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

DATE: SATURDAY, November 26, 1994                   TAG: 9411290074
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: B11   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FROM WIRE REPORTS
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Mariah Carey and Bryan Adams were named best female and male stars at MTV Europe's first European Music Awards Thursday in a 21/2-hour show before Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

They beat out the likes of Tori Amos, Bjork, Neneh Cherry, Bruce Springsteen, Seal, and the man who once was Prince to win their respective awards. Britain's Take That whipped Aerosmith, Crowded House, the Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine to be named best group. Canada's Crash Test Dummies was named best breakthrough group.

At 33, Nadia Comaneci can still turn heads with her acrobatic twists and spins.

The 1976 Olympic gold-medalist wowed an adoring crowd of 4,000 in Bucharest, Romania, including Premier Nicolae Vacaroiu, with a graceful floor routine Friday. The show was broadcast live on state television.

Wearing a crushed pink velvet leotard, Comaneci also did a jazzy number with American fiance Bart Conner, another Olympic gold-medalist.

``I will never forget I'm Romanian,'' an emotional Comaneci told the cheering crowd. ``I will always be alongside you.''

Comaneci and Conner run a gym in Norman, Okla.

by CNB