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Show Tuesday, October 31, 1995 THK DAILY HKKALD. Fae ( Proo. I tah 5 hear cCartney turns veggies into growing empire JSHEwinners pageant By MAGGIE JACKSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK -L- inda McCartney settles her jeans-cla- d self into a plush sofa in a $600-a-nihotel suite, kicks off black rubber thongs and wiggles two bare feet with cherry red toenails. "Let's relax," she says to a visitor, her voice a throaty blend of English and American accents. "Let's just relax." Linda Eastman McCartney, the woman who married Beatle and has been detractors ever since, enjoying herself. With the cutest dogged bv is""clearlv a multimif-lion-doll- cookbook and food empire built around her crusade for vegetarianism, she's found a new and gentler place in the spotlight. Her first cookbook, published in 1989, has sold 4()(),()()() copies worldwide and publishers fought over rights to her second, published this month. Nearly 160 million meatless froen meals bearing her name have been sold. She's even attached her name to vegetarian dog food. Yes. dog food. She's quick to admit the McCartney name surely helped. But only at first, she insists. "In the beginning, the McCartney name was it." she said in an interview punctuated by the s of a hairdresser, a daughter and a bevy of publicists. "But as someone said in the food business, they'll try your product once, and if it doesn't taste good, they don't I'uss-ing- come back." Still, like a child receiving an unexpected treat, she also seems genuinely surprised by her success and the public adulation that has come with it. "It's great." says McCartney. "I'll go to the theater, to the junk shop and I'll always have one or two people say to me. 'Linda, love your (meatless) sausages!'. "Linda, love your cookbook!'" quarter-centurago. when a American photographer married the adorable Beatle Paul, the reception was far less warm. Some fans were so upset by the sacrilege that they broke into the couple's house and ransacked Linda's things. '"The first rule is that no one should marry a Beatle. and at that time he was the only remaining bachelor Beatle." says Geoff Baker, a spokesman for the McCartneys. "She got a lot of flak." Later, she drew withering criti A y rock-and-ro- ld ll cism for playing keyboard in Paul's band Wings despite a lack of musical experience and so critics said talent. A pirated tape of Wings playing "'Hey Jude" in concert, in which all but Linda's off-ke- y warbles are blocked out. has popped up for years. "When people had that "Hey Jude' tape, she just sat there crving in front of me. saying "Why are they doing this?" " says Baker, who adds that Linda probably draws extra fire in Britain for being outspoken and American. Even her longtime photography work draws biting criticism. "She's not a bad photographer, she's serious and active." says Miles Barth. a curator at the International Center of Photography in New York city. ""But she probably wouldn't have achieved the exhibitions and books that she has if she wasn't married to Paul McCartney." McCartney at first looks uncomfortable when asked about the vitriol that is ebbing but still directed her way for her causes and ventures, her outspokenness and flower child talk. Yet when Baker interjects that she's no longer criticized and tries to halt the interview, she quickly cuts him short. "No, it is true," says McCartney, whose angular face, earthy manner and blonde locks make her look at least a decade younger than her 54 years. "Maybe people are a bit envious that I married the Beatle they all loved. ... They didn't like Jesus, did they? Look what they did to him. Not that I'm comparing myself ..." She laughs. Finally, she shrugs. "Well, we all like to be liked. But what are you going to do if people you don't know don't like you'.'" In one venture at least. McCartney is attracting far more fans than critics. Her first cookbook "wasn't an instant hit" when published in Britain in 989. says Nigel Newton, managing director of Blooms-bur- y Publishing Ltd. But the book. "Linda McCartney's Home Cooking", later became a British bestseller for months and has since come out in the United States and six other countries. A line of ready-mad- e foods b United Biscuits Group followed, with U.K. sales reaching S.M million last year and 150 million meals total sold. Recently, the company opened a $16 million By CARIN GREEN Special to the Herald An "Evening with Queens," sponsored by the Miss Utah Valley Scholarship Pageant, will take place Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. at Wilson School Auditorium, 590 W. 500 South. The program is free to the PAYSON mother-dau- ghter public. Miss Utah Amanda Moods, daughter of Dale and Chris Moody of Orem. and Miss Utah Valley 1995 Nanette Pearson, daughter oi Barry and Linda Pearson of Proso. w ill be the guest speakers. The queens will also be pretalsenting their award-winninents as well as signing autographs for the y oung girls. Chad Hulet. director of the Miss Utah Valley pageant, said "We encourage young girls to come and attend so that they can experience and learn from the messages the queens have to share." Hulet says they will be speaking on the theme "Divine Nature and Knowledge." g (jI A) K Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, sample some vegetarian burgers during a news conference in London in April, 1991, to introduce Lin factory in England devoted to her products, each of which is personally approved by McCartney. When the meals hit the United States last year, reviews were mixed, at best calling them "hearts and filling" and at worst "Bland on the Run." a play on the Wings hit "Band on the Run." from Yet l() million meals e Tostada to Spaghetti Milano hae been gobbled in U.S. test markets, and the line has just debuted in Holland. This ear. as well. British dogs began finding McCartnev approv ed egetarian fodder in their how Is. Her fare undouhtedh came along at the right lime. Spurred hv health concerns, growing numbers of Americans and Britons are forsaking meat, at least as a daily necessity Vegetarian cooking also has including McCartnev 's been spiced up since the d; vs when it revolved around brown Te-M- -- i Where to get AP Photo da's line of meatless frozen dinners. Linda is quick to admit that the McCartney name helped launch the food empire. rice and cheese. To answer consumer demands. McCartney lately has tried to reduce the fat and salt in her products and recipes. The British maker of her veggie burgers recently jumped to recall stocks after a report said they contained twice as much fat as listed on the package. Still, it's not health concerns that drive McCartney, a tireless crusader sometimes tiresome g for one reason: against sav ing animals. ""To think, we rear an animal and we befriend it. and we send it off to be murdered." she says. "And they scream and they watch their children being murdered and they watch their aunts and uncles being murdered and all their relatives and then we eat that fear." McCartney, who converted to vegetarianism along with Paul more than 20 years ago after watching lambs gambol on their Scottish farm, peppers her talk meat-eatin- Sun-Sentin- has the look of cinema v erite. quick camera takes and slow mo shots of girls on a playground. Over the muffled sounds of plav .come their haunting voices: "If you let me play, if vou let me play sports ..." And then the litany: "I will be 60 percent less likely to get breast cancer ... will suffer less depression ... will be more likely to leave a man who beats me ... less likely to get pregnant ... I will learn what it means to be strong. If you let me play ... plav sports. If vou let me play sports." This powerful message in support of women's sports is brought on prime time TV to us by Nike. First aired on NBC Am:. 30. It -- the commercial, written and produced by women, is part of the company's continuing Just Do It campaign. The response, says Nike spokeswoman Vihier Corpus, has been overw helming, with a 90 percent thumbs-u- p rating. "It's certainly a stunning ad." says Marj Snyder, sports pyscholo-gis- t and associate director of the Women's Foundation, Sports in East Meadow. headquartered N.Y. "As a woman vou feel: That could have been me as a kid. felt like that before, and I didn't get to I plav." The poignant drama, appearing on MTV ESPN. Nick at Night. The Discover) Channel and other channels, delves into areas previously unexplored in sports advert isine. "Our message, ed to parents." says Corpus, "is that sports is no less valuable to girls than to hovv If vou are a parent interested in raising a girl who w is phvsicallv hich is direct- and emotionally strong, then look to sports as a means to that end." Dads particularlv are urged to heed the commercial. "II vou 're taking Bills out to plav catch, take Aim out. too." Feminists generally applaud the commercial. "'The girls arc siill m a position of having to beg and to ask others to get to plav. and that makes me both sad and angry." says Dorothy Leland. director of the Women's Studies Center at I lorida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. la "On the other hand, what the I girls are say ing gives some fairly positive messages about how girls have been disadvantaged by not being allowed to play spoils." Karen Johnson, national secretary of the National Organization for Women, agrees. "I think it's a significant message to send. Buildis critical to a girl's ing health." And sports can work tow ai d that end. enhancing a girl's she say s. Even so. one might ask whether the ad presents a reductionist view of the complex problems facing women. ""There's a sense of depicting ihe lot of all women as being fairly miserable, and that somehow being allowed to play sports is a for that." Leland savs. cure-al- l with such tirades, calling meat "dead flesh" and leather "'animal skin." she tucks French cheese to protest nuclear explosions or an exultation on simple living. '"Sit me in a field. Put me out on a horse. ... I just love that." It would sound like a put-owere it not so sincere. After all. here is a woman who and every has multi-millioset life, yet chance for an ultra-je- t chose to raise four children in a home without a nanny or cook. 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