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2 Section 1 Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, April 10, 1996 NEWSMAKERS Hevrdejs TTP CONKLIN llNVA I I A. ti 7 anchor Larry Potash read Shapiro's book and will do that grilling. Co-anchor Sonja Gantt gets Darden honors. Note: One thing the lawyers have in common is a dislike for Johnnie Cochran. They're back: Don't be surprised if Ed Volkman and Joe Bohannon the JoBo and Eddie team fired at WBBM-FM for "gross misconduct" pop up soon on a Chicago station.

They've left a Philadelphia radio gig, returned here, and are "talking to several stations." Volkman and Bohannon were fired in 1994 after making comments about WMAQ-Ch. 5's Joan Esposito, who sued and got a settlement. Star tracks: Keanu Reeves brought his bass and band, Dogstar, to the Metro Sunday, and we hear a few Chicago musicians Liz Phair and Urge Overkill's Nash Kato, among them stopped in to catch the act On Monday, when Reeves' act headed to the Double Door, Dennis Rodman was spotted in the audience. Reel potential: Kenneth Branagh will play (reportedly for $4 million) "The Gingerbread Man," a screenplay written by John Grisham, who, until now, has been better known for his best-selling novels becoming movies Jackie Chan is teaming with Wesley Snipes for a buddy action movie titled "Confucius Brown." Passages: We're ready to call Gov. Jim Edgar our No.

1 baseball fan after spotting him at Tuesday's White Sox home opener. He was at the Cubs' opener too. Mayor Richard Daley missed both Wednesday birthdays: Peter MacNicol, 42; John Madden, 60; Don Meredith, 58; Harry Morgan, 81; Steven Seagal, 45; Omar Sharif, 64; Max Von Sydow, 67. Clock watcher: Swatch, official timekeeper for the Olympics, has been keeping Kennedy Expressway motorists posted for almost a year on the exact number of minutes until the games start in Atlanta. But as of Tuesday morning, Swatch still hadn't adjusted its billboard clock to daylight-saving time making us wonder if 60 minutes should be added to the total.

Brando regrets his remarks about Jews LOS ANGELES-Actor Marlon Brando, whose televised remarks on Jews and Hollywood sparked an uproar, telephoned the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to express his regrets, it was disclosed Tuesday. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the center, named for the famous Nazi hunter, said Brando "expressed his remorse" during a conversation Monday but said his comments were not meant to be anti-Semitic. Said Hier: "I told Mr. Brando that the remarks he made on the 'Larry King Live' inter-' view about alleged Jewish control of Hollywood were music to the ears of racists and bigots all over the world who use similar terminology to promote the big lie of a Jewish conspiracy." Garcia kin are not all grateful for ceremony SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco Chronicle said that neither Jerry Garcia's brother nor any of his four daughters were told of plans to take his remains to India. They're furious.

Garcia's widow, Deborah Koons Garcia, and fellow Grateful Dead musician Bob Weir sprinkled "a portion" of his ashes in the Ganges River in a ceremony Thursday in India, band spokesman Dennis McNally said. "This was done 100 percent without our knowledge," Garcia's daughter, Annabelle Garcia, 25, was quoted. "It is gut-churning." Ex-wife Carolyn was also stunned by the Ganges ceremony. "There was no reason on Earth to take Jerry's ashes to India, a country he'd never been to, and dump them into the most polluted river on the face of the Earth," she said. Pavarotti, secretary set up housekeeping NEW YORK Luciano Pavarotti, 60, and his secretary, Nicoletta Mantovani, 26, have moved into a Manhattan apartment, but deny they're starting a family.

1 Pavarotti and his wife of 35 years, Adua, are legally separated. She's in Italy, and reportedly won a settlement of $150 million plus half his ongoing royalties. Source: Tribune Wires Freund keeps word to help AIDS charity C. Geraldine Freund promised to support a cause and she has kept that word, though her "Three Sopranos" concert Saturday at Orchestra Hall, a benefit for AIDS, fell far short of box office expectations. The Chicago impresaria dashed off a $100,000 check to the Midwest AIDS Foundation.

John von Rhein Kennedy talk has a distinct campaign ring He may not be campaigning this election year, but when John F. Kennedy Jr. stepped to the podium in the Palmer House Hilton Tuesday, he sure talked the talk. There were jabs at Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan and Al Gore, talk of politics and culture, the Kennedys, politics and entertainment, the Kennedys and a mag called "George." The packed-to-the-rafters crowd including such celeb-jaded Chicagoans as Ann Landers, Chris Kennedy, William 'Kennedy Smith, Neil Hartlgan and Burt Natarus was joined by an occasional swooning Donna Karan-clad John-John fan at the Chicago Advertising Federation event More: On family's ties to Chicago, Kennedy said: "In the '40s, my grandfather bought the Merchandise Mart. In the '70s, there was the Apparel Center.

And in the '60s election, my family bought 20,000 votes." On the mag: "More magazines sold, more "advertising sold and more embarrassing pictures of its editor sold Although a suite had been prepared for him, we hear Kennedy checked himself into the hotel and into a standard room the night before, then -slipped down for breakfast Tuesday a.m. alone. And before the speech, Kennedy squeezed in a f.visit to the Mart plus a solo walk around the neighborhood. Reuters photo Hands up down under: Actor Chariton Heston, in a pose reminiscent of a scene from "The Ten Commandments," holds up imprints of his hands Tuesday at Planet Hollywood in Sydney, which will officially open in May. Gcorgfi II: The next young politico coming to Chicago? George Stephanopoulos, one of President Clinton's top aides, will be at the Hard Rock Cafe next Tuesday for QlOl's Rock-the-Vote campaign.

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