European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 20 the stars and stripes faces a no places saturday june 11, 1994wisp of smoke waifs through puffers party a from wire reports in one of the few Public places in America where smoking is permitted a nay encouraged hardly anybody lit up. The surgeon general would have been those devils made it so easy everything about the place beckoned a puff it was enough to make a reformed smoker cry. Discreet signs proclaimed a smoking Leggy Young women in Short skirts and Black stockings offered packages of cigarettes and stogies. The combo played smoke gets in your eyes my old flame and lest the Point get lost Winston tastes Good like a cigarette should. Thursdays party in Washington d.c., was to promote a very funny new Book you be come to the plug by Christopher Buckley a satire called thank you for smoking it is published by random House and Sells for $22. Second plug Buckley a hero is Nick Naylor chief spokesman for the tobacco Industry who fends off attacks brought on by each new study of cancer risks. Buckley said he got the idea a from watching various talking Heads from the tobacco Institute manfully denying any link Between smoking and cancer. I m drawn to people who lie for a a Quick unreliable Survey of the 400 people at the Book party showed Only four people with lighted cigarettes and one woman drawing deeply on a Cigar. Nobody not one wore the Gas masks thoughtfully supplied at the Entrance. That w As on the inside. Outside the Ritz Carlton a hotel on embassy Row fog machines blew smoke out of an Entrance and two second floor windows. The fire department had been alerted that there was a smoke theme party to promote a new Book but the word Hadnot gotten to the evening shift l our engines responded to a citizens Alert with lights flashing and sirens blaring and blocked Massachusetts Avenue at Rush hour. Inside the pianist bellowed the politically incorrect a a woman is Only a woman but a Good Cigar is a smoke a Czar s family the i4-year-old pretender to the russian throng will undergo military training \ a Quot to t fog machines blow smoke in front of the Ritz Carlton in Washington d.c., on thursday As guests arrive for a party to promote Christopher Buckley s satire Quot thank you for in the old Imperial capital of St. Petersburg in keeping with a tradition of the Romanov family a news Agency reported Friday. Grand Duke Georgy will enrol in the Rakhimov military school his Mother grand Duchess Maria Vladimirova was quoted As saying by itar Tass news estimated 10,000 monarchists across Russia Hope Georgy one Day will accede to the throne left Distant relative Czar Nicholas 11, who abdicated in 1917. The last Czar his family and servants were executed by the bolsheviks in the ural mountains City of Yekaterinburg in 1918. The City later was renamed Sverdlovsk. A More than 20 Distant relatives of the Romanov family which had ruled Russia since 1613, have claimed the right to the Imperial throne in the unlikely event it is up for grabs. Georgy Maria a son by her marriage that ended in divorce in 1982, is largely seen As the rightful heir by most russian monarchists Quot Maria 40, is a granddaughter of grand Duke Kirill Vlad Mirovich the eldest Cousin of the slain emperor. She and her son Divide their time Between Homes in Paris and Madrid Spain. Crystal gives in Billy Crystal hates sequels but made Gay slickers ii the legend of curly a Gold. How come a i thought it would be fun and that was the Only reason to do it a the 46-Ycar-old comic said. Crystal denied making the movie to compensate for the Box office failure of his last film or. Saturday night. City slickers grossed $124 million in 1991. The sequel was to open Friday. A so Many other sequels have ruined it for the Good ones just by being Lousy or being thrown out there so fast. They did no to care. They were just trying to Cash in a Crystal said celebrating Donald. The Man who made Donald what he is today came to Copenhagen Denmark on thursday to celebrate the ducks 60th birthday with some of his most devoted fans. A thank Vou for welcoming me and my this Way a 93-year-old Carl barks said As he hopped off a norwegian ferry at the Copenhagen pier where he was greeted by Danes weaving american and danish flags and banners that read a Donald we love barks who did no to create Donald but Drew him for Walt Disney studios cartoons from 1935 to 1942, made his first foreign trip starting last week to Scandinavia. The area is second Only to the United states in per capita consumption of Disney comics. Donald was hatched june 9, 1934, when he appeared in the Walt Disney cartoon the Wise Little Hen. Dancing and singing Donald suddenly faked illness when tie Wise Hen asked him to help her sow seeds. A ooh no i got a Tummy aches was his first quacking line. Since then Donald has appeared in More than 150 cartoons seen in 76 countries according to the egmont group in Copenhagen which claims to be the worlds biggest producer of Disney comic books. The group which Sells Disney magazines in 22 countries including Russia Japan and China invited barks to Copenhagen to celebrate Donald a birthday. Barks polished up Donald who was Slimmer and had a longer beak in his first appearances. Barks rounded Hinr out gave him a personality and made him More Jolly although he still had a bad temper. 1. A. In 1942, barks turned from cartoons to illustrating comic strips and books. He gave Donald a Hometown Burg populated by such characters As Uncle Scrooge Mcguck Gladstone Gander the Beagle boys and Gyro gear Loose. It s been great Berlin me More week a. 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