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

DATE: FRIDAY, April 19, 1991                   TAG: 9104190399
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Jill Eikenberry had her eye on Michael Tucker long before they starred on "L.A. Law," and, she says, she broke up his first marriage to get him. "I felt incredibly guilty. I still feel that way," the actress says in the latest McCall's magazine. "It was the hardest time I've ever had."

When they met in 1970, Tucker was married and the father of a 6-month-old girl.

"I broke up their marriage," Eikenberry said.

The couple's characters in the NBC series are married to each other and have weathered some marital storms. Eikenberry said the real thing has been easier; she and Tucker have been married 20 years and have a son.

"I look around at other marriages. We're blessed. We're friends, as well as lovers and parents," Eikenberry said. "You see, Mike and I have always had very good chemistry."

\ Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of allied forces in the Persian Gulf War, will be the first active duty general to give the keynote speech at a Naval Academy graduation.

"We're absolutely thrilled," said academy spokeswoman Carol Feldmann.

\ Lynn Anderson was denied custody of her two children Thursday by a judge who decided they should stay with her ex-husband.

But Nashville Circuit Court Judge Muriel Robinson-Rice granted the singer four weeks of visitation this year and five weeks annually beginning in 1992.

The children, aged 9 and 11, have been in the custody of their father, Harold Stream III, at his home in Lake Placid, N.Y., for the last year.

The singer smiled as she left the courtroom and said: "At least I get to see the kids."

by CNB