European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes faces a no places monday March 1.1993 costs $12 million in Hong Kong a Hong Kong businessman paid a record $1.2 million for a prestigious License plate at a Charity auction sponsored by the transport department. For his Money Wong Ming Hung will now drive a car with the License plate number "2.� the number previously was on the automobile of financial Secretary Hamlish Mac cod. In chinese the word for "two1 sounds like the word a easy and it is widely considered a Lucky number. The previous record of $641,000 was paid in 1988 for a License plate bearing �?~8,�?� which sounds Tike the word  transport department officials said 50 License plates were put up for auction and raised about $2 million for charities. Hays gets serious Robert Hays Best known for his goofy role in air plane and its sequel has a sterner image As a Veteran mercenary in his new movie fifty fifty the 45-year-old Hays said the film was a Welcome change after being typecast for years in Light comedy Quot there have been times its been frustrating like when producers wont even consider me for a part because they think i can t do drama. But in be been very Lucky in my career a he said. Hays in fifty fifty Hays co stars with Peter Weller they play mercenaries who team up to overthrow a third world dictator. Hays said got along Well with Weller. A the Guy is such a serious actor that i did no to know what to expect before i met him a Hays said. Quot As it turns out he was easy to crack up and we had a great time. 1 think he really enjoyed the comedic aspects of the Roc Ana i enjoyed the dramatic  and if fifty fifty fails to Lead to More dramatic role Quot if in a confined to a career of Light comedies the rest of my life i can live with that. It was Good enough for Cary Grant it s Good enough for me. Quot but i Don t think in be had my whole Ca rear yet. There s still time to play a  Caribbean cruise Tom cruise and wife Nicole Kidman took time Tiff to Golf on grand Cayman Cayman islands before film Crews moved there to resume work on the murder and Money laundering thriller the firm. The couple broke away from their adopted baby daughter for a few hours of Golfon the islands nine Hole course ahead of filming which began Here thursday with a poolside scene with 85 local extras. Cruise stars with Gene Hackman Holly Hunter and David Stratham in Sydney Pollack a adaptation of the John Grisham Best seller. Filming is to last three weeks on this British Caribbean Island of 21,000,. Known for tourism and its offshore Banks. Skelton gets a Day after a 70-year career comedian red Skelton said be does no to worry too much about preparing for a show. Quot i just walk out onstage and Start talking a he said at the Wang Center for the performing arts in Boston before a saturday night performance. Quot i figure Why take life seriously Yum re not Gonna get out of it  at a news conference the 80-Ycar-old performer joked about president Clinton s administration and his own prospects for a political career. Quot i could be As Good As Clinton a he said. Quot on Elny mind is made up in a full of indecision. Skelton known for his gentle humor and pantomime routines started his career in a tent show at age 10. He performed in a circus on a showboat Ana on the vaudeville circuit before starring in movies on radio programs and As Host of his own television show for 20 years. To Honor that lengthy career Boston mayor Raymond Flynn proclaimed saturday Quot red Skelton Day in the City. Singer works for free country Singer songwriter Joe Dlf Lle who knows what it s like to be jobless waived his performance fee at a recent concert in Wichita kan., and offered free admission to Laid off workers. The gesture was deeply appreciated in Wichita a City hit by thousands of layoffs turning his Back on Disney Jim Jones gets await Disney character tattooed on is body by Bruce to in be s Brooksville fla., shop Jones has covered himself Frith 57 characters ranging from Mickey mouse to the Little Mermaid and pending layoffs from Boeing co. And the Sears Teleca Talog Center. About 200 people took Diffie up on the offer. Diffie said he would forgo several thousand dollars he was to have received for the Friday night show at the cotillion. The offer was broadcast on radio. Cotillion employees relied on Peoples honesty when admitting the jobless without charge. Some identified themselves As Laid off Boeing or Sears workers and others As employees furloughed from the food barn supermarket Chain. Diffie headed for Nashville tenn., in 1986 after the Oklahoma foundry where head worked for nine years closed. He beat bankruptcy and went on to country music stardom earning a grammy nomination this year for his collaboration with May Chapin Carpenter on not too much to ask. The hard times be endured made it easy to sympathize with local suffering. Quot my songs come from those expert fences a he said. Quot we be been real Lucky the last couple of years and i know these people Are worried and pinching pennies. I just want them to be Able to forget about it for an hour or  Campbell beats rap Battery charges were dropped against rapper Luther Campbell but the Shreveport Law nightclub manager he was accused of beating plans to pursue the Case in a civil lawsuit. Campbell 26, a former member of 2 live Crew and two others were accused of attacking Quinn Echols in a hotel lobby july 3. Echols went looking for Campbell after the rap Star allegedly failed to show up a for a performance at his Shreveport. Nightspot. Police said the two had argued Over Campbell s fee. Before the scheduled Start of the trial Friday prosecutor Mary Mudruck and defense attorney Francis m. Gowen agreed the Case would Best be settled in civil court. Charges against the other two defendants were also  the frontline a 1-1 a. 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