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Yarie INDEX DearAbby, Ann Landers PageE7tE6 Movie listings Page E5 Comics PageE8-9 Fixit Page Ell Television Page El 0 Wednesday SEPTEMBER 20, 1995 SECTION TODAY'S QUOTE "Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are Renata Adler, "Speedboat" (1971) StarGibune Inside Borgnine's new sit-com Ernest Borgnine takes a supporting role as a meddling doorman in NBC's "The Single which premieres Thursday night. The show is sandwiched between "Friends" and "Seinfeld." Turn to page E10. Fan man's collection To celeb-watchers, he's 1 me man wuu uic laii now his elegant clothes, if .1 uui iii9 uicauitdi pwauu age, are coming to town. Karl Lagerfeld, head designer and ruckus-rouser for the Chanel design house in Paris, is known outside fashion circles mosdy for his ponytail, shades, hand y- Karl Lagerfeld held fan, wry sound bites and "discovery" of model Claudia Schiffer. Since 1984, he's also produced a couture collection under his own name.

But it's never been shown in Minnesota until today. The 1995 fallwinter Lagerfeld collection will be shown at Parmees Boutique (400 1st Av. the Wyman Building, Minneapolis) from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m (by appointment; call 333-0101). For more on fashion, including a look at menswear trends this fall, see page E3.

I FYI Star Tribune photos by Cheryl A. Meyer Elvira and Kelvin Hodson, both deaf, communicate with their daughter, Dominique, in sign language. Two-year-old Dominique and their 2-month-old son, Joel, can hear. Breaking through Putting some teeth into inflation Tooth fairies are paying out bigger bucks when children lose their baby teeth. Family Circle magazine published a survey that found that most parents still pay their children $1 to $2 per tooth, but some give $20 per incisor and bicus- pid.

The survey, conducted by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, found the greatest generosity in Houston, where a child got $50 a tooth. Associated Press A gift fit for a King A man named Dick Grab, who characterizes himself as Elvis Presley's former security director, has announced that he recently realized that he is in possession of a one-of-a-kind recording made and autographed by his late boss. When a reporter at USA Today asked Grob why the object languished so long in his garage, the reply was as follows: "At my wedding, Presley gave me a brand new Mercury Marquis convertible with all-leather interior. He gave me a brand new Cadillac Seville. He gave me a loaded Pontiac Grand Prix." The implication seems to be that the disc got lost in the shuffle, but you'd think it would stand out because it doesn't have tail fins.

Scripps Howard News Service Kelvin reads to Dominique In sign language. He and his wife belong to MELD, a support group for deaf parents. This week The quick and the old By Kurt Chandler Star Tribune Staff Writer It was the little things that frustrated Elvira Hodson, the routine responsibilities that most parents take for granted. When her 2-year-old daughter came to her with a storybook, for instance, she couldn't read it to her. And when her newborn son arrived home from the hospital, she couldn't hear him cry.

Elvira and her husband, Kelvin Hodson, are deaf. Of nearly 300,000 people in Minnesota who are deaf or hard of hearing, according to the 1990 U.S. census, thousands are parents of hearing children. "Deaf people are more isolated," Elvira said through an American Sign Language interpreter. ''There's still people all around you, but you can't talk to them Parents especially have that frustration.

Sometimes it's read them. So I feel I don't have the same amount of knowledge for taking care of my children because I didn't have that same contact with hearing parents." Often deaf children attend residential schools for the deaf, which further isolates them from family role models. "I feel like I survived on my own, like I lived on my own," Leonard said. "My experience with my own family was limited." Day to day, deaf parents feel awkward in a world geared for hearing families. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, health-care professionals and large child-care centers, for example, are required to provide interpreting services to deaf parents.

Turn to DEAF on E2 fan Some of the challenges and isolation that deaf parents experience. A few tricks the Hodsons use to make parenting easier. "Deaf folks have to rely on one another to get that information because they don't get it through their peers and family," she said. Who do they turn to for advice on how to teach their children sign language, for example? Or how do they find a dentist who provides interpreting services? Unlike hearing parents, deaf parents can't listen to radio or television to inform themselves about parenting habits and family trends. Nor can they easily swap parenting tips with hearing friends and neighbors, or their own families.

Role models lacking for deaf parents As children, deaf people are shut out from all verbal interaction in their homes. So they have few, if any, role models for developing skills that are unique to deaf parents. "My parents didn't sign," said Kelvin. "They always expected me to lip- hard to communicate a deaf parent to a hearing child." To overcome their unique isolation, the Hodsons belong to a support group for deaf parents. Sponsored by the Minneapolis chapter of MELD, a national support agency for parents, the group brings deaf parents together to share the struggles and the joys of parenthood.

Parents meet bimonthly for two years, beginning shortly after the birth of a child. "We meet the other deaf and hard-of-hearing parents, and we ask about their experiences," said Kelvin. They trade advice on everything from child care and toys to baby doctors and formula. Support group is an equalizer The group helps fill a social void, said Diane Leonard, coordinator of the MELD support groups and a deaf parent herself. Tea Leoni is willing to bare all on TV's The Naked Truth' Photo provided by Minnesota Air National Guard A replica of a Curtiss Oriole will be at the show.

The Minnesota Air National Guard museum wraps up its summer season this weekend with a big display of military airplanes. This year also is the guard unit's 75th anniversary, so the museum is doing it up big, with F-16 fighters 1 scheduled to be on display, along with huge airplanes such as a C-5 Galaxy and a B-52 Strato-fortress. (If one weapon could be credited with winning the Persian Gulf War, it probably would be the B-52, which pounded Saddam Hussein's finest troops .) Also on display will be the museum's incredibly rare Blackbird spy aircraft, believed to be the one that set the world record for speed in an air- breathing craft: 2,391 miles per hour. If that sounds like just another number, try thinking of it this way: That's fast enough to get from Minneapolis to Duluth in less than four minutes. And, by contrast, the museum is rolling out a replica of a Curtiss Oriole like one flown from, Minnesota to Washington, D.C., in 1920, seeking air militia recognition for the Minnesota Guard.

The museum is near Fort Snelling, at the intersection of Hwys. 55 and 62. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.

Admission is $6 for people over 15. Call 725-5609. By Neal Justin Star Tribune Staff Writer Tea Leoni is flirting with disaster. In the second episode of her promising new sitcom, "The Naked Truth," (8:30 tonight, KSTP-Ch. 5), her character, a photographer for a sleazy celebrity tabloid, wiggles into a skimpy sailor's uniform, stuffs her bra with and strips her clothes at a celebrity's bachelor party just to shoot a lurid picture of him rolling in hot oil with two busty models.

In the pilot last week, she goes to the gynecologist to steal a urine sample from Anna Nicole Smith, wearing a loosely tied hospital gown that reveals her black bikini lingerie. She smokes cigarettes, downs shots of booze at a seedy bar, calls her ex-husband a "homo," and admits, in a fit of "booger," "whore" and "jugs" popping up frequently. But the jokes are often clever and Leoni is quite possibly this season's breakout star, an inventive, unpredictable actress who manages to put herself in provocative situations without ever looking vulnerable. This is a true "adult" comedy in a season of single-life sitcoms in which every character flashes apple-pie smiles, drinks coffee and is surrounded by a gaggle of "friends." Leoni, who helped create the show's premise, said that while she allowed the network to tinker some with the original concept, there were a few nonnegotiable rules: No kids, no dogs, no roommates. "Roommates are big, and I don't want 'em," she said.

"I also didn't want a show where all the characters are of the same generation. I wanted some life in there. Turn to LEONI on E12 frustration, that she made Rice-A-Roni in her mouth. In a recent promo shot, Leoni stares into the camera and, in her raspy Kathleen Turner-ish voice, promises viewers that she'll take her shirt off on the show. "That'll get 'em," she says, seductively raising one eyebrow.

TV's sitcom actresses aren't supposed to act like this. The sex appeal of Murphy Brown and The Nanny has more to do with their brains then their bods. Will America embrace Mary Richards with a filthy mind? "Maybe there's a tendency that, because of the feminist movement, we've had to shed some of our sexuality in order to compete, and I think that's a sad thing," Leoni said during a phone conversation from her agent's office in New York. "I think we need to celebrate our sexuality." Not surprisingly, "Truth" is this season's most potentially offensive new show with words like Today mm fev mm Anna Quindlen Family and healthy relationships are the focus of "Living Out Loud, Life in the 1990s" a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author Anna Quindlen today from 5 to 6: 1 5 p.m. at Central Lutheran Church, 333 S.

12th Mpls. Quindlen left the New York Times in 1994 to pursue a career as a novelist and raise her three children. Her talk is part of a free lecture series on the family cosponsored by Piper Jaffray Companies, the Minneapolis Foundation and the Saint Paul Foundation. Photo provided by ABC Tea Leoni: season's breakout star?.