
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, November 1, 1993                   TAG: 9311010003
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PEOPLE

Former President Bush lent his support and trusty backhand volley Sunday to the Chris Evert Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic, in Boca Raton, Fla., an event that raised $800,000 to fight drug and child abuse in South Florida.

Bush and Evert teamed to defeat Billie Jean King and Regis Philbin, co-host of the ABC morning show "Live with Regis & Kathie Lee," 8-5 in a pro set.

King, who was impressed with Bush's aggressive net play, said, "On the first point of the match I thought I'd test him - not. You can tell he grew up playing on grass with that underspin volley."

There's growing talk that Led Zeppelin might reunite. The "Stairway to Heaven" band broke up in 1979 at the death of drummer John Bonham. The idea is to get the survivors - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones - onto MTV "Unplugged" early next year as a springboard to a national tour.

A pie toss, grits, hay crawls: The first BubbaFest on Saturday had it all, except a consensus on how one qualifies as the festival's namesake.

"We don't look at Bubba as a person but more of a Southern lifestyle," said Toby Goodlett, the festival's organizer. "If you like grits, eat Moon Pies, drink Pepsi, anything characteristic of the South, you're a Bubba."

Other visitors to the rain-dampened celebration, held in South Carolina, painted more personal descriptions.

"A Bubba is a fat man from the country, with long greasy hair, chews tobacco, missing half his teeth, drives a pickup without a tailgate, and wears a bush-hog hat," said Glenn Stewart, who doesn't consider himself one.

But Mike Carter does: "Well, I'm definitely not a yuppie. A Bubba is someone who's late to work but will stop to help a lady change a flat tire out on the highway."

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who rarely performs weddings, made an exception Saturday for the son of a longtime friend, actor Tony Franciosa.

Jackson married Christopher Franciosa, 25, to Michele Colvin, 23, in a ceremony for about 50 family and friends at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Occoquan, Va. The actor said he met Jackson in 1968 when they were involved in the civil rights movement.

by CNB