State Rep. Jim Stange (R., Oak Brook), a wanna-be Illinois secretary of state, has a very strange way of courting voters-at least half of them. Stange is enriching his political campaign coffers with a $500-a-ticket Monday golf outing. And where will political genius Stange stage this event? At Butler National Golf Club, a private club that not only bars women from the course, but won`t hire them either.
BARKING UP THE WONG TREE . . .
There`s a little problem of fact with Bud Light`s TV commercials for the Olympics-featuring Spuds McKenzie as a high jumper and pole vaulter. If Spuds really showed up in Korea, it`s more likely he`d be the main course.
CITY DITTIES . . .
– ”For Chicago,” the mayoral campaign slogan of Ald. Larry Bloom (5th), has a very familiar ring to it. That`s because the late Mayor Richard J. Daley used it as his political battle cry in his 1975 mayoral campaign.
– Robert F. Doyle, on leave from his job as an administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration, spent a few hours in the custody of the Cook County Sheriff`s Department Tuesday. He was held in criminal contempt of court while acting as his own attorney in his divorce case; he was sprung from custody after raising the $500 contempt fine.
ALDERMANIA . . .
Memo to the Illinois Department of Public Aid`s Parent Locator Service, the section that looks for deadbeat dads: Your records reflect that you still haven`t found a dad who`s three months in arrears-to the tune of $975-on child-support payments for his 11-year-old son. If you really want to find Ald. Bob Shaw (9th), try the Chicago City Council chambers on Thursday.
TRIPLE TROUBLE . . .
Clarence McLain added to his legal woes in the wee early morning hours on Monday. He was arrested at 83d Street and King Drive and charged with blowing a red light, driving left of the center line and driving under the influence after allegedly scoring a reading of .14 on a breath analyzer test. Legally drunk is .10, you know.
REEL NEWS . . .
About 90 percent of the moviegoers who have seen ”The Thin Blue Line”
at the Music Box Theater on North Southport Avenue stop in the lobby after the film to sign a petition directed to the governor of Texas. The movie considers the circumstances surrounding Randall Adams` conviction for the 1976 murder of a Dallas police officer, and the petitions request that the governor reopen Adams` case. P.S.: ”60 Minutes” is working on a feature about response to the film. . . . Former ”Magnum P.I.” costar Larry Manetti just bought the movie rights to two of Chicagoan Guy Izzi`s novels: ”The Booster” and ”Bad Guys.”
FAMILY AFFAIRS . . .
– John Wayne`s daughter Marissa was married earlier this month to a guy not unlike Dear Old Dad; he`s Jason Romick, a rodeo cowboy.
– Sally Field is making ”Steel Magnolias” in Louisiana, but Columbia Pictures provided her with a company jet to fly to New York for a few days to promote ”Punchline.” She stopped on the way in North Carolina, where husband Alan Griesman is producing Dan Aykroyd`s ”Von Metz Incident,” picked him up, and the two spent a romantic weekend in New York.
SAY WHAT? . . .
The New York Daily News ran a biographical sketch on Dallas Green Tuesday along with speculation that he`ll become the next manager of the New York Yankees. The story, penned by Vic Ziegel, resurrected Green`s tenure at the helm of the Chicago Cubs and noted: ”. . . by 1985 the Cubs were in the World Series, the first time in 40 years.” And we missed it!
INC.LINGS . . .
The feisty Ballet Chicago just got welcome news: Generous grants are on the way from the Chicago Community Trust and the MacArthur Foundation. . . . Wednesday birthdays: Bill Kurtis, 48; Henry Gibson, 53; Larry Hagman, 57; Bill Murray, 38; Don Rose, 58; Steven King, 41; Ricki Lake, 20; John Herrera, 33. . . . The upcoming comedy issue of Rolling Stone (featuring Johnny Carson and David Letterman on the cover) will include a feature on Sondra Bernhard by Chicago writer Bill Zehme; he`s also following Patrick Swayze around town for a GQ feature. . . . Arnie`s gets a 14th anniversary facelift Thursday when a huge Chuck Nitti trompe-l`oeil tropical mural will be installed.
