European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes faces n places Friday August 26,1994 Hollywood sign vandals face High tech from the associated press a surveillance system that can distinguish a human from a Coyote at 1,500 feet is in place to catch Showoff vandals trying to deface the Hollywood sign. The $90,000 system which was switched on last week uses Daylight and infrared cameras radar activated zoom lenses motion sensors that Tell human from four legged critters computers and a Loudspeaker that blares the recorded warning you Are being monitored. A Park Ranger is in route in English an Spanish. The 450-foot-Long sign erected in 1923 As an advertisement for the Hollywood land housing subdivision has been altered often. Whiz kid pranksters from the California Institute of technology transformed the sign in 1987, using plastic sheets to make it read advocates of marijuana Reform changed it to Holly Weed and an alteration to Hollywood referred to the Iran Contra affair. During Pope John Paul is visit it read the surveillance system has already spotted 17 in truders. Ten fled at the warning and rangers counselled the others and let them go said los Angeles chief Ranger Hector Hernandez. Movie storyboards stolen eighty one storyboards planning scenes for an up coming Batman movie were stolen from a locked room at Warner Bros studios prompting a paternal investigation at the Burbank calif., lot police said tuesday. The 81 Pencil sketches valued at about $4,000, were on 816 by 11-Inch sheets the size of notebook paper. They were stolen Between thursday night and Friday morning last week from building 34 on the Warner Bros lot Burbank police sgt. Leonard Doran said. A group of illustrators came in the morning and Dis covered they were gone. There were no signs of forced entry he said. Storyboards Are drawings used to plan the Way scenes will look in a movie sketching the sequence of action in order to help a movie s creators visualize scenes before they Are filmed. Thousands of such draw Ings Are needed for any Given movie according to a Warner Bros spokesman. Pavarotti picks on record thank goodness Luciano Pavarotti can put his Finger on opera s Best bits. London records in new York re leased a series of opera excerpts tuesday called Pava Rotti s opera made easy. I have chosen music that i personally love and i Hope everyone especially new listeners will find the same Joy a this music As i do the Tenor said. The series features 60. Singers. On my favorite showstoppers for example leontyne Price sings Ritorna Vinci Tor from Verdi s Aida Renata Tebaldi sings Gotham s hero Adam West right Star of the 1960s to series Batman poses with talk show Host Salty Jessy Foo Phatel in the original Bat Mobile on wednesday outside the new York City studio where Raphael s show is taped. West is promoting is memoirs Back to the the show is scheduled to air in the states on sept. 12. Vissi d arte from Puccini s Tosca Mirella Freni sings in Beldi from Puccini s Madama Butterfly and Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Home sing Miro o Norm from Bellini s Norma. Pavarotti himself sings on 12 of 19 tracks on the showstoppers recording including vesti la Gubba from Leoncavallo s Pagliacci. John Denver May face jail Singer John Denver will face mandatory jail time i tests confirm he was under the influence of alcohol when he wrecked his car near Aspen colo., on sunday night. But at the Pukin county jail hard time seems Little worse than going without a mint on your Pillow. The jail serves an area where the average Home goes for $1.3 million and even scofflaws Are accustomed to the finer things. The lockup has a Library videocassettes for rent a gymnasium and million Dollar views of Redmountain. Well give him the Dewi Sukarno suite Promise Jailer Billy Tomb. The widow of Indonesia s former dictator was the last of the jail s famous guests who have also included Claudine Longet who snot and killed her Lover skier spider Sabich in the 1970s. Serial killer Ted buried also stayed there. A state trooper cited Denver for driving under the influence after the Singer drove off a Road and struck a tree while driving to his Home outside Aspen on Sun Day night. The trooper issued the citation at Aspen Valley hos Pital where friends who were following Denver took him for treatment of facial cuts and bruises after the Accident. Blood samples were sent to the state patrol slab in Denver to test for alcohol. Your 1 a 4 Sis Fri news from Home. News about Home. News that we deliver while you serve your country overseas. Get your daily connection to the . With a subscription to the stars and stripes. Call one of our customer service numbers today. Toll free numbers Belgium Germany Italy Netherlands Spain us 07811-8775 0130-840048 1678-7-3456 06-022-7629 900-99-4955 0-800-898854 your Hometown newspaper overseas
