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1IALT0NHILLSOUTLO0K July I Entertainment Outlook Date with the dentist causes trepidation View when you haven teen dentist In nearly five yean Let roe stress thai I haven t been avoiding became I m afraid of Heaven no By Ian Dentists wen at all frightening re Just ordinary fol With long needle And drills And a ghastly way Weir Thomson tven In an age in which people so routinely make unexpected career changes It was startling to pick up the newspaper and read that the Princess of Wale has lakemip dentistry But It a true Diana has just been ad milled to the Royal College of Surgeons as an Honorary Fellow Dental Sur This you will is on Intriguing concept A royal dentist No longer em powered to cry Off with his head he modern monarch settles for with hi teeth Now granted Princess hasn t ex become a dentist She an honor dentist one who has the status and the title but who would never dream of actually performing root surgery In other words the very best kind of dentist And this raises a forlorn quest on It a princess can become an honorary den list is there any way could become an honorary dental pa tlcnt one who receives the lull benefit of dentistry without ever to have teeth drilled If you detected a certain note desperation here it because I have a dental appointment next week And this always a saying as they go poking about in search of an exposed nerve No I had good reason for avoid ing a dentist for five years To start with 1 been trying unsuccessfully to meet the first prerequisite Tor a dental appointment marry someone with a dental plan Plus I been following the advice of the dentist I visited who urged me never to see a dentist again as long as 1 lived Well she dldn exactly phrase it that way What she said u the next time you re in that back mo lar may need a rootcanal So I took the hint But most of all I have philosophical reservations about modern dentistry As you know modern dentistry is very big on prevention The goal of the modem dentist to take up arms his expertise and your wallet against the host of gum diseases that will ravage your teeth in years if they t cut oft at the pass right now Well I would never imply that the dental profession less than wholly honorable But has it never struck you as curious you had never heard of all these new afflictions until fluoride and regular check had eliminated lies I have a theory on this Fifteen years ago dentist realiied they had become so proficient they had all but wiped out tooth decay Faced with professional nun the Royal College of Dentists sent tesm of crack researchers to a secret laboratory forbidding them to come out until they had Identified some gum diseases This theory Is doubtless rooted In pure paranoia Still part of my dread of going to toe dentist arises from the fact dentists and I simply do not see eye to- on what constitutes essential work As far as I concerned essential work means taking the rays After that we negotiate Unfortunately dentists have their own ideas Next week Tor Instance there U be soother skirmish In the war over my wisdom teeth Dentists have lusted alter ray wis and this one will be no different Once we ve reached the inevitable Impasse on issue be U subside into sullen wrath and com grilling me about my flossing scenario The dentist forces you to ad mit that you floss Infrequently and you don know bow to do it properly in the first place He then lectures you mere on the need to floss after every meal until at last you stick out your lower lip cry I don t if I don and burst Into tears Oh it a a depressing prospect A deeply dismal prospect and it leads to ASK DICK KLEINER Who recalls Farmer Ron Dear Dick I nave been trying to re member the name of a good movie I saw when I was very young It was boot a vegetable track tanner and starred Ronald Reagan George Tool as and perhaps Ann Sheridan Why fam I It shown on TV like so many old movies Wash Dear I think you must be roeriibering Juke Girl a 1942 film about Florida fruit workers The cast also included Gene and Emerson It has been on TV but these days not many of Ronald Rea old films are shown Perhaps the stations feel it might be embar rassing to the chief Dear For years Ive old friends there was an Instrumental re cord called The Cloads performed by The Spacemen around or IHt and was Nnmbcr 1 Nobody has Tell em It was Nam 1 Dick St Marys Ohio Dear Wish I could but I cant According to The Billboards Book of Number One Hits no record by The Spacemen was ever Number 1 on its national charts And also from the same source there was never a record called The Clouds that achieved that national ranking Dear Dick I am completing a book called What Happens To a Fallen Star In which I document the lives and careers of twelve eminent per formers who reached great heights fas show business bnt who then disap peared 1 hope to include a story John Gary very prominent in the as a singer Bat I cannot locate him Do nave any information about Ids present whereabouts and career CJLF Houston Dear CEF Not much Richard who does those Woatev er Became Of books tracked Gary down a few years ago He had mar ried a Dallas woman and was devot ing himself to managing real es tate holdings He did slug occasionally too Dear Dick I am a big Ian of High Mountain Rangers and think Chraf- Conrad fat great Can you give ate some Information him Copperas Cave Texas Dear Diet I watch High Montana Rangers every week I would lis know which of Robert Conrad Is Shane Conrad and which Is Chris tian Also how aid are JE Jersey Shore Pa Dear and J E Christian plays Matt the older son be is 23 Shane Cody the younger son he Is IB are two Robert Conrad eight children Christian says he really wants to be a director andor produc er and acting is Just for the experience