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          DENNIS RODMAN attended Planet Hollywood's recent
     opening in Montreal ("ET," 7/29)....JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE was
     a guest on "The Magic Hour" last night, and described how
     she has handled the relationship with her husband BOB
     KERSEE, who also served as her manager/trainer: "When we
     leave the track, we have our confrontations.  When we go
     home, Bobby still takes the trash out on Mondays and
     Thursdays" ("The Magic Hour," 7/29)....The NHLPA GOLF
     CLASSIC held in Ontario on July 27th raised more than
     $200,000 which will be distributed to Ronald McDonald
     Children's Charities and the NHLPA Alumni Association's
     "Players Helping Players Fund" (NHLPA)....The Yankees will
     allow 10-year-old JAMIE LYNN BENCE of WI to sing the
     national anthem at Yankee Stadium on August 26.  The Yankees
     were the only MLB team that had not agreed to let Bence sing
     before a game, saying they needed to review her requests. 
     But after a "barrage of telephone calls from newspapers and
     television and radio stations," the Yankees "capitulated"
     and allowed her to perform (MIL. JOURNAL SENTINEL, 7/30). 

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