Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, June 1, 1993 TAG: 9306010005
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The Littleton, Colo., resident won the National Enquirer's Clinton look-alike contest last year and starred as Clinton's spitting image in the Japanese made-for-TV comedy, "The Man with the Flaming Gun."
"This is a fun thing to do," Newell, 43, said. "There are worse things than looking like the president of the United States."
When he's not perfecting the look and voice of the president, Newell spends his spare time speaking to children about the dangers of drugs.
His wife, Linda, encouraged him to enter the tabloid's look-alike contest after their two children noticed his resemblance to Clinton. "They'd see Bill on TV and they would say `Mommy, Mommy, look! Daddy's on TV,' " Newell said.
Prince Charles and Princess Diana smiled.
The press scoffed.
A British tabloid Monday dismissed as a sham the smiles exchanged by Charles and Diana during their first public appearance since they split up last year.
Royal watchers discounted suggestions of a reconciliation.
"What a joke!" said the Daily Mirror. "It's the great royal sham."
The couple, who formally separated Dec. 9, attended a service at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral on Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic.
The Daily Mirror said Charles and Diana "behaved frostily to each other before and after they paraded their smiles." After the service, the couple flew back to London together, then went their separate ways.
by CNB