Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 6, 1993 TAG: 9303060304
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: B11 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: from wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
THE PEOPLE COLUMN
The rock band Van Halen paid the city of West Hollywood, Calif., $10,000 to help cover police costs when 3,000 fans turned up at a nightclub where 200 tickets were being sold for a surprise concert."We basically told them `You pick up the bill for this, or it's over, folks.' And they agreed," West Hollywood City Manager Paul Brotzman said Thursday.
But the Van Halen money won't pay the entire tab for sheriff's deputies and Beverly Hills police who handled crowd control outside the Whisky nightclub on Wednesday.
"I can tell you we will probably be sending them a bill for the rest," Brotzman said.
City officials said they were caught unaware by the event, but a spokeswoman for the concert said the concert was no secret. "We sent releases out to the newspapers Monday and the radio stations Tuesday," said spokeswoman Maureen O'Conner. "They should have known. It was in Tuesday's newspapers."
\ Mariel Hemingway says she had her silicone breast implants removed and replaced with saline ones because of the possible health risks.
The star of television's "Civil Wars" had her breasts enlarged for her role as a doomed Playboy Playmate in the 1983 movie "Star 80."
But she said she became frightened by reports last year about leaking implants.
"I actually had them taken out and replaced with smaller implants filled with saline," she said in the April issue of McCall's.
The 31-year-old actress did a rather tame nude scene on her ABC television show last fall but said it wasn't such a good idea after all. "In the end I felt really embarrassed," she said.
\ There was no backup band, sound system or even a real stage, but U.S. troops in Somalia who turned out to hear country star Clint Black didn't seem to mind.
Black toured checkpoints, base camps and the city's port Thursday, playing to whooping crowds of troops and urging Washington to bring the GIs home.
Improvising stages out of bombed-out buildings, Black played his guitar in four free performances to groups of 150 to 200 soldiers and Marines.