Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 18, 1990 TAG: 9005180619
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: from wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Bryant, a pop singer in the 1960s, just finished an album called "With Love" and is working on her 11th inspirational book.
"I know that I am a walking miracle," she said. "You know how you read about the `points' you get if you have trauma in your life? I've got enough trauma points to have died and resurrected about three times. So I know I'm here by God's grace."
Bryan said she had suffered a breakdown, financial woes and addiction to pills.
In 1977, she took part in a campaign to block a Miami ordinance that would have prevented job discrimination against homosexuals.
When her marriage ended in divorce 10 years ago, the same people who had applauded her crusade against homosexuals condemned her, she said.
"I was the darling of a lot of people. They waved their palms and then the same ones next time were saying, `Crucify her, crucify her,"' she said. "Divorce is not God's perfect plan. But thank God it's forgivable."
Geraldine Ferraro told a gathering of Korean women to fight to enter politics, saying women's voices are essential to good government.
"That's not necessarily because we are more caring or more effective, but because we bring another dimension to the political process," the former vice presidential candidate said at the meeting Wednesday at the National Assembly in Seoul. "Instead of engaging in confrontation, women are more apt to negotiate."
Park Young-sook, a vice president of the opposition party, said Ferraro was invited to speak as a role model.
There are six women in South Korea's 299-member parliament, but all are appointed, not elected.
Kelsey Grammer, who plays the uptight Dr. Frasier Crane on "Cheers," was given 30 days in jail for violating his probation from a 1988 drunken driving arrest.
Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner Patricia Schwartz on Wednesday told the 35-year-old actor to report to jail May 24 and enroll in a 90-day alcohol rehabilitation program.
The actor had violated terms of his probation by missing a court appearance to report on his progress.
Grammer's co-star Kirstie Alley pleaded unsuccessfully with Schwartz to spare the actor jail and instead enroll him in a strict alcohol and drug abuse program.
by CNB