Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, August 29, 1994 TAG: 9408290072
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Plenty, as it turns out.
Jim Gilmore wants to put bad guys behind bars.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore sings a lot about bad guys in bars.
And that's not all, as Gilmore (the country music singer) found out during a concert tour through Virginia last week. Fans in both Richmond and the Roanoke Valley - where he put in a publicity appearance at The Record Exchange and later performed at the Iroquois club - commented on the similarities between the two men.
"They say he even looks like me," Gilmore the singer said of his political counterpart. "Except he doesn't have any hair."
Well, the Attorney General Gilmore does have some hair - just not as much as the singer, whose graying locks fall to his shoulders.
A brick for posterity
Staff at the Hotel Roanoke Conference Center Commission office are starting to sound like a broken record that keeps playing: "We haven't gotten your brick order yet."
That's what they boldly tell anyone they know who hasn't plunked down $50 to get an engraved brick in an entranceway to the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center.
So far, only 658 of the 5,000 bricks available have been sold, but brick coordinator Bev James is counting on a big boost in sales when a mailing promoting the project reaches Virginia Tech alumni. Tech is renovating the hotel and the city is building the adjacent conference center. The namesake bricks are to be laid in the Wells Avenue entry area.
James said she has bought two bricks, one for her and one as a gift.
If you want one, or two, the deadline to buy is Sept. 30. Call 981-1170, and say, "Come on, give me a brick."
Virginia is for writers
John Grisham, author of "The Firm," "The Pelican Brief" and "The Client," has moved to Virginia to finish a new novel.
The Associated Press reported recently that Grisham, his wife and two children left Oxford, Miss., this month for their 180-acre farm near Charlottesville. But the move is only temporary, according to the author's assistant, who called it "more of an extended sabbatical."
by CNB