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...information on Hilary's whereabouts. The child was traced to Christchurch after the BBC television show Kilroy aired a documentary about the case. Among those who watched the program was a teacher at Beechford College, a girls' prep school in Plymouth, England, who informed the show's producer, Di Burgess, that Hilary had been a student there. The school's headmistress, Pat Holdness, told the London Times that Hilary's grandparents enrolled her in 1987 under the name Ellen Morgan. According to Holdness, she was "a well-balanced child and very, very happy. The grandparents doted on her." After...
Executive producer Vin Di Bona, who got the idea for America's Funniest Home Videos from a popular Japanese TV show (from which he culls some clips), had to put ads in TV Guide and People magazine to solicit tapes for his first special last November. Now submissions are pouring in at the rate of up to 2,000 a day. The tapes are screened by an overworked staff of 15. Though labor-intensive, the show is a relative bargain to produce: even after giving away a $10,000 prize for the best scene each week, the program costs less...
June Anderson has a wish list. First, she would like to star in a marvelous, imaginative production of Lucia di Lammermoor. That means, the soprano quickly adds, one utterly unlike the pedestrian ones she has already graced. Anderson would also like to sing the role of Violetta in La Traviata, but declines to do so until a satisfactory stage director can be found. She admits that she cannot think of one. "I can wait," she says philosophically. "But who knows? I may be too old when it finally happens." A third wish is that a fine young tenor would appear...