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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 26, 1994                   TAG: 9401260121
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PEOPLE

The quake was on the minds of performers who showed up in Los Angeles for the Golden Globe awards. "I'm sort of surprised they didn't cancel this or put it off for a week," said Dennis Quaid, noting that his son was left home. Piped up his wife, Meg Ryan: "We should have brought a cellular phone here. That would have been cool."

Offered Rosie Perez, who keeps a Brooklyn apartment: "The morning after the earthquake, I went straight to the airport, but there were no flights to New York. I wanted to go back immediately. I'd rather freeze than have the Earth move. Believe me, no earthquakes in Brooklyn. Hoodlums, yeah. I know most of them, so I'm fine."

Tom Hanks added an urban mantra: "I don't think there'll be an earthquake, but if there is we'll be OK. I don't think there'll be another fire, but if there is we'll be OK. I don't think there'll be another riot, but if there is we'll be OK."

Robin Williams' advice in case of another Big Rumble: "Stand near a lady with a major face lift - they don't fall."

On the artistic side, Steven Spielberg, who won two globes for best movie drama and best director ("Schindler's List"), refused to fault a group of Oakland, Calif., high school students ejected last week for laughing during a screening of the movie.

"They're not to blame," the filmmaker said. "A lot of our kids are desensitized to violence because of what they see on the street in their real lives. A lot of them are living with their own Holocaust, only they don't call it that."

Honesty award goes to Chen Kaige, director of the Chinese-made "Farewell My Concubine," which won for best foreign-language movie. "First of all," he said, "I must say I deserve it. I can't tell you how difficult it is to make a movie."

Singer Frankie Laine has checked into a hospital for rest and a checkup.

"He just did a little too much," spokeswoman Vicky Lorand said after the 80-year-old singer checked himself into Eisenhower Medical Center near Palm Springs, Calif.

Laine had been attending signings to promote his autobiography, "Lucky Old Son," she said.

"He's also been doing a lot of charity work, getting stuff together to help earthquake victims," Lorand said.

The raw-voiced singer, whose hits in the 1950s and '60s include "Mule Train," the theme from the TV series "Rawhide" and "Lucky Old Sun," lives in San Diego.

by CNB