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Newspaper
Mesa Tribune
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1994
Page
2
Filmmaker John Waters builds a career on bad taste and a world class book collection. He cites titles like Hunting Humans and Women Who Love Men Who Kill plus shelves devoted to Manson and Hearst. His new movie Serial Mom stars Kathleen Turner as a housewife with psychopathic tendencies.
Brett Butler says fame remains surprising and recalls meeting Tom Hanks and wife at the Philadelphia premiere where they praised Grace Under Fire. The sitcom has consistently ranked in the top 10 since its fall debut.
Wayne Newton, longtime Arabian horse breeder, married attorney Kathleen McCrone on a Las Vegas area ranch. Newton, 52, and the 30 year old McCrone met three years ago in Las Vegas and became engaged last summer at Newton's 53 acre Casa de Shenandoah.
Ed Asner recalls that Mary Tyler Moore doubted him in the Lou Grant audition and creators were politely unsure of his initial read. He improvised to show what they wanted and earned the role. Chris McCarty lands a villain part in In the Heat of the Night after a close call with mistaken identity at a Nashville crafts fair.
Critics, led by Greg Kot in Rolling Stone, praise Bonnie Raitt for Longing in Their Hearts calling it a career Raitt album. They note her voice carries the release with bluesy grit unseen since the 1970s, following two multiplatinum prior records Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw. Associated Press and Gannett News Service contributed.
Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love read parts of his death note at a candlelight vigil for Nirvana fans gathered near the Space Needle. About 4000 to 5000 mourners heard Love's taped message and an exhortation from a crisis counselor, with no violence reported. Cobain, 27, died of a shotgun wound. a one page note was found nearby. Funeral arrangements had not been announced.
Milner Hotel in Detroit reports a weekend holdup in which a 6-foot-4 man weighing 180 pounds demanded cash with a note. He fled with about $125, leaving a submarine sandwich wrapped in a towel as a weapon. Desk clerk Terry Hathcock, 43, described the incident, the first hotel robbery in years, and noted the attacker remains at large.
Former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite, 77, says retirement has not lightened his schedule. He continues work with Discovery Channel, plans Cronkite Remembers in 1995, finishes his autobiography, and hopes to write more books. His friend Charles Kuralt will retire May 1 to pursue writing and travel.
The Saturday Arizona Lotto produced no top prize winner with the six numbers 2 14 16 17 29 41. Five numbers matched by 29 tickets worth 1365.70 each, four numbers matched by 1 499 tickets at 55.40 each, and three numbers matched by 23 421 tickets.
On April 11 1994 it is the 101st day of the year with 264 days left. The history panel recalls 945 World War II events and American troops liberating Buchenwald in eastern Germany. It also notes 1903 fieldwork near Benson in the San Pedro Valley and 1947 Jackie Robinson’s major league debut in an exhibition game.
In August near Denver two Tarahumara Indians from northern Mexico finished first and second in the Leadville 100, the United States' highest altitude 100 mile race, as the sole participants not wearing conventional shoes. They wore homemade sandals cut from used automobile tires.
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