Wayne and Garth's Real Home

AURORA, Ill.--Wayne's World is a hit in Aurora, Illinois, where the movie is supposed to be set, especially among would-be peers of Wayne and Garth.

"Everyone in the theater cheered real loud whenever they mentioned Aurora," says Neil Stadtherr, 15. "People are proud Wayne's supposed to be from here."

The movie has prompted calls to the Aurora Chamber of Commerce from people about some of the film's fictitious landmarks, including a doughnut shop owned by hockey great Stan Mikita and a sculpture of wrecked cars, according to Chamber of Commerce President Steve Hatcher.

"Most of them want to know if there's a Stan Mikita Doughnut Shop," Hatcher says. There isn't, although Wayne and Garth hang out there in the movie. Mikita is a former Chicago Blackhawk.

A huge spindle stacked with wrecked cars is in Berwyn, another Chicago suburb.

For most shots, the makers of Wayne's World used a Southern California suburb, a fact which explains the presence of palm-trees in the middle of Illinois.

"It was fallacy," says Mike Dzioba, 17. "They should have really used our town. It's got a lot of places to see."

The movie, starring "Saturday Night Live" regulars Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, is an extended version of a popular skit on the NBC comedy show.

Headache Suspension

HAMILTON, Ohio--Officials at Wilson Junior High School here suspended a 14-year-old girl last week for giving two Tylenol capsules to a classmate with a headache.

School officials say their policy against having students exchange drugs includes legal drugs. Larry Bowling, a member of the school board, says that youngsters could bring illicit drugs to class in containers once used to hold medications and that teachers would not know the difference.

Pat Baum, a school nurse in Columbus, says such a strict policy also protects children against inadvertently taking a medication to which they might be allergic.

"It sounds on the surface like a real crazy, picky thing to do," Baum says. "But you don't know if the child's going to be allergic."

Wilson officials suspended the girls, Dana Merry and Michelle Wines, for five days, saying that they could have been expelled.

Michelle, to whom Dana gave the Tylenol, accepted the suspension. Dana and her mother, Anne Wilkins, appealed the suspension to the Hamilton Board of Education, which then voted 3 to 2 to uphold the school's decision.

Wilkins is now appealing to the Butler County Common Pleas Court.

Paint Turned Sour

BERKELEY, Calif.--All Nancy Skinner wanted was an ecologically correct paint.

But the all-natural, milk-based paint turned sour and the stench drove the Berkeley councillor out of her home three months ago. Despite scrubbing and repainting, the house still smelled like old socks, and Skinner and her daughter are rooming with friends.

"It really knocked you over," concurs paint distributor Eugene Dunlap.

He says the problem was not the paint but the painter, who should have known better: The paint had gone bad in the can before it ever hit the wall.

"Our product is very simple. We don't put any preservatives in it so it has a limited shelf life," says Dunlap, who runs the Davis-based Sinan Co.

Skinner, an avid and now somewhat embarrassed environmentalist who did the indoor decorating job herself with a friend, says the mildly rancid smell of the paint got worse after it was applied during the Thanks-giving holidays.

THE Quote OF THE WEEK

"You're from California. Chill out." --Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton to Jerry Brown, speaking pseudo-hipese in a debate of all the Democratic presidential candidates on ABC News Thursday night.   Compiled by Joshua W. Shenk with news reports from The Associated Press and The New York Times