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He demonstrated numerous updos to a large group of salon stylists and talked shoD. "The majority of people I deal with are strong women," says Dal- ron, wno nas dressed tne tresses of many celebrities, including actresses Jane Sevmour and Tori Spelling and models Niki Taylor ana unaa Among his many royal tidbits: The word in the fashion business is that his friend Tnmfls Star. A zewski of London has been tapped "A rt 'irrtmjtn pna MNlWSMtTO married Prince Charles. "The public believed in a fairy-tale marriage, and she did, too." Dalton, who now lives in Los Angeles, says the princess shared with him that her marriage was crumbling years before her 1996 divorce. He witnessed her depression but kept Diana's confidences to himself.

Dalton left London to work in New York City in 1991. "I really didnt want to be involved with being chased and hounded," says Dalton, which became worse when word of the divorce became public. When Dalton traveled with Diana on tour, he often styled her hair three times a day. The hairdos he gave her made headlines from Australia to Thailand. "Her hair was sort of a major fashion statement, and everyone wanted to know about her hair," says Dalton.

In one of his favorite designs, he used Queen Mary's (Queen Elizabeth H's grandmother) emerald necklace as a headband across her forehead at one of Diana's engagements in Melbourne, Australia, in 1988. "That was sensational worldwide," Dalton says. "I thought the prince was going to have a seizure" for fear the gem would tall off Confidante of princess visits North Canton salon By Kerry Clawson Htwim Journal sUiff imler Richard Dalton traveled the world with Princess Diana, styling her hair on boats, trains, planes and helicopters. The Scottish-bom Dalton, now artistic director of John Paul Mitchell Systems, served nine years as the princess's personal hairstylist. He styled her hair nearly every day from 1982 to 1991, and was even on call for weekend events.

"She was just such an incredible persoa She was very loving and had a wonderful sense of humor," Dalton says. As often happens with women, Princess Diana's hairstylist was her closest confidante. Dalton, who visited the Hair Shoppe Spa of North Canton yesterday for a hair demonstration, saw Princess Diana evolve from a shy young bride to an independent woman with her own mission for helping charitable causes. "She was totally thrown into a job that she knew nothing about," says Dalton, who began styling the princess's hair soon after she On Special: 'Untce a Urip to l(te i u. i oinp Wo Snfir aBM in 8 oz.

Sirloin Ci; Mediterranean Food and Pastries We Also Feature: Steaks, Italian, Seafood, Fresh Juices, Daily Specials Open for Lunch and Dinner to design the bridal gown for Sophie Rhys-Jones, who will marry Prince Edward in June. Dalton recently did the hair design for Star-zewski's spring shows in New York and London. He also has done hairstyiing for numerous 7th on Sixth fashion shows in New York, including those for Joan Vass, Nicole Miller and Bill Blass. Hair is such an important part of Dalton's life, even his dog Angus, a West Highland White Terrier, has his own hairdresser at a doggy beauty parlor in Venice Beach, Calif. "He's too cute for his own good.

I just called to see if he's all right, and he's eating his breakfast," he says. MIKE CAKDEW, Beacon Journal Richard Dalton styles Georgene Yoder at Hair Shoppe and Spa. In a testimony to Diana's sensitivity, he says she never wanted her new hairstyles to detract from her charitable events. So Dalton cut her hair a quarter-inch every other day before a big event to deter journalists from dwelling on a dramatically shortened coiffure rather than the event "Whatever the charity or occasion she was attending, that got full attention," he says. Yesterday, Dalton was the guest of Hair Shoppe owner Karen am ESS 2.00 Off wthisAd I Cafe and Restaurant Dow Not to 1221 S.

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Murohv and Lawrenre are sn Details Movie: Life Stars: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, Ned Beatty, Bernie Mac, Rick James, Miguel A. Nunez Clarence Williams III, Bokeem Woodbine Director Ted Demme Studio: Universal Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Theaters: Tinseltown USA, Independence 10, West Market Plaza 7, Carnation Cinema, Lake Cinemas 8, Hickory Ridge, Canton Centre, Interstate Park Cinema 18, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, University Plaza, Wooster Movies 10, Cinemark 15 Rating: (strong language and a shooting) Monday-12 lb.Top Sirloin Steak $2.99 Wings Night from 4pm-9pm Thursday-Karaoke 9 PM-Close Friday-All You Can Eat Beer Battered Fish. $4.99 Saturday- Crab Legs Special $9.99 Odd Well-acted film chooses to ignore bigger issues Continued from Page El film that almost seems nostalgic about what must have been a brutal existence. When was the last time a movie made prison seem almost pleasant? Life opens in 1932 in a Harlem nightclub, with a chance encounter between a bank teller named Claude (Lawrence) and a pickpocket named Ray (Murphy). They both find themselves in big trouble with Spanky, the club owner (Rick James), who is in the process of drowning Claude when Ray saves both their lives by talking them into a job: They'll drive a truck to Mississippi and pick up a load of moonshine.

The trip takes them into Jim Crow land, where Claude is outspoken and Ray more cautious in a segregated diner that serves "white-only pie." Then they find the moonshiner, load the truck, and allow themselves to get distracted by a local sin city, where Ray loses all his money to a cheat (Clarence Williams III) and Claude goes upstairs with a good-time girl The cheat is found dead, Claude and Ray are framed by the sheriff who actually killed him, and given life in prison. The early scenes move well (although why was it necessary to send them all the way to Mississippi for moonshine, when New York was awash in bootleg booze during The heart of the movie, however, takes place in prison, where after an early scene of hard physical labor, life settles down into baseball games, talent shows and even, at one point, a barbecue. Bokeem Woodbine plays Can't Get Right, a retarded prisoner who hits a homer every time at the plate, and Ray and Claude become his managers, hoping to get a free ride out of prison when he's recruited by the Negro Leagues. But it doesn't work that way, and life goes on, decade after decade, while the real world is only hearsay. Demme has two nice touches for showing the passage of time: Prison inmates are shown simply fading from the screen, and in the early 1970s Claude gets to drive the warden (Ned Beatty) into nearby Greenville, where he sees hippie fashions and his first Afro.

Meanwhile, Rick Baker's 'Alb. $1.00 ciiakcrciled: anytime CUHGER 7A TfiJ anytime persuasive in the movie that maybe audiences will be carried along. Their characters are likable, their performances are touching, they age well, they survive. And their lives consist of episodes and anecdotes that make good stories as when the white superintendent's daughter has a black baby, and the super holds the kid up next to every convict's face, looking for the father. That's a comic scene in the movie; real life might have been different But life flows along and we get in the mood, and by the end we're happy to see the two old-timers enjoying their retirement After all, they've earned it STEAX 4-IOTV'S -15 Beers On Top.

Certain Specials Dine-In Only makeup gradually and convincingly ages the two men, who do a slrillful job of aging their voices and manners. All of this time, of course, they dream of escaping. And they maintain the fiction that they don't get along, although in fact they've grown close over the years (comparisons with The Shawshank Redemption are inevitable). Ray remains the realist and compromiser, and Claude remains more hotheaded; the warden likes imm i MMMMMMMMMMMW aaaataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaVasam. The business cards covering the walls of the Warsaw are almost all for California enterprises, such as the Hollywood Studio Gallery, an "optician to the stars" and the show's set decorator, Ed Zfz jrm ni Tte OCNERAL CINf MA 2272 S.

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$1,350 JACKPOT $400 X-Gam Carey Cleveland replicated on the set of TV sitcom Continued from Page El special (sitcom) episode concerning the Browns coming back to Cleveland. We're going to film Gn Cleveland) in August, right before the first game in the new stadium. But we're just getting our stuff together now. I don't know where we're going to stay. I'm sure all the hotels are gone.

We'll probably have to stay in trailers or something." Told that someone would make room for him, Carey looked pained. "Yeah," he said, "but I don't want to bump anybody out" While Carey enjoys many of the perks of stardom, he clings to a regular-guy, Northeast Ohio sensibility that affects how the show is done. Working days can run more than 12 hours. Activity may stop, as it did Wednesday, so a scene can be rewritten and then re-rewritten. But even people who are low in the line of authority, such as the extras, tell tale after tale of Carey picking up tabs, helping people out, making his show a decent place to work.

"Drew's one of the -nicest people I've ever met," saffl Bob Col lier, a former Clevelander who's been an extra on Carey's show for two seasons. Another extra, Akron model Giana Lamonica, said working on the show has been "great They've given me a lot of help." For the 100th episode, the show invited people from Northeast Ohio to appear as background extras. Among them: news anchor Ted Henry; radio personalities John Lanigan, Brian Fowler, Joe Cronauer and Larry Morrow; actor John Henton; TV personalities Ron "The Ghoul" Sweed and Marly "Superhost" Sullivan; Carey's older brothers Neal and Roger, Brecksville attorney Robert Tu-ma and his son, and fellow attorney, Brian, and several print reporters, including me. Henton, one of the stars of ABC sitcom The Hughleys, exulted at being among people he'd seen on TV as a kid. Tm sitting between Superhost and The Ghoul," Henton declared early in the day.

Tm getting my camera." "What self-respecting Clevelander wouldn't want to do this?" said Henton, who even brought his "Browns 99" jersey to wear in one scene. "I saw who was coming and said, yeah, I'm there "All of us Clevelanders, we stick together," he said. "I went to the premiere of Eddie Murphy's movie, Life, and there was myself, Steve Harvey, Arsenio Hall, Halle Berry, Kym Whitley everybody that came out of Not that everyone wants to be 1 Concessions Security TV Monitors closely connected to the Carey show. Roger Carey, an engineer for a software company, recalled Drew calling him one day to ask if it was OK to call a character playing the TV Drew's brother Roger. "Better not," said Roger, who shies away a bit from his brother's spotlight It proved a good thing, since Drew had not mentioned that the TV brother, finally named Steve, was also a transvestite.

Still, Stage 17 holds countless little reminders of Northeast Ohio, some not even evident to viewers at home. While Carey's TV house wasn't set up on Wednesday, the Warsaw Tavern was, and it was covered with Ohio memorabilia: sports team pennants, a Cleveland business license behind the bar, frames holding Ohio postcard sets (one an aerial view of Akron), a bottle of "Cleveland Style Tomato Ketchup," a 1979 Cleveland calendar, 1994 Cleveland telephone book and a metal plaque commemorating "Wit Iron Bridge Co. Builders Canton 0. 1895." There's more of the same in Carey's office, with its Cleveland datebook, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame paperweight, "Cleveland Rocks" candy, Max Erma's mug serving as a pencil-holder, a "Save Our Browns!" advertisement on a partition, even the Cleveland parade permit for the fictional Winfred-Louder department store's Thanksgiving Parade. But this is also Hollywood, what yoisee sometimes illusory.

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