Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, February 22, 1991 TAG: 9102220469
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"We were sort of tripling up on the reinforcing of certain moral aspects in trying to teach values," Cosby said. "I think some people would go, `There he goes, preaching again.' We've recovered from that, and obviously I know a lot more now than I did then."
In an interview in Thursday's New York Times, Cosby said he has ideas left for an eighth season.
"Then that's it," he said. "I'm off."
Former Sen. Barry Goldwater and actors Chuck Connors and James Drury are among five people to be inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame next month.
The late actor Tim Holt and J. Ernest Browning, one of the hall's founders, also will be inducted during ceremonies March 16, it was announced in Oklahoma City.
Goldwater, a longtime senator and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate in 1964, is a Western historian.
Holt appeared in 149 films, including "The Law West of Tombstone" and "Stagecoach." He received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
Drury starred in the long-running TV series "The Virginian" and appeared in such movies as "Ride the High Country." Connors starred in television's "The Rifleman."
> B.B. King says he'll play four times a year at his new nightclub on Beale Street, where the bluesman first gained fame and legend has it modern blues were born.
B.B. King's Memphis Blues Club, a 350-seat restaurant and nightclub, will open May 3.
"Memphis has been good to me - my career started there, and my roots are still there," said King, 65, who began playing clubs on Beale Street in the late 1940s when paying customers took blues from the country into the city.
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