European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday apri 8,1987 faces n places Rooney ruffles lbs feathers from press dispatches lbs news in new York reported he network won t pay "60 minutes commentator Andy Rooney unless he returns to work. Rooney has refused to appear on the top rated news show until the network settles a five week old strike by the writers Guild. Rooney who has a contract at lbs news until february 1988 for an estimated $400,000. Annually has not appeared on "60 minutes for free weeks. He delivers a commentary at Roancy the end of the show Andy Rooney has been asked to report to work under the terms of his contract with lbs news. He has refused to do so said a statement issued by the news division while we respect Andy s desire to support the writers Guild in its strike we will not continue to pay him his salary while he refuses to  Rooney could not be reached Tor comment Mon Day. On Friday he said he would not return to work unlit the striking writers did and suggested he might be fired for his outspoken stance which has angered "60 minutes executive producer Don Hewitt. The strike centers on network insistence that it be allowed to fire workers without regard to seniority. Rooney has been a critic of lbs management since last year when he began complaining that the network s leaders care More about profits than Public service. Last week he sent a letter to thai effect to lbs chief executive officer Laurence a. Tolsch. Other High profile news figures including eve Ning news Anchor Dan hither and former Anchor Waller Cronkite Are sympathy in to the striking writ ers but have gone on the air Keillor blames press humorist Garrison Keillor blames the local news paper s grim attention to his private life far his decision to leave St. Paul Minn. In a letter printed in sunday s St. Paul Pioneer press dispatch the Host of a Prairie Home com Panion chastised the newspaper for interviewing his neighbors taking photographs of his House and print in tits address on Page 1 in 198s. That in t the sort of journalism they taught us Ai Murphy Hall at the University of Minnesota Keillor wrote. Keillor 44, announced on his feb. 14 program that he was quitting the radio program Afler 13 years on the air. He plans to move with his wife to her native Denmark after his last show june 13. Executive editor Deborah Honell responded to earlier criticism by Keillor saying in a column that she did not think the newspaper should be blamed for Bis departure. She said she regretted the priming of Keillor s address but added the newspaper had treated him More respectfully than most other papers would have. To preacher s sex in novel Irving Wallace s new novel about sex surrogates the celestial bed includes a character seemingly out of today s headlines a television preacher who has sex with a Secretary but Wallace said in los Angeles that he started writing the Book More than a year ago Long before the scandal involving pal evangelist Jim Bakke Brake into the news All of my characters and plot Are fiction Wal lace said in a statement released by his publicist. The novel is about two sex surrogates a female one and a male one who fall in love and the difficulties they have trying to make it together Wallace said. Sex surrogates arc people who working under a therapist s direction engage in sexual activity with patients in an attempt to Correct the patients Scauo Difili cuties. Bakker stepped Down from the head of his pal television ministry last month saying he had been blackmailed Over an extra marital Liaison with a former Church Secre tary. He also said he was stepping aside to prevent the takeover of pal by another evangelist Autry gets fifth Star one Lime singing Cowboy Gene Autry who received an unprecedented fifth Star on Hollywood s walk of Fame said the Only thing that could make him happier was if hit California Angels had won the world series. Mayor Tom Bradley on monday presented Autry with a plaque prod aiming Gene Autry  Autry already had four stars on Hollywood Boule Vard Wilh each Star characterizing a different aspect of his show business career radio television mov ies and recording. The fifth Kar represents hit achievement in live theater stage Rodeo and carnival performances. He is the Only performer Wilh five stars. There will Only be one Day thai will be bigger than this for  said awry owner of the Angl sea Beall learn. Thai s when we win the world  Newmon Hill lose Case \ Federal App Rali court in in of Nocco did not death Harvest of aids an aug Rallan government to warning about Rha danger of aids to Buret the grim reaper knocking Down people like Bowling pint. Jutt and brought Haiti of protests from viewer but the government defended the and aids it an incurable tute ate hot attacks the body t immune Tyi tem. Buy an argument by actor Paul Newman and director George Roy Hill that they had gotten Slung on Home video Revenue from their hit movie the  upholding a lower court ruling the 9th . Cir Cuit court or appeals on monday rejected Newman s and Hill s claim that Universal pictures conspired Wilh other studios to reduce the artists share of the profits from video sales and rentals. The antitrust suit involved Home video income from two mid-1970s movies starring Newman and directed by Hill the Sling and  under their contracts Wilh Universal pictures both men were entitled to a share of the profits. The suit maintained that Universal and other studios conspired in 1 98 1 to classify certain Revenue from sales and rentals in the new Home video Market As income from film distribution rather than film production. Center and Community bookstores