Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january Page 14 Chuck features editor Cheque prompts shift in priority a bought living room furniture rather than much needed bed Minneapolis millionaire Percy Ross is internationally known for his philanthropic works and likes to encourage others to help solve problems for those in he has earned a Fortune and a wealth of knowl Edge during his lifetime and wants to share both before his his motto is he who gives while he knows where it dear Ross my husband and i divorced three years and he got our in he got almost All the and i got the since that Ive been forced to sleep with my who at the time was what was i going to do sleep on the floor my son never complained about our sleeping a Best Mother recently this subject came up in a conversation i was holding with a lady at she said it was sick to be sleeping with my now 15yearold this really Hurt my be cause Ive been the Best Mother anyone could Given my set of Ive been Able to replace the living room but i cant seem to save enough to get my self a the lady at work suggested i write i dont know what qualifies a person for your because frankly i never heard of you until do i fit your guidelines dear youre in a Cate gory All of your do you think its healthy to be sleeping with your 15yearold son the fact that your son Doest protest to this sleeping arrangement makes me even More knowing that you could have Pur chased a bed for yourself but chose to buy living room Furni Ture instead truly boggles my what youre doing is Tunnat Ive arranged with a retail store for delivery of the requested because if i sent a Cheque id worry you might find that replacing the China was a for both you and your sons Sake Stop sleeping cheap advice Percy what qualifies you to dispense your measly cheques and cheap advice to people even More what qualifies you to deny people their request i wrote you three months ago of Fuesling help for my aging Mother who was about to lose her she needed for Over due property taxes and six months of mortgage payments in thanks a million Percy Ross thanks to she lost her Damn Percy i had equity in that and now ill never see when judgment Day i Pray someone sees fit to punish you for your cruelty to those who needed your thanks for nothing dear i have no idea Why i didst immediately pick up my pen and write you a Cheque for am so what i did was simply and i just know ill Burn in hell for my sarcasm is be cause its the least i can do for you after All your kind dear sir in 39 years old and live with my Ive been a quadriplegic since in Para lazed from my Chest on and my arms Arent that How i still use a manual wheel chair with rubber handles on each Side of the which i push with the Palms of my my wheelchair is Over 20 years so i got a Brand new one from the Texas rehabilitation com Mission for the that was three months and its still sitting unused in our living the problem with it is the handles Are too i told the commission about but they said they i cant afford the to re place the rubber and that Why in asking for your i Only get a and with i help my parents pay some if you dont help in sure you have a Good reason not to and thank you just the dear in not going to spend any time trying to find a reason not to help in going to invest my time in writing a Cheque to properly out fit your new what makes me feel Good is i didst write my Cheque out of pity for heres to propelling yourself and your life you May write to Percy Ross Winnipeg free Box include a Telephone num ber if you All letters sent to Ross Are Only a few Are answered in this Al though others May be acknowledged creators Syndicate actor shards tenacity pays off by David Rosenthal Knight Ridder newspapers most actors dont try Shakespeare until Treyve been around a Grant Shaud tried it in i played he still shuddering at the it scared the Bleep out of i just no no his return for Uno Mas worked out a Little better than Roberto durans against sugar Ray that Why you can see him every monday night As Miles Sil Candice Bergens baby Boss on Murphy Brown 8 monday on sky and running gag two seasons his Youthful looks Are still a running gag on the no one can believe someone that Young is running a High powered network news neither can his insecurity is another running what he wants most of All is respect from Murphy and the gang at Shaud mind the same thing for but at this Hes just thrilled to be working on a series that seems destined to be come a to i dont Wake up in the morning and look in the Mirror and youre on a to he said not Long ago in an interview in san but in constantly aware of How great it i make myself be aware of one reason Murphy Brown is so on and off the he is Candice Shes the most Well liked person on the set and she Doest have to he Shes a she can be whatever she wants to but Shes so Nice and so great to work if someone has a particularly heavy show with the rest of us Are she just puts everyone at Shes the Power of she does something with every minute of every Shes one of those people who makes you feel bad to watch her run her Shes part of that Diane Sawyer Mike Nichols were All on the outside look ing in at what there understudy about All that Bergen and Shaud had in common before the in was that neither had done series who looks a Little older in person than the 25yearold Miles but is still on the Good Side of was working off Roadway two Summers ago when Murphy Brown was hed been in town for about four Landing a part As an under study in Torch song trilogy a few months after the closest hed come to the big time alter that was an audition to be Al Pacino son in the movie bomb id been up for a lot of he bad i had read Shaud plays Bergens baby faced Boss on the television Murphy and not done i read for dream Street a Short lived Abc series about Blu Collar youth in this part of the son of a mafioso t wanted that one real so bad i just sucked in the which can one my agents called me into the office and read this script youre going Over later today to read for i thought it was the Best thing i had read All i was right for id done several other characters similar to it in but once he was Lousy at the or at least he thought he was crushed until the Murphy Brown people called to ask him to come Back because the tape machine had broken during his tryout and he didst get so Back he but he didst think he did any by this it was wednesday and shooting was supposed to Start in los Angeles on the Only part yet to cast was Miles the chances of getting hired off a tape Are like he its so the casting director is standing behind the tape a Reading lines and working the camera at the same its so they put stars next to the names they thought they would like in but i didst have a Star next to my in los series creator Diane English and her Crew went immediately to the tapes of those with stars next to no then they began looking at the at this they were pretty he i think someone Hes kind of lets get him out with four Days until i was literally Only supposed to be out for a All i had with me was under but in person he was a he got the a month in los Angeles and a new Courtesy of the no Justice what he got after that was a Long wait and two one in new York and one in his the writers strike was on and nobody knew when it would end or what would wind up on to when it was i had the finished Pilot sent to my Shaud i knew it was i knew if there were any Justice in the it was going to of there is no Justice in what was great was being in my doing a play at my theatre and knowing i had a series that was going to Start when the strike it was like having a i knew it was going to get picked which is More than he knew when he went to the University of Richmond 10 years then he was a business that lasted a next he wanted to be a sports that lasted until the first assignment in journalism i wanted to get right into Dis cussing Trade he and they had me working 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