Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 8, 1993 TAG: 9312080117
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"Oprah! Up Close and Down Home," written by Nellie Bly, said Winfrey should have been named fourth runner-up but was declared the winner because of a mistake in tallying the votes.
The book said Winfrey refused to give back the crown the day after the pageant when she was told about the mistake. She went on to win the Miss Black Tennessee title.
Pageant director Gordon El Greco Brown said "an error was made." Colleen Raleigh, Winfrey's spokeswoman, didn't return calls Monday and her phone rang unanswered Tuesday.
Toni Morrison isn't complaining even though her life has become more complicated. That's because the complication is the Nobel Prize in literature.
Receiving the award "is partly burdening, but there is also an enormous amount of delight," Morrison said after arriving in Stockholm from New York for a week of festivities culminating in the presentation of the $790,000 prize on Friday. Her novels cover black American experience from the suffering of Southern slavery to the joyous jazz world of 1920s Harlem.
Asked what was politically most important for her, being a black writer or a female writer, she said: "All of these things are indistinguishable for me - race, sex, gender, skill, power, talent."
A jury Los Angeles ordered Zsa Zsa Gabor and her husband to pay actress Elke Sommer $2 million for telling German publications that Sommer is a broke Hollywood has-been.
Sommer was awarded $800,000 in general damages for statements attributed to Gabor and $1.2 million for statements attributed to her husband, Frederick von Anhalt. Gabor promised to appeal.
Sommer's attorney, Richard Posell, said the award was fair in light of the harm to Sommer's emotions and career.
The lawsuit stemmed from three 1990 articles, one in the German women's magazine Freitzeit Review and two in the German newspaper Bild.
Sommer said Gabor was trying to get back at her after she said Gabor had a big behind.
by CNB