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A2 The Arizona Republic Sunday, April 12, 1992 Comic was 'living a clean life: j. May, (( trm ISCrKV I'll I. i Sam Kinison and his wife, Malika, were married last Sunday in Las Vegas. Malika Kinison, who was with her husband when he was killed in an auto accident Friday, was hospitalized with a concussion at 1 Needles Desert; Community Hospital in California. 1,1 5 I is The Associated Press Death in crash stuns friends of Sam Kinison Los Angeles Times They were the kind of kids to whom comedian Sam Kinison's bellowing stage persona was often said to appeal two young men, in their late teens, driving fast in an old pickup truck on a Friday night.

The cab of their Chevrolet truck reportedly was filled with beer cans as they sped through the desert on U.S. 95, swerving into oncoming traffic near the California-Nevada line. Moments after hitting Kinison's Pontiac Trans-Am head-on, fatally injuring the comedian and knocking his new wife unconscious, one of the teen-agers said, according to witnesses, "God! Look at my truck!" Immediately after the crash, which occurred near Needles, the former tent-revival minister-turned-yowling comic appeared fine at first, said friends who saw the crash from a second car. With only minor cuts on his lips and forehead, he wrenched himself free of his mangled vehicle and lay down only after friends begged him to do so. "He said, 'I don't want to die; I don't want to recounted Carl LaBove, Kinison's best friend and longtime opening act.

-Kinison, 38, paused, as if listening to a voice that couldn't be heard, LaBove said. "But why?" Kinison asked. It sounded, LaBove said, as if "he was having a conversation, talking to somebody else." from a Hawaii honeymoon with Malika, a 26-year-old Las dancer he had married a week agd today. When he died, he was on his I way to a sold-out show in Laughlin, Nev. "I can't accept it," comedian Richard Belzer, an old friend, said of; Kinison's death I "Especially the fact that he was fiot doing anything wrong.

He was going to a job, His wife was in the car. It wasn't a drug overdose. It wasn't self-indulgence. He was living a clean life." Authorities did not release the name of the Las Vegas teen-ager who was driving the pickup truck, but California Highway Patrol dispatcher Tine Schmitt said he was being; charged with felony manslaughter. Schmitt said the driver suffered moderate injuries, although his pas-; senger, also a juvenile, was seriously hurt.

Malika Kinison was hospitalized at Needles Desert Com-. munity Hospital with a concussion. Witnesses said the accident scene was strewn with beer cans that did not come from Kinison's ear. Friends described Kinison as a warm man, generous to a fault a description that seemed at odds with his brazen brand of humor. Especially in the early years of his career, the rotund comic was the king of shock comedy vulgar, vitriolic and i ear-splittingly loud.

But even KinisoiVs critics admitted that he was much more than another gross-out comedian. At his best, he was a biting social commentator. The son of a preacher from Peoria, Kinison was particularly brilliant, many said, at dissecting religious hypocrisy. SO fl tariff K' I 1 I THE HUMOR OF SAM KINISON Sampling of the stand-up routines by the late comedian Sam Kinison: 2 On women: don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years." On MTV's Rock Against Drugs campaign: "Somebody must've been high when they came up with that title.

It's like Christians Against Christ. Rock created drugs. On television evangelists: "Jesus is still up in heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going, 'Where did I say build a water Albert FerreraThe Associated Press IT'S A WRAP Bodybuilder, actor and presidential pal Arnold Schwarzenegger (right) celebrates his directorial debut at New York City's Planet Hollywood. Schwarzenegger partied last week with Dyan Cannon and Tony Curtis, who co-starred in Schwarzenegger's remake of the 1945 classic Christmas in Connecticut. The television movie will "He was talking upstairs," LaBove said.

"Then heard him go, 'OK, OK, The last 'OK' was so soft and at peace. Whatever voice was talking to him gave him the right answer, and he just relaxed with it." Kinison, 'who police say was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene, apparently of massive head injuries suffered when he hit the windshield. An autopsy is planned. On Saturday, Kinison's friends said they could not believe how he had died. The comedian, who made his reputation as a hard-drinking, loudmouthed wild man, had just returned premiere Monday on Turner Network Television.

This caller makes Dirty Harry's day that followed an aborted Guns N' A man allegedly demanded $5 million during 43 obscene and threatening telephone calls last month to Clint Eastwood. The FBI on Friday arrested Valley fans get taste of '90sU2 Brian Keith Neun, who was charged with two counts of making interstate threatening telephone calls and making such calls for purposes of extortion. Neun, 30, of suburban it Baltimore, said God told him and like it Eastwood owed him money, and if the amount wasn't paid by April 11, Eastwood would die But some paid $85 within two weeks, an FBI affidavit said. I A' for scalper tickets Neuns alleged messages were si' tr JUT? Vats By Salvatore Caputo taken on a voice-mail system at Eastwood's production company. Guns Roses cancels The Arizona Republic -The level of enthusiasm for U2's Roses concert July 2, in which about 40 concertgoers and 25 police officers were hurt.

01' Blue Eyes' sauce can't cut the mustard Frank Sinatra has bombed in your local supermarket. Armanino Foods of Distinction maker of the Sinatra brand of bottled spaghetti sauce, said rotten sales in the past year doomed it. William Armanino, president and chief executive officer of Armanino Foods, said talks aimed at saving the brand were conducted with Sinatra's representatives, but failed. Wellesley women vote to hear from Hillary The women of Wellesley College, who two years ago sorely disapproved of Barbara Bush as its commencement speaker," have voted to invite Hillary Clinton to do it this year. The 1 990 class held that Bush was invited only because her husband was you-know-who.

But Clinton, a Yale Law School grad, is listed as one of the nation's 100 most influential lawyers by the American Bar Association. Compiled from reports by The Associated Press, Knight-Ridder Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. gig after Axl flees 4 Guns N' Jtoses had to cancel a first Arizona concert in five years was reflected Friday night both in crowd reaction and in, what some audience members laid put for tickets. Chicago-area concert after lead singer Axl Rose fled town to The Irish rock quartet brought its avoid arjrcst on charges stemming from a riot at the band's show last year jn St. Louis, his record "Zoo TV" tour to a packed house at the Arizona State University Activity company said.

Center. U2 last appeared in Arizona in December 1 987. "He wasn anxious to spend Besides those who bought tickets any time in jail without reason," a spokeswoman for Geffen Records said. for a face value of $25, several people interviewed at the show paid $33 to $85 for seats bought from scalpers. Paul F.

GeroThe Arizona Republic Looking like a late-model Elvis in a leather suit, U2's Bono (right) wows the audience as lead guitarist Dave "The Edge" Evans plays along at the Arizona State University Activity Center in Tempe. She said the band canceled Friday night's concert about 30 It's likely that others paid more an ad in Friday morning's Arizona MUSIC REVIEW minutes before it was to start. It Republic offered four tickets for $125 CAPUTO: Who are the real ticket scalpers? Arts Plus, E8 apiece. also canceled shows scheduled Monday and Tuesday in Auburn Hills, Mich. The crowd was polite but tepid U2 Arizona State University Activity Center, Friday.

Rose was charged with assault and property damage over a riot during the opening act, the Pixies, and toward a disc jockey who filled the long gap between the Pixies' set and U2's show. (The DJ also hawked the EAVESDROPPING group's Achtung Baby condoms as a on stage were mixed with images of a belly dancer who danced on a runway out in the audience. During J3uef the Blue Sky, Bono was out on the runway and stepped into the hands. of fans who lofted him' above their heads. For another pair of songs, the entire band moved onto the runway drummer Larry Mullen manned a pair of congas at this point within arm's reach of hungry fans.

Egad guitarist Dave "The Edge" Evans was dazzling. Except for occasional strums of rhythm guitar by Bono, U2 is a three-piece band with a vocalist." Evans used special effects-and canny picking to give the trio an jorchestral sound. With the support of Mullen and bass player Adam Clayton, Evans equaled and sometimes safe-sex measure.) The last-minute debugging and setup of elaborate banks of television sets used in the Zoo TV tour took quite a while. bettered the band's recorded sound. The band closed.

its encore with Love Is Blindness, the bleak song that closes Achtung Baby. Bono, out on the runway again and continuing his Presley impression in a silver-lame suit, did a slow dance with a woman plucked from the audience. As the lights went up, the public-address system was filled with -Presley singing Can't Help Falling in Love. The band that wrote Elvis Presley and America obviously de-; cided to take stardom seriously while winking at it, too. People feel comfortable coming up and doing things to me they wouldn't do to normal people.

But the audience stood up as soon as lead singer Paul Hewsori, known to rock fans as Bono, took the stage looking like a late-model Elvis in a black-leather suit. The band's blistering version of Zoo Station, the song that also opens Today anchor Katie Couric, after being hugged by a stranger its current album, Achtung Baby, welcomed the crowd to the 1990s U2 Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Where the Streets Have No Name, dominated the second half. Two songs in the second half had special significance for Arizonans. The band did Bullet the Blue Sky, a song from the group's breakthrough album, The Joshua Tree, once again. A live recording made at the band's concert at Sun Devil Stadium in 1987 was included on the 1988 album Rattle and Hum.

Pride (In the Name of Love a tribute to slain civil-rights leader Martin Luther King was accom-; panied by a video clip from King's last speech, given the night before he was assassinated in April 1968. Efforts to create a paid state holiday in honor of King remain a source of controversy in Arizona, and outside the Activity Center, representatives of Victory Together, a group seeking such a holiday, were registering voters. The TV monitors presented a dizzying array of fast-cut images and slogans throughout the show. During Mysterious Ways, live images of Bono News Shows still "politically correct" but willing to wink at itself, dance and have a lot of fun. The first eight songs including The Fly, Even Better Than the Real Thing, Mysterious Ways, One, Until the End of the World, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses of the 18-song show were drawn from the current album.

It's unusual for a band not to work in some older tunes into the first half of the show. But older tunes, including such hits as With or Without You, I Still Gov. Tommy Thompson; Charles Murray, political scientist and aufhor of Losing Ground; and the Most Rev. Rembert Weakland, Roman Catholic archbishop of Milwaukee, on welfare reform. I CBS' Face the Nation, and NBC's Meer the Press, are not scheduled today in Phoenix.

The Associated Press Here are the lineups for today's television news shows: CNN's Newsmaker Sunday, 7:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Speaker of the House Thomas Foley, D-Wash. ABC's This Week With David Brinkley, 9 a.m., KTVK-TV (Channel 3) Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan; Wisconsin TODAY'S CHUCKLE Nowadays, the only student who walks a mile to school is one who can't find a parking space. TODAY'S PRAYER Lord, you are a haven in the storm.

Amen. CLARIFICATION A map on Page T2 on March 29 showing how to get to Stanton implied that Rincon Road is a suitable route. The road does not go through to Stanton. CORRECTION A headline on Page CL1 of the Real Estate Rentals section last Sunday incorrectly identified the buyer of the Caliber Bank Building. It was bought by Princeton Electronics Products of Princeton, N.J.

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