
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 20, 1991                   TAG: 9102200217
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PEOPLE

Kirk Douglas has been released from a Los Angeles hospital where he had spent four days after surviving a mid-air collision that killed two people and injured two others.

Douglas, 74, who suffered bruises and minor scalp injuries during the Feb. 13 crash at the Santa Paula Airport in Ventura County, also managed to escape media attention as he left the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center through a side exit on Monday, officials said.

Hospital spokesman Ron Wise said that the celebrity wanted to avoid the numerous reporters and photographers who were waiting for Douglas at the main patient-release exit.

Tammy Faye Bakker is scheduled to sing in Wichita, Kan., here April 5 in what promoters say is her first concert since the 1989 fraud conviction of her husband, Jim.

Chris Love, manager of the Crest Theatre, said Monday 300 of the 800 tickets offered for the show sold within hours.

Lee Farmer of Century II Promotions in Nashville, Tenn., said his client chose Wichita at the urging of gospel singer friends Howard and Vestal Goodman.

Farmer said the Goodmans convinced Bakker that Wichita is a good gospel music market and media attention would not be as intense as in some larger cities.

Ricky Van Shelton says it was easy recording the new duet "Rockin' Years" with Dolly Parton because they have a lot in common.

"We both came from the same kind of background, with many of the same musical influences, so it was really easy to find that mutual ground we could share as artists," Shelton said.

"I was surprised and pleased at how well our voices mixed together."

Both singers grew up in rural surroundings, Shelton in Grit, Va., and Parton in Sevier County, Tenn.

> Anthony Geary, former "General Hospital" star better known as Luke Spencer to millions of devotees - says his return to the soap doesn't mean Luke is being brought back to life.

In the new role, Geary plays Luke's cousin, Bill Eckhart, a German-Italian machinist. Geary insisted that there be no reincarnation of Luke, a character he tired of when he quit the ABC daytime series in 1984.

by CNB