Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 13, 1990 TAG: 9006130250
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"Everybody lived. It seems like nothing fatal happened," Checker said after the early morning accident on Interstate 35, just north of the Texas line. "No one's near death. We're getting a truck together and we're getting a couple cars and we're going on to San Antonio.
"I think we're OK enough to do a show tonight."
Checker's bus was traveling south on the highway when it struck a semi-tractor-trailer that was pulling onto the highway from a rest stop, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
Frank Mundus, a shark hunter who claims to be the model for the Quint character in "Jaws," says he's retiring to Hawaii next year after half a century on the seas off Long Island.
"Anybody that's been in this business for 50 years has to have his head examined," said Mundus, 64.
Last summer, when Mundus tried to renew his lapsed captain's license, the Coast Guard discovered he could barely read. He was denied a license and had to hire a licensed captain to operate his boat legally.
After decades of piloting his own boat, he asked, "What do I need a bit of paper for?"
He claims, and is generally believed, to be the inspiration for the cantankerous shark hunter who meets his demise in the teeth of a great white in Peter Benchley's "Jaws."
His opinion of the movie? "The funniest thing I've ever seen. Hilarious. Stupid."
Bob Cummings, who had his own TV comedy in the 1950s and '60s, felt half his age when more than 100 friends surprised him with an 80th birthday bash.
"It's my 40th birthday," Cummings joked during a Friday night bash in suburban Sherman Oaks for the star of "The Bob Cummings Show," "My Living Doll" and "My Hero."
Cummings' birthday was Saturday.
Among the celebrities on hand were Jane Withers, Pat Buttram, Jane Wyatt, Rose Marie, Buddy Rogers, Dick Van Patten and Margaret O'Brien.
Robert Morse received the eighth annual Elliot Norton Award for his portrayal of Truman Capote in the play, "Tru."
The award, named for retired Boston theater critic Elliot Norton, is given for "distinguished contribution to the theater in Boston during the preceding year."
The award, which includes a silver medallion and $1,000, was presented to Morse on Monday night.
by CNB