European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 the stars and stripes thursday March 5, 1992 faces no place French critic not impressed with Stallone from wire reports French culture minister Jack Lang is being ridiculed for honouring actor director Sylvester Stallone for excellence in the arts. The Star of the rambo and Rocky movies was named an officer of the order of arts and letters on feb. 21, becoming one of four americans to win the Honor this year. Other americans who received the Honor Are actor director Warren Beatty and directors Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone. Literary critic Bernard Pivot described the award As ridiculous and said Stallone represents the worst of american Cinema. But French producer and director it fraud Oury said in the Paris newspaper be Figaro on tuesday that Stallone is a far from being an a a they re confusing the actor with the roles he Oury left them spinning a contest conducted by the television show wheel of Fortune swamped a postal sorting Center with so much mail that some deliveries were delayed by a Day or More postal officials said. The mail Center in Omaha neb., received about 1 million pieces of unexpected mail each Day last week a 40 percent increase Over the Normal daily volume of 2.5 million pieces postal spokesman David Failor said monday. He said the additional mail was entries in a contest judged by . Blair corp. In Blair 20 Miles North of Omaha. The company administered the three week contest run by wheel of leaving time watergate reporter Carl Bernstein is leaving time Magazine after two years. A the will still be writing for us on a free Lance basis Quot time spokesman Robert Pondiscio said tuesday. A a he a leaving on Good Bernstein was a reporter for the Washington Post when he and Bob Woodward now a top Post editor helped break the scandal in which five men were arrested for breaking into the offices of the democratic National committee in the watergate office Complex in Washington d.c., in 1972.singer s boutiques fail Singer Olivia Newton Johns Chain of australian them boutiques has gone belly up. The los Angeles times reported tuesday that the Koala Blue Chain has taken Steps to sell its assets to pay off creditors under chapter 7 of Federal Bank Mambo Down Royal Street members of the Mondo Kayo social and marching club dance Down Royal Street in new Orleans French Quarter during a Marl gras Parade. Revellers jammed the streets tuesday to party and drink before the Midnight Start of Lent although controversy Over an ordinance that could Force the City s Parade clubs to integrate and admit women bitterly divided City leaders this year it did t Dampen revellers spirits As Marl orcs came to a Climax tuesday. Rust by Law. The company which once had 60 shops in the United states and overseas had filed for chapter 11 reorganization last year. It now operates Only its flagship shop on Melrose Boulevard in los Angeles. Lip sync charges persist a former musical director with the singing group new kids on the Block claimed tuesday that an examination of the groups live performance on the Arsenio Hall show proves his Contention that the teen heart throbs lip sync their songs. Greg Mcpherson a music professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston charges that the groups manager Maurice Starr has been perpetuating a fraud when he claims the group does All its own singing in concert and on albums. Starr and the new kids have denied the accusations by Mcpherson. Mcpherson said a videotape of the groups feb. 7 performance indicated that some Lead vocals were digitally enhanced and almost All background vocals came from tapes. 6 4 0 e i a a h 0 it a a a a a a a what is the gestation period of a Giraffe a who were the founding members of the eco How did the game of Tennis get its Start a what Are the seven wonders of the world find All the answers in the guinness Book of answers. Save 25% off the new March super savers available at most bookstores. bookstores
