Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 25, 1995 TAG: 9503270056
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The photo shoot was Sinatra's idea. After a 12-year layoff to raise her two girls, the 54-year-old singer - whose biggest hit was ``These Boots Are Made For Walkin''' - has a new album and plans for a concert tour. She's also working on a documentary and CD-ROM on her father, Frank.
Sinatra said her photo session went surprisingly well, particularly since she shared a makeup mirror with a woman half her age.
``But it's funny, because I didn't hate her, I didn't feel jealous, I didn't feel old,'' she said. ``Besides, we bring different things to the pictures. She brings beautiful breasts, and I bring OK breasts and lots of personality.''
Nancy Kerrigan, 25, and her manager, Jerry Solomon, 40, who denied four months ago that they'd marry, will do just that, her mother, Brenda, has announced. She gave no wedding date. When stories of their thing emerged last year, the ice-skater was labeled by some as home wrecker. Solomon was still married at the time, but it later came out that he'd been separated since 1993. Solomon's wife, Kathy, who filed for divorce in July, also exonerated Kerrigan of home-wrecking accusations.
Larry King, repeating an old pattern of marrying women he's barely met, announced his engagement to actress Deanna Lund, whom he met five weeks ago. For him it'll be wedding No. 6 or 7 or 8 depending on who's counting. ``It was socko from the start,'' said King, 61, who butted into a Lund-Connie Stevens Los Angeles lunch to introduce himself to Lund, 57. His intended was featured in the old TV series ``Land of the Giants'' and does commercials. And, yes, she does remind one of King's most recent wife, Julia Alexander King of Philadelphia. Says Larry of Lund: ``My friends say this is the prize catch of all.''
Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood madam, was denied a motion for a new trial Friday in Los Angeles and faces a mandatory prison sentence of at least three years for pandering.
Fleiss' attorneys had sought a new trial, arguing that four jurors in the case wrongly discussed penalties in the case and traded votes - agreeing to convict on the pandering charge in exchange for a not guilty vote from one juror on a drug charge.
Superior Court Judge L. Judith Champagne ruled that while the jurors had engaged in misconduct, she could ``find no likelihood that the misconduct prejudice the defendant.''
Sentencing was set for May 12.
Fleiss has admitted to running an exclusive call-girl ring serving the rich and famous.
Ted Koppel, at $7 million a year, is the highest-paid Washington-based TV newsman, according to the New York Post. He's followed by Larry King and Sam Donaldson, both at $2 mil per. By the way, the Post sent a reporter and photographer to check out the New Mexico sheep ranch for which Donaldson gets $97,000 annually in federal subsidies. Not a friendly welcome. A ranch hand confronted the ink-stained wretches and called the sheriff when they refused to leave. Donaldson wasn't there, but told the paper: ``We're not going to shoot. But we ... [will] have them arrested if they persist.'' Tough hombre!
by CNB