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...real campaign begin. With Davis effectively done for, this campaign changes from one about the recall to a more standard campaign between Democrats and Republicans. That doesn?t mean the circus has left town. Only $3,500 and 65 signatures keep anyone who wants to run from being on the ballot, and Larry Flynt, Gary Coleman and pinup Angelyne are all in the race, along with a cigarette retailer from Napa county, a bounty hunter from Sacramento and a satellite project manager from Long Beach named Michael Jackson. As Stan Oftelie, executive director of the Orange County Business Council, told...
...Senator Dianne Feinstein, the state?s most popular pol, announced she would not be jumping into the race. Feinstein, who survived a recall attempt in 1983 when she was Mayor of San Francisco, called the Davis recall a destructive carnival. But while she refused to join the circus, she didn?t expressly call on all Democrats to unite behind Davis, and she had some pretty harsh words for the Governor and his hard-hitting style...
...surprising that London's hottest musical is a send-up of America's looniest talk show. Of course, its creators clearly love their trash TV, even as they skewer it. The opera skillfully parodies the TV show's demented-circus atmosphere, and star Michael Brandon does a bang-on impression of Springer's smarmy solicitousness ("Chuckie, I sense you're not too happy about Shawntelle's pole-dancing dreams"). Even the backstage scenes ring true, with Springer trotting out knee-jerk defenses to his critics: "I don't do conflict resolution." At times the musical even makes you care...
...brought anarchy and poverty to the Pacific nation. Islanders lined the streets to welcome the peacekeepers, shown above, whose first task was to disarm the militant gangs responsible for much of the fighting. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Next: Straight Bananas Spectators at a performance of the Moscow State Circus in the English town of Folkestone were bemused by the unfamiliar sight of acrobats wearing sequinned leotards ... and hard hats. The circus' insurers said that because of new E.U. regulations governing workers employed at heights "greater than the average step ladder," the performers' cover would be withdrawn if they failed...
Leisure travelers will find more local flavor on the island's south shore, where rooms range from $150 to $370 a night. The 16-unit Hacienda Tamarindo (787-741-8525) offers an elevated view of the ocean and homey rooms decorated with old circus posters and other curiosities. Its next-door neighbor, the Inn on the Blue Horizon (787-741-3318), has one-room cottages with country-style wooden furniture, just steps from the sea. And the celebrated, open-air architecture of the Hix Island House hixislandhouse.com) farther inland, lets you feel as if you're camping but with...