Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 17, 1990 TAG: 9003172344
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Clyde Wilson, a Houston private eye noted for investigating murder cases and financial frauds among Texas' upper crust, has been hired by Ivana Trump's attorneys, according to Friday's editions of New York Newsday.
One unidentified source told Newsday that Wilson was hired before news of the divorce became public. That source added that Donald Trump's considerable clout in New York led them to hiring a detective agency outside the city.
Jay Goldberg, one of Trump's attorneys, said hiring a detective was like grasping at straws in view of the prenuptial deal.
"It's a feather trying to knock down a steel door," he said.
\ Bryant Gumble, "Today" co-host, said after his memo that castigated Willard Scott and others on the show became public, he couldn't get hold of the weatherman for a while. When he did, he said they cried.
Gumbel broke his yearlong public silence on the topic in an interview with "Today" alumna Barbara Walters. The interview will be shown today for Walters' "20-20" series on ABC.
Gumbel, who has been on the "Today" since 1982, said there have been days he's thought of leaving, but "I still like the job."
In the memo, Gumbel said Scott "holds the show hostage to his assortment of whims, wishes, birthdays and bad taste," that movie reviewer Gene Shalit's reviews "are often late and his interviews aren't very good," and that consumer reporter David Horowitz is "a walking cliche."
\ Ozzy Osbourne says he's not into Satanism or drugs. He just wants to have fun.
"All I really do is have Halloween every night I'm on stage," said the heavy metal star.
In a sermon earlier this month, Roman Catholic Cardinal John J. O'Connor said that heavy-metal music spiked with satanic lyrics created an atmosphere conducive to devil worship and demonic possession.
Osbourne said it wasn't so. "There's no demonic message or anything freaky about it, it's just a bit of fun for the night and why not?"
The rock star also said he condemns drug use.
"It's bad because you're living in a total fantasy world," he said. "When you think you're right, you're wrong and when you think you're wrong, you can't make the right decision. I'm under psychiatric help for what drugs have done to me and it's a sad existence."
\ Ronald Reagan, inspired by the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and talks on reunification of East and West Germany, will make a trip to Berlin in coming months, his aide said.
"He has followed the events with great interest and he hopes to visit Berlin soon," spokesman Mark Weinberg said Thursday. No date was set.
Weinberg said Reagan wasn't making the trip on behalf of any particular party or candidate in coming elections.
by CNB