Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 223, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 May 1992 — Page 6

THE BANNERGRAPHIC May 22,1992

People in the news Newhart gets 3rd CBS series NEW YORK (AP) There’s only one place to see the stars of “Newhart,” “Three’s Company,” and “The Partridge Family” and it’s not “Nick at Night.” It’s CBS, where those old favorites will be back in new roles. The network, which Thursday unveiled its schedule for the fall season, also is shaking up its popular Monday night lineup. AT THE TOP OF the returning class: Bob Newhart, who stars in his third sitcom, dubbed simply “Bob.” He plays a comic book artist. John Ritter (“Three’s Company”) and Markie Post (“Night Court”) are teaming up for the sitcom “Hearts Afire.” Jay Thomas (“Murphy Brown”) and Susan Dey (“L.A. Law,” “The Partridge Family”) will co-star in “Love is Hell.” Robin Givens will headline “Polish Hill.” And the three of NBC’s remaining “Golden Girls” have jumped networks for “The Golden Palace,” where they will run a hotel without sarcastic Dorothy (Bea Arthur). The introduction of four new comedies, three new drama series and two ex-NBC shows has somewhat jumbled CBS’ lineup, with two of its Monday night comedies “Major Dad” and “Designing Women” shifting to Fridays. “Hearts Afire” and “Love Is Hell” will bookend “Murphy Brown” on Mondays. “Love is Hell” is the brainchild of “Murphy” producer Diane English. OTHER NEW SHOWS include the comedy “The Little Woman” and the dramas “The Hat Squad,” “Picket Fences” and “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” • PARIS (AP) Jazz great Lionel Hampton suffered a light cerebral hemorrhage during a performance this week and will be hospitalized at least over the weekend, his manager said today. Roland Berlin said the 79-year-old vibraphonist and band leader, a celebrity since he played with Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in the 19305, underwent a brain scan Thursday at Cochin Hospital and would have a second scan Monday. If doctors approved, Hampton would then fly back to New York, Berlin said. The manager said Hampton, who played in Paris almost annually for many years, became ill on stage shortly after the start of his show Wednesday evening. Hampton had difficulty moving his left hand, complained of feeling hot, and was taken immediately to the hospital, Bertin said. He has since recovered normal use of his hand and remained fully conscious but has been ordered by his doctors to rest at the hospital at least until Monday,

No tomorrow

. Next-to-last ‘Tonight Show’ gets a little bawdy

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) The studio audience laughed, then cried. So did Johnny Carson. Thursday night was the end, as America knows it, of three decades of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” He ends his reign as the undisputed king of latenight TV tonight, but he will not have guests on the finale and the show will be taped before an invita-

tion-only audience of family members and celebrities. On Thursday, despite a numbing avalanche of media hype, Carson was somehow able to sit back and come through with one of his greatest shows. HE DOUBLED OVER in laughter as Robin Williams brought down the house by describing the size of his six-month-old son’s testicles and saying, “I hope he grows into those things.” “We’re outta here tomorrow,” Carson gasped, throwing up his hands. “What do I care, what are they going to do can me?”

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It was Carson’s last chance to thump his doubleerasered pencil in the presence of celebrity guests Williams and Bette Midler were the last ones and a public audience. The finale will include a monologue and clips of old shows, as well as farewells from sidekick Ed McMahon, bandleader Doc Severinsen and executive producer Fred de Cordova. Fans at Thursday’s show, some of whom camped out on the sidewalk outside the studio to get tickets,

THE FAMILY CIRCUS®

“Oh boy! Tomorrow we get to make our own breakfast!”

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808 NEWHART One more time

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (AP) Lucille Ball left her hometown in upstate New York decades ago and died in 1989. But for thousands of “I Love Lucy” fans pouring into her hometown, the ditzy redhead will live on here forever. Everything about Jamestown this week is devoted to the energetic comedian with the flaming orange hair, from the fashion shows displaying her lavish outfits to the eerie papier-mache re-creation of the “I Love Lucy” set in city hall. “I heard Lucy wasn’t really dead,” said Mark Keppel of the juggling team Waldo and Woodhead, one of about 40 entertainers performing in the second annual Lucille Ball Festival of New Comedy. The week-long festival ends Sunday with a stage show starring Ball’s daughter, Lucie Amaz, at a restored vaudeville theater where Ball saw shows as a teen-ager. Marion Van Vlack of Jamestown, a childhood friend of the comedian, said Ball was as daring as the character she played, but was not the scatterbrain many fans assumed she was. “She was always willing to take a chance,” said Van Vlack, who lived with Ball in New York in the 19305. “She knew what she wanted and went after it. That person on TV, it really wasn’t Lucille. It was an actress.” • STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Tennis legend Bjorn Borg will divorce his wife of three years, his lawyer said. Loredana Berte, an Italian pop star who married Borg in 1989, filed a complaint with police Wednesday in Milan, Italy, that Borg has failed to support her. “Bjorn and Loredana talked to each other about this in April and agreed to separate,” Borg’s lawyer, Henning Sjostrom, told Swedish radio. “It seems like Bjorn took the initiative, but her lawyer does not dispute the fact that both have agreed to divorce. We hope to reach an agreement. The next step is to discuss die terms.” Borg, 36, has won die Wimbledon tournament five times. He is attempting a comeback, but has had little success.

ignored Carson’s countless pleas to stop applauding as he took the stage. “COME ON NOW, really. I don’t think I can stand any more of this,” he said, clearly embarrassed. It was two minutes and 15 seconds before the crowd in NBC’s Studio One settled down and Carson began his trademark monologue, getting in one last swipe at Vice President Dan Quayle’s controversial criticism of the single motherhood portrayed on the CBS show “Murphy Brown.” “Now he’s got a beef with ‘Hee-Haw,’” Carson said of Quayle. “He claims that when Minnie Pearl wears that price tag on her hat, it encourages prostitution.” “It’s almost over,” he said. “You know what I feel like? A chicken. And the Colonel is whipping up 11 herbs and spices.” Things turned sentimental with Midler, one of Carson’s favorite entertainers. CARSON, 66, ALLOWED himself a rare indulgence: Seated behind the desk known to millions, he and Midler launched into an impromptu duet of “Here’s That Rainy Day,” one of Carson’s favorite songs. Midler belted out a tune with Severinsen’s band, warbled a letter she had written titled “Dear Mr. Carson,” and ended the show by lovingly singing “One More For My Baby” to a misty-eyed Carson. Many in the audience were crying, too. His staff was in tears. Carson has said he wanted his last shows void of indulgent sentimentality. “He wants very much to keep the last shows from being self-serving,” de Cordova said recently. “It’s an enormous record of contentment It’s been first class.”

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