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-mr- This Barbie makes house calk Crash-test dummies Richard Gere and Sharon Stone should lose their licenses to act after Intersection. 4C SECTION about Barbie's new image, too. The company will contribute $1 million in Dr. Barbie sales to support health care for children. The publicity gives Mattel a jump on rival toymaker Hasbro, which on Feb.

7 will mark the 30th birthday of G.I. Joe. Both companies hope to grab national attention before the American International Toy Fair in New York next month. Since 1959, Barbie has held an astonishing number of careers, including business executive, airline pilot, diplomat and presidential candidate. But critics who say NEW YORK DciTUJCntt Stlfe (CfjrOtriclC FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1994 Queen off the Blues Koko Taylor (right) belts em out at the Horizontal Boogie Bar Wednesday.

3C Comics 7C Columns 5C Inside goes out 3C Movies 5C Horoscopes 5C Out 8 'About GC i''1 Trying to save his workers' daughters from the Auschwitz death camp, factory owner Oskar Schindler (played by Liam Neeson, left) persuades a Nazi guard that a child's small hands are needed to polish the insides of artillery shell casings. If in aim By PAUL DAVIS THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL Remember the Barbie who said math was tough? She's gotten over that phobia and breezed through med school. The new Barbie Dr. Barbie, with blond bouffant, white coat and heels will appear in stores in Jury with a $17 price tag. Mattel unveiled her new career this week to celebrate the 35th birthday of America's best-selling doll.

Among Dr. Barbie's accessories: a stethoscope that makes heartbeat sounds, a new born infant and a doctor's kit. It's a far cry from the footloose Barbie who celebrated her 28th birthday by driving a red Ferrari and dancing in a rock band. "Dr. Barbie is definitely more serious," said Mattel spokeswoman Lisa McKendall.

Mattel is serious li Eddie Munster here with tips on scaring up an acting career By EUGENE MARINO STAFF TELEVISION WRITER Eddie Munster is lurching into town. And hell have some practical tips and sober warnings for kids and adults who want to emulate his monstrously quick show-biz success. Munster is Butch Patrick, now age 40. From 1964 to '66, he played the widows-peaked tyke on The Ministers, the TV sitcom about a family of goofy ghouls. Patrick will be at the Ironde-quoit Mall, near Victoria's Secret and The Body Shop, from 1 to 5 p.m.

tomorrow to register people for a workshop he helps lead. The workshop is called "How to Get Into Show Business the Right Way." It will be held twice from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 6 at Tel-Pro Video Productions, 1280 Scottsville Road. THE WORKSHOP includes a practical, eight-point guide to breaking into show biz, followed by an on-camera screen test.

Each participant will get a tape of the test. "It's a very realistic program," Patrick said in a phone call from Buffalo, where he was registering people for a session there. "We show them how to do it the right way and not get ripped off." Besides The Munsters, Patrick acted on My Three Sons and Ironside. But after being what he once called a "token child actor," he has since gone through several show-biz "retirements." Helping Patrick with the workshops will be Julie Matthews, director of the American Performing Arts Network, a talent agency in Cleveland. Matthews developed the workshops, which include acting, au-ditioning and marketing tech- niques, with Paul Petersen, one of the original Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club and Jeff on The Donna Reed Show.

LIKE THAT of many other child actors, Petersen's early success left him ill-equipped for adulthood. He struggled with drugs and alcohol before pulling himself together and becoming a writer. He has written 10 books and has formed A Minor Consideration, a support group for present and former child actors. "Paul sees how these kids get into trouble," Matthews says. A former actor and model, she says she once found herself working for a "scammy" talent agency.

She left to found her own agency. The workshop tries to teach participants "the steps they need to take" to get into show biz, as well as to give them a dose of the sometimes unpleasant reality of the business, Matthews says. 1 The workshop costs $95. For more information or to register by phone, call (216) 932-7995. IT A LIBRARY Butch Patrick as Eddie (left) and as himself in 1983.

the doll reinforces female stereotypes point to Barbie's other roles: mermaid, dancer, fashion designer. In late 1992, the company angered some women when its talking Barbie doll included the phrase, "Math class is tough." Mattel recalled the $35 "Teen Talk" dolls after critics said they reinforced stereotypes that girls aren't good at math. 1M REVIEW A businessman deal-cutting saves lives in Spielberg most powerful epic By JACK GARNER STAFF FILM CRITIC he images of Schindler's List are indelible: A train comes out of the black of night, puffing through the gate at the Auschwitz death camp. Hundreds of Jewish women are pushed and pulled out of freight cars. Blinking in the falling snow, they scan their new horizon, only to see a giant chimney spewing smoke, ashes and flames, as if from the furnaces of helL A bloated Nazi commandant breaks the monotony of morning coffee on the balcony of his chateau by aiming his rifle at prisoners in the concentration camp down the hill.

He absent-mindedly scratches his belly, puffs on a cigarette and pulls the trigger, all with an equal lack of concern. A handsome, gregarious German industrialist orders the best champagne, sings along with the orchestra, puts his beefy arms around the shoulders of SS officers and poses for photographs in a nightclub. All the while, he schemes how to thwart the Nazis' plans for genocide. Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg's masterwork on the Holocaust, is an overpowering series of such images. Based on the true story of a man who saved more Jews from Hitler's Final Solution than anyone else, it is a harrowing indictment of cruelty and a heartfelt testament to courage.

It is a film of maturity and power, as Spielberg applies his con- ill The 1 1 ROCHESTER, wv UNIVERSAL PICTURES INTERVIEW An unknown actor parlays his role as a villain into instant stardom By JACK GARNER STAFF FILM CRITIC NEW YORK When Ralph Fiennes signed on to play the monstrous Nazi camp commandant in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, he knew his biggest challenge was to make Amon Goeth a human being. "After all," he says, "evil is human, isn't itr Unlike many Nazis in recent films, including Spielberg's own Raiders of the Lost Ark, Amon Goeth was a real, historical figure. He could be no cardboard caricature. He had to be played realistically. He had to be believed.

And yet Goeth had committed acts of unbelievable inhumanity and cruelty. He randomly shot Jewish prisoners with as much thought as we give to swatting flies. "My point of view was to normalize the violence," Fiennes says. The real strength lies in making it It's truthful that way." "I think we could all be like Amon. It's like a survival instinct gone terribly wrong, like in Lord of the Flies." Whatever the validity of his approach, it works.

Many critics say he gives the best performance in the film; one even compares him to the young Marlon Brando. As played by Fiennes, Goeth is a 20th-century Caligula, ruling by decadent whim, frightening people with intense FIENNES on page 4C mm ii ii UNIVERSAL PICTURES Schindler (right) is torn between the proddings of his Jewish assistant (Ben Kingsley, left) and a Nazi friend (Ralph Fiennes, below). La8' fMmtei 1 1 Jl. Schindler's List Starring: Ham Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes Directed by: Steven Spielberg Opens today at: Loews Pittsford Rated: with violence, nudity, profanity Jack's rating: With 10 as a must-see, this film rates siderable filmmaking skill to a most serious topic. ADAPTED FROM a 1983 historical novel by Australian Thomas Keneally, the film stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, a German Catholic industrialist who joins the Nazi party purely as the smart thing for a businessman to do.

He's not political, just pragmatic. As the film opens, he's taken over an enamelware factory in Poland, and hires Jewish labor because it's cheaper than using Polish workers. Only later does he see the potential humanity in his actions, especially when compared to the genocide of the Nazis. For a time, employment keeps the Jews out of concentration camps. Later, it protects them from random shootings and gas chambers.

Helping Schindler choose names for his list of Jews to hire is his plant manager Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), an accountant who recognizes Schindler's potential to be a "righteous Gentile." He manipulates the accounts, but also helps UST on page AC.