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Horoscope and Bridge Page 2D Movie Guide Page 2D Ann Landers Page 3D Comics Pages 7-8D tlte WW wc Section Monday, July 6, 1998 Call The Way We Live 1-313-222-6610 Detroit ifrce Vxtm mmA live 1 w' 3 'Rapunzel' art. took years -and looks it By Linnea Lannon Free Press Book Editor (aul Zelinsky is not exactly a stranger to the American Library Association's Caldecott awards, the Pulitzer Prizes of the children's book publish ing world. Since he began illustrating books 20 years ago, the 45-year-old author and artist has won three Caldecott Honor awards for illustration for "Hansel Gretel," "Rumpel-stiltskin" and Anne Isaac's "Swamp Angel." This year he won the Caldecott Medal itself for the complex, richly detailed art in "Rapunzel" (button, which he also wrote, and he recently told the nation's librarians it was a moment he had "staged in my imagination, any number of times, when I've needed cheering up." NICO TOUTENHOOFDDetrolt Free Press David Franklin of Warren won the "Drew Mike Death Pool" last month and even composed a death pool song for the WRIF-FM morning radio show. He credits a rating system he devised with helping him predict this year's passing of Henny Youngman, Pol Pot and Frank Sinatra. Listening to Zelinsky, who will be in the Detroit area this week, talk about what he does, it's clear that illustrating is something he takes very seriously.

Seriously enough that he might need cheering up when, as with "Rapunzel," it takes years to get right "I think there can be extremely good 1 picture books that don't function as visual art," says Zelinsky, 'RapunzeP by Paul Zelinsky Speaking and signing: Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield in Oak Park, 7 p.m. Wednesday Halfway Down tj the Stairs, 114 E. Fourth St in Rochester, 7 p.m. Thursday "3 The Pistons' Rick Mahorn will be tossing bridal bouquets Tuesday at Hart Plaza. CAN YOU CATCH? Bouquet toss has beaucoup prizes Head down to Hart Plaza on Tuesday for the Big Toss.

That's when as many as 500 people will try to catohx one of 32 bridal bouquets, one of which holds a wedding dowry valued at more than $25,000. Rick Mahorn of the Detroit Pistons and Miss Michigan USA Shannon Clark, along with a 16-member wedding party, will throw the bouquets starting at 12:15 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Romance Classics cable TV network and Brides magazine. Detroit is one of 12 cities where the Big Toss is being held. Just by showing up, you get a gift bag full of goodies and can register to win his and hers Ford Escort ZX2s.

For more information, call 1-800-274-3374, code 30, anytime. WIRING THE WOMB Device lets mom listen in on fetus It looks like a Walkman, but this headset provides a different kind of sound. Bebe Sounds is for pregnant women who want to listen in on their baby. -Place the monitor on your abdomen and Bebe Sounds amplifies your baby's hiccups and heartbeat especially in the second trimester. Hook it up to a tape recorder for a permanent record.

The suggested price is $29.99 and it's available at Babies 'R' Us, Toys 'R' Us and some Burlington Coat Factory locations. For more information, call 1-8004300222, 8 a.m.-5p.m. weekdays. TIME TO GET ALONG Group wants exes to be nice in July Yes, there's a month for everything, and July is National Get Along with Your Ex month. Organizers hope to register 10,000 parents to take their pledge.

Here's the pledge: "Although I'm no longer in a committed relationship with my children's other parent I will make every effort to be a good ex and to maintain a working relationship with him or her for the sake of our children. I promise to be a person of honor and character, taking the high road as often as possible, even when I don't feel like it and regardless of how my ex behaves. I swear." For more information, log on at www.freeyellow Compiled by Staff Writer John Tanasychuk If (llfp I Imp Warren man excels at the endgame as celebrity death pools take to the radio, the office and the Internet who has read some of them to his daughters, now 10 and 14. "They can work with children, have emotional resonance for them, but they're not extraordinary pieces of visual art The real essence of a book is in storytelling. But there's no reason you can't have both.

That's been my ambition." What Zelinsky labors over the verticals and horizontals in a picture, a precise shade of yellow most readers, whether children or adults, don't really notice. "If I've gotten it everyone will feel it," says Zelinsky, speaking slowly and carefully from his home in New York, the cat pictured in his book meowing behind him. How the tension or drama in a picture is achieved as when the prince enters Rapun-zel's tower matters to the artist, but not to the reader, who most likely only recognizes that Rapunzel looks frightened, which she should be, having never seen a man before. What's perhaps most interesting about Zelinsky is the wide range of books he's illustrated from Beverly Cleary's Newbery-winning "Dear Mr. Henshaw" to the toddler must-have pop-up book, "The Wheels on the Bus." "I've recently decided that I should be recognized by my unrecog-nizability," says Zelinsky dryly.

That range works for and against him, says Cammie Mannino, whose Halfway Down the Stairs in Rochester will host Zelinsky on Thursday night. "The quality of his work is extremely high," she says, but it's not Please see ZEUNSKY, Page 4D ByJohnSmyntek Free Press Staff Writer Death, it appears, becomes us. Comedian Milton Berle celebrates his 90th birthday Sunday, but hundreds, maybe thousands, maybe even millions who have joined in an office or Internet death pool have lots more interest in the to-be-determined date when Berle will pardon the crudity buy the farm. That's because that will be the date when their ship will come in. The pools have largely replaced baseball 13-run pools and some rotisserie baseball operations, says the Detroit-area king of the macabre, David (Death Pool Dave) Franklin.

Those were office diversions, a way to kill 15 minutes or more with semi-profitable and in this instance, often tasteless fun. "The only thing that's stated is that it's not a wish list It's a prediction list" Franklin said. Why the turn from baseball pools? "Hey, we never went on strike," said referring to baseball's 1994 labor debacle. A 35-year-old Warren resident, he works as director of reimbursement for a local health-care organization. How do the pools work? The simplest ones ask you to pick the people who'll die in a specified time Please see POOL, Page 4D WEB SITES AND FRANKLIN'S SYSTEM, PAGE 4D No peace for Woodstock '98 I'l "We are Stardust we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." from "Woodstock," by Joni Mitchell V.

What's Going On? Tell us by E-mail: By phone: 1-313-222-6848 By fax: 1-313-222-5397 By mall: What's Going On Detroit Free Press 321 W. Lafayette Detroit 48226 Today's entertainment events: The List! Page 60. Officials in the town of Bethel, the New York' State Police and private promoters are preparing to seal off the concert site and at least part of the surrounding area in order to stage "A Day in the Garden," featuring some of the legendary music festival's original acts. The event is set for Aug. 14-15, the 29th anniversary of the first Woodstock.

Ticket sales are limited to 30,000 for each day of the event, modest against the estimated 1969 turnout of 400,000 to 500,000. Please see WOODSTOCK, Page 4D ByJayJochnowttz Albany Times Union ETHEL, N.Y. Neither star-Jj) dust nor gold will get pilgrims to the garden this year. (J Only with a $69.98 ticket and mmS proper credentials will outsiders get near the natural amphitheater on Max Yasgui's farm, the site of the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969. Rapunzel looks scared because she has never seen a man before.

In 1969, Woodstock attracted many dirt-poor hippies. In 1998, organizers are trying to attractwell-heeled baby boomers..