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By SCOTT PRUDEN
Staff writer
I just saw Who Framed Roger - m
Rabbit? for about the umpteenth
time, but still not as many times as
some girls I know have seen Dirty
Dancing. ties ai
Since I've memorized most of ways
the dialogue by now (a story of destru
sex, greed and murder), I've gotten Firs
to the point where I've started to then t
look for little details I seem to Bing
have missed the first 20 or 30 only r
times I saw the movie. an av.
Where some of the Dirty Dane- natra :
ing girls have taken to counting move,
how many times Patrick Swayze King
flexes his right pectoral, I like pay- blow I
ing attention to more pivotal little The
things. no w
Things like singing swords. match
You remember. Eddie Valiant nolog;
whips it out of a box during his would
climactic battle with the evil and called
very bald Judge Doom. Personally, place
I think this guy's name should be lot
have tipped someone off in the both s
first place, but then we wouldn't the st<
have had a movie, now would we? ap sor
Anyway, Valiant grabs the The
sword, animated like everything the v
else in the movie, and of course it scale
siaris singing. /\nucmy, u turns stOCkf
into a young Frank Sinatra head such ;
and cuts into a croon. Xhe S
The only problem is I'm usually mid-n
the only person that ever thinks the U.
this is funny. aid ci
Actually, some of the other peo- NATC
pie I know that have seen the mo- Fin
vie about 9,000 times think it's a power
bit amusing, but no one thinks it's to aln
as funny as I do. rence
I think it's rolling-on-the-floor low ki
funny. That kind of funny when dink
you laugh so hard that it ceases be- would
ing a laugh and becomes more of a awful
convulsive motion, punctuated ev- fare bi
ery once in a while by a snort or a But
heave. sword
That's probably because I can't prize ]
help thinking about a sudden sing- _____
ing sword proliferation between
the United States and the Soviet $ee ^
Union. After all, this was the for
Foreign audie
By The Associated Press
MALA LUMPUR, Malaysia ? Bob H<
the road to Malaysia a bit bumpy.
After arriving here, the 86-year-old com
reporters Sunday night his Far East tour g(
rough start in Taipei, Taiwan.
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thought," he said.
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more English-speaking people. It is very c
tell a joke, get 50 percent of laughs, hav
rupted and then do it again. It kind of ruins
ing. But the people there were friendly."
# NEW YORK ? Actress Loni And
learned to overcome some of the hari
motherhood.
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our neato death and
ction ideas anyway.
;t comes the Sinatra sword,
he Soviets come out with a
Crosby sword, which can
natch the crooning power of
/esome weapon like the Sisword.
Then, in a bold power
, the U.S. introduces a Nat
Cole sword to completely
the Soviets away.
;n, recognizing that there is
ay the nasty Soviets can
the superior weapons techy
of the United States, there
be a singing sword summit
in some terminally neutral
like Geneva, and there would
s of whining and griping on
>ides about how deep to cut
xkpiles and verification and
ts of messy things like that.
;n it would be decided that
wo sides would gradually
down their singing sword
>iles to less powerful forms,
as singing swords that scat,
oviets would downgrade to a
inge Mel Torme sword and
S. would cut to Ella Fitzgerruise
missiles only in the
) countries.
ally, when the two supernations
agree to scale down
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weapons, like Barry Manilives
and Englebert Humperletter
openers, the world
once again be safe from the
threat of singing sword wareaking
out at any time,
of course by then, singing
technology would become
property for the Third World
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By STEVE FLOYD C
Staff Writer 1;
USC feature twirler Deena Alford has been
twirling batons for about 16 years and recently li
won three national titles in a competition at the q
University of Notre Dame.
Alford, a broadcast journalism sophomore, s;
learned to twirl a baton at the age of three. To- j(
day she is on a band scholarship and is prepar- jj
ing to compete in the international twirling
contest in Holland next April.
Alford's mother, a baton teacher, introduced ^
her to twirling. Alford's two younger sisters
are also twirlers. She and her sister Stacy won
the Ms. Majorette competition in their respec- ^
tive age divisions in 1981. Deena has gone on {
to win other Ms. Majorette titles, the most recent
of which was held this summer. L
Alford's titles include the National Collegi- jc
ate Twirling Champion, the Woild Strutting tl
Champion and Ms. Majorette of America. Her
victory in the National Collegiate Twirling u
uin timing, com
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"I'm clean,'
WWS (cocaine) was
date."
On Sept. 2
he baby peed on me, threw up on Court for viol
nd I thought, 'This is not glamor- possession con
id of her 14-month-old adopted Judge John
drug treatment
langed," she said in an interview ^
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Former Temptations lead singer a7c
tmpletcd a 28 day drug treatment rama aboul he
ired he no longer uses illegal judge the whe
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arms at a football
Championship qualified her to compete in Holmd
next April.
"I represented the University of South Carona
. . . I won for USC," Alford said about the
Collegiate Championship.
However, the school has not offered to
ponsor Alford in the Holland competition. Al3rd
said she may get a loan to pay for the trip
: she can't find a sponsor.
According to Marching Band Director James
openhaver, the lunds are not available to
lonsor Alford.
"We have never done that," Copenhaver
lid, adding, "We were extremely proud of
;r."
In Copenhaver's 14 years as band director,
fSC has had two Collegiate Division Ms. Mairette
winners. Alford won the senior division
lis year.
Alford was offered scholarships to several
niversitics, but chose USC because of the
edian Bob Hop
year-old Ruffin also said he planned to Th<
)r 30 to 60 days of voluntary treatment with
asriel Institute in New York. movie
' he said Friday. "The last time I used said S
Wednesday, the day after my court deal f
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7, Ruffin was in Detroit Recorder's Eric I
ating probation imposed for a cocaine- child,
viction. Foi
Patrick O'Brien ordered Ruffin into the Mo
center for the probation violation. court
Y HILLS, Calif. ? Dr. Elizabeth Mor- pute.
"absolute control" over a TV docud- dered
r two years in jail for refusing to tell a
reabouts of her daughter, an attorney will a
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SC student
epares for
lernational
twirling
impetition
warm weather and because it's fairly close to
her home in Maryland.
"I love it (USC). Southern people are cool,"
she said.
In addition to her national title victories, she
performed at the White House for Vice President
Dan Quayle in an attempt to promote
twirling as an Olympic event. Alford said it
was very important to her to twirl at the White
House.
"That was my dream, and I did it this summer,"
she said.
Alford performs at all home football games
as one of two featured twirlers. She spends
much of her time practicing with the band and
preparing for the Holland competition.
Alford said she thinks she has a good
chance of winning in Holland, but she's not
thinking much of that right now.
"I just want to go, and I want to do an awesome
job and if I lose, I lose . . . but if I did
an awesome job, then I'm happy," Alford said.
w says of tour
i Washington, D.C.-area plastic surgeon signed
Lansburg Co., makers of "Adam," a television
> about a boy who was kidnapped and murdered
Ihelley Browning, an attorney who negotiated the
or Morgan.
irgan has alleged that her former husband, Dr.
7oretich, an oral surgeon, sexually molested their
Hilary, now 7.
etich vehemently denies the charges,
irgan was jailed in 1987 for civil contempt of
by the judge presiding over their custody disMorgan
refused to comply when the judge orher
to allow Foretich unsupervised visits.
len informed of the movie deal, Foretich said: "I
bsolutely sue them if my name or my daughter's
is used without my consent."
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