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

DATE: THURSDAY, January 20, 1994                   TAG: 9401200008
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PEOPLE

Tennis star Boris Becker suited up for a whole new game Tuesday: fatherhood. The three-time Wimbledon champ watched his wife, Barbara Feltus, 27, give birth to a 7-pound, 12-ounce baby boy early Tuesday. "Mother and child are both well," a weary Becker, 26, said outside a Munich clinic. "We are all very happy." The couple, who tied the knot last month, haven't decided on a name for the little one yet.

"Rocky Mountain High" guy John Denver will perform a benefit concert Jan. 29 in Aspen, Colo., to finish up his drunken-driving sentence. The 49-year-old singer-songwriter, stopped Aug. 21 after his car was seen weaving, said he had had two glasses of wine. Concert proceeds will go to an organization that gives too-drunk-to-drive folks free cab rides home. Denver was sentenced to 28 hours of community service.

"I've had my shot at being a sex bomb. It's someone else's turn now." - Sharon Stone, in US magazine.

"And don't forget, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, they're orphans." - Entertainment Weekly's Jim Mullen, on the murder trial of Erik and Lyle Menendez.

"Laryngitis from screaming at each other - the dirty little secret of a durable marriage." - a relationship tip from author Erica Jong, who's up to husband No. 4, in Married Woman, a new magazine.

"People told me, `Don't date another actress.' But [I like] that camaraderie based on common experience. If you're dating a lawyer, how do you tell her that you're depressed because you got rejected from a movie audition?" - actor Harry Hamlin, twice-divorced from actresses (Laura Johnson and Nicollette Sheridan) and now seeing "Days of Our Lives" star Lisa Rinna, in People magazine.

U2's Bono on fame, in Details magazine: "At first, you're reading stories about your life in the media - whom you're supposedly sleeping with, how much money you're supposed to be making, what you had for breakfast - and you feel violated. Then you start to realize that the person they're describing has very little to do with you and is, in fact, much more interesting than you are. . . . People stick on arms, an extra leg; it's sort of a Robo-Bono thing."

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