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- Feb. 07, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 07, 1994 Lock 'Em Up And Throw Away The Key
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 75
- By Ginia Bellafante
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- <body>
- <p>I Want My Johnny Mercer
- </p>
- <p> Without covering a single Eddie Vedder number, without once
- singing such lyrics as "I'll take all the blame/Aqua seafoam
- shame," 67-year-old crooner TONY BENNETT has become a decidedly
- hep alternative-rock act. Bennett has been winning fans among
- the flannels-and-nose-ring set ever since he served as a presenter
- at last year's mtv Video Music Awards, and he recently appeared
- at a concert in L.A. alongside Belly and Bad Religion. Now Bennett
- is about to get his very own mtv Unplugged special. "It's funny,"
- he says, "because I've always been unplugged."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> It is a role begging for, say, Brad Pitt, and yet it's being
- written for Whoopi Goldberg. Screenwriter Budd Schulberg, currently
- updating his script for the 1957 film A Face in the Crowd, is
- re-tailoring the lead role for Ted Danson's zany ex. In the
- original movie, Andy Griffith plays a hick turned TV demagogue
- overnight.
- </p>
- <p> The latest celebrity to enter the Betty Ford clinic: Hall of
- Fame baseball player--and Hall of Fame carouser--Mickey
- Mantle. A statement issued by his manager said Mantle, 62, was
- receiving treatment for "a 43-year battle with alcohol abuse."
- </p>
- <p> Once upon a time, many, many tabloid scandals ago, Burt Reynolds
- and Loni Anderson embarked on a vituperative divorce. There's
- a happy ending, though. The two have agreed to a settlement
- in which the Barbie-ish Mrs. will reportedly receive $2 million
- and a vacation house.
- </p>
- <p>Make Way for Madeleine
- </p>
- <p> Although she was blessed with beauty and the good luck that
- got her discovered as she passed out leaflets in a theater,
- MADELEINE STOWE did not instantly become a star, a la Julia
- Roberts. But after more than 10 movies, Stowe is finding fame,
- and she doesn't view the wait with bitterness. "I was really
- a very bad actress for very many years," she says. Acclaimed
- for her work in Short Cuts, Stowe is now starring in Blink,
- and will appear this spring in the western Bad Girls. And like
- all real stars, she has bought a ranch.
- </p>
- <p>Stiff Upper Lip
- </p>
- <p> It took an attack by an Australian angry about his country's
- treatment of Cambodian boat people to transform PRINCE CHARLES
- in the eyes of his people from a dithering cad into an unflappable
- semihero. Greeting 10,000 Australia Day celebrators in Sydney,
- the prince--whose favorable rating in British polls recently
- sank to 17%--remained imperturbable when a student leaped
- from the crowd, aimed a gun at him and fired two blanks. The
- assailant was immediately seized by the police. The day after
- the event, Britain's cruel and unforgiving press universally
- praised Charles for his sangfroid. The shooting incident "may
- have done more for the prince's reputation than a legion of
- public relations staff," said the Independent Television News.
- </p>
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