabloid’s best (or worst, depending on your taste) headlines and printed them on silk lies, scarves and shirts. For S6O, you can own a tie that screams, “Headless Body in Topless Bar,” “Best Sex I’ve Ever Had” or “Deadfella.” For SBO you can wear these headlines on your head and for $165 you can wear them on your back. “Her ties are kind of quirky looks of what she perceives to be chic New York,” Post editor Jerry Nachman said. Nachman said the ties were Miller’s idea. Miller said the Post thought of it first.

football is that it isn’t just team against team, but team against team in the elements.” Only once in the recent past has a Super Bowl been played in a cold-weather city, and that too was in a dome, the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., in 1981 In the past five years, it’s been in Pasadena, San Diego, Miami, New Orleans and Tampa. “NO ONE’S EVER HAD an answer for me on this one: Why not play the Super Bowl where it lies, like they do in golf? Whoever has the best record plays at home. It was OK two weeks ago. “We had a championship game in Buffalo. Everytime I think of Buffalo, I think of tundra. I don’t even know what tundra is, but I think it’s frozen. The point is, if you can play a championship game in Buffalo and a championship game in Washington, why not a Super Bowl?” From a production standpoint, CBS says the cold weather poses little problem. It’s playing inside that creates problems with lighting, which in turn creates dull pictures. Those problems, however, are both solvable. The only real problem, it turns out, is that after all this talk of single-digit temperatures and arctic wind chills, the weather turned warm last week. Minnesotans were taking off their foam rubber hockey masks and pulling the plugs on their electric socks. “When you get to a place where they have adversity, I think people tend to band together, and pride can band them together,” director Sandy Grossman said. “Now, it’s in the 40s, and I think the locals arc really down. I think they’re disappointed that it’s not colder.”

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