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- <title>
- Sep. 05, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Sep. 05, 1994 Ready to Talk Now?:Castro
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 81
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Ginia Bellafante
- </p>
- <p> Beavis and Butt-Head Can Hawk Their Own P.J.s
- </p>
- <p> Believing that kids today need their own hip answer to QVC,
- MTV has launched The Goods, a home-shopping series that purveys
- such must-haves as Mr. Ed watches and clothes designed by rapper
- (and alleged accomplice to homicide) Snoop Doggy Dogg. Ditzily
- earnest MTV newswoman TABITHA SOREN doesn't think much of the
- venture. When asked about The Goods during an America Online
- press conference, Soren replied, perhaps too candidly, "Home
- shopping is not my cup of tea. I won't be participating in any
- of that silliness."
- </p>
- <p> The Trials of Sinead
- </p>
- <p> The past year has been an exceedingly difficult one for SINEAD
- O'CONNOR, a singer who is as emotionally fragile as she is politically
- strident. The Irish pop star has checked into a London drug
- and alcohol clinic, and in the current issue of the British
- magazine Q she says she tried to kill herself with sleeping
- pills and a bottle of vodka 11 months ago. In the article she
- also talks about how her mother abused her physically and about
- her own unrequited love for Peter Gabriel. O'Connor has never
- been self-effacing--and her recent remarks do coincide with
- the release of her new CD later this month--but this time
- she seems to regret that she became so confessional in public.
- She later wrote to Q and said she would do no more interviews
- "until I am in a place of less grief about my family."
- </p>
- <p> Shrink vs. Handyman
- </p>
- <p> Frasier, the sitcom about a wry psychiatrist (KELSEY GRAMMER),
- was so successful last year that NBC decided to move it opposite
- ABC's Roseanne. While still formidable, Roseanne has been showing
- some weakness, and NBC wanted to gamble on challenging it. Last
- week ABC countered by shifting the No. 1-rated show, Home Improvement,
- to the Roseanne time slot. The change does not worry Home Improvement's
- star, TIM ALLEN. "I never watch Frasier," he said. "It's not
- going to be good for him."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> To those with sophisticated film tastes, ROMAN POLANSKI (Chinatown)
- is a genius auteur. To the L.A. district attorney's office,
- he is a fugitive. In 1978 the Polish director fled the U.S.
- before he was to be sentenced for having sex with a 13-year-old
- girl. Knowing he would be arrested, he has never come back.
- Now the woman in the case has stated through her lawyer that
- Polanski should be allowed re-entry without punishment. No deal
- has been struck for his return.
- </p>
- <p> One week after he said he was leaving tennis indefinitely, JIM
- COURIER declared that he will play at the U.S. Open. He attributed
- his original statement to "a momentary lapse of sanity."
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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