
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 5, 1993                   TAG: 9305050218
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Wire Reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

PEOPLE COLUMN

Bob Mackie, whose fashions have adorned Cher, Diana Ross and a host of other celebrities, outfitted Mafia wives to chip away at a debt he owed a company that had mob ties, Vanity Fair magazine says in its June issue.

The designer took a loan from Consolidated Carriers in 1987, when he set up Bob Mackie Knits, an offshoot of his Bob Mackie Originals company, Vanity Fair said. Consolidated, a New York trucking company, was controlled at the time by Thomas and Joseph Gambino, sons of the late mob boss Carlo Gambino. Mackie said the Gambinos are "wonderful, lovely, absolutely terrific people."

The magazine didn't specify how much Mackie borrowed from Consolidated.

Here's how Naomi Campbell, 22, and Adam Clayton, 33, engaged couple of the month, got a relationship going in just three months plus. Quincy Jones sent her a TV tape on which the U2 bassist said what he wanted most in the world was a date with the model. Then a quick meeting backstage when U2 played New York. Then a coincidental seat next to lead singer Bono on a Paris-to-Big Apple flight with much talk about his band buddy. Then a seat next to Clayton on a flight to the Grammys in L.A. Then . . . magic!

Stevie Wonder, Sinbad and Arrested Development will perform at a Black Farm Aid concert June 5 in Little Rock, Ark. A spokeswoman said Arkansas was picked because it's an agricultural state and the problems of black farmers there are typical of those in other states.

So what's Johnny Carson been up to since he left his "Tonight Show" desk in May? Hanging out in Malibu, "watching the hummingbirds mate," he says.

Carson tore himself away and showed up Saturday at his old stomping grounds to join in on the taping of NBC's 90th-birthday salute to Bob Hope. "Now that my vacation is over, I can't wait to get back to the `Tonight Show,' " Carson joked. "Just kidding, Jay."

by CNB