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-T Saturday March 4 1995 Thy Kansas City Star at a A gay club? Sorry but no can do 1 The idea is too discriminatory agency says Busted One of the trendiest gay clubs The Edge got hammered this week for of all things trying to hold a gay night "We're having so many straights coming in which really doesn't bug us we decided that on Wednesday night our deadest night going to do a gay night strictly Edge staffer Shayne Reber says thought it was sad that here we are a gay bar and we have to have a gay night Then all of a sudden we're getting charged with Michael Bates of the KC Human Relations Department says ordinances forbid the Edge from denying access to heterosexuals the same as they wouldn't be able to tell gays that they couldn't come in If the club goes ahead with the plan we'll seek to prosecute them in Municipal Court for violating the civil rights ordinance of Kansas City Part owner Victor Fontana is perplexed "What about these women's nights (at other clubs)?" he asks was in a bar and they were selling women drinks for 50 cents and I had to pay Bates' response: talked to a number of places about that and if a man asks for a beer he's entitled to get a beer at that The irony of Fontana's situation escape Tobie Matava executive director of the Human Rights Project a local gay and lesbian advocacy group can Guthrie and Larry topless promotion this week on do anything for billboard was saying I'm going morning-team jock Guthrie says and MolTitt bet me $3000 (that 1 and I said yeah but (the sign company) just knocked the head off of the Then before the gag could go down mischievous Q104 DJ Randy Miller exposed the stunt to his listeners got to hate me over there over this deal" Miller said "Their producer ran into Kimberly Ray my news girl and was bragging about this big promotion 1 was in Cincinnati another radio station did it there and it was no big deal because everybody kind of figured it out It's one of the oldest radio stunts ever done and the king of radio stunts So if anybody else does a radio stunt and it's not me I'm going to expose take: honestly know why he talks about us He spends more time talking about us on his show than he does about things Election snapshots Here are a few from election night parties: KCTV Channel 5 reporter Betty Sexton was furiously chewing a wad of gum just before her interview with KC Mayor Emanuel Cleaver stopped by a Taco Bell on the way she said know you can't be (breathing) a bean tostada (on the WDAF Channel 4 anchor Katherine Bliss at the Cleaver bash talking about her 5 pm broadcast with co-anchor Vickie HEARNE Christopher Jr ence accusing the station of unfair covet age of his campaign "1 wasn't going to interview with them the reporter said some of the people who watch Channel 9 voted for you you think you have an obligation to Then she started to ask me some questions and 1 said 'Wait a And I prefaced my comments by saying at the beginning that the only reason I'm going to let Channel 9 interview me is that some of their viewers voted for me' Guess which part of comments never made it on the air? heard One more time: Ignore those Joe Montana retirement rumors says Chiefs radio announcer Bill Grigsby "All I know is what he told me before the Miami game He'll be Grigsby said According to Grigsby Montana plans to stay in the game as long as he remains competitive No 1: University of Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams on his short-lived stay atop the weekly college basketball poll: "We were No 1 for a couple of hours but it was fun while it Now that the column has aged another week get hack on the tip line plan at 234 4441 or on StarTouch at 889-STAR (7827) and enter 1451 a pre-interview Betty Sexton chew Michael Bates on the Edge understand what she says then you stand up and demand civil rights and discriminate against somebody Fontana thinks he's found a solution having an all-gay night but if anybody else wants to come in they he says way nothing wrong be in name Bates' take: might not be badl mean I'd certainly be willing to talk with him about i Radio expose So much for Max Floyd Tanna Newton: have so much fun that we shouldn't be allowed to do the Fonner KC Councilman Bob Lewellen was at mayoral candidate pan Cofran's post-election bash just been having a good he said wife's been in Mexico for 30 days but she just got back "My over got to get home My Defeated mayoral candidate lay Chastain held his election night fiesta at his Midtown home "Channel 9 was here but 1 let them in the he said Earlier in the week Chastain held a press confer Passages prompt plagiarism accusations NBC wins February sweeps but not in KC author acknowledges mistake in copying his notes By MARY BW TABOR New Vor Times News Service TV ratings I just thought is was my own work I always remember the source of where I found something Author Alexander Theroux Here ABC scored higher than national average with CBS close behind toy BARRY GARRON TV Critic NIELSEN Here are the shares of the TV audience for newscasts during the February sweeps The figure in parenthesis is the number of homes watching But it is rare for one to charge another with appropriating passages word for word Publishers for their part are loath to admit such wrongdoing but if faced with incontrovertible proof they may correct future editions or even in rare cases recall books Peacock said the 12500 copies oi The Primary Colors already distributed would not be recalled bui future editions would credit Murchie or omit the offending passages Theroux 50 who lives in West Barnstable Mass has taught at Harvard University the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yale University and the University of Virginia Brother of the writef Paul Theroux he is best known for his novel Darconville's Cat (1981 and he has also written two othe novels two poetry collections and another collection of essays other authors artists and uncelebrated people But Murchie now 88 is not among those credited was a little disgruntled with him for doing Murchie said from his California home Murchie a former feature writer and war correspondent for The Chicago Tribune became an airline navigator after World War II Murchie and his wife Marie said they were pursuing a lawsuit against Theroux and Henry Holt alleging plagiarism Authors sometimes charge other writers with stealing their ideas That the two books arrived on Cynthia Martin Kiss' nightstand at the same time was sheer coincidence One The Primary Colors a recent book by Alexander Theroux had received a glowing review in The New York Titties Book Review so she bought a copy The other Song of the Sky a 1954 book on navigation by Guy Murchie which is out of print had been recommended by a friend One cold Saturday night in December having finished The Primary Colors Kiss picked up Song of the Sky Fourteen pages into the book she ran across what felt like a familiar passage The author was exploring the color white Kiss had just read meditations on blue yellow and red She chuckled to herself that she might have discovered muse But by Page 29 of Song of the Sky she said early this week chill went up my She read these words: water is salty warm and deep and speaks of the tropics where evaporation is great and dilution small the Sulu Sea the Indian Ocean the Gulf Stream Green water is cool pale with particles thin with river and rain often shallow In the tropics it means land just as in the north with white jigsaw ice it means a frozen bay is She grabbed The Primary Colors and leafed through its pages until on Page 16 she found this passage: blue water is invariably salty warm and deep and speaks of the tropics where evaporation is great and dilution mini mal the Sulu Sea the Indian Ocean the Gulf The next two sentences were almost identical as well Kiss who worked in publishing in Manhattan before becoming a technical editor in Connecticut found several other passages in Song that reappeared in Colors She checked book for footnotes or an acknowledgment to Murchie but found neither So she wrote Murchie and The New York Times Book Review seeking an explanation When asked about the similarities editor at Henry Holt Co Allen Peacock said Theroux had unintentionally neglected to credit Murchie Reached in California where he was traveling Theroux said the copied passages were a result of and bad He said he had read hundreds of books including Song of the Sky while gathering material But he said his notes from Song of the Sky were for a book he was writing on Amelia Earhart and must have got mixed with notes for The Primary Colors Asked why passages appeared verbatim Theroux said that when going over his notes he mistook words for his own just thought it was my own he said always remember the source of where I found In fact The Primary Colors a mosaic of cultural and historic references to color cites hundreds of No newscast Due to a massive overstock situation this Singer Sewing Machine dealer is offering for sale to the public a limited number of new special 1995 HEAVY DUTY Zlg 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