Headlines for: 12-01-1999

TACO BELL CHIHUAHUA WANTS SWEATER FOR CHRISTMAS LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- It must be getting chilly south of the border, because the Taco Bell Chihuahua wants a sweater for Christmas.

MAN BEHIND BIG BIRD REVEALS CHARACTER'S YOKEL ROOTS NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- There's a shocking secret behind Big Bird's yellow feathers -- the famous lovable bird started out as a slack-jawed country hick.

A REAL WHITE CHRISTMAS: HITLER XMAS CARD GOES ON AUCTION BLOCK LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- Here's a Christmas present that sure to raise a "fuhrer:" A Christmas card from Adolf Hitler. Believe it or not, a Christmas card signed by der Fuhrer in

86-YEAR-OLD HOPES TO BECOME NEW GROUCHO MARX SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (Wireless Flash) -- Whoever said old dogs can't learn new tricks never met 86-year-old Alfred Lazarus. The former movie theater manager hopes to make a career

IS A VOTE FOR AL GORE A TICKET TO HELL? FARGO, N.D. (Wireless Flash) -- Al Gore may have a devil of time raising campaign funds when this news gets out: Everyone who votes for him is doomed to spend eternity in hell.

DOC'S NOSE NIPPED OFF BY PATIENT MAIDSTONE, Kent, England (Wireless Flash) -- An English veterinarian is finding no "nose" is bad news after a four-legged patient bit off his schnozzola.

WIRELESS FLASH BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- You've heard of Pokemon, now there's Toke'Mon, a drug-oriented spoof of the pocket monsters. The counter culture cartoon characters which appear on the

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: MUSCLE MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. (Wireless Flash) -- This should get Arnold Schwarzenegger pumped up: he's just been named the Most Influential Fitness Personality of the Millennium.

MELISSA JOAN HART DIRECTING `SABRINA' LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- "Sabrina" star Melissa Joan Hart is currently more concerned with casting calls than casting spells.