Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 29, 1993 TAG: 9305290261
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: B-9 EDITION: METRO
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But they don't expect long lines.
"I don't want to discourage anyone from buying it, but let's just say it's a good thing we're not getting rid of all of our meat products, because I don't think this will be too popular," said George Van Valkenburgh, general manager of Milwaukee Sportservice.
Van Valkenburgh tried a veggie dog during a scouting mission to the McCartney concert in St. Louis. He wasn't impressed.
Fewer than 100 were sold to the 42,000 concertgoers in St. Louis, Van Valkenburgh said.
"I think I was always a closet heterosexual. I didn't ever feel that I was a real bisexual. It was like I was always making all the moves, down to the situation of actually trying it out. . . . I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him. The irony of it was that I was not gay. I was physical about it, but frankly it wasn't enjoyable. It was almost like I was testing myself. It wasn't something I was comfortable with at all. But it had to be done." - rocker David Bowie, on the ch-ch-changes he went through during his Ziggy Stardust incarnation in the '70s, in Rolling Stone magazine.
It took the nude photos of Vanessa Williams, former Miss America and current singing star, a decade to make it to South Africa's Penthouse magazine. The photos were published in the United States in 1983. Shocked by the display, South African censors have banned the latest issue of Penthouse.
by CNB