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BC-Kup 2takes 03-02
Editors: Following is Kup's column on places and personalities
By IRV KUPCINET
(c) 1979 Chicago Sun-Times
    The startling victory of Jane Byrne, the ayatollah of Chicago
politics, proved once again that our democracy works and the people
have the power. Not even a political organization as entrenched as
the Democratic machine could stonewall a populace aroused for a
number of reasons, largely stemming from Super Snow. Jane was
fortunate to be at the right place at the right time, while the
converse was true for Mayor Michael A. Bilandic. We congratulate
Byrne, who emerges as a folk hero in her ''David vs. Goliath''
triumph, even though we thought the city would be better served by
Bilandic. He was gracious in defeat, a gentleman. He stood up to
give a lady his seat.
    X X X
    What Byrne now must avoid as she prepares for the big one against
the Republicans' Wallace Johnson is ''confrontation politics''
with the regular Democratic organization. She already has been on
the phone to members of the machine with whom she has maintained a
friendly relationship to seek their support. One of her first
calls went to Eleanor (Sis) Daley, wife of the late mayor, who
supported Bilandic. But the organization, we have been told, will
remain unified in whatever posture it assumes in the upcoming
mayoralty. That could mean reaching an accommodation with Jane,
which could be difficult in view of some of her bitter statements,
or the unlikely altnerative of sitting it out.
    Cook County party chairman George Dunne, who believes in reaching
an accommodation to unite the party, is getting a rumble of discontent
from other top Democrats, who aren't ready to make peace... Byrne,
following her victory, declared on TV that among the first things
she had to do the next ayem was get a manicure. Early that morning,
manicurist Ann Lombardi offered her services.
    X X X
    Sophia Loren, heralding her autobiography, is getting paranoid
about jewelry thieves. She was ripped off in New York (for a
reported $500,000 in gems), Beverly Hills and in Europe. As a result,
she now wears only costume jewelry. And $8,000 worth of that was
stolen while she was in Houston the other day. . . .Sophia thanks
to Zev Braun, a Hollywood movie maker, met the man ''I
most admire'' the other night - Muhammad Ali. Sophia was dining
at Braun's home when she mentioned her adoration of Ali. Zev, who
produced Ali's upcoming film, ''Freedom Road,'' immediately got
Ali on the phone (he was in L.A. at the time) and the champ dashed
over for a mutual admiration session.
    X X X
    W. Clement Stone announced a $50,000 annual award for the people
who best typify his Positive Mental Attitude philosophy. Stone was
joined in making the announcement by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, who
will chair the awards committee,. . . . The Palm Springs (Calif.)
crowd was treated to a hilarious tennis match the other day,
featuring sportscasters Harry Caray and Jack Brickhouse. It was
Holy Cow'' all the way, with Caray winning 6-0, 6-0. But neither
one could leap over the net . . . . Also in Palm Springs: Opera
star Norman Mittelmann wed TV personality Brenda Broce.
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    Marion Brando, who appeared in the final segment of Roots: The
Next Generations, also will make a similar (brief) appearance in
the miniseries about the American Indians, which would be similar
to Roots. Brando was responsible for getting ABC-TV interested in
the series....Pauline Kael, one of the nation's foremost movie
critics, is leaving her magazine to become a producer for Warren
Beatty's film company. (Let's see how she reacts to negative
reviews!)...Bob Irsay, owner of the Baltimore Colts, just returned
from L.A., where he explored the possibility of moving his football
team there, now that the L.A. Rams are shifting to Anaheim. Another
sports magnate, Charlie O. Finley, has run out of prospects to
purchase his Oakland A's.
    X X X
    The report in Monaco has the Princess Caroline-Phillipe
Junot marriage ''very rocky.'' Caroline's parents, Prince Rainier
and Princess Grace, are especially upset over the stories of his
dancing in a New York disco until the wee hours with a former
girl friend, when he supposedly was in Montreal on business. They
weren't keen about the marriage in the first place because of
Phillipe's age and his reputation as the ''playboy of Paris!'' . . . On
a happier romantic note: Fred Astaire, in his 70s, has flipped
for jockey Robyn Smith, some 30 years his junior. Astaire's
intimates report they've never seen him dancing with more joy.
    X X X
    Henry Fonda, who seldom has disagreed with daughter Jane in public
over her liberal causes, did so the day when she accepted an acting
award. Quoth Jane, ''Like Richard Nixon, I'm back. But unlike him.
I'm getting paid.'' A voice from the audience shot back, ''The
hell he isn't.'' The voice belonged to her father. ''Nixon is making
a fortune with his book, TV interviews, lectures and all those
government pensions,'' Fonda exploded in a rare display of temper.
''I'm so damn angry that I won't speak to David Frost any longer
and I barely can bring myself to talk to Swifty Lazar (Nixon's
literary agent). . . . An ABC-TV camera crew is following Janie
Fincher, one of the stars of the Chicago Hustle, for a story on
female basketball players. . . .Daffynition of democracy where the
President seeks equal time with his brother!. . . And now there's
the 1980 presidential doll - it starts running before you wind
it up.
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BC-Greed 2takes 03-08
Attention: Sports editors
By RON RAPOPORT
(c) 1979 Chicago Sun-Times
    LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - The cutest, fattest, tamest raccoon in upper
New York State wrapped his tail around Gov. Hugh Carey's
neck and crawled along his shoulder at an awards ceremony during the
World Cup skiing championships last weekend.
    Designed as the official symbol of the 1980 Winter Olympics, the
raccoon is so much in evidence on pins and pennants and posters and
T-shirts here that it seemed only fitting that he be adopted
by Cheryl and Doris and Chris and Jeff and all the other
dissidents for their own purposes.
    So when they formed their little group to see if anything could
be done about what is happening to the area they had come to
love even before it was rediscovered by the Olympic movement, they
decided to call themselves the Raccoons: Renting Assn. of
Concerned Citizens on Ousting Our Needed Services.
    What they are protesting is the one despoiling effect that next
year's Olympics is having on this area that perhaps could not have
been fully predicted in advance: the poisoning of friendly feelings
between long-time neighbors in the quest for the financial score
of a lifetime. It is the saddest current manifestation of the fact
that the Olympic legacy has become both moral and economic
bankrutpcy.
    Everybody who counts is being taken care of, according to the
official plans. The athletes will be well provided for, the Olympic
officials' comforts will be seen to, the press and television legions
will be accommodated.
    Only the people who don't count are being left out. The fans, for
instance. You weren't planning on trying to come, were you? Even
if you have a ticket, that long drive on packed highways
back and forth from Albany or Montreal - almost every bed any
closer is reserved for ''the Olymic family'' - is bound to
get a little tiring. What the Olympic people are counting on is that
people who want to watch will do it on television.
    And those who live in Lake Placid and surrounding areas count least
of all. This is why they are being kicked out of their homes to make
way for the people the Olympics are really run for - the jet-setters
who don't mind paying $20,000 or $30,000 to rent a house
for a month as long as they can be where the action is.
    The Olympics have managed to keep most local hotel and motel owners
from raising their prices through the roof so their own people
won't have to pay too much when they get here. But the people
who own the property here are under no such restrictions. The sky
is the limit and those who own homes and apartments can hardly
believe how high the sky is.
    A New York newspaper contracted to pay $10,000 for the use of a
four-bedroom house for its eight people who will cover the games
next February. Larger and fancier places are bringing $20.000
and $30,000. One-bedroom apartments are going for $1,000 and up.
    Offers to swap homes in Honolulu, Aspen and Geneva during the
Olympics are commonplace - and go begging. It is more lucrative
simply to rent and get out of town. Or, as one local couple is
doing, build a finished garage next door to their home and move
into it during the Olympics. When the games are over they will emerge
with $15,000 - minus the cost of the garage.
    But the people who rent have no such luxury. Their choice is simple:
leave town or camp out.
    ''I told my boyfriend, 'I can stay with you, can't I?' ''said a
local woman. ''You promised me we'd be together in this.' And
he said, 'Are you kidding? I'm getting thrown out too.'I'll
have to sleep in the gutter. I can't even sleep in my car because
there's no on-street parking between 2 and 6 a.m.''
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