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'F 6-D TMt TEHHCSSEAH TlwrwUirAPWH. M. WO Ex-ironworker Clint Black dominates ACM awards 3 mmmi cms v. "If very special to me because it's a tribute to someone very special to me a girlfriend of many years," Black said backstage. The winning song, Where've You en, is also a deeply personal work, especially for co-writer Jon Venzer, who is Mattea's husband.

The song, also written by Don Henry, is about a couple who grow old in a nursing home. Hank Williams Jr nominated for six awards, picked up one for best video. In accepting, he read a sentimental letter to his legendary father, Hank Williams who died in 1953. An old demo tape of There's Tear in my Beer was found in the attic of songwriter "Big BUI" Lister. Hank Williams Jr.

used modern technology to record it as a duet with his father and to appear with his father in the video. The Judds, the mother-daughter singing duo, won best vocal duet trophy for the sixth consecutive year. The 4-year-old Nashville band Restless Heart won best group, while Mary Chapin Carpenter of Washington, D.C, was voted new female vocalist Top new group honors went to Kentucky Headhunters. The academy's 2,500 members voted for the winners except for the video of the year award, A 1 fMm vim Jill 'rf-1 J4 AP Hosts for the 25th annual Academy of Country Music Awards review the script prior to taking the stage at last night's extravaganza. Clockwise from left rear are: Randy Owens, Mark Herndon, Todd Gentry and Jeff Cook, all members of Alabama; Tammy Wynette; Wynonna Judd and Naomi Judd, and George Strait Former ironworker Clint Black displays his trophy for Best Single Record of the Year presented last night at the 25th Academy of Country Music Awards in Hollywood.

'Life in jeopardy doctors reveal ffMT'fT. TT.TTMT1 59 JEFF WILSON Associated Press it SANTA MONICA, Calif. Oscar- winning actress Elizabeth Taylor nearly died of pneumonia last weekend, but is responding well to treatment, although "she is not out of the woods," her doctor said Wednesday. Avoid being out on a limb with your plants this year by following a few basic rules: 1. Always buy healthy, quality- plants to beginwith 2.

Know or find out the proper conditions your plants require a Care for plants by property watering and feeding regularly Remember: Any plant will survive and thrive if in the proper environment with a little tender loving care. A biopsy revealed that the 58-year- old Academy Award-winning actress cancer or infections commonly seen in AIDS," Weintraub said. Taylor was moved to the intensive care unit of St Johns on Friday, her physicians said. Taylor has been plagued with health problems for years, particularly recurring back troubles from the filming of the 1945 movie National Velvet, when she fell off a horse. In 1983 she acknowledged a 35-year addiction to sleeping pills and pain killers prescribed for a wide range of health problems.

Taylor has been treated for alcohol and drug abuse problems at the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage. During a nearly fatal bout with pneumonia in 1961, Taylor underwent a tracheotomy. In which an Incision was cut into her windpipe to help her breathe. Johns Hospital and Health Center. "She said she'd come out and wave to you but she's not in her balcony attire." Weintraub said he believed Taylor would survive.

"I believe her life was in jeopardy over the weekend and I believe that has now passed," Weintraub said. But he added, "She is not out of the woods." Taylor entered Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital on April 9 for what was described as a persistent fever and sinus infection. When her condition worsened, she was transferred April 16 to St Johns. In a statement after arriving at St Johns, the actress denied rumors that she was suffering from an AIDS-relat-ed condition. "There was no suggestion of either has viral pneumonia to which she is responding, Dr.

Bernard Weintraub, a pulmonary specialist Open Daily At Wayside We Help Youl "She is awake and alert and pro gressing nicely at this tune," he said. ounaay Dr. Patricia Murray, an lnlecnous itvi in rni Cet Your TUX disease specialist, told reporters Taylor was pleased her physicians took atWaysUe. her off a ventilator that had been aiding her breathing. "She was very happy the tube was out," Murray told reporters at St Actor wants to build his own studio 847 Hillwood Blvd.

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Nothing will be done about his stu dio for about a year, but Heavener said he likes Owensboro, Bowling Green and Louisville, his hometown. Introducing I most of his filming in Indiana and Tennessee, Heavener figures he could get the best of both worlds. His current movie, Twisted Justice, about a policeman in the year 2020, recently opened. Produced for $1.3 million, the film already had earned $1 million in foreign markets before its American release. His earlier film Outlaw Force was made in 1988 for $750,000.

To date, it has earned $3J million, mostly in video sales, Heavener said. Heavener was In Owensboro on Tuesday for a meeting with officials of Wax Works Inc, which distributes the video cassettes. He autographed posters and posed for pictures with the sales staff. Tve made movies for video," Heavener said. "Now I want credibility.

And I want to break into comedy someday." He plans to work with budgets of $3 million to $5 million soon, he said. "Tve been very lucky," said Heavener, who spent seven years in Nashville song mills. About 30 of his songs hit the charts, he said. Four years ago, he went to Los Angeles to pitch songs for a Kung Fu movie The Border of Tong. The director spoke little English, thought Heavener was an actor and hired him, Heavener said.

The movie has been in the can for four years, but is due out in August he said. Heavener's films are rated because of the violence. There is no sex and little bad language, he said. "I think we have a responsibility to the morality of the kids growing up," Heavener said. "I'm opposed to a lot of sex and bad language." Some people argue that violence is more damaging to children than sex and bad language.

But Heavener disagrees. "I don't have a problem with blow-ing someone away on the he said. "We used to play cowboys and Indians when we were kids. It's the same thing." When he was a child growing up in the Okolona area, Heavener says he wrote plays to perform in his parents garage with his three sisters. "They were always villains and I'd blow them away," he chuckles.

"The problem is Kentucky is not a right-to-work state," Heavener said, explaining he would have to use union labor at Hero Studio. That would hike the costs of his movies now produced for $1.5 million or less. LA-Z-DOY" TWINCUNERS" "I don't have a problem with un ions," Heavener said. "They do what they have to da But I dont make major, big-budget pictures." Indiana and Tennessee, on the other hand, are right-to-work states. That means no unions and lower costs, Heavener said.

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