European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday january 28, 1992 faces n places Memphis helps actress Shepherd her strength super bowl entertainment Singer Gloria Stefan prepares for her appearance at the super bowl on sunday in Minneapolis. She said her halftime performance probably was t seen in her native Cuba. She believes the image of a successful cuban exile is contrary to what cuban Leader Fidel Castro tells from wire reports cybill Shepherd raised in Memphis tenn., and starring in a to movie of the same name plans to keep her identity with the City going Strong she is building a second Home in the Mississippi River port. A my creativity kind of Springs from there some Way a said the 41-year-old actress. It s also the place where she went on a Date with Elvis Presley she said. Shepherd who lives in los Angeles appears in the int movie Memphis a Story of kidnapping and racism based on a novel by Shelby Foote. A a in a a product of the segregated South Quot Shepherd said. �?o1 wanted to do a Story about the haired of racism and How sometimes the most incongruous people break  with religion in the 1950s, George Grant wrestled under the Moniker gorgeous George. Now he grapples with larger issues at the pulpit. The 67-year-old former pretty boy of the ring is a fundamentalist preacher and he no longer even watches wrestling. Quot when god let me know that i had sufficient preparation to preach i left the business because 1 no longer needed it Quot said Grant who As a professional wrestler was known for his luxurious Blond locks. Grant who lives in York county s.c., travelled 70 Miles on sunday to deliver a Sermon at Alpine Baptist Church in  proves popular i hey May constitute a rarefied Sample hut users of the encyclopaedia Britannica s instant research service were More interested in Edgar Allan Poe last year than they were in Jesus artist Pablo Picasso or the gangster Al Capone. One of the More surprising findings in a ranking of the people who generated the most requests for information from the research service was that Poe a 19th-Century writer famed for his eerie stories ranked fifth in the top 20 individuals. The service provides information on any 100 topics requested Over a 10-year period to purchasers of the encyclopaedia Britannica. Last year it received More than 162,000 inquiries. One fifth of those were sampled for the ranking Margeret Mottier director of the service said in Chicago. According to her findings the 10 leading figures in 1991 were in order of demand John f. Kennedy the Rev. Martin Luther King jr., Albert Einstein Adolf Hitler Poe Abraham Lincoln Jesus Picasso Capone and Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla he was a serbian american who discovered the rotating magnetic Field. He died in 1943, and Mottier said she had no idea Why he made the top 10, out ranking former soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev and russian president Boris n. Yeltsin who were in 16th and 20th places respectively. Nor did she have any explanation for the High ranking of Poe who like Lincoln Capone and Tesla had not made the top 10 in 1990. A i have been racking my brain to figure out if there have been recent books movies television programs about him Quot she said. A the is the Only literary figure on the  s dream Island give prime minister John major a Cricket ground some opera and a 19th-Century English novel and he can live on a mythical desert Island. He was a guest sunday on desert Island discs a British broadcasting corp. Radio program out of London that has participants choose eight favorite records before being cast away on an imaginary Island with one luxury one of the records and a Book. Major chose London a Oval Cricket ground As his luxury Joan Sutherland singing the mad scene from Gaetano Donizetti s Lucia i Lam Mcmoor and cuban citizens Quot in his propaganda. Anthony Trollope a the Small House at Allington. On a More serious note he said of his upbringing As the son of a circus performer who fell on hard times Quot i think it did Harden some attitudes. 1 hate people who patronize. I dislike  goes political Jessica Lange said she Wasny to politically Active until the Anita Hill Clarence Thomas showdown on television. Now the actress has it in for certain Republican senators who participated in the confirmation of Thomas for the . Supreme court amid Hills allegations of sexual harassment. A Arlen Specter Orrin Hatch Alan Simpson a those men should be Strung up a Lange said in the feb. 1 Issue of to guide. A they were humiliating a she said. A they had the audacity and the stupidity to carry on like that Quot Specter is from Pennsylvania Hatch from Utah and Simpson from Wyoming. Lange said there should be More to mixing Hollywood and politics than throwing parties. A fall these people running around really what change do they actually make a she said in Radnor a. A Warren Beatty and Gary Hart a i mean How important a political statement is that its a joke if you really want to do something you have to jump into it actually do something. Not just give  $ 9art cutting Corners today its easy and its convenient. A if you live in government housing Well deliver your copy of the stars and stripes right to your Mailbox a it wont Cost you a Penny More than the Bookstore Price and you pay your Carrier just once a month. 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