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Newspaper
Mesa Tribune
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1994
Page
2
Queen Elizabeth II crashed during a Saturday ride at Sandringham Estate when her horse tripped. She broke a bone in her left wrist and will wear a cast for several weeks. The incident was described as not a serious break by Buckingham Palace.
Billy Frolick wrote a parody titled The Ditches of Edison County under the name Ronald Richard Roberts. The piece mimics Robert James Waller’s Bridges of Madison County in a love story featuring Pancetta and Concave. Frolick says Bridges inspired him but lampooned lines like the hero described as a leopard on a comet.
Tina Wolfe camps outside the Asheville NC Civic Center box office to secure Gill concert tickets for March 24, braving sleet and freezing cold since January 11. She and relatives rely on friends for food and drink as she vows to sit out until seats go on sale February 12 to honor her mother with front row seats.
The EMI spokesman hinted the surviving Beatles Paul McCartney George Harrison and Ringo Starr could include new songs in the video documentary and CD anthology. They are involved in video and CD work with George Martin as plans for a 1995 release unfold amid secrecy. John Lennon was murdered in 1980.
Bryan Adams drew a mostly local audience to a Sunday show in Ho Chi Minh City, the first Western star to perform there since 1975. The 2,500-seat arena sold tickets from 15 to 35 dollars, with half the crowd foreign visitors. The audience shifted from polite applause to dancing in the aisles as the Canadian rocker urged the energy of entertainment.
Entertainment Tonight host Leeza Gibbons says her husband Stephen Meadows works at home, giving her freedom to pursue TV work. She calls her situation incredibly spoiled and notes she will host her own daytime show Leeza starting this week while monitoring risks to marriage.
Katherine Atlas, mother of 23 year old David Atlas slain outside a bar on Dec 21, published an open letter in The Philadelphia Inquirer. She asks why the homicide occurred and expresses prayers for both families while calling for nonviolent action and a possible victim support group. Police have no suspects.
Today’s history recalls 1912 when Robert Scott reached the South Pole only to find Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it and the party perished on return. In 1862 Jefferson Davis signed the Enabling Act, making Arizona a Confederate territory.
A Louisiana Lottery official recalls a bungled fraud scheme involving a man, his daughter, and her boyfriend using taped together tickets. The father and daughter quit, but the boyfriend was convicted and jailed. In Ohio, inmates Geist and Anthony sue General Foods claiming Maxwell House coffee is addictive seeking $20,000 for headaches and insomnia.
John Mellencamp says MTV censoring portions of When Jesus Left Birmingham by blocking images like black and white face and needle use inadvertently publicizes his message about a deteriorating society and child temptations. He adds MTV standards may have helped spotlight the issue. The Associated Press contributed.
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