AMERICAN INTERESTS: A film crew for a...
AMERICAN INTERESTS: A film crew for a Japanese TV network, Tokyo Broadcasting, was at the International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach on Monday, learning everything possible about surf legend Duke Kahanamoku. . . . Crew director Shinichi Kubo says the Japanese audience is interested in almost anything American: “Surfing, skiing, snowboarding. Especially our young people. American history fascinates them.”
TAXING PROBLEM: What do you do if your dispute with the IRS isn’t over enough money to make it worth hiring a lawyer? Help is available--for those who have already petitioned the court for a hearing--at Western State University’s College of Law. It’s the Tax Clinic: Upper-class law students, under the supervision of professor Frank Doti, advise petitioners and even appear in court with them for free. . . . “Taxpayers are left to defend themselves in a system that can be complex and overwhelming,” says Doti. But the clinic’s primary purpose is to benefit the students. Adds Doti: “This is experience it would take them years to get.”
BACK TO BACK: You know that Deion Sanders, who played for San Francisco last year, heads to the Super Bowl as a Dallas Cowboy for a possible repeat national championship. Who else has a shot at back-to-back championships? Brenden Stai, offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers, a product of Anaheim’s Esperanza High School. The rookie played for the national collegiate champion Nebraska Cornhuskers last year.
TACO WORSHIP: You figure Madonna or Joe Montana for fan clubs. But Taco Bell? A group of students at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York have started an Internet home page fan club for the Irvine-based fast-food chain. . . . It includes the latest on Taco Bell products and has its own “Find the Taco” game. But the Mirsky group, a national organization, has voted it a Worst of the Web Award for a graphic, showing the inside of a soft taco, that didn’t turn out too well.
