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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 8, 1992 TAG: 9201080095
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Gloria Estefan will be the featured performer in the Super Bowl halftime show on Jan. 26 at the Metrodome.The pop singer's Latin rhythms will be the highlight of a salute to winter that will feature a cast and crew of 1,500, it was announced Monday.
Estefan, whose hits include "Conga" and "Coming Out of the Dark," has been on a world tour since March. She made a comeback after a traffic accident in which she broke her back.
\ Oliver Stone took on a former Warren Commission staffer who charged that the "JFK" director distorted history for profit.
Stone wrote in a Los Angeles Times column on Monday that Richard Mosk was "looking only to whitewash the Warren Commission," which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John Kennedy.
"It is a tragedy for this country that its `respectable' and `honorable' men, its jurists, government officials, media Establishment, continue to participate in the greatest lie ever put across on the American people," Stone wrote.
Mosk had taken issue with the way "JFK" advances the theory that the assassination was a vast conspiracy involving the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, the Mafia and defense contractors.
Sean Connery has been named winner of the annual American Cinematheque Award.
The award, which will be presented at the industry group's ball April 10, was started in 1986 to honor contributions to film and video.
Previous winners include Eddie Murphy, Bette Midler, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
Connery starred in the James Bond movies and won a best supporting actor Oscar for "The Untouchables."
The daughter of "Candid Camera" creator Allen Funt is among the celebrity offspring who appear in the new syndicated version of the TV show helping catch Americans in the act of being themselves.
Julia Funt, Jennifer Convy, daughter of the late Bert Convy, and Lewis Arquette, son of the late Cliff Arquette, are among the actors who play out roles in front of hidden cameras to catch people in awkward circumstances.
Rep. Jamie Whitten of Mississippi broke the record Monday for serving the longest time in the House but is still six years away from becoming the longest-serving member of Congress.
Whitten, 81, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had served 50 years, 2 months and 14 days as of Monday. That's one day more than Carl Vinson of Georgia, who died in 1981.