Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, January 9, 1993 TAG: 9301090251
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: from wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
PEOPLE COLUMN
Yes, the guy with the "Achy Breaky Heart" does play Romeo to Dolly Parton's Juliet in her new video, but they're not the star-crossed lovers the tabloids would have you believe. "It woulda been fun if it was true, but it wasn't," Parton said of Billy Ray Cyrus. "He is the cutest guy in country music, and we've got a lot of 'em."The video for the song "Romeo" also features country singers Kathy Mattea, Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Tanya Tucker playing handmaidens to Parton's Juliet.
Cyrus says all the tabloid talk about "Romeo" pretty much spoiled his plans for another pairing with Parton. He wanted her to sing on a new song called "Pictures Don't Lie." "Now that they've had us on the front of the tabloids," he says, "I can't ask her to sing a song with a title like that."
"Tonight Show" bandleader Branford Marsalis says his arrest for speeding last weekend in his native New Orleans had racial overtones.
The saxophonist, who is black, said two white officers pulled him over, ordered him out of the car and frisked him without telling him why he had been stopped. When he asked, Marsalis said, he was told he was going 50 mph in a 35 mph zone.
"I told them that I didn't think that it was protocol to be frisked for speeding and they kept asking me where did I get that `attitude'?"
Marsalis said he was handcuffed and put in the squad car but never booked or read his rights. He was driven back to his car and given a speeding ticket after police realized who he was, he said.
A police spokesman said Marsalis was arrested when he refused to sign the ticket, although he changed his mind on the way to jail. The officers didn't know Marsalis was a celebrity, he said.
Marsalis called that account a "total fabrication." He said he had acknowledged that he was speeding and had no reason not to sign the ticket.
On "Entertainment Tonight," Roanoke native and former Playboy magazine model Tai Collins had this to say about the rigors of her role as a lifeguard on the "Baywatch" TV series: "I never have to go in the water. They don't want us to get our hair wet. We're supposed to look good."
An ex-president moves in and there goes the neighborhood.
Just in time for Inauguration Day, Hillary Clinton gets the unauthorized biography treatment. "Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story" by Judith Warner covers the first-lady-to-be's transformation from a "dowdy, bespectacled governor's wife who refused to give up her maiden name to the glamorous lawyer and power broker," Signet Books says. Will there be a chapter on headbands?