European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday january 15,1991 Hob again dominates annual Cable awards from wire reports Home Box office continued its dominance Over its Cable competitors by grabbing 25 awards at the 12th annual Academy of Cable excellence awards. The nearest challengers to Hob were the arts amp entertainment network and Showtime which picked up eight awards each. Espnes sports programming won seven Ace awards and the Disney Channel and int each won six. Can and the discovery Channel won four apiece. The Academy of Cable excellence presented the awards in non televised ceremonies Friday and in a program sunday night hosted by actor James Woods. The program was broadcast live on eight Cable networks from the wiltern theater in los Angeles. Hob swept the Ace awards for a second year. Among its 25 awards were four for a Billy Crystal Midnight train to Moscow a hich was honoured with four aces including comedy special and directing a comedy special. Hob also picked up three awards for its a tales from the crypt a including aces for dramatic series and for directing a dramatic series. Showtime so a it a Garry Shandling a show won three aces including comedy series honors and arts amp entertainment so a Blackadder goes Forth won an Ace for International comedy special or series. Huq a so the 13th annual Young comedians show hosted by Dennis Miller won Miller an Ace As entertainment Host. Dick Cavett was the Ace Winner for program interviewer for a the Dick Cavett show on Cnoc. A. A it Janies Earl Jones picked up aces in two acting categories. In the category of actor in a dramatic series Jones was honoured for his performance in a american playwrights theater third and Oak a the Pool Blair Brown won an Ace As actress in a dramatic series for her work in a the Days and nights of Molly Dodds on lifetime. The series also won lifetime an Ace for writing a dramatic series. Hume Cronyn won an Ace for actor in a movie or ministries for his role on Hbous a Page old the Ace for actress in a movie or miniseries went to Cicely Tyson in to nth so heat some 600 judges screened 1,700 entries for the Ace awards this year selecting 361 nominees in 82 categories. Cinema awards Given James Stewart Lauren Bacall and Tom cruise have won the american Cinema awards for distinguished achievement in film Singer Whitney Houston got the award for musical performer of the year. The american Cinema foundation a a saturday night Drew More than 2,000 people. About 200 stars attended a $2,500-a-Platc banquet. The banquet benefited the motion picture and television country House and Hospital. Columbia pictures chairman Leo Jaffe received an award for his contribution to the Cinema Art. Y Mandela King compared Secretary of health and human services Louis Sullivan on a visit to South Africa compared Nelson Mandela with slain civil rights Leader Martin Luther a a j a Iivo a it j a. C a i \ y Columbia pictures chairman Leo Jaffe left Singer Whitney Houston actress Lauren Bacall and actor Jimmy Stewart receive awards from the american Cinema foundation. King . A a a. A a. A a a. A a a a a i believe that King and Mandela made this troubled nation the Crossroads of Freedom a Sullivan said in a talk to a Martin Luther King memorial service attended by about 300 people in South africans largest Black township of Soweto South of Johannesburg. A. A. A a a a. He also praised president Friderik w. De a Lerly a courageous ally for Mandela who a has committed himself to building a new genuinely democratic South Packwood to pay Alimony an Oregon judge has ordered sen. Bob Packwood to pay $2,500 a month in Alimony to his wife Georgie. The senator filed for divorce in june citing irreconcilable differences. Packwood 58, had asked that the Alimony be reduced to $500 a month after the couples Maryland House valued at Between $800,000 and $900,000, is sold. Other than the House the couples assets have been valued at $371,966, from which circuit court judge Kathleen b. Nachtigal awarded More than half a Worth about $260,000 a to Packwood on Friday. The judge added that Georgie Packwood a smaller share would be equalized by a larger share of. The proceeds from the House Sale. The show must go on no matter where Fate takes the United states in the persian Gulf this week the . Navy memorial commission is proceeding with its plans for a Black tie gala to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United states entry into world War ii. The commission will present president Bush retired adm. Arleigh Burke and Chicago juvenile court judge William White All world War ii veterans with the Lone Sailor awards. White was a member of the a Golden 13,�?� the first unit of Black Navy officers commissioned during world War ii. They will receive their awards at a Jan. 31 dinner at the grand Hyatt hotel in Washington. The award recognizes individuals who have served in the Navy and gone on to distinguish themselves in a manner that benefits humanity. Among the show business celebrities expected for the evening which benefits the . Navy memorial is actor Tony Curtis who will speak on his Days in the Navy. Celebrities who have worn the uniform on screen Are also expected including Ernest Borgnine Peter Graves Brad Johnson from the new a flight of the intruder Kelly Mcgillis and George Peppard. Dietrich makes rare pitch a actress Marlene Dietrich emerged from seclusion to join a Host of celebrities trying to save the movie studio near Berlin where she Billy Wilder and Fred Zinneman first got their starts in the 1920s and 1930s. The old Universal film co., better known As the Ufa in the town of Gabelsberg just South of Berlin dismissed several Hundred workers on dec. 31 in an attempt to stave off economic collapse. Dietrich 89, gave a rare Telephone interview from Paris on new years eve telling the German Ard television Channel that she had a Only the most Beautiful recollections of her Days at the studio. A a in a still nostalgic for Gabelsberg and i Only Hope you find the Success you rightly expect a she said. The reminiscence was broadcast during a fund raising show from the studio. A goodbye. Ill Cross my fingers for you a Dietrich said in closing. The broadcast raised $135,000. And the soviet red army glee club Sang the theme from a the Blue a a a dear Abby i am troubled with something a Reader wrote a what right do we mortals have to demand an explanation from god a Abby that writer has never known the gut wrenching pain of losing a child. In 1988, my Beautiful 22-year- old daughter was killed by a drunk Driver. At first i screamed a the not Only killed her he killed me too a Only i can to die a i then got on my Knees and begged god a you can do anything. You can perform miracles. You can bring my daughter Back to life please god let me Trade places with her a please let me lie in that coffin and let her out to live her life. She is Only 22, god. She has never been married or experienced the Miracle of being a Mother. I am old. I have lived. In be had my Chance at life but she Hasni to. Please please let me Trade places with her. You can do it. You can make it so that All the people who thought she died wont be surprised that its me in the coffin and not Abby please god let her have a Chance to live. She did no to deserve to die a. As you can see Abby in a still Here a and not be cause i want to be either. Mostly because i did no thav it the guts to pull the trigger or take the pills to get me out of the terrible pain and loss i live with every minute of my life. God did no to see fit to bargain with me. God does no to plea bargain like men do. The drunk who killed my precious daughter and me too spent less than six months behind bars. Today he walks in the Sun while my Little girl is in a dark grave a we Ith no Sun. And though i also walk in. The Sun my heart and soul Are in that dark grave with her. Quot god did no to answer my prayers and i resent being told that i have no right to question god. If there is a Quot god and if i Ever get to meet him face to face you can bet your life i will have plenty of whys for him to answer. I want to know Why my Little girl died and that drunk was. Allowed to go on living. I love her More than my life and i miss her so. I am mad that l am having to live in a world where she no longer lives and i want to know Why. Why i have the right to ask god Arentt we supposedly created in his image if so surely he has a heart and soul that Are capable of hurting just As i Hurt. Why would he not expect to be questioned if he has anything to do with miracles i done to fear the lord. And i done to fear hell either. I know what hell is like. In be already been there since the Day my precious daughter was killed. Please sign me a bereaved Mother . Compassionate friends has helped me More than anyone or anything. Dear Mother believe me my heart goes out to you and to every Mother who has known the pain of losing a child. Millions of people will read this letter and millions of mothers and fathers too will relate to it having experienced the loss and Felt the pain you describe. There Are no easy answers and since you know firsthand How comforting compassionate friends can be your Only other ally is time which has a Way of Healing broken Universal press Syndicate a
