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

DATE: THURSDAY, July 7, 1994                   TAG: 9407070023
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PEOPLE

Richard Gere was kicked out of an English shop when he was mistaken for a homeless man, a Brit paper reported Monday. The actor, in Britain playing Sir Lancelot in a movie for which he grew his hair and beard, tried to buy a pair of moccasins at a store in Harefield. Co-owner Sue Chapman said she realized her mistake only when she saw the smiling Gere get back into his chauffeur-driven limo. Explained her husband, John: "He looked like he'd been sleeping rough."

The 2.2 million-member National Education Association has voted to boycott Florida orange juice if Rush Limbaugh's contract with the beverage is renewed next month. "The man denigrates teachers, he denigrates minorities, he denigrates women," said an NEA spokesman.

Melanie Hutsell, who specialized in playing vacuous blondes on TV's "Saturday Night Live," is leaving the show. She says the decision is mutual, but tales of her impending axing were rampant. The actress, who's moving from the Big Apple to L.A., said Lorne Michaels was shaking up the show. "They're bringing in lots of writers," Hutsell said. "I think they're taking the show in a completely different direction."

Warren G. Harris' "Audrey Hepburn: A Biography," definitive work on the late movie star, is due in bookstores next month. He also has done "Gable & Lombard," plus "Lucy and Desi."

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