Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, July 23, 1990 TAG: 9007230010
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Attorneys for Ray Repp, 48, a composer and music publisher from Trumansburg, N.Y., filed a copyright infringement suit last week in federal court in Chicago, where a production of the hit musical is playing, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Saturday.
Repp told the newspaper that the score for the "Phantom" is similar to his own 1978 copyright song, "Till You."
"Bar for bar, measure for measure, it was my song," Repp said.
Telephones went unanswered Saturday at the London office of Webber's production company.
Rue McClanahan of NBC's "Golden Girls" says she's finally kicked her addiction to men.
The five-time bride boasts in the July 28 issue of TV Guide magazine that she has gone five years without a serious relationship.
"It was a quiet kind of desperation," said the 55-year-old actress. "I always thought I had to have a man."
McClanahan first married in 1958, a year after she graduated from the University of Tulsa. She received her fifth divorce in 1985, about the same time she won the role of Blanche Devereaux on "Golden Girls."
"Playing Blanche changed my life more than anything," she said. "It helped raise my self-esteem, because Blanche is convinced she's terrific. And no matter what happens to her, she always bounces back."
Blythe Danner is getting caught up in the social whirl during filming of "The Prince of Tides" in the coastal South Carolina town of Beaufort.
"People have been wonderful, inviting me to a number of social activities and dinners but the bottom line is, I'm here to work and the hours have been very demanding," the actress said.
Danner, 46, spent time in the region in 1979 during filming of "The Great Santini," based on a Pat Conroy novel, as "Tides" is.
The movie chronicles the life of a shrimping family. Nick Nolte also stars as Danner's husband.
by CNB