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DATE: MONDAY, January 6, 1992 TAG: 9201060002
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Television weatherman Willard Scott said he's still wounded over a 1989 memo Bryant Gumbel wrote, lambasting Scott for holding the "Today" show hostage to "whims, wishes, birthdays and bad taste."In a look back over the show's 40 years, Scott predicted in the Jan. 11 issue of TV Guide that the memo will follow him to his grave.
"I'd love to put it behind me. I'm sure in my obituary it will read, `Mr. Scott, you may recall, was mentioned prominently in the freaking memo.' "
Scott complained Sunday night that TV Guide blew his remarks "way out of proportion."
"I can't believe they chose to focus only on this and not on the other positive things I had to say," Scott said through NBC-TV spokeswoman Tory Beilinson.
Evangelist Billy Graham, 73, plans to slow down this year to spend more time with his family and work on his memoirs, he said in a prepared statement.
Graham, who had a small, benign cyst removed from his left foot Friday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was away from his North Carolina home nearly 10 months in 1991.
"My mind and heart are still in it," Graham said in September, but he added, ". . . My body keeps crying out to me to slow down."
King Juan Carlos of Spain turned 54 on Sunday in a Madrid hospital, recovering from knee surgery following a skiing accident.
The Spanish monarch tore up his right knee Dec. 28 when an out-of-control skier knocked him down while the royal family was on their annual holiday in the northern Spanish resort of Baqueira.
A hospital spokesman said the king's Dec. 30 surgery was successful.
Indonesia's former first lady, Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno, 51, was arrested Thursday at the posh Aspen Club Lodge in Aspen, Colo., after being accused of slashing a woman with a champagne glass at a party attended by Ivana Trump, Elle MacPherson and Barbra Streisand.
The victim, Victoria Osmena, 43, of New York City, was released from the hospital Friday with 37 stitches in her face.