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ALL EDITIONS IIIISILJIRIE B6 The Arizona Republic MONDAY, MAY 30, 1988 Short Takes or the 20th-anniversary edition of Edward Abbey's classic 'Desert this team of Arizona artists hiked into the wilderness world of the book and worked all Anywhere he wants Shamu, the three-ton male killer whale that is the main attraction of the new Sea World in San Antonio, Texas, showed his trainers who was boss Saturday. Halfway through a lap around his 7 million-gallon tank, he stopped and stared at the crowd through the glass tank. When trainers Laura Perkins and Mark McHugh instructed him to get on with the show, he ignored them, so they let him stop. "I'm not going to try to tell a killer whale what to do," McHugh said. "He can do what he wants to do.

We'll just sit it out and wait for him." After about seven minutes underwater, Shamu decided he was ready to play again. He gave his trainers a signal that he was ready to proceed and went on with the 30-minute act. Wedding bells Harry Reasoner of CBS' 60 Minutes married New York health insurance executive Lois Harriet Weber on Saturday in a private ceremony at the United Church of Christ in Reasoner's hometown of Humboldt, Iowa. Approximately 30 people, most of them relatives, attended the 25-minute ceremony and the reception that followed. Speaking to reporters before the ceremony, Reasoner said: "Growing up in Humboldt gave me a built-in defense against critics who accuse major media organizations of having an East Coast liberal bias." Harry Reasoner "I'm happy to be back, but I'm not sure when I'll be back again." Drawing from life Don't get Opus Mort Druckcr, the veteran caricaturist of Mad Magazine, was named cartoonist of the year by the National Cartoonists Society on Saturday in San Francisco.

Drucker, enjoying the success of his Ollie North and Ronald Reagan coloring books, also won the special features award at the annual awards ceremony. Chuck Jones, creator of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, won his second Reuben, as the awards are known, as best animator. Another two-time winner was Jim Borgman, a political cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Borgman was named best editorial cartoonist. Jim Ungcr won the best syndicated panel for Herman, and Will Eisner won best comic-book artist for The Spirit.

The best story-strip prize went to John Cullen Murphy, who draws the Prince Valiant comic strip. Art Sansom won the humor strip award with The Born Loser, which appears in more than 1,000 newspapers. The best advertising illustrator award went to British cartoonist Ronald Searle, while Arnold Roth, whose work appears in Esquire, was named best illustrator. Charles Saxon of The New Yorker was selected as best gag cartoonist. Tark work' renews illustrator, designer tions of trees and wildlife, a park ranger wrote the accompanying descriptions and Thickstun designed the package.

"The Park Service people were real good to work with," Thickstun says. "Besides that, Lawrence loved all the things he got to draw. It was a whole lot more interesting than drawing model homes. And we learned about a lot of things." After two years in Denver, they moved to California, where they illustrated and designed guides for Sequoia National Park, Crater Lake (Oregon) National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park and Point Reyes National Seashore. Ormsby would sketch on-site or work from photographs, and he and Thickstun were able to market prints of selected illustrations.

For Point Reyes, they created prints of whales and puffins that sold for up to $100 each. The "park work," as Thickstun and Ormsby call it, was creative but not lucrative. They supported themselves with commercial contracts so they could afford to break even on their work for the Park Service. It is a practice they continue today. "Commercial work usually pays us too much money for something that's not fun to do," Ormsby says.

"Then there's the other stuff that doesn't pay you enough for something that's real rewarding. I guess that's not so unusual, when it's fun, you don't get paid for it." "The balance is really healthy," Thickstun adds. "It's nice to have the commercial See ARTISTS, page B8 get your blacks and your darks. You can do real nice things on stone." Ormsby's snake now is on the title page of a 20th-anniversary edition of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, released in May by the University of Arizona Press. The book, designed by Thickstun, contains 18 illustrations by Ormsby, taken from preliminary sketches made during trips last year to the canyonlands of southeastern Utah (the inspiration for much of Desert Solitaire).

"We backpacked in to these places," Thickstun says. "Instead of supplies, we carried notebooks, chairs and water for water coloring. We kept the book with us and referred to it as we went along, to figure out the images that needed to be drawn. "Lawrence did two drawings a day. Each one took about three hours.

After 10 days of that, we were ready to come home and take some long showers." Ormsby, 40, and Thickstun, 35, have worked together as illustrator and designer for more than 10 years. They met in Phoenix, where both were doing commercial work, and moved to Colorado and California for several years before they returned to Arizona and set up their studio in Tumacacori. In Denver, they added a new dimension to their free-lance careers when one of their clients suggested that they look for work with the National Park Service. Their first Park Service job was to design and illustrate trail guides for the Great Smoky Mountains. Ormsby made illustra "We backpacked in to these places.

Instead of supplies, we carried notebooks, chairs and water for water coloring." Carole Thickstun '7 i By Anne Stephenson Special for The Arizona Republic On a shelf in Lawrence Ormsby's studio in Tumacacori sits a thick slab of limestone that has been flattened on both sides, then ground and polished and grained. It is a lithographic stone. On it, drawn in heavy grease pencil, is the figure of a rattlesnake, curled and rising from the ground to glare at some threat that it alone can see. The drawing is detailed and fine, flawed only by a crack that slices across the snake's body the stone broke on the press. The drawing, for reproduction purposes, is ruined.

Lawrence Ormsby and his partner, Carole Thickstun, look at the snake with remarkable good humor. They were able to make a single print from the stone before they lost it. There was a bump on the press and, unlike the larger stones they had been using, this one snapped, tearing the snake in half. It had taken Ormsby two days to draw it, to capture the detail of its skin and the menace in its eyes. "Stone is a really nice medium to work with," he says quietly.

"There's no other way to get this texture. A pencil drawing on paper doesn't do it quite like this, doesn't Turning 85 painlessly Comedian Bob Hope celebrated his 85th birthday Sunday by traveling to Louisville, for the, Foster Brooks Celebrity Golf Tournament. Hope said he played nine holes of golf Saturday to prepare. When asked how well he played, he joked: "I don't want to talk about it. I'm trying to shoot my age.

I think I'll make it if I live long enough." A.fter the Louisville appearance, Hope plans to rest and play more golf at Fort Walton Beach, for a few days. Then he will head for Nashville, to serve as captain for Bob Hope Asked how it feels to be 85, he quipped, "I'm not feeling a thing." one of the teams in the Barbara Mandrell Celebrity Softball Game. Later in his trip, he will make his annual appearance at another Southern event, a benefit golf tournament honoring blind golfer Charlie Boswcll. Our daily quote A Boulder (Colo.) Philharmonic Orchestra concert that would have put the conductor's baton in the hands of some Denver Broncos stars was canceled because only 40 advance tickets were sold. The dismal showing baffled general manager Jim Hanifin, who said: "I am at a total loss to understand where we messed up.

If Steve' Watson can't draw 15,000 women, there's something wrong." Compiled by Catherine Coggins of The Arizona Republic from reports by The Associated Press and United Press International. Dolby, friends serve a funkadelic menu Critics used to knock Thomas Dolby for his prim, Icy presence; now they might make fun of his loose, goofy warmth. At his Chuy's concert, he was less the nutty professor than a hippie schoolboy. The Far SideBy Gary Larson If Ms $'k w'fi'v til -J I By Rob Kendt Special for The Arizona Republic Hunger is the best sauce. Proof positive: Sound delays and extenuating factors kept the Friday night crowd at Chuy's hungry until the wee minutes of Saturday morning, when Thomas Dolby and his Lost Toy People finally took the stage.

With expectations and the drink tally thus heightened, the crowd relished every moment in close quarters with the British keyboardist. And he seemed to as well. Critics used to knock him for his prim, icy presence in concert; now they might make fun of his loose, goofy warmth and ear-to-ear grin. Dressed like a beatnik flasher, in a beret and an overcoat, with a face that eerily resembled that of character actor S.Z. Sakall (minus the extra chins), Dolby was less the nutty professor than a hippie schoolboy Friday.

The Lost Toy People, a motley crew of six L.A. musicians Dolby enlisted for his new album and tour, matched the weird party spirit of the evening. Ranging from youngish drummer David Owens to camp-sexy backing vocalist Laura Creamer, the band executed playful Fronting the stage with a strap-on MUSIC REVIEW Thomas Dolby and the Lost Toy People With The Prime Movers, Chuy's, Friday. keyboard, Dolby did some silly-nilly acrobatics with bassist Terry Jackson, who, with Owens, kept the beat thumping. The 80-minute set didn't really start to cook, though, until Dolby hauled out the George Clinton-penned Hot Sauce.

The ensemble sustained a funkadelic good time for five-odd songs, ending up with Dolby's initial radio hit, She Blinded Me With Science. Clearly, something amazing is afoot when a punchy club crowd shouts "Science!" on cue. And lest anyone be mistaken about the lighter side of Dolby, during the incisive misogyny of Airhead, he and the band went to great lengths to show that "The man's tongue is in his cheek." Dolby even obliged with a physical demonstration. The music mix got a bit belabored along with the humor. The band's too many cooks made soup of Dolby's earlier, more delicate pop.

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