Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, March 31, 1992 TAG: 9203310297
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"As you can see from rehearsal, this is not part live, or some live, it's all the way live," he said Sunday in his dressing room at the Hampton arena. "We've increased the quality of our sound and gotten away from a lot of the sampling, and gotten into the live thing."
Hammer said he ignores critics who say he has strayed from the hard-core street rapper sound.
"What's important to me are the people," he said.
Crews began setting up for Hammer's rehearsals and the opening of his six-month international tour a week ago.
Included in the tons of equipment was a set of weights and a weight bench set up in the corner of Hammer's dressing room. He pumps iron two hours and runs six miles a day to stay in shape for his high-energy shows.
Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Cybill Shepherd and Morgan Fairchild will travel to Washington, D.C., next week for the second National Pro-Choice March in support of abortion rights.
Organized by the Hollywood Women's Political Committee, the celebrity contingent for the April 5 march also includes actress Christine Lahti, "Thelma & Louise" screenwriter Callie Khouri and comedian Buck Henry.
Three years ago, a similar Hollywood delegation led an abortion rights march sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in a Missouri case that gave greater abortion regulation powers to individual states.
American evangelist Billy Graham says he is about to become the first foreigner to preach the Gospel in North Korea.
It is not certain, however, that the globe-trotting Baptist minister will be accorded another rare opportunity: meeting the "Great Leader," as Kim Il Sung, North Korea's iron-fisted dictator, likes to be known.
Graham, 73, leaves today on a five-day trip to the world's most secretive bastion of Stalinism, where he plans to deliver sermons at two churches in the capital city of Pyongyang.
by CNB