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PEOPLE IN THE news SMTH BRGVARQ 2A Saturday, September 18, 1999 MS SUN-SENTINEL, SOUTH FLORIDA Losing Mother's ashes: A big joke? Frank McCourt says he lost Angela's ashes his mother's remains, for which his Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir was named after forgetting them in a pub. He told 60 Minutes his mother died in America PLAQUE MAN HEPACSAPUNCH: Billy Mitchell, center, of Hollywood, billed as the world's best Pac-Man player, holds a plaque presented by Namco's CEO Masaya Nakamura during the 20th anniversary of Namco's best-played game at the Tokyo Game Show '99 in Makuhari, east of Tokyo. AP photoKatsumi Kasahara Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati, the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, N.C., and the Performing Arts Center of Greater Miami. One of his more extravagant projects was a concert" hall inside the Petronas Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The twin; tower center is the world's tallest structure.

ALMANAC It's the 261st day of the year; 104 days are left in 1999. On this date: In 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol building. In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slave owners to reclaim slaves who, had escaped to other states. In 1851, the first edition of The New York Times was published.

In 1 961 U.N. Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in Rhodesia. In 1970, rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at 27. Thought for today: "If you are patient in one moment of anger, I you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." Chinese proverb. Today's birthdays: Actor Jack Warden, 79; actor Robert Blake, singer Frankie Avalon, 59; rock musician Dee Dee Ramone, 47.

light of death. "The Irish have no respect for death. It's a big joke," he said with a laugh. Midler, Martin tickets on sale today Tickets for Bette Midler, playing at 8 p.m. on Oct.

15 at the National Car Rental Center in Sunrise, go on sale at noon today. Tickets for a second Ricky Martin date, 8 p.m. on Oct. 20 at Miami Arena, go on sale at 10 a.m. today.

Staffers at Coral Sky Amphitheatre west of West Palm Beach say plenty of $20 lawn seats remain for the concert at 7 tonight featuring the Goo Goo Dolls, Sugar Ray and Fastball. Call Ticketmaster for details. The Red Cross will be on hand to accept donations of canned goods for Hurricane Floyd relief efforts in the Bahamas. A Carnegie tribute to a renowned duo They came to New York to sing them and to praise them. At Thursday night's Carnegie Hall Celebrates Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Nathan Lane, Faith Prince, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Diane Schuur performed some of the famed songwriting duo's tunes.

Green's daughter, Amanda, and wife of 39 years, actress Phyllis Newman, who called herself "the chosen to design a 1 00 million arts district in Wisconsin's capital, Madison. Slated to be completed in 2004, the Madison arts district is being financed by a gift from businessman Jerry Frautschi. The gift is considered one of the biggest donations by an individual for an arts project in the United States. Pelli's credits also include the in 1981 and had wanted her ashes returned to her native Limerick, Ireland. His brother, Malachy McCourt, was going to make the trip.

"So I brought the ashes and met Malachy in a McCourt bar and we had a few and we left I assumed he had them and he assumed I had them. And we lost our mother," he told the CBS show, which airs on Sunday. "We had to retrace the roots of our drinking that night and we finally found them," McCourt said in New York, adding that they'd discovered the lost ashes just in time. "Somebody said, 'Something in a Yeah. 'Well I was about to throw this McCourt chalked the incident up to the Irish penchant for making Sun-Sentinel South Florida Customer Service SUBSCRIPTIONS North of Delray Beach 561-736-1777 1-595 north to Delray 954-421-1777 Sth.

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