INC. knows who doesn`t want former Gov. Richard Ogilvie to run for mayor: his wife, who says no, thank you, he`s making a dandy salary right now; and Gov. James Thompson. GOP insiders tell INC. that one of the reasons Thompson wants Ogilvie to head the interim McCormick Place board is to keep him out of the mayoral sweepstakes–and leave the way clear for Dan Webb. . . . Is it true that Bill Walls, onetime mayoral confidant and door opener, will be bounced to a minor post scheduling ribbon-cuttings and public appearances?
What made Mayor Harold Washington decide he wanted to see him less and less?
. . . INC. hears mayoral press aide Wilfredo Cruz, who once kept track of INC.`s ”inaccuracies” for the mayor, was fired Sept. 1. But, in typical slowwwwww administration fashion, he wasn`t told until Sept. 15.
THE WOMEN OF WASHINGTON . . .
— Sex, drugs, and rock `n` roll: Those shocked congressional wives who instigated Senate hearings into the state of rock lyrics are close to announcing a compromise with the record industry. The leaves are turning on Capitol Hill, and INC. hears that the crusaders are ready to put the music issue to rest and get on to the really serious business of Washington`s social season.
— The latest joke around Washington, D.C., concerns an evening out for dinner with the U.S. Supreme Court justices. The waiter naturally goes first to the only lady present, Justice Sandra Day O`Connor. ”Your order, Madam?” Her reply: ”The sirloin, medium.” The waiter queries: ”And the vegetables?” Says O`Connor, ”Oh, they`ll order for themselves.”
DADDIES DEAREST . . .
First there was the shotgun wedding; now comes the ”scattergun”
paternity suit. A Chicago woman has filed a paternity suit here against a pitcher for the New York Yankees, a pitcher for the Montreal Expos and a Chicago man (who apparently pitched her a good line). In her petition, the woman claims that one of the three is the father of her infant son, but she`s not sure which one, so she`s asking the court to order all three to take blood tests to find out! At the request of the two baseball players, who asked that the case not be heard until they can finish out the season, it`ll be heard Oct. 28 before Circuit Judge Joseph Casciato. At the request of the two defense attorneys, the file on the case has been impounded. But stay tuned to see if all comes clean in the Diaper War.
THE TRASH CAN . . .
INC. hears that John Swearingen, Bon-Bon`s better half, has built himself a $1 million office with a full bath at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago. Seems just a touch excessive, especially in light of the bank`s financial problems of a year ago. . . . Chalk up an ”excused absence” for U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D., Ill.) and House Ways and Means chief Dan Rostenkowski (D., Ill.), who couldn`t make the Illinois Issues magazine ceremony naming them among the 10 top Illinoisans because the legislature was in session. But former Sen. Chuck Percy sent a rep to explain that he was a no-show because he had to go to the opera! . . . INC. hears that an East Coast columnist`s West Coast ”stringer,” who also freelances for a major weekly magazine, has been barred from story conferences for the magazine. Seems too many of the ideas being tossed around for the magazine were winding up in the boss` newspaper column.
POLITICAL PATTER . . .
Adlai Stevenson`s foray last week into southern Illinois produced two big pluses. Stevenson supporters claim a group of lawyers originally headed for the camp of Atty. Gen. Neil Hartigan have decided to throw their support to Adlai, and one barrister reportedly tore up a $10,000 check earmarked for Hartigan! Hmmmm. We`ll be watching to see if that $10,000 contribution turns up in the Stevenson campaign statements. Stevenson operatives also claim that Adlai is making fresh inroads into the vote-rich East St. Louis area. But all this work may be for naught, depending on which candidate hooks up with State Rep. Carol Moseley Braun (D., Chicago), who can be expected to draw wide support in that predominantly black area.
REEL NEWS . . .
Working out the deals to get brand-name products to pop up in motion pictures is a big-bucks business, and execs for the company that provided Michael J. Fox`s wardrobe for ”Back to the Future” nearly choked on their buttered popcorn when they saw the label had mysteriously disappeared from their product on the big screen. Nobody admitted to the scissors job, but INC. hears a settlement (something to do with a sum of money) was finally reached. . . . Arnold (”Commando”) Schwarzenegger told INC. that problems with the script of ”Triple Identity” could delay filming on the movie until spring. But a spokeswoman in the movie`s production office here says they`re getting ready to start filming in about a week. Now . . . who`s gonna tell Arnold?
TV TRIVIA . . .
Chicago actor Casey Siemaszko costars with Kevin (”Silverado”) Costner and Keefer Sutherland in ”The Mission,” one of only two ”Amazing Stories” episodes directed by Steven the Spielberg Man. On the last day of filming, Spielberg spent the whole day watching his watch and the telephone–because it was Amy Irving`s due date. ”If she`d gone into labor, he`d have been gone like a shot,” INC. was told. But she didn`t, and he didn`t, and the one-hour episode airs Nov. 3. Siemaszko has a recurring role on ”St. Elsewhere” as the boyfriend of Dr. Westphall`s daughter and just finished filming ”The Body” for director Carl Reiner. . . . Bill Kurtis, whose last WBBM-TV newscast ends at 10:30 p.m., shows up for work about 8:30 a.m. . . . The idea for ”Love, Mary,” a television movie starring Kristy McNichol, came from a
”Good Morning America” interview with Mary Groda-Lewis, a woman who overcame her juvenile delinquency record to become a doctor. But McNichol won`t appear on ”GMA” to plug the movie, which airs Tuesday on CBS. She`ll plug it instead on (Surprise!) the ”CBS Morning News.”
INC.LINGS . . .
WAUR (108 FM) has signed a contract to broadcast the Sting`s soccer games starting Oct. 26, and Loyola`s basketball season starting Nov. 22. . . . After 13 years in Las Vegas, Sig Sakowicz returns to the Chicago airwaves Monday with a daily 10 a.m. show on WVVX (103.1 FM). . . . Sunday birthdays: Britt Ekland, 43; Hamburger Hamlet`s Marilyn Lewis, 56. . . . Watch for an announcement that Coors Beer and WCKG (106 FM) will cosponsor a giant Halloween party on Navy Pier. . . . Movie rights to ”The Foreigner,” which opened Wednesday at the Forum Theater, have been optioned by Walt Disney Studios.
