European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse I l Page 20 the stars and stripes faces n places sunday november 20.1994 congressman to be Bono " to get Over if to from the associated press it was Sonny Bono s turn to zing Cherin their give and take Over his election week Cher said her former husband and singing partner should feel at Home in the House because politicians Are one step below used car on thursday a wisecracking Bono told tonight show Host Jay Leno she s still in love with me. Shell drop it someday but it s hard. Cher get Over it.". A Bono a Republican and former mayor of Palm Springs calif., said he got into politics in the 80s to avenge a series of withering inspections of1 bathroom modifications for a restaurant he wanted to open. He recalled telling a bureaucrat i. Solved my problem. I m going to run for mayor and Fife lbs blown to Victory Scarlett the eight hour lbs sequel to gone with the wind helped the network take a commanding Lead in the november ratings four part miniseries won the ratings Competition sunday an wednesday night and lost tuesday to Abc s top rated Home improvement Nype Blue and frasier according to Nielsen Media research figures released Friday. Scarlett also lost thursday to double Seinfeld episodes but beater television s hottest new network considered the miniseries a Success however because it brought in by audiences an improved lbs ratings whenever it ran. It delivered said David Polar acc the network Stop researcher. But it was t going to get Young men away from Seinfeld and frasier and particularly Nype Blue which introduced Jimmy Smits and was coming off its highest rated episode the Only top 10 shows we did t go up against were our own Poltrack said. The miniseries was based on the 1991 Book by Alexandra Ripley a sequel to the 1937 pulitzer prize winning gone with the wine by Margaret Mitchell. Mitchell s Book was made into a film in 1939, Starrin Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. The miniseries ratings Don t rank with the lbs blockbusters lonesome Dove and Queen among others Poltrack acknowledged. The miniseries averaged an 18.5 rating 28 share in its four two hour prime time slots. For the period Abc averaged a 14.2 rating 21 share and Abc an 11.5 rating 17 share. One ratings Point equals 954,000 households or 1 a percent of the nation s estimated 95.4 million to elementary German scientist Peter Armbruster on Friday displays a card showing the development leading to his International team s discovery of element 10, which survived for less than a thousandth of a second. The team based in Darmstadt Germany bombarded Lead atoms with Nickel atoms to create the Hea Viest element Ever produced. Homes. Share is the percentage of sets Juned in during a specific period. Overall lbs is 8 percent ahead of Abc and 14percent ahead of Abc Midway through the november sweeps one of three annual Mongmong periods of intense audience measurement that help network affiliates set their advertising rates. Disney chief strikes it Rich Michael Eisner is taking on an uncanny resemblance to Scrooge Mcguck according to a Survey of executive salaries. O the Walt Disney co. Chairman has earned $377.3 million in the last three years making him the nation most overpaid chief executive officer compensation expert Bud Crystal says. It s hard to find the justification for this level of pay said Crystal who looked at the salaries of 350 chief executives from some of the nation s biggest companies. Sure Disney has grown strongly under Eisner s tenure but Crystal said the Disney chief really deserved Only $18.4 million Over the last three years. Raymond Watson a member of the Disney Board of directors said Eisner is Worth every Penny. Spokesman for Eisner declined to comment. Ann Landers Kopfh & pall act is mind boggling dear Ann Landers Wuthe letter i read recently in your column about the Man who trimmed his toenails at his desk brought to mind an incident i witnessed a few years am a Secretary in an academic department at a Cal fornia state University. I was indy office brie morning when a part time lecturer walked woman was in her Early 30s, had a Bachelor of arts de Gree and a master s degree and was working on her pad. Nora started to complain that her Large Toenail was Mak ing a Hole in her pantyhose. Shevat Down whipped off her pantyhose and proceeded to trim her Toenail with her Teeth. I was absolutely speechless when she put her foot up to her Mouth arid started to perform this in credible am enclosing my Home phone number in Case you want to verify this Story but please Don t print my name. I would never hear the end of it. Sign me still stunned in California dear still stunned i Don t need to phone you. I Don t doubt for a minute that the incident occurred. I wonder How Many women Over 40 who Are Reading this can get their big toe up to their Mouth i tried it and finally succeeded but it was one Gigantic struggle. Dear Ann Landers have you Ever read those personal ads from people looking for dates or mates no wonder they have to advertise in the All describe themselves As attractive physically fit highly intelligent arid fun to be happen to love Rock concerts but my husband Arnie would die of embarrassment if he saw me standing on my seat screaming. So i go with friends. Arme encourages it because he wants me to have a goob time. He loves jazz so if there is a jazz special on to i la tape it to Surprise him. I la even watch with him sometimes because we enjoy each other s Guy is a Slob at Home but his car is spotless. So i clean the House and he cleans my have four children one of whom is severely handicapped. Arnie is my Rock and i am his. He can still make me laugh and tells me How Beautiful i am. Ann i am definitely not Beautiful. In fact i m barely aver age ". A a i be known this Man since childhood but never thought of him in a romantic Way until i was an adult. I know our marriage in t flawless but it seems perfect to me. Sometimes the right person is directly under your nose. All you have to do is be willing to look. I m glad i did v. no name no City . / so am i. You sound As if you were made for each other. Letters to Ann Landers should be addressed to her at . Box 11562, Chi Cago Iii. 60611-0562. C creators Syndicate love is no match for drug addiction dear Abby you have published letters from women who were involved with or married to men who had drug prob lems. Perhaps my Story can be used to warn other women. 1, too fell in love with a Man who had a history of drug abuse. His Choice of drug was heroin and it nearly destroyed my life. I met him when i was 18. For the next four years i tried to keep him off drugs. He went through a methadone program several times. I remember the nights i spent in Hospital emergency room when he had of d. I begged him to stay away from he Roin and his drug addicted friends but he would t Lis ten. He spent time in jail for crimes committed trying to support his habit. Of course he always left jail clean but then he d use drugs and the Cycle would begin again. I married him when he was clean or at least thought he was. Money started to disappear from my purse. He would miss work and be gone for Days wit no explanation. Checks from our joint checking account began bouncing. Then one Day when 1 was sort ing laundry i found a Needle and syringe in the pocket of his work jacket. That Nightie had the biggest fight we Ever had and i finally faced the fac that the love of his life was her oin. So Abby please advise Youn women to run As fast As they can away from these la never change. Love is not enough to keep an addict clean. I know. It has been 20 years since i fell in love wit that hopelessly addicted Man. He has been dead for seven years. He was found on a de troit City Street. The Coroner said his body was full of drugs. At his funeral As i looked at the almost unrecognizable body of the Man i had loved for so Many years i thought to myself Well at least the Monkey is of your Back for Good now but even after seven years i still jump when my Tele phone rings at night thinking it s the Hospital the to dear Abby lice or the morgue. Sisters get away from these men. Don t let them ruin your lives. The longer you stay the longer you enable them to be addicts and the harder it will be for you to walk away. Heroin is the destroyer of lives no just the life of the addict it also destroys the lives of those who love them. Worse yet Many of these addicts carry the aids virus. Seek support from friends and family your Church or a support group but Don t waste your life trying to Saver help addicts. Run like hell in the opposite direction and help yourself to a new life m. In Michigan earm thank you for a powerful letter. I Hope women who Are now in the same tragic situation you were in will take note and get out. Dear readers a verse Worth sharing submitted by Maudi Ewhite Erie a whenever i walk by a Church i Stop and make a visit. So when i m carried in some Day the lord won t say who is it Mou Worris i?i861054 n Shu d address of to dear Abby at . Box 447. C Universal press Syndicate
