Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, December 25, 1993                   TAG: 9312250011
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PEOPLE

Wynonna Judd, Tanya Tucker, Clint Black and Travis Tritt will perform at halftime during the Jan. 30 football game in the Georgia Dome, the National Football League announced this week. The singers will be accompanied by about 2,000 Atlanta-area performers.

Natalie Cole will sing the national anthem, and Joe Namath has coin-toss duty.

Sparks won't fly for Janet Jackson's performance at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Orange County denied a pyrotechnics permit for the Jan. 8 show for safety reasons.

Commissioners said the show can go on without 14 flame projectors, 60 gold twinkling waterfalls, 24 silver airburst effects, eight fireballs and eight micro mines.

"There's a good chance we could lose the show," said Jeff Elliott, director at the Smith Center. "If we continue to have opposition to things like this, we will not have any more concerts here."

Last week, a Grateful Dead concert was vetoed by the university after the town complained the show would draw too much drug activity and put a strain on police.

Muhammad Ali is suing his longtime adviser, saying he forged the former boxer's signature in fund-raising letters for a foundation that promotes Islam.

Ali wants to nullify a 1991 agreement with Jabir Herbert Muhammad and the Muhammad Ali Foundation, saying it was obtained under "undue influence or duress."

The agreement, the lawsuit said, was made while Ali was physically and emotionally weak during a trip to the Middle East, where he was fasting and without proper medication.

Ali wants a court order preventing Muhammad and the foundation from using Ali's name and likeness. The lawsuit also seeks damages.

France's crusade against American cultural infestation has reached new hysterical heights.

Having won its battle in the recent world trade negotiations against U.S. films and TV programs, the French government has now placed a ceiling on how much American pop music radio stations may play.

French disc jockeys will be breaking the law if out of every 10 CDs they play over the air, more than four are of non-French (meaning, for all practical purposes, American or British) origin.

"Young rock fans won't stand being told they're allowed to listen to American rock groups only in small doses," critic Sebastien Loisel predicted.

He got a pompadour to do Elvis, but Kurt Russell says his drooping handlebar moustache for gunfighter Wyatt Earp is a real work of art.

The actor recreated the Old West look with a vintage photograph. He said the publicity photo he posed for was "amazingly accurate."

Russell said he achieved "a much closer look with Wyatt Earp" than he did with Elvis Presley. Russell played Elvis in the TV movie "The King."

Russell's new movie, "Tombstone," about the legendary showdown at the O.K. Corral, opens today.