A-2 The Atlanta Journal AND CONSTITUTION NOVEMBER 26, 1989... TODAY'S NEWS DOT Says Cherokee County Roads Will Need Expansion Cherokee County Commissioner Gene Hobgood (left) stands at the intersection of Old Highway 5 and Highway 92 in Cherokee. Only a few farmhouses and barns have survived the northwest suburban county's explosive growth. But remnants of the old days hold much less nostalgic value these days -twolane country roads fast are becoming choked with traffic. A state Department of Transportation study says a $66.7 million road construction program is needed in the next five years to avoid gridlock.
-H1 WORLD METRO STATE SPORTS The brutality of El Salvador's At Atlanta's Booker T. Wash- Today's Falcons game with civil war is coming home to civil- ington High School, a new daily the Jets might have been a ians. Children are being shot calendar is proving that, when yawner had the Lions not won and neighbors are being forced it comes to scheduling classes, Thursday. Also, Atlanta tries to to step over the dead lying ig- two yields more than the sum cope with the death of rookie nored on the sidewalks. D1 of one plus one.
H1 Ralph Norwood. F1 For most Swiss, the army is The team that Mayor-elect no laughing matter. The tradition Maynard H. Jackson assembles civilian militia stretches is not likely to bring much new PARADE of a back to the founding of the blood to city government. H1 What our species has acSwiss confederation almost complished in the peaceful ex700 years ago.
D2 A Florida woman can't get ploration of the solar system i is into the courtroom, but she does nothing short of mythic. -6 South Africa's whites will keep power until a non-racial bit of justice. judge, H4 find the Macon court's constitution is drawn up, says and a holiday TV WEEK President Frederik W. de Klerk, ruling out the possibility of a BUSINESS Victoria Principal is back on transitional government. D10 network television as a blind Convention and visitors bu- woman who is the sole witness Former President Jimmy reaus and their budgets increas- to her husband's murder.
2 Carter takes a timeout from ingly are being scrutinized by peace talks in Kenya to meet local governments with the leaders of Sudan and and citizens. R1 TRAVEL GUIDE newspapers, Ethiopia. D20 A newly opened visitor center in the renovated Smithsonian NATION PERSPECTIVE Castle in Washington offers a The Supreme Court will hear It's clear that Atlantans and guide to area museums. K1 arguments Wednesday in Ohio Georgians are getting a free ride and Minnesota cases that on rapid transit, one that could could give the court the opportu- undermine our ability to maintain nity to restrict or even overturn economic growth. G1 The Seminoles wacky a woman's constitutional right to graduates of Florida State are abortion.
A8 all over the Atlanta theater OPINION scene. L1 American intelligence experts say the U.S. probably Georgia's Medicare system would have about a month or is but the problems are of of full-scale a mess, DIXIE LIVING more warning a merely a reflection of the crisis. Soviet attack in Europe far facing the nation's system. G6 Scores of women's clothing more than they previously items and accessories offer a thought.
A9 fascinating perspective on American culture and work. M1 Along with a boom in recy- THE COLUMNISTS cling and the scrap metal indus- Celestine Sibley: Notes on try has come a rise in scaven- modern living. M1 HIGH STYLE gers who steal anything from copper wiring to aluminum Lewis Grizzard: A refugee At the Petit Palais in Paris, highway guard rails for sale as from British rock mania can't get 150 years of Cartier jewelry crescrap. A15 no satisfaction. H1 ations are on display.
N4 NEWSMAKERS Aliens, Giant Frog Make 'Strange' List By Chris Verner Stuff Writer The September landing of space creatures in the Soviet Union as reported by Tass took top honors in Strange magazine's annual ranking of the planet's strangest phenomena. The 1989 list also included sightings in Greece of a "25- foot symmetrical entity that circles resembled of a flattened frog," more than 600 Sylvester Stallone says he's misunderstood; crops in south- Oprah Winfrey gets punched in Punch. ern England, a 30-mile swarm of cobwebs that fell from the sky in Dorset, England, and unidenti- Balloon Dream Fizzles: British businessfied, banana-shaped flying objects over Fyffe, Ala. Richard who had "The position of the magazine is we do not be- man Branson, hoped to set a lieve what we print, but we also do not disbelieve new a balloon, candistance record in hot-air it," said Chorvinsky. fraud Which could because of -related damage to the craft editor Mark celed the Japan-to-California trip early Sunday explain why Jim Bakker's trial wasn't listed.
that take months will to repair. Mr. Branson and Yo! Actor Sylvester Stallone, trying to remake his co-pilot, Per Lindstrand, said frost had stuck his image as a "verbal person," tells magazine parts the balloon to the ground, and when it of his views on several subjects. On marriage: "It's was inflated Saturday night the fabric ripped. difficult coming home after a day of shooting and Mr.
Branson said the pair might "end up in the wife asks, 'Did you open your mouth when Pacific" if they took in damaged balloon. off the your you kissed On success: "I agreed to fall Listen Up: "Nothing of human capability has victim to every cliche known to man: Hollywood, the the I actually so far been considered too private, too serious, a feet too silly, too gross or too tacky to be marriages, divorces, yacht. had a yacht, and on my first trip we were 13 There exempted. out and my father and brother started vomiting. I anyone no is nothing can do; misery, thought, this is the foreshadowing of things to shame, folly, secret, guilt, dream, intimacy, come." On being misunderstood: "My baggage of might be framed by triumph, human lips that error she herself crime, good turn, fatal which prior roles arrives two hours before I would not confess in tones.
been ringing Have you Sticks to It: British rock star Sting, fat, credit raped, cards, committed reformatory, adultery, overspent killed on sent to Sting someone stung by drama critics, said he's still glad he de- with your motor car, been hooked on illegal subcided to play the roll of Macheath in "3 Penny stances, hated your mother, betrayed your race, Opera" on Broadway. "If I listened to the critics, beaten your bought a baby, I'd be off in a little room somewhere, cowering changed your sex, got Alzheimer's disease or fain a corner," Sting says in the current issue of thered your daughter's child?" From a Punch Gentleman's Quarterly. In fact, he says, "per- magazine story about the Oprah Winfrey show, verse as this sounds, I'm actually enjoying it. It's a soon to be seen in England. discipline, wearing a straitjacket for a while, Compiled from The Associated Press and and it's a discipline I will learn Knight-Ridder Newspapers.
Call our hotline with your memories of the '80s On Sunday, Dec. 31, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will take a look back at the 1980s, and we'd like your help. Beginning Monday, callers to our Reader Hotline 222-2048 will hear an automated question asking 22-2048 The what shows, Sunday. they questions movies, Results recall will Give as will news the be change best events, call! published each and sports, day as worst part of through politicians, the of the '80s: next etc. Dec.
TV 31 retrospective. us a PEACH BUZZ THE TALK AROUND ATLANTA Norman Arey Martha Woodham Bakker Look-Alike Cries All the Way to the Bank With her batting eyelashes and streaked mascara, a Georgia woman is a dead look-alike for Tammy Faye Bakker, and she's cashing in on it. Teresa Martens of Rome is the fortunate, or maybe unfortunate, impersonator. "She's the hottest thing I've got," said Shirley Lowry, owner of Party People, an Atlanta agency booking celebrity look-alikes. Other top requests are look-alikes for Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson.
All the celebrity clones live in the Atlanta area. At one recent appearance, Martens burst crying into the room. "Look out or you'll be in jail yourself," she warned one executive. "I've seen you at the Cheetah," she said to another, referring to the Atlanta nude-dancing club. Weeping doesn't come cheap: The rates are $100 an hour or $500 a day.
BACKSTAGE: When Don Dukes of Atlantic Billiards in Norcross made a pool table and furnished a jukebox for the Rolling Stones, he was paid in tickets felt that would be that. Not so. Just before the concert, Dukes and wife Chea were escorted backstage to make an adjustment to the jukebox and to talk to the Stones' Keith Richards, who wanted a table made for his Connecticut home. In fact, Mick Jagger and the other three Stones decided to give Richards a table for his Dec. 18 birthday.
Dukes offered to make the table at no charge, "but their people told me no problem money is no object." How much will the special table cost? "That would be tacky to say," says Dukes, but a similar one would go for $5,000. Among others backstage were Stones' friends Patrick Swayze and Steve Winwood. "My wife was much more impressed with Patrick Swayze than the Rolling Stones," says Dukes. Georgia Tech head basketball coach Bobby Cremins admitted he isn't a great Stones fan: "I wouldn't know Mike Jagger if he walked through the door." NOT FOR ME: WAGA-TV anchorman Richard Belcher, arguably the city's best, resigned last week effective in 90 days. It had been a announced earlier that John Marler, an anchor from WABC-TV in New York, would replace him, and Belcher would become a reporter for Channel 5.
This would have entailed a huge pay cut, and Belcher balked. Also, according to an Associated Press story last week, Channel 5's owner, Gillett Holdings, is undergoing severe money problems. Belcher's in the unique position of having spent his whole career in Atlanta, as has Channel 11 anchor John Pruitt, who first worked at WSB-TV, Channel 2. And Belcher, like Pruitt, in- RICH tends to stay in Atlanta. Look for Belcher to appear as a at a local station by March.
PARDON MOI: You might say Atlanta Archbishop Eugene A. Marino really cuts the mustard. If anyone in a Rolls-Royce ever pulls up next to him at a stop sign and asks for some Grey Poupon, like in the commercial, Marino is ready. He carries a jar of the gourmet mustard in his car. The similarities end there, however: The archbishop rolls along in an old Chevy Caprice.
Impersonator The Real TV Newsman Teresa Martens Tammy Bakker Richard1 Belcher SUPER SUPERMAN: Atlanta actor Wilbur Fitzgerald plays a reporter in "The Rose and the Jackal," now shooting in Savannah. In one scene, he badgers actor Christopher Reeve, who was supposed to shove Fitzgerald against a wall. Reeve shoved, and Fitzgerald went flying through the cardboard prop. "Wrong movie," Fitzgerald was overheard telling a red-faced Reeve. CRUEL IRONY: Atlanta insurance agent John Ellenburg, wife Bernice, son David and daughter-inlaw Melissa spent a weekend in Hollywood being pampered and chauffeured during the shooting of a TV show, "America's Funniest Home Videos." Ellenburg's video of a crazy character he plays at conventions was one of four chosen from 2,000 submitted.
The show will be aired across the U.S. late tonight except in Atlanta. WSB-TV, Channel 2, citing finances, decided against it. "Can you believe that my hometown! I've told hundreds of people," says Ellenburg. "You know what they're going to show in its place? A rerun!" GOOD SHOE: Georgia Tech Assistant Athletics Director Mike Finn and wife Christie brought their 5- month-old daughter, Kelly Kathryn, to a Tech football game recently.
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