
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, September 2, 1993                   TAG: 9309020004
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 7   EDITION: METRO 
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PEOPLE

Hollywood princess/actress/writer Carrie Fisher and companion, agent Bryan Lourd, have reportedly split, according to the New York Daily News. Lourd has decamped from the Beverly Hills shack once owned by Bette Davis and bought by the couple only months ago. The couple of almost three years are the parents of Billie Catherine, born in July 1992. (The baby's grandparents are Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.) Fisher's only marriage, to tunesmith Paul Simon, lasted 11 months.

A nasty battle between family members has erupted over the disposition of the late Conway Twitty's estate. The singer's daughter, Kathy Jenkins, has asked a judge to remove Twitty's longtime business manager and accountant as executors, saying they removed her and her siblings, who were paid $45,000 to $50,000 a year, from the company payroll. Her son, Michael Jenkins, has filed papers supporting manager Hugh Carden (with Twitty since 1967) and accountant Donald Garis (with him since 1972), as has Twitty's widow, Dee Henry Jenkins. The singer died in June; his estate includes Twitty City tourist park in Hendersonville, Tenn.

Thirty years ago, Betty Friedan published "The Feminine Mystique," calling women to strive for equality. Now, at age 72, she has written the forthcoming book, "The Fountain of Age," in which she writes of finding "the Mystique of Age was much more deadly than the Feminine Mystique, more terrifying to confront, harder to break through." In an excerpt in this week's Time, Friedan reports finding popular images of older Americans skewed toward the sick and dependent. "Why the preoccupation with senility, Alzheimer's disease, when less than 5 percent of people over 65 will suffer it?" Friedan argues for a Fountain of Age, "time that we stop denying our growing older and look at the actuality of our experience and that of other women and men."

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