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DATE: SATURDAY, March 2, 1991                   TAG: 9103020393
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PEOPLE

Richard Roberts, vice president of Oral Roberts University, in Tulsa, Okla., said doctors determined the two-hour surgery Thursday was completely successful.

"In fact, the surgeon said while he was opening one artery, he checked the arteries around it and found they were all clear."

Roberts said his mother, his wife and he were in the Hillcrest Medical Center recovery room when his 73-year-old father awoke.

"My dad looked around and said, `I'm hungry and I'm thirsty,' " he said.

The elective surgery opened some of Roberts' carotid arteries, which carry blood to the head.

\ Bruce Davison, nominated for an Academy Award for "Longtime Companion," has had more than his share of challenging roles.

He co-starred with hundreds of rats in "Willard," played a child molester in the prison film "Short Eyes" and relived the '60's student riots in "The Strawberry Statement."

"My kid sister was 12 before she was allowed to see a movie I'd made," Davison said.

In "Longtime Companion," his role as a father figure to a group of gay friends earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.

"Longtime Companion" deals with the impact of the AIDS epidemic.

Davison had done other productions dealing with the AIDS epidemic, including the play "The Normal Heart" with Richard Dreyfuss in Los Angeles. "There are people living that life every day," Davison said.

\ Charlie Daniels, known for hits like "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," headed for Florida from Nashville after police recovered a fiddle and other equipment stolen from his tour bus.

The fiddle and stereo and electronic equipment valued at $7,000 were taken from the bus Tuesday night and recovered early Wednesday when police arrested two men.

\ Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame near her late co-star's.

Cesar Romero and Janet Leigh were among about 75 friends and fans who gathered Wednesday on Hollywood Boulevard for the unveiling. O'Sullivan's star is the walkway's 1,931st.

Her daughter, actress Mia Farrow, sent flowers. Farrow, who lives in New York, could not attend because she is working on a movie, said Laura Edelman, a spokeswoman for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

\ Geraldo Rivera says he bought a controlling interest in a New Jersey weekly newspaper to regain his journalistic perspective.

"This gets me back just where I started," he said Wednesday. "I miss it, I'm nostalgic for it. When you get in the national TV business, you miss the forest for the trees."

Rivera put up $400,000 for a 75 percent interest in The Two River Times, based in Red Bank, about 40 miles from New York. He will be managing editor and a columnist.

Rivera said he would continue to host his nationally syndicated TV show, "Geraldo," based in New York, as well as a new show, "Now It Can Be Told," scheduled to begin in September.

He said the newspaper has a circulation of 10,000.