Paoe B6-The Chronicle, Thurs^ - .y.f 'r'WWWi Broadway Is My Aretha asl for Windy By JOEY SASSO Syndicated Columnist Singer Aretha Franklin's Bloomfield Hills, Mich., home is on the market for $800,000, but it may be hard to unload. In that posh Detroit suburb, ' bars on all the windows are a no-no, don'tcha know^ Her wealthy neighbors use nothing that "declasse" - only guard dogs and intricate security systems. Really, Aretha!... Back on Top - Singer Tina Turner, back on the rock 'n' roll charts at age 44 with her hit "What's Love Got To Dot with Itji-says that she's still sinking because "I've had my kids and I'm still in great shape." The first three concerts of her North American tour, which began yesterday in Los Angeles, were sold out. The tawny-haired singer divorced her husband and mentor, Ike, eight years ago, ui uiging an cna 10 one 01 me most electrifying musical acts in show business. In part, she said, the split came because she was unhappy doing "groovy" songs with a rhythm and blues tempo. "Everyone wanted me to do R&B... I can still rock, age has nothing to do with it. Forty-four is just a number... I've had my kids and I'm still in great shape. So why not do what I want to do?" ... Looks like Vic Damone and Diahann Carroll are getting serious. A steady item for some time, the pair showed up arm in arm at a party in Frank i c i i t 4 V Broadway com "Ain't Misbehavin," the sas! featuring the music of "Fat? presented by a New York toi the Stevens Center on Sun Ask Yolonda Wife qu By YOLONDA QAYLES Syndicated Columnist DEAR YOLONDA: My husband and I have been married for three years and are the parents of two children. I have a pretty unusual problem - I've been told by two different people^hat^my husband is gay, but I don't know whether to believe them or day, October 25, 1984 " 7r^r"* ? 55^ Beat cs $800,000 Htv hnmp I Sinatra's Palm Springs hacienda...^ Count on Eartha Kitt to keep coming back with a sur- - [ prise. Not only has she just completed her first album in 15 years, but Eartha wowed the crowds in Germany, where she's hailed because of her "earthy" style. The album, "I Love Men," includes her hit single, "Where is my Man," which had earned gold records in Sweden, France and Ger- i many. | Just back from Germany, she'll spfcnd August here before heading back to Deutschland for six weeks of concerts. Who wants to spend time in New York? "1 do!" says Eartha, and for good reason. It'll give her a chance to catch up with the career of I , her daughter, Kit! McDonald, who has begun modeling and is studying acting. "No singing, not me. My mom is the u..* I ...:n ? ?- *-* ? amgvi, uut i win iry 10 ioiiow in her footsteps as an actess. \ I'll be proud to follow in her footsteps anywhere. She is the greatest." Eartha, however, isn't playing stage mother. I "She'll have to find her own way, and not just as Eartha $ Kitt's daughter," says Eartha. "I agree with her a thousand percent," adds Kitt,~ whose dad, BUI McDonald, is in real estate in Los Angeles. "I'm 22 and I live by myself y in Manhattan, but we spend as i much time as we can together when possible at mom's home . |j in New Milford, Conn," the I Please see page B16 L I A f A 6 ivjj 4xla- ,?L . t ? V V\X . j jMKfo -AJr if es to Winston *y musical show two performance! \" Waller, will be company, left to irlng company at Evdn Bell, Leslie day, Oct. 28 for and Annie Joe E< tion call 721-1945 lestions: 'H not. There's a man that my husband seems to be unusually close to, and it has crossed my mind that perhaps the two of them have something going on. At one time the man used to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at our house, but I finally put a stop to it. One of the two people who warned me about my husband said that she was told by a * Weekel The Arts, Leisure, Music, ( Jk ES? . M af ^1 -r^r- . T PWvt\' .? -...'f ' it'^Ec'I .v? r. -^ . * *7. -" I W ~ ~"~ ~ Muslc< B Orion film, the number i pop, rhythrr formats. Th just eight we revealed in t Billboard m trade publics In additio America, "I been the nun five weeks, one in Ausi Japan, Norv Aside fron comtempora album holds tions. The a upward mo> JLhaxUraadi ^1t?B~AlbufiT the album is movement o holds the nui 3 at 3 and 7 p.m. Stars of the All music right, are Boncella Lewis, and produce > Barlow, Marion J. Caffey forms two o! dwards. For ticket informai. Kool and i __ this world a I it. The bar fnw ran I find t friend. The second person - a know if I'r male friend - said that he He seems heard the news from a gay traits, incli man with whom my husband love-makin has had an affair. wise we ha> How does a woman deal life, with people telling her that her I love n husband is gay? How can I can't handl find out if this is true? that I ai Although we have a normal homosexua sex life, part of me believes that he is gay, but I don't s nd Columns . . ^ ...... . ~ . .,:.?,i * ""TV J-1 ^ Ri, , >*7* a 4 ^|W : % j kj ^ * fjrt f j|^0 " _ iV. ,rHjttak ^ ' JS |B KT '"* **- : ~2H I |BPf j? nug^. T^3r 9 ' ' %, ,' ; : " s* JkW dfr i* Lf? .MM*. ? | , : . 1*1^ s aj Notes ev/e Wonder's nev nder's latest single, 441 Just Called to You," from the Motown album and \\\\\V 44The Woman in Red,44 has become one best selling single in America for i and blues and adult contemporary I HJ is outstanding chart activity comes eks after the single was released and is he Oct. 13 editions of Cash Box and agazines, prestigious music industry I it ions. n to beltog the number one single in Just Called to Say I Love You" has nber one single in Europe for the past Concurrently, the record is number tria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, /ay and Sweden. V n being the top pop, R&B and adult- yfj IV ry single, "The Woman in Red" J. . stong chart positions in both publicaIbum is number 12 and bulleted for /ement on Billboard's Pop Album snumiwcf vftoaiuhe publications in B g Charts headed u^rarTtTG^n^^*^ number 11 and starred for upward I n the Pop Album Charts, and also ^Hi^l nber seven position for R&B albums. for "The Woman in Red" is written d by Wonder. Dionne Warwick per- "Celel f the songs with him. musica Sisters the Gang not only sing about making for th better place, they do something about Organ id - known for upbeat hits like Kool a >ut if my husbai n being fair to him. I DEAR TANYA: I assum ?_ 1 _ C I . iu nave a icw gay you've talked with youi uding some of his band about this. He is th g ways, but other- one who can give you th tt a normal married word on his sexuality. .... . Now, how do you dea ,y husband but I frjends whQ ,o le people telling me , about hus n married to a 1. Well, that's something must stop. Next time sor Tanya comes up to you with r 7 ? - iThe 25-year old purple I: fanatic Prince takes center , stage in this month* Ebony. The cover Interview lg examines who & Prince I Is and Includes special interviews with his father John I |l Nelson; hts- girlfriend Apollonia Kotero, and his v, "foster mother" Berntdette I Anderson., The article also reveals the Prince - who is | outrageous on stage - that J| nobody knows, the one k; who ijie describes * as * "quiet, gentlemanly and P* very religious." V v LP tops charts Wonder: At the top again. , ?ration" and "Joanna" ? are Sponsors and il ambassadors of the Big Brothers and Big Organization. To thank Kool and the Gang eir support, the Big Brothers and Sisters ization of Tucson, Ariz., recently presented ind his cohorts with an award. id is gay?' le that tions of this sort, say: "It r hus- hurts me to hear this kind of e only gossip about my husband. I'm le last sure you know that. So why would you go out of your way , , to hurt me?" Let's see what your "friends" say to that lss on . one. band? : you Got a problem or a gripe? Ask neone Yolonda Cayles, P.O. Box evela- 19112, Chicago, IL 60619