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NASHVILLE, TENN. (AP) — Country-bluegrass

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sound of Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe two generations ago.

In three years as a recording artist for CBS Records,

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Skaggs has been acclaimed as the best traditional country

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He has three gold albums and eight No. 1 singles,
ineluding Uncle Pen which last October became the first
bluegrass tune recorded by a solo artist to be No. 1 on the

And success has come with what Skaggs calls “morally
good songs — nothing satanic or drug-oriented.”

“I base a song on whether I could sing it for my mom
“I don't mean to be self-righteous. I just
don't like to hear those songs. The morality of my music is

Branch No. 170 country charts.
Friday & Saturday and dad,” he said.
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Reflecting on his quick-starting career that earned him
male vocalist of the year from the Country Music
Association in 1982, when he was just 27, Skaggs admits he's
been “a cliance-taker.”

“Three years ago, we all took a big chance when no one
else was having success with country and bluegrass music,

J) the former Kentucky mountain boy said. “I figured it would

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to. CBS took a risk (too).
“I guess it may have proven a point: that country and
bluegrass music can sell records.
“T'm not sure I'm a trailblazer. But to be able to have
some success and preserve that music and bring it up front
. the music deserves to be heard. The music is good;

He’s a ‘chance-taker’

people aren't buying it just to save the music, but because
they like it.”

Skaggs, blessed with a pure tenor and dazzling
musicianship, still embraces the moral and religious prin-
ciples he learned as a youngster along Brushy Creek deep in
Appalachia.

A teetotaler, he is a spokesman for Mothers Against
Drunk Driving. He played in nightclubs during his first year
on tour, but avoids them now because the gospel tunes he
does don't fit in. “It's hard to sing gospel with beer bottles
clanging and everyone raising Cain.”

kaggs refuses to sign autographs on women's
anatomies (a frequent request from eager admirers on tour)
and has been known to return money to concert promoters
when fell short of

“About a month ago, I felt a cloud over my head — a bad
spirit — all because of my work,” he said in a recent
interview. “I couldn't read my Bible and keep my prayer life
up. Those are real problems for a young Christian.

“I got it in my mind to get rid of that cloud. I'm staying
in ‘the word’ more and not thinking of me so much.”

Skaggs, frosm Louisa, Ky., learned to play the mandolin
at age five. He dropped out of high school in 1971 in order to
play music for money. At the time, he lacked one credit in
English to earn his diploma.

He played in Emmylou Harris’ band before striking out
on a solo career that now includes performances on the
Grand Ole Opry.

He best known singles include Heartbroke, Crying My
Heart Out Over You, I Don't Care, Honey (Open That Door)
and Highway 40 Blues.

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LOS ANGELES (AP)
Claude Akins has played
lawmen on television series
from Police Story to his own
Sheriff Lobo, but he never
confuses fiction with the real
thing.

Akins’ father was a pso-
liceman in Bedford, Ind. In
fact, the actor sometimes
uses his father’s pearl-hand
led pistol in his TV roles.

“I never had the fortitude”
to be a policeman, said Akins,
who has appeared in such
films as From Here to Eter.
nity and The Caine Mutiny.
ways wanted to be an
actor.”

Although best known for
his work in films and TV, in.
cluding his costarring role in
the series Movin’ On, Akins
began his career on the
stage. He made his Broadway
debut in The Rose Tatoo.

After a 30-year hiatus, he
returned to the stage three
years ago. He appeared in
Bus Stop at Claremont Col
lege — taped for Home Box
Office — and then I Ought to
be in Pictures at the Alham-
bra Dinner Theatre in Jack
sonville, Fla.

Now he's playing the role
of an aging preacher in Trav.
eller in the Dark at the pres.
tigious Mark Taper Forum.

Traveller, by Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright
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in Cambridge, Mass.

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clude Children of a Lesser
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He is generous with praise
for his costars — Len Car-
iou, Deborah May and 12
year-old Scott Grimes — and
frank about the challenge in
his own role.

“The concentration level
you have to maintain in film
is two to three minutes. On
stage, you have to have that
same intense concentration
every single second. I can't
suddenly start wondering
where I'm going to go after
the show or, gee, did I turn
off the sprinklers?”

the bygone years was a real
fire and brimstone type who
has mellowed some.” In fact,
in his younger days, the
character could have been
the fiery preacher Akins
played in Inherit the Wind.

Since them, the six-foot-
two, 200-pound actor has of.
ten been cast as a “heavy.”

Akins hasn't slowed down.
This season, he has taped
episodes of Hotel and Love
Boat, and he recently ap-
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PBS LOOKS
AT EXCELLENCE
IN BUSINESS

LOS ANGELES (CP) — Thomas Peters and Robert
Waterman were expecting to sell 2,000 copies of In Search
Of Excellence. They figured there were that many bigwigs
who would buy it.

Harper and Row, their publisher, was slightly more_

istic: It churned out 12,000 copies in the book's first

violence.
But she does concede

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in Spokane to publicize
bookstore.

Porn star
not exploited

SPOKANE, WASH. (AP) —
who has starred in five X-rated films, says she doesn't
feel exploited, doesn't apologize or feel guilty about
her work and doesn't think the movies lead to sexual

her family and has changed her last name.

“My parents weren't too thrilled;
appalled,” Chambers said.
how to react. It's not the type of thing you go brag to

Chambers, 32, star of Behind the Green Door, was

Marilyn Chambers,

that her work embarrasses

they were
“(My mom) didn't know

the opening of an adult

printing.

More than four million sales later,:in 16 languages and
growing, In Search Of Excellence is the largest-selling
business book of all time. Peters and Waterman, who would
rather be called Tom and Bob, are candid about their
mismeasurement of the market

“We obviously blew it,’’ Peters says.

PBS brings the book to life tonight in a 90-minute
documentary on eight of America’s most successful
companies — some big, some small, but all models of the
responsive, well-managed firms that Peters and Waterman
believe can give capitalism a good name.

In their book, they outline eight criteria by which a
successful company can be defined:

— Wanting to act, not being paralysed by the
decision-making process

— Staying close to the customer and acting on
suggestions.

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— Treating employees as the most important resource

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in the company and the main way by which a company can
improve.

— Keeping top-level staffs lean and underlying staffs
unencumbered by bureaucracy

— Producing only in areas with which companies are
familiar.

— Maintaining a “‘loose-tight"’ philosophy, s~ workers
can be independent while operating amid a set of corporate
objectives fully understood by all.

— Operating a company that places much emphasis on
the value of its product and maintains high service

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With those goals in mind, Peters and Waterman found
dozens of successful firms in the U.S. They narrowed the list
to 40 for television producer Robert Nathan, who selected
eight of the best examples.

The PBS program could easily have remained only for
the business-minded. Instead, it's a light, often funny look
at why many businesses succeed

Peters and Waterman believe it isn't just luck they
spawned a multi-million seller. They think the recent
recession cause those in business to search for ways out of
the economic morass of inefficient firms, unmotivated
employees and languishing markets

It wasn't only a time to look inward, either.
superiority was being challenged from abroad.

“We didn't make the book successful,”’
“The Japanese made the book successful."’

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sultants has come worldwide recognition as two of today’s

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best bi But Peters and Waterman
don't think of themselves as prophets.

“What we say in the book amounts to a blinding flash of
the‘obvious,”” Peters says.

Waterman will follow In Search of Excellence with A
Passion For Excellence, to be published this year. He says
he wants to work with Peters again soon, but ‘‘right now,
it’s tough to find time to brush my teeth."

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Smith may plead guilty

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Former singer Cathy Evelyn
Smith may plead guilty toa
reduced charge of involun
tary manslaughter in the
drug overdose death of co-
median John Belushi, but the
deal is off if prosecutors in
sist on a prison term, her
lawyer said.

Smith ended her 22-month
fight against extradition
from Toronto and returned
Tuesday to Los Angeles to
stand trial. She was indicted
in 1983 on charges including
murder.

“I view her as more of a
vietim than a criminal,” said

Children
die in
house fire

HENDERSON, N.C. (AP)
— Trapped by fire in a sec.
ond-floor bedroom, seven
children died quickly when
the stairway funnelled up
heat and smoke “like a chim.
ney,” the fire chief

The six half-brothers and
sisters and the playmate kill
ed in Tuesday’s fire ranged in
age from three to 17. Their
burned bodies were found
piled between two beds

Fire Chief Ranger Wilker-
son said the cause of the fire
was unknown.

“The front door and back
door were closed, so the only
place for the heat and smoke
to go was up the stairwell to
that small bedroom,” Wilker-
son said. “Whatever hap
pened, happened fast

“It was like a chimney.
They didn’t have a prayer.”

The fire broke out in this
rural communtiy 80 kilom:
etres north of Raleigh as
North Carolina shivered un.
der a second straight day of
freezing temperatures.

The victims were among 20
North Carolinians whose
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County schools on Monday
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Howard Weitzman, who suc
cessfully defended automa.
ker John DeLorean on co-
caine trafficking charges last
year. “She clearly didn’t in-
tend to murder anyone. She
was involved in her own drug
problems, as was Mr. Bel
ushi.”

Smith, 37, has been a
backup singer for Canadian
folk artist Gordon Lightfoot,

country singer Hoyt Axton
and others.

She returned to California
voluntarily after argeeing to
plead guilty to involuntary
manslaughter, instead of
murder, in Belushi's March 5,
1982, drug overdose death.

However, the plea was not
immediately entered, and
Weitzman indiated the deal
may collapse.

Promise broken
by grandson

WESTVILLE, N.J. (AP) — A 96-year-old man and
his 88-year-old wife, who say they signed their house over
to their grandson with the promise they could remain
until they died, will live to see that promise broken.

“They will have to move soon,”

real estate agent

Anthony Malave said Tuesday, confirming that the house
was put on the market and sold by Richard Gray, the
grandson of Reade and Edith Earl

“When we took him in as a little boy and raised him,
we never thought it would ever come to this over 30

years later,”

said Earl, who with his wife lived in the

house for more than 40 years.

Several yeats ago, the couple signed the deed of
their home over to Gray, Earl said. They received no
money, agreeing to pay for the utilities while Gray paid
the taxes, sewer and water bills and other expenses, he

said.

“We don't want to move,”

said Mrs. Earl. “When we

moved here, I said it would be our last move until we
went to the cemetery, as morbid as that may sound.”
The Earls celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary

last June.

They found out in September that Gray had listed
the house for sale, but a Deptford real estate agent took
the property off the market when he learned the couple

preferred to stay

Gray then took the property to another real estate
agency, and it has since been sold.

Malave and Mrs. Earl said they did not know where
to reach Gray for comment.

Mrs. Earl said they would probably have to stay with

their daughter,
Township.

Mrs. Doughty, Gray's mother,

Nancy Doughty, in

Sout

He suggested he will not
complete the plea bargain if
she has to serve time. Her
arraingment was postponed
until Jan. 28 to give Weit
zman time to study the in.
dictment.

Smith remained in custody
while attempting to raise
money to post the $50,000
bail.

AGREED TO DEAL

Deputy District Attorney
Michael Montagna said out.
side of court that Smith had
agreed to plead guilty to in
voluntary manslaughter and
three counts of furnishing
heroin and cocaine.

Smith would be tried for
second-degree murder if the
plea bargain did not work
out, Montagna said.

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Asked why he agreed to
the plea, Montagna said:
“We've never taken the posi-
tion that this was an inten-
tional killing. That's one of
the major considerations.”

The maximum sentence for
involuntary manslaughter
and the other counts would
be eight years and eight
months in prison, he said.

Belushi was found dead of
acute cocaine and heroin in-
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