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Jim Mullen's Hot Sheet

What the country is talking about this week...

1 Di's Alleged Prank Calls Did she really call a friend more than 300 times? Where would she find the time?

2 Midnight Basketball We used to have something else to keep kids off the streets. They were called parents.

3 Brian ''Kato'' Kaelin O.J.'s houseboy has movie deals in the works and is guest-hosting Talk Soup. Double homicide, what a break.

4 Cuban Boat People They're risking life and limb to get to Miami. It gets them used to living there.

5 Marlon Brando's Bio I'd prefer his exercise video.

6 Back to School Here's a surefire way to improve education: Make the students request their condoms in writing.

7 The Clintons on Martha's Vineyard A vacation at an impressive compound with lots of security and relaxing with the rich and famous. Quite a change, huh?

8 Plutonium Smuggling Russian scientists are accused of selling it because they get paid peanuts. Uh, how much do our scientists make?

9 John Wayne Bobbitt He'll star in a porn flick. Call it The Man With the Reattached Brain.

10 California Pants Law Companies can tell women they can't wear slacks. And how's the buggy-whip business?

11 A Simple Twist of Fate Single parent Steve Martin adopts a kid. His deal to time-share Murphy Brown's fell through.

12 Baseball Strike Why is it the owners can't pay the players what they want, but they can afford to lose millions?

13 Wagons East! John Candy's last film. And probably the writer's and the director's, too.

14 The U.S. Open An audience so chichi it hires chauffeurs to clap.

15 Rob Morrow Northern Exposure will have to find someone else who hates everything. Too bad I can't act.

Originally posted Sep 09, 1994 Published in issue #239 Sep 09, 1994 Order article reprints

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