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Handmade kuld PLATTER ff 20 Tribune Following is a partial schedule of upcoming movies on video Release dates and suggested retail prices for VHS cassettes are sutiect to Ounce full-tim- e f4)1) 4:04) -- SniCE 1965 - MALIBU r- kill" up to m y day-to-da- ---- 10SINCE 1953 1!13 tinacy AL13 Hand-Painte- three-bedroo- 1- 4 -- friend It's the last time that North and Russell mill have a chance to visit for a while In March North married a woman who lives in Lake Butler Fla near Jacksonville and on Tuesday he packs up the car to move there - into a lakefront home they recently purchased It is his third marriage For a man who has lived an ident:ty crisis the move out of the San Fernando Valley represents a chance to begin again North understands that it won't be easy His new wife Cindy has three children from a previous marriage Two of them are grown but with the third North will get his first crack at fatherhood His own father left home when he was 4 "I was always told to watch out for women because they'll just use me to get them pregnant and then take my money" North recalled "I also assumed I'd just be a lousy father But I think I'm ready to handle it now" The break from Los Angeles and his past is more than merely symbolic North understood that in order to "put this 'Dennis the Menace' thing behind me at last" he had to leave the area that kept his heart and soul under lock and key cro -- SANDWICH r reminiscing with her lifelong I - 73 4 Today she's treating North's bursAis with ultrasound therapy And Chica They have resided there since North's time on "Dennis the Menace" between 1959 and '63 durirg v hich he aged from 7 to 11 It should have been a joyful Line for a talented kid who had won the role from more than 200 other boys who auditioned Instead it was a nightmare Since his mother Dorothy had a job and was unavailable during the day North's 110W deceased aunt and uncle were assigned as his adult caretakers on the set (North declined to give their names out of deference to his surviving mom) The performance pressure his aunt constantly applied played II - — S y This is the same Jeannie Russell ho played the role of Dennis" playmate Margaret on the show BiaticbusSerP IILU mdP116°nsoa1 - ' I |