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4 Life Times D1 Saturday June 3 1 989 Old time music makers back on the road People Starr Costello Lifter seeks world title Naomi narrow defeat in England last year motivated her in training Nutrition program misses half of those eligible Hoffman draws mixed reviews in London The ar Side not sure Al but we sure got into a moss of i Dustin Hoffman Shylock in Merchant of Venice "Our central finding is that young children those between the ages of one and 5 are the least likely to receive the benefits of WIC (Special Supplemental ood Program for Women Infants and he said ersh said more federal funding is needed if there is to be more WIC par ticipation ersh appeared with Sens Patrick Leahy Vt chairman of the Ag riculture Nutrition and orestry Com mittee and Rudy Boschwitz Minn to release a letter signed by 73 senators By TOM CAMPBELL Journal and Courier The calendar says June 18 is Day but Naomi Prince hopes it will be her day to celebrate Day The 34 year old mother will take part in the World Pow erlifting Championships in Chicago that day She will be seeking a title she lost last year by a slim 6 ounces The event is sanctioned by the World Drug ree Powerlifting ederation Prince supports the drug free emphasis just not good for your health your liver and your Prince said it affects your personality so badly Plus I want to have a narrow defeat in England last year has moti vated her in training for this competition what fighting right Prince said during I lost last year by only 6 ounces taught me to nersevere If can just hang in there and get past the failure that is how we learn I think learned to deal with it pretty Competitors lift in three cat egories: the squat bench press and dead lift lifts to taled 766 pounds in the nation als but she thinks it may take a total of 775 pounds tottfin the world title In her short powerlifting ca reer of seven years Prince has won three consecutive national championships By winning the 1989 national championship in lorida in May Prince qualified supporting a $150 million increase in the funding Last year a Senate subcommittee in creased this funding by $55 million though the Senate Budget Committee had recommended a $150 million in crease This program falls under the Ag riculture budget which the Bush administration wants cut by $1 billion The subcommittee will have to decide if it can afford to increase funding for this program at the expense of other programs The local program has the money to inrrpflsp its rasplnari tn 1 725 in Sen need more people to know about it Starting July 1 be open for evening hours so we can reach more of the working Batt said Nationally about 75 million women infants and children are eligible but 48 percent are not participating in the pro gram said Robert ersh executive di rector of the ood Research and Action Center which released the studies Thursday this summer No Pink loyd Aero smith Van Halen Def Leppard George Michael Bruce Springsteen ACDC Whitesnake or Sting "There was such a glut or groups on the road last summer that it really was a says Jane Cohen of Performance "The promoters learned a lesson: You put everybody on the road at the same The old timers are back Cohen says thanks to Pink loyd the highest grossing act of 1988 "They generated such enormous business bands said still a market for us out In addition to the reunion tours there are also several packaged theme shows a la of 1988: ferson Airplane When the Airplane takes to the road in August Balin will be replaced by Brewer Shipley Toke Over the MTV featuring Tone Loc Information Society Milli Vanilli Was (Not Was) Paula Abdul Lisa Lisa Cult Jam and Club MTV Dancers The tour scene will pick up in the fall The reunited Rolling Stones tour nothing officially announced yet but a near certainty is likely to be the star attraction of the waning summer and early fall Also expected: tours from Paul McCartney Motley Crue Queen and Billy Joel The Don i HenleyEdie Brickel New Bohe Muldaur and Marty Bafih of the Jef mians tour begins in late August Wardle was less enthusiastic He wrote the clamorous hype and slavering expectation is a poor prep aration for the modest Shylock who arrived on the Phoenix stage last Michael Billington said in The Guardian: "Although Mr humorous approach pays handsome dividends it also means a loss of the tragic dimension What it lacks is any strong sense of the inveterate maliamtv Jack Tinker wrote in the London tabloid the Daily Mail: being great he is most certainly good Lester Middlehurst in the tabloid Today found Shylock The production by Sir Peter Hall also starred British actress Geraldine Ringo tour featuring the ex Beatle with ex Eagle Joe Walsh and Clar ence Clemons of Street Band Dick Band show with the Spinners Guess Who Association and the Drifters "An Evening of California with the Mamas the Papas Canned Heat New Riders of the Purple Sage Maria James as Portia When Hoffman heard that Hall was forming his own company he asked fora role They decided on Shylock a part Hall said at the time was "for a great Jewish actor who can use his Jewishness in the Hoffman said after studying the play that he found it very anti Semitic Critics agreed riday how ever that portrayal had reversed this traditional view Hoffman 51 won an Oscar early this year for his role Ram Man He also has starred in The Graduate Midnight Cowboy and Tootsie The first night audience included Dame Peggy Ashcroft Joan Collins and ex Beatle Paul McCartney Hoffman will play Shylock for three months Winfrey this USA Weekend she said she only gets to see Graham on weekends "I just hate it going to last an other year He says going to move back to Chicago That would be just in time to meet my family planning Graham divorced father of a 13 year old girl sounded a bit more cau tious more careful the second time around We care very much for each other her man and my woman and we be pressured by the he said Newman wins dispute over income i SAN RANCISCO Actor Paul New man has beaten a 541000 tax bite on in come from The Sting Newman won the tax dispute when the California Supreme Court rejected the claim for a greater portion of Newman's income rom the movie In unanimously US champion gears life toward weights to compete in the world champ ionships and has a chance to avenge last defeat The string could have been four titles Prince qualified for the national championships in 1986 while six months pregnant But she but did not participate in the nationals after the birth of her daughter later that year Judy now 3 years old was named after her first coach Judy has her own lifting belt but will not accompany her mother to the world champion ships after my pregnancy I got real good at Prince said ever since then the pressure has been on me I wanted to prove to women that they have to be fat just because they had a baby and that women can lift while they are pregnant and afterwards too and be itting workouts motherhood and a full time job as a janitor at the YMCA is taxing physically emotionally and a recent workout fact that economically So much so that rnnee says ner compeiuive rsevere If I lifting may end after the world championships Prince still has a $500 debt from the national finals and is seeking sponsorship for the world championships But with or without support Prince will strive to win the title whole lifestyle is geared to the Prince said people at my level of competition either work at all or the men are bouncers at bars You just work a stressful 40 hour work week and try to do the weights at the same time You just Wire and Staff Reports wwy I inweave iid udociua Washington A federal nutri tember Batt said tion program for low income pregnant women and children is reaching only about half those who need it in the United States according to two reports released this week 1 The situation is pretty much ute same in Tippecanoe County where the Women Infants and Children ood Pro gram helps about 1600 women a month when almost 3000 are eligible Ck)lleen Batt coordinator of the program said Costello claims really a nice guy I NEW YORK Imagine it Elvis Costello a nice guy Elvis Costello? In the burrent Rolling Stone Costello claims the bad guy image was a misconception only turn into a two headed monster when people give me justification very nice I current release Spike is pis eighth top 40 album in the What music is tie listening to? Tif my heroine I love that Winfrey hppes for children within 3 years I NEW YORK Television talk show host Oprah Winfrey wants to have chil dren within three years and hopes for one boy and one girl I Winfrey 35 has a long distance rela tionship with Stedman Graham Jr 37 a High NC public relations executive In ah interview in Newman denying a hearing sought by the state ranchise Tax Board the justices on Thursday let stand a lower court rul ing that counted the time an actor spent as work time for ap portioning income A non resident such as Newman who performs personal services in California for par(t of a year is taxed according to the portion of the total working days spent in the state case1 involved a dispute over the definition of working days Psst NBC News Today anchor Bryant Gumbel on a dare from weatherman Willard Scott showed some on air versatility He gave the weather re port The challenge began when Gumbel started kidding Scott on the airThursday for Arriving with only a second to spare before the 8:30 am forecast was going to vamp for a little while until you managed to join Gumbel said I thought kind of do the local (weather) at the Rolling Stones bass guitarist Bill Wyman quietly married 19 year old model Mandy Smith in a office riday in England i Wire Reports By The Associated Press London Dustin Hoffman heard cheers for his British stage debut as Shylock in The Mer chant of Venice I But while he won approval from the opening night audience in Phoenix Theater the critics! riday gave him mixed reviews "In side curls and skullcap Hoff man gave Shylock humor ai passion 'for revenge and a tortured dignity when he loses all It was a far cry from Raymond Babbitt the autistic savant he plays in his current hit film Rain wrote Reg Evan's of the British domestic news agency Press Association In The Times of London Inring By Gannett News Service 1 If looking for new music this summer have to go to record stores The big tours of summer during which 60 percent of the yearly concert receipts will be collected are reunions The Who Allman Brothers Band Doobie Brothers and original members of Yes are taking their shows on the road By late summer appropriately timed to 20th anniversary in August original members of the seminal group Jefferson Airplane are also expected to be on tour Of Performance top' lO touring acts of 1988 only one the Grateful Dead will be performing By Tom Campbell HI aax IH i III 5 js SSL Mil Jill JB wB I oaf t' Cd rm I A II I IU ft ly III JI 1 I IWV Hl HfKk i i CaMMtfU I QMI jf KM IRS Jr Wr ss 1 i i I 1 i I 1.