Bergen Gets Golden Apple, Barr the Sour Apple

Actress Candice Bergen and young actor Fred Savage received Golden Apple Awards from the Hollywood Women’s Press Club, which presented a Sour Apple to actress-comedian Roseanne Barr.

Angela Lansbury received the organization’s Louella O. Parsons Award, named after its founder. The 49th annual Golden Apple awards were given out at a banquet Saturday at the Beverly Hilton.

The award to Lansbury, who stars in the “Murder, She Wrote” television series, goes to “the individual who presents the best image of the entertainment industry to the world.”

The Sour Apple token is deposited into the hands of “the individual deemed the least newsworthy and/or most taken with his or her own publicity.”

Bergen, the star of TV’s “Murphy Brown,” won her Golden Apple as female star of the year. Male star of the year went to comedian-actor Billy Crystal, star of the movie “When Harry Met Sally. . . . “ Savage, the teen-age star of “The Wonder Years,” won male discovery of the year.

There was a tie for female discovery of the year honors, with awards to both Pauline Collins, star of the movie “Shirley Valentine,” and Meg Ryan, who starred with Crystal in “When Harry Met Sally. . . . “