Clue 1

Sector B - Marina / Pacific Heights

Celebrity Construction Kit

Author: Andrew Chaikin

Originally, this clue was entitled SomeBody Parts. But the members of Game Control thought this title would be in bad taste after the (then-recent) events of 9-11, so after a brief stint as "Famous Fragments", it was renamed to the title you see here.

CELEBRITY CONSTRUCTION KIT

A	HASTE	LITTLER	OR
ADO	HAT	LIVERS	PERT
AL	HE	LOSS	SINE
AN	HERBAL	MA	SO
AND	HI	MAG	SON
CAR	HOMERS	MAR	TAN
CHARD	HONE	MART	TAP
CHRISTIANS	I	ME	TINS
CON	IMP	MELT	TONE
CRATES	LA	NOR	WART
EN	LATER	O	ZAP

Hints

Hint 1 was "Look for the names of famous people."

Hint 2 was a gimme -- a team that called in was to tell Game Control which names they'd already found, and Game Control would then provide them with three more (usually harder-to-find) names.

Solution

As the title implies, teams needed to construct the names of celebrities out of the word-parts provided. When all the celebrities had been "constructed", putting together the left-overs would net you the answer.

Parts	Names
A, AN, CAR, LOSS, TAN	Carlos Santana
CHRISTIANS, LATER	Christian Slater
HERBAL, PERT	Herb Alpert
HOMERS, IMP, SON	Homer Simpson
CHARD, I, LITTLER	Little Richard
AND, HAT, HI, MA, MAG	Mahatma Gandhi
HASTE, MART, WART	Martha Stewart
EN, HE, MAR, TINS	Martin Sheen
ME, MELT, OR	Mel Torme
LIVERS, O, TONE	Oliver Stone
ADO, CON, NOR, SINE	Sinead O'Connor
CRATES, SO	Socrates

Leftover Parts: AL, HONE, LA, TAP, ZAP = Alta Plaza Phone

Teams went to the public telephone in Alta Plaza Park,

to which was affixed a BATH sticker with a telephone number on it:

The first team to arrive left this taunting message for all teams who followed:

When called, the answering machine message told teams to look in the recycling bin of a nearby house for the next clue.