Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 25, 1990 TAG: 9007250226
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"The people were horribly racist and I had a really hard time," Roberts was quoted as saying in the Aug. 9 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. She stayed in Spartanburg and Abbeville during the filming of her new movie, "Sleeping With the Enemy," in May.
Some residents have gone on the counterattack. They are collecting money for a quarter-page advertisement in Variety magazine, and plan to put up a billboard in the middle of her hometown of Smyrna, Ga.
Marla Maples, still hoping for a fairy-tale ending with Donald Trump, is fighting a subpoena to testify about his prenuptial agreement with Ivana Trump, a publicist for the actress said Tuesday.
Chuck Jones commented on a New York Daily News report that Trump's lawyer, Michael Kennedy, had obtained testimony from bodyguards and other Trump organization employees for an Aug. 20 hearing on the prenuptial agreement.
"She had nothing to do with the marital problems of Donald and Ivana Trump and doesn't want the public to think that she did," said Jones. "She just feels the timing is right to take a stand."
Maples, who has been romantically linked to the New York developer for eight months, described Ivana Trump as a "cold" woman who is neglecting her children.
She said Trump's estranged wufe is "out every night in London and New York, going on dates to her society parties, while Donald is home raising the children."
"I see my children every single day," Ivana Trump told the News through her spokeswoman, Lisa Calandra. "Donald sees them once a week at most and has gone weeks on end without seeing them at all.
Deborah Norville got a New York taxi driver fined for cursing at her during a ride in December.
The co-host of NBC's "Today" show told New York magazine she hailed a cab driven by Isidro Ortiz.
When she arrived at her destination, Norville said, she tapped on the partition window to tell Ortiz where to drop her off. She said Ortiz cursed her and became more abusive when she began to write down his license number.
Norville said she refused to give him a tip and Ortiz slammed shut the money vent and sent the fare flying. A coin struck her in the eye, she said.
Ortiz, 31, was fined $100 at a hearing April 2, said Rebecca Bowser, Taxi and Limousine Commission spokeswoman.
Leonard Bernstein, who canceled six appearances in Japan this month due to exhaustion and lingering illness, is planning to conduct a concert next month at the Tanglewood Music Center, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Bernstein has suffered from severe influenza, pleurisy and pneumonia since the beginning of the year. He flew back from Japan July 16.
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