A number of Chicago area stores have refused to carry the November issue of Spin magazine because it contains a public service announcement about the use of condoms, and if that weren`t shocking enough, the magazine (gasp!)
actually contains (oh, dear, we`re feeling faint) a . . . condom! The stores that won`t distribute the magazine: Osco, Jewel, 7-11, Walden and Dominick`s, and gosh darn, but we could swear we`ve even seen condoms actually sold in a few of those places. . . .
NOT SO FAST . . . Believe it or not, two creepazoids serving time at the Pontiac Correctional Center recently won a judgment for $25,000 after filing a suit charging that they had been beaten in prison. You can imagine their terror, their feelings of powerlessness and helplessness . . . well, if you can`t, the two women they had been convicted of raping certainly can. And, sometimes right does triumph over might, because the women filed a suit against their tormentors-and won the $25,000 for themselves. It all happened when Illinois Department of Corrections Director Mike Lane informed State`s Atty. Richard Daley`s office of a little-known law that allows crime victims to sue their tormentors in civil court should the bad guys win judgments from the state while serving time. Daley`s office notified the victims, they sued, and won.
THE ROCK PILE . . .
Van Halen will get the second star in the Rock `n` Roll Sidewalk of Fame at Peter Morton`s Hard Rock Cafe-and the group will be on hand for Monday`s official installation at 2 p.m. . . . The switchboard at Hotel 21 East was flooded with calls when word somehow got out to dozens of Def Leppard fans that the group was registered at the hotel under the code name of ”Johnny Conquest.” . . . B96 morning jocks Ed Volkman and Joe Bohannon managed to snag Jesse Jackson for a few special radio moments Friday. Jesse was at the station to tape four, count `em, four national radio commercials for Michael Dukakis` candidacy, and that should end the question of whether or not Mikey D invites him to the torchlight parade, huh?
STAR TRACKS . . .
– Teri Garr, in town to promote ”Full Moon in Blue Water,” got herself on Goodie`s ”favorite customer list” when she bought a vintage coat, German brooches, vintage decals, a mail holder and a bank-and had her picture taken with employees of the North Halsted Street store-in less than 15 minutes Thursday.
– Rob Lowe, in town to promote Michael Dukakis, showed up late Thursday at the Limelight with an unknown woman (beautiful, of course), and was everywhere-in the deejay booth, in the VIP room, on the dance floor, in the pool room, in the dome room, upstairs, downstairs, all around the club-then left at 2 in a cab-with the same girl.
POLITIC-LISH . . .
– Next time you think your husband is hopelessly unromantic, read Lynda Gorov`s story on House Speaker Mike Madigan in the November/December issue of Chicago Times magazine-and you`ll feel better. When Madigan and wife Shirley were married, she took her daughter from a previous marriage on the honeymoon- because Mike was too busy to go along. P.S. Yo, Chicago Times! Isn`t it about time for a woman on the cover?
– The best-laid plans: Ed Burke, who obviously began planning his mayoral campaign some time ago, made one campaign investment that might wind up in the losses column. That`s the ”Stop Taxe$” posters and bumper stickers he had printed up well in advance of his announcement-and the release of Mayor Eugene Sawyer`s 1989 city budget, which turned out to have no increase in property taxe$. P.S. Burke, who dubbed Sawyer ”Limousine Gene,” is the same Burke who went up to the mayor at a recent public event, pointed to his car, and asked, ”When are you going to get rid of that junk?”
KISSY-KISSY . . .
Ricky Schroder will get his first screen kiss (and then some) from Lara Boyle, a recent grad of the Academy High School for the Performing Arts. They just finished filming ”Terror on Highway 59” (and the terror isn`t kissing Ricky, who plays a cop.) Lara now goes to a great role in Robin Williams`
”Dead Poets` Society”-a role she`s sure she got because she was the only actress who could perform a scene from Shakespeare. She chose one from
”Midsummer Night`s Dream,” which she learned at the academy. . . . Despite Molly Ringwald`s protestations that Warren Beatty is just a mentor and adviser, INC. sources say this sure looks to them like a romance, what with the kissing and stuff.
CHICAGO FACES . . .
Jim Post has been doing his one-man show, ”Galena Rose: How Whiskey Won the West,” for over two years in Galena (of course) and points north, but it`ll have its Chicago premiere Nov. 16 at the Civic Theater. . . . Mt. Prospector Brian Adler is the composer of three songs in ”Tapeheads,”
including the show-stopping ”Ordinary Man.” . . . Best wishes to retiring Charly Cole, who made Army and Lou`s soul food restaurant on 75th Street a legendary hangout for South Side politicians. . . . Comic Aaron Freeman is performing in the Coach Horse Equestrian Center`s Halloween weekend production of ”The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in exchange for riding lessons; seems Aaron has become quite the polo dude, don`t you know?
INC.LINGS . . .
George`s signed Sandra Bernhard for Dec. 20-25; she`ll follow Judy Tenuta`s Dec. 13-18 stint. . . . Sunday birthdays: Johnny Carson, 63; Michael Crichton, 46; Gary Deeb, 43. . . . Debbie Reynolds will sign copies of
”Debbie: My Life” Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. at Kroch`s & Brentano`s Randhurst store. . . . Wouldn`t Dodger pitching phenom Orel Hershiser have been a perfect Norman Rockwell subject? . . . The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners is a little short on judges for Nov. 8-like about 3,087 short.
