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Emery, Gill And Tillis Inducted Into Hall Of Fame

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 30, 2007

Country star Vince Gill, singer and humorist Mel Tillis and television and radio personality Ralph Emery were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday.

Al Anderson, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris and Michael McDonald saluted Gill, while Bobby Bare, Dierks Bentley, Kenny Rogers and Pam Tillis paid tribute to Tillis.

Artists honoring Emery included Con Hunley, Raul Malo and Ray Stevens.

Gill, 50, has had several hits including 'When I Call Your Name,' 'Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away' and 'I Still Believe in You.'

The 75-year-old Tillis, who turned his stutter into his trademark, was chosen in the hall's lifetime achievement category. With his band the Statesiders, Tillis had hits with 'I Ain't Never,' 'Good Woman Blues' and 'I Believe in You.'

Crowe, Washington Work Together Well

There was no power struggle between Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe on the set of their new crime drama, 'American Gangster.' Instead, they worked as a team when filming their scenes together.

'It's not about a heavyweight fight,' Crowe said. 'What it is, is much more like two guitarists playing together, two people singing together.'

'American Gangster' is based on the life of Frank Lucas, played by Washington, who became filthy rich in the 1960s by smuggling heroin into New York.

Crowe portrays a police officer who investigates Lucas and his dirty dealings.

'If you can blend, if you can harmonize and you can sing together still from two completely separate points of view, now you are talking,' said Crowe.

Judge Won't Forget Culp's Elephant Suit

Robert Culp's lawsuit alleging that the Los Angeles Zoo mistreats elephants can go forward.

Judge Reginald A. Dunn has rejected arguments by the city that the complaint filed by the 77-year-old actor and real estate agent Aaron Leider lacks a legal basis.

Culp and Leider want to stop the zoo from building a $40 million elephant exhibit. They accuse zoo authorities of withholding medical care from elephants and keeping them cramped in small places, and don't want the zoo to keep any elephants.

Court Won't Consider Painting Dispute

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a dispute involving Elizabeth Taylor over ownership of a Vincent van Gogh painting. The painting is claimed by descendants of a Jewish woman who fled Nazi Germany.

'View of the Asylum,' worth millions, may be among the estimated 600,000 works of art that belonged to Jews and wound up in Nazi hands between 1933 and 1945.

Margarete Mauthner, a one-time owner of the van Gogh, left Germany in March 1939, having lost her livelihood and most of her property due to Nazi policies of economic coercion.

In 1963 while living in London, Taylor bought the painting for about $236,000 at a Sotheby's auction from the estate of a German art collector.

Today's Birthdays

Singer Grace Slick is 68. Singer Otis Williams is 66.

Source: The Associated Press

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