DENNIS ENVY; WILD WORM WANNABES FLOCK TO THE FORUM FOR FLOOR SEATS.Byline: Peter Hartlaub Daily News Staff Writer The Worms crawled in and the Worms crawled out of the Great Western Forum parking lot Thursday morning to honor the newest traveling art exhibit in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Dennis Rodman. Responding to a radio show look-alike contest, 15 entrants as young as 12 months old donned earrings, wedding dresses and other eccentric accouterment with hopes of scoring floor seats for tonight's game - the forward's debut as a Laker. The winner: A 31-year-old Westside lawyer who rushed out of the parking lot while stripping from women's clothing to avoid being late for work. ``I have to take a deposition today,'' Gordon Peery said, wincing as he pulled off a clip-on nose ring with the circumference of a movie theater cup holder. ``I can't go in there looking like this.'' If nothing else, Thursday's turnout served notice to the NBA's most eccentric showman that he may have found a place full of people even crazier than he is. Surely the real Worm wasn't up at 2:30 a.m. like Jesse Tellez, who was frantically altering a thrift store wedding dress at the ungodly hour. Tellez and other participants showed up as vibrantly colorful as a van Gogh painting from the Auvers-sur-Oise era, and with almost as much self-mutilation. While all but a few of the tattoos weren't real, most of the piercings were. ``You either love him or hate him,'' Tellez said, adjusting a tiara that covered the Claremont resident's purple and gold hair. ``I think we're going to love him here in L.A.'' Whether the fans love Rodman at the end of the abbreviated 50-game season remains to be seen. His previous travels through Detroit, San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. and Chicago have ended either in a championship performance or an epic emotional meltdown - and almost nothing in between. Either way, his arrival will continue to be a windfall for radio talk shows, including XTRA XTRA Extra XTRA X-band Thin Radar Aperture (US DoD) XTRA Xml Transaction Architecture Sports AM 1150's ``Big Show,'' which promoted the contest. Just a few weeks ago, ``Big Show'' hosts Derrick Hall
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David Singer, DC, is a chiropractor, a Scientologist, and the founder, in 1981, of the controversial consulting firm now known as said. ``That gives us at least two weeks worth of nothing but compelling radio shows.'' After the winner was announced, blurry-eyed participants hurried off to everything from jobs and elementary school to a bottle and a nap. That would be the plan for 1-year-old Natasha Taylor, who was carried to the contest in a floppy hat with shiny stickers doubling as gold nose rings and earrings. ``Her dad really wanted to go to the Laker game,'' said Natasha's mother, Marlene Castillo. Peery's payoff for getting up earlier than most farmers is two tickets to tonight's scheduled debut for Rodman against the Los Angeles Clippers at the Forum. The Vanderbilt University law school grad plans to take his 5-year-old son. Singer said it's people like Peery who will make Rodman feel welcome. ``I think that L.A. is the only place where he has a chance,'' Singer said. ``There are a lot of people in this town even more out there that him.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos PHOTO (1) Laker fans sport their most outlandish outfits at the Forum to win floor seats at tonight's game. (2) Attorney Gordon Peery's nuptial nup·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to marriage or the wedding ceremony. 2. Of, relating to, or occurring during the mating season: the nuptial plumage of male birds. n. and nose-ringed Dennis Rodman impersonation Impersonation Patroclus wore the armor of Achilles against the Trojans to encourage the disheartened Greeks. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Prisoner of Zenda, The beat out 14 other contestants to win the contest sponsored by XTRA Sports radio in honor of Rodman joining the Los Angeles Lakers. Tom Mendoza/Daily News |
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