NO ORDINARY WHIPPER SNAPPERS: SOFT CELL'S SOFT SELL

You report to the Ramada Inn in Beverly Hills at the agreed-upon hour of a drizzly afternoon between Halloween and Thanksgiving to ask Soft Cell hard questions, but they were expecting you earlier. Singer Marc Almond, who's doing all the talking for the duo while Dave Ball suffers from a cold, is on his way out to look at graves of the stars.