Show 1 0A Standard-Examine- Saturday November 26 r 1 DRABBLE by Kevin Fagan FAMILY CIRCUS by Bil Keane 988 People Bledsoe goes back to her old school ‘Roots’ author decides to save book’s characters nus services “Roots” Author Alex Haley says he grew so fond Standard Eimmer of chara two his new book that he couldn’t kill them off “A Different Kind of Christmas” is about a plantation slave who joins a white college student to free slaves through the railroad underground “Both represent the courageous black and white factions” Murray avoids movie star image Haley said in an interview from his home in Henning Tenn about 40 miles north of Memphis “At the end in actuality they would have been killed if they’d been caught But I’d gotten so attached to them I let them es- cape” The book grew out of a project he wrote for TV “Roots Christmas” to be broadcast Dec 11 on ABC Ringo vows ‘never to drink again’ Former Beatle Ringo Starr vowed he would never drink again as he and his wife actress Barbara Bach returned to London Friday from five weeks US alcoholism clinic “I feel a lot better than I have for ages” Starr said in an interview with Press Association the domestic news agency “I haven’t had a drink for 45 days That’s amazing for me” Starr 48 said “we are not under doctors or anybody now It's up to us I am an alcoholic and my intention is never to drink again” The former drummer for the Beatles said “the first thing we are planning is a really good Christmas We want to live a normal life now” The clinic was not identified in a ‘Rain Man’ to open in West Virginia Dustin Hoffman’s new movie “Rain Man” will have its first showing in the hometown of an autistic man upon whom the actor partly based his char- acter Hoffman will be in Huntington W Va on Dec for a benefit and screening of the film which will be released nationally Dec 16 To prepare for the film Hoffman studied out-takfrom "Portrait of an Autistic Young Man” a 1986 documentary about Joseph Sullivan autistic library page met Sullivan a with Hoffman and Tom Cruise the film’s other star on the set in May Proceeds from the benefit will go to the Autistic Services Center in Huntington 11 Teenager Tempestt Bledsoe the bubbly star on NBC’s “The Cosby Show” has come a long way since her days as a student at Chicago’s Edgar Allan Poe Magnet School when she didn’t “talk to people a lot” “When I started here I was a very strange child” she told students as she received an award from the school where she attended first through fifth grades Bledsoe who plays Vanessa Huxtable was given a community service award for her real-lif- e role as a crusader against drugs “I didn’t always talk to people a lot” Bledsoe 1 5 said Wednesday “This school has been a very important part of my life” When she’s not on the Cosby set she is a junior at the Professional Children’s School in New York City pre-openi- es Top tickets $525 for superconcert It’s billed as a "superconcert” and the ticket prices live up to the billing Frank Sinatra Sammy Davis Jr and Liza Minnelli will perform together in Tokyo on Feb 25 The top price is the equivalent of $525 reports Billboard calling this "the highest price ever for a popular music concert in Japan” was a Tom Jones The previous record-holdconcert 5 years ago: top price $265 Less expensive tickets for the SinatraDavisMin-nell- i concert which will take place at 7000-seTokyo Bay NK Hall are $120 to $325 er 1 at Bill Murray has trouble picturing himself as a movie star “I realize that all signs point to me being a big movie star and in money terms I guess I’m on a movie star kind of roll but I don’t act or dress like a movie star” said Murray who is now starring in “Scrooged” “I think you have to enjoy being a movie star to be a real movie star “You can’t take any of this seriously because this movie star business is very transitory It comes and goes and there are They’re up against liquid plastic shot from a can that’s meant to entertain youngsters but the City Council wasn't laughing and decided to ban the yucky stuff “We have the discretion to enforce the law and we will use it” said Acting Police Chief Joseph Barry “We’re not going to go up makeup That’s a skeptic pencil” PEANUTS by Charles M Schulz GARFIELD by Jim Davis “Just last week I was walking around in my hometown my own hometown and some cop yells out: ‘Hey Aykroyd’ That’s what he said: ‘Hey Aykroyd’ So why take it seriously?’ ” Mansion ready for annual open house Country music performer Tom T Hall and his wife say after almost a month of preparation their mansion is ready for their seventh annual Christmas open house Beginning today and running through Dec 5 Hall and his wife Dixie invite visitors to their mansion near Franklin Tenn for their annual Christmas at Fox Hollow Proceeds from the $5 admission and the sale of crafts and baked goods go to Animaland the home of the Williamson County Humane Association Hall a who composed the hit record "Harper Valley PTA” said he doesn’t mind strangers traipsing through his home every year just before Christmas “I have a very comfortable stall in the bam” he singer-songwrit- MARVIN by Tom Armstrong er said Priscilla wanted daughter to wait Priscilla Presley says she wanted her daughter Lisa Marie to wait a while before getting married “I mean there’s no rush” Mrs Presley widow of the late singer Elvis Presley said in the Dec 12 issue of US magazine She said she told Lisa Marie who married musician Daniel Keough 24 in October “It would be great to wait Why don’t you wait a while?” Mrs Presley 43 met Elvis when she was 14 but didn't marry him until she was 21 They divorced in 1973 and he died in 1977 Lisa Marie heir to her father’s $50 million estate is expecting a child in the spring Mrs Presley portrayed Jenna Wade for five years on the television show “Dallas” leaving last season to take a part in a comedy film “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!” to people and say ‘This is a Silly ” String raid’ The council banned the sale and use of Silly String last wdek Silly String became a problem at this year’s Labor Day parade when vendors sold it to young spectators "Every kid had a can of the stuff” Barry said They sprayed passing cars pedestrians fire trucks and anything else they could think of he said "The Department of Public Works had a horrendous time cleaning it CALVIN AND HOBBES by Bill Watterson SO IT’S WHHTSTHIS?! flhWTeiN fkanJryUchail My LOCBERt fokw&ihtdt dMa&y tjj- - CL-- hou- up” he said Violators of the ban face a fine as high as $200 Many Marlboro stores stopped selling Silly String after Halloween "I have to wrestle with my conscience every time I sell it” said one vendor who asked not to be identified “It's horrible” BEETLE BAILEY by Mort Walker Bridge is very easy By B JAY and STEVE BECKER Kr j t ci'u't s South dealer North South vulnerable NORTH A K ti V At 5 2 O Q s3 A K ) 7 EAST A 974 WEST Ay) — 10 8 3 V V 0 A K 0 2 Si ti Ohl 10 6 5 2 A 9643 10 8 5 SOUTH A A C? y 743 v A K A A y2 The bidding South West Pass v' 1 b 2-- 5 J 7 North East 3 Pass 3 Opening lead — queen of spades Every competent declarer has a good working know ledge of the standard safety plays Many of these are so well known and occur so regularly that the experienced player has no difficulty whatsoever recognizing and executing them The trouble arises when one of the rarer representatives of the species crops up In these cases it to miss the proper play Take this deal where South was in six hearts and West led the queen of spades Declarer won with the ace and led the queen of hearts When West showed out the contract was doomed Regardless of how South continued East had to get two trump tricks There is no question that South was very unlucky to find East with all four trumps — a 5 percent possibility If the trumps had divided 2 or 1 or if West had held all four trumps declarer would have gotten home safely Nev ertheless there was a way for divisions There is only one way to guarantee losing no more than one trump trick South must win the opening spade lead in dummy and lead a low heart toward his hand planning to put up the jack if East plays low (or shows out) In the actual case East cannot make more than one trump trick and the same would be true if 3-- South to protect against four trumps in either opponent’s hand From the outset declarer should adopt the view that the slam can be defeated only if he loses two trump tricks This can happen only if one of the opponents has all four missing hearts so all of South's energies should be channeled in that direction While the lead of the queen of hearts guards against four trumps in the West hand it loses if East has them Nor will a low heart towards dummy at trick two protect against all possible heart TUMBLEWEEDS by Tom K Ryan i go id Mi etenmLfteWKp t wrsx (vim® V m ETERNAL FLAME Qfl QN QB Q KB KN KR K BLACK MATES IN 2 Hint: Lead with the queen ntdu tlxO IN-- U I Z J0 Picul 9U-I N ’S' OVER IVTT - LETS NOT BE SORT OF A VULGAR NECKTIE FOR YOUR JUST JEALOUS BUTT FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE by Lynn Johnston Police serious about Silly String ban MARLBORO Mass (AP) — Police say they will enforce the law no matter how sticky the problem “He isn’t putting on 3 YOU'RE |