Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 26, 1994 TAG: 9402260114
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A 50-minute cassette of Jackson the witness in a recent copyright fight has him snapping his fingers and singing bits of "Dangerous" and "Billie Jean."
The folks at U.S. District Court in Denver have sold about 50 copies and more orders are streaming in, clerk James Manspeaker said. Anyone can pick one up. For $15.
Jackson testified Feb. 14, defending himself against a $40 million lawsuit filed by a Denver songwriter who accused him of stealing "Dangerous" from a demo tape. The jury vindicated Jackson.
\ Film, Steven Spielberg said, is the "most-powerful weapon in the world."
The director of the Holocaust drama "Schindler's List" was honored Thursday night by the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
"Filmmakers have the responsibility not just to entertain but to be responsible, to inform," Spielberg told actors, directors and other industry luminaries gathered at a hotel for the tribute.
\ Maybe Beach Boy Mike Love can have fun, fun, fun now that he's settled his lawsuit against cousin Brian Wilson. Then again, maybe not, because another lawsuit is pending.
Wilson's book, "Wouldn't It Be Nice - My Own Story," asserted that Love didn't co-write "California Girls," "Good Vibrations," "Surfin' USA" and "I Get Around," among other hits, Love claimed in his lawsuit.
"Mike Love spent 30 years of his life putting the Beach Boys together," Love lawyer Phil Stillman said. "He loves Brian and together they made a great group. But even Brian has admitted that this stuff is false."
Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed. Still pending is another lawsuit filed by Love seeking royalties for Beach Boys songs he co-wrote. A trial is scheduled for April 26.
In 1991, a conservator took control of Wilson's affairs after Love and others claimed in a lawsuit that Wilson was a diagnosed schizophrenic, had a history of drug abuse, was unable to provide for his personal needs and couldn't manage his finances because he was being "brainwashed" by psychologist Eugene Landy.
\ Jamie Farr will trade in his ball gown from television's "MASH" for the pinstriped zoot suits of "Guys and Dolls" on Broadway.
And another TV series alum, Steve Landesberg, the learned Sgt. Arthur Dietrich of "Barney Miller," climbs aboard the touring company of "Guys and Dolls" in the same role.
Farr joins the cast of the long-running Broadway revival in the role of veteran gambler Nathan Detroit on March 15, the same day Landesberg starts on the tour.
Farr will be making his Broadway debut in the Frank Loesser musical comedy. The show chronicles the adventures of lowlife Times Square denizens made famous in the short stories by Damon Runyon.
Farr played Corporal Klinger who would do anything, including wearing a dress, to get out of the Army on the TV series "MASH."
by CNB