When Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown visited Harlem over the weekend, there was no shortage of people who wondered who he was. None of them, however, was as rich or as famous as Flavor Flav of the rap group Public Enemy. Attracted Saturday by the police cars and television vans in front of Sylvia`s Restaurant, Flav stepped into the famed soul food establishment to see what was happening. ”It`s Jerry Brown, talking to folks,” a restaurant worker offered. ”Who?” responded Flav, accessorized by his fashion trademarks: sunglasses, a funky hat and a big round clock suspended from his neck. ”Jerry Brown-he`s running for president,” Flav was told. ”Oh. Oh, yeah,” he said. ”I thought something was going on.” Asked if he was going to vote, the rapper, dancer and all-around jester of the socially conscious group said: ”Nah, I don`t vote. But maybe I should.”
LUBAVITCH LEADER HONORED Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of New York, leader of the worldwide Lubavitch movement, will be honored in absentia Tuesday night in Washington in celebration of his 90th birthday, April 14. Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel and Revlon Inc. Chairman Ronald Perelman will chair the ceremony, expected to draw about 800 people. Congress has proclaimed Rebbe Schneerson`s birthday as Education and Sharing Day U.S.A. in honor of his work for the needy and of the Lubavitch focus on education.
READY TO SHUCK Tom Pallozzi is ready to show the folks at the fifth annual World Championship Oyster Grand Prix that the world of shucking is America`s oyster. ”I`m going to win,” says the 25-year-old chef at the Plaza Hotel`s Oyster Bar in Manhattan. He will be the sole U.S. contestant at the weekend contest in Helsinki, Finland. Last year`s winner shucked 19 French belon oysters in a minute. Pallozzi says he`s up to 24, after training since January on blue points. Points are taken off for chipped shells and torn meat but the worst offense is ”blood. No blood. They don`t like to see any blood.”
TESH, SELLECA WED ”Entertainment Tonight” co-host John Tesh and actress Connie Sellecca married this weekend. Tesh also hosts NBC`s ”One on One with John Tesh.”
Sellecca starred in the series ”The Greatest American Hero” and ”Hotel”
and appeared in CBS` ”P.S. I Luv U.”
DINING IN Mike Tyson balked at eating solid food after entering prison in Plainfield, Ind., but apparently he just couldn`t resist the meat loaf, his first meal there. With help from Newsweek, here`s what was on the menu of some famous felons Friday: John Gotti (Manhattan`s Metropolitan Correctional Center, pending sentencing), baked fish; Jim Bakker (Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn.), choice of grilled cheese sandwich or beans over rice;
Jeffrey Dahmer (Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wis.), baked cod; and Jean Harris, Mark David Chapman, David ”Son of Sam” Berkowitz (at various New York state prisons), macaroni and cheese.
