In their annual Halloween look at what's up next year, American witches Monday predicted that Donald Trump will lose most of his money in a rigged pinochle game and Roseanne Barr will become one of America's most beautiful women.
In the 16th annual survey compiled by the New York Center for the Strange, the witches also forecast that 1990 is going to see major shortages of herring, banjos, billiard balls and Marilyn Quayle posters.And a book will be published claiming Zsa Zsa Gabor was really born and raised in Houston.
The tongue-in-cheek predictions from the Center for the Strange - "a non-profit organization involved basically in research" - is also accompanied by a plea from Executive Director Richard Blaine for a better understanding of witches.
He insists that the 330 American witches polled this year do not cackle, ride brooms or cast evil spells.
Their ranks include a New York real estate tycoon, several members of Congress and the wife of a TV evangelist, he said - but no names, please.
Some of the predictions:
-TV's Geraldo Rivera will claim to have been held captive by aliens from outer space.
- It will become fashionable for West Coast businessmen to wear non-matching shoes.
- New York Mayor Ed Koch will be appointed ambassador to the United Nations by President Bush.
- A Japanese corporation will launch a chain of "McSushi" restaurants in the United States.
- Vice President Dan Quayle will write a book of rhymes for pre-schoolers.
- Chicago will displace Paris as the fashion capital of the world.