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Mackie
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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.
The other 1999 winners are:
— Gretchen Buchenholz of New
York City.
—Terri and Bruce Lippert of Coun
cil Bluffs, Iowa.
— Rachel and Rick Sparkowich of
Portsmouth, N.H.
— Cordelia Taylor of Milwaukee,
— Lyndale and Ellyn Morrow-Yazel
of Colorado Springs, Colo.
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