Show SCOTT’S WALTER Personality Parade Want the facts? Opinion? Truth? Write Welter Scott Bon 5573 Beverly Hills Calrt 90210 or phon ! Full 12131 name will be used unless otherwise requested Volume of mail makes personal replies impossible who attended Stanford QA girlfriendwithof mine the actress Sigourney Weaver ! claims that her real name is Susan Weaver and that she is 6 feet 6 inches tall Is that true? I would also like to know her age and marital status Most with important the gorillas she was photographed in that marvelous motion picture “ Gorillas in the Mist" — were they real or fake? And lastly does Sigourney Weaver stand any chance of winning an Oscar for her brave and brilliant performance in "Gorillas"? — Starr T Walnut Creek Calif I o A Sigourney Weaver originally named Susan Weaver is 39 years old and married to stage director Jim Simpson The actress gives her height as “a sliver under 6 feet” “Gorillas in the Mist” in which Weaver plays the role of the late primates expert Dian Fossey was photographed on location Robin Givens and Mike Tyson: Marital mishaps made news Ql see in the newspapers that Mike Tyson the heavyweight champion is sick from manic depression — which they say is a “sexually transmitted disease” Who did Mike catch itfrom? Does ” Grant Fort Bragg NC anyone know? — in Rwanda Africa with real gorillas In a few scenes however a baby chimp was “made up” as a baby gorilla and some fake gorillas were used in two A Manic depression is a mental disorder in which the patient suffers from alternating forms of mania such as elation excessive talkativeness and a state of mental depression characterized by worry agitation and a foreboding of impending doom It is not sexually transmitted and at this writing there is no authoritative diagnosis which holds Tyson to be a sufferer of that particular mental ailment QWhat A scenes involving poachers Sigourney Weaver stands an excellent chance of winning an Academy Award for her work in the film With proper promotion and publicity she will probably be an odds-o- n favorite to do so “Big-Boy- is the name Bjorn Borg — the retired Swedish tennis star son by an who has a he used to live with — has a new sweetheart Could she just happen to be Gabriela Sabatini the Argentine tennis ace? — Willa Simmons Boulder Colo Q ss No Borg’s new heartthrob is Loredana Bert6 an Italian pop singer who resembles Sabatini ask how George Bush selected QMany voters Quayle as his running mate Don’t they know thatBushand Quayle are fraternity brothers that both were members of Delta Kappa Epsilon in college — Bush at Yale and Quayle atDePauw? Are there any other members of Congress who are "Dekes”? — Phil Young Durham A Reps Don Edwards (D Livingston (R La) are are Sens John Chafee (R (R Alaska) of the Los Angeles law firm John F Kennedy Jr worked as an ” intern this summer? Was personally d embarrassed for having been by “People” magazine as "The Sexiest Man Alive 1988”? —Debbie Johnson Mich- igan City Ind “John-John- NC Calif) and Bob “Dekes” So too RI) and Ted Stevens cover-blurbe- singer QWhat is rock Michael’s A John F Kennedy Jr 27 who labored forManatt Phelps Roth-enbe- NOVEMBER 13 1988 Address editorial contributions to: Articles Parade 750 Third Ave New York NY 10017 Although reasonable care will be taken Parade is not responsible for unsolicited material A Brown A good-natured- ly THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE inform me who finances the QCan you please Civil Liberties Union? —John rg Tunney & Phillips has learned over the years to recognize a circulationbuilding gimmick when he sees one and to take it in stride PARADE Sigourney Weaver and furry friend on location in Africa real name and nationality? Is he related to Michael Dukakis as I’ve heard? — DD Laurel Md PUBLISHER George Michael is a British citizen The son of London restaurateur Jack Panayiotou he is not related in any way to Gov Michael Dukakis Chula Vista Calif Contributions from the public are the major source of ACLU funds Cario Vittorio! EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR Larry Smith SCNIOR EDITORS Sun Bnowtky Walter Anderson DIRECTOR OF DESIGN Frank McNulty PRESIDENT Ira Yoffe EDITOR SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AT LARGE Uoyd Milton C WALTER SCOTT im Uebennan Shearer David Currier Herbert Kupferberg Caul McCarthy SENIOR COPY EDITOR Martin Tlmlns SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Eddie Adame Fnn Cerpentier ASSOCIATE EDITOR Bonn! 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