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Page 4B/ r The Battalion/Wednesday, May 25, 1988 Dressed for success Photo by Mike C. Mulvey Second Platoon Sargeant Adam Coe, a junior from San Antonio man general studies major Brandon Davis of San Antonio. Both are studying environmental design, inspects the uniform fitting of fresh- members of Company K-2. Family’s collection of Disney items expands to slowly take over home RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — Willie and Tobie Hislope’s obsessive hobby is slowly taking over their home. The Hislopes said they started collecting Dis ney characters for their son Will when he was born three years ago. Since then, the collection has grown to more than a thousand pieces. “We never really knew we’d get that involved with it,” Hislope said. “Now, everywhere I go that’s the first thing I look for,” he said. The collection includes banks, small figures, matchbox cars, games, cameras, socks, lamps, rattles, bubble pipes and also a menagerie of stuffed animals. The couple said they display most of the col lection in their son’s room, but they have already had to move the boy to bigger quarters. Even so, there is still not enough space to display« every thing. “We built shelves all^the way around his bed room and covered them,” Mrs. Hislope said. “And we’ve got a china cabinet full of it,” her husband added. Hislope said they look for the Disney items ev erywhere, from yard sales to antique malls. His wife added that lots of people collect Dis ney items. “We’re not really serious about it, but it’s one of the main things you look for when you go any where,” Hislope said. “We didn’t go out and spend hundreds of dol lars on stuff,” he said. Mrs. Hislope said the most expensive item they purchased was the Mickey Mouse 60th birthday plate they bought on their recent trip to Disney World. The plate cost about $35. They know that while many of the items in iheir collection are only worth what they paid for them, the collection’s value will increase with time. “By the time he’s older and has kids, it will really be worth something,” Mrs. Hislope said. ‘It’s kind of a fun thing we started to do that one day may be worth something to him.” Sesame Street ( makes ready fo 20th year on Ttl LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 20th season of PBS’ “Sesame Street,” be ginning this November, will lead up to the birth of a baby for Maria and Luis, two of the characters who mar ried last season. This season will also mark the 20th anniversary of two of the show’s charter cast members — singer-actor Bob McGrath and Car- oil Spinney, the man inside Big Bird. They recalled their beginnings on the now historic PBS children’s se ries at a recent news conference. “When I first heard about it, I didn’t think 1 wanted to be involved with a new children’s show, because there was nothing that exciting in terms of children’s shows at that point,” said McGrath, who had been featured on the Mitch Miller show and joined “Sesame Street” in 1969. “But when I saw some of the film and animation that Jim Henson and some of the other people had done, I knew this was really something quite out of the ordinary from what had been on television before.” The producers of the show expect to add new graphics and use more films, including ones by director Jonathan Demme and photogra pher-artist William Wegman, this season, a likely response to the trend toward multimedia kids’ shows like “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” One of the major episodes last season was the wedding of charac ters Luis and Maria. This season’s fi nale will be the birth of their baby. The producers hope to see the baby grow up on the show. Producer-di- rector I.isa Simon said a search is on for expectant parents who would be willing to let the show follow their child’s growth. Big Bird has become the show’s biggest star, but he didn’t start out that way, Spinney said. A peripheral character in the early episodes, he was sort of “the village idiot,” Spinney said. “One day, I realized he was really a child,” said Spinney. “One of the scripts said he had to go to day care or something. So I said, we really should play him as a child.” Big Bird came to embody “all the fears of children and thing! have to learn — a wide-eyed v the world,” Spinney said. "He ually learned to read and wriii so he grew from 4, which was the beginning, to S'/a, tv(| where he stays.” Spinney carefully protect! Bira’s real identity from little dren, but admits when he g child toting one of the bigv dolls, “I keep wanting to sai know, (he goes into Big Bird'i voice) 'Hey, I do that!’ Spinney had been into pupj, since he was a child. McGratl “He (Big Bird) gradk learned to read and id and so he grew from- which I felt he was the: ginning, to 6‘A, whicll where he stays. ” — Carol 1 Spinney, mat- side Bigij intended to have a career entc, ing adults as a singer, but whet music began to take over thti ness, he decided he would take another path. fo Both said the rewards of vj for children are great, but theta sometimes exasperating. so: ad McGrath does a lot ol cod and benefits as his “Sesame d character. Children, he said, wonderful audience. First ( they’re very, very honest. I little girl in Vancouver somd ago. I was shaking hands aftenl cert. 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