Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991 TAG: 9102210298
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The 20-year-old, also known as Robby VanWinkle of Dallas, served a year's probation but still owes the fine on the 1988 conviction.
"Although we don't agree with the charges, we went ahead and paid the fine for expediency's sake," his attorney, Larry Friedman, said Wednesday.
Police said VanWinkle sprayed a chemical into the eyes of a teen-ager, then beat him over the head and chased him and another boy across the parking lot of a grocery store.
> Sinead O'Connor says she's hurt by all the attacks aimed at her following her comments on the war and the Grammy Awards.
"It's not easy to be the butt of a lot of venom and hatred that gets directed at you merely because you've said that you're sorry over the fact that there's a war happening and that you'd like to do something about it," the Irish singer said on Tuesday's "The Arsenio Hall Show."
O'Connor opposes the war in the Persian Gulf and said she would not attend the Grammys because they celebrate the commercial side of popular music.
Asked why she attended the recent American Music Awards, O'Connor said she went "purely to confirm everything that I've been thinking anyway."
> Clint Eastwood put on a size 40 bra adorned with two American flags, and a crowd roared approval as he accepted the Man of the Year award from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
"I might not wear this too much in public," he said.
Eastwood, otherwise clad in a tuxedo, accepted the award Tuesday, joining past honorees such as Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman and Kevin Costner.
by CNB