Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, June 9, 1990 TAG: 9006090236
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Pearl will be among five country music stars who will entertain the dignitaries during a 45-minute performance July 8.
"I want to say how proud I'll be to say `Howdee,"' said Pearl, who is famous for her shrill greeting "Howdee! I'm just so proud to be here."
"My `howdee' will ring out," she told a news conference Thursday on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville, Tenn.
Others scheduled to perform at the 5,000-seat Astroarena: Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe, Charley Pride and Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers.
Next month's performance will reach a worldwide audience through the U.S. Information Agency's Worldnet TV network and its Voice of America radio service, officials said.
Attending the summit will be leaders of the world's seven richest industrial countries: the United States, Japan, West Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada. They have been meeting annually since 1975.
Madonna, even in 1969, longed to be noticed.
During talent night at a Detroit area school, then fifth-grader Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone went on stage in a barely there bikini, covered with green fluorescent body paint.
"I was practically naked," the singer said. "But the talent show was my one night a year to show them who I really was and what I could really be and I just wanted to do totally outrageous stuff."
Since that night 21 years ago, Madonna has had 18 Top 10 hits; appeared in Playboy and Penthouse spreads; and outraged many with lascivious videos with religious references.
Madonna said her need to be noticed stemmed in part from her mother's death when she was 6 and her father's subsequent remarriage.
"I hated my father for a long, long time. And I made a promise to myself that no one was going to hurt me again. I was going to be somebody, I was going to rise above it."
As for the talent show, she said her mortified, strait-laced father grounded her for two weeks and all the girls in the class refused to talk to her.
But it wasn't all bad.
"Boys chased me after that," she said.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was the surprise guest speaker at the Seaside, Ore., High School graduation, and he emphasized the importance of education and physical fitness.
When the actor and former Mr. Universe appeared at the podium, "I think everybody just about swallowed their teeth," senior Brandy Bierly said. Bierly then gave the senior speech to the class of 90 teen-agers.
"Mr. Schwarzenegger was a very tough act to follow," he said.
Afterwards Schwarzenegger shook hands with students and kissed some of the girls.
Schwarzenegger is filming his new movie, "Kindergarten Cop," in Clatsop County. His appearance was the handiwork of Jamie Burns, a junior whose mother is an extra in "Kindergarten Cop."
Burns said she tracked down Schwarzenegger through the film's director, Ivan Reitman, and then persuaded her principal to approve the guest speech.
Ronald Reagan's memoirs, due in bookstores this fall, will be titled "An American Life."
"I have chosen `An American Life' because that is exactly what mine has been," Reagan said.
"Only in America could one go from being a poor boy on the shores of the Rock River in Dixon, Ill., to being a sportscaster, a movie actor, governor of a major state and finally, to the White House," Reagan said.
Reagan, 79, was completing work on the book at his office, spokesman Mark Weinberg said.
by CNB