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DATE: SATURDAY, April 13, 1991 TAG: 9104130427
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The trip yielded an unexpected fringe benefit: an appearance in the Prince film, "Graffiti Bridge" and in the video for Tevin Campbell's "Round and Round," which is really a clip from the film.
"I was just up there at the right time and [in] the right place," Shelton said.
Campbell's song was nominated for a Grammy award, and the video has been airing on the MTV and BET cable TV networks. Shelton can be seen in a street scene in the video and in a couple of club scenes in the movie, she said.
The segments in which Shelton appears were filmed in Prince's Paisley Park studio over a few days last February, she said.
During her time on the set, Shelton met Campbell, legendary funkster George Clinton, Time band members Jerome Benton and Jimmy Jam, and Prince himself.
"Everybody was real nice . . . and it was just fun and cool," Shelton said. "They're very down-to-earth, like your next-door neighbor. You wouldn't believe how nice they are."
\ Kitty Kelley has downgraded her planned promotional tour for her sizzling biography about former first lady Nancy Reagan to a series of satellite interviews, her publisher said Friday.
Kelley, who canceled interviews with Larry King and two New York television stations Thursday, also scratched her Friday schedule to promote "Nancy Reagan, the Unauthorized Biography," said Victoria Meyer, spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster.
"I can't imagine she isn't exhausted," said Meyer. "She has remarkable resilience and energy, but anybody would be exhausted and stunned by what has happened."
The satellite interviews will be conducted in 30 cities, said Meyer. It was not immediately known if they would be open to all media or just to television. The exact date was not set.
Meyer said there was no truth to suggestions by Sheila Tate, the former first lady's press secretary, that this week's interviews and the tour were canceled because Kelley feared a backlash.
Meanwhile, the Reagans' daughter Patti Davis is cashing in on the excitement caused by Kelley's book by pushing up the publication date of her new book.
\ Shirley MacLaine, who turns 57 in two weeks, is too busy to think of retirement. She's in the middle of a song-and-dance revue, about to release a new book and thinking of a new play.
MacLaine, whose birthday is April 24, is in Anaheim this weekend with her revue "Shirley MacLaine: Live." Her seventh book, "Free Fall," is scheduled for fall publication.
MacLaine, who has written about her beliefs in past lives, said the new book will be "a `coming to terms' book, not a metaphysical book."
"Coming to terms with film, stage, acting, singing, dancing, family," she said.
She says she's also talking with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber about starring in a musical version of the 1950 film "Sunset Boulevard."
by CNB