ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, December 21, 1996 TAG: 9612230067
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
Whitewater figure gets cell in Texas
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Susan McDougal was granted permission Friday to return to a Texas jail to be closer to her lawyers and undergo tests for cancer, despite the judge's concern that he felt ``somewhat misled'' by the convicted Whitewater figure.
McDougal has been charged in California with stealing about $150,000 from symphony conductor Zubin Mehta when she worked as a bookkeeper for his wife. She was brought to the state last weekend for a hearing to set a trial date.
McDougal had been jailed in Texas for contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury about President Clinton, her former business partner in the failed Whitewater land venture in Arkansas. In May, she was convicted of fraud in a related investigation.
- Associated Press
Spoof of naked Demi is fair, judge rules
NEW YORK - An advertisement for a ``Naked Gun'' movie that showed a man's head on a nude, pregnant body is a legitimate parody of a magazine cover of actress Demi Moore, a federal judge ruled.
Judge Loretta Preska this week dismissed photographer Annie Leibovitz's claim that the ad infringed on her copyright of the Moore photo, which appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in August 1991.
``Like all parodies,'' the judge wrote, ``it relies for its comic effect on the contrast between the original - a serious portrayal of a beautiful woman taking great pride in the majesty of her pregnant body - and the new work - a ridiculous image of a smirking, foolish-looking pregnant man.''
The ad for ``Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult'' was used in 1994 with the caption ``Due this March.'' It showed Leslie Nielsen's head attached to a pregnant body.
- Associated Press
First lady donates profits to charity
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she'll donate profits from her book, ``It Takes a Village,'' to children's hospitals and other programs that help young people - and she hopes other Americans will be inspired to help, too.
The first installment, about $750,000 before taxes, will be divided among 15 hospitals and 23 other programs mentioned in the book, she said Friday.
Clinton presented the money during a visit to the Children's National Medical Center. The first lady - accompanied by the White House cat, Socks - participated in the hospital's Christmas program for the third year.
``What I hope is that the announcement of these donations might encourage other people to become involved at whatever level,'' she said.
- Associated Press
Bust of Poor Richard is only for the rich
PHILADELPHIA - In a coup worthy of its subject, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has purchased for nearly $3 million the most famous likeness of Benjamin Franklin, a marble bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon, the great portrait sculptor of the 18th century.
The bust was purchased by dealer Richard Feigen for an anonymous buyer - declared Friday to be the museum - at a Dec. 6 auction at Sotheby's in New York. It was the highest price ever paid for a work by the French artist.
- Knight-Ridder/Tribune
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