The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 45

INSIDE Claslflod Advrtlilnq SATURDAY July 31 1993 3 RELIGION E10 Section THE KANSAS CITY STAR SWing on Pag E-14 STARGAZING A potpourri of patricians plebeians and peccadilloes seeks new approach KSHB hopes fresh ideas faces catch on By BARRY GARRON TV Critic The Duchess of hopes of salvaging her public image by becoming a special United Nations envoy are taking a battering cannot think of anybody else I would sooner not appoint to this said Sir Nicholas Fairbaim of the governing Conservative Party Why Sir Fairbaim? is a lady short on looks absolutely deprived of any dress sense has a figure like a Jurassic monster is very greedy when it comes to loot no tact and wants to upstage everyone Oh But the UN High Commission for Refugees says that as far as concerned the duchess has been its unofficial goodwill ambassador since June 10 when she accepted an award at a fund-raiser The duchess 33 is separated from hubby Prince Andrew Fast fresh and first what KSHB Channel 41 calls 41 News at the local newscast it will inaugurate at 9 pm Sunday Whether it lives up to those claims it certainly will be different The newscast will open with the wail of a saxophone and the anchors seated on a stark red white and black set be only about 20 seconds of weather and sports more often than not be scores The desired result is news from a different perspective in a conversational tone type of news that talking about is very different from what the audience is used to seeing" said Charlotte Moore English Channel 41 general manager think people are going to like First however people are going to have to get used to it with the faces and names of the reporters and anchors all of whom are new to Kansas City The anchors Sunday through Friday are Pamela Davis and Jim Condelles Soap opera fans may recognize Davis from her two years on in the early 1980s See CHANNEL E-2 Col 1 A guilty plea A Paintball warrior hides behind a wooden obstacle as he tries to hit his opponents with small orange-colored paintballs Splat! Splat! dead! Former star Todd Bridges has pleaded guilty to narcotics and weapons charges stemming from a December arrest Bridges 27 was ordered to turn himself in to authorities next month Bridges was arrested when Burbank Calif police found drugs and a loaded handgun in the Mercedes he was driving He has said his problems stemmed from depression over the cancellation of the television series By JAMES A FUSSELL Staff Writer there Kansas City had fields as far back as 1982 and thousands throughout the area have become regular players Some drive 30 miles to get to fields and pay up to $40 each time they play Paintball guns are selling briskly with top-of-the-line models fetching $600 Corporations high schools law firms dental colleges and businesses are sending groups of up to 30 players to wage war in the weeds One area church the Kansas City Baptist Temple even has a Paintball ministry where fellowship and firepower go side by side As more people play supporters and detractors debate whether the game is a fun and harmless diversion that reduces stress or a destructive influence in an increasingly gun-happy society Put Edward Feeney of Platte Woods in the category See PAINTBALL E-7 Col 5 Paintball warriors say shooting away stress But detractors lament violent nature of the booming pastime guns guts and good times conquest and controversy Rambo meets Rembrandt at more than 200 mph! Players call it Paintball Splatball Gotcha and Colours Whatever you call it got Kansas City dead in its cross hairs Paintball is a playful war game in which gun-toting combatants try to splatter each other with marble-sized orange yellow and blue blobs of paint It is thought to have originated on the East Coast in the early and by 1983 was an official fad inspiring the movies and in 1989 It was also the subject of controversies in State College Pa and Goddard Kan when residents objected to fields tyring set up Smashing good time And now this from the Might Not Believe Us But This Is file: In Washington this weekend the 1993 International Tae Kwon Do Championships will feature I Speaker of the House Tom Foley The Democrat from Washington will display his board-breaking skills The Tom Folow highlight om roiey however will be a bipartisan ballet of martial arts set to Bless starring numerous representatives from both sides of the aisle History influences work Varnette work got TV exposure is now in KC By LUKE MITCHELL Special to The Star If seen Cosby seen Varnette artwork Seven reproductions of her African-American-themed paintings adorned the living room walls of the fictional Huxtable family for most of the eight-year run allowing Honeywood to share her vision with millions of viewers every week was surprised at how many people paid attention to the art on the said the Los Angeles artist who is in Kansas City today think that because the show was a success a lot of things related to the show were a Honeywood will be at from noon to 8 pm today and will be host to an artist reception from 4 to 7 pm The gallery at 3242 See AFRICAN E-7Col1 More than just Mrs Wedding bells have a titled tinkle for actress Linda Purl who tied the knot last week with British nobleman Lucius Alexander Plantagenet Cary a 30-year-old who carries the title Master of the Falkland That makes Purl 37 and on her third marriage the new Lady Cary Viscountess of Falkland Puff puff Heartthrob Johnny Depp likes to smoke He really really likes to smoke In fact he says I could have another mouth grafted onto my face to smoke more I would do And forget those Johnny Depp common cigarettes: Depp prefers rich Cuban cigars (1974) shows use of history as a recurring theme in her art is an oil painting on paper done by Varnette Honeywood in 1987 Yes there is a price to pay but the reward is sweet Another year older birthdays: SportscasterCurt Gowdy is 74 Actor Don Murray is 64 Actress Susan Flannery is 30 Actress Geraldine Chaplin is 49 Tennis player Evonne Goolagong Cawley is 42 birthdays: Actor-comedian Dom Deluise is 60 Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is 37 Republican New York Sen Alfonse is 36 Commerce CW GUSEWELLE was not so much regret as just astonishment at how near they seemed in spite of all the years that have elapsed We crossed the field then and in the line of thickets strung out along its edge above the pond the berries were as plentiful as imagined We each had a pail for gathering but had filled them only a third of the way before the sun burned through the clouds The breeze fell the day turned sweltering and we had to stop gotten just enough for the pies we planned to bake and some to take as a gift to friends with a few left over to put over ice cream It used to be I quit until my bucket was full to its top and would stay at it if it killed me which a couple of times it nearly did dizzy with the heat salt stinging my eyes hands a bleeding ruin But if the years have taught me anything at all that you have to pick the patch clean Samples are sufficient Anyway the berries you gather toward the end are the sweetest ones by far CW column appear! 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Thursdays and Saturdays in the Style section biggest and most dependable thickets are The day was pleasant with a fine breeze and a thin drift of clouds holding back the early sun In the valley below the house we followed the stream past the pebble-bottomed pool where when they were toddlers our daughters stopped to splash on a summer day I could remember their cries of delight at the coldness of the clear water The girls are grown to women now Up a stony hill from the valley we passed into the back hay field At least what it has been for many years When I saw it first it was a long-fallow piece of useless ground grown up in sprouts and weeds I remembered what labor it took to tame that feral meadow And the antique tractor and other derelict equipment we had to use And the man who worked beside me a man of the hills whose life and luck had been very different from my own but who came to be as close as the brother I never had been most of two decades now since he went to lie with his brothers in a country churchyard not far away What I felt in recalling those times The advantage of being rooted to a piece of land instead of being always a wanderer in the world is that you come to know all the most important things about it: where the deer bed and the turkeys nest their young where the mushrooms appear and where the most prolific berry thickets grow Over the years you collect other bits of information too But those are the most essential This season I can report the wild blackberries have been wonderfully abundant No late frost caught them in the bloom And the moisture has been to say the least sufficient Usually they ripen in early July with the Fourth the traditional day for the start of picking But this year they began coming on a full week ahead of time And even now more than a month later the thickets continue to bear Part of the attraction of them I think is that like so many of the best things they cost a certain amount of trouble and pain in the getting The fattest berries always seem to be in places deep among the wickedest thorniest tangles You pay for them in blood Just as you can tell a boxer by his Brown is 32 Tompustt Bledsoe musician Jerry Gareia is 5 1 Actor Giancarlo Giannini is 3 1 Actress Tempestt Bledsoe is 20 nose or a wrestler by his ears berry pickers can be recognized by the sorry condition of their hands and arms In fact no part of the anatomy is spared since ticks and chiggers especially chiggers also love blackberries and wait for you there in the bushes in inestimable numbers But the suffering goes with it If you want your berries cheap buy tame ones at the store edible the way eggs from battery chickens are edible though they compare with the brown-speckled ones laid by country hens One recent morning we drove the two hours to the farm and set off through the woods toward the back pasture where the ess Compiled from The pn services by Dru SeftOn IHC TOMORROW in The SUtr Local T-shirt dude in the chips Harry Smith survives bugs: Read about them today in the Heame Christopher Jr column on 1Spm- 7m UynawlMl mothers meet ftechiSeng8ot single parenthood.