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Miss Molly
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SATURDAY 10/14
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My grandmother is a
witch. And it must be genetic,
because 1 think my mom is
one, too.
It doesn’t really bother me,
mostly because I’m largely
skeptical and I’ve managed to
stay on their good side.
But my mother, Samantha,
learned some tricks from En-
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dora, my grandmother, about how to make
people’s backs itch without touching them.
My mom had a great time twitching her
finger in the direction of fellow passengers on
train rides when she lived in New York.
She could also focus on people during ten
nis matches to make them win. I played ten
nis for a while, but only my dad ever came to
see me, and when he did, I fell down and
broke my wrist.
But the point is, that today is Friday the
13th, a day when witches and bad luck and all
that other eerie crap makes us think. Having
grown up around witches, I should be some
what aware of the strange and mysterious
forces at work today.
But there is nothing special about Friday
the 13th. People like to say it’s special — “It
only happens like twice a year, man.”
But guess what, Friday the 28th comes just
as rarely, and they haven’t
even made a movie about
that day yet.
But someone will have a
crappy day today and say,
“Well, it figures. It’s Friday
the 13th, you know.”
Once I heard this spooky
story about someone who
had a bad day, and it wasn’t
even Friday the 13th.
Samantha and Fndora may hex me for say
ing this, but chalking up bad luck to mysteri
ous cosmic forces is a little childish.
Yet, we still believe.
Psychic hotlines won’t survive without
making new friends. Astrologers can o^ily get
rich if they strike a few lucky chords with the
people with deep pockets.
But no one makes money by telling people
to control their own destiny, to suck it up and
to live life for what it is. Well, no one except
the makers of Forrest Gump, maybe.
Even worse than blaming a calendar for
bad luck is the ancient art of chain mail.
No one really makes money on the scheme,
mostly it just exists for annoyance.
I got a letter last summer that said St.
Jude had started this whole phenomenon by
placing good luck into a letter.
Then it fell into the hands ofsomewiti
probably a relative, who passed
friends to keep the chain growing.
Among the people who linked up
chain were the Lucky Charms
Buster I )ouglass and O.J. Simpson
One guy followed the letter’s instnidii
and won S3 gazillion in the lottery, ;
But another unlucky soul threw the!*
away only to have his girlfriend dumpht,
and a piano fall on his head.
Miraculously I have survived.
I stared at the letter for a while. 1 won
dered what terrible woe would befallme»i
I threw it away. A||H|
But then I thought about the millionsol
people who have probably thrown thelette
away since Jude’s time who didn’t getther
stories included in the letter’s history.
For example, Bob may havethrowni:
and stubbed his toe the very nextday.Ma;-
a really old guy got the letter anddiedofa
heart-attack soon after. These strangec«:q
fences were omitted, and for what?
1 have an idea, but it seems pretty silly.!
might be because luck is what you maked
life, not the other way around.
Michael a ndauer is a jr,
journalism a
PEOPLE IN
Bergman rewarded for
his long-lasting love
NEW YORK (AP) — Ingmar
Bergman’s boyhood love for Lil
lian Gish had a happy ending: a
$200,000 award from the late
actress’ estate.
The 77-year-old Swedish direc
tor is this year’s recipient of the
Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
Gish, who died in 1993, creat
ed the honor in her will, stipu
lating that it go to a person
“who has made an outstanding
contribution to the beauty of the
world and to mankind’s enjoy
ment and understanding of life”
through the arts.
Linn Ullmann, Bergman’s
daughter with actress Ldv Ull
mann, collected the award
Wednesday on his behalf. She
read a statement from him
thanking Gish and noting that,
at age 9, Bergman fell in love
with the actress after seeing her
in a film.
“Ever since that Monday
night in March, nearly 70 years
ago, I have tenderly preserved
my young love for Lillian,”
Bergman said.
Bassett found late
filming strange
E NEWS
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Filming Strange Days made for
some strange nights for Angela
Bassett.
An early-to-bed type, she
said she found the nighttime
film schedule on the Los Ange
les streets grueling.
“There were all these people
in these outrageous outfits,”
she said of an army of extras.
“And half of them, that’s the
life they live. Those are the hours
they’re up anyway. I mean, you
would think these extras would
Bassett
be exhausted,
but they
seemed to be
perfectly com
fortable with
that after-
hours kind of
living.”
The film, co-
starring Ralph
Fiennes, re
volves around
a series of
murders
recorded on a new type of video
device that allows users to relive
the memories of others.
Bassett, whose portrayal of
Tina Turner in What’s Love Got
to do With It won an Oscar
nomination, said she was
pleased with Strange Days.
“Just as an actress, and then
as a black actress, to be this hero
for the 21st century in this big ac
tion thriller, that’s pretty amaz
ing and exciting,” she said.
Miss America goes
home for celebrai
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TULSA, Okla. (AP)-
America Shawntel Smitli
home to Oklahoma for thtii
time since winning them
last month.
“I have been countin'
days until I came back to
homa,” the 24-year-old
Smith told a crowd ol
Wednesday that included
aunts, uncles and friends.
Her tiny hometown:
Muldrow on the Oklahoi
Arkansas border is throii
her a parade Saturday.
The number of floats has
creased from 25 to 85 in
past two weeks.
“My mom told me t
have to double up the entne
it won’t take two to tin
hours,” she said at a newsc
ference Thursday.
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