Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, January 14, 1992 TAG: 9201140268
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN
Luke Perry and Jason Priestley, the heartthrobs of Fox Broadcasting's "Beverly Hills 90210," are pulling in more fan mail than any other prime-time hunks.Perry, 26, and Priestley, 23, each receive more than 3,000 letters a week, People magazine said in its Jan. 20 edition.
Runners-up include Neil Patrick Harris, 18, of ABC's "Doogie Howser M.D." and Kirk Cameron, 21, of the network's "Growing Pains."
ABC told People that Harris receives 1,000 letters each week; Cameron gets a mere 200.
Officials at Jimmy Swaggart's television ministry aren't commenting on a study showing viewers have fled since his latest scandal involving a prostitute.
The audience fell from 403,000 households in 93 TV markets in July to 143,000 in 30 markets in November, Arbitron reported.
On Oct. 11, 1991, police in Indio, Calif., found Swaggart in a car with a prostitute.
In 1988, a prostitute said the evangelist paid her to pose nude for him at a New Orleans motel. At the time, he had 2.1 million households tuned in.
Look for Jay Leno to host "The Tonight Show" five nights a week when he takes over for Johnny Carson in late May.
Carson, who departs May 22, will pick up his pace to four nights a week for his final month. As for David Letterman, who was miffed when Leno got Carson's job, NBC is open to "all kinds of discussions" to keep him after his contract runs out in April 1993, said Entertainment President Warren Littlefield.
Wanted: Bass guitar player. Contact Mick Jagger or other members of the Rolling Stones.
Jagger, the Stones' lead singer, said that bass player Bill Wyman, 55, has decided that it is time to do other things after nearly 30 years of touring and recording with one of the world's most popular rock bands.
"He's got enough money, and I suppose he feels he's done it," Jagger says in the February issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
Jagger, 48, also said he and Stones' lead guitarist Keith Richards, also 48, ended their long-simmering feud during the group's last world tour, which ended in 1990.
"Keith and I seem to be getting on all right," he said. "The tour got all that out of our system." The two - friends since childhood - have collaborated on most of the Stones' hit songs.