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Legal Notice Legal Notice THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS OFFERED BY COUNCILWOMAN C. LESTER AND SECONDED BY COUNCILWOMAN N. McCAF-. FREY AND ADOPTED WHEREAS, by Local Law (Chapter 56 of the Town Code), the Town Board did implement a system for the upgrading and redesign of certain poorly platted blighted old filed map areas of the Town pursuant to Article 15 (Urban Renewal) of the New York General Municipal Law; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the above mentioned Local Law and upon recommendation of the Planning Board, the Town Board has approved and from time to time amended, individual Urban Renewal Plans prepared by the Town Engineer, covering a large number of old filed maps; and WHEREAS, some of these approved plans called for, among other things, the combination of certain parcels of property and the realignment of certain property boundaries in order to create parcels more suitable in Cowabunga! It's Continued game, it's a way of life. Mario, the hero of Super Mario Brothers, has his own TV show, which airs on 135 stations nationwide.

(In New York it plays on Fox 5 weekdays at 4 p.m.) Nintendo has licensed Mario's image for virtually any product that can carry his face, from candies to ceiling fans. Yes, there are Super Mario Brothers ceiling fans. More than 300 licensed Mario products are in circulation, accounting for more than $200 million in annual sales. According to Nintendo, Mario's rating the measure marketers put on a celebrity's recognizability is higher than Mickey Mouse's. Until 1984, the Federal Communications Commission regulated the number of commercials that could be broadcast in an hour of children's television.

But during the deregulation fever of the Reagan years, new FCC Commissioner Mark Fowler gave advertisers free reign. Now many children's shows including "HeMan and the Masters of the Universe," "The Transformers," "Rainbow Brite" and "The Care Bears" are little more than program-length commercials for already-popular toys, created by the toy manufacturer or licensor. The FCC originally blocked this practice in 1969, when Mattell tried to launch a series called "Hot Wheels" about its toy cars of the same name. But Fowler's 1984 decision lifted the ban. The programs, in turn, spin off other products: everything from breakfast cereals to clothing lines.

And, of course, Nintendo games. Acclaim Entertainment of Oyster Bay, one of the largest licensed manufacturers of Nintendo programs, plans to introduce a Simpsons game this fall. The biggest difference between kid culture and the old adolescent youth culture is that with the latter, the trump card rock music was actually created by adolescents, superannuated or otherwise. Kids obviously don't have this power to create and produce for themselves. Kid culture, then, is an aesthetic of creative consumption, rather than an aesthetic of production.

Its constituency is a generation that does not draw lines between leisure and consumption, playing and selling; it is a field for play, full of opportunities and activities. For many youngsters, the mall has replaced the playground as their main recreational area. MTV is now celebrating its 10th year of broadcasting what are essentially ads for records. On any video, the name of the performer, the song title, the title of the album the song comes from, and the record company appear at the beginning and end of the clip. Children's television shows often provide big introductions for the commercials, as if introducing short programs.

The CBS Saturday morning lineup, for instance, cuts to a brightly colored control board production central before switching to the commercial. Selling, then, becomes a part of a kid's leisure world. This spills heavily into fashion. Taking off on the designer logo fetishism of the early '80s, kids favor clothes with massive logos on them, advertising either the clothing line or any favorite entertainment. Last winter, kids and teenagers all over the city wore their pricey Triple-Fat Goose down jackets inside out, so the logos spattered across the lining would be visible.

Logos like the Body Glove hand have become as distinctive (and dominating) clothing patterns as stripes or Kids Culture plaids. Many youth-oriented designers are even putting giant fake-brand logos insignia for companies or clubs that don't exist on real brand-name clothes. It's as if it doesn't matter what you sell, just as long as you're hawking something. The products, after all, aren't that important. Since kid culture is an esthetic of consumption, the merchandise itself doesn't matter as much as the ways kids use it.

The essence of kid culture, like that of teen youth culture before it, is a series of new relationships to technology and the media. Telephone 900 numbers, for example, change the use of the phone. Instead of being a medium of communication, it becomes a way into a body of information. You're no longer limited to people you know; you can be anonymous without being a prank. Like phone sex lines, kid-oriented 900 numbers strive for one-way intimacy.

The lines allow callers into the private lives of people they don't know. They make the phone into a data base, however trivial some of the data might be. Clothing also changes as a medium of communication. Instead of speaking the language of fashion of tight curves or baggy drapes or lacy frills it gives itself over to the printed word. Not that a grown-up can understand what all these printed words are really saying.

But the most radically altered relationship is that between the user (you can't really say "viewer" anymore) and the television. Using the TV is no longer passive. Two thirds of American homes have VCRs. Toddlers learn to insert a tape in a VCR about the same time they learn to walk and talk. This means kids grow up not just as viewers, but as active programers as well.

Nintendo makes TV activity even more active. According to Dr. Merry Haber, a clinical psychologist who uses Nintendo in her therapy of young patients, "Kids get into the power they feel playing Nintendo. That's why they play. Even though they're just standing in front of a television screen, they feel they can do things they couldn't Nintendo also blurs the basic metaphor that has described TV activity since the '40s: viewers on the outside watching pixels on the two-dimensional.

surface of the screen. A good Nintendo player is able to think of him- or herself inside the machine. The screen is a permeable membrane. In the coming months, Nintendo plans to turn this metaphor into cold, bankable reality. Though they don't advertise this, every Nintendo box can be adapted to plug into a telecommunications network that allows home banking, shopping and other services.

The network is so far just a future possibility here, but it's already up in Japan. And the relationships keep mutating at the speed of kids. The future for kid culture is probably more of the same: that is, more rapid change. According to Carmen Roberts, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are already beginning to flag. "They're starting back to the Lone Ranger," she said.

By next year who knows? the Teenage Mutant Ninja' Turtles may be as passe as last year's "'The Real Ghostbusters" T-shirt. Or, in the possible parlance of 1991, as passe as the New Kids on the Block. Such are the swift, cruel and frighteningly profitable machinations of kid culture. I 'Arachnophobia': A Web of Comedy Continued lines, do the Larry King and Jay Leno mispronounced the movie's title as "Anarachnophobia," Daniels invariably was asked what it was like to work with the spiders. (In the climactic sequence in the doctor's dark basement, some of the shots employed a mechanical version of Big Bob.) "I really don't have any problem with the little guys," he said.

"But the big boys: I don't care who you are, I don't need them on me, no thanks. Bring the stunt guy in and let him put his hand down there." As the character through whose eyes the audience views the developments in Canaima, Daniels was hard put to "play it straight," as required for believability, while also "getting some humor in there" and keeping an eye on his 200 little co-stars. "You're at the spider's mercy," he recalled. "In 25 takes, I have to be perfect 25 times. The spider only has to get it right once.

He turns right 24 times instead of turning left. And when he does turn left, you have to tell yourself, 'Don't panic, remember your size and shape as building sites; and WHEREAS, although many such combinations and realignments have. now been carried out in accordance with the approved Urban Renewal Plans by voluntary action with the involved land owners with no further intercession by the Town, a relatively small number of owners attempting to comply with the their property have been prevented from doing so by the cooperation of an adjoining owner, and have applied for Town acquisition and redisposition of property, all as provided for in Local Law and, WHEREAS, THOMAS ZUKAS HAS APPLIED TO THE TOWN TO AC- QUIRE FOLLOWING PROPERTIES: NAME FILED MAP SCTM Arthur Rassias Lot 13 D0300 File Block 07 S147 Map 518 B02 Map of Montauk Manor L16.001 William L. Lots 1-5, inclusive D0300 Mary C. Giatras Block 13 S167 File Map 501 B04 Map of Montauk Manor L010.

Annette Antonucci Lots 9-14, inclusive D0300 File Block 25 S138 Map 28 B01, 05,06 Map of Cobbler Hill Heights, Section 2. and, WHEREAS, these applications have been reviewed and found in each case to be in compliance with the applicable Renewal Plan the Town and not to significant effect on the environment (see Resolution of 1985, adopted December 20, 1985), NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Town Attorney and Special Counsel are authorized to commence proceedings under the Eminent Domain Procedure Law for the purpose of formally acquiring title to each of the above-mentioned properties, and to carry out all other steps necessary after acquisition of the disposition of each property at cost to the applicants, plus an administration fee of $2,000.00, therefore in accordance with the applicable Urban Renewal Plans; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Supervisor is authorized to make all payments and sign all checks, deeds, court papers or other instruments determined by counsel to be necessary for the acquisitions and dispositions authorized herein, with all costs and expenses from Account (Acquisition of Substandard Lots); and be it FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Board determines that a Public Hearing shall be called; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Special Council publish the Attached Notice of Public Hearing in 2 issues of the East Hampton Star and 5 issues of Newsday. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town Board hereby gives notice that the Town of East Hampton will call a Public Hearing to determine whether there is a need and to further determine the location of a proposed Acquisition of certain real properties. known by the following Suffolk County, Tax map Identifier Numbers as: District 0300, Section 147, Block 16.01 by Arthur Rassias, District 0300, Section 167, Block 04, Lot 010. reputedly owned by and reputedly owned by Annette Antonucci.

William L. Giatras, and District a 0300, Section 138, Block 01, Lots 05 06, Said Public Hearing is to be held prior to the acquisition of certain real property above described. The Hearing will be held on Friday, July 20, 1990 in the Courtroom, East Hampton Town Hall at 159 Pantigo Road, East Hampton, New York, at 10:30 a.m. in the forenoon of that day. The purpose of this project is to acquire and eliminate substandard lots pursuant to an Urban Renewal Plan as set forth in Local Law The property to be considered for acquisition is located generally at the intersection of Rose Avenue and Fifth Street (paper streets) as the same appears above.

The interest to be acquired includes the fee interest of the parcels, together with the interest in said parcels, travelling with the ownership thereof, to the beds of the roads adjacent thereto, subiect to the rights of passage and access of all those with an interest of other parcels with rights of passage. There are no alternative locations proposed for said acquisition. All persons having an interest in the project invited to attend, the hearing and oral and written statements and to other documents concerning the proposed public project. Copies of the proposed acquisition map shall be available for inspection by the Public and the Town Board in the Office of the Clerk of the Town of East Hampton and at the Public Hearing. Publication of this Notice of Public Hearing shall take place in the official newspaper of the Town of East Hampton, The East Hampton Star, for 2 successive issues, and in Newsday, a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of East Hampton for 5 successive issues, all as required the Eminent Domain Procedure Law.

Publication shall be undertaken by Special Counsel. Certified copies of this Resolution shall be served by Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, by Special Counsel, upon the reputed owners of the said real property, and the Town Clerk is directed to forward to JOHN C. BIVONA, Special Counsel, at 780 New York Avenue, Huntington, New York 11743, certified copies of this Resolution. BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF EAST HAMPTON FRED YARDLEY, TOWN CLERK -On Experience Since completing "Arachnophobia," Daniels has played two more small-town residents "I got the market on that character, I guess" in the forthcoming "Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael" and "The Grand Tour." Between roles, he escapes the tinsel of Hollywood at home with his wife and two children in a real-life small town whose name he refused to reveal. Actually, it's Chelsea, not far from Daniels' boyhood home in Mount Pleasant.

Although he will mention the theater company he's started back home, Daniels won't say much about his personal life or his family. "They're not in the movie business," he said. Whether audiences want to know more about him isn't important to him. What is important, he said, is, "Do I make 'em laugh? Do I make 'em cry? Do they get their money's worth on Saturday night?" They'll get their money's worth in "Arachnophobia" if they like to shriek at spiders. And to laugh, too, of course.

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