Celebrities

"Ol' Blue Eyes is Back," read the letters on an usher's yellow T-shirt, just before the doors to the cavernous Budokan opened Tuesday night and the usher was a helpless speck buffeted about by a lemming swarm of Japanese music lovers.

"Anata wo aishimasu." It was labored, makeshift Japanese, but the closest Duke Ellington could come to his famous spoken trademark, "I love you all madly."

"I'm gonna grab the money and run like a thief in the night," trainer Angelo Dundee said lightheartedly before his fighter, world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, met reputed wrestling titleist Antonio Inoki Saturday in a match in which the two kicked and poked at each other like piqued kindergartners as they battled to a dull and lusterless 15-round draw.

Singer Englebert Humperdinck denies he ever said or felt he could pick up the late Elvis Presley's fans or surpass him as king of the pops cult.

Newsman Walter Cronkite delivered a harsh verdict on his colleagues in the journalism trade, calling them "guilty" of misreporting because too many anonymous sources are used in news reports.

"Ali might not be around for five rounds," was the cryptic return fire from Mac Foster's camp Wednesday as Foster, his brother and trainer brushed off Muhammad Ali's poetic prediction that he will stop Foster in the fifth round.