European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Walter Scott personality Parade q i d really appreciate some facts about the Young movie actor who starred in a school tics a played the Cave Man in a Encino Many and was so memorable in a with honors. How old. Who she dating what s next a k.m., Pinellas. Park Fla. A ,. A the actor you re referring to is 25-Ycar-Oid, 6-foot-2 Brendan Fraser who has won Good notices from film critics even though the Quality of his movies has t been All that Good. Born to Canadian parents Fraser studied acting in Seattle then moved to los Angeles where he quickly landed film roles. The actor lives in a rented loft in West los Angeles avoids the club scene and currently is dating a Young woman whose name he prefers to keep out of the press. Fraser a next film is airheads due out in August in which he a the Leader of a Rock group that takes Over a radio station. Q can you update me on those stones about people who died in Hospital emergency rooms and whose bodies emitted a Gas or an odor that made the Hospital staff ill pm not looking for plagues or anything but i would like to know one thing what could cause such an odor of death a Kathy Morgan Austin Texas a California health officials still Are baffled by the strange of Gloria Ramirez a 31-year-old Mother of two who May have emitted toxic fumes while she Lay dying in the emergency room of Riverside general Hospital on feb. 19. Six Hospital employees fell sick a one seriously a while treating Ramirez and some of them later reported that an ammonia like smell came from her blood. A lengthy autopsy so far has failed to turn up any conclusive evidence. The woman a family charges that she has been unfairly characterized As a Quot toxic monster a John Duncan a spokesman for the state depart ment of Industrial relations said that it is continuing to investigate the causes. Q until Richard Niton passed away recently was it the first time in . History that our country had five former presidents alive at the same time a Bob Reardon North Adams mass. V a no. When Abraham Lincoln took office in March 1861, there also were five living former presidents Martin Van Burn John Tyler Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan. Ten months later membership in that exclusive club fell to four with the death of Tyler. It took 132 years for the phenomenon to occur again a when Bill Clinton entered the White House and the roster of living former presidents included Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan and George Bush. A. Y ,. Q i think Melissa Etheridge is one of the great female rockers of our time what was the most important musical influence on her career and is it True that she a dating Lou Diamond Phillips former Girlfriend a c.s., Cincinnati. A when Etheridge was growing up in Leavenworth kan., she found inspiration on am radio Rock stations and from her fathers extensive record collection. As for her sexual orientation the 32-year-old Singer is openly Gay but she tries to Appeal to the largest possible audience. A a in be had to Compromise and say 1 love you a instead of t love her a because that limits the song a explains Etheridge. A that a straight woman in Poughkeepsie is listening to my record and thinking about her boy Friend. But in be always wanted to be truthful so in a not going to sing 1 love him Quot Etheridgee a longtime Lover is Julie Cypher 30, a music video director who was divorced from the actor Lou Diamond Phillips in 1991 after four years of marriage. Etheridge and Cypher live in los Angeles. After rereading Richard Baches Quot the Bridge across forever a written with Leslie Parrish a Parade a special intelligence retort just Call this movie a girls n the Hood Echo Park an old los Angeles neighbourhood has been Home to mexican american Street gangs since the 1920s, its not uncommon for girls of 16 to be gang members mothers and widows. Against this turbulent backdrop Allison Anders shot the movie i Vida Loca my crazy life in the tense months following the la. Riots in the Spring of 1992. A Quot a. A a a a a. A \ How did Anders manage it helped that the writer director lives in Echo Park raised two children ars a single Mother and set out to show life in the Hood accurately yet with empathy. It also helped that Seidy Lopez who co stars was born and raised in Echo Park and that the included eight other Homegirl and homeboys. Afi Vida Loca which opens this month in stateside Heaters tells the Story of two Best friends who end up having babies by the same Man a drug dealer. The Alt hispanic includes Angel Aviles the Star. Of Flower babies an Abc after school special mag Ali Alvarado who was in Salsa a the movie Jess Borrego from tvs Fame series and Mario Marron of the soap opera All my our readers feel about older Drivers Are elderly people unsafe Drivers a yes a said 39 percent of urn Parade readers who responded to an invitation in our april 24 Issue to Call a 900 number and voice their opinions. Far More readers 65 percent think teen agers Are unsafe Drivers. Many wrote to say they agreed with Hugh Downs whose article a should elderly people be allowed to drive a ran in the same Issue. Downs said older people As a group have been judged unfairly on their driving ability. A people be categorized by numbers a said Fay Gillis Wells a Parade Reader from Alexandria a. A i have been driving apr 68 years and never had an Accident. I took the Harp american association of retired persons Drivers course and last year Roy License was renewed until 1998.�?� Eugene Weaver of Clearwater Fla., who has since 1922, wrote a i have had cataracts removed from Bath eyes so the Glare from oncoming lights bothers his self imposed restrictions a no night driving or trips Over 50 unfortunately not All Are so careful. A i was disabled when a 71-year-old Man ran a red Light a wrote Maxy Lally 39, of Huntington . A although i have reservations about elderly Drivers i think All Drivers should be retested every Cou pie of years both on the Road and a written music of baseball the song take me out to the Ball game has been around since 1908. That vaudeville Chestnut will receive two fresh arrangements in baseball a documentary by Ken Burns that will air on pcs in sep Jeraber. Eager stateside viewers can get a preview of the miniseries monday in the making of baseball. The new versions of take me out to the Ball a game Are Sung by carry Simon one is upbeat the other a Mournful a Cappella tribute to Jackie Robinson who died in 1972. Simon knew the dodgers Star and his wife Rachel when she was growing up i Stamford Conn. Her parents helped the Robinsons overcome racial barriers in that town to find a House and the ballplayers family stayed with the Simons until their Home was ready. A it was during that incredible season of 1955 when _ Brooklyn won its Only world series a Simon recalls �?o1 w6uld ride with Jackie to bets Field and sit in the dugout with him before the game the dodgers Star inspired another new recording made for baseball Natalie Cole sings a count Basie tune from the late 1940s, did you see Jackie Robin son hit that Ball a single will be released in a backing 1984, in a wondering wha Tever became of Bact and his soulmate.s.b.g., Corvallis Ore. A Bach 58, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull lives on an Island off of Oregon with Leslie Parrish Bach 59, an actress Best known for the film the manchurian candidate. Front their Home they respond a we continue our gentle adventure together. Our vows to disappear and our promises never to write another Book have held for years. But some times they the two wrote one in 1988. Q wha Tever happened to the whale in last years film Quot free Willy a a in be heard that he was seriously injured. Is he still in Captivity How has the film studio shown its responsibility toward this poor animal a Jane Johnson West Cornwall Conn a confined to a Small Dolphin tank in a Mexico a a. City amusement Park Keiko a the 21-foot, 7,000-Pound orca whale that played Willy a is in de dining health. His dorsal Fin has collapsed his Bottom Teeth Are worn Down from gnawing on the sides of his tank and he has a chronic skin infection. Warner Bros. A now shooting a sequel free Willy 2, again starring Young Jason James Richter but with a different whale a has spent $500,000 on Kei Kos care. But the studio seems powerless to Rescue the whale from his owners. Michael Jackson who wrote and performed the theme song of free Willy is also trying to Rescue Keiko. The Singer wanted to move the whale to his neverland ranch in California but he had to put those plans on hold to concentrate on fighting the child molestation charges against him. Some Marine biologists warn that us less Keiko is released to the wild within four years he will die. Others contend that after a life in Captivity the whale will be unable to survive the wild. A a want the facts opinion truth writs Walter Scott Box 5001. Grand Central station. New Yori. . 10163-5001. Reprinted by permission of Parade Magazine a 1994 Parade publications inc. All rights reserved. Quot Parade and Quot Walter Scott s personality Parade Quot Are trademarks of Parade pub Cartons inc. A it. Map Natalie Cole strikes a few notes for baseball. Gust Natalie a father the late Nat a King Quot Cole was a dodgers fan and her Mother still has dodgers season tickets. A reprinted by permission of Parade Magazine. A 1994 Parade publications inc. All rights reserved. Quot Parade Quot and Quot intelligence report Are trademarks of Parade publications inc. July 3, 1994 sunday
