Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 153, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 March 1992 — Page 4

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 2,1992

People in the news Gilligan may get real island MAUI, Hawaii (AP) “Gilligan’s Island” fans in Hawaii want the island of Maui to undergo a name change, to guess what? Gilligan’s Island. And they have launched a petition campaign to urge Gov. John Waihee to change Maui’s name accordingly. Bob Hines, a spokesman for the “Gilligan’s Island” Fan Club, says the group picked Maui picked it’s a three-hour boat trip from Honolulu Harbor. The seven castaways on the show, including Bob Denver in the lead role as Gilligan, were marooned on an uncharted island after setting out on a threehour tour. Stranded in TV reruns for ever are Gilligan, the Skipper, too, the millionaire (Thurston Howell) and his wife, the move star (Ginger), the professor and Mary Ann. Gorillas are raised on Maui, Hines said, which is appropriate since there were gorillas on Gilligan’s TV island. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Joshua Brand was nominated for a Directors Guild of America award for an episode of NBC’s “I’ll Fly Away.” Brand was nominated in the dramatic special category for directing the pilot episode of the series, a drama set in the South during the civil rights era. The show stars Sam Waterston as a lawyer. Brand is the co-creator of “St. Elsewhere” and “A Year in the Life” and worked with Steven Spielberg on “Amazing Stories.” Eric Launeuville also was nominated for an “I’ll Fly Away” episode. And CBS’ “Northern Exposure” also got two nominations, for James Hayman and Stuart Margolin. The 22 nominees were announced Sunday. The winners will be named March 14. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Country music’s Chet Atkins and Steve Wariner will give a benefit concert next week for a five-year-old girl with brain damage. They will raise money for Bayli Smith, who hasn’t developed physically since she was 18 months old. Tickets for the March 9 concert at the 1,000-seat Crockett Theatre in Lawrenceburg will cost SB. • LOS ANGELES (AP) ing Darryl Hannah, that is, but somebody had to do it. And that somebody is Chevy Chase, who had to wear a combination of black makeup and Karo syrup on his face and lips to help make him invisible in “Memoirs of an Invisible Man.” He also used whiteout on his teeth. So when Chase and Hannah smacked lips, “she came away with dirt all over,” he said.

TV ‘Happy Days’ are here again

NEW YORK (AP) Somewhere in the 90 minutes of ABC’s ‘“Happy Days’ Reunion Special,” we are informed that Fonzie and Richie and Potsie and the gang were on the air for 11 years episodes. The “Happy Days Reunion Special” scheduled for 9:30 p.m. Tuesday on ABC does offer some clues as to why this show was so popular it was the top-rated program of 1976-77. Tom Bosley and Marion Ross, who played the elder Cunninghams, are pros, gifted with marvelous comic timing. Ron Howard’s Richie is always likeable. The studio audience is very enthusiastic. AND HENRY WINKLER as the Fonz is truly a wonderful creation, other-worldly in much the same way as Robin Williams’ Mork (also first introduced on “Happy Days”). Originally a minor character, he upstages everyone and everything. The whole gang turns up for this reunion special (well, almost the whole gang; Erin Moran, who played Richie’s sister Joanie, is unaccountably missing). They sit around and chat about the Importance of “Happy Days.” Winkler to Howard: “There was an unspoken connection between us. There was a respect that went between us that touched me, touches me as I’m talking about it, so completely.” Anson Williams, who played “Potsie”: “The show and the people in it will be part of me for years to come.” WINKLER TO HOWARD: “You’re my best friend, even as we sit here today.” Howard to Winkler: “Well, you know, I feel that way too.” And that’s not all! The special offers clips of the “Happy Days” softball team taking the field. It offers ostensibly hilarious practical jokes and outtakes from the show (although one clip in which the Fonz

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808 DENVER A three-hour tour

RADNOR, Pa. (AP) Mr. Rogers without his cardigan? The neighborhood might have looked different if Fred Rogers hadn’t stood his ground. “I remember years ago when I was asked to go to New York to talk about replacing somebody who was thinking of leaving children’s television,” he said in the March 7 issue of TV Guide. “First off, they said, ‘Now, what would you wear?’ I said, ‘l’d wear what I always wear, my own clothes.’” He said he was asked to wear some sort of costume, and refused. Rogers, who has been on television for 30 years, said his low-key approach wouldn’t make the lineup these days. “I would have such terrible run-ins with the ‘powers that be.’ They wouldn’t want me around,” said the 63-year-old star of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” • LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) U 2 kicked off its first North American tour in five years with what lead singer Bono called a “private party” for some 7,200 fans. The Irish rock group opened Saturday’s sold-out show at the Lakeland Civic Center by playing most of the songs from its newest album, “Achtung Baby.” Then the four rockers gathered at the end of a runway extending into the crowd. “We’ve got a satellite dish we can beam this anywhere in the world!” Bono screamed over the roaring crowd. “But not tonight this is a private party!” U 2 has 31 more shows scheduled in 30 cities through April 23. LOS ANGELES (AP) Earl A. Scheib, the gravel-voiced entrepreneur who promised to paint “any car, any color” for a price calculated to make the competition wince, died Saturday. He was 85. Scheib’s discount paint operation grew to more than 200 shops in about 40 states. When he began his ads in the 19505, he promised to paint a car for $29.95. Inflation raised the price to $119.95.

HENRY WINKLER: Hosts special Tuesday starts necking with Mrs. Cunningham while the rest of the cast tries to proceed with the scene as if nothing is happening is a bit creepy. Did someone say Oedipus? Ayyyyyye.) And the show ends with outtakes created specifically for the reunion special. Again and again, the cast tries to say, in unison, “Here’s to ‘Happy Days.’” They fail repeatedly, and laugh about it a lot. Where oh where is that enthusiastic studio audience when you need it? “IN THE INDUSTRY,“ says Al Molinaro, who played the malt shop proprietor, “they used to consider us like a bubble-gum show. But I think they overlooked one thing. To the public in America, ‘Happy Days’ was an important show- ’

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