European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes faces n places sunday november 27,1994 no Letterman but group gets free Holiday from the associated a res they could t get seats for David Letterman but they managed to get them for thanksgiving dinner Courtesy of Dave. The group of 19 people strangers until being rejected in the ticket line for late show with David Letterman in new York were sent on an Impromptu All expense paid trip to Miami by the lbs talk show Host. On thursday the group was treated to a Southern style Turkey dinner with dressing and grits in Savannah a. -. Then they greeted Letterman Long distance for his show. 7traveler Carolyn Mazur said members of the groupware getting along Well and were becoming lifelong group has stopped in Atlantic City Washington d.c., and fort Bragg n.c., since boarding the bus outside Letterman s new York studio monday night. Love a ghz not flounder director Peter Mccarthy got some High budget Talent for his Low budget film floundering about a Man s Urban anxieties and emotional tailspin following the los Angeles riots. Among the stars in the $200,000 Independent movie Are John Cusack and Ethan Hawke. Mccarthy 44, took six Days to write the script about Man obsessed by video replays of the 1992 riots. The movie was shot in 18 Days in and around his Venice,Calif., apartment. Young stars who volunteered were intrigued by the theme Mccarthy said in an interview published Friday in the daily news. They d say floundering my god i can relate to that he said. Mccarthy has produced such Independent hits Asre Poman Sid and Nancy and i m Gonna get you sucka. .".-v. " a floundering opened Friday in limited release in los Angeles. Karpov fakes on chess group Anatoly Karpov wants to checkmate his rivals i Russia s chess world and he s not playing around with pawns. -. A -. A. 7 the former world Champion met thursday i Moscow with parliament s hard line lawmakers to denounce the russian chess federation for dismissing him As vice president the Segodnia newspaper reported. Parliament plans to hold hearings on the Battle. 7 77- the federation controls tournaments Money and travel for Russia s top chess players. Karpov accuses rival Gary Kasparov who unseated him As world Champion in 1985, of arranging the april meeting that voted him out arid replaced the federation s president with reformist lawmaker Andrei Makarov. Kasparov and Makarov who Are friends deny the major chess Competition the world chess see it feel it the who s Pete Townshend Speaks to the Media Friday in Offenbach Germany about the Rock opera Tommy which will premiere in the City april 28. Organizers plan a five year run of the original Broadway production of the 1969 musical in Offenbach near Frankfurt. Olympiad is to Start in Moscow this week. Karpov has rejected Kasparov s invitation to attend. Tomanec s still got it at 33, Nadia Comanici can still turn Heads with he acrobatic twists and spins. The 1976 olympic Gold medallist wowed a crowd of4,000 in Bucharest Romania including Premier Nicolae Vacariu with a Graceful floor routine Friday. The show was broadcast live on state a crushed Pink velvet Leotard Comanici also did a Jazzy number with her american fianc6, bar Conner another olympic Gold medal Winner. I will never forget i m romanian an emotional Comanici told the cheering crowd. I will always be alongside Comanici was the first olympic gymnast to score perfect 10. She returned to Romania last week five years after leaving. One month after she left the communist regime was overthrown. Comanici and Conner run a gym in Norman okla. Ann Landers a shocker us barely within Law dear Ann Landers. J my husband and i Are having a major disagreement and have decided to let you Settle it. Recently Albert bought a convertible. We were driving Down a Busy Highway and Albert suddenly announced that it fun if i took off my to shirt and Bra to see How much attention we would attract. He said it would be interesting to see the reaction of the passing motorists. I was not Only stunned but of fended that Albert would Sug Gest such a thing. I told him straight out that i thought it was positively indecent for a Man to want his wife to appear Hal naked in Public. His comment was if the wife was built like you he would be proud to show her when i told him there is a Law against indecent exposure Al said you re wrong about that. There is no such Law in the state of new i cannot believe he is right about this Ann. Will you please Check it out and let me know in Shock and insulted Deari Shock and insulted Albert deserves to be clobbered for his tasteless suggestion. In fact he is the Winner of the Slob of the month award a bouquet of Skunk cabbage for his crude suggestion. He is right however about the Law in Newyork. Vav a 7 77 7,the new York transit authority ruled recently that Bare breasted women on subways should be arrested Only if they create a disruptive or dangerous Situa Tion. In fact police spokesman Al o Leary said if a woman were sitting on a subway Bench topless smoking a cigarette we would take so folks i guess it s of to go half naked in Public in new York just Don t smoke while you re doing it. And now dear readers for every Yin there is a Yang. This release comes from the Reuters news service ,. 7 according to an israeli newspaper a Tel Aviv rabbi has ruled in the midst of a withering heat wave that Aman can divorce his wife for rolling up her sleeves past her elbows in Public. Some orthodox jews insist that women must Cove their arms for modesty. The sleeve must reach the Elbow covering the entire Elbow according to rabbi Moshe Titan s ruling reported in the Maaris daily. Even on the hot Days of summer if a woman bares her arms in the Street her husband is entitled to divorce her the rabbi wait there s More. In some Arab countries until recently a formal divorce was not necessary. If a Man no longer found his wife desirable All he had to say to her was i divorce you three times and she was history. Check around the world folks and you will find tha America keeps looking better and better. Letters to Ann Landers should be addressed to her at . Box 11562, Chi Cago Iii. 60611-0562. C creators Syndicate innocent children paying cruel Price dear Abby my wife and i have just made the heartbreaking Sion to sever All ties with our adult son i la Call him Mike. This was done with much regret but we could see no other went through a bitter divorce years ago. There were accusations of infidelity on both sides. His wife was not interested in having a family. As a result he is very sour on marriage and has vowed never to wed has been living with a woman with whom he has fathered two children and she has just announced that she is pregnant again. Mike s Mother is in health and this is putting her in her grave. We asked him to please Stop coming by or calling our Home. We also made it Plain that we do not wish to be informed when the new baby arrives. We respect his decision not to repeat the pain of a failed marriage however we think it is wrong for him to continue having babies with a woman who is not his wife. We feel it is also wrong for her to continue to get pregnant knowing How he feels about commitment. I have known people who have had one child out of Wedlock and made the Best of it but for two adults to bring three illegitimate children into the world is cruel selfish and irresponsible. How much Effort does it take to slip on condom or Swallow a birth con Tro Pill i have told Mike that his Chil Dren will be excluded from our will and family tree. Also i am worried about the state of these illegitimate Chil Dren s souls. After All they were conceived in sin. Through with Mike dear through How sad that you could not express your disappoint ment and disapproval without writing off your son and his family. If they have formed a stable unit and the children Are provided for they qualify As family whether their Union is blessed by Church and state or not. Dear Abby you May not approve of the circumstances of their birth but his children Are your grandchildren. And to exclude them from your will and your family tree is cold and heartless. They have done nothing wrong. Worry not about their blessed Little souls com judgment Day you will have to account for your own. Dear Abby As a former infantryman i enjoyed the letter about the i who while washing himself in the Field naked As a Jaybird was surprised by two truckloads of army nurses. When one of them shouted look at the Tan on that Blond kid the i covered his Ace with Washcloth. After chuckling for a few minutes i was a bit dismayed by the present state of affairs. F i5ei above scenario were to take place today the lond kid would probably claim sexual harassment whereupon the nurse would face a court martial and everyone who laughed would be required to undergo sensitivity training. R.b.mcm., Vista Calif. E addressed dear Abby at . Box 447,m
