Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, May 8, 1993 TAG: 9305080251
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Internal Revenue Service agents seized belongings at Lewis' home in Nesbit, Miss., on Thursday, while the entertainer was in Europe performing.
"The Lewises are aware of what is happening, and their reaction is abject horror," said their attorney, Charles Waldman.
An IRS agent recorded items as they were carried out: three pianos, guitars and electric keyboards, bedroom furniture, a burgundy leather love seat, velvet chairs, a grandfather clock, an old Victrola record player.
Inside, movers packed glassware and small appliances, and took framed photos, concert posters and plaques from the walls.
No auction date has been set.
Lewis, 57, is famous for his gyrating antics at the piano and hits such as "Great Balls of Fire."
\ Tony Danza is suing a home seller and two real estate agents, accusing them of failing to tell him that a ski trail was planned near his new Utah home. He says his privacy is threatened.
But his closely guarded privacy might sink the lawsuit. Danza doesn't want to disclose the house's address in court documents filed in Salt Lake City.
U.S. District Judge David Winder has given Danza until May 19 to refile his lawsuit, this time with the address.
The co-star of "Taxi" and "Who's The Boss?" may be unwilling, said Thomas Taylor, his attorney.
He filed the lawsuit after Deer Valley Ski Resort built a ski trail next to a home Danza bought two years ago. It accuses the previous homeowners and real estate agents of fraud, contending they knew the trail would be built and didn't tell him.
\ Muhammad Ali laid a wreath at the shrine of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's news agency said.
The Islamic Republic News Agency, monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, said the former heavyweight champion was warmly received by a large group of Iranians who also gathered at the shrine Thursday. Ali is on a weeklong visit to Iran.
Ali, a Muslim, was to join worshipers at Tehran University for prayers Friday.
\ Salman Rushdie won a Swiss literary prize but couldn't pick it up in person because security would have cost too much.
The Colette Prize jury said it was "rising against intolerance" in choosing Rushdie, who has been living in hiding since an Iranian death sentence for his 1988 book "The Satanic Verses."
Rushdie was absent Thursday at the ceremony in Geneva for the $24,500 prize because authorities refused to pay for special security measures, said Genevieve Armleder, head of the foundation that sponsors the annual prize.
Iran's ayatollahs issued the death decree because they considered the novel as blaspheming Islam.
The prize, first awarded in 1988, is named after the French writer Colette, who died in 1954.
by CNB