European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                " Page 20 the stars and stripes faces n places wednesday september 6, 1995 from wire reports " actor Sidney Poitier playwright Neil Simon blues legend . King Singer Marilyn Horne and dancer Jacques d Amboise have been chosen to receive the 18th annual Kennedy Center honors for their contributions to performing arts. It s a wonderful group said James a ,1 the president of the world Bank who is outgoing Center chairman. A Man who has had two Brilliant careers As a Ballet dancer and an arts educator one of the finest. Opera singers this country has Ever produced a great and influential blues musician an actor whose career has had a tremendous  american culture and America s most prolific and popular playwright.". The honors scheduled to be handed out dec3 As part of the Center s 25th anniversary season,.bestow no Riv Oncy l3ut the recipients Are saluted during a weekend that Iri Clu cd reception at the White Housea gala performance that is taped for television and a full slate of lunches teas and dinners. This year s Honoreen share a gift for breaking barriers and teaching mass audiences Poitier was one Oft he first Blacks to play leading Ryan files v t Simon s Broadway hits blossomed into movies and television shows Home and King were regular guests on the tonight show d Amboise danced in films and musicals. But the  and the television special May introduce them to an even More diverse audience. And that s Fine with them. It s terribly important that you Don t put yourself in an Ivory Tower in classical music said Home 61, who was reached in North Carolina where she was about to. Head to a water aerobics class you never know where the next audience is coming from where you Are going to touch someone who has never heard this kind of music  d Amboise 61, the admired principal dancer of the new York City Ballet in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, has. For More than 20 years introduced schoolchildren Many of them disadvantaged to dance through his National dance Institute. _ " King 69, did t expect a lifetime in the arts when he grew up in Mississippi. He d first encountered guitars in Church. The music making local preacher was also a relative and when he brought his guitar around to ,. King s House on sunday evenings he let the boy play Voith it. ". -,.- " l. I. As the years went of King performed on Street Corners for extra Money and he quickly Learned that when he Sang gospel people would Praise him but never tip him. When he Sang the blues though the Money came  68, the author of 28 plays and one musical has been a Workhorse of american Conedy since the a 195.0s4 when he and his brother Danny toiled alongside the likes of Woody Allen Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on the celebrated to series your show of shows.  Poitier 68, has borne the Burden of Many firsts the first Black actor to attract both Black and White audiences the first to be nominated for a Best actor next Stop obscurity banned figure skater Tonya Harding holds up an empty plastic bottle one of Many thrown at her during her singing debut at a fund Raiser for muscular dystrophy sunday in Portland Ore. Harding Ted her band the Golden Blades opened for Kool and the gang at Tom Mccall waterfront Park with a 15-minute set that the crowd loudly booed. Academy award the defiant ones 1958 the first to win the Oscar lilies of the Fields 1963 the first to demand a film Crew that was at least 50 percent Black the lost Man 1969 arid the first to Star in a mainstream movie that condoned interracial marriage guess who s coming to dinner 1967.  up Jerry Lewis annual labor Day telethon raised a record $47.8 million for the Battle against muscular dystrophy officials said monday. The 30th annual telethon which began sunday and ended monday was broadcast live to 80 million viewers from lbs studios in Hollywood with segments from new York Branson to. Nashville Tenn. And Hawaii. A handful of demonstrators picketed in wheelchairs outside the studio monday arguing that the donations Don t go where the Money is needed Jim Brown a spokesman Lor the muscular dystrophy association said More than  of  go directly into research or patient care. But Gary Cifra president of Alliance for research accountability said the research funded by the Money has failed to produce meaningful result she said Only. 16 percent of mad s funds Benefit muscular dystrophy victims directly.  year s show was designed to highlight comedy and Novelty acts and included appearances by Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander of televisions so no a Brett Butler of Grace under fire,.-and comedians Elayne Booster and Henry  Marathon took in $47.1 million last year. Death in the family boy George s brother appeared in court tuesday on a charge of murdering his wife. Gerald p Dowd 31, did not enter a plea during the Brief hearing in magistrates court in Kernel Hempstead 20 Miles Northwest of London. O Dowd was arrested sunday at his Home in Tring 35 Miles Northwest of London where police found his i 32-year-old wife Jill bleeding heavily Fror Rii a Stab wound in the Chest. She died later in the Day in a. Hospital  boy George s  Denton said the Star was postponing two scheduled British concerts this week but was still expected to set off on a one month tour of the United states next week. I _. Hugh shows eni memo from Emma Thompson to Hugh Grant More of the same old boy \ ,-.the Oscar winning British actress said in an interview published sunday that Grant s notorious Liaison with a Sunset Boulevard prostitute was wonderful absolutely wonderful i Don t think it was a mistake at All she told London s Independent on sunday newspaper. I v thought than god you know you be broken  Grant the Star of four weddings and n funeral pleaded no contest to lewd conduct in july after los. Angeles police arrested him in his car with a prostitute. Thompson who won the Best actress award for her role As the dithering spinster who wins Anthony Hopkins heart in the 1992 edwardian drama howards end said her Friend Grant would now be seen As More Complex. I value ambiguity almost above All she said. 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