Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, October 4, 1993 TAG: 9310040006
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Guests at their wedding Saturday in New York City included Bill Cosby and Denzel Washington. Stevie Wonder and the Boys Choir of Harlem helped provide music.
The New York Daily News said the film director met his bride, a Connecticut native, in Washington last year while attending the annual Congressional Black Caucus meeting.
Among celebrities in attendance were director John Singleton, actor Ossie Davis, former football star Ahmad Rashad and his wife, actress Phylicia Rashad, and basketball star Patrick Ewing.
Here's a new twist on those cute little toasters that fly around on idle computer screens: cartoonist Berkeley Breathed's Opus the penguin blasting those silver appliances out of the sky like so many clay pigeons at a skeet shoot (and sometimes getting hit back with burnt toast).
Not funny, says Berkeley Systems Inc., which created the original After Dark toaster program. It's suing rival Delrina Corp., which produced the Opus N' Bill Screen Saver for Breathed.
"We worked very hard to establish a brand identity which is focused in and around this flying toaster image," explains Wes Boyd, head honcho at Berkeley Systems.
Syndicated columnist Erma Bombeck said she's awaiting a kidney transplant and is annoyed by some news reports that she is dying.
"Everyone wants to sensationalize and talk about how poor little Erma is dying. . . . I'm not leaving the Earth," she said Friday. "Some people say I'm on machines all day. I'm not on machines all day. I'm not housebound. I can lead a life."
The 66-year-old Bombeck, who had a mastectomy for breast cancer a year ago, said she must have kidney dialysis four times a day at her home. She's registered with kidney transplant agencies in Phoenix and San Francisco.
by CNB