Headline News (song) the issues. While the original song's verses each told the story of three abnormal children, each verse of "Headline News" tells the story of three famous tabloid stories of 1993 and 1994: the American delinquent Michael Fay being caned in Singapore, figure skater Tonya Harding's ex-husband attacking her rival Nancy Kerrigan, and Lorena Bobbitt severing her husband's penis with a knife. (In this last verse, Yankovic substitutes the term "penis" with euphemisms like "wiener" and "Mr. Happy".) Yankovic later joked that he "wanted to write a song about these people because [he didn't] think they're getting quite enough media attention",
Nancy Kerrigan Wang donated those two dresses to Kerrigan, the values of which were estimated at $9,600 and $13,000, respectively. Kerrigan retired from amateur competition after the Olympics. She appeared in a few professional competitions such as Ice Wars, but focused her career on performing in a variety of ice shows. She has appeared in "Champions on Ice", "Broadway on Ice", and an ice show adaptation of the musical "Footloose", among other productions. In 2003, Kerrigan became a national spokeswoman for Fight for Sight. In the 1994 TV movie "Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story", she was portrayed by Heather Langenkamp. In