Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 12, 1992 TAG: 9202120211
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PEOPLE
Elvis' old barber is all shook up. The King's mane man, the guy who pruned the Presley pompadour, is worried he may have to find a new place to dwell."Sure, I'm afraid," says Karl-Heinz Stein, the head haircutter at the base in Friedberg, Germany, where Pvt. Elvis Presley spent his overseas Army hitch.
The legacies of Presley's stay at Ray Barracks have suffered from the reduction in American forces in Europe. The Elvis A. Presley Dining Facility recently closed and Presley's old Alpha Company is moving.
For as long as Ray Barracks survives, Stein intends to keep his shrine to Elvis, including the scissors and straight razor he used to maintain the Presley pompadour after his basic-training cut grew out.
Stein recalls the day the soft-spoken soldier shuffled into his shop in October 1958. "After 10-15 minutes I was done. I showed him a mirror and said, `Is that OK?' He said `Yeah, how much?' "
A lawyer for New Kids on the Block filed a slander lawsuit Monday against former producer Gregory McPherson, who accused the group of lip-syncing.
The civil lawsuit in a Boston court asks for punitive damages against the ex-producer.
McPherson claimed New Kids did no more than 20 percent of the singing on their records or in concert and that New Kids' creator and manager Maurice Starr and his brother, Michael Johnson, were the real voices. McPherson is suing Starr, claiming he owes him royalties.
Gene Tierney's diamond necklace fetched $27,000 last weekend in Houston during an auction of the late movie star's personal possessions.
More than 2,300 fans and collectors attended the sale of items that belonged to the actress best known for her title role in "Laura." Tierney died Nov. 7 at age 70.
"I really wanted one last tribute to Mother," said Tina Cassini, a daughter from Tierney's marriage to fashion designer Oleg Cassini. "It's like her last appearance, her final curtain call."