Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 24, 1994 TAG: 9411050035
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: B11 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM WIRE REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The Rolling Stones card, introduced by Maryland-based Chevy Chase Savings Bank on Thursday, is the first to be linked to rock music, said Barbara Hvasta, vice president for Visa.
``We're delighted to be affiliated with these legendary performers,'' she said. The three-decade-old band actually predates modern credit cards by a few years.
The card is free for the first year and thereafter as long as users charge at least $2,000 a year. Otherwise, users pay a standard $20 a year.
\ Kim Basinger caught an $8.1 million break.
The California Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned a big-bucks judgment imposed against her after she backed out of a role in box-office bummer ``Boxing Helena.''
The court said the trial judge gave the jury ``prejudicially ambiguous'' instructions. The case still might be retried.
Basinger said she dumped the starring role because the nude scenes were a tad strong - and, oh yeah, the script's about an obsessed man who cuts off his lady's arms and legs.
\ Novelist Anne Rice, who had complained long and loud about the casting of Tom Cruise as the vampire Lestat in the movie version of her book ``Interview With the Vampire,'' has seen the movie and changed her ways.
Rice placed an ad in Daily Variety to announce the error of her former opinion.
``The movie, the performances, were beyond her wildest expectations,'' David Geffen, the film's producer, told Newsday. ``She thought Tom was incredible.''
\ Ready, set, go - John Wayne Bobbitt wants to get back with Lorena Bobbitt!
``Yes, I love her still,'' said the once-severed media star. ``And yes, I would like to go back with her. Me and Lorena are like O.J. and Nicole. A love crime. She loved me so much that she did this because she probably thought it would kill me worse than if she really killed me.''
Next month, John said, he'll be near Lorena's Northern Virgina hometown to hype his porn movie, ``John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut,'' and he intends to pop in.
``We're still married, you know. ... She was a good wife; she's a good woman. She's just self-centered and not well-educated. She's not really intelligent.''
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