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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Newsmakers Celebrity scoop ■ By The Associated Press
Lawyer: Thicke exploited in ‘Blurred’ suit ROBIN THICKE’S ATTORNEY says the estate of Marvin Gaye exploited the singer’s “moment of personal vulnerability” in an attempt to prove that the hit “Blurred Lines” was a ripoff of a Gaye hit. The estate sued Pharrell Williams and Thicke over the song last year. Thicke In a deposition obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, Thicke said Williams did much of the writing on the Grammynominated song and said, “I was just lucky enough to be there when he wrote it.” Thicke also said he was high on a mix of prescription drugs and alcohol during the writing of the song and in interviews following its release. “In fact, I was quite surprised when I read them back sometimes,” he said about the interviews. Attorney Howard King said lawyers for the Gaye estate are just trying to prop up their lawsuit that says
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Michael Eisenberg, a California businessman, sits on the customized Captain America chopper ridden by Peter Fonda in the film “Easy Rider.” The auction house Profiles in History told The Associated Press it estimates the HarleyDavidson will bring between $1 million and $1.2 million at an Oct. 18 sale. the 2013 international hit was stolen by writers, including Thicke and Williams, and that it ripped off “Got to Give It Up.” April depositions by Thicke and Williams in the case were unsealed Monday, revealing a different story than the one the two men were giving the public during interviews last year about the song. He described his daily routine for attorneys. “Every day I woke up, I’d
take a Vicodin to start the day,” Thicke said. “And then I’d fill up a water bottle with vodka and drink it before and during my interviews.” Thicke said he began to claim more credit for the song after it became an inescapable hit. He said in the deposition he began to take more credit than he was due in interviews because he felt disappointed that his biggest hit had been written by someone else.
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TIBOR RUDAS, 94, an irrepressible impresario who took classical music from concert halls to casinos and from there to baseball stadiums and the Eiffel Tower, helping to propel the Three Tenors to global glory, died Sept. 8 at his home in Santa Monica. Calif. His daughter Kim Goerlitz confirmed his death. Mr. Rudas had been a child singing star in Budapest and spent six months in a Nazi concentration camp. He found his way to Australia, where he started an acrobatic dancing team that performed in London and Paris. By the 1970s, Resorts International had seen his troupe perform and brought him to Las Vegas, where he became a master at putting together feathers-andrhinestones revues. When Resorts opened the first casino in Atlantic City in 1978, the company sent him east to oversee the building and its entertainment operations. Mr. Rudas booked bigtime talent like Jackie Gleason and Dean Martin, and arranged matches between popular boxers. But he harbored a broader vision of entertainment, spotting sophisticated gamblers as an untapped market and seeing Lincoln Center and Broadway as
his competition. It dawned on him that he could lure this audience by adding “acts” like the New York Philharmonic and Luciano Pavarotti. So it was that in 1980, Mr. Rudas booked the Philharmonic to appear between performances by Donna Summer and Diana Ross. Mr. Rudas had to draw on his sharpest deal-making skills when he pursued Pavarotti in 1983. The great tenor at first rejected the idea of singing at a casino; mixing opera and gambling was, at best, unseemly, he said. But Mr. Rudas persisted, and Pavarotti finally relented, signing on after Mr. Rudas came up with the idea of raising a tent beside the casino so that the singer could be isolated from the clatter of roulette wheels and slot machines. Then Resorts International objected, worried about low attendance. Mr. Rudas came back with a new offer: He would put up the $250,000 cost of the concert himself. Resorts said it was deal. Tickets sold out in an hour. Mr. Rudas produced more than 200 Pavarotti concerts in places like Madison Square Garden and Miami Beach.
1939 (75 years ago) Interior Secretary Harold Ickes protested to Gov. Clarence D. Martin the state Game Commission’s elk reduction program on the Olympic Peninsula. Martin, in revealing Ickes’ protest letter, asked the state Game Department for “information and justification” of its elk-culling program. State Game Director B.F. McCauley replied to Martin that the area opened to hunting is only between the Olympic National Park boundary and Olympic Highway from Port Angeles to Quinault. He said the West End watersheds are overpopulated with elk, adding: “If this winter we should have a fairly heavy snowfall, over 1,000 elk would starve on the Olympic Peninsula.”
■ Clallam County Commissioner Jim McEntire’s name was misspelled in a report Tuesday on Page A1 of the Jefferson County edition.
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1964 (50 years ago) The Merrill & Ring Western Lumber Co. sawmill in Port Angeles will close down tonight for an indefinite period, manager A.H. “Gus” Haley said today. Haley gave no reason for the closure. However, the mill has been involved in a dispute for more than a month with Local 27 of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union over the use of mill employees to load lumber aboard barges at M&R’s Port Angeles Harbor dock.
1989 (25 years ago) The board overseeing the new Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center, or SARC, has broken off legal ties with the center’s original contractor so it can hire a new contractor to speed up final construction and repairs. The center will close for about three weeks for repairs to the ceiling’s vapor barrier, pool paint that is flaking, sprinkler system and water damage. “A lot of repairs need to get done by the time winter weather sets in,” said Melinda Griffith, president of the Clallam County Parks and Recreation District 1 board.
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GUESS WHO WE may be partnering with to fight ISIS? None other than Iran. Iran used to be our enemy back, like, last week, but now we may be upgrading our relationship to “frenemy.” Jimmy Kimmel
Seen Around Peninsula snapshots
A LITTLE CAR headed toward Port Angeles with a dog at one window and a fishing pole sticking out of another. . . . WANTED! “Seen Around” items recalling things seen on the North Olympic Peninsula. Send them to PDN News Desk, P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles WA 98362; fax 360-417-3521; or email news@ peninsuladailynews.com.
Looking Back From the files of The Associated Press
TODAY IS THURSDAY, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2014. There are 104 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: ■ On Sept. 18, A.D. 14, the Roman Senate officially confirmed Tiberius as the second emperor of the Roman Empire, succeeding the late Augustus. On this date: ■ In 1759, the French formally surrendered Quebec to the British. ■ In 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. ■ In 1810, Chile made its initial declaration of independence from Spain with the forming of a national junta.
■ In 1927, the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) made its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations. ■ In 1931, an explosion in the Chinese city of Mukden damaged a section of Japanese-owned railway track; Japan, blaming Chinese nationalists, invaded Manchuria the next day. ■ In 1947, the National Security Act, which created a National Military Establishment, went into effect. ■ In 1961, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia. ■ In 1975, newspaper heiress
Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. ■ In 1984, retired U.S. Air Force Col. Joe Kittinger became the first person to complete a solo balloon flight across the Atlantic Ocean as he landed in Italy four days after leaving Maine. ■ Ten years ago: A divided U.N. Security Council approved a resolution threatening oil sanctions against Sudan unless the government reined in Arab militias blamed for a killing rampage in Darfur. Pop singer Britney Spears married her fiance, dancer Kevin Fed-
erline, in a surprise ceremony. The couple divorced nearly three years later. ■ Five years ago: Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in defiance of Iran’s Islamic leadership, clashing with police and confronting state-run anti-Israel rallies. The final episode of “Guiding Light” aired on CBS, ending a 72-year run on radio and television. ■ One year ago: Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a Fox News Channel interview, said a United Nations report finding “clear and convincing evidence” sarin nerve gas was used in Syria painted an “unrealistic” account and denied his government had orchestrated the attack.