Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 154, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 March 1992 — Page 4

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 3,1992

People in the news Stars coming out in Branson BRANSON, Mo. (AP) There’s no sign of a recession in Branson, where construction is proceeding on a record SBB million worth of country-music theaters and other new projects. The sound of hammers reverberates at theaters, motels and restaurants as workers rush to finish before the flood of tourists begins in late spring. “We couldn’t have ordered (the weather) out of the book and gotten anything better,” said Larry Wilkinson, who’s building a new motel. The 1991-92 building season has been a bonanza for Branson, a town of just 3,700 that attracts 4 million tourists a year. The biggest and most expensive developments are four music theaters that will add about 11,000 seats, bringing total indoor theater seating to about 27,000: —Silver Dollar City’s sl3 million, 4,000-seat Grand Palace, will start having performances in midApril. —Andy Williams’ $8 million, 2,000-seat Moon River Theatre, opening May 1. —The $4 million, 2,700-seat Johnny Cash Theatre, opening May 1. —Mel Tillis’ $4 million, 2,100-seat theater, opening March 27. Construction also is expected to start soon on a $28.5 million complex that will include two theaters, two restaurants and a hotel. A completion date has not been set. The Gatlin Brothers are scheduled to perform in one of the theaters during the 1993 season. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Art Buchwald and his partner deserve as much as $lO million for the idea for the movie “Coming to America,” their lawyer told a judge. But Paramount Pictures contended the columnist and his partner, Alain Bernheim, contributed little to the Eddie Murphy hit and should get less than $300,000. Judge Harvey Schneider ruled in 1990 that “Coming to America” was based on an idea Buchwald submitted to Paramount in 1983. A second phase in the case, to determine how much Buchwald and Bernheim should be paid, began Monday. The movie brought in $145.6 million, but Paramount contends most of that was offset by the film’s $111.2 million cost and the share of the ticket sales that went to Murphy and director John Landis. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Record and movie producer David Geffen donated $1 million to AIDS Project Los Angeles. “There is much to be done, and it takes money to implement it,” he said Monday. Geffen Films has produced such movies as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Risky Business.” Geffen also is chairman of MCA’s Geffen Records, which handles such artists as Guns N’ Roses, Don Henley and Aerosmith. • WASHINGTON (AP) Books by Don DcLillo and Stephen Dixon were among those nominated for the 1992 PEN-Faulkncr Award for Fiction. The nominees, announced Monday, are: DeLillo’s “Mao II,” Dixon’s “Frog,” “Extraordinary People” by Paul Gervais, “White People” by Allan Gurganus and “The Almanac Branch” by Bradford Morrow. The five were selected from among 261 novels and short story collections published in the United States in 1991.

Excellent week for ‘Wayne’s World’

LOS ANGELES (AP) The metalhead hosts of “Wayne’s World” had another excellent time at the box office, holding on to No. 1 for a third week. The adaptation of a “Saturday Night Live” sketch about two buddies with a public-access cable show broadcast from Wayne’s basement took in $9.6 million, Exhibitor Relations Co. reported Monday. Chevy Chase’s “Memoirs of an Invisible Man,” the only new movie in the top 10, was second with $4.6 million. “Slop or My Mom Will Shoot,” a comedy starting Sylvester Stallone, was third with $4.5 million. It is currently playing at Ashley Square Twin Cinemas in Greencastle, with the Oscar-nominated “Prince of Tides” on the other local screen. “Prince of Tides” is 10th in this week’s box-office standings. Here are the estimated lop movie ticket sales Friday through Sunday, according to Exhibitor Relations, with distributor, weekend gross, number of theater screens, average per screen, total gross and number of weeks in release. Figures are based on a combination of actual receipts and projections where

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CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Suit thrown out

NEW YORK (AP) A judge threw out a sl2 million lawsuit filed against model Christie Brinkley by husband Billy Joel’s former business manager. Frank Weber had charged that Brinkley interfered in his business relationship with Joel, and as a result he was fired. But State Supreme Court Justice Edward Lehner said Monday that Brinkley is immune from legal action in discussions with her rock star husband about matters affecting her family’s finances. Joel is suing Weber for S9O million, alleging Weber stole and mismanaged his money. SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) —A man charged with sending skater Katarina Witt threatening and obscene letters asked that his jury be made up only of nymphomaniacs and atheists. U.S. District Judge Gary Taylor said no. Harry Veltman 111, who is acting as his own attorney, had argued Monday that such jurors would be free from prejudice and hatred against him. Veltman, 47, is accused of sending 60 letters to Miss Witt in her native Germany, along with nude photos of himself. He could get up to three years in prison. The trial begins March 10. • UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Clint Black and Randy Travis were nominated for entertainer of the year by the Academy of Country Music Awards. Brooks and Jackson led Monday’s nominations with five apiece. Brooks was also nominated for best male vocalist, best single, “Shameless,” and best album, “No Fences” and “Ropin’ the Wind.” Jackson is in the running for best male singer and best single, song and album for “Don’t Rock the Jukebox.” Black, Travis Tritt, McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Ricky Van Shelton, Diamond Rio, Vince Gill, Billy Dean, Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Brooks & Dunn also got multiple nominations. The winners will be announced April 29. • NEW YORK (AP) Warner Bros.’ “Innocent Blood,” directed by John Landis and starring An-thony-LaPaglia, Anne Parillaud, Robert Loggia aid Don Rickies has begun principal photography in Pittsburgh. An original screenplay by Micheal Wolk, a New York-based playwright and novelist, “Innocent Blood” offers classic horror in a dark, romanticthriller about a vampire (Parillaud) who teams with an undercover cop in the Mob (LaPaglia). “Innocent Blood” is Landis’ first horror film since his 1981 monster movie, “An American Werewolf in London.” His comedies include “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Trading Places,” “Coming to America” and “Kentucky Fried Movie.”

actual figures weren’t immediately available. 1. “Wayne’s World,” Paramount, $9.6 million, 1,878 screens, $5,134 per screen, $46.1 million, three weeks. 2. “Memoirs of an Invisible Man,” Warner Bros., $4.6 million, 1,753 screens, $2,625 per screen. $4.6 million, one week. 3. “Stop or My Mom Will Shoot,” Universal, $4.5 million, 1,963 screens, $2,280 per screen, sl3 million, two weeks. 4. “Fried Green Tomatoes,” Universal, $4.4 million, 1,329 screens, $3,280 per screen, $47 million, 10 weeks. 5. “Medicine Man,” Disney, $3,528 million, 1,363 screens, 52.589 per screen, 530.8 million, four weeks. 6. “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,” Disney, $3,523 million, 1,679 screens, $2,099 per screen, $69.7 million, eight weeks. 7. “Final Analysis,” Warner Bros., $2.1 million, 1,383 screens, $1,665 per screen, $22.7 million, four weeks. 8. “Beauty and the Beast," Disney, $2.1 million, 1,346 screens, $1,578 per screen, sll6 million, 16 weeks. 9. “Mississippi Masala," Goldwyn, $1.5 million, 325 screens, $4,624 per screen, $2.6 million, four weeks. 10. “The Prince of Tides," Columbia, $1.4 million, 1,163 screens, $1,252 per screen. $66.3 million, 10 weeks.

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