
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 6, 1990                   TAG: 9006060326
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PEOPLE

Judy Carne, who delivered the slapstick straight line "Sock it to me" on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," pleaded guilty Tuesday in Cincinnati to a contempt of court charge and was fined $250.

A prescription forgery charge was dismissed.

Both charges date to 1979, when Carne was accused of heroin possession and prescription forgery while appearing at a Cincinnati-area dinner theater.

Garrison Keillor returned home to Anoka, Minn., and told former neighbors they didn't inspire whimsical Lake Wobegon, the fictitious town made famous in his radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion."

"Lake Wobegon is not about Anoka," he said Monday. "It's a romance, a comic romance, and Anoka is a real place and it's infinitely more complicated and interesting."

He also delivered the commencement address at Anoka High School, telling students: "Graduation is a graceful and sweet old ceremony. What it means is that it's time to gather your stuff together and get out."

Allen Ginsberg wants a parents' group to apologize for requesting that Indianapolis high school students have restricted access to an anthology of his poems.

The group, Coalition of Concerned Minority Parents, also criticized the lack of black authors in the library of North Central High School.

"If my work were taken out of libraries, censors would have excuses to take out many other basic texts of early black cultures," Ginsberg wrote May 17 in a letter to Mmoja Ajabu, a group spokesman.

Ginsberg, 64, said the group owed him an apology or at least an acknowledgment that his work is not in opposition to their ideas.

Ajabu said he intends to reply to Ginsberg but not apologize. He said since the book described homosexual activity, "We felt it should be under the instruction of an adult who is aware that it is not the norm."

Charlie Rose, who has burned the midnight oil as anchorman of the CBS interview series "Nightwatch," is leaving to head a daily interview show for the Fox Broadcasting Co., officials said Tuesday.

Rose, an Emmy Award winner who has headed "Nightwatch" since it began in 1984, will join the syndicated series "Personalities" as its anchor.

by CNB