home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=94TT0411>
- <title>
- Apr. 18, 1994: People
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Apr. 18, 1994 Is It All Over for Smokers?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 85
- By Ginia Bellafante
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>MORE TROUBLE AND TIME OUT
- </p>
- <p> Los Angeles Dodger DARRYL STRAWBERRY, the major-league baseball
- player most likely to spend a month on Sally Jessy as her only
- guest, is once again battling drug and alcohol abuse. Plagued
- by personal problems and injuries, the outfielder has in the
- past admitted to hitting his ex-wife, has acknowledged thoughts
- of suicide, and has for the second time entered a drug-treatment
- center. He made the announcement after failing to show up for
- the Dodgers' final exhibition game.
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> During an interview on ESPN2, New Orleans Saints quarterback
- Jim Everett showed no signs of the timidity he's been criticized
- for. Goaded by talk-show host Jim Rome, who insisted on calling
- him Chris Evert, Everett suddenly grabbed Rome and pummeled
- him. He apologized the next day.
- </p>
- <p> A panel discussion on Middlemarch held in New York has given
- rise to a uniquely improbable friendship. There, society doyenne
- Brooke Astor and intemperate rapper Sister Souljah found themselves
- happily connecting. Sister Souljah, known for her strident anti-white
- sentiments, spoke touchingly of the George Eliot novel, prompting
- Astor to later remark, "What a lovely young woman I sat next
- to. I really bonded with her."
- </p>
- <p>TILL MY VOLATILITY DO US PART
- </p>
- <p> Sunny-eyed romantics and other misguided optimists who hoped
- that SHANNEN DOHERTY's marriage to Ashley Hamilton would last
- at least the length of a television season will be shattered
- to learn that the contentious actress has filed for divorce.
- The Beverly Hills, 90210 star cited irreconcilable differences
- as the reason for her desire to split with Hamilton, George
- Hamilton's teenage son, whom she wed impetuously last September.
- Doherty's spokeswoman said the actress "didn't see any options
- for herself." Sadly, it was just last month that Hamilton told
- an interviewer he would "always love" Doherty and "wouldn't
- marry anyone else."
- </p>
- <p>WINNING OVER WOODY
- </p>
- <p> With five films (including Fried Green Tomatoes) to her credit,
- the beguilingly winsome MARY-LOUISE PARKER is beginning to develop
- a fitting confidence in her talents. "With each film I get a
- little better at movie acting," she says self-effacingly. "Each
- time I have a little more fun." Lately she's had many a chance
- to improve. In Naked in New York, opening this week, Parker
- stars as a politically active student involved in a complex
- relationship with Eric Stoltz. "It's a film about how precious
- and wonderful love is in college," says the actress, "and how
- diluted and confusing it gets afterward." Later this year she
- will appear in the film version of John Grisham's The Client
- and then in Woody Allen's Bullets over Broadway. Parker met
- with the fabled director countless times before landing the
- role. "Then one day I was in his office, and he offered me some
- Raisinets," she says. "I knew I was getting somewhere."
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-