Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 10, 1992 TAG: 9202100003
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN
The jury is hung on those hairbands affected by Hillary Clinton, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton."It's fairly fashionable if you don't follow fashion," said fashion historian Valerie Steele.
It's "the sartorial symbol of the new feminist," said Working Woman magazine's Mark Meyers.
"It's lazy even if it does hide dark roots," said Washington hairdresser Dennis Roche. "She's much too old for a headband."
What says the candidate's wife? Notes a spokesman: "She wants to concentrate on the issues."
Morning television's reigning couple, Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, have the chemistry that producers try desperately to achieve.
What's their secret? Affectionate, teasing humor, says Michael Gelman, executive producer of their syndicated series "Live with Regis & Kathie Lee."
"The audience loves to watch them walk a tightrope," Gelman said. "They couldn't take as many chances if they didn't care about each other."
Philbin and Gifford displayed some of that humor in interviews published this week in TV Guide.
"Reege is a sex symbol to the menopause set," Gifford said.
Philbin replied, "C'mon! Where's Kathie Lee going to go without me?"
No. 1-ranked women's tennis player Monica Seles says she's not interested - for now - in playing Jimmy Connors in a "battle of the sexes."
Connors, the No. 42-ranked male player, this week challenged Seles to put up $1 million to match his $1 million in a winner-take-all bet.
"The money is not important," the 18-year-old Seles said last week in Essen, Germany, adding that such a contest would force her to drop out of competition temporarily and thus jeopardize her ranking.
But Seles wouldn't rule out playing the 39-year-old Connors "on my own terms when I have time to get ready."
In 1973, Billie Jean King, who was then 29, defeated a 55-year-old Bobby Riggs in a nationally televised "battle of the sexes."
"Bewitched" actor Dick Sargent, who recently acknowledged that he is gay, says that when it comes to business, Hollywood turns a cold shoulder to people with AIDS.
"I don't see any active hiring of people known to have AIDS," Sargent says in a "Good Morning America" interview to be aired Tuesday.
Sargent played Darrin Stephens on ABC's "Bewitched" from 1969 to 1972.