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DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY, JAN. 26, 1984 7B More to 1984 than numbers and a novel i jp(p Call Features: 222-6828 Wm Bob Talbcit I notebag 7rii 1 Buchwald Stephen King: Wrong again Ernie Harwell: Coming soon HOT '84s: When you talk about hot 1984s ybuaren't just talking about George Orwell's '1984" novel topping the best-seller lists. --Van Halen's long-awaited "1984" is the hottest album here and around the country, says Harmony House's Jerry Adams, climaxing a heavy metal hit parade with Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Ozzie Osbourne, Judas Priest, Def Lepard and Z.Z. Top. Apple computer's new 60-second TV commercial for its Macintosh unit the futuristic one enitled "1984" with the woman running and hurling a hammer in a George Orwellian setting is currently the most talked-about computer spot on TV.

The $400,000 commercial, created by ChiatDay, was directed by Ridley Scott, who did the "Alien" film and those far-out Chanel spots. Everyone in our house stopped everything and watched in suspense the first time we saw it. Still do. Got pumped up at the Tiger media party last week. Everybody at every table agreed: 1984 is the year of the Tigers.

Can't wait until 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6, when WJR's Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey open the exhibition season from Lakeland. IT'S COME TO THIS: When you use the new MCI phone service, call someone, they don't answer and you let the phone phone ring six times or more and you pay for the call. Amazing, eh? WONDER WHERE THE Marcus, general manager of Suburban Detroit Theaters, won his local Variety honor in 1965, when he was Michigan Showman of the Year. GREAT PRIX J.

Walter Thompson's Detroit art director Paul Kirner designed it and veteran Detroit artist Ken Taylor of Art Staff Inc. did the finished artwork for that absolutely sensational 1984 Detroit Grand Prix official poster an air-brushed rendering of a red Formula One. It's a knockout. Betcha this one winds up on more local walls than any poster created here in years. A real work of art.

99 CENT COAT SALE: Society of St. Vincent de Paul spokesman Chuck Po-trowski says the "general public has been so generous with its used clothing donations this year" the charitable society is holding a 99-cent Winter Coat Sale Feb. 1-2 at its 12 locations in Detroit, Centerline, Marysville, Flat Rock, Inkster, Warren, St. Clair Shores, Port Huron and Allen Park. "We're trying to help Detroit's needy keep warm this winter," adds Potrowski.

Call 567-1910 between 9 and 5 daily for details. PUN FORMATION: Detroit's Dorothea Kruszewski notes, "Tofu seems to be the 'in' food lately. My friends and I have eaten it and we don't like it. So it seems many are called but tofu are chosen." Lindell AC'S Johnny Butsicaris points out that while we were all looking away for a moment, they got rid of all those black and white Michigan license tags. You know, he's right.

BIG SPENDER: What kind of cars does an extremely rich, high-rolling Japanese restaurateur buy? Well, Yoriro Katsura, who owns 25 restaurants in Tokyo, bought one of John Scott's black Duesenberg II Speedsters at the Detroit Auto Show for himself at $115,000 a copy and a white Duesenberg II Royalton at $125,000 for his wife. That's a lot of sushi. HOT NEW MOTOWN ACT: Motown has high hopes for unknown singer writerproducer Rockwell, whose "Somebody's Watching Me" album was released this week with Michael Jackson joining the 19-year-old singer on the title cut. Music trade weekly Impact describes Rockwell "as a cross between a macho Michael Jackson and a sophisticated Prince." "CHRISTINE" ERRS: Former Free Press columnist extraordinaire, Mark Beltaire, notes a reader pointed out Stephen King's mistake in the "Christine" paperback of having the '58 Plymouth Fury equipped with a lever gear shift rather than its radical pushbutton center-of-the-horn variety. There's another, Beltaire says, "When he talks about a high school football game going into the two-minute warning period.

That wasn't part of the game then." VARIETY HONORS MARCUS: Variety Club of Detroit's Bill Marcus is recipient of the club's International Presidential Citation for more than two decades of club and charity work. While Marcus was chief barker two terms, Tent No. 5 began its great work with the marvelous myoelectric limb program at the Detroit Institute for Children. Shoe byJeff HacHelly i Sydncy jjfrgfo Harris Suppose Ron and Nancy visited Yuri and Tatyana In President Reagan's "I'm Not Really Mad at the Russians Speech" recently, he ended by saying, "Just suppose with me for a moment that an Ivan and an Anya could find themselves, oh say, in a waiting room, or sharing a shelter from the rain or a storm with a Jim or a Sally. And there was no language barrier to keep them from getting acquainted.

"Would they then debate the differences between their respective governments? Or would they find themselves comparing notes about their children and what each other did for a living? And as they went their separate ways maybe Anya would be saying to Ivan, 'Wasn't she nice? She also teaches music' And Jim would be telling Sally what Ivan did or didn't like about his boss. They might have even decided they were all going to get together for dinner some evening soon." Mr. Reagan's point was that if people got to know each other one on one, they wouldn't want to go to war. While getting Jim and Sally and Ivan and Anya together is a very nice scenario for peace, I think it's more important for Ronnie and Nancy and Yuri and his wife to find themselves sharing a shelter from the rain or storm. "Hi, my name's Ronnie Reagan and this is my wife Nancy.

We're originally from California." "My name is Yuri Andropov and this is my wife Tatyana. We are hardline Communists." "That's neat. We're rock-ribbed conservative Republicans. What do you do for a living?" "I used to be the head of all Secret Police. Now I am the leader of the Soviet Union when I don't have the "Hey, how about that, Nancy? Yuri here is the president of a superpower just like me.

We have a lot in common." Nancy turns to Tatyana. "Do you have to give a lot of state dinners?" Tatyana replies, "Every night I have to give a state dinner. I never have enough china. "It seems that's my problem, too." Ronnie says, "Tell me, Yuri, what bugs you the most about being president of the U.S.S.R.?" "The Party bosses always say I'm doing something wrong." "Isn't that funny? That's what bugs me. I don't mind the opposition.

But I sure get mad when my own people keep telling me I'm screwing up." That night as Ronnie and Nancy are getting out of their soaking clothes, Nancy says, "Wasn't she a lovely person? Did you know she also plays the balalaika?" And Ronnie says, "He's a first class guy. He told me that before he invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, his real ambition was to be a movie actor." 06060" MRBHT'M ftx.wwcu )tslrtliilnd by Inliiine Company Syfirttralo Inc LindelPs boss is now feeling fine Lindell AC owner John Butsicaris is in Henry Ford Hospital, recuperating from surgery on his prostate, and reports that he's feeling just fine. "There were no complica IX'r Carol T. tions after surgery and 1 11 be out or the hospital by the weekend," says the Detroit barkeeper. Just a few doors down from him in the infirmary is Michigan's former governor and current state Supreme Court Justice G.

Mennen Williams, who had surgery for prostate cancer. "I gave my IV (intravenous) pole to Soapy because his sounded so squeaky whenever he walked up and down the hall," Mr. B. laughs. The hospital reports that Williams "is doing very well." Deciding on the definitions for an educational debate Thoughts at large: All efforts to discuss or debate the subject of education are Jutile until and unless the disputants can agree on a definition of the word that adequately distinguishes it from schooling or learning or training, which are only partial descriptions of the process.

It seems peculiar that the administration is more preoccupied with civil liberties of creatures not yet born than with impairments of living persons. No country is ready for self-rule until it has begun to practice it; our unreadiness was the principal argument advanced by the British Tories against the demands of the American colonists. The universal reproach, "Physician, heal thyself," is a thoughtless maxim, for people generally do not apply to themselves the sound counsel they are competent to offer others. (How many lawyers have been careless in drawing up their own wills?) First-rate people may enter politics, but it is habitually their second-rate qualities that take them to the top. "Appeasement" is a stupid word, used mostly by statesmen who like to make false parallels in history; it was Churchill himself certainly the paragon of resistance to tyranny who observed, "Appeasement in itself may be good or bad according to the circumstances.

Appeasement from weakness and fear is alike futile and fatal. Appeasement from strength is magnanimous and noble, and might be the surest and perhaps the only path to world peace." The problem of retirement is that half the time the worker is not prepared to accept the fact that his or her powers are diminishing, and half the time the organization is not flexible enough to accept the fact that the worker still has much to contribute. If you can weep for yourself, but not for others, you do njrt deserve to be wept for and will not be. In the modern world, nations increasingly adopt foreign cooking with eager palates; but they remain as reluctant to taste or chew foreign ideas as they are avid to cultivate exotic cuisines which indicates that the body has more sgnse in it than the mind. Never before in our century has the country been in greater need of Jacob Burckhardt's terse warning: "Beware th'e terrible simplifier." 1 Butsicaris A 'k JilIS0" NWi horoscope Bill Giles, Detroit-News-editor-turned editor-in-residence at Michigan "I'm interviewing for other things and will be traveling a lot but I don't particularly want to leave Michigan either.

Hey, it's nice to be free!" MEDIA MASH: John Tatum, who left WJLB-FM after a fisticuff fight with his boss James Alexander, is now suing the Booth American Co. (the station's owner) and Alexander himself for infliction of emotional distress all to the tune of $100,000. "We filed the suit this week in Wayne County Circuit Court," says Mike Lebow, Tatum's attorney Funny Sonny Eliot has a new gig on WWJ radio called "The Lighter Side of the News," for which he'll do take-offs on weird newspaper stories throughout the day. ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Birmingham's Chamber of Commerce members swirled to the Detroit Edison Enrico Fermi Power Plant in Newport Tuesday night with typical cheekiness. On the bus they dined on wine and cheese and a health-food lunch from a local deli, but that part of the lark ended when they hit the gates of this haven.

Signs everywhere read: "No smoking, drinking, spitting or eating." Next chi-chi field trip is a planned junket to the salt mines, and you can be sure din-din will be sodium free! (Oh, and I'll be back with more travels Thursday.) State University, traipsed to Ohio W1 state I Inivfirsitv last week to inter view for the prestigious job as director of the Kiplinger program (a graduate program for journalists), but he says he hasn't snagged a stint there yet: Williams "They invited me to spend a day and talk to the faculty, but at this point it's tentative." When Giles went to MSU after leaving the News, he signed up for a year, and it's now nearly up. He says he's sure MSU will invite him to stay on. In vol vein en sa islies TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: Involvements with friends, groups and social organizations color the year. Satisfaction comes later for all that has been accomplished. Practical considerations can affect your love life; try someone with a real sense of responsibility.

The best time to marry is in February, July or November. Business does well in April and September. Moves are best in July. ARIES (March 21 -April 1 9): Great news from higher-ups. Financial prosperity takes a great leap forward.

Discuss realistic issues in a serious relationship. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Check into investments, this may be a good time to sell them for profit. Be careful of over-indulgence in eating and drinking. GEMINI (May 21 -June 21): Your partner's financial picture improves. Successful creative projects make you feel good.

Behind-the-scenes help from an unexpected source. CANCER (June 22-July 22): This is an auspicious day for making an engagement, or for marriage. Business partnerships continue to prosper. Clarify your own feelings to be Big Georgel by Virgil Partch Be bold or you'll lose the day pot-Shots by Ashleigh Brilliant JC5- Bovd I'M THINKING OF QUITTING ALL MY i ff' ff lir WOULDN'T hurt a thing to wake up of a morning to this thing Goethe wrote: "Lose this day loitering; t'will be the same old story tomorrow, and the next day more dilatory Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days What you can do or think you can, begin it boldness has genius, power and magic in it." AM TOLD it's common among the tavern types in Puerto Rico to pour a splash of booze on the floor, too, for the benefit of the "spirits" thereabouts. THE JAPANESE are particularly fond of barbecued leg tendons of Born fjTf Jan.

26 JL k. ACTIVITIES, IM ORDER TO DEVOTE FULL TIME TO MY BOREDOM. beef. Dale Carnegie wrote "How to Win Friends and Influence People," one of the most successful self-help books ever published. What was his key premise? A There's only one way to get somebody else to do anything namely, make that somebody else want to do it, said he.

Edward Van Halen "Now let's not make a big flap about this it's just a simple stick-up." sure of them. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Personal success depends upon how well you deal with co-workers. Changes in the home, perhaps a move. Keep your wits about you in handling a ticklish situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Suppressed feelings of love come out in unexpected ways. Powerful attractions to the opposite sex inflame your imagination. Children influence your life more than before.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Make a major pur Pierce Brosnan is worn out, but back at work GUITARIST whose playing gives the rock band Van Halen its unique sound, along with its name. He's married to actress Valerie Bertinelli and was born in 1955. Dana Jackson VH Shlilcy EJeV i i I J.

1 Francis makes her legitimate theater debut. The Birmingham theater phones, we're told, are ringing off the hook for tickets to see Genie-in-person in a play. What's more, ticket requests are coming in from Toronto, St. Louis, Toledo, Chicago, and other places. Harry Nederlander, I told you you're gonna need a whole lot of extra parking space for those busloads of out-of-town "General Hospital" Genie "Laura" Francis Officially the show opens Tuesday, Jan.

31. Previews start on Friday. OSCAR BABBLE: Set as a presenter on the April 9 Oscarcast is our country's handsomest Ambassador United States Ambassador to Mexico, John Gavin. Also set to present (an Oscar not a car, this time) is Ricardo Montalban. Jack Haley how about having beautiful Constance Towers co-present with Gavin? They look great together.

Besides, they're married to each other. France's king of rock, Johnny Hallyday, recently welcomed a daughter, presented to him by his live-in love, actress Natalie fcaye. Pierce Brosnan, who collapsed suddenly last week in the middle of a scene for his "Remington Steele" series and was rushed by ambulance to the hospital, is back at work and A-OK. Seems Brosnan, who is in every episode and in almost every scene on the series, also was spending his weekends on the promo trail for NBC. The doctors told him that his collapse on the set was caused by exhaustion and a touch of flu.

He'll probably, for a while anyway, have to cut down on his 1-o-n-g work hours. SHIRLEBRITIES: Spoke to Linda Evans last night, who said there is absolutely no truth to those newspaper column items here and abroad claiming she's in the throes of a romance with Britain's Sir Gordon White. The rumor allegedly started in Gstaad where she spent Christmas. "I've never been out with him, Shirley! Oh, he sent me flowers, but I have not gone out with him!" keep reading and hearing that I'm meeting the man in Las Vegas this weekend, Towers: Great with Gavin Brosnan: A-OK now chase for the home that will increase its value. Start a savings program that will show large dividends.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Travel plans finally go through. Your indomitable will helps you meet a challenge successfully. A passionate encounter takes you by surprise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Financial schemes -look promising, beware pie-in-the-sky offers. Money comes from more than one source. Friends come to the rescue.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Major decisions about' money and relationships may overwhelm you; wait for velopments. Oil investments should be investigated. AQUARIUS (Jan.

20-Feb. 18): Secret love relationships should be guarded. Debts are paid back to you. An important person re-enters your life. PISCES (Feb.

19-Mar. 20). Acts of charity give you a sense of happiness. Join a new group to meet others. Feelings of optimism give you faith in the future.

t. at the Dean Martin ShowJoan Collins roast. That just isn't so, I won't even be there." What is so, however, is that the really lovely Linda Evans is now spokeswoman for Clairol and has completed a commercial for them. Also true is that Charles of the Ritz is coming out with a new fragrance to be called "Krystle," after Linda's character on "Dynasty." The cosmetic company is letting Evans and the Dynasty producers choose the scent. Michael and the Jacksons are finishing the new album they've been recording, leaving room only for one more song, the one to be performed on the album by Michael and Mick Jigger.

Whgfr Jagger completes the new Stones video in Mexico, he has promised to stop off in L.A. en route to New York, (to await the arrival of his baby with Jerry Hall) to do the number for the Jackson album. Was it ever worth being there just to see the excitment and look of joy on Genie Francis' face when she saw, for the first time, the marquee outside the Birmingham Theatre that reads: "Genie Francis in 'Crimes rf the This is the play in which Miss.