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You should tell them you wrote the song," said his wife, Roni. "Maybe they'll give us free tickets."
"Shhhh!" said the couple's 20-something twins, Evan and Sierra, perhaps recognizing their father's urge to be incognito. He worried about how his 1977 song "All I Want Is You" would be featured in the then-newly released motion picture, Juno - and whether more than 30 years as a children's author and entertainer would be tarnished by a momentary mocking of his work on the big screen.
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THE TICKER: Lambeau Bikini Girls discovered
ESPN sideline diva Erin Andrews tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution she was so skinny growing up, her nickname was Manute. Bottom line • Birthday boy Ernie Harwell, asked on WXYT's "Motor City Mornings" with Jay Towers and Bill McAllister how it felt being 90: "I live out at Fox Run, and being 90 here is no big deal. ... We've got a couple of ladies who are over 100 who are pretty active. In fact, one of the ladies, when she was 101, we had a Halloween gala here and she came as a hooker." That Ernie. He's still painting pictures with words. The Ticker is compiled from staff reports and news services by STEVE SCHRADER, who can be reached at 313-222-6710 or sschrader@freepress.com. .
Newswatch, Police/Fire
According to yesterday's indictment, Anthony Mark Albert asked a man to murder his ex-wife's boyfriend, identified as Michael Chu, last February. On Feb. 28 a police officer reported that a confidential informant told him about the plot, and another police officer, working undercover using the name "Paco," met Albert on March 6 at the makai end of the Honolulu Zoo parking lot, according to the police affidavit. Albert told the officer he wanted the killing to look like it was done during a robbery, the affidavit said. He told the officer he paid someone $5,000 to kill the boyfriend, but that person reneged on the job, the affidavit said. Albert told the undercover officer that the boyfriend owned a business on Sand Island, which would be a location for the killing, the affidavit said.
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