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- Apr. 11, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Apr. 11, 1994 Risky Business on Wall Street
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 85
- By David E. Thigpen
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- <body>
- <p>The Check's in the Mail
- </p>
- <p> It was supposed to be warm and folksy, like a Waltons reunion,
- all to benefit two hospitals and other worthy causes. But the
- Jackson Family Honors TV special has begun to look more like
- Take the Money and Run. According to estimates by the L.A. Times,
- only $100,000 of the $4.5 million raised has been given to charity.
- Says the executive producer, JERMAINE JACKSON: "This negative
- stuff is just being cooked up to take away from the beauty of
- what took place."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> Ike Turner, 61, is engaged to his backup singer, Jeannette Bazell,
- 31. Turner became the world's most celebrated wife beater as
- a result of What's Love Got to Do with It, the movie based on
- his ex-wife Tina's memoir. But not once, he touchingly volunteered
- to the press, has he ever hit his new fiance.
- </p>
- <p> Although Jack Nicholson shot to screen stardom with the release
- of Easy Rider in 1969, he made some crucial if little-known
- TV appearances before then. As noted in Jack's Life, a new biography
- by Patrick McGilligan, Nicholson in his pre-Easy Rider days
- acted in an episode of the Andy Griffith Show titled "Opie Finds
- a Baby."
- </p>
- <p> Celebrities often wish they could be judged solely on their
- work. Now Paul McCartney is getting that chance: he released
- his new album under an assumed name. The result: Strawberries
- Oceans Ships Forest, attributed to "the Fireman," has not sold
- enough copies to enter the Top 200.
- </p>
- <p>Dirty Laundry
- </p>
- <p> If basketball groupie and sometime pop singer MADONNA was hoping
- to remind the world of her randy reputation, she succeeded.
- Appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman, she arrived
- with a pair of panties that she handed to her host and asked
- him to smell (he declined). Then, puffing on a thick cigar,
- she mocked Letterman for making jokes about her sex life and
- called him a "sick f------." She used that second word 13
- times (CBS bleeped each for the broadcast). Letterman kept his
- cool and thanked her for "grossing us all out."
- </p>
- <p>Scenes from a Marriage
- </p>
- <p> The CIA may not realize it, but it has a great untapped resource
- out in the country: frustrated housewives. First word from the
- just wrapped, top-secret movie True Lies (rumored to have cost
- $120 million) is that it will combine stunt-heavy action with
- some very '90s scenes of personal growth. "My character goes
- through a complete self-make-over," says star JAMIE LEE CURTIS.
- Cast as an unfulfilled suburban secretary who may have seen
- too many reruns of Remington Steele, Curtis morphs overnight
- into a miniskirted Terminator when she discovers that her husband
- ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is a spy. Dangling from a helicopter,
- tussling with a bad guy in a limousine, she preserves the national
- security and saves herself thousands of dollars in psychotherapy
- bills.
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