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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 11, 1992 TAG: 9203110255
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Leno said in December he was negotiating with Marsalis, 31, son of jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis and brother of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.
Severinsen and announcer Ed McMahon will leave the show May 22 when Carson does. McMahon is being replaced by Edd Hall.
Barbara Mandrell says it took her four years to get the courage to drive again after suffering serious injuries in a 1985 traffic accident.
"Four years later, I still couldn't bring myself to drive a car," the country music singer said in a 30-minute cassette tape promoting driver safety. "It wasn't until 1989 that I finally decided to apply again for a driver's license."
"I find that I'm much more aware and defensive than I used to be," she said on the tape, recorded for the Pontiac division of General Motors. Copies of the tape will be distributed to Pontiac drivers.
Mandrell suffered head, leg and other injuries in the two-car accident near Nashville. Her two children were injured and the other driver was killed.
Spike Lee accused Warner Bros. of skimping on the financing for "Malcolm X," saying the studio had thrown away much more money on bad movies by white directors.
The black filmmaker, whose movies include "Do The Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever," spoke Monday about racism and Hollywood to a standing-room crowd at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.
"They're not making black films now because they want to help out black people," he said. "Hollywood is interested in money."
Lee ran $5 million over his $28 million budget on "Malcolm X" and came under the control of a completion bond company. The movie stars Denzel Washington as the slain Black Muslim leader.
Rob Friedman, Warner Bros. president of advertising and publicity, did not return a call for comment.
Andy Griffith will return to his home state of North Carolina to film his TV show this year.
Beginning in June, "Matlock" will be filmed in Wilmington, said Bill Arnold, director of the North Carolina Film Office. NBC canceled the series last week, but ABC picked it up.
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