The Funnies Will Be A Little Less Outlandish
Adios, Opus. Bye-bye, Bill. So long, Steve. Sayonara, Ronald-Ann.
If you’re a fan of “Outland” on our Sunday comics page, you’d better enjoy it while you can. Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed has announced he’ll fold the 5-1/2-year-old strip following the March 26 installment.
“Any proper story has a beginning and an end. So, too, a comic strip,” said Breathed, 37, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his previous “Bloom County.”
“Eventually - soon, probably - I would be drawing for a paycheck. Paychecks are lovely things, but cartoonists die and go to cartoon hell for working beyond that magic intersection of art and fun.
“There are more stories to discover and, if permitted, I shall spend my life telling them in places other than the newspaper funny page.”
Loose talk
G. Gordon Liddy, to new Republican Rep. Sonny Bono of California: “If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.”
Honor him tomorrow, remember him forever
Martin Luther King Jr. would turn 66 today.
It really would be the crowning blow
Princess Diana isn’t too thrilled with the notion of Camilla Parker Bowles becoming a second mother to her sons. Said the Brit tabloid Today: “The one thing that would drive Diana into a fury is if she sees Charles and Camilla playing happy families with the boys.”
Madonna barely bothers dressing up at all
On the heels of her divorce announcement, Parker Bowles leads fashion maven Mr. Blackwell’s new list of worst-dressed women. The runners-up: Demi Moore, Heather Locklear, Roseanne, Ellen DeGeneres, romance novelist and Di stepgrandmother Barbara Cartland, Holly Hunter, Juliette Lewis, Fran Drescher and Madonna.
Some mammals develop a keen sense of style
Diana, on the other hand, made Blackwell’s ranks of the well-attired along with Sophia Loren, Sharon Stone, Princess Margaret, Barbara Walters, Madeleine Stowe, Pamela Harriman, Ivana Trump, Barbra Streisand and Winona Ryder.
At that rate, he’ll be bankrupt - nutritionally
Say what you want about John F. Kennedy Jr., but you can’t call him cheap. A waiter who recently served John-John at a trendy West Side cafe told People magazine: “He drank a ginger ale, ate a hard-boiled egg, asked for change for a hundred and left a $20 bill for an $8 check.”
They’re putting it next to the white Bronco
The sixth and final motor home Charles Kuralt used in his “On the Road” reports before he retired last year is headed for the Henry Ford Museum near Detroit. A spokesperson said the 29-foot FMC Motor Coach “is one of those important icons in popular culture.”
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino