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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1988
Page
11
In New York on Monday, Loretta Swit and Lassie helped a petition drive by the International Fund for Animal Welfare urging the South Korean government to end the inhumane slaughter of dogs and cats for luxury food.
Eartha Kitt will replace Dolores Gray as Carlotta in Stephen Sondheim's Follies in London next month. Millicent Martin will take the star role from Diana Rigg as the show enters its second year. Co stars Julia McKenzie Daniel Massey and David Healy extended contracts amid critics' awards for Best Musical 1987 88.
Victoria Sellers, daughter of Peter Sellers, admitted using cocaine and diluting urine samples to violate probation terms from an earlier drug conspiracy case. The former Playboy model pleaded guilty to probation violation and faces sentencing June 27. she testified against others in a Los Angeles cocaine ring run by Reed Wallace.
Mayor Henry Cisneros' son John Paul Anthony Cisneros, nicknamed miracle baby for surviving a malformed heart and no spleen, turns one with a Mass and party at Sacred Heart Church. Parents request contributions to the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation as hopes rise for his future.
On his 12 day European tour Kanny Travis heads to Paris Amsterdam Dublin and London with nerves about audience response. Earlier he was named entertainer of the year at the 22nd Music City News country awards and won male performer of the year single of the year for Forever and Ever Amen and album of the year for Always and Forever.
Singer Nicky Skaggs slipped into a backstage restroom at the Grand Ole Opry House Monday night to change clothes for privacy before the 22nd annual Music City News awards. He shaved and dressed while about a half dozen people were nearby, sharing a dressing room with other male performers. Skaggs and his wife Sharon sang on the show.
The 88 year old Queen Mother Elizabeth visited Northern Ireland on Tuesday to reopen Castle Coole, a restored 18th century site near the bombing scene that killed 11 people last year. Troops and soldiers patrolled the grounds as she dedicated the castle.
Sonny Bono, former half of Sonny and Cher and current Palm Springs mayor, said his favorite letter since election asked if he needed a councilman and signed with an odd "An Unemployed Polt" by Clint Eastwood, reflecting local sentiment.
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