European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Airman 1st class Steve Kohler of Rhein main a needs help from Bob Hope to loosen his pucker after kissing Brooke Hope the King of comedy still makes Mem laughs amps photos by Ken George m s1jzveizrmnoock t is Ermain a a a some Preiksa a a a a Ltd it. A a a a saturday May 12,1990 with Shields. Page 16 a a a the stars and stripes by Ron Jensen staff writer miss universe the former miss Norway says she s never heard of Bob Hope Quot i make movies Quot he tells her. Quot like Sylvester Stallone Quot she asks Quot no a replies Hope Quot my pictures have Hope has been delivering lines like that since Well it seems like forever. If he Wasny to entertaining Napoleon s troops at Waterloo it was Only because he had been booked first by Wellington. Hope is such an institution he seems More like a character from american literature or folklore a in a class with Huckleberry finn or Paul Bunyan. But there he was thursday night a in the flesh a at Rhein main a West Germany doing for 4,000 service members and their families what he s been doing for most of his 86 years. This May be the last time however. The tour which included previous stops in England Berlin and Moscow was billed As Hope s Farewell tour. Hope asks miss universe what she wants to do when her Beauty Queen reign ends. Quot i want to be a nurse Quot she says Quot Small world Isnit it i want to be your Hopes stature As the reigning King of entertainment allows him certain liberties. Consider this joke Quot Frankfurt. What a City this is. The air planes Are stacked up overhead and the Fraulein Are stacked up Down coming from the lips of an unknown comic the line would raise indignant howls from women in the audience a or it should at least. But when the Teller is Hope the joke elicits howls of feminine laughter. And it should. It was a funny line expertly delivered. So was this joke about overweight stewardesses Quot they still move their tails for you Only now the tails Are so big somebody could get Hurt. One flight attendant was so fat when she turned around they showed the movie on in somebody else a hands that line could sting Hope has no malice. Its just a joke. Sometimes his jokes Border on racism a you remember the states. We have 50 of them now a 51 if you count and his lines on Germany would earn an enlisted Man a Stern lecture about Host nation sensitivity Quot you can get two meals in Frankfurt. One is sausage and the other one is too. The National Anthem of Germany is a burp in the key of e Flat. ,. Germans Swallow More suds Beer than a Maytag washing do you really think anybody reprimanded Hope the tour was Vintage Hope a gags silly skits songs and Beautiful women in this Case Brooke Shields Latoya Jackson and miss universe Mona Grudt. Hope May have been the Headliner but some in the crowd were there for the women. Quot to Tell you the truth i m a miss universe fan Quot said sgt. Rick Johns of the 1945th comm group. Quot i got to see Brooke Shields working out at the gym. She was sweating like a the four shows will be pieced together into yet another Bob Hope television special to air in the United states May 19. An will air Bob Hope s Uso Road to the Berlin Wall and Moscow sometime Between 6 and 11 Pirn. May 20. And make no mistake about it. Hopes show is a television production. The hangar at the air base was perhaps for one night the world s largest to studio. If Hope flubbed a line it was done again. Shields delivered a line about Zsa Zsa Gabory a recent trouble with the police but the videotape glitches. It was done again and the cooperative audience responded As if the worlds funniest joke had just been told. You got the wrong card up there Quot Hope told the Cue card Man Halfway through an introduction of Shields. A few seconds later he continued and introduced Latoya Jackson. In a singing skit with show business Veteran Rosemary Clooney Hope and Clooney Exchange lines of songs. Birds do it bees do it Quot Clooney sings. Why of Why can t i Quot responds Hope
