European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 a the stars and stripes Friday november 15, 1991 faces a no places dangerous release has critics wondering from wire reports on the eve of thursday nights premiere of Michael Jackson s $4 million Black or White video insiders in the record business were divided on whether the 33-year-old pop icon still has the Star Power to guarantee a commercial blockbuster during this economic downturn. A a Michael a Jackson s new album dangerous is going to be a monster a Angie Diehl Jacobs director of marketing for the 93-outlet los Angeles based music plus inc. Said in an interview wednesday. A a it a one album that can truly live up to the Roy Trakin senior editor of the music Industry Trade publication hits cautions that the Competition for consumer dollars has increased sharply during Jackson a Long absence from the pop scene. A a Michael a been away a Long time and that really is dangerous a Trakin said. A a he solder now and so Are his fans. There Are new stars to contend with. Its a different epic records which wont release dangerous until nov. 26, was to kick off its multimillion Dollar Campaign thursday night when Fox television and the Cable channels mtg and bet premiere Jackson a new ii minute Mega video for Black or White. Album Advance orders Are Over 2.3 million. While most Industry observers expect dangerous to debut at no. 1 on billboard Magazine s top 200 album Chart eventually the albums Success will be measured against the totals of Jackson a last two smash hits the 25 million worldwide sales for i987�?Ts bad and the 48 million of 1982�?Ts thriller. Initially however the figure to watch is 770,000. That is the record held by guns no roses use your illusion ii for the most units sold during an album s first week in the stores since billboard began using the computerized sound scan system to Monitor record sales six months praises treatment former heavyweight boxing Champion Muhammad Ali says a doctor supervised fasting regime he underwent in Syria has eased the nervous condition that has plagued him since his fighting Days ended. A i feel a lot better Quot Ali said. �?o1 have lost 37 pounds. My speech is a Little better. My trembling is a Little still Ali spent much of a half hour news conference wednesday with his head bowed. He swayed several times often rubbed his eyes and absently fingered a set of worry beads. But when photographers moved up close to shoot his picture he flashed a winsome Grin. Ali 49, suffers from a nerve disorder that May have Michael Jackson poses with a Black Panther to promote his 11-minute music video Black or White. Stemmed from blows to his head during his fighting career that ended in 1981. He was accompanied at the news conference in Damascus by syrian doctors who have been monitoring his Progress on the fast which restricted him to water and herbal Tea with Honey for the first 24 Days. Ali has lately begun drinking juice and eating soup the doctors said. Rashad Muslawi Ali s spokesman and vice president of the Muhammad Ali islamic foundation said Ali would end the fast shortly but would repeat the regime in about six site for sightseers a new must see sight on the soviet tourist Trail is the summer House where president Mikhail s. Gorbachev was imprisoned during the failed August coup. Trouble is tourists can to see it very Well. The Dacha can be glimpsed from a Road winding through the crimean Foothills above a Little Bay at Foros where the Southern tip of the soviet Union noses into the Black sea. Chauffeurs and tour bus Drivers Stop to Point out the building and separate staff quarters and bikers and hikers can gaze through an Iron Fence at the grounds filled with Olive Trees. The area immediately around the Dacha remains off limits to anyone not authorized by the Kremlin or the Gorbachev but a Moscow tour operator is seeking permission to give clients a closer peek for organized Appeal in apparel when to guide released its latest list of dressers Best and worst Andy Griffith was sure his jeans for Home and rumpled Gray suit As Matlock would earn him a Barb. He was right. A i deserve worst dressed a both As Andy Griffith and As the character i play a he said. A away from the set i Only Wear levies jeans and lands end shirts and Tennis shoes. And for six seasons As Matlock in be been wearing the same rumpled Gray ties the knot actor Malcolm Mcdowell has married artist Kelley Kuhr his publicist said wednesday. The tuesday ceremony was private. Mcdowell 48, and Kuhr 24, a met on the Beach in Southern California a Santa Monica a and developed a relationship Over several years a the publicist reunion nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal had an unexpected reunion with a former american Soldier who helped liberate him from a world War ii concentration Camp. A for probably 46 years i wanted to meet you and shake your hand a Frederick Stumpp of Columbus told Wiesenthal tuesday night during a news conference at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware Ohio. Stumpp a retired postal worker said he was one of 23 soldiers who freed Wiesenthal from the Mau Hausen concentration Camp in Austria. A you liberated me a a surprised Wiesenthal asked. It was risky a Stumpp said. A we took our lives in our own Wiesenthal who lost 89 relatives to the nazis said he is thankful for americans such As Stumpp. They gave me a new life. I am a Friend forever a he cutting Corners today it s easy and its convenient. 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