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Wednesday, October 18, 1995
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Christopher Reeve speaks at dinner for actors' group
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Christopher Reeve, his blue eyes sparkling and chiselled features as handsome as ever, put everyone at ease—joking about his misfortune and thanking those who helped him when life didn't seem worth living.
Reeve, unable to move from the shoulders down after a horseback-riding accident, presented an award to Robin Williams Monday at a benefit dinner for the Creative Coalition, an actors' advocacy group.
In a voice that was strong, but not as booming as in his Superman days, Reeve recalled that Williams visited his hospital room five days after the May 27 accident and did a Russian doctor act.
"I saw Robin Williams, and I knew my life was going to be OK," the tuxedo-clad Reeve told about 500 celebrities in his first public appearance since the accident.
*When the chips were down and my life had been lost.*
When the chips were down and my life was hanging in the balance ... there was Robin Williams, leaping to my assistance," he said.
Breathing with the aid of a ventilator, the 6-foot-4 actor activates his electric wheelchair by blowing through a tube. He stayed in a room at the Pierre Hotel until his presentation.
Onstage, Reeve, 42, joked about his misfortune, saying he decided to attend the gala after recalling the advice of a former English teacher to another student about skipping school.
"She said, 'The only excuse you could have is a quadruple amputation, and even then you could come in a basket,'" Reeve said. "So I thought I'd better show up."
Williams, who was being honored for work he has done with the Creative Coalition, received an award shaped like a theatrical spotlight.
He looked at the award, then at Reeve, and said: "Before we mount this new headlight on Chris' wheelchair ..." Williams was interrupted by laughter. He then kissed Reeve's forehead.
Reeve has remarked publicly about the despair he endured. Last month, he told Barbara Walters on ABC-TV's "20-20" that he had considered suicide just after the accident.
"Maybe I should just check out, Reeve said he told his wife, Dana Morosini. But he decided to hang on because of his children." "I could see how much they needed me and wanted me," he told Walters.
Reeve broke his neck and several vertebrae when he was thrown from a horse and landed on his head in a riding competition in Culpeper, Va. Doctors later fused several vertebrae to stabilize damage to his spinal cord.
He smiled and laughed during his brief appearance at the end of the evening and thanked those attending the $1,000-a-plate event for their support.
"I thank you from the bottom on my heart," he said, "because you've turned my life around."
After the gala, talk show host Phil Donahue commented on Reeve's spirit, CBS radio reported yesterday.
"He reminds all of us how fragile we are and that we still have a strong, passionate, creative, humorous filled Chris Reeve," Donahue said.
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The bodies were so badly decomposed that state medical examiners used dental records to identify them, state police spokesman Wayne Jordan said Monday.
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After a court hearing Saturday, he was sent to a jail 150 miles away, and arraignment was set for Jan. 19.
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The demand appeared to be a ploy to draw worshippers to the temple, since the king is widely revered.
ple in Pathum Thani, just north of Bangkok. Wildlife activists say the monk uses the elephant to attract worshippers and donations.
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The foundation wants to transfer Diamond to a zoo so wounds from the chains can be treated.
The elephant's owner, Phra Kru Udom Pawanaphirat, says he wants to donate the animal to King Bhumhol Adulvadel. Velialjva said.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A man who beat a dog to death with a baseball bat after it mauled his 1-year-old son threw his arms up in joy, then sobbed after a jury acquitted him of animal cruelty.
Roberts said his son still wakes up screaming "dog, dog."
Akita-Chow mix named Kaya, grabbed the toddler's face in its jaws. Andrew, a child model, needed 60 stitches to close the wounds.
"We have a dead dog and a son who will never be the same," Alan Roberts said after he was cleared Monday. "Regardless of the verdict, those things will never change."
Man found not guilty after beating kid-hungry dog
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The newspaper, Rech, said the unit was unable to guard the old weapons and they were in danger of being stolen.
He had faced a maximum penalty of one year in prison. Roberts' son, Andrew, and his mother were waiting outside a coffee shop on July 30 when the loose dog an
He admitted beating Kaya, who later had to be put down.
Roberts testified last week that when he got home from the hospital, he took a baseball bat and went looking for the dog. He found it tied up outside the home of owner April Wyld.
Moore handled Sting's money from modest beginnings in the mid-1970s. By the late 1970s, huge revenues started pouring in from Sting's chart-topping band, The Police.
The 6 gallons would cost the average consumer $128.98, tax included, but the hotel is picking up the tab.
The ad suggested the missiles — their fuel and ammunition replaced by sand — could be used as scarecrows
LONDON — Sting's former accountant was convicted yesterday of stealing $9.4 million from the rock star and sentenced to six years in prison.
An army anti-aircraft unit near Cherepovets, 230 miles north of Moscow, put an ad in the local newspaper offering decommissioned missiles for sale, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported yesterday.
BANGKOK, Thailand — Money is pouring in so Diamond — the elephant chained for 19 years to a tree — can be freed. But the Buddhist monk who owns him says the elephant is not for sale.
The price for the sand-filled missiles? A mere 800,000 rubles — about $180.
Clinton has said he picked up mango mania while in Texas working for George McGovener's 1972 presidential campaign. Since then, he's been hooked.
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Sting, a former teacher whose real name is Gordon Matthew Sumner, never missed the money, and found out through an anonymous letter. The accountant spent the money on failed business ventures including a project to turn Russian military aircraft into civilian planes.
"You are now a ruined man," Judge Gerald Butler told Moore, who had pleaded not guilty.
"If any (arms) merchants agree to buy the missiles, the military is ready to pour the sand out at its own expense," Rech said.
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Sting testified during the nearly three-week trial but was not in London's Southwark Crown Court yesterday.
hotel spokesman Arthur Cavazos said.
Keith Moore, 51, shook his head as the jury found him guilty on eight counts of theft from the singer between 1988 and 1992.
"He (once) described it as one of the great treasures of American life," Cavazos said in yesterday's editions of The San Antonio Express-News.
SAN ANTONIO — Fill this order, and make it snappy — Air Force One will be waiting six gallons of mango ice cream for President Clinton.
Sting's bank, Courts, reimbursed $7.5 million which it had transferred to Moore without authorization.
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Clinton placed the special take-out order before coming to town yesterday to speak to workers at Kelly Air Force Base and meet with the executive committee of the initial Base Adjustment Strategy Committee.
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Thailand's agriculture minister, Montree Pongpanit, gave $4,000 to the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation to buy the elephant, and other donations also have come in, spokesman Pongsak Veijajiva said yesterday.
The dessert, which has been on the menu of the Menger Hotel's Colonial Room for more than a century, is made from mangoes from the hotel garden.
Since he was nine months old, Diamond has been chained by his legs to a dead tree at the monk's tem-
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