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By Compiled from Times wires
© St. Petersburg Times, published September 27, 2000
Hawn finds timber sale sounds too familiar
Goldie Hawn wasn't laughing after the Bureau of Land Management named a timber sale for her.
The bureau said it was trying to be creative when it named a 100-acre timber sale near the headwaters of Fawn and Evans creeks in Oregonthe "Goldie Fawn."
Hawn was told of the sale by an Oregon conservation group and complained, with a spokeswoman saying the actor didn't want to see "beautiful timberland destroyed in her name."
The bureau changed the name of the sale to "Fawn Creek," and this week said it will be more careful about naming timber sales.
"We're sticking to drainages and creeks from now on," said Trish Hogervorst, a spokeswoman for the BLM's Salem office.
Hawn, 54, won an Oscar for best supporting actress in Cactus Flower.
Richard Hatch has reached a book deal two weeks after an agreement to pen a tell-all about Survivor fell through.
The ubiquitous million-dollar winner of the CBS show has signed a deal with The Lyons Press of New York City to write a paperback titled, 101 Survival Secrets: How to Make $1 Million, Lose 100 Pounds and Live Happily Ever After.
Hatch, 39, has been friends with Lyons Press president and publisher Tony Lyons for about 15 years. Neither Hatch nor Lyons would disclose terms of the deal.
Hatch has already started working on the 128-page book, which is due out Nov. 14.
St. Martin's Press had reportedly agreed to pay nearly $500,000 for the tell-all, which Hatch was not authorized to write because of a strict contract. CBS has veto power over how the 16 castaways can trade in on their fame.
Lee Erwin, who appeared as a roller rink organist in Woody Allen's Radio Days and composed scores for classics such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Ben Hur, has died. He was 92.
Erwin provided music to more than 70 silent films and toured into his 90s. He died Thursday. He began his career while still a high school student in Huntsville, Ala., substituting for the regular organists at two local theaters. He continued playing for $20 a week while attending the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
In 1930, he went to Paris to study with French organist Andre Marchal and composer Nadia Boulanger. He returned to Cincinnati in 1932 and began as a staff organist at WLW-AM radio station. He was well-known for playing the music to Moon River, a late-night show he once described as "pretty pop tunes and a man reading love poems." After 11 years, Erwin moved to New York and joined CBS, where he was an organist and arranger until 1966, appearing as Moneybags Erwin on the Arthur Godfrey Show. He resumed movie work in 1967.