European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday july 31,1990 us Tuff amp Frew Streep was on Edge while singing country from wire reports she does great foreign accents but can meryl Streep sing country apparently so Given a Little practice. The 41-year-old Streep belts out a country tune in Streep postcards from the Edge a a film based on Carrie Fishers novel about a drug plagued actress it who among other things sings in a Western movie. 11 was beside myself with fear a Aircey said in the aug. 6 Issue of time Magazine. Quot my Knees were going a mile a minute and my upper lip was  Streep said she practice the song for three Days until she and director Mike Nichols were satisfied. The movie comes out this fall. It wont be Streepy a first on screen song. She Sang in the movie a Iron Weed Quot and in  s Loving Core Patrick Swayze says his wife spotted the script for a ghost a his first hit movie since Quot dirty dancing in 1987. A it made me cry a actress Lisa Niemi Swayzee a wife of 15 years said in the aug. 6 Issue of people Magazine. Swayze said he kept his wife m mind during steamy love scenes with co Star Demi Moore Quot i used Lisa a lot that Core feeling about the person you love a he said a a it a there All the time. All you gotta do is Call it up a Moore wife of a die hard Star Bruce Willis said of Swayze a the s sensitive and has a vulnerability that a right out there. And he also looks great with his shirt  a copt. Kangaroos court Captain Kangaroo Bob Keeshan gave up a career in Law when he moved into children a television More than 40 years ago and he has no regrets. A what in a doing is pretty much like being a lawyer a he said. A most lawyers Are actors  Keeshan was hired As an assistant to Buffalo Bob Smith of a Howdy Doody Fame in the late 1940s. Television was in its infancy then and few people knew How it would Progress Keeshan said. A in five years there were 30 million sets and All the radio actors wanted to become television actors a Keeshan said saturday at an anniversary Ccle bration for acadian Oaks Hospital in Lafayette la., where he was guest of Honor. Keeshan 63, created the role of Captain Kangaroo in 1955.designing women Kirstie Alley  care less what she wore. Shelley Long was a perfectionist who spent hours getting fitted. And Joan Collins took some of her costumes Home for a Long term borrowing Quot their costumers say. Robert Tanella Costiloe designer for a cheers a said the female stars of the to series  have More varied views on clothes. A Kristie Alley  care less a Tanella said in the aug. 4 Issue of to guide. A a in a Lucky if i can get her for four  but Long required three hour fittings every Friday afternoon. A she was a perfectionist with very definite opinions but she knew her character and her instincts were right a Tanella said. Nolan Miller who designed for a a dynasty from 1981 to 1989, said most to stars Are permitted Liberal borrowing privileges but some take liberties. Collins a towns quite a few of her things from a dynasty on permanent loan shall we say a Miller said. A by the time shed worn some things a couple of times and been photographed in them she would return them and get something  talking Heads Jeny Harrison keyboardist and guitarist for talking Heads says the band is a officially in hibernation Quot but no one is resting. Harrison 41, said he had hoped talking Heads would put out an album this year but a i did no to get my  a a we re not through As a band but expressing their musical heritage four women sing during the three Day first International Gypsy festival at Brno it Czechoslovakia. Festivities celebrate the Gypsy culture and heritage repressed for Many years under communist regimes. The event ended monday. We re not doing anything this year a he said in the aug. 6 Issue of people Magazine. The bands last album a naked a was released in 1988. Harrison has another band casual gods which just released its third album a walk on water Quot and is touring this summer with the Tom Tom club led by fellow talking Heads members Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. The other talking Heads member David Byrne recently completed a concert tour of his  larvae lovers nearly 6,000 people crowded into the Small South Central Oregon Iown of Paisley for a Tongue in Cheek Cele bration of an insect whose bite and whining Buzz drive people up the Wall. The seventh annual Mosquito festival featured giant replicas of the insect and the Coronation of a is. Quito 45-year-old Joanne solheim the festival was started in 1983 As a Way to raise Money to combat swarms dear Abby your answer to the woman who asked How to introduce her sex daughter in Law Annie really angered me. You said a just introduce her As a Annie my songs former  a Why should poor Annie continually be 1 explained As someone a Quot whatever Quot Annie is a person in her own right. She is not an appendage. Quot my Friend Annie Quot would have been sufficient. Your answer puts you in the category of people who think a woman has to belong to some Man or she a a nobody. I work in an airline reservations office. And nothing infuriates me More than when i ask a woman her name and she says a mrs. John  i always say politely Quot the airline prefers that you use your own name when travelling a. I have been happily married for Many years and am a mrs. John Smith Only on social occasions that include both of us. If i am alone i am a Ullene  please rethink your answer. A Ilene in Desoto to. Dear 1lene Lay hat pistol Down please. Never have 1 believed that a woman had to a belong Quot to some Man a or she a a  of hungry mosquitoes that flew into the town of 365 residents from irrigated Fields on nearby ranches and from adjacent swamps. A woman named Beverly Hills co chairwoman of the event said saturdays festival was a the biggest and Best we have had in seven years and if you la notice there weren to any mosquitoes. That Means our program is  organizers said the festival usually raises about $20,000, with approximately $11,000 left Over for Mosquito control after expenses Are paid. The Money buys biologically Safe insecticide that is sprayed in town to Knock Down adult mosquitoes and attack Mosquito larvae in the Ponds and puddles where they Breed. The Parade was indicative of the towns Laid Back style. There were several gaps Between entries with some float Drivers stopping occasionally to talk with friends along the route. Before Mosquito eradication efforts began in Emust 17 varieties of the Little pests were identified around Paisley. Dear Abby i suggested introducing Annie As a my former daughter in Law Quot Only As a Means of imparting that bit of information to someone who obviously was not aware of it. In introducing strangers to each other its sometimes helpful to know More than just the name. Dear Abby after Reading the letter from a no excuses a the pharmacist who became a police officer because he was sick of All the excuses his customers used i had to write because i too am sick of excuses. I teach in a Large suburban High school and some of the excuses we hear would make you scream we have students who miss 20, 30, 40 or More school Days per school year and they have the most unbelievable excuses. Worse yet rather than do Battle with parents we accept these excuses. When the Public outcry a what is wrong with our Public schools a is heard most of the teachers already know the answer. Students Are absent so much they can to possibly learn anything. No wonder the foreign students Are so much better educated than ours. Our children Are not any less intelligent but they Haven to been taught the seriousness of attending classes daily. Their parents let them skip school then  note from their a a doctor a or come up with some other phony reason for their absence. Of course the parents Are to blame for being a party to this deceit. I Hope this wakes up a few parents who do their children no favors when they cover Tor their absences. Please withhold my name and location 1 am not looking Tor trouble. A a teacher of Many years dear teacher thanks for an honest but rather discouraging letter. It is no secret that the highest Grade averages Are earned by children whose parents take an Active interest in their education and will not Aid and abet truancy. Skipping school is nothing new a it happened when i was a student too. But Back then most kids made up their own excuses and signed their parents names. Are you sure that a not still the Case dear Abby a a Isnit it refreshing that the top Oscar wining film a driving miss Daisy Quot was a movie containing not one dirty word not one steamy sex scene or one hint of violence or crime i have enjoyed the film twice and would go again. It handled the issues of human relationships and prejudice beautifully. I wish the film Industry would Wake up and realize that a Large segment of our society would flock to see a Good movie without a lot of trash. In be gone to three films in two years and walked out on one. Id go More often if i knew it was something Worth seeing and in a no prude. In a sure there Are Many others w to feel the same. A mrs. Walter e. Naylor Portland Ore. Dear mrs. Naylor please include me. Al ujliv�rs3l prs Syndicate