Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 11, 1991 TAG: 9102110005
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So production personnel started calling local temporary job agencies.
Several hundred people showed up late last week at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, where they were handpicked to be in the audience. But dozens of Tampa's jobless, who had been promised a free magic show and a minimum of four hours' work, didn't make the cut.
"They were drunk, They were unclean. They were rude and crude, and David Copperfield doesn't need that kind of audience," said production coordinator Karen Woods.
Eighty of the 87 jobless people rounded up were rejected.
\ Cher apparently will get her mansion and bulky security walls built in a Malibu, Calif., seaside enclave after all.
The California Coastal Commission approved plans for the actress-singer's future Mediterranean-style home and 10-foot-high security wall by an 11-1 vote.
The panel reserved the right to approve landscaping, the color of the 15,822-square-foot mansion and where the wall can be built.
\ B.B. King will lead a group that rarely calls upon big names to lead its part of the Mardi Gras parade, and he's excited about doing it.
He said the reason is that "I've never even been there for a Mardi Gras, never have."
Some Carnival parade groups use celebrities to attract crowds, but the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club isn't among them.
Zulu, which traditionally picks a king from within its ranks, crowned jazzman Louis Armstrong king in 1949, and jazz band leader Woody Herman was a celebrity guest rider in the late 1960s.
King said he knows he'll have to get up well before dawn for the parade, but "that's all right. It's worth it to me."
by CNB