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: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:23:03 EST Message-ID: \SE E;LIFE;MERRIE-GO-ROUND \BY Merrie Morris \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES PASS THE PIROGI: There has been a big run on Russian food this week, all because of "Stalin." The biopic with Robert Duval in the title role Saturday on HBO, became the first American film ever premiered in the Russian Embassy's Tunlaw Road compound when it was shown there Tuesday night. In the audience: Rep. Les Aspin, Wisconsin Democrat, said to be on the short list for secretary of defense, and current White House regular C. Boyden Gray. And they did it all again last night at the Kennedy Center. After the American Film Institute crowd watched the epic, they headed upstairs to the Rooftop Terrace for the Stoli bar. WHAT, ME WORRY?: Superman died yesterday, and Alfred E. Neuman better start looking over his shoulder. DC Comics, which killed off Superman to raise flagging sales, took control of the satirical mag Tuesday. Both are properties of Time Warner, but Mad had been managed by publisher William Gaines from its founding in 1951 until his death in June. * Too bad no one had the sense to shut up Hart Fisher earlier. The Illinois publisher was selling a comic book about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer until Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Robert J. Miech ordered him to stop on Monday. Mr. Fisher, 23 says he expects the ruling to be reversed because everything in his book was based on public records. He says about 11,000 copies have been sold at $2.75 a pop. DOUSE MY FIRE: Today is the Great American Smokeout and do we like the advice the American Cancer Society is giving. In TV ads, hunky, hairy Fabio, the guy adorning all the best romance-novel covers, purrs, "Give her a kiss instead of a cigarette."Hey, we'll light up just to have him put it out. ON THE MEND: Big Al Jirikowic has two months to get well. The Adams Morgan restaurateur, raconteur and cultural conceptualist had a pacemaker installed Tuesday at the Washington Hospital Center. As the creator of Chaos and Pandemonium bars and Chief Ike's Mambo Room, he has got to be up and about to welcome the Clinton crowd when they invade Adams Morgan, rumored to be their hangout neighborhood of choice. MY FUNNY VALENTINE: A month after discovering Woody Allen was having an affair with her daughter Soon Yi, Mia Farrow sent him a valentine consisting of a family photograph pierced with a steak knife through her heart. Steel skewers also were plunged into the hearts of each of the eight children gathered around her in the photo, reported New York Newsday yesterday. The card, a photo of which appeared in the newspaper, also contained a Farrow poem: "Once my heart was one and it was yours to keep. My child you used and pierced my heart a hundred times and deep." The diminutive director later told friends that Miss Farrow had threatened to kill him. She would call him in the middle of the night, screaming that he was "the devil" and should "burn in hell," Newsday reported. 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