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Pensacola News Journal Monday, September 28, 1992 2D Schwarzenegger's 'Action' valued at $62 million 15 HOLLYWOOD Arnold Schwarzenegger's "The Last Action Hero" is joining the gargantuan budget league. Inside word from the Columbia production, which is scheduled to kick off Oct. 26, has it that "Action" is starting with a whopping $62 million budget which is predicted to go higher. We re also told that word- MARILYN WANTED: NEWS TIPS Our reporters are researching several ideas for future stories in the News Journal. If you can help, give us a call.

HIV TESTING: Researching a story about testing for the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. Looking for people's views on the process. Confidentiality respected. Call Linda Zettter at 435-8608. vj SHARE YOUR GROCERY STORE PET PEEVES: Are you a grocery shopper from hell? Do you know one? Those people who eat their groceries while shopping, put products back in the wrong section, go through the express lane with 100 gazillton things, say in a whiny voice, "Can I get ahead of you? I only have two things!" If you have pet peeves about these pesky shoppers, Give Alice Crann a call at 435-8655.

CAMPAIGN COLLECTIBLES: We're looking for people who are into campaign collectibles. pins, buttons, banners, bumper stickers or any other election novelties from elections past. So If you've collected campaign souvenirs for years, call Alice Crann at 435-8655. I REMEMBER HARRY: President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton both have invoked the name of the the 33rd president, Harry Truman.

If you were alive and aware during Truman's era, we want to know what you think which candidate is more like "Give-'em-hell-Harry?" Call Dave Goodwin, 435-8530. COLUMBUS DAY: Is your group planning activities to celebrate the Quincentennial of Columbus? If your event is open to the public, we want to know. We need a description of the event, time, day, place, cost and a phone number for readers to call if they have questions. Call Dave Goodwin, 435-8530. meister William Goldman collected a cool $1 million for his recent BECK doctoring on the "Action" script, stint with the series that co-starred Lisa Hartman and Drew Barrymore has given him a deep respect for television work.

"They do five times the work each day that we do on movies." Schumacher says that "Malibu would have been renewed for midseason "except Aaron and CBS couldn't come to a license fee agreement. It was awkward for him. It's a very expensive show to produce (a reported $1.2 million per hour) and the network wanted to keep it on opposite Aaron's 'Melrose Place' which would have meant he would be competing against himself in a situation that would involve severe deficit financing." HELLO, AGAIN: Margot Kidder goes back before the cameras next month in Florida as the sole English-speaking star of a French comedy film, "La Florida." It's the first movie project for the actress best known as "Superman's" Lois Lane since her back injury during shooting of Nelvana's "Nancy Drew" series two years ago. "She's feeling good, and she's going to make a terrific comeback," says Kidder manager, Marion Rosenberg, of the actress who disclosed her bankruptcy earlier this month. Now Margot "wants the world to know she's fit and longing to be back to work." Rockwell wrote and directed, reveals they've got two more projects pending: a short film to shoot in December and a feature, "All Over," targeted for production next spring.

The "Flashdance" actress will be happy if their future collaborations are less stressful than "In the Soup" was. The vehicle, a labor of love for all concerned, was made for a shoestring sum of $800,000 and presented problems from Day One. In fact, they were in the soup with "In the Soup" the day before shooting was supposed to begin. "An acquaintance who was going to finance it got scared and pulled out," she says. The film team was able to proceed within two weeks, however, by scrambling to put together foreign financing and dipping into the Rockwells' and Jennifer's mother's pension plans.

MEANWHILE: Joel Schumacher, who directed and exec-produced "Malibu Road," is mulling over "some very interesting offers" from CBS and producer Aaron Spelling. Schumacher doesn't have to worry about finding big-screen assignments; he's wrapping up principal production on "Falling Down" with Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey and Tuesday Weld and in late November starts "Devil's Advocate" in New York with Brad Pitt. However, his which had already undergone retooling by pricey writers Shane Black and David Arnot. Goldman, the "Butch Cassidy" Oscar winner, was brought in to give more human dimension to the characters in the tale about a teen-age boy who jumps into a movie screen and joins his film hero on an adventure. DOWN THE 'ROAD': Now that negotiations to renew "2000 Malibu Road" have fallen through and the show is dead, it's back to togetherness professionally and personally for Jennifer Beats and her filmmaker husband, Alexandre Rockwell.

Jennifer, who stars in the upcoming "In the Soup" feature Interest-free loan to kids debate continues to roar contract bridge Dear Ann Landers: In a recent column, you told "Carl from Akron" that you would never charge a child of yours interest on a loan. Pray tell, why not? Most parents ANN LANDERS Erie, I'm about your age, Ann. We spoiled our kids, and now they are spoiling their kids worse. An interest-free loan was the beginning. San Bernardino: Interest-free loans give kids a false idea of what life is about.

There are 10 "children" over 25 years old on our block who are still living at home. Too much "help" can be crippling. Hollywood, We charged our 14-year-old son interest on his first loan of $150. He wanted to buy a motor for his go-cart He signed a contract and made a payment every Saturday. Years later, he worked 40 hours a week while attending college and law school and is now a successful attorney.

He thanked us for the way we raised him and said, "I'm going to raise my kids the same way." Syndicated columnist Ann Landers offers advice daily in the News Journal. Write to Ann Landers, Creator's Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Suite 700, Los Angeles, Calif. 90045. interest rate 1 percent lower than the bank would charge and 1 percent higher than they could have gotten from a bank certificate of deposit.

All his siblings had the same deal. In MY family, it was a different story. My parents gave a sizable interest-free loan to my sister to buy a house. When my brother and I asked for the same deal, we were refused. This caused a lot of animosity in the family and some bitterness toward our sister.

Munich, Germany: If Carl's kids can afford to buy a bigger home, they should be able to pay their father the going rate of interest on the loan. Wake up Ann! Schenectady, N.Y.: When we borrowed money to buy a home, we paid my mother-in-law interest. We learned later that her other children had also borrowed but did not pay interest. When I asked my mother-in-law about this, she said, "You offered. They didn't." We felt ripped off, and things haven't been the same since.

Dear I received a heavy response to this subject, which I've covered before. Almost nobody supported me. Read on for additional clobbering: From Newark: Time and again you've made the point, "What people get for nothing is rarely appreciated." How come you have abandoned that philosophy? I'm surprised and disappointed. Seattle: Borrowing from a parent saves the cost of loan fees, credit checks and appraisal fees. Why should we expect our parents to forgo interest on their hard-earned money so we can save a few more bucks? Enid, I don't know about Carl, but my mother has her extra money invested in certificates of deposit and collects interest.

If she withdraws from those CDs early, there's a penalty. Most people don't have a lot of extra cash sitting around. Hamilton, Ontario: Every time my husband and I borrowed money from his family we paid an South dealer. Neither side vulnerable. NORTH 4AJ9632 K873 62 5 WEST EAST 4Q105 84 1094 VA652 76 43 KQ632 A10984 SOUTH K7 QJ AKQJ1098 J7 The bidding: South West North Eust 3 NT Pass Pass Pass Opening lead three of clubs.

Bridge is not like tick-tack-toe, where there is always a clearly correct play and no room for argument. Bridge is a much more complicated game, and there is room for major differences of opinion in both the bidding and the play. Consider this deal from the Vanderbilt team championship. At the first table, sitting East-West, were two world-famous experts whose names are mercifully omitted defending against South's opening bid of three notrump. West led his fourth-best club, won by East with the ace, and East re- -turned the eight, also his original fourth-best club.

Declarer played the jack and West, after excruciating thought, concluded that South had -started with the J-10-9-7. He there- fore ducked the jack, hoping to score three more club tricks later on. Alas, this proved to be a serious miscalculation when declarer won all the remaining tricks. Afterward, West angrily contended that East should have returned the ten of clubs, -not the eight, but East was in no mood to discuss this debatable con- tention. At the second table, where the East-Wont pair were not ncurly no famous and, in fact, were not fa-mous at all the defense functioned much more effectively.

Hero too, South opened the bidding with three notrump. Again the opening lead was the three of clubs, and again the eight was returned by East But at this table, West did not find the defense to be either difficult or complicated. He won the jack with the queen, continued with the king, and played another club. So the contract quickly went down two, and West went on to the next deal without even bothering to look around for applause. feel that charging their children a modest rate of interest on a loan is a generous favor, which indeed it is.

Your statement encourages kids to get as much as they can for nothing. You also neglected to take into account that giving an interest-free loan deprives children of the opportunity to tap into their own ingenuity and leam how to take care of themselves. And, I might add, a modest charge for interest discourages frivolous requests and encourages self-reliance and better family relationships. Been There in Falls Church, Va. Hanging's too good for home-grown tomato robbers 0 1992 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

I realize I've been writing a lot about homegrown tomatoes lately. I did a recent NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORDS piece on a group of dastardly squirrels who raided my neighbor's back LEWIS yard garden and I QRIZZARD me everyone oi his delicious red fruits. but two things in this world really worth having and that's true love and home-grown tomatoes." I was doing a performance a couple of weeks ago at the Asheville, N.C., Civic Center. I had appeared there two years earlier and when I came on stage, I found a basket of home-growns in front of me, a gift from two lovely ladies. A stagehand came to me before the show and said, "Somebody out front said to give you this." It was a sack filled with tomatoes from the same two ladies.

That started me thinking. I am told that during some rock performances, bimbettes (young bimbos) are known to toss their underwear on stage toward the long-haired, bare-breasted, oft-tattooed rockers. This puzzles me. Are the rockers supposed to put on these unmentionables, on stage, or are they supposed to try to match underwear with adoring fans after the with a sack. It could have been your I never did find my sack of tomatoes.

I consider this a heinous crime, indeed. If whoever stole the tomatoes had asked me I would have shared, even if the person had been a complete stranger. Ever since my tomatoes were pilfered I've had this empty feeling in the bottom of my stomach. In some societies they cut off the hands of thieves. That would be letting a tomato thief off too lightly.

Groin kicks and eye gouges also should be included and the thief should be strapped to the main speaker of a rock band until his ear drums burst and he screams for mercy. I feel better just thinking about what would be such sweet revenge. Syndicated columnist Lewis Grizzard looks at life with Southern-fried wit every Monday and Wednesday in the News Journal. show, as with the Prince and Cinderella's glass slipper? So rockers get underwear on stage and I get home-grown toma-; toes. Listen, at my age and with the experiences I've had, that's fine with me.

Giving home-grown tomatoes, as I mentioned before, certainly is an act of love, but it won't lead to any subsequent rendezvous that could result in a sexually transmitted disease, a palimony suit, or getting shot by an irate husband or lover. I graciously accepted the sack of home-grown tomatoes and put them in my dressing quarters. Later, I planned to take one out of the sack, and armed with salt and pepper, eat it like an apple. The more red juice that ran down the front of my shirt, the better the tomato. When the show was over I couldn't locate my sack of tomatoes.

A stagehand said, "I think I saw somebody going out of a door I sent him a sympathy note, and if the tomato plants I have in my own back yard ever show any yield I'll certainly share with him. Said, another friend, waxing philosophically: "I'm convinced God created home-grown tomatoes as something to be given from one person to another as an act of love and friendship." Well said. A country music philosopher once said something akin to that in a song with this refrain: "Ain't ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 22 Compendium 23 Lacking competence 24 French Revolution aftermath 29 Actual 29 Disclosure 30 Coterie 31 Love apple 32 Click beetle 33 Fame 33 Actress Holm 39 Extinct Hawaiian birds 40 Fairy 43 Noblewoman 47 Spiro and family 49 Monetary unit of Israel 90 Yugoslav city 91 One hundred: Comb, form 92 Spiny-finned fish 93 "Help Me Make It the Night" 94 Ireland, to Gaels 99 Indigo 99 Bill's partner 99 Niflheim ruler 90 Purpose 91 Arikara 92 Narrow water passage: Abbr. ACROSS 1 Caper NOW's legislation concern 9 Casaba 14 Burr or Copland 19 Pitch it Golfer's hole 17 Therapeutic treatments 20 Suffix with expert 21 Reveille players 22 Two-tab dinners for two 27 Arrow poison 21 Sermonizer's source 29 Perfume ingredient 24 Sharp-nosed fish 3S Race segment 39 A patois of La. 37 Spanish stream 39 Avoid wedding costs 41 Counterfeiter catcher 42 Knockabouts 44 Caen condiment 49 From 49 Concise 47 River to the Rhine Upper respiratory infection may cause earache HOUSE CALL 2 Uncooked 3 Plural of is 4 Nix 9 Fried turnover 9 Old English letter 7 Aries 9 Noah's debarkation site 9 Maltreater 10 Spanish and Italian queens 11 Theater section 12 Humdinger 13 Headland 13 Comes to rest 19 Toper 4t Muddle or mulligan 49 Oboe's cousin 92 Candlemaker's substance 99 Couples's cheapest purchase 97 Board game with marbles 93 V-shaped roof gutter 94 Affliction 99 Belief 99 Macho matches 97 Our nearest star 99 More ancient QI know there can be many forms of ear infections.

My youngster recently had otitis media. What is otitis media and how did he get it? Get answers to any three clues by touch-tone phone: 1-900-420- DOWN options include corticosteroids, cromolyn or the insertion of a small tube inserted through the membrane that separates the middle ear from the outer ear canal to permit drainage of the middle ear. Your doctor should discuss these treatments with you, should the need arise. What happens when there's a pregnancy that develops outside the womb? How can they tell that this is happening and what can doctors do about it? A Pregnancies that occur out- side the uterus are called ectopic or tubal pregnancies. If they're undetected, they can cause a life-threatening emergency when the growing embryo ruptures a Fallopian tube and causes dramatic hemorrhage inside the A Otitis DR.

ALLAN is BRUCKHEIM Obstruction of the tube can result in negative middle-ear pressure andor effusion (escape of fluid). Allergic rhinitis is known to cause many cases of otitis media, due to the discovery that frequent re-exposure to an allergen can cause inflammation that leads to eustachian tube blockage for long periods of time. The role of viruses is unclear, because they're extremely difficult to culture. In cases where the otitis media is accompanied by fluid forming in the middle ear, antihistamine-decongestant therapy may be effective, but various studies about this yield differing results. Because bacteria are found in most cases, antibiotics are the mainstay of therapy.

In those patients who don't respond readily to antihistamine-decongestant therapy or antibiotics, other treatment Early diagnosis and treatment are important not only to the woman's life, but also to her future fertility. About half the time, however, the ectopic pregnancy is not diagnosed until it breaks through the wall of the tube and ruptures. History and physical examination are important to diagnosis. A pregnancy test is positive with ectopic pregnancy, but menstrual bleeding may be spotty or irregular. Abdominal pain is usually present.

Ectopic pregnancies are unhealthy and cannot be allowed to continue. They're usually surgically removed. Dr. Allan Bruckheim answers your medical questions Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the News Journal. Mail questions to him at P.O.

Box 119, Orlando, Fla. 32802-0119. i Ballerina's step 5656 each minute). any lntlamma- tion of the middle ear. A bacterial infection of the upper respiratory tract is the most common cause of otitis media, which is frequently associated with an obstruction of the eustachian tube (the canal between the middle ear and the area above the soft palate).

The eustachian tube maintains proper pressure in the middle ear. TODAY'S HOROSCOPE By Joyce Jillson I4 h6 Hi Ii3 T3 TS T7- fS i9 1 20" 21 22 123 124 25 126 27 jj- j- j31 j32 i33 35 36 37 38l 3 40 42 4T" 44 45 111 52 153 154 J55T 56 57 58 159 60 1 61 162 63 64 65" 66 67 68 I I I I I I I of thinking if you do It right. Talking and joking about problems helps distraught family or friend gain perspective. Do one thing Just for fun. LEO (July 23-Aug.

22). Plans for independence won't last long if the family wants you home; they're well-intentioned but in the way for the next few days. Think insurance; protection is important between now and March '93. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22). Emotional relationship is confusing, but you'll soon have it all in hand, so don't worry. Suppress the urge to take a short cut, in traffic or with routine paperwork. Think before speaking to a child. LIBRA (Sept.

23-Oct. 23). Job change that includes travel would make you happy. For a change of ARIES (March 21 -April 19). No matter how hot the tip, don't bet on it.

Confusion is rather pleasant if you don't take It seriously. Use obfuscated atmosphere to steal a personal call or lengthy lunch hour; boss won't notice. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Something needs repairing at home, but It may take a while to find out what. Airplanes are late arriving and departing, and a visitor or in-law cancels altogether; you sigh with relief.

GEMINI (May 21 -June 21). Keep trying in a love relationship. You're making up for past wrongs. You're lucky to get the chance, so don't feel sorry for yourself. A good friend may be on top, but be proud, not jealous.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Terrific chance to win a child over to your way scenery, take a little jaunt today. Straighten out misunderstandings with family members before they become big deals. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.

21). Handle customer or boss complaints gracefully and emerge farther along than when you started. Wait until tomorrow to sign anything at all. Socialize with optimists; don't take no for an answer. SAGITTARIUS (Nov.

22-Dec. 21). Kids, dogs and old friends are lucky. Avoid spending money, or at least don't spend much until next week. Happy associations and a reputation as a great friend take you to the top.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It's easy to misunderstand instructions from boss; double-check them to make sure. Those who are late or otherwise imperfect are under mixed-up influences.

Allow for time with older folks. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Just look confident, and all will be fine.

Don't expect much from meetings; if possible, put them off until Thursday. Ideas are lucky, but develop them quietly before presenting them. New friends arrive. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

Don't try to explain to one who already has mind made up. A good friend will share private thoudhts with you. Volunteer and political work are lucky ways to meet love or find a job. This horoscope is intended for entertainment only. The predictions have no scientific basis.

Joyce Jillson's syndicated column appears daily in the News Journal. September 28, 1992 No. 0817.