Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, March 4, 1991 TAG: 9103040004
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"I'm not going to talk about that," he said recently in Nashville. "When I retire, everybody will know it. It could be next week, it could be next year, or whenever. We've got a few shows to do."
Watson, who's blind, won a Grammy last month for his album "On Praying Ground."
"My heart was really in this one, and I guess it showed," he said about the album, which is gospel music-oriented. "It meant a lot to me to do a record I believe in, and that's the important thing."
Watson has been performing since the early 1960s. He's best known for his guitar playing and his repertoire of old-time country music.
Gen. Colin Powell's daughter is a struggling actress who hopes she makes it big before anyone gets her dad interested in the White House.
Linda Powell, 26, said her father has no desire to be vice president. As for higher aspirations, she said with a laugh: "Oh, president? I hope I become famous first."
In the movie "Reversal of Fortune," Linda Powell plays one of the law students who helps Alan Dershowitz win Claus von Bulow's case.
On Thursday, Powell opens at the Samuel Beckett Theater in New York City in "Judgment Day." She plays Anna, a flirt in a small German town in the 1930s.
She says her father doesn't talk a lot about his work as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "He guards his privacy and his opinions," she said. "We're allowed to have our opinions, and he has his."
And what is her opinion about the Gulf War?
"I'm glad it's over. I think we did what we had to do."
Rapper M.C. Hammer was honored as musician of 1990 and for having the year's outstanding album at the 14th Annual Bay Area Music Awards in San Francisco.
The neo-metal band Faith No More received five Bammies, and led the varied field of individuals and groups with seven nominations.
Artists are nominated by a panel of more than 150 music critics, radio programmers and members of the music industry. Winners are decided by the public through ballots appearing in BAM, a pop-music magazine published in Oakland.
Saturday night's award ceremony was held at San Francisco's Civic Auditorium in a gala featuring live performances by Faith No More, Clarence Clemons and Carlos Santana.
Hammer was named the San Francisco Bay area's musician of the year, a write-in category, and won the Bammie for outstanding album with "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em."
Faith No More won Bammies for outstanding group and outstanding song with "Epic."
by CNB