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The Palm Beach Post SECTION THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2001 ACCENT New CBS show 'Big Apple' has solid core, needs some polish TV REVIEW, PAGE 4E SHADY PALMS FOWL PLAV CHAPTER 16: A mission to Margo PAGE 6E Palm Beach County Living BATTLE OF OKEECHOBEE Thorn Smith Band leader's ultimate gig? On the moon "TV The Chieftains hail from Ireland, but their music is universal. Their albums have traced Celtic influences to Spain and Africa. A special guest Sunday at the Kravis Center will be Dadawa, a Chinese singer. With all this international flavor, about the only thing left is outer space, and Paddy Maloney can't wait Especially after playing America the Beautiful on the uil-lean pipes at the Feb. 7 launch of space shuttle Atlantis.

"I have always ,1 A I dreamed of being the if I first musician to play on the moon, Maloney said. "Playing at the shuttle launch is the closest I have Maloney come so far, but someday, I hope to get there." From the Kravis, the band heads to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and will close this tour with a St. Patrick's Day gig at Carnegie Hall. The Kravis show is at 8 p.m. Call 832-7469 for ticket information.

Seymour a dancer first One day, Palm Beach. The next, the Mediterranean. Then to Canada. Tuesday's visit to Ballet Florida was a wel-. come respite for Jane Seymour, who Photos by DAVID SPENCERStaff Photographer Pedro Zepeda plays the role of a Seminole warrior in the Battle of Okeechobee.

Zepeda is an employee of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Great-great-grandpa's By Paul Reid Falm Beach Post Staff Writer It just wasn't a very jolly Christmas for any of the 800 U.S. soldiers and 300 Seminoles who battled in the swamp near Lake Okeechobee that Christmas Day in 1837. For Col. Richard Gentry, who rode and sailed and hiked all the way from Missouri to kill Seminoles, it was to be the last Christmas.

All the landscapes political, geographic, his Stanc as- SI tk torical conspired against Gentry on that Christmas Day. Central Florida was so unknown to white men that the map Gentry carried didn't even show Lake Okeechobee. Government map makers had dismissed rumors of a big lake. And bureaucrats had dismissed the Indians as unworthy opponents. President Andrew Jackson said he could beat all the 1 watched a rehearsal and then lunched with several dozen supporters before appearing at Escada on Worth Avenue.

"I only wanted to be a ballet dancer," Seymour said. "The rest of this was something to do when I couldn't dance." The rest includes an impressive film and TV career Somewhere in Time, Captains and Kings and, of course, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. More recently, the "rest" includes fashion and costume design, and art, which brought her to Palm Beach. Seymour painted as a child back in England.

However, 10 years ago she began pursuing that muse in earnest. Two years ago one of her paintings caught the eye of Escada chairman and founder Wolfgang Ley, who proposed a deal. Now a collection of Jane's work is making stops at Escada boutiques, and a limited edition scarf, replicating her painting You Have To Give, is offered for sale. Proceeds go to local charities. Wednesday, she left for Europe.

"I'm sneaking off to Malta," said Seymour, as stunning in person as she is on screen despite recent back surgery that requires a brace. "James (husband James Keach) is directing a movie there for NBC. ItH be a quick four days with the kids. Then back to New York and then to Montreal to shoot." Give your regards to Broadway Hey, kid. Wanna be in a Broadway show? Here's your chance.

Tryouts will be Saturday for the role of "Little Kim" in Showboat, March 13-18 at the Kravis Center. Producers want a girl, age 8-11, who, with a guardian, is available for all eight performances. Hopefuls must bring their own tights and Mary Jane or black shoes at noon Saturday to Palm Beach Ballet Center, 736 Park Lake Park. "There's no lines, no singing, no dancing and no pay," said Barbara GauK, spokesperson for SFX, the show's producer. Call 833-0705 for details.

thomsmithpbpost.com 1 Indians in Florida with an army of Elizabeth Gentry 50 old women. Sayad feels The battle near Okeechobee history cheated proved the map makers and Jack- ner ancestor son wrong. There was a big lake, 0 Richard after all. And government dreams Gentry. of a quick victory died near water's edge.

Today, the battleground seems such a pretty place to die, the new-growth cypress swamp just south of the city of Okeechobee, just across Taylor Creek the towering canopy, smooth weathered trunks, filtered gold sunlight on cool earth, curtains of Spanish moss that part in the breeze to reveal a blue heaven beyond. But the landscape was different in 1837 no cypress trees, just a mile-wide swath of saw grass and Please see BATTLE, 5E Reenactors portraying U.S. soldiers are on the ready for advancing Seminoles during the Battle of Okeechobee. The event drew about 200 spectators. Online store makes aging seem graceful? Gold Violin offers products that help, but don't depress 1 I MAKE ME THE EDITOR! We're taking applications for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

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