The Prince George Citizen - Wednesday, April 16,1997 - 19 Entertainment Angels, NBC rule SHOWBIZ Hooker stays centre stage TV ratings race IN BRIEF Blues legend still active at 80 years old NEW YORK (AP) — To crack the top REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — No later, the elder statesman of the blues 10 in the Nielsen rankings last week, a C renna fan restrained body tells John Lee Hooker what to do. headlined at the same place. television show either had to be on LOS ANGELES (AP) — An avid fan Three wives tried to make him quit And on March 10, he came out with NBC’s Thursday night schedule, be a of Richard Crenna was ordered to stay the music business because it took him a new album. newsmagazine or feature an angel. at least 100 yards (91 metres) awayaway from home. Don’t Look Back, on Pointblank/Vir- Television viewers in droves welcomed from the actor and his family for the That’s why he’s single again. gin records, includes a remake of the first of more original episodes of next three years. Early record producers wanted to tie Hooker’s classic, Dimples, and guest NBC’s hospital drama ER back from a Superior Court Judge Anthony Jones him to exclusive deals for their own fi recordings by longtime friends Los Lo- lengthy absence. on Monday extended a temporary re nancial benefit. He just went to rival bos and Charles Brown, as well as mu ER was the week’s most-watched straining order that Crenna had filed producers and recorded under differ sicians from the Robert Cray band and show, enabling NBC to win the week against Veronika Kuncova, who claims ent names. the Dirty Dozen. Another admirer, Van with a 9.8 rating and 17 share, Nielsen she came from the Czech Republic to And at 80, when the average musi Morrison, produced most of the tracks. said Hiesday. meet the actor. cian would kill for centre stage, Hooker While putting together a CD is a ma CBS finished a strong second with a Kuncova showed up at the actor’s turns down one gig after another. jor effort for any musician — much less 9.1 rating and 16 share. ABC was third home in October and took a few photos “I got to do it my way— the way I feel one nearing his eighth decade of hard with a 7.7 rating and 13 share, fol with him, and then returned twice in it,” Hooker says, speaking in the gravelly living — Hooker seems relatively lowed by Fox’s 6.5 rating and 11 share. March, Crenna said in court papers. mumble that has become as much a sig unimpressed by the accomplishment. A rating point represents 970,000 The 70-year-old actor called police nature of his music as his stomping right Small wonder. He’s recorded more U.S. households, or one per cent of the after the March visits. Kuncova was foot. “I just do what I want.” than 100 albums since he ran away estimated 97 million homes in the Unit carrying a phone book listing her as After six decades of playing the foot- from home at 14 to play the music his ed States with TV. “Veronika Crenna” and giving her ad stompin’ boogie that made him fa Baptist minister father discouraged. For the week of April 7-13, the top 10 dress as the actor’s home, police Det. mous, Hooker has become a legend in Don’t Look Back is his fifth since The shows, their networks and ratings, Paul Wright said in court papers. his own time. Healer won him his first Grammy, for a were: ER, NBC, 23.6; Seinfeld, NBC, He inspired some of rock ‘n’ roll’s duet with Bonnie Raitt, in 1992. 21.7; Fired Up, NBC, 18.8; Friends, Leave B illy Bob be biggest names. He has two Grammys, One reason Hooker is so prolific is NBC, 16.3; Suddenly Susan, NBC, LOS ANGELES (AP) — B illy Bob is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame HOOKER: doing what he wants. that he rarely spends more than two 15.7; 60 Minutes, CBS, 15.2; Touched Thornton is asking for privacy now and received a Lifetime Achievement days in the studio for any given album. By an Angel, CBS, 13.7; PrimeTime that his marriage to his fourth wife has Award from the Blues Foundation. historic Fillmore Auditorium earlier He likes using his first take because he Live, ABC, 12.9; Dateline NBC — Fri collapsed. Still, he continues on strong. Hooker this year and kept the audience boo prefers the raw sound, strength and day, NBC, 12.4; Dateline NBC — Hies- Pietra Dawn sat in with Tom Petty at San Francisco’s gieing for three numbers. Just weeks spontaneity that comes out. day, NBC, 12.1. Thornton filed for divorce Friday in Superior Court, INXS singer now tabloid fodder / ’ theatre_ less than three weeks after the 41- TORONTO (CP) — INXS frontman ter to Yates-Geldof progeny Fifi Trixi- He’s dressed in outback attire, save U o r o n e T year-old actor won Michael Hutchence appears in British belle, Peaches and Pixie. for the incongruous appearance of a 494 George St. Phone: 561-0303 an Academy Award tabloids as frequently as philandering The Hutchence-Yates matchup two purple-beaded necklace hanging from for best adapted royals, sexy U.K. soap starlets and years ago triggered a media blitzkrieg his neck, but says little and even gets VAL KILMER screenplay for his burned-out soccer players. that continues today. At the time Yates up and leaves at one point when it’s ELISABETH SHUE film Sling Blade. But after two was still married to Geldof, dubbed Saint clear Hutchence is in a mood to talk. They were married years of paparazzi Bob by the U.K. press for his Ethiopian Anyone familiar with INXS will im in 1993. THORNTON glare, including 24- famine relief fundraising efforts. mediately recognize the band’s hybrid She cited irreconcilable differences hour surveillance There was no sign of Yates on this of funk and rock grooves on Elegantly S A T'N T and sought sole custody of the couple’s and a bugged day, though she v/as in the city with Wasted, their 10th studio album. sons, William, 3, and Harry James, 2. phone, the Aus the couple’s multi-named newborn. But Hutchence and Farriss are noth 7:00 & 9:15 Nightly! “It is a painful and personal time tra lia n singer is Hutchence says the couple knew the ing if not realistic about selling music Warning: Violence & coarse language. right now,” Thornton said Monday. plotting revenge. firestorm that awaited them once word in the fickle ‘90s, a decade that has Winner of 9 Academy Awards! “Both Pietra and I would appreciate “They just got out about their relationship. But seen new CDs by some of the world’s Ralph FIENNES and that our privacy be respected during brought in laws they fell in love, he says, a fact the biggest acts fizzle. Juliette BINOCHE in this time.” about harassment press overlooks in their relentless cam It’s been 10 years since INXS released so they’re all a bit paign of “bigoted, ignorant opinion.” its biggest-selling CD, Kick, an album THE ENGLISH No dress for C ruise jumpy now, these HUTCHENCE Despite the ongoing swirl, that turned them into a stadium act PATIENT riNos NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Cruise photographers,” Hutchence says the band — all six though performing in mega-seat says Hutchence, 37, shifting into seri original members — is in a good place venues is certainly not assumed today. 8:00 pm Nightly! won’t say exactly what he’s doing in Warning: Occasional violence, very coarse £ Stanley Kubrick’s new psychological ous mode during a trip to promote IN- 20 years after forming in Sydney. The band has been on a punishing language, nudity & suggestive scenes. w thriller Eyes Wide Shut, but he’s not XS’s new album, Elegantly Wasted. “At the moment actually, every promotional wearing a dress. “We’re going to try to test-case it, be thing’s kind of pure and simple. We schedule since Jan “I’ve read a lot of stuff. No one’s got cause certainly there’s people who feel like a gang again,” says Hutchence, uary and w ill sup LEX ODEON CINEMAGUIDE ten it right. They’re reaching,” Cruise have seriously harassed us.” his hair dyed jet black and wearing port the album with a world tour ^%DE0N CINEMAS 355 VANCOUVER SI * 562-2935 told the New York Daily News when The “us” refers to Paula Yates, tinted oval glasses. CJ ■ asked if Kubrick had him dress in Hutchence’s companion, ex-wife of Beside him sits guitarist Tim Farriss, starting in South LIAR LIAR ANACONDA THE DEVIL'S OWN women’s clothing for the film. 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