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Lovedart takes third place, after the Tidal Waves, and hands the $75 check to his fiancee for their wedding fund. (They're a lip-sync couple. They met on the circuit, and their courtship included a lip-sync duet of Paradise by the Dashboard Light, which could loosely be described as a love song.) Asked about his future, Lovedart concedes that he's thought about putting together a portfolio and taking it to an agent. "But I don't know how I would handle the success." What he means is that he's already been on television, and it was hard to face all the strangers congratulating him afterward. "A lot of people think it takes talent," he muses. "To me, I don't think it takes a lot of talent."
Other competitors say they have been followed by teenage girls in the local shopping malls. One says he was spotted by a guy in the fast lane on the expressway who felt compelled to congratulate him at 60 m.p.h. Kim Buchan has actually had people tear at her hair and clothes. One time, when Madonna was due, a television film crew had Buchan dress up and drive around Chicago in a limousine. "People mobbed me. They thought I was Madonna. They thought I was Rosanna Arquette. This guy came up and said, 'Who are you?' So I was supposed to say, 'Who do you think I am?' And he said, 'Cyndi Lauper.' I mean, come on, gimme a break."
Back at the television studio afterward, Kim went into the ladies room and bumped into Oprah Winfrey. "Are you who I think you are?" Kim asked.
"I sure hope so," Winfrey replied.
But who knows? Maybe it was just a really good lip-sync act.