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DATE: TUESDAY, January 21, 1992 TAG: 9201210308
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Magic Johnson, Eddie Murphy and model Iman will appear in the second music video released from Michael Jackson's new album "Dangerous."The video for the single "Remember the Time" is being filmed around Los Angeles, a spokesman for the pop star said Monday. It will premiere Feb. 2 on the Fox Broadcasting Network, following the show "In Living Color," and on simultaneously cable's MTV and Black Entertainment Television.
John Singleton, who directed the movie "Boyz N The Hood," is directing the video.
Jackson caused a stir with the video "Black or White" released in November. Parents objected to scenes showing him grabbing his crotch and smashing windows. Jackson apologized and cut four minutes from the 11-minute video.
"Dangerous" is Jackson's first album since "Bad" in 1987. Epic Records described it is the pop star's fastest-selling album ever.
Country singer Garth Brooks and his wife showed up at the close of a telethon for cerebral palsy in Nashville, Tenn., and wrote a check for $25,000.
Brooks said he and his wife, Sandy, were watching the televised benefit on Sunday when they decided to donate 10 cents for each dollar raised locally.
"They say if you can give what you can afford it isn't really giving. It kind of made us feel good and we just jumped in the truck and got down here because we saw it on TV," Brooks said.
Brooks' quadruple-platinum album "Ropin' the Wind" won him a Grammy nomination this month for best country vocal performance. His hits include "Friends in Low Places."
The United Cerebral Palsy Association said it raised about $23.5 million nationally in pledges during a 21-hour telethon.
Ken Burns, producer of PBS' acclaimed "Civil Wars" series, says Abraham Lincoln probably wouldn't have been elected had television been around then.
With his warts and lanky build, Lincoln probably would have found television an unsurmountable obstacle, Burns said in the Jan. 25 issue of TV Guide.
And if he did win, he might not have kept the job, Burns said.
"There would be an expose on the fact that he was a depressive," he said. "His absolutely shrewd political manipulations would be used as evidence that he was not good."
By Burns' reckoning, Lincoln isn't the only president who couldn't have made it in the TV age.
Thomas Jefferson "with his funny voice, red hair . . . I don't think he could have been elected," he said. "Theodore Roosevelt was dynamic, but maybe a little too hot for the cool medium of television.
"Woodrow Wilson - just forget it."