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Ex-clown hands out'awards'LOS ANGELES lt;AP - Letter lady Vanna White, disgraced preacher Jimmy Swaggart, dethroned Olympian Ben Johnson, boxer Mike Tyson and talk show melee victim Geraldo Rivera were top recipients of the 6th annual Bozo Awards,Larry Harmon, television’s original Bozo the clown, released his list of the 1988’s dubious achievers in 11 categories on Friday. The honors are always announced the day after Thanksgiving.Miss White, of “Wheel of Fortune” fame, took the showbiz award for “exposing herself to the letter” in a men’s magazine layout, Harmon said.Swaggart, the evangelist who acknowledged consorting with a prostitute, revealed that ‘ old-time religion and another old-time profession just don’t mix.” Johnson took the sports division because his 100-meter gold medal at the Seoul Olympics was yanked because of a positive test for steroids.Tyson’s well publicized marriage problems won him the newsmaker Bozo, and Rivera, whose nose was broken by a thrown chair during a brawl on the set of “Geraldo,” took the journalism honor “for showing us that he has a nose for news after all,” Harmon said.Other winners included:—Former presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, for making up presidential quotes.—Actress Cher, for endorsing yet another celebrity scent.—State Department architects,for building the electronic bug-infested new embassy in Moscow.—Hugh Hefner, for announcing his impending marriage.—Exerciser Richard Simmons, for lifetime achievement.—and Jimmy the Greek, who took the public speaking award for “his dubious analysis of black athletes.”This year the actual award is a Bozo telephone, which will be sent to each winner, said Jerry Digney, spokesman for Larry Harmon Pictures.
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Beckley Register Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sat, Nov 26, 1988
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