European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes faces n places monday january 3,1994 22 years from wire reports barbra Streisand overcame her self proclaimed fear of the concert stage with the help of 14 teleprompter and the enthusiasm of a sold out crowd. I did it i did it i she exclaimed As she was accorded the last of several standing ovations in Las vegas on new year s eve. It was Streisand s first paid concert in 22 years an she Drew the Praise of fans who paid $50 to $1,000 or More to attend what some considered the event of the new year s weekend. A second concert saturday night at the 15,200-Seatmgm grand Garden Drew pop superstar Michael Jackson who walked into the Arena with a 20-Personentourage and waved to a roaring crowd. He took his seat a dozen rows Back from Center stage As the music began.,.". V the message was Clear when she opened her two night stand with the song As if we never said Good Bye from the musical Sunset Boulevard. I m a Little nervous. Forgive me she told the crowd. I can t believe i m actually Back Streisand told the associated press two years ago that she had quit paid concerts because she was scared. I got the notion in my head that i would forget the words she said. On Friday a dozen along the front of he elaborate stage and two More above the Audi ence flashed the lyrics and her monologues. One of the things about growing older is you Learnyou can survive life s disappointments she told the audience. Another is that you begin to appreciate yourself flaws and Streisand mesmerized the audience with her classics people he touched me Evergreen and the Way we were. ,. ". In my life i have never Felt an experience like this said misty eyed Elaine Honikman who travelled 3,000 Miles from Sharon mass., to attend the show. Friends said Streisand also shunned paid concert because of safety concerns. Nine Metal detectors were set up to Check the crowd contributing to an hour delay in the Start of Friday s show. Streisand s last paid concert was in 1971. In the Pas two decades Streisand has concentrated on directing acting and recording. Her live performances have Bee restricted to an occasional Benefit and last january s inaugural Salute to president Clinton. Gates buys private wedding the private Island stayed that Way new year Day for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates wedding to Mclinda French. Gates one of the nation s richest men hired his own Security Force to keep reporters and photographers away while he and French exchanged vows on the 17thhole of a Golf course in Lahai City Hawaii. Barbra Streisand who said she was a Little nervous sings on new year s eve at the Mem grand Garden in Las vegas. He bought out All of the available rooms at the 250-room Manele Bay hotel to make sure no unwanted visitors mingled among the 130 wedding guests staying there. And the Seattle Post intelligencer reported that he hired every helicopter on Maul to keep photographers out of them. Katharine Graham former publisher of the Washington Post told the Herald of Everett Wash., last week that Gates and French really want a private human wedding and they really Don t want publicity and they Don t want people with cameras and note books. I respect their the guest list offered an Eclectic mix. Besides Gra Ham there was billionaire businessman Warren Buffett Rock musician Alice Cooper country and Western Star Willie Nelson and Microsoft co founder Paul Allen. Lanai an Island 10 Miles off Maui s West coast is 99percent owned by Castle & Cooke .inc., a subsidiary of the Dole food co. It was once known As the pineapple Island but is marketed these Days As the private Island because of its secluded resorts. Gates whose Fortune is estimated at nearly $7 Bil lion is co founder chairman and chief executive of Microsoft corp., which is based in Redmond Wash. The 38-year-old Harvard University dropout helped build the company into the world s largest maker of personal computer , 29, is a Microsoft business unit manager. Actor takes on a Mission the government won t have to disavow any knowl Edge of this Mission actor Peter Graves will visit hospitalized veterans for a week in february As head of department of veterans affairs program. Graves was named chairman of the a s National Salute to hospitalized veterans. The annual Obser Vance will be held at 172 hospitals nursing Homes an state veterans Homes during the week of feb. 13-19, which includes Valentine s Day. Graves is in his third season As Host of biography on Cable television s arts & entertainment network. He previously starred for six years on television s Mission impossible a drama about government agents whose work was so secret that if they were caught or killed some unspecified Cabinet Secretary would deny an knowledge of their actions. Clinto Naide smooths path because the smallest presidential stumble can be bigness remember president Ford Anne Walley and her colleagues make Bill Clinton s path less bumpy. / Walley a Jones born ark., native is Deputy director of scheduling for the president. She smooths the Way for him sometimes literally. For example on his visit to Japan Clinton was to walk with the japanese prime minister along a cobbles tone Walkway. Because the going might be a Little rough the route was changed to a path that held a Small Chance of either Man falling. Conrad recalls wild Days Robert Conrad takes great pleasure in the syndication Success of his 1960s television series the wild wildest. Everyone predicted it would fail Conrad s role As undercover government agent James t. West put him at his Macho Besti thought i was Clint Eastwood in that one he joked in an interview in saturday s editions of the daily news of los Angeles. The show was never a Western in the purest sense. It was t gun smoke or Bonanza. It was James Bondon a horse Ross Martin in drag and me with my shirt off he said. The late Martin played West s sidekick Artemus Gordon a master of disguises and gadgetry. The series which premiered in 1965 and was can celeb five years later is being rerun on the int Cable network. Conrad was Host of a wild wild West mar athon sunday on int. Three words guaranteed to strike terror in pc come Back they la be coming by your housing area Over the next few Days to collect subscription payments. 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