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

DATE: FRIDAY, March 4, 1994                   TAG: 9403040132
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: from wire reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Ted Turner: billionaire, cable TV magnate, world-class yachtsman, owner of baseball's Atlanta Braves and basketball's Atlanta Hawks, "The Mouth of the South." "It Ain't As Easy As It Looks: Ted Turner's Amazing Story," by Porter Bibb, explains the man behind the monickers. The former White House correspondent included these tidbits:

Turner insisted his first wife iron his shirts and boxer shorts and even shine his shoes.

He told his second wife, "Business comes first. My boat comes second. And you come third."

Turner has received medication for a mental disorder that results in violent mood swings.

Neither Turner nor his wife, actress Jane Fonda, graduated from college, although both possess relatively high IQs - his is 128, hers is 132.

\ No Excuses jeans - which has offered scandal-plagued women a chance to get back at civilization while looking great in a pair of jeans - has socked Tonya Harding with a blow, shall we say, below the belt. No Excuses said "no thank you" to Harding, whose people wanted to explore a deal, Dari Marder, vice president of marketing, told the Los Angeles Times.

"We want somebody a little more universally liked," Marder said. Harding apparently lacks the universal appeal of earlier spokeswomen such as Marla Maples, who had an affair with the then-married Donald Trump, and Donna Rice, whose liaison with Gary Hart scuttled his presidential bid.

\ Kevin Costner and his brother Dan are pressing on with a plan to build a casino-resort on the edge of Deadwood, S.D.

South Dakota voters rejected a ballot measure in September to increase the town's betting limit from $5 to $100 and to boost the number of gambling devices allowed in casinos.

Before the vote, the Costners said they wouldn't build Dunbar Resort without the changes. Now, they want a $7 million tax break from Deadwood and unspecified help from the state and the federal government.

by CNB