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

DATE: TUESDAY, July 5, 1994                   TAG: 9407050009
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Actor Liam Neeson and actress Natasha Richardson, who met and fell in love while performing on Broadway, were married offstage - in a private ceremony at their upstate New York country home.

About 70 guests attended the hush-hush event Sunday, including Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw; Mia Farrow; Emma Thompson; and director Ron Shelton, the Daily News reported.

The 2.2 million-member National Education Association voted Monday to boycott Florida orange juice if state officials renew their $1 million, six-month contract with conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

"The man denigrates teachers, he denigrates minorities, he denigrates women," Arlene Pavey of California said, urging support of the boycott at the NEA's annual convention in New Orleans.

The National Organization for Women, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs are among those who have called for a boycott.

Printed in pink chalk on a driveway in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., is a message by a 7-year-old who had just had an argument with her mother:

"Mommy, I hate you.

"Love, Ashley."

The Statler Brothers' 25th "Happy Birthday U.S.A." concert drew about 100,000 country music fans, quadrupling the population of Staunton in the Shenandoah Valley.

The band members have said this will be their last free Fourth of July concert in their hometown.

by CNB