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...charity auction presided over by Paul Newman that raised an estimated $140,000 for the Scott Newman Foundation for drug rehabilitation, established by the actor following his son's 1978 overdose death. Setting some kind of record for psychiatric fees, Brooke Shields' mother Teri bid $12,000 for a one-hour "consultation" with TV's Dr. Ruth (Good Sex) Westheimer. Asked whether the session was for her or her daughter, Mom reportedly said, "We'll each take half." Meanwhile, out on the slopes, Olympic Gymnast and Advertising Omnipresence Mary Lou Retton (4 ft. 9 in.) derived a different satisfaction from...
Jimmy Swaggart, 50, is a brash, rafter-ringing Pentecostal preacher and Gospel singer (his albums have sold 13 million copies) who preserves the old tent revival style at his striking 7,000-seat Family Worship Center outside Baton Rouge, La. In his weekly one-hour broadcasts, he prowls the stage, sometimes breaking into excited jig steps, as he revs up perorations assailing Communism, Catholicism and "secular humanism," the last of which he blames for abortion, pornography, AIDS and assorted social ills. He takes in $140 million a year. The money pays for his weekly show (aired in 197 markets...
...department, he hasn't forgotten his lily-pond roots. Next month Muppet Creator Jim Henson and more than 200 of Kermit's friends are getting together to toast America's best-known frog on his 30th birthday. Called The Muppets, a Celebration of 30 Years, the one-hour CBS special will feature Fozzie Bear as master of ceremonies and Big Bird, and, at the Green One's insistence, will showcase the talents of Miss Piggy, who first starred on the show in 1975. Set in a lavish ballroom, the anniver- sary fete will include high- lights from the Muppets...
...Gander terminal's duty-free shop was open during the one-hour stop, and Clerk Cynthia Goodyear found the place invaded by exuberant Americans who sang along to the recorded Christmas carols as they picked out gifts. One blond soldier bought a money clip inscribed "Super Dad" for his father and crystal glasses for his mother. "They were clicking their fingers and just so happy to be going home," Goodyear recalled. One favorite souvenir: a T shirt reading I SURVIVED GANDER, NEWFOUNDLAND...
After an evening of opera at Versailles, Gorbachev gave perhaps his most compelling public performance in the wake of his final private session with Mitterrand on Friday. During a joint one-hour, 45-minute press conference in the Elysee's crystal-chandeliered Salle des Fetes, Gorbachev was at times expansive and jovial. At others -- when questioned yet again about Jewish emigration, for example -- he chopped the air with stiffened fingers and reddened with barely controlled anger. Gorbachev joked about what he described as U.S. arms-control flip-flops, and lectured the international press on its "responsibility" to serve the world...