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...only does he have a socko cameo role in The Freshman -- he sings, among other odd offerings, Tequila and Bob Dylan's Maggie's Farm -- but he will be in Atlantic City this Saturday (after 10 years in exile) to croon former Miss Americas down the runway. There he goes again...
Christie Trexel, 26, who sells Cameo lingerie at home parties, was at a weekend sales convention in Dallas when she got word to hurry home to Cherokee, Iowa. Last Tuesday she and her husband Donald, 39, called their five-year-old son Joe in Omaha to tell him that he and his year-old brother Phillip would have to prolong a visit with their grandmother. The next day Christie and Donald flew to Wilmington, N.C., with an Army reserve unit called to active port-security duty, leaving family and friends to harvest the corn and soybeans from their 200-acre...
...billionaire Adnan Khashoggi. The now bankrupt Saudi Arabian arms dealer stands accused of conspiring with the Marcoses to conceal their illicit spending by backdating documents to make it appear that he, not the Marcoses, had bought four Manhattan skyscrapers valued at about $400 million. Actress Bo Derek played a cameo role, visiting her friend Khashoggi in the courtroom...
...indistinguishable from those of the Shang period, 2,100 years earlier. Roman sculptors in the 2nd century A.D. made versions of 5th century B.C. Greek prototypes, and from then on, there would be an immense industry in the copying, overrestoration and outright forgery of everything antique -- marbles, bronzes, pots, cameo gems, goldwork...
There are few second acts in American politics. Even in the anything-can- happen state, Mecham may be making only a cameo appearance. A Phoenix radio station ran a Mecham joke contest. One finalist: "What's a pickaninny?" "That's how Arizona elects a Governor...