lifestyles
STARS STILL PROVE THEY'RE HUMAN
Compiled by the Associated Press
ATLANTA — Southern living agrees with Jane Fonda, y'all. "It's the only place I've ever been where people came up to me and said, 'Welcome, we're happy you're'
here," she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an interview.
Jane Fonda
"The eliches are true; Southern hospitality is alive and well. People don't seem to be racing around as much, and having lived in
places where they do, I can tell you
it's an improvement.
And since she married media mogul Ted Turner,the actress thinks it's kind of sweet that people around Atlanta call her Jane Turner.
"No one would think of calling me anything other than Jane Fonda anywhere else." she said.
--prince—is in
LONDON — Prince Charles' godson— whose mother also happens to be romantically linked to the
trouble with drugs. Tom Parker Bowles, the son of Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles, was arrested for carrying small amounts of Ecstasy and marijuana Saturdays as he left a nightclub, Greenwich police said.
Prince Charles
He was released on caution, meaning the offense can be taken up if he ever gets into trouble again
Friends have told newspapers that the young Parker Bowles has suffered over his parents' recent divorce and revelations about his mother's romance with the prince.
--three weeks.
LEBANON, Tem. — Country singer Tracy Lawrence has been hit with a $4.2 million lawsuit for firing a gun in the air to scare two teenagers.
The lawsuit, filed Monday by the boys' parents, claims Lawrence unfairly implied the teen-agers were partly to blame for the incident last April.
James Martin and Robert King Jr. were involved in a dispute with Lawrence and his brother, Stewart, while driving along Interstate 40.
Lawrence followed the pair home and fired his gun in the air.
He was charged with reckless endangerment and possession of a firearm. The case was suspended in December, and if he stays out of trouble for a year, the charges will be dismissed. Lawrence also apologized.
--three weeks.
LOS ANGELES — What's new?
Apparently too much to get Linda
Ronstad on the radio.
The singer says her stylistic hop-scotch in the 1980s and 1990s means her latest album — the folksy "Feels Like Home" — probably won't get much airplay. She wouldn't even commit to tour for
If I was positive it would get played, that's one thing. But radio stations are controlled by investment groups of dentists or something. It isn't even in the
Linda Ronstadt
Ronstadt had no trouble getting airplay in the 1970s when she was part of the California rock sound that included the Eagles and Jackson Browne. Then came torch songs like 1983's "What's New" and the Mexican ranchera tunes of 1987's "Canciones de Mi Padre."
hands of music programmers anymore." she said.
LOS ANGELES — A woman who claims the late rap star Eazy-E is the father of her child is suing to get autopsy records that could prove it.
--conflict for profit."
The rapper, whose real name was Eric Wright, died March 26 from AIDS complications. A memorial service was scheduled for Friday.
Shanna Jones is suing Angelus Funeral Home, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the rapper's widow, Tomuka Woods, on behalf of her child, who is identified only as Baby M in the complaint filed Monday in Superior Court.
Jones seeks a court order for an autopsy or for the hospital to turn over samples from its autopsy.
Wright had said he fathered seven children by six mothers.
--conflict for profit."
NEW YORK — Meg Ryan wants her family problems kept out of print and off television, despite publicity-seeking efforts by her estranged mother and stepfather.
"I just think, finally, talking about this in public solves nothing and only exacerbates the problem," Ryan says in *Vanity Fair*'s May issue. "I think they are stoking the
Ryan's mother, Susan Jordan, tells the magazine she's writing a book about how she overcame breast cancer 17 years ago.
Jordan left when Ryan
was 15, and the two don't speak.
Her second husband, Pat, has por-
t
Meg Ryan
trayed Ryan as an ungrateful daughter,
NEW YORK — And the Oscar for best standup in an awards ceremony goes to ... David Letterman!
--explain the "Oprah, Uma, Uma, Oprah" routine that only garnered polite applause and vaguely puzzled looks on Oscar night.
Hah! Not even Letterman believes
He spent a good part of his first "Late Show" since being host at the Academy Awards last week making fun of his own performance. Taking his
David Letterman
Taking his seat, Letterman tried to
"I thought, this would be great.
You go out and you introduce
Oprah to Urma. Because chances
are perhaps they have not met yet."
He even made his own Top 10 List The No. 1 complaint about this year's Academy Award Show? You guessed it. Letterman.
But he did stoop to take one incredibly easy swine at the Ocars
"Over the weekend we switched to daylight-savings time, which means you set your clock ahead and you lose an hour," he said. "Coincidentally, last Monday night I hosted the Academy Awards, and I lost 3 l/2 hours!"
LOS ANGELES — Forget the rumors: Elizabeth Taylor has perfume — not
sickness — on
her mind.
--fume — not
sickness — on
her mind.
The 63-yearold actress suffers only from high blood pressure, which can be controlled, publicist Chen Sam said at a news conference called to squelch rumors that Taylor was seriously ill.
Elizabeth Taylor
"Miss Taylor isn't really feeling up to par, but she's doing fine. She's meeting with her perfume people today, and everything's fine," Sam said Monday.
WACO,
Texas —
Willie Nelson
is free to get
on the road
again.
A prosecutor said Monday he was dropping drug charges against the
Willie Nelson
The "Late Show" Top 10 Complaints About This Year's Academy Awards:
Top-Ten List
10. VCR ran out of tape after the first nine hours.
9. Instead of cutting off Martin Landau, the orchestra should have cut off that "Uma Orab" stuff.
8. The way the guys from Price Waterhouse reeked of tequila
7. Backstage, a snarling Roger Ebert kept people away from the buffet table.
6. Five words: Letterman is asLetterman does
4. Much of the show apparently written by Nell.
5. Several reports that Ernest Borgnine "smelled funny."
3. The Oscars weren't properly grounded (accompanying videotape showed Letterman electrocuted by Oscar).
2. The new "anatomically correct" Oscar.
Associated Press
1. Letterman.
Nelson was arrested May 10 after he pulled off Interstate 35, south of Waco, to sleep after an all-night poker game. Police officers who stopped by the car had seen a marijuana cigarette in the ashtray, and Nelson had told them there was a small bag of marijuana in a bag on the car's floorboard.
country-music star rather than trying to reverse a judge's ruling that marjuana seized from Nelson's car was inadmissible.
A judge agreed with Nelson's attorneys that the officers had no probable cause to search the car or arrest Nelson.
--port, County Mayo, said Monday they hoped to transform the crumbling cottage in remote western Ireland into an international attraction.
NEW YORK Ireland--The family of Princess Grace of Monaco wants her ancestral home to become a memorial to the former screen star.
Tourism officials in Newport, County Mayo, said Monday they hoped to transform the crumbling cottage in remote western Ireland into an international attraction.
Princess Grace
The two-room house belonged to Princess Grace's grandfather, John Bernard Kelly, who emigrated to the United States in the 19th century.
She bought the cottage and 17 acres for $12,800 in 1976, six years before her death in a car accident. The property now belongs to her children.
Real 'Goober' wouldn't fit in Mayberry
By JIM PATTERSON
Associated Press Writer
Lindsey, who played gas-pumping Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show," and Denver, star of "Gilligan's Island," obviously had some things in common. Both were successful and both were forever typecast, it seemed, as clowns.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As George Lindsey tells it, he met Bob Denver on the set of "Love American Style." And the two actors became friends
A tendency to scrap—and to drink—permates much of Lindsey's life as related in his new memoir, "Goober in a Nutshell."
In the book, he tells of joining Griffith, Jack Dodson (Howard Sprague in the show) and Ken Berry (of "Mayberry RFD") in drinking a quart of whiskey apiece, denoting aviator caps with goggles and taking a white limousine to see country singer Merle Hagard perform.
Lindsey, Griffith and other cast members partied in distinctly un-Mayberry fashion when the cameras weren't rolling, according to Lindsey.
But things turned nasty at Denver's home: The new friends began fighting over who was the better actor. Goober vs. Gilligan to the finish.
Lindsey says he couldn't help but echo Skipper during their fight, sighing an exasperated "Oh, Gilligan!"
Haggard, no shrinking violet, allowed the drunken TV stars to jump up on stage and sing with him.
That all ended when he got sober in the early 1980s, says Lindsay. Sitting in a Nashville restaurant, he wears a baseball jacket stating his claim
to fame in bold letters on its back: "Mayberry." The man forever known as Goober is eager to tell a few tales and reflect on an acting career that began with classical training and veered onto a dirt road leading to "The Andy Griffith Show."
Most actors would be happy with the place in television history guaranteed by that most enduring of sitcoms. But typecasting as a rube takes its toll and left Lindsey with a chip on his shoulder that took years to knock off.
"No, we've all drifted apart over the years," Lindsey answers. A slight weariness in his voice betrays the number of times he's been asked that question.
For years, Lindsey, 66, resisted and resented it. Now he's embraced Goober, but sometimes it still grates.
"Do you still keep in touch with the other people from the show?" asks a waitress as she clears away the salad plates.
"Sometimes I say that Goober killed George Lindsey," Lindsey said. "And I think of all the roles I have in me.
Earlier, he'd given "The Best of Goober Collection" to the restaurant manager, even though "I don't make a dime off them videos."
"And other times I think all you have to do is hit it out of the park once."
"The Andy Griffith Show" was a home run, airing more than 10 years if you count the post-Griffith spinoff "Mayberry RFD." The show's depiction of small-town life and values made it an acknowledged television classic, still running in syndication 30 years later.
"What compares to it?" Lindsey said. "Mary Tyler Moore,'MASH' maybe. I think it's the best show ever."
A couple of months ago, Lindsey showed up for a surprise appearance on the Grand Ole Opry in full Goober regalia — beanie atop his head, pants hiked up to the sternum, tire gauge and pencils in the shirt-pocket.
He brought the house down and was invited back.
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The requisite Mayberry anecdotes are there, as well as behind-the-scenes stories from his other long-running show, "Hee-Haw."
He's also the first Griffith cast member to write a memoir. He turned out "Goober in a Nutshell" (Avon Books) with the help of Mayberry fanatics Ken Beck and Jim Clark.
The book reveals that Lindsey, a native of Jasper, Ala., is a graduate of the American Theater Wing of New York University. He played the lead role of Putcayasin in a production of Nikolai Gogol's "Marriage" for the class graduation play.
He won guest roles in shows like "The Twilight Zone" and "Gunsmoke" before joining the Griffith show as a replacement for Jim Nabors, who beat Lindsay out for the role of Gomer Pyle.
Lindsey says cast members lived in fear of Grifith on the set.
"Most of us were deathly afraid of Andy, Lindsey writes in his book. "We were all scared to make a move. If Andy thought something was funny, then it was funny to us. He literally controlled every aspect of the show.
"So we were always trying to please him, or at least I was."
Cultural Calendar
EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES
Exhibition - MFA Thesis Show featuring Steven Ortiz and Lisa Bulawsky, through Friday at the Art and Design Gallery in the Art and Design Building.
- Lecture — "Breaking the Surface," a book-signing by Greg Louganis, noon to 1 p.m. today at the Mt. Oread Bookshop in the Kansas Union.
- Lecture — "Journey Through the Wheel of Time: Exploration into the Sand Mandala," by Barry Bryant, 2 p.m. Saturday at the Atkins Auditorium in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
Department of Music and Dance presents a Student Recital featuring KU Tuba/Euphonium Consort, 7:30 tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall. The event is free.
■ Inge Theatre Series presents "The Crucible," 8 p.m. tonight, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Inge Theatre. Tickets are $3, $5 and $6.
PERFORMANCES
Department of Music and Dance presents a Student Recital featuring Matt Palubicki, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Swarthout Recital Hall. The event is free.
University Dance Company presents a Spring Concert with Cohen/Suzaue Duet Company, 8 p.m. tomorrow and 8 p.m. Friday at the Lied Center. Tickets are $3 and $6.
Department of Music and Dance presents a Horn Workshop Recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Swarthout Recital Hall. The event is free.
- Department of Music and Dance presents a Spring Jazz Concert featuring Jazz Ensemble 1 and KU Jazz Singers, 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Lied Center. Tickets are $3 and $6.
Department of Music and Dance presents a Student Recital featuring Emmeline Chu, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Saworth Recital Hall. The event is free.
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