UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 18, 1993
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Entertainment
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Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art
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Museum of Anthropology
Spooner Hall
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Wilcox Classical Museum
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Clyde Tombaugh Observatory 500 Lindley
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■ Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St.
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Talking about sex makes woman pass out
LEAD STORIES
A Cincinnati woman charged recently that a 42-year-old man sexually assaulted her after taking advantage of a medical condition that usually causes her to faint when she hears the word "sex." Allegedly, the man accosted her in her apartment building, uttered the magic word and then assaulted her after she fell to the floor. In a court appearance in July, the woman fainted twice when prosecutors used the word "sex" in descriptions of her condition.
■ Northwest Missouri Community College basketball coach Ed Corporal resigned in June after the St. Joseph News-Press reported that almost all of the breathtaking athletic credentials on his resume were false, most of them almost effortlessly disproved by checking easily accessible sports record books. Among the honors Corporal claimed were an NBA career with the New Jersey Nets, three straight years on the Southeastern Conference all-star basketball team (with Charles Barkley) and the University of Florida's "all-decade" team for the 1980s. When informed that none of the institutions had ever heard of him, Corporal was at first defiant: "Why they wouldn't have records of it, I don't know. I don't have any reason to make things up."
LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS
Four people were arrested in Sacramento, Calif., in January after they kidnapped a woman and threatened to kill her unless she entered her bank and withdrew money for them while they waited outside in a truck. Once inside the bank, the woman merely notified the security guard, who called police, who came and arrested the men.
In June, Hawthorne, Calif., police arrested Joseph Thomas Harper, 18, for robbing a Lawndale convenience store. He called them to report that his wallet, which police had found after he dropped it while fleeing the store, had been stolen. And in July, police found the wallet of George L. Klipola, 20, after he dropped it while allegedly rappelling down from a skylight to burglarize a Stroudsburg, Pa., jewelry store.
In June, a sheriff's bomb squad in Madison, Wis., alerted by a Valley Bank branch bulglar alarm, found a bottle containing nitroglycerin set to explode when connected to an electric detonator. Deputies concluded that the burglar had fled because the extension cord he had brought for the detonator had come up about three feet short of the nearest electrical outlet.
Boynton Beach, Fla., police believe that it was a drug-addicted burglar who broke into Nathan Radlich's house in May and stole a tackle box that contained the ashes of Radlich's late sister, Gertrude. Because more valuable items were not taken, police believe the burglar thought he had stumbled upon a cache of cocaine.
Christopher White, 22, was arrested in Boothwyn, Pa., in July and charged with burglary after police were summoned to the offices of a housing development in the middle of the night by a 911 operator. Police said White had attempted to dial a 900 sex service from the office but had inadvertently dialed 911, whose equipment automatically records the number from the calling phone.
Columbia, Mo., inmate Barry Rhodes, 35, escaped from the grounds of the Boone County Jail in June by jumping onto a John Deere tractor and driving past security guards at 15 mph. He was quickly captured.
Ray Douglas Thomas Jr. 37, was arrested in July in San Antonio and charged with the theft of 13 bags of potting soil from a builder's supply store. While being chased by police, Thomas tried to leap from the driver's seat of his moving car, got his sleeve caught in the door, was dragged 60 feet, fell free and was run over by the car's rear wheel, at which point police easily nabbed him.
ing to trace a thumbprint they thought would identify the person who burglarized the offices of Hayden Communications. The burglar made off with $75, but while in the office apparently took time out of play with Leslie Hayden's container of Silly Putty, in which the thumbprint was left.
William Gerald Fedorka, 44, was arrested in Fountain Valley, Calif., in July, shortly after he allegedly robbed a Bank of America. Fedorka dropped the bag of money when the chemical dye pack exploded; he then tried to escape by driving his distinctive pick-up onto the Riverside Freeway, which rush-hour traffic had turned into what the arresting police called a parking lot. Fedorka was easily spotted and apprehended.
THE RIGORS OF BURGLARY
Recently, several men were arrested after they fell asleep while allegedly committing burglaries. In June, Green Forest, Ark., police found Eddie Leon Spencer, 24, and Michael Shannon Bradley, 24, asleep in a car in the parking lot of a restaurant they had reportedly just burglarized.
In March, Brian Main, holed up in a house in Anaheim, Calif., after a bungled burglary attempt, fell asleep during a standoff with police and was arrested. In January, Daniel Marcos Sanchez, 26, was arrested in Glendale, Calif., after he was discovered asleep, surrounded by burglary tools, in the homeowner's car in the garage. Chad Eric Phillips, 18, was arrested in Bradner, Ohio, in March and charged with burglary after he fell asleep in a pickup he was reportedly trying to steal from a home.
Toronto police in June were try-
THE WEIRDO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY
Alexander Abraham Anderson, 41, was arrested for smashing large plate-glass windows with a sledgehammer at the studios of WTVT-TV in Tampa in June. Anderson said he was angry at the station for invading his privacy by entering his living room every day via the television set.
I DON'T THINK SO
In a July report on lawsuits brought against the Hooters bar and restaurant chain by wattresses charging sexual harassment by management, an Associated Press writer quoted Hooters attorneys and company officials as saying the name Hooters had nothing to do with women's breasts but referred to owl.
HE WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
The Calvary Baptist Church in Salem, Va., had Harvey and Panline Richardson age 82 and 74, charged with trespassing when they tried to attend Sunday services in February. The feud started when the church denied the Richardsons, members for 39 years, the right to vote on church business because they had missed services for eight months beginning late year, mostly due to various illnesses.
In Phoenix, Ariz., in April, Paul Vernon Johnson, 26, stopped during his sexual molestation of a 13-year-old boy when the boy cried out, "Jehovah, help me." Johnson said he was once a Jehovah's Witness, and he regarded the boy's cry as an omen.
The Wilmington, N.C., Star News reported in April that some parents from Gaston County had demanded that Africa and Germany be removed from maps and globes in local classrooms because they believe those places are anti-Christian. They also called for the suppression of Greek letters from the curriculum because they believe their use constitutes an endorsement of homosexuality.
The London Daily Telegraph reported in November that the new state-of-the-art telescope operated by NASA and the Vatican Observatory in Arizona will be used to search distant galaxies for signs of intelligent life so, if any humans are discovered, the Catholic Church will be prepared to baptize them.
In June, the 40,000-member Christian Motorcyclists Association held its annual national fund-raiser, "Run for the Son," in Sedalia, Mo. MCA's purpose, said an organizer, is to ride
"the highways and byways to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ."
And later in June, the weekendlong "Christian Woodstock" rock music festival, "Creation 93," was held near Mount Union, Pa. It featured a "fringe stage" for punklike bands, which, wrote an Associated Press reporter, sounded like mainstream punk rock but, according to lyrics sheets, made clear Biblical references. Also in June, the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman profiled local Christian rock concert organizer Blanche Pall, who promotes heavy-metal acts like Mortification and constantly argues with ministers over whether the music is satanic.
A floating shrine in the Bocae River in The Philippines capsized in July, drowning more than 300 worshipers who had boarded it in prayer as part of the annual nine-day religious festival in the town of Bocae.
Oral Roberts University withdrew its City of Faith complex from the Tulsa, Okla., real estate market in June after failing to attract a buyer in more than a year and a half. The three towers (one 60 stories high, unusually tall for Tulsa), once ORU's medical school, were built after Roberts revealed that God told him to build it.
Postal carrier George Yoerger resigned in Moville, Iowa, in June after refusing to deliver copies of Time and Newsweek because the covers featured sexual themes.
TOUGH TIMES FOR MEN
after a three-month period, four men were reported to have suffered injuries to their genitals. In a reported incident in Manassas, Va., in June, a woman sliced off her husband's penis after he allegedly raped her. In Waynesville, N.C., in July, Cynthia Mason Gillett, 28, was charged with setting her husband's genitals on fire while he slept. In April, Jose Dogelio, 31, was shot in the penis by a woman he was "fashing" on a Dashmarinas, Philippines, street. And in Ransomville, N.Y., on July 4, a 28-year-old man was injured when a firecracker fell back to the ground and bounced up his shorts before exploding.
Tough issues addressed in 'Search for Bobby Fischer'
Rv Patricia Bibbv
Associated Press
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" is one of those rare, special movies that speaks to a myriad of tough issues in a tale that's intrinsically warm and entertaining.
What makes this film so refreshing is that it's not afraid to have heart and, at the same time, it doesn't assault the viewer with its message. There's no cloying sentimentality, just the lessons learned from the struggles of an exceptionally gifted 7-year-old boy, Josh Waltzkin.
based on the true story of Josh's discovery of his prodigious talent as a
chess player, the film loosely uses as its backdrop the mysterious disappearance of chess legend Bobby Fischer. The similarity between Josh's ascension as a prodigy and Fischer's are remarkable. Among other things, both lived in New York and successfully played speed chess at a very young age in Washington Square Park.
Josh, played by Max Pomerance,
making his acting debut, has an anie
command of the game and can reason
through numerous sequential moves
in his head without so much as touching
a piece. When he plays the park
veterans, some of whom finance their
vices with their chess earnings, Josh
can barely reach the board, nonetheless, he beats the men.
This brings whispers that Josh might be the next Bobby Fischer.
might be the next Bobby Peele. It's those stirrings that set the boy on a course of baldfaced competition, engineered in large part by his father, Fred (Joe Mantegna), his teacher, Bruce Pandolfi (Ben Kinglesley) and his park coach, Vinnie (Laurence Fishburn).
At first, Josh is an eager participant. What child couldn't want his father doting on him, constantly telling him that he's the best? And Pandolini weaves a mystical spell over the chess board, which he emphatically refers to as an art, not a game.
But as Josh climbs the tournament ranks, it's no longer clear who he is winning for — himself, his father or his teacher. And his odyssey becomes tainted with the downside of competition — the contempt for other players and the fear of faltering. And somewhere amid this is a kid who wants to play Clue and eat pizza.
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" spins its gold as it pits parents' sometimes impossible expectations of their children against the children's best interests.
This gentle, endearing story also would not ring as true if it weren't for Max Pomerance, who himself is a ranked chess player. With his sloe-
eyed stare, he seems to comprehend more than a boy's share of the complexities and sadness around him.
Another boy making his screen debut is Michael Nirenberg, who plays Josh's rival, Jonathan Poe. Michael also does a remarkable job at bringing a whole range of delicate emotions into play as a rather melancholy boy determined to win.
And Mantega is marvelous as the anguished and driven father who can telegraph more with his pursed lips than many actors can with their entire bodies. Bonnie Allen plays Josh's mother, Bonie Waitzkin, who often is at odds with her husband's ambitions for their son.
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