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Mackie from page 8 show, along with dozens of costumes for the comedy sketches. “I love doing funny things. One week I’d have to make Carol an unattractive postal worker, and who knows what I’d have to do the next,” said Mackie, wearing an olive shirt, olive slacks and a black tie. He designs miniature versions of his gowns for Barbie dolls. “Right now, I’m in my ‘international fantasy goddess’ phase,” he said. “I don’t do ‘Barbiegoes to the supermarket.’” The exhibit’s title is also the name of a new book and a new fragrance. Mackie continues to dress Cher, Bur nett and Ross. He created the “Eliza beth” gown that Whoopi Goldbeig wore when she hosted this year’s Oscars. Mackie, 59, is a seven-time Emmy Award winner. As a child, he was inspired by Hollywood’s Technicolor movie mu sicals. Using a record as a soundtrack, he would create tabletop shows using hand drawn puppets in elaborate costumes. He’s been nominated for three Oscars. Professor finds Thomas Jefferson's scrapbooks Associated Press Charlottesville, Va. — Scholars be lieve four scrapbooks recently uncov ered by a history professor were put to gether by Thomas Jefferson and offer further insight into the life of the nation’s third president. The red leather-bound books contain thousands of newspaper articles from all over the East Coast dating back to Jef ferson’s presidency, from 1801-08. They indicate that Jefferson, usually consid ered a man of logic and reason, was more sentimental that scholars have thought. Researchers once believed the scrap books were put together by Jefferson’s granddaughters but recently discovered that some notations on the clippings match Jefferson’s handwriting. Some of the clip pings also are pasted on envelopes with Jefferson’s address. “We are confident these books were compiled by Jefferson himself,” said Times Horn, director of the International Cen ter for Jefferson Studies in Charlottesville. Robert M.S. McDonald, a professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., found the 6-by-9-inch books this summer at the University of Virginia’s Aldenman Library while doing research. “I was stunned,” McDonald said. “I realized that they not only belonged to Jefferson, but also that they were Jeffer son’s creation. It is not every day that new Jefferson materials come to light. And these are a treasure trove of infor mation.” McDonald found an oak leaf pressed into one book between an article on friendship and a poem titled “Scenes from My Youth.” Jefferson and his boyhood friend, Dabney Carr, played together on Mon ticello and used to study under an oak tree. The two promised each other the survivor would bury the other under that tree. “That was the genesis of the Monti cello family graveyard,” McDonald said. Carr was the first buried where the oak tree was believed to have been. Researchers say one of the scrapbooks was given to the library in 1851. The three others were donated in 1951 by Jeffer son family members. Ten to receive "unsung hero" awards Associated Press Pawling, N.Y. — Chuck and Penny Hauer, a San Diego couple who have adopted 35 physically and mentally dis abled children over the last 20 years, will be among 10 people honored Friday with America’s Awards. Nicknamed the “Nobel Prizes for Goodness,” the awards were created in 1990 by the late minister Norman Vrn cent Peale to honor unsung American he roes. This year’s recipients will be hon ored Friday on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. They will be chauffeured in limousines and given a tour of the White House and a dinner cruise on the Potomac. Winners are nom inated by the public and chosen by a com mittee. 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