Sylvester Stewart-you`ll remember him as Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone-needs real legal cleverness now. FBI agents arrested him in Wilton, Conn., where Stewart, 45, had been living under an alias since skipping a 1987 court date for a narcotics rap in California. Pending extradition, he remains in a Bridgeport slammer.
TRUMP: WAKE UP, SUCKERS What`s this? A member of America`s oligarchy who isn`t eager to sell out?
Why, it`s Donald Trump. ”If we get any kinder or gentler, we won`t have any America left,” said the billionaire developer, joining an angry clamor for taxing imported luxury cars to protect the United States of Trade Deficits.
”Japan is truly taking advantage” of America, said Trump, ”We`re the biggest suckers in the world.” (Amend that: ”We`re the biggest dopes . . . .”) Geez, just as saying ”yessir” in Korean and Japanese was catching on, too.
REAGAN ON HARDSHIP From billionaires to millyenaires: The subject was hard times and Ronald Reagan was assuring troubled teens that everything has a purpose, even hardship. ”Everything happens for a reason. . . . Down the road something good will happen, and you`ll realize it was for the best,” said Reagan at New York`s Covenant House, sounding like Thornton Wilder but quoting his mother and favorite speech writer to 120 neglected children and runaways. ”There were nights when I was angry and frustrated and wondered, `Why?` ” recalled Reagan, citing an alcoholic father and childhood poverty in Downstate Illinois. As a clincher, Reagan said he was crushed by rejection in his first job application. But had he been hired, ”I`d still be . . . working at that Montgomery Ward.” (In the audience, Melissa Adams, 17, expressed regret for Reagan`s trickle-down presidency: ”He could have said he was sorry he did not do more.”)
A DAY OF WEAK JUDGMENT Ah, the weighty arm of justice: Michigan`s Supreme Court has come down with a forgiving teensy-tap upon the shoulders of District Judge Thomas Brennan Jr. His offense? Oh, a little plagiarism. Brennan used ”verbatim almost the entire article” of a California colleague-and several passages liberated from a 1980 Seton Hall Law Review-for his scholarly essay in the Cooley Law Review. The penalty? Censure. That means that Brennan, 37, son of a renowned former state Supreme Court justice, still sits in judgment of others. OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN Samuel Pickering, better known as the real-life model for John Keating, the persecuted prep-school teacher in ”Dead Poets Society,” professes bafflement over his heroic status. ”A woman walked up to me in the supermarket the other day and told me I was such an inspiration that she was giving up the insurance business to go back to being a schoolteacher,” said Pickering, 48, a professor of English literature at the University of Connecticut. ”I feel terrible about it. She probably made a lot of money in insurance.” As for the movie? He still hasn`t seen it.
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