Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 10, 1993 TAG: 9306100060
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Don't ask.
From now on, the enigmatic pop star wants to be referred to with a sign that combines the symbols for male and female.
But there's apparently no spoken word for the sign. And the musician has not revealed the pronunciation. The symbol serves as the title for what's-his-name's latest album.
"This is not a joke. This is very serious," said Karen Lee, vice president of publicity for Prince's Paisley Park Records in Los Angeles.
The 35-year-old Minneapolis-born star announced the name change Monday.
Over the years, the symbol has appeared in Prince videos, on stage and on his clothing and guitar.
"I'll Fly Away," the acclaimed but low-rated drama starring Sam Waterston, has found a new home on public television.
The show was dropped by NBC, but its 39 episodes will be shown this fall by the Public Broadcasting Service, along with a new movie that resolves the story.
The series is about a lawyer, played by Waterston, during the early days of the civil rights era in the South. The show will air on Monday nights this fall, PBS said Tuesday. The 90-minute film begins production in July.
Usually, publishers are eager to give a new book plenty of publicity. But when the author is Oprah Winfrey, and the subject is her life story, publicity can become too much of a good thing.
Winfrey is collaborating with Joan Barthel on the book, which is to be published Sept. 20 by Alfred A. Knopf.
"We're not talking about anything to do with the book until Sept. 20," Erroll McDonald, the book's editor, said in the New York Times. "Given that the media feeds off Oprah to a great degree, we don't want people to cannibalize the book before it comes out."
by CNB