KISS from page 12_
tume bit (Houndstooth, leopard shirt,
fuzzy green hat) is comic enough you:
just havetolaugh each time you see it
Add in Craig Bierko making his
frim debut as a twisted, sick and effec
tive villian named Timothy, and the
cast of characters rounds out well.
There were many opportunities for
this film to slip. It could have been too
comic and not enough action. It could
have been too much action and no com
edy. It could have taken itself too seri
ously. It did none of these things.
I don’t think I’ve ever walked out
of a film and seriously hoped that a
sequel was in the works, but “The Long
Kiss Goodnight” proves that there’s a
first time for everything.
Sam Charly
New McDonald's has beefhess mem
NEW DELHI, India (AP) —
McDonald's first Indian restaurant,
and its first in the world with no beef
on the menu, opened Sunday in
New Deihi with a traditional Hindu
ceremony and a rush of enthusias
tic customers.
O.P. Sahani, a 75-year-old re
tired civil servant, said he came all
the wayfrotn Vrindavan, 90 mites
south of New Delhi, to show his
support for the effort made by
McDonald's to do business with
India.
“They have not brought raw ma
terials from overseas,” Sahani said,
proudly wearing a red-and-yellow
McDonald’s cap.
Other customers didn’t seem all
that interested in the fact the mut
ton for Maharaja Macs came from
Indian sheep, the potatoes for the
fries from Indian farms and the
Coke from an Indian bottler.
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“As long as the food's good, I
don’t care,” said 19-year-old
Pankresh Mathur. Mathur, his teen
age brother and two cousins
crowded around a table, showing
the rest of thediners just how fast a
Maharaja Mac could be consumed.
Other foreign restaurants in In
dia, including U.S.-based Pizza Hut
and KFC^have been targets of dem
onstrations and vandalism orga
nized by Indians who insist on self
sufficiency. There were no {notests
at McDonald’s Sunday.
Vikram Bakshi, an Indian real
estate magnate who formed a part
nership with McDonald’s to open
the New Delhi restaurant, served
mutton instead of beef because
some 80 percent of his countrymen
are Hindu, a religion whose adher
ents don’t eat beef and believe cows
are a sacred symbol of the source
oflife.
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per, beftns, coriander and other 1
spices. Vegetable McNuggets were i
bite-sized, unspiced versions of the
vegetable patties, served with \ .
McMasala and other Indian-spiced
sauces.
Bakshi brake a coconut on the
threshold of his restaurant and his
wife and three daughters lit incense i
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Sahani, a strict vegetarian who
was the first customer, praised the ‘
Vegetable Burgers, but had one
word of advice for Bakshi:
. “It was nice, but you require
some improvement in the potato
chips,” he said, describing the fries
as “too soft.”
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Shields, Agassi differ j
over number of kids
to have after wedding
NEW YORK (AP) — Brooke
Shields wants three children, while her
fiance Andre Agassi is hoping to field
a team.
“I’d like to be married for a little
while before we have kids,” Shields
said in the Oct 19 issue of TV Guide.
Once die’s ready for children, the ques
tion will be: how many?
“I think men always go into the
higher numbers because they’re not the
ones going through the actual process
and they just think of a brood,” said
Shields, star of the new hit NBC
sitcom, “Suddenly Susan.”
“It’s their mentality,” she said.
‘“Let’s have more. Let’s have a team!’
They think in terms of teams. I think.
three would be great.”
Mum is the word on when the TV
star will marry the tennis pro.
“We won't be a perpetually en
gaged couple, that’s for sure,” said
Shields, 31, adding she hopes for a
paparazzi-free wedding.
“Hopefully, I’ll do this just once...
Hopefully, it won’t be destroyed by the
press,” she said. “Just the (me day that
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mu want to not give away to anybody
;lse.”
‘Surviving Picasso’
depicts negative side
of artist’s personality
NEW YORK (AP)—James Ivory
disclaims any desire to bring the great
man down, even though critics have
suggested his film “Surviving Picasso”
depicts the great artist as mercurial,
philandering and even miserly and
mean.
“This is the way he was. We all
know he was probably the century’s
greatest artist. Everybody knows that,”
the director said. “Everyone accepts
that. And it would be silly to imply
anything other than that.
“But sometimes he was this man
who behaved the way he did towards
people.”
Should allowances be made for ge
nius?
“People do make allowances,” said
Ivory, a three-time Oscar nominee.
“That’s why you have a story like this.
Of course, you make allowances. Ge
nius is part ofthe attraction.”
Skaters perform atop
fountains at Caesars
Palace for TV special
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Olympic
gold medal skater Scott Hamilton has
this thing about the fountains at Caesars
Palace.
In 1985, he was shot from a can
non across the fountains adorning the
front of the Sunset Strip resort. The
stunt was part of the TV show “Circus
of the Stars.”
Friday night Hamilton was skating
on a giant ice rink built over the foun
tains, clowning for a TV special as a
gold chain-bedecked Las Vegas lounge
lizard, drawing a standing ovation from
a crowd of 3,000.
The ice rink, half the size of a foot
ball field, was crafted last week, with
temperatures hovering in the mid-90s.
“Too Hot To Skate,” scheduled to
air on CBS in January, features skat
ing stars Oksana Baiul, Michelle
Kwan, Viktor Petrenko, Katarina Witt,
Rosalynn Sumners, Kurt Browning,
Todd Eldredge, Nicole Bobek and Thra
Lipinski.
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