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Art student finds dumpsters double nicely as canvases. See page 3.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 59 (USPS 650-640)
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Vietnam vet angered over drawing's theft
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Within 24 hours of its being placed at the site of the planned Vietnam memorial Monday, an architect's drawing of the memorial was stolen. A Vietnam veteran says this isn't a typical college prank.
The drawing, in a Plexiglas and stainless steel frame, was placed on a metal pole at the planned memorial site during a consecration ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday and was discovered stolen at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, KU police said.
Police said they had no suspects. "I don't know why anyone would do something like this," Lisa Ashner, a member of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee, said yesterday.
John Musgrave, a veteran of the Vietnam War, said he remembered a time when people did this sort of
thing too frequently, and why they did it.
"This is a cowardly act made by a person or persons wishing to make some sort of twisted statement about the war or the policies that led us there by attacking the first physical evidence of the memorial," he said.
Musgrave, who has worked for two years to see the memorial become a reality, said the theft had not been the first act against the memorial project. The pole the drawing was to be placed on was stolen before the ceremony, he said.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said his staff worked to replace the pole in time for the consecration ceremony Monday.
musgrave said he first considered the theft of the pole a random act that had nothing to do with the memorial.
had learned that, not the case "But of course, that's not the case now." Musgrav said. "Speaking as a Vietnam veteran, as a member of
the committee that has worked for two years for this memorial, my impression is that this is not a random act of vandalism or a high-spirited college prank."
Musgrave, who joined the peace movement after returning from Vietnam, said he thought whover took the drawing was behaving in the same way some people behaved during the war — blaming the veteran for a situation he had not created.
"Far too often the Vietnam vet has been held up to ridicule and to blame, when we did nothing more that what our forefathers had done — we served our country."
Mustgrave said that foremost in his mind when he heard about the theft were the faces of some of the people who had attended the consecration ceremony — the widow of a man who was killed while serving with the
See VANDAL. p. 5, col. 1
House, Senate buy time to hash out budget plan
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate yesterday approved different versions of a small increase in the federal debt limit to buy another month to work on balanced budget legislation and avert a U.S. default while President Reagan is in Geneva.
But because the two houses failed to agree on how to approach the short-term increase in the government's borrowing authority, the issue was still unresolved.
The House agreed to an $80 billion increase in the debt ceiling, up to $1.9 trillion, which they said was enough to cover the nation's bills through Dec. 13.
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TOPEKA — The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday denied a rate rehearing to utilities that own the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, but did adjust its order to permit two of the firms to earn an additional $6 million.
in an administrative meeting, the commission rejected utility arguments that it had acted arbitrarily when it declared $3.05 billion Wolf Creek plant should be valued like a cheaper coal-fired plant. Also rejected was a lengthy list of other arguments aimed at reopening the rate case.
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MOVIES
(Continued from page 8) dives into beadlist.
The Color Purple's top black cast includes comedienne Whoopi Goldberg in her first film role as Celie and Danny Glover (Silverado, Places in the Heart). Hollywood will be watching The Color Purple closely—both as its director's attempt at a film "Sidney Lumet could make standing on his head," and as one of several new "black" films, after years in which black subjects were seen as box office poison.
Mike Bygrave & Joan Goodman
Rocky IV
Prior to the release of Rocky III, Syllester Stallone told an interviewer that "I love the character too much to do a Rocky IV" and have people go away disappointed and say we bled it dry. So this is it."
After Rocky IV went on to outgross both of its predecessors, however, Stallone underwent a change of heart. The result is Rocky IV to be released November 27 by MGM/UA.
Rocky IV marks the end of Carl Weathers' ongoing participation in the series, since Apollo Creed (whom Weathers portrays) is killed in the ring when he goes up against the Soviet giant.
Since May, a record breaking 4200 traitters have been warning viewers to "get ready for the next world war." Of course, as most of us know by now, the "war" involves the confrontation between Rocky Balboa and Drago (who's played by Dolph Lundgren), his gargantuan Russian opponent in the ring.
Will Rocky avenge his buddy's death and KO the Russian champ?
One thing's for sure, the $12 to $15 million (plus a percentage of the gross) that Sly's receiving for writing, directing and starring in *Rocky* IV has already made Stallone the winner
Alan Karp
A Chorus Line
Sir Richard Attenborough's "Wonderful, darling, that's lovely," rang through the Royale Theater in New York all day as 2000 "gypsies" auditioned for the movie A Chorus Line. "Broadway gypsies" are the chorus girls and boys who flesh out a musical. A Chorus Line is their story, and they love it.
Sir Richard and his choreographer, Jeff Hornaday (Flasdance), watched with patience and encouragement as dancer after dancer did
HAND IN HAND WITH HOWIE MANDEL
We caught up with comedian Howie Mandel on the set of St. Elsenburg, his weekly NBC series in which he plays Dr. Wayne Fiscus. Always a campus favorite, Mandel will be doing a tour of 17 cities this fall, in addition to filming a
special for HBO. He has also just finished the film A Fine Mess due out in May, 1986.
KYLE COUNTS. The word on your big break in comedy is that you were visiting California and performed at the Comedy Store. George Foster saw you and signed you for "Make Me Laugh."
MESSAGE
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went up at the Comedy Store,
I didn't do anybody's jokes, not
even my own; I just kinda
made noises.
HM: They started laughing and I didn't know what they were laughing at, and I went "What? What?" and they laughed even more.
KC: Is that where your trademark line, "What?" born?
guy who put a rubber glove on his head on the Merv Griffin Show. I thought I was gonna get sued by a rubber glove company. They asked if I was interested in being the opening act for their client in Vegas, who turned out to be Diana Ross.
BY KYLE COUNTS
"Make Me Laugh," was a perfect opportunity for someone who didn't have a vast amount of material—60 seconds to make somebody laugh.
How did you become a full-time comedian?
**HM:** I did Merv Griffin and got a call from a law firm wanting to know if I was Wowie Mandel, the
KC: Were props always in your act?
IMA: Always. Even that first night at the Comedy Store, I was carrying a bag shaped like a hand. I always have a bag of toys and props. I just got a Julio iglesias cut-out. I haven't figured out what to do with it, but I already took it on stage. I just held it up and said, "I have nothing funny to say about this." And they laughed.
KG: Your tour is going to a lot of college towns.
weird to feel underdressed for your own show.
HM: Colleges are my audience. I played Ohio State, Florida State, University of Montana and University of Utah. At Utah, the women were in full-length gowns and the guys were in suits. It's
wet to feel undersized for your own size.
KC: Psychologists say that comedians are
desperately seeking the approval of others.
HM: Definitely. Even if I play a 7,000 seat seat and I get two standing ovations, if I hear that one person didn't like me, it'll ruin my year. ♦
their turns. "In the end, we found a wonderful cast, a mixture of total unknowns and flying stars," said Sir Richard enthusiastically.
The hardest role to cast was that of Zach, the director/choreographer who forces the 17 dancers in his cast to reveal themselves." Michael Douglas is magnetic in the role of this god-like but vulnerable character," Attenborough praised.
The plum role of Cassie, the exlead dancer trying to start over again in the chorus, went to Alyson Reed who had portrayed the part in the national company of *Chorus Line*. "I have a lot of Cassie in me," she says. "All I've ever known is dancing."
All I've been challenged to turn *A Chorus Line* into a screenplay without losing, "the theatricality that is its essence," says Attenborough. "I've been wanting to do a musical for a long time. What I particularly enjoyed about *A Chorus Line* was the ensemble feeling of the cast. The wonderful thing about this film is that everybody gets to be a star."
Mike Bygrave & Joan Goodman
Snies Like Us
When you put three very funny people together you get a very funny movie. When the three
people are John Landis, Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase, respectively the director and stars of *Spies Like Us*, you also get a very funny film set. Off camera moments were filled with light bump jokes, sight gags and lightning repearce.
Aykroyd originally wrote the script for himself and John Belushi. ("I play taller and a little lighter," says Chase.) "Chevy and I sat down for a week together and rewrote it. It was like Saturday Night Live. We could
nighting of their lives,
"I wanted to do a movie with Danny," says Chase. In the film that won him over, Chase and Dan Aykroyd play unwitting decoy spies. The rigorous qualifying tests are rigged, so our heroes aren't aware that they're not the real thing. "There's a lot of physical comedy, a lot of shapstick," says Chase. Chase plays a fast-talking goof off, and Aykroyd is his serious-minded sidekick.
always write for each other." John Landis (Animal House) was the natural choice as director for the project.
For Akroyd, Chase and the audience, this may be the best thing since Saturday Night Live.
Mike Bygrave & Joan Goodman
Jewel of the Nile
Fes, Morocco-When last seen in Romancing the Stone, novelist Joan Wilder and her real-life hero Jack Colton were gliding down a New York avenue in Colton's sailboat. To the South of France for an illicil interude.
toyline make Perhaps Jack and Joan would have lived happily ever after if audiences and 20th Century Fox hadn't clamored for a sequel. Instead, when The Jewel of the Nile begins six months after the couple has settled down to together, they're not getting along.
Before Jack and Joan get too bored with each other, they find themselves in jeopardy again, this time in a nameless North African country where they're looking for another
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