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in the news
KISS legendary rock hits road again
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) —
There’s the ritual spitting of
fake blood, the bass player’s
pointed tongue and the big,
spiked boots: Kiss is back.
Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley,
Paul Stanley, and Peter Criss
held a reunion concert Saturday
at Orange County’s Irvine
Meadows Amphitheatre —
their first public performance
together since 1983.
The legendary rock band per
formed 10 songs, including
“Beth,” which was featured in
the movie “Beautiful Girls.” The
band even overcame a minor ex
plosion when a cache of fire
works under the stage canopy
briefly caught fire.
Kiss is scheduled to officially
kick off its two-year world tour
June 28 in Detroit.
Writer, food guru takes
his eggs yolkless
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Calvin Trillin has one short
message for fans of his fat-filled
gastronomic travelogues: he’s
moved on.
The longtime New Yorker
magazine writer who once chid
ed America for its faux conti
nental restaurant pretensions
now has his breakfasts at a ho
tel restaurant called the Chez
when he’s here on a book tour.
And he orders smoked salmon
and scrambled eggs — yolk
less, please.
“I wouldn’t say I’m a gradu
ate of a 12-step program or any
thing like that,” said Trillin,
once a proud fan of down-home
regional cuisine.
“But modest reformist ten
dencies have been discerned,
that’s how I’d put it,” the 60-
year-old writer said in Mon
day’s Los Angeles Times.
Now a weekly humor colum
nist for Time magazine, Trillin
still writes occasionally for the
New Yorker. But his latest pro
ject is his newest book, “Mes
sages From My Father,” a
memoir about his father and
life in their Midwestern Jewish
family in the 1950s.
Trillin is currently on a tour
of a dozen cities, promoting
the book.
Evangelist Graham to
begin last crusade
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —
Forty-six years ago, a hand
some, fiery young preacher
from North Carolina drew
275,000 people to a three-week
revival crusade in downtown
Minneapolis and at the Min
nesota State Fairgrounds.
That same year — 1950 —
he founded the Billy Graham
Evangelistic
Association in
Minneapolis,
where three
years earlier
he had taken
over as presi
dent of North
western Col
lege, Bible
School and
Seminary.
Billy Gra- GRAHAM
ham’s ties
with Minneapolis come full cir
cle Wednesday when he begins
his last crusade in the city that
is still the headquarters of his
ministry. It will also be one of
the last crusades of his career.
Graham, 77, has Parkinson’s
disease and hasn’t preached a
sermon since December, when
he fell in his New York hotel
room and broke his ribs.
Graham himself said Monday:
“I have no fear for the future. It’s
in God’s hands. I don’t spend one
minute thinking about what will
happen when I’m gone.”
Dodger Butler begins
radiation treatments
ATLANTA (AP) — Los Ange
les Dodger outfielder Brett But
ler began radiation treatments
for throat cancer Monday.
The treatments will continue
for six weeks at a clinic in At
lanta, said Lowery Robinson, a
friend who has served as a
spokesman for Butler.
“Everything went great,”
Robinson said. “He said it was
anticlimactic to some degree.
You don’t know what to expect
the first time out.”
Doctors removed a cancer
ous tonsil from Butler’s throat
May 2 and then operated
again May 21 to remove lymph
nodes, only one of which
proved to be cancerous.
After his radiation treatments,
Butler, 38, plans to go to Mexico
to undergo an intravenous pro
gram he hopes will build his im
mune system. He has said he
wants to return to the Dodgers
late in the season, though doctors
say that’s unlikely.
“He’s planning to work out,
keep the strength up,” Robin
son said.' 1
Braxton gets personal
with new album
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Toni
Braxton tells a few secrets on
her new album.
On her self-titled debut album
three years ago, such songs as
“Breathe Again” and “Seven
Whole Days” portrayed Braxton
as the victim of romance.
On Secrets, which comes out
Tuesday, Braxton bubbles with
sexual attitude. One song, “You’re
Makin’ Me High,” is something of
a rhapsody on desire and what a
body might do about it.
“At first I was nervous about
singing like that,” Braxton, 28,
said in Sunday’s Los Angeles
Times. “I’m very comfortable
with my sexuality, but the
lyrics in that song are so overt.
Braxton also joked about the
long “bought” hair she wears in
the video for the song: “You too
can have this for $1,200.”
It’s a switch from her trade
mark close-cropped look.
Movie director pays
26-year library fine
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP)
— It might take a while, but
you can’t say Phil Alden Robin
son doesn’t pay his dues.
The director of the hit movie
“Field of Dreams” finally re
turned two library books he
borrowed from his alma mater,
Union College, in June 1970 —
and he paid the fine, too.
“At ten cents a day, it comes
to $1,900,” Robinson said
while giving the commence
ment speech at graduation
Sunday. He also received an
honorary doctorate.
Robinson, who graduated in
1971, told some 650 graduates
to satisfy their own dreams as
they head out into the world.
“You’ve had people all your
life telling you what to do. Now
finally, at last, it’s your turn,”
he said. “Take the wheel, set
your own course, bust out of
here, do it your own way.”
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