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yy mm Homo Entertainment Selection 3030 POHSVILLE (PA.) REPUBLICAN FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1 993 Poge 1 9 i i 1. Distinguished Gentleman Eddie Murphy 2. Hoffa Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito 3. A River Runs Through It Robert Redford 4. Passenger 57 Wesley Snipes 5.

Toys Robin Williams 6. Haward3 End Emma Thompson 7. Under Siege Steven Seagal 8. Forever Young Jamie Lee Curtis, Mel Gibson 9. The Mighty Ducks Emilio Estevez 10.

Consenting Adults Kevin Kline 7 i i Never close yoniir eyes if ii" 1 ff'Tt: 4 y- 1. Bridges of Madison County Robert James Walter 2. Pleading Guilty Scoff Turow 3. The Client John Grisham 4. The Scorpio Illusion Robert Ludlum 5.

Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel 6. Gal-Jin James Clavell 7. I'll Be Seeing You Mary Higgins Clark 8. Cruet and Unusual Patricia D. Cornwell 9.

Paper Doll Robert B. Parker 10. A Season In Purgatory Dominick Dunne ,1 Mtf OraiziThe REPIBLICAS The Whirlwind roller coaster, the newest ride at Knoebels amuse- The new ride cost the park approximately $1 million. The old roller ment park, zooms downhill, then lurches upward into a corkscrew, coaster was sold to a New Jersey park. WMriwimid twists al n-n- 1 i'i'm III II I co-general manager Dick Knoebel.

He said there are only six others identical to it in the world. Five are in Europe, the other in Japan. Rides cost $1 each, unless riders have an all-day pass. Riders must be 4 feet tall. With a maximum height of 64 feet, a drop of nearly 50 feet, two corkscrews and speeds reaching nearly 40 mph, the trip thrilled most visitors.

Riders shrilled as they plum-metted, twisted and turned. Some raised one arm or even both in a show of bravery, knowing they were secure under their black shoulder harnesses. Others leaned their heads back, stared straight ahead and enjoyed the changing scenery as the wind pushed back their hair. The corkscrews were a major draw in the park's decision to purchase the roller coaster to replace the 15-year-old Jet Star, now in Wildwood, N.J. "We were aware the public wanted to go upside down," said Please see KNOEBELSPage 21 1.

A Woman's Worth Marianne Williamson 2. The Fifties David Halberstam 3. Run With the Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estes 4. Way Things Ought to Be Rush Limbaugh 5. Little Red Book Harvey Penick 6.

Reengineering the Corp. Michael Hammer 7. Beating the Street Peter Lynch 8. The Real Anita Hill David Brock 1 9. Men Are from Mars John Gray 10.

Days of Grace Arthur Ashe s. 1 'V- By Paul Muschick The REPIBLICAS ELYSBURG At the top of the hill, in that silent moment after the climbing clicking, Ronald, llat-ton of Pottsville leaned toward his son, 5-year-old Ronald and tried to offer some final words of "advice. But he was drowned out. The ear rumbled to a rush of wind. Then a lurch.

Corkscrews. The orange and yellow car twisted upside down. Visions of clear blue skies turned to grass, pavement and awestruck onlookers. It quickly righted itself along the newly painted white track and sped between green support pillars. Before long the Hattons and the 26 other passengers on the Whirlwind at Knoebels amusement park twisted upside down again in the second corkscrew.

After a short ride along a straightaway, the brakes squealed that the 85-second ride was over. Afterward, Hatton stood with his son and two daughters, 7-year-old Vinniequa and 11-year-old Vin-niece, who had also ridden the park's newest major attraction. "I told him 'Close your eyes'," the 36-year old prison worker said with a smile. "It was a pretty good ride," he added. "It was quick that's the good thing about it," Knoebels park installed the ride this season after purchasing it from Rye Playland in Rye, N.Y.

The coaster is one-of-a-kind in America, said park president and 1. Night is Over Kenny G. 2. Have I Told You Lately Rod Stewart 3. Even a Foot Can See Pefer Cefera 4.

Hero David Crosby 5. My Heaven Aaron Neville 6. I'll Never Get Over You Expose 7. Don't Wanna Fight Tina Turner 8. Moments of Love Cathy Dennis 9.

Love is Vanessa Williams 10. Tell Me What You Dream Vinniece Hatton, 11, and her sister Vinniequa, 7, strap themselves into The Whirlwind. Seated behind them is their brother Ronald 5, and Visitors at Knoebels wait in line while another car of passengers whooshes downhill. their father, Ronald. Restless Heart Antiques dealer judges value with eagle eyes 1.

Janet Janet Jackson 2. Unplugged Rod Stewart 3. Core Stone Temple Pilots 4. The Chronic boxes. Will Rinker declare it beloved junk or will it pay for college tuition? Rinker ought to know.

His credentials are HOniZOHS Leisure I Dr. Dre 5. Breathless Kenny G. 6. Never Let Go Luther Vandros 7, The Body Guard Soundtrack 8.

Pocket Full of Kryptonite Spin Doctors 9. Last Action Hero Soundtrack 10. It's About Time ic Asian figure from a Mexican blanket. "The dirt is a little powdery, which would suggest he hasn't been around that long. I think he's more decorative than antique," he says.

He tells the woman it's worth about what she paid, so "you didn't lose, but you didn't buy a $10,000 piece so you can retire and go to Hawaii." Is the hair real, she asks? Rinker fingers it. "The horse died young," he says. Rinker is a little like the blindfolded stage clairvoyant, running his hands over an object and divining its history. "It's not signed, it's not a radiator cap," he tells Paula Parres of Burlingame, who's presented a smallish frosted glass object in the shape of a woman's head. "The news is not always good," as he says, and Rinker is tactful but not patronizing, employing various time-tested phrases designed to describe, educate and suggest that enjoyment of a piece need not rely on market value.

"Do you wear it?" he asks Ber- nice Thomas of San Bruno, whose father-in-law's stick pin Rinker places in the "third Egyptian revival" of the '20s, valued at $35 to $50. 'No sense putting it in a vault when you can enjoy it," he says.the color's wrong for late 19th century." Despite his unassuming appearance, one suspects Rinker doesn't have to kiss very many hands to support his empire. Rinker Enterprises which provides appraisal, consulting, editorial and educational services in the field, supports a research staff and photographer; he has an advisory board of 150 experts. In fact, Rinker's antiquecollectible-industrial complex seems to have taken over a small segment of eastern Pennsylvania; his various business cards and brochures place him in Zionsville, Emmaus and Vera Cruz, Pa. He describes his Institute for the Study of Antiques and Collectibles as a "think tank doing market research.

We supply information and support for all the auction houses and 75 trade papers. We track 1,200 categories, from bicycles to hotel soap. We don't have a category on rectal thermometers yet, but I collect them." Rinker is a prodigious collector! in his own right. Pennsylvania German material, TV cowboy heroes, objects connected with the Moravians and the American canal era, as well as a whole lot of jigsaw puzzles: "I went from none to 5,000 in four years." Where and how can he store his vast accumulation of stuff? "I bought a former elementary school," he says disingenuously. But it's not a dinky one-room sort of; place.

"It has seven classrooms, two offices, an auditorium, cafeteria 14,000 square feet. It took five U-Haul trucks and 50 station-wagon loads to get moved in." The rest of his operations must have squeezed -in somehow What gets him really excited on this day in San Carlos? Well, there is Ron Bennion's plate or dish, which the San Francisco man believes might be a piece of Czechoslovakian Moser art glass. don't know what you've got, but fit's the strangest thing I've ever' seen," Rinker admits. It's signed and dated 1927, yet "everything about it says no." By Jo Mancuso Scripps Howard Hem Sen if SAN CARLOS, Calif. Antiques expert Harry Rinker was not sent from Central Casting.

Not a tweedy-reedy milquetoast, and lacking any oiled-hair-Euro mannerisms, Rinker looks more like an easygoing, built-for-comfort Mid-westerner in his Sansabelt slacks and sport shirt. A book publicist's dream, he launches easily into practiced patter, reeling it out yard after yard, plain-spoken, unpretentious. His expertise proven at the end a 10-day tour flogging the 27th edition of "Warman's Antiques and Their Prices," which he edits. Rinker turns his attention to his fans at the Antique Trove, a 130-ven-dor collective in San Carlos south of San Francisco. They've come to have him sign books and give on-the-spot appraisals.

But mainly people have come to offer up treasures hauled from closets and attics, off walls and shelves, bundled in pink tissue paper, hugged in brown paper grocery sacks, plastic cardboard SWV Cnr mnrfl rrutcir anH k.v video news, call The beyond formidable. For 12 years the former museum employee has been consulting editor to Wallace-Homestead Book publisher of "Warman's" and other books on antiques and collectibles, and is series editor for "Warman's Encyclopedia of Antiques and Collectibles." In addition, he's the editor, author. or co-author of books on antiques, Americana, country, collectibles, furniture, toys, games and puzzles, investing and collecting. He writes three syndicated columns that monitor and analyze the marketplace. He appears on television and radio.

He lectures at antiques shows, schools and museums. Rinker leaks unassuming authority. "You want to see some dirt," he tells Tania Quijaro of Redwood City, who's unwrapped a tall ceram REPUBLICAN'S Into-Connect Line at 628-6000 and dial the codes: 3111 Top 10 Albums 3120 Adult Contemporary 3150 Today in Music 3140 Country Music Report 3170 Video Reviews 3165 Kid's Video 3161 Top 20 Music Videos.