Is CBS News correspondent Diane Sawyer jumping ship? Absolutely, says gossip writer Liz Smith, a close Sawyer pal. Papers were signed Friday, said Smith, adding that ABC`s Roone Arledge promised Sawyer ”the moon.”
Speculation focuses on a still-vague prime time news show with Sam Donaldson. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE-AGAIN Sometimes old flights of fancy are the best, so Jefferson Airplane will fly again. Four key members from the original `65 Airplane-singer Grace Slick, singer-guitarist Paul Kantner, bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen-have agreed to a concert tour this year and an album of new material. IT`S A `RUFF` LIFE With city and suburban parks dog-mined to excess from a season of blissful irresponsibility by some dog owners, humankind`s second-favorite pet needs all the good publicity it can get. So . . . congratulations to cocker spaniels. According to the American Kennel Club, cockers are the nation`s favorite dog for the sixth straight year. Labradors, meanwhile, have edged out poodles for second place. Coming on big-watch out, parks-are golden retrievers, German shepherds and Rottweilers.
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DON JOHNSON`S FIRST BUST Tubbs wasn`t there, but if Sonny Crockett can`t subdue mere hotel burglars without a partner`s backup . . . well, Don Johnson needn`t trade his Ferrari for a Civic. According to police, that rogue undercover cop of ”Miami Vice” collared an intruder in Los Angeles` Hotel Bel-Air. It happened Sunday night when Johnson, 39, and ”Working Girl” fiancee Melanie Griffith, 31, entered their room and found an uninvited guest rifling her purse. Johnson
”took the suspect into custody and held him” until hotel guards arrived, said police, who provided no gossipy details.
MEXICO`S YING-YING DIES Ying-Ying, the world`s most prolific expatriate panda, has died, probably from depression. According to Mexico City Zoo director Maria Elena Hoyo, Ying- Ying died Sunday at age 14, just three months after the death of her lifelong mate. ”She was noticably depressed after Pe-Pe died,” said Hoyo, adding that captive pandas typically live 22 years. Ying-Ying, the most prolific panda ever outside of China (four of her seven offspring survived), went to Mexico City with Pe-Pe from China in 1975.
NO MISSED MANNERS HERE The City of Screeching Aldermen can`t live this one down: Chicago the
”most polite city” in America? So says Marjabelle Young Stewart, an etiquette author whose company teaches manners in 800 cities. Some 750 business execs who took her courses last year ranked Chicago as the most polite. ” . . . such healthiness, such feeling, such spirit,” gushed Stewart, attributing Chicago`s good grades to friendly cabbies and waiters, the Magnificent Mile and a lakefront jogging path. ”Executives travel with their jogging clothes now,” she observed.
PEACE, SISTER Speaking of good relations, the following comes from Henry Kissinger, who always thought himself artful on the subject: ”Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There`s too much fraternization with the enemy.”