Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.life From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:11:15 EST Message-ID: \SE E;LIFE;MERRIE-GO-ROUND \BY Merrie Morris \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES RIGHT ON TARGET: Novelist Nelson DeMille is in town today to promote his latest, "The General's Daughter" (Warner Books), which his publicist insists on linking to the Navy's clumsy probe of the Tailhook scandal. This new DeMille production, you see, is about an Army investigator assigned to the bizarre rape and murder of a military base commander's daughter, a captain who led a "kinky double life." How the military controls the power of information is an Important Theme (good enough for Paramount, which bought the film rights). The best-selling former Army lieutenant ("The Gold Coast," "Word of Honor") has seemed prescient before: In 1988, Mr. DeMille's "Charm School" postulated a top-secret school outside Moscow where U.S. fighter pilots shot down over Vietnam taught Soviet spies how to pass for Americans. The book hit the headlines over the summer, when Boris Yeltsin made unsubstantiated claims about American POWs held in Russia. FIGHT NIGHT: It was boys' night out at last night's Fight for Children, with no spouses invited. Organizers of the annual boxing smoker said sure, women were welcome, they just couldn't come with their husbands. And with all 1,700 seats sold out, few women were expected - except, of course, for the hostesses, one at each table. Boxing champs Joe Frazier and Jake LaMotta (whose story was made into the film "Raging Bull) were among the big names to attend. A champ of another sort entirely, Donald Trump, also was supposed to show. CITY SLICKER: A Hollywood-style barn is not necessarily the same as one in Aspen, Colo. County officials there have ordered Hollywood magnate Peter Guber, head of Sony Pictures, to tear down his two barns. According to their claims, the two buildings are log cabins complete with landscaping, bathrooms, heating, skylights, hardwood floors and fireplaces. Except for some hay and barrels of oats, no stalls, manure or agricultural accoutrements are in evidence. Officials are concerned because, aside from violating zoning codes, one of the buildings and a nearby road are in a prime elk-calving area. HE CAN COPE: The folks at the St. Francis Center, which counsels the grief-stricken, were impressed with how, during his presidential bid, Paul Tsongas talked openly about knowing he could lose his battle with cancer. So he was the guest speaker Wednesday night at a benefit for the center. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM