Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 28, 1990 TAG: 9007280209
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The 67-year-old Marceau, who's in London for a month at Sadler's Wells Theater, blamed the problem on excessive air travel during his years of performing all over the world.
"My ears are blocked. Fortunately I don't have to speak on stage but I do find it embarrassing," Marceau said.
But there also was a benefit to his deafness, he said. "Sometimes people talk nonsense so it lets me hear what I want to hear," Marceau said.
Over the decades, Marceau almost singlehandedly revived mime as an art form with his character Mr. Bip, the white-faced clown.
Sarah McClendon, who has covered every president since Franklin Roosevelt, says she's not letting up now that she's turned 80.
"I'm not quitting because I have a lot of questions I want to ask George Bush," she said. The Tyler, Texas, native got congratulations from President Bush and a host of other Washington figures Thursday at a birthday party.
In her nearly 50 years of reporting from Washington, McClendon has become well known for asking presidents tough questions.
She said her favorite president was fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson, even though he once prodded four newspapers to cancel her service.
Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who, accepted a $272,000 settlement Thursday in his lawsuit against a nearby farm that he blamed for the deaths of up to 500,000 fish at his own trout farm.
Daltrey and his company, Beju Bop Ltd., had sued owners of The Home Farm where a leak of liquid fertilizer in August 1986 entered a river and caused damage at Daltry's Iwerne Springs Fish Farm in Dorset in southwest England.
Daltrey, 45, originally had sought damages of $905,000.
Marla Maples' jeans commercials showing the model dumping two supermarket tabloids into a trash can have been banned from CBS and NBC.
The 15-second spots feature Maples, rumored to be Donald Trump's mistress, in a pastoral setting wearing No Excuses jeans and holding copies of the National Enquirer and Star. An Enquirer headline reads: "Trump Mistress Close to Suicide."
"The most important thing we can do today is clean up our planet. And I'm starting with these," Maples says as she tosses the papers. "Things look better already."
Beth Bressan, a CBS vice president in charge of program practices, said the ad was rejected as "unduly disparaging towards those newspapers."
"Our longstanding policy is not to sell ad time for the airing of private disputes," said Rick Gitter, NBC vice president of ad standards.
Neil Cole, president of New Retail Concepts, which makes the jeans, said he doubted his company would change the commercials.
ABC hasn't made a decision on the spots. The Fox network and the Turner Broadcasting System have decided to air the ads beginning Aug. 15
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