European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes faces a no places thursday december 10,1992 Letterman reportedly has big Bucks lbs offer for non win in inf it it. .1_____from wire reports lbs has offered David Letterman at least $14 million a year to change networks and promised him the time Slot opposite the tonight show the program that precedes his on Abc newspapers reported. Lbs guaranteed Letterman double his Abc salary or about $14 million the los Angeles times reported tuesday. The new York times reported wednesday that creative artists Agency which represents Letterman told Abc that he had accepted a lbs offer that would Letterman pay him about $16 million a year. The Deal would give Letterman ownership of the show and let him produce a second late night show following his own the new York paper reported. Under Letterman a contract Abc has about four weeks to make a counteroffer. Calls to Abc weren to returned tuesday. Letterman had no comment said spokesman Stephen Rivers of creative artists Agency. Lbs had no comment a spokeswoman in new York said. The reported offer would make Letterman one of the highest paid to performers the newspapers said. Tonight Host Jay Leno makes about $3 million annually and syndicated talk show Host Arsinio Hall is said to receive $20 million the los Angeles times stamp a hit fifteen years after his death Elvis Presley has another no. 1 hit. Days after a mailing of 800,000 brochures to people who voted in a a Young Elvis bloated Elvis popularity contest last april Telephone orders began pouring in for a 29-cent stamp that is Well on its Way to becoming the Best Selling piece of gummed paper in . History. And now postal officials Are worrying that the initial printing of 300 million a double the Normal commemorative Issue a wont meet demand. A a it a just phenomenal a said Carl Bur Cham manager of philately for the postal service. The stamp will not be available until Jan. 8, the 58th anniversary of the Rock a no rollers Holiday done to expect to find any presents under Dean Borden ave a Christmas tree. You wont even find the base of the tree Down there. For nearly a decade Bordenave has suspended his Holiday tree upside Down from the ceiling in his Hagerstown md., Home. His 8-year-old Niece helps with the decorating. A i think some people think in a a Devil worshipper a he said. A the people i work with think in a he said he got the idea after seeing a Small artificial tree hanging from the ceiling of a bar. So where do the presents go Bordenave said he a going to try sticking them to the ceiling at the a a based of the tree using May skip it Princess Annex a grandmother Queen Mother Elizabeth has not decided whether to attend the Princess second wedding a spokeswoman says. The spokeswoman who by Palace tradition was not identified disputed tabloid newspaper reports this week with such headlines As a Gran snubs a at the moment she still has no plans to travel to Scotland but she has not made a final decision a the spokeswoman said tuesday. A she is undertaking a full program of Long standing private engagements at the weekend which she is reluctant to Anne 42, was divorced this year from capt. Mark Phillips. She is to marry it Navy cmdr. Timothy Laurence in Scotland on on aids coming there a another Philadelphia Story coming but it has nothing to do with society weddings. Director Jonathan Demme has begun filming a $30 million movie of that name in the first Hollywood film about aids. Tom Hanks plays a Young lawyer who is fired from his Philadelphia Law firm when Garth turns pro country Singer Garth Brooks tries out a life size Dummy of a los Angeles raiders player As real player Howie Long looks on tuesday at the Rose bowl in Pasadena Calif. Brooks was named to sing the National Anthem at the super bowl which will be held Jan. 31 at the Rose bowl and he will perform two shows to Benefit a youth project in South Central los Angeles. He is diagnosed with Kaposi a a Sarcoma. The actor has lost at least 30 pounds for the role of the sickened attorney. Demme was accused of a negative portrayal of homosexuality in his Oscar winning silence of the lambs. He told entertainment Magazine he does not agree with the critics but acknowledged there is a terrible void of positive Gay characters in american musical inspiration an 18-month-old girl who doctors said would never walk was inspired to take her first Steps after viewing Billy Ray Cyrus achy Breaky heart music video her Mother says. Heaven Leigh Yarbrough who was born with cerebral palsy took her first Steps in june when the country singers popular video was shown on television. Her Mother Marjorie Yarbrough of Cleveland tenn., said she thought it was a Fluke but was encouraged. She bought a Cyrus video and played it again for her daughter. A heaven stood up walked into the living room then outside and Down the sidewalk a Yarbrough said recently. A we believe now she said whenever heaven hears music by Cyrus a she stops what she a doing and starts dancing around and
