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...Clara Peller has stopped demanding "Where's the beef?" Five years after his first commercial, Ernest has become a national phenomenon, appearing in nearly 3,000 television ads, almost all of them for local sponsors in 100 TV markets. Last week, on behalf of a soft drink and a bed company, he began assaulting viewers in New York City, who don't yet know what has hit them. The man behind the big mouth, Kentucky-born Actor Jim Varney, 36, attributes Ernest's popularity to his unabashed intrusiveness: "He thinks he's really being helpful, giving wonderful advice when...
...been lost, but I've got my normal thinking back," and he has been "fending very well in a wheelchair." Able to drive a special car, Kassulke, 44, works for Broken Wing, a Christian outreach to the handicapped. He teaches the various transferring techniques, such as from wheelchair to bed. "And did you know I married my nurse?" As a matter of fact, they have a son who is six. "When you marry your nurse," he says, "life is complete." In and out of a coma for weeks after the crash, Kassulke guesses he borrowed on something learned in football...
...Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), which Paul Mazursky has revised in the process of remaking, possibly with half an eye on My Man Godfrey, that 1936 Hollywood parable of regeneration among the pampered class. This time the bum, who is not only rescued from suicide but given bed and board by the guilt-ridden paterfamilias, is played by Nick Nolte, and he makes a good job of it, especially if one's memories of shaggy Michel Simon in the original have been sufficiently dimmed by the passage of time...
...other benefits, the acquisition will sharply increase the number of domestic flights that feed passengers to TWA's overseas routes. Icahn is also thinking about buying a hotel chain and an auto-rental company to combine with TWA. That would enable customers to reserve a plane seat, car and bed with one phone call. Says Icahn: "I've still got a nose for deals, and I intend to make some." --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York
...Hebrew society. It would seem that the Judeo-Christian standard would recognize any lending of one's sexual features (womb, semen or egg) to another person who was not one's lawful spouse--whether for pleasure or money--as adultery. It matters not whether this act takes place in bed or in a laboratory. As to the legality of surrogate parenting, the law will keep floundering as long as it operates without a moral basis, and family life in our post-Christian society will continue to deteriorate. (The Rev.) Richard C. Tumilty St. Helena, Calif. Space Funerals...