Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 23, 1994 TAG: 9404230044
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The empty-pockets embarrassment came Thursday while Jordan was filming a TV ad. The script called for him to buy a wiener from a vendor, but when cameras were ready to roll, Jordan was out of cash.
"We were scurrying around, `Anybody have change here?' " said actor Sam Coppola, who played the vendor. "We got a dollar-fifty, and it wasn't easy."
The retired basketball star spent the day shooting the Ball Park Franks commercial before playing a game with the minor-league baseball Birmingham Barons.
Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. is suing the New York Daily News for $250 million for printing allegations that he seduced a 14-year-old boy and pressured singers to have abortions.
The lawsuit was filed on Thursday.
The News reported April 19 that former Motown staffer Tony Turner is working on a book on Gordy in which he alleges Gordy had sex with him in the shower when Turner was a teen-ager. According to the News, Turner also will write that Gordy urged some singers he managed to get abortions.
Gordy's lawyer, Deborah Drooz, said Gordy never even met Turner.
One of the "sexiest men alive" is about to be back on the market. Nick Nolte and his wife, Rebecca, are splitting up after 10 years of marriage.
"It was an amicable divorce. Both of them wanted it. Both of them are very close friends and will remain close friends," said the actor's publicist, Paul Bloch.
It was the third marriage for the 52-year-old actor named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1992.
Rebecca Nolte, 35, filed for divorce earlier this month, citing irreconcilable differences. The Noltes have a 7-year-old son.
The seven stranded castaways are sailing for the big screen.
After months of negotiations, the movie version of "Gilligan's Island" is set to begin filming in 1995, Turner Pictures says. Beefy "Saturday Night Live" comedian Chris Farley is up for the role of the Skipper.
Meg Tilly, star of the TV series "Winnetka Road," can do more than act.
Tilly, whose film credits include "Tex," "The Big Chill" and "Agnes of God," also has a book due out soon titled "Singing Songs."
"The reason I wrote the novel is I was reading about child abuse, and it was from an adult's point of view," she told Parade Magazine for Sunday's issue. "I wanted to do something from a child's point of view."
Tilly, 34, is the mother of three children, ages 3 to 9.
by CNB