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Internet WWWSACEEECOM The Sacramento Bee FRIDAY May 21 1999 Racing ahead Center High School senior Danyal Eaglin is on the fast track to success Sidetracks page C8 Jil corns £2 COMICS ES-E7 IELEV1SI0R E4 li-: I Once obscure now the talk of the town -what transforms these newcomers into sizzling stars? vf ri CTD 1 4 4 ill' 1 1 iWinds of change uproot her usiness ifc slow this afternoon at the Style Center at Elkhorn Boulevard and Watt Avenue in North Highlands The manicurist is idle at her table A hairstylist sits in one of the turquoise swivel chairs meant for customers And Cathy Cross the manager I stands at the front counter and talks about life in the shadow of McClellan Air Force Base business has she says i have started leaving People 1 are unsure what lies ahead and how long be here hard But a lot of people are optimistic They look on the bright been a rocky decade for North Highlands The continuing base closure has taken a fiscal and emotional McClellan which once employed some 20000 workers made it through i- the early rounds of closure surviving after threat But by the mid-CJ 1990s its fate became clear: The base Jis scheduled for a July 2001 shutdown Last fall workers learned that 3000 of their jobs will be transferred out of 2 state A month ago the county awarded a redevelopment contract to a partner-C ship that plans to bring office parks warehouses and housing to the McClel- lan site You can see a few for sale signs in front of older tract homes on nearby streets shaded by big trees Roses bloom in some of the yards With the bingo parlors doughnut shops store- front churches and muffler shops along Watt Avenue never mistake North Highlands for an upscale area proudly and solidly blue collar Now that folks here finally know what facing with McClellan one of the biggest remaining fears is that the core of blue collar jobs that built the "town will be replaced through redevel- opment with white-collar work instead Other towns across the country have 2 faced the same or worse for decades 2 as their blue collar industries have 2 dwindled and died Now change has come to North Highlands And change -is hard says Cross was raised 2 in North Highlands watched North 2 Highlands grow and on the other hand watched it decline The majority i of the growth is in Antelope now Highlands has always kind of been thought of as like lower class really not any different from where else But this is an older area It needs uplifting It needs a new The redevelopment could help says Cross She nods 2 briefly but her face is shadowed with 1 doubt lTv DJu (Mills Ricky Martin and Catherine Zeta-Jones: Ir By Freedom du Lac Bee Pop Culture Writer Got it? If you been keeping up with it all fear not: The following primer will help bring you up to speed on some of the more notable It girls and boys past and future along with two notable misses US PAST MISSES US US FUTURE tfilarj wLLIJ Hr 4 'rjr it llWriS lir hip fn" 4 i-U'' fl P' nmy trie-' Tl J3 5 i 4 Jl icky Martin always living the crazy life as the title of his new smash single La Vida Loca suggests I Just three months ago he was I living the quiet life at least in America where the Puerto Rican pop singer with the international following was largely unknown Then Martin pulled off a magical performance on the Grammy Awards telecast one that captured the attention of mainstream America and also Madonna who proclaimed she was enamored with the sizzling singer with the suddenly brewing buzz That buzz only grew louder as Martin began sprinting down the publicity trail to promote his first-ever English-language album Almost immediately Martin wound up in every gossip column and all over every TV network even made the cover of Time latest issue which arrived just as reached No 1 on US pop chart Time to step aside Leo a new in town the Grammys nobody would have thought two seconds about Ricky says Erik Flannigan the managing editor of the popular entertainment Web site Mr Showbiz Please see STARS page G3 Hi Alicia Silverstone: She captured the attention in but then flew back beneath the radar by appearing in flop after flop and Winona Ryder: Remember when her every move and movie mattered? Now nobody even cares which rock star dating -Johnny Depp: Definitely no longer has it though he quite faded like former love interest Kate Moss -Allegra Coleman: Right who? Gwyneth -Forget Mira Next Dream Girr declared Esquire on its November 1996 cover In 1999 the actress still has no major credits to her name -Gretchen Mol: In September 1998 Vanity Fair asked: She Next 'If No Supposed break-out roles in and do it though still got a shot with her new film The 13th opening next Friday Ricky Martin: A sizzling No 1 single and video A Madonna favorite TV appearances not daily but hourly Si the Puerto Rican singer with the stud- -next-door looks is the male entertainer of the moment Catherine Zeta-Jones: The exotic-looking Welsh actress who got a slice of stardom with her torrid turn in Mask of has since exploded into full-blown It girl status with her starring role in the current high-tech thriller Heather Graham: An It-girl-in-waiting after playing Rollergirl in the actress who Details dubbed a Golden Girt" is expected to become the next big thing when she stats in this Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" Vanity Fair put her on its January cover and InStyle thought she was enough to go out front in I April With four upcoming movies the South African -actress has a chance to be the next It girl after Graham Freedom duLac er parents moved to a small house on A Street in 1954 when Cross was only 1 She graduated from Highlands High School in 1971 The mother of three daughters Csh6 lives two doors down from the house her family moved into when she was 11 Her father retired from the Sacra- 2 mento County Sheriffs Department still lives there She remembers a horizon of fields and oak trees not the sprawl of new subur- ban housing The North Highlands of her childhood was a small town where employment was stable and everyone knew everyone else a lot of people I still see I went to school with their she says see people I went to high school with too still All that time of course McClellan was the engine that drove North vitality The Style Center at the Elkhorn Boulevard and Watt Avenue shopping center has been open 14 years Cross has worked here since 1990 so she missed the hectic earliest days when this was si the hottest hair salon in town On Sat- jurday mornings folks would line up down the block waiting for their chance in the chairs In the lull of a weekday afternoon in an area seen more recent struggles than successes hard to I imagine But for all the changes for all the frayed edges the instability the move-2 ment of jobs away from McClellan the uncertainty of what the coming years will bring to North Highlands this is 1 home for Cathy Cross No matter what have it any other she says ANITA CREAMER' column appears Monday 2 Wednesday and Friday In Scene Write her at P-O Cox 15779 Sacramento 95852 or call (916) 321-1136 dies with dignity chief suspect WEEKEND TV Homicide: Life on the Street 10 tonight on RICH KUSHMAN TV Columnist Tonight is the last night for brilliant Life on the This is also the last weekend of the May sweeps In TV as in life you take the bad news with the good cancellation is very bad news although far from unexpected And for what worth the series goes out tonight (at 10 on Channel 3) the way lived for seven seasons with a riveting stylish complex hour Since it premiered in January 1993 has challenged viewers with innovative styles lost and angiy characters subtle plot lines and a unique jittery camera Woven all together ft was here and admit the network supported the show through seven seasons of mediocre-to-bad ratings trying stunts crossovers and even annoying-but-usually-successful hype machine In the end was done in by a lot of factors and No 1 was the success of 8 pm series That decent much-lighter drama has been a surprise ratings winner and the network Please see KUSHMAN page if 5 intelligent sometimes mesmerizing television that often left viewers murmuring over the closing credits But as easy as it is to be angry with NBC for closing the door on we have to be fair From left: Ellen McElduff Charles Clause Richard Belzer and Yaphet Kotto star Tin the last.