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

DATE: SATURDAY, July 9, 1994                   TAG: 9407090010
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: B11   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: from wire reports
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PEOPLE COLUMN

From now on it's just plain Roseanne. Roseanne Arnold notified the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences that it's over with Tom Arnold and, she wants to be known a la Cher. An Academy spokesman said Friday that her request will be honored as early as July 21, when Emmy nominations are announced.

\ Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains always meant home for John Boy Walton. Richard Thomas, who played John Boy on "The Waltons," said he's always felt the same connection to the Appalachians of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.

Thomas said Thursday he will narrate a six-hour documentary about the history of West Virginia. It will air on West Virginia Public Television in February.

"To me, my own closest ties are in this part of the country," said Thomas, who was born in New York City but has family in Paintsville, Ky., not far from the West Virginia border. "I've spent an awful lot of time in this part of the world."

The film looks at West Virginia history through historic photographs, art and documents from more than 100 archives and museums.

\ Talk show host Larry King filed a slander lawsuit against a former girlfriend who told a magazine she dumped him.

The lawsuit said Rama Fox was the source for a line in the July issue of Washingtonian Magazine that said, "In King's relationships, he usually does the dumping, but Fox dumped him."

King's attorney, James Tierney, said the article holds King up to ridicule and damages his reputation. The lawsuit said the article also damaged King "by imputing to him impotence or a want of chastity."

King is seeking unspecified damages.

by CNB