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^vuumi Apartment Looking Crudely? Used Vacs $30 and up Carpet Shampooer Rental $16 with Student ID 2 720 RANDOLPH 418-1161 Boy bom to Jackson without complications LOS ANGELES <AP) - The King ofPopisapop. A healthy boy was bora about 1 a.m. Thursday to Michael Jackson and his wife, Debbie Rowe-Jackson, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a hos pital source told The Associated Press. It was a natural childbirth without complications, said the source, speak ing on condition of anonymity. The Jacksons, with their newborn, left Cedars-Sinai about 8 am, destination unknown, the source said. The name and weight of the baby weren’t im mediately available. Hospital spokesman Ron Wise said he was unable to confirm the infor mation. Reporters, photographers and fans waited outside the hospital, while six uniformed guards stood watch in the lobby to keep the media out. Other guards were posted in the third-floor maternity unit. “We’re just here to support Michael and defend him against all the nasty people in the press,” fan Helen Brown said outside the build ing Wednesday. “I want Michael to know we’re out here pulling for him.” Jackson announced last November that Rowe-Jackson, then a nurse at one of his doctor’s offices, was six months pregnant with his child. The couple wed later that month. Jackson and his first wife, Lisa Marie Presley, divorced earlier last year. Jackson denied a report in a Lon don tabloid that the couple used arti ficial insemination and that Rowe Jackson was paid $528,000 to carry the baby. Another tabloid reported Jackson would pay his wife $ 1.24 million when the child was bom and $2.3 million for custody if they get divorced. DOUGLAS THEATRE CO. 44 Years of Excellence! FREEH! FREEH! A supply of return address labels * Previously Rented Movies * ' Send SASE for list of available titles. Waikee, POB 9212S-DNI, Imhiitry. CA 91715 http://www.geodties/hoUywood/6038 IS. PADRE ■ incfln^Ms MmA - **- IWm aail m m D< ■_ MOUNTAIN DEW and PEPSI slush Texaco Aft 17th & Vine ... Mimes bring world-renowned act to Lied From Staff Reports The imaginative mime trio of Mummenschanz will bring its spec tacle of a show to the Lied Center Sat urday night. Ever since the group originated in 1969, it has been sharing its repertoire of mime, dance, puppetry and magi cal trickery with dazzled audiences Couples celebrate day of romance in tort 0^ VALENTINE (AP)—Valentine’s Day is a day for loving couples and for newlyweds, especially here in the “heart city.” Four couples will take the plunge today in this town that shares its name with the holiday. “Hey, what’s more romantic than getting married in Valentine on Valentine’s Day?” said Dean Jacobs, executive Director of the Valentine Chamber of Commerce. Some yeans the town has as many as six weddings on 'Valentine’s Day. The chorus of “I do”s will begin at the Chamber office at 1 pm when Jeremy Olson asks Holly McMullen for her hand in marriage. Olson and McMullen are from the Valentine area, but Jacobs said that is not the norm. “Actually, most are not local couples,” he said. Two of Friday’s couples-to-be are from South Dakota. Paul Dietrich will marry Dorothy Grayson at 2:30 p.m. and Dezmond Redday and Vianna Elk Lodes Back will wed at 3 pjn. Grand Island resident Diana Qttman will many her fiance at4 pjn. Jacobs didn’t know Ottman’s fiance’s name, and Ottman has not applied for her marriage licese in the Cherry County Clerk’s office yet. “We get all kinds of people—from young newlyweds to 50-year-olds,” Jacobs said. About 20,000other romantic souls have sent their Valentine’s Day cards to Valentine for its special postmark — “Valentine, Nebraska. The Heart City.” Letters come from Japan, Austra lia and England, as well as all over the United States, Jacobs said. For those not posting letters or get ting married, there are other ways to celebrate this heart-throbbing holiday in Valentine. There will be a Sweetheart Dance Friday, and the 51st annual high school coronation will be Sunday. The high school festivities include a dance and the crowning of the king and queen of heaits. Local artists compete in a contest to design the official Valentine card. The city has sold out this year after selling 3,000 cards. across the world. Simply calling Mummenschanz a group of mimes is almost insulting as the three performers offer not only mime but a wide array of acrobatics, contortionism, mimicry, dance and balancing acts, and are well-known for their ability to shock audiences by pulling out the unexpected at any moment. Mummenschanz not only has toured throughout the Americas, Eu rope and Asia, but has also performed for three years at the Bijou Theatre on Broadway. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Box Office for $26, $22 and $18. Student tickets are half-price. Vaughn returns to KFRX as morning Donut Hole VAUGHN from page 11 “We were looking far someone and it was becoming apparent that he wanted to come home,” Sonny Valentine, program director at KFRX said. Vaughn, who graduated from UNL in 1992 with a degree in broadcasting, started the Donut Holes show at KFRX with London in the summer of 1995. Now that London’s gone, the re maining Donut Holes are looking to fill the vend. They began taking auditions last Friday on a recorded line. This week, callers had the op portunity for an on-air audition. Five finalists will be chosen later. KFRX listeners will vote cm which Donut Hole hopeful they like best. The turnover rate among morn ing show hosts in Lincoln and Omaha has been comparable to a mini-soap opera during the past year. “It’s funny, but it’s like that ev erywhere,” Vaughn said. “People switch stations for better money. And not everyone can do a good job at morning shows — those people are hard to find.” « People switch sta tions for better money. And not everyone can do a good job at morn ing shows — those people are hard to find.” Andy Vaughn disc jockey t Valentine said that in the first few days of Vaughn’s return, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. And Vaughn said he was happy to be back, too. “I’ll be here awhile,” Vaughn said. “The only bad part’s the weather.” . It’s all relative: Einstein comes alive at The Futz EINSTEIN from page 11 Hall brings out Einstein’s goofy side often, whether he’s playing the violin badly or demonstrating the theoretician’s favorite party trick: tak ing off his vest without taking off his jacket. Or sharing his philosophies: “Time is too important to waste on triviali ties,” he says, lifting his pant leg. Then, grinning, “That’s why I’ve given up wearing socks!” Props in the cozy Futz performing space are necessarily limited. But there’s the usual whimsy to be found in all of director Paul Pearson’s cre ations —like the scratched-out equa tion on a piece of paper stuck to the wall: e=mc3. * The pieces of paper all over the wall are themselves jokes—meant as a tribute to the expensive “Tom Note book” sculpture on Q Street. “Ours cost about 30 cents,” Pearson joked. “Einstein: A Stage Portrait" con tinues tonight, Saturday and Feb. 20 23. Performances are at 8 pjn. at The Futz, inside the Mission Arts Build ing at 124 S. 9th St. For reservations, call 435-6307. Tickets are $10 unless you ask for a coupon, in which case they're $8. But remember — you have to ask, Pearson said. “If they don’t ask, I'm gonna charge 'em 10 bucks.”
