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GLITTERATI LIMA Jackson sued again MICHAEL Jackson's album. Dangerous, has been jokingly re-named Litigious in industry circles. Denver songwriter Crystal Cartier sued the entertainer last week, saying she wrote and recorded the song Danger Hey Hey It's Batman Hev llev It's Saturday's i n. i 1 i Daryl Somen has done A "vr I a Molly Meldrom. I I I Tonight (Aussie time) ous in 1985, long before he released his album.

Her federal lawsuit seeks JUS40 million (SA52.6 million) on the grounds Jackson violated copyright and trademark JACKSON laws. It's the second lawsuit filed against Jackson over the album. The Cleveland Orchestra sued him in April for allegedly using its recording of a Beethoven symphony on Dangerous without permission. Beatles talentless? TJ EATLES diehards better flick to the next item JJ while still calm enough to do so. Beatles ex-producer George Martin said last week they basically couldn song-wnte their way out of a paper bag when they started recording but improved with prac tice.

"Success triggered something he pronounced. And: "I couldn't find any talent in them when I first met them." Martin added: "Their songwriting MARTIN talent at the outset was nothing like what it became." When Brian Epstein first introduced them in the CONNECTIONS: Catwoawa Michalla Pfeiffer talks to Daryl Soman ia Chicago. early 1960s, Martin got them to record How Do You Do It later a number one hit for Gerry and the Pacemaken but never released by the Beatles. I Somers (sans bud) will pre-record interviews with Batman Returns stars Michelle Pfelffer, Danny DeVito and Michael Keatoa in Chicago where he gets the world's only 16-minute interviews. Other interviewers have been sandwiched in at just eight minutes each.

"Connections Somers told Airwaves. Seems kudos from Hey Hey's shows taped at Warner Bros last year has Somers firmly in the pockets of the boys in the WB boardroom. Somers did watch the filming of the $100 million blockbuster in LA last year, but "I didn't get to see Michelle Pfeiffer in her catsuit though and I don't think I will today he lamented. He also reports the immigration man at LA airport wouldn't let him into the country until Pfeif-fer's name was dropped, whereupon the official's jaw did same and an offer to trade places was made. The interviews screen next Saturday, when Hey Hey marks the first birthday of Movieworld on the Gold Coast.

Somers has also scored never-before-seen-on-Australian TV bloopers from Movieworld from film greats dating back to Cagney, Bogart and Davis. Then on Monday, June IS, a one-hour movie special filmed at Movieworld, Silence of the Hams a detective spoof starring the Hey Hey team didn't take me long to write it" says Daryl) goes to air. Phew! When do va slow down, Daz? Bligh blah STF.VE Vizard's new venture Bligh. a spoof on Governor William BHich's reign of error in the Australian fledgling penal colony in the early 1800s is to be launched in Melbourne on Tuesday with a nosh at the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron. Bligh is a 13-part series of half didn't know what to do," Martin said.

"Then they came up with Love Me Da They had tremendous charisma, but this song just wasn't enough." Then they recorded Please. Please Me and that's when the same floppy hair, people would remark on it But as he gets older and grosser we look less alike. He's turning into Orsoa Welles." On Wednesday, veteran actor Rod Mullinar is honoured as the first corpse of the season. Whodunnit? George Mallaby? Crawfords starts production of a second series after demure high-school student by day who moonlighted as a S185-an-hour call girl by night. Say no more.

Brian Bury THE face wiped from Kerry Packer's Network Nine last year, Brian Bury, smiles again on Ten tomorrow. Bury, snapped up by 2UE after his axing in January last year, has been seduced by Ten into doing the weather on Martin knew they were on to a winner. Guns on the run WAxI Rose, lead singer of Guns N' Roses, is tired of running and plans to turn himself in to face charges stemming from a riot in St Louis 'character part, "hard to get when you're so young, you Recent work includes a commercial for Amott's Thins and a play at the Harold Park Hotel. Friday Files HMMM. Has Network Ten finally overdosed on "reality Word unofficially is that's why The Friday Files launched only two months ago in Sydney will be dumped from June 17 to the Wednesday llpm slot.

Word officially from network production manager Alan Batemaa is that lots of "really tough stuff (read tits, bums and aggro) fell to the cutting room floor in the earlier timeslot of 9.30pm Friday. Also research found the mostly female audience for Roseanne and Married with Children was switching off Si Vi taping the first series of 13 episodes before a studio audience who win prizes if they guess whodunnit, what weapon they last year, a spokeswoman for his recording label says. It's not clear when Rose will surrender, Brya Bridenthal of Geffen Records said. "We're in the process of trying to settle it," Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash added in an interview from Germany, where the group is on the Spm news. Question is: Will the Ten chopper have to pick him up from 2UE, where he finishes at 4pm, McFAOYEN ROSE BURY in time to get tour.

"I don't want to see us walking on stage and being walked off by the police." The band cancelled concerts in Chicago and Detroit to Ten and be made up for Spm, given the ever-so-slight nightmare of peak hour traffic snarls on the bridge? Bury promises he won't be "as over-the'-top as I was on Today" and Ten boss recently after a prosecutor threatened to have Rose arrested. The riot began after Rose plunged into the audience to stop a photographer from taking pictures, then cut short the band's show. the Files. Now in the llpm slot, the audience of older blokes can get their fill of gritty stuff straight after the news. But what do Alan Batemaa guarantees the Forty fans and 20 police officers were injured.

weatherman will be tied to a chair before he is allowed to Swimsuit swan song BATEMAN HRISTIE Brinkley, who made her modelling appear on camera "in a tie with kangaroos all over Beadle's About KJ mark in a bikini for Sports Illustrated dunnit with and in what room they dunnit. And it ain't easy, McFadyen who has the advantage of a Dip. Criminology under his belt and a passion for Hitchcock movies said. "Only about one-quarter of the audience are pretty close by the end." Williamson's son EXIT Lome Desmond this week from A Country Practice in a very fatal plane crash and enter, just for that episode, Felix Williamson, son of David, the tall one who pens plays. Williamson junior makes his TV debut in a role a trifle more hair-curling than Dad would write.

Felix, who stands (in the old money) at 6 feet and just graduated from NIDA, plays a homosexual journalist who admits to startled residents of Wandin Valley (zzzzz .) that he got AIDS from unprotected sex with another man. Felix told Airwaves he jumped at the role because it was such a good magazine, has gone all coy. She said her cover SYDNEYS1DERS better keep a sharp eye out this week for candid cameras because Jeremy Beadle ts on the loose. Practical shot in a red maillot for Ladies' Home Journal is her swimsuit swan song. "I don't want to do those anymore.

It's gotten too hard to suck in my stomach," she told the magazine. Now that she's bidding adieu to beachwear, a goodbye to all modelling is not far behind, Brinkley said. "I've you do with a show named 77ie Friday Files when it gets offloaded, um, to Wednesday? Answer: Change the name to Dunleavy, of course. Steve Dun-leavy, rip-snorter host of The Friday Files is unhappy about the move, 'specially as he scored front-page headlines in New York tabloids last week with his story for American A Current Affair that revealed a teenage Lolita who performed a Fatal Attraction-type assassination on her married lover's wife was a 4 joker Beadle is the host of Beadle's About, a top-rating show in Britain which has become Network TEN'S latest score. But he wouldn't be drawn by Airwaves on what he has BRINKLEY planned for his mysterious week long stay here.

"If I was up to been planning to retire for the past 10 years. Modelling is a very empty job. It's been a great career, but I would rather be known as anything but something I wouldn tell you a model. I desperately need more because the essence of what I do is secrecy," Beadle said. "But yes, it's a long way to come to sit hours "brimming with romance, adventure and sheep" which replaces Fast Forward from June 25.

"In those desperate early days the situation demanded a cool head, a man of vision, someone with inner strength to lake the rudder. Instead, England sent William Bligh," we are told. Vizard, who devised the idea, is one of the executive producers of the show through his group Artist Services. Look out for Magda Szubanskl who, as Betsy Bligh, retains the Scottish accent of her brilliant Fast Forward character Mary McGregor. Haven't a Cluedo FEEDING the current public craving for thrillers, Agatha Christie weekends and anything the teensiest bit nail-biting is Network Nine which premieres on Wednesday the new series that could just rate its head off Cluedo.

Compere Ian McFad-yen, looking most Barry Humphries-like in 1940s waistcoat, slicked back hair and eyeglasses hosts the show adapted from the Whodunnit board game of the same name. "This Humphries thing has been around a long time," McFadyen said. "Especially in my mid-30s. If I ever grew my hair, because we have Brinkley, 38, who is married to singer Billy Joel and and talk. Beadle game mom to a six-year-old daughter, said she'd like to try acting: "I need to get my foot in another door so that I'll have something to fall back on in my 40s.

playing practical jokes on people at the invitation of "loved He said it usually takes two months' research on the person from visiting the doctor to check they have no medical condition to finding out where they are at Growing Pains THE creator of TVs Growing Pains is suing Warner Bros for SUS50 million (SA65.8 million) saying he hasn't shared in the financial fruits of the every moment of the day. Stunts include blowing up a replica of a series. Producer Neal Marlens's lawsuit said he's Swim star WHY is Barcelona Olympic hopeful Hayley Lewis forcing a pair of swimming goggles on Don Burke's head? Well, Burke's Backyard on Friday can explain all. As part of Burke's series on celebrity Olympians, he peeps this week at Lewis's Brisbane backyard (yes it has a swimming pool and also a fence built by Hayley herself) before she leaves soon for the Spanish port sf est woman's car at the invitation of entitled to 25pc of net proceeds from the her sister and sending a construc long-running series but the studio's books show no profit from the seven-year-old show! Martens and his wife Carol Black are also creators and producers of The Wonder Years. Marlens was paid tion worker to demolish the wrong house.

Beadle's UK show receives 30,000 letters a year from people wanting to set their friends and family up. The show starts this Tuesda) at 7.30pm on a salary for working on Growing Pains but it was "peanuts" compared to his share of the show's HAYLEY LEWIS and DON BURKS TEN. profits, said his attorney Larry Silverman. IS THb SUN-HERALD, June 7, 1992.