Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, May 25, 1990                   TAG: 9005250370
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PEOPLE

"Over the years I've received hundreds of letters from people asking me where I buy my clothes," she said Wednesday. "Until now, they couldn't be found anywhere. Each piece was individually tailored for me."

McClanahan, who portrays the naughty Blanche with co-stars Betty White, Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty, decided it was time to come up with the clothing and accessories line she calls "Very Rue."

As befitting a TV star's product, the clothing line, which got some help from Knickerbocker Creations of Beverly Hills, will be available through cable television's Home Shopping Club.

Raisa Gorbachev will receive a gift of Elizabeth Arden fragrance made in Roanoke when she comes to Washington Saturday with her husband, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, for his summit meeting with President George Bush.

The Red Door fragrance will be packaged in a special leather case, said Susan Arnot of Arden's New York office.

Kelsey Grammer of "Cheers" was jailed Thursday for a drunken driving probation violation.

The 35-year-old actor, who plays brainy psychiatrist Frasier Crane on the hit NBC series, surrendered to the Van Nuys Municipal Court and was taken immediately to County Jail. He showed up in court with a toothbrush stuck in his shirt pocket.

Since his February 1988 conviction for drunken driving, he has failed to make several court appearances to prove he completed a drug rehabilitation program.

Municipal Court Commissioner Patricia Schwartz last week ordered Grammer to serve a 30-day sentence for failing to attend the program and failing to serve 10 days on a state road crew.

Jimmy Breslin returned to print without mentioning his suspension for insulting a Korean-American reporter and then joking about it on the air.

In his Newsday column Wednesday, Breslin wrote about a plumber who follows construction crews around the city, waiting for them to accidentally break an underground water pipe so he can fix it.

As a column subject, damage control was not inappropriate.

The editors of Newsday had suspended the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist May 9 for two weeks without pay for uttering racial and sexual slurs against New York Newsday reporter Ji-Yeon Mary Yuh after she criticized a column he wrote on women's roles.