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urgical scrub suits show up
on people in parks, on bikes,
meandering in supermart aisles,
at the movies, on the beach, be
hind the wheel of pickups, puf
fing along the jogging trail —
almost anywhere.
Oh, yes. They also show up
on doctors, nurses and other
types assigned to operating
room duty in the nation's 6,000
hospitals. The original purpose
of a surgical scrub suit.
While they're showing up at
all these non-hospital places,
sometimes a surgeon searches
in vain for one inside a hospital,
claims a report in "Hospitals,"
journal of the American Hospit
al Association.
The fact that scrub suits are
showing up as a "hot" fashion
item all too often pains hospitals
in the cashbox, too, says the re
port.
The situation is expected to
worsen. The report says fashion
trendsetters even predict the
scrub suit may replace the west
ern look.
That may be so. But to say the
scrub suits are a "hot" fashion
item means more than they are
popular — in too many cases, it
means they're stolen.
Authorities say stolen scrub
suits are costing individual hos
pitals thousands of dollars a
year. The pilferage has led to
some elaborate procedures to
end the drain — including
machine-dispensing of the out
fits. One such machine is acti
vated by an authorized person's
plastic card.
The machine was imported
after several years of success in
hospitals in Europe. It is called
Autovalet.
"Much like the now popular
automated bank tellers, the
Autovalet works 24 hours a day,
7 days a week, dispensing scrub
uniforms to staff members and
recording frequency of use," the
"Hospitals" report said.
"Once the uniform is re
turned to the Autovalet's soiled-
linen chute, laundered, and re
placed on its hanger, the em
ployee is credited for the re
turned garment."
The popularity of scrub suits
also has led a hospital supplier
to turn out scrub suits for retail
fashion outlets.
Superior Surgical Manufac
turing Company, the firm mak
ing the suits for retail outlets,
claims comfort is the main
reason people hanker after oper
ating room togs. Superior's
Spencer Cohen, a vice presi
dent, says it's a lot of hogwash
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relation Luke has to Vader as his
son?
If Vader really is Luke's father
why didn't Ben Kenobi tell him?
What is to be gained? When Ben
is telling Luke about his father
and Vader he talks as if they are
definitely two different people.
If this is true, then Ben's be
havior is understandable. But if
Vader really is Luke's father,
why didn't Ben tell Luke? Of
course he wouldn't have told
What is Darth
Vader's real
identity? (or who is
that behind those
Foster Grant's?)
Luke too early on, to save him
from the shock, but how about
later on the planet in the Dago-
bah system?
Surely Ben could see enough
into the future to know that
Vader might reveal this fact to
Luke during battle and use it
during a weak moment on
Luke's part to seduce him over
to the dark side of the force. Ben
would have wanted to prepare
Luke for the shock of this news
should it be used, wouldn't he?
Wouldn't he have told Luke ab
out his father while Luke was
trying to decide whether to in-
terupt his jedi training in order
to go and save his friends?
Knowing Vader was his father
might convince Luke that he
must be a completely trained
jedi knight in order to face him.
Luke mentions while on
Yoda's planet that it seems
familiar, like in a dream, like
he's been there before. Has he?
Maybe Luke is also a clone of his
father, growing up from a child,
which would explain why he
feels he has been on the planet
before, training with Yoda, and
why the face inside Vader's
mask looks like him.
Another big question that
needs answering is who is "the
other" hope Yoda mentions? Is
this hope someone who will de
feat the Empire or is it someone
with another long-term mission
in mind? The Emperor has
forseen that it will be Luke that
defeats him but then what is the
mission of "the other?"
One popular belief is that "the
other" is Princess Leia. After aU,
she did hear Luke's mental plea
for help as he hung on the
underside of the cloud city.
Maybe she has the force and will
develop into the Rebellion's
savior. Probably not. Not from
this assumption alone, anyway.
She may have heard Luke when
he called, but there really wasn't
anyone else available. Han Solo
was already carbon frozen and
you couldn't really expect the
wookie or Lando Calrissian to
hear him. Leia probably hears
him because of the close mental
tie that friendship brings, not
because she is the last hope of
the Force. But maybe.
George Lucas has said in in
terviews in Rolling Stone and
Starlog that the audience has to
remember that it only knows
two parts of a nine part series
(three trilogies). One trilogy
takes place before episode four
("Star Wars"). Another trilogy
takes place after episode six
("Revenge of the Jedi").
The "other" may be someone
we have no knowledge of yet,
who either makes his appear
ance in the first trilogy, or does
not show up until the last one.
That may explain why Yoda,
with his 800-year lifespan, is
privy to information that Ben
Kenobi isn't, so it may not be
possible to guess accurately at
this time. Wouldn't that be a
wonderful question to end "Re
venge of the Jedi" on?
Lucas has also said that the
"other" will be someone fairly
obvious to the audience, that
once they find out will say to
themselves "Oh, it's him, we
should have guessed that." This
doesn't help matters any.
If Princess Leia turns out to be
the "other", the Rebellion's sal
vation, think for a moment of
the repercussions. George
Lucas is almost single-handedly
responsible for the resurgence
of science fiction and fantasy in
the motion picture business.
The video game market is
actually an offshoot of this boom
and the games are for the most
part a direct reflection of Star
Wars.
Lucas's impact is tremendous
and the way we think of space,
video games and the box office
these days is due a lot to him.
Remembering all of this, what
happens if he makes the big
hero of his epic a woman, Prin
cess Leia? What if she is really to
become a Jedi knight and the
ultimate savior of the universe?
How will that affect how we
think of women? Of ERA? Will
children growing up now use
Leia as a role model and think it
possible that anyone can be a
hero, regardless of their sex? If
you'll pardon the pun, Star
Wars could be a real force for
equality.
Still, the "other" could still
wind up being the wookie,
Lando Calrissian, Jaba the Hut
or Darth Vader himself, so none
of this may help.
Do you get the idea that Darth
Vader does not know that Yoda
trained Luke and not Ben Keno
bi? Vader mentions several
times that Ben cannot help Luke
now. Vader doesn't even seem
But if Vader really
is Luke's father,
why didn't Ben tell
Luke?
to know about Yoda. It's possi
ble. Ben Kenobi, while training
Darth Vader, may have never
mentioned Yoda, and may have
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had no intention to until after
Vader was supposed to have
overcome the dark side of the
Force, which eventually over
came him. That makes you think
that if Vader did know of Yoda
he would have tried to destroy
him and his planet with the
Deathstar or the Imperial hard
ware of the Empire. Then Luke
would have been small pota
toes.
What does Jaba the Hut want
with Han Solo? Just money?
Doesn't seem likely now. Maybe
Jaba has a bigger scheme. Who
knows?
All of these questions are
asked with the understanding
that the movie plots are very
changing things, and that ques
tions are not answered to in
crease suspense and because
answers haven't been figured
out yet by the writers. Just don't
let your expectations keep you
from enjoying "Revenge of the
Jedi" when it comes out because
you guessed wrong.
And now to answer the big
gest question: who cares? Well
look at all the excitement caused
Another big
question that needs
answering is who is
"the other" hope
Yoda mentions?
by trying to figure out who shot
J.R. last year. Who cares? You
might. Ask me again the sum
mer of 1983. After all, no one's
going to "force" you to find out.
COLLAGE
Annie at home in old mansion
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. — After decades of childish
antics on the funny pages. Little Orphan Annie finally went to
college this summer.
But it was a movie set, not a diploma, that the lovable orphan
sought.
For the film version of the musical "Annie," producers spent
months seeking an appropriately lavish mansion to house Dad
dy Warbucks, the benevolent billionaire who becomes Annie's
benefactor. Finally, on what production designer Dale Hennesy
described as a last-ditch trip, they viewed Shadow Lawn, the
limestone mansion originally built for a dime-store magnate but
now the centerpiece of the Monmouth College campus.
For Hennesey, its 130 rooms, 2,500-square-foot main hall, and
elaborate marble, wood and mirrored trimmings were a dream
come true. Shadow Lawn, with its 300-seat theater, 17 master
suites designed on international themes, gymnasium, bowling
alleys and outdoor-nine-hole golf course, quickly became the
setting for over half of the "Annie" filming.
The mansion was dressed up, polished and furnished in the
Warbucks manner, much to the delighted surprise of Mon
mouth students, who are used to attending class in essentially
bare rooms.
"We just took the place for granted until they brought in the
furniture," said one Monmouth student. "When I saw it all set
up, I said 'Wow! Has this been here all the time?"'
—- Collegiate Hedlines
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