European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse All the old news that fit just right Andy Rooney Tribune Media you done to feel right when Youji avens to read the newspaper. All last week i did a poor Job Reading the papers so i saved them and today i Laid them All out on the dining room table and went through them methodically. You do a better Job when the newspapers Flat on a table instead of in your Lap. President Bush stopped by it. Rushmore. I done to think 1 Ever saw it spelled out a amount who decided George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt were the four presidents most worthy of being honoured by having their faces carved out of a Mountain Teddy Roosevelt everyone was saying How Beautiful the memo1 rial is but several years ago we were filming from a helicopter in South Dakota and 1 got a look at All the Anonymous mountains out Back of it. A Rushmore. They re a lot prettier than the one Gutzon Borglum carved up ill Tell you that. 1 mean its a remarkable parlor trick fora sculptor to have done but those faces Don t make the mountains look any better. The newspapers i read were More interested in Donald Trump than i am. One Story said he gave Marla Maples an 8-Carat Diamond. I be surprised if he got together enough Money to have his face carved on a Mountain out there near it. Rushmore. Its a funny thing about very Rich people. Trump is supposed to be in big financial trouble and in debt hundreds of millions of dollars but no matter How much financial trouble Rich people get into they still have chauffeur driven limousines. The difference Between having a billion dollars and owing a billion does no to make much difference to them. I watched some of the Wimbledon Tennis on television so i did no to bother to read about it in the paper. Some games Are better on television than others. It makes a big difference How interesting the waiting time is in a game. There s a lot of Tine when there a no action in the Field in both football and baseball but if you re a fan its fun to anticipate what your team s going to do next. The waiting time Isnit Dull. Hockey and soccer Are terrible sports to watch on television because you can to see everything that a going on and there a Little waiting time so you Don t have the. Fun of trying what the teams will do next. That a True of basketball a too except that there a so much scoring that you spend a lot of time thinking about whether your team can catch up. One big Story was president Bush s Choice of Clarence Thomas for the supreme court vacancy. Someone accused the president of being racist because he went out of his Way to choose a Black candidate to replace the Only Black supreme court Justice Thurgood Marshall. One of the most controversial things about Thomas that in be read is he a a regular Cigar smoker. How arc those eight other justices going to feel about having a Cigar smoker locked up in there with them Thomas is known As a conservative. 1 suspect he s going to be popular with a lot of White americans because he agrees with a Small but growing number of conservative Black leaders who think Black americans have to get up off their tails and do it for themselves. He thinks Young Blacks arc involved with sex too Early having babies they can to take care of and then becoming involved with drugs and crime. No White person in Public life would say that. Opponents of Thomas Are fighting him on grounds that he a anti abortion. No one knows for sure but it seems Likely that As a Good Catholic boy he is. In be never seen an Issue that so divided the people of our country As abortion does and its hard to say whether most americans arc for it or against it. Maybe we ought to have a simple yes no vote and Sec How it comes out. Andy Rooney is a former stars and stripes takes new movie old moves into new Yorky Dana Kennedy the associated press if you like your movie stars to act like movie stars Kathleen Turner does no to disappoint. She sweeps into a new York City hotel room flashing a dazzling smile and attended by an entourage All of whom fade in the background As she shakes hands. Even when she bends Over to allow a makeup artist to minister to her mane of Blond hair before the photo shoot Turner remains the Center of attention. A you want me to stand where Here or a Pectle Over there a Turner asks the photographer in her trademark flirtatious growl affecting one of Many accents in her repertoire. She a the daughter of a foreign service officer who moved his family All Over the world. Turner is a commanding presence dressed in a beige pantsuit As she settles into an armchair kicking off her pumps tossing Back her hair and requesting cigarettes from an assistant she seems More like a Rosalind Russell or Ginger Rogers than a contemporary star., but if you re expecting a spoiled diva Turner 37, will Surprise you. Even though she a in the Middle of a Battery of interviews to promote her new movie v./. Warshawski about a Tough female private Eye she Fields questions and poses for pictures As gamely As an eager Young Starlet. This single minded professionalism May explain Why Turner who began her career As the quintessential struggling new York actress succeeded so dramatically where Many others have failed. A it was miraculous a Turner said of her arrival hohyo58tiitvr�� Jana Nail Kathleen Turner gives . Warshawski a shot. In new York As a 23-year-old aspiring actress. Within a month she landed an agent who also became her Boyfriend. Within four months she had a part in an Olf Broadway play. Within seven months she got a role in the daytime soap opera the doctors. Within nine months she was on Broadway in gemini at night. A you make up your mind that this is the career you want and you go on the attack Quot said Turner. Quot your Mission is to go on every goddamn audition until you get a break and i not that Turner was Content with the Early fruits of her labors. Her 18-month stint As Nola Aldrich on the doctors was by her own admission a Stormy one. A the writing was abysmal and the directors changed every Day a Turner recalled. A the Only people who cared about the continuity of the show were the actors themselves. Id have big fights with everyone. They were glad when 1 Turner is sanguine about any reputation she might Haye As being difficult. A a in be been described As being aggressive which of course is being decisive a said Turner. Quot aggressive is a term used by men to describe Strong women. But i think 1 also have a reputation for interfering in the process if its not going As Well As i think it almost As effortlessly As she conquered new York Turner made the jump to feature films in what remains her most memorable role the Femme Fatale Matty Walker in body heat. Turners momentum continued with starring roles in s Honor Peggy sue got married crimes of passion and last years War of the roses. Among her less successful films were the Man with two brains and the Burt Reynolds vehicle switching channels. . Warshawski is based on Sara Paretsky a series of Chicago based mystery novels. The cast is basically unknown the biggest name is Veteran character actor Charles Durning who co starred with Turner on Broadway in cat on a hot tin roof. Turner Hopes v./. Warshawski helps Hollywood see women As More than male appendages. The film in which Turner plays a Bone crunching private Eye comes amid a flurry of summer movies such As Thelma and Louise and the terminator part 2, in which women play Macho roles. A a in a very optimistic about it a she said. "1 think we re in the process of change and i am hoping that Warshawski will show that women can carry a August 4 1991 sunday a Page 7
