Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 17, 1993 TAG: 9302170182
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PEOPLE
A Caribbean cruise seems to have drawn George Bush out of his post-inaugural shell, and many of the 1,500 passengers sharing his cruise ship enjoyed rubbing shoulders with the ex-president."He's a nice guy. We met him in the bar one night," Paul Needham, a telephone technician from Jackson, N.J., said Monday night as the Regal Princess was docked at Pier 4 in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Shipbound snoops report seeing Bush jogging on the deck at 7 a.m., accompanied by a Secret Service agent. George and Barbara Bush were seen holding hands in the nightclub on Valentine's night.
Camcorders clicked on as soon as the Regal pulled out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Saturday.
It was hell on Earth for Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, Gay Talese and Gore Vidal.
The quartet read from George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" at a New York benefit Monday for the Actor's Studio, a nonprofit theater workshop founded in 1947.
At $500 to $1,000 per ticket, the sellout crowd included Robert Altman, Dick Cavett, Lee Grant, Larry Hagman, Annie Leibovitz, Arthur Penn, Valerie Perrine and George Plimpton.
In one scene, Sontag, a feminist author reading the part of Dona Ana, tells Don Juan:
"You are like all men, libertines and murderers, all, all!"
"YOU are a lady, and wherever ladies are is hell," Don Juan (Talese) shoots back.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is being sued by a man who claims the actor jabbed him in the eye with a sword while filming a fight scene for the movie "Cyborg."
Van Damme, star of films such as "Universal Soldier," came to Fayetteville, N.C., Monday for jury selection in Cumberland County Superior Court.
Jackson Pinckney claims he was blinded in his left eye in the 1988 incident, and as a result was discharged from the Army. He says he has been able to find only low-paying work since then.