Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 12, 1990 TAG: 9005120288
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The couple made the announcement at a news conference at Wheeling's Oglebay Park Amphitheater, where the orchestra appears during the summer.
The announcement comes less than seven months after Caperton and his wife, Dee, divorced.
Mr. Blackwell, the designer best known for his annual worst-dressed celebrity lists, had his face redesigned Friday.
The 60-something-year-old designer underwent a $20,000 "complete face sculpturing," including cheekbone augmentation, eye restoration, removal of silicone from previous cosmetic surgery and regluing of his nose, said publicist Michael Sands.
Regluing of his nose?
Blackwell, whose real name is Richard Sylvan Seltzer, had a nose job previously and it got out of line recently when he bumped his schnoz, Sands said.
Blackwell, who won't reveal his age except to say he's "under 100," said in a telephone interview from the plastic surgeon's office: "You take in a dress if it's a little big, don't you? Well, it's a little big."
The caustic Blackwell, who in the past designed clothes for Marilyn Monroe and Zsa Zsa Gabor, has heaped disdain on celebrity fashion frumps for 30 years.
John Cleese, the comedian, and his second wife, Barbara Trentham, were divorced Friday.
Publicist Theo Cowen quoted the former Monty Python star as saying the couple's two-year trial separation "had gone so well they decided to make it permanent."
Cleese, 50, did not contest the petition filed by Trentham, 44, according to the news agency Press Association. The couple had no children.
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