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2 Section 1 Chicago Tribune, Monday, May 4, 1998 NEWSMAKERS Hevrdejs TVTp CONKLIN llMljt Director Lee spikes a No. 1 box-office hit -fin 1 if Topinka won't rest until Grant's tomb at peace in Illinois A re Ulysses S. Grant's remains headed for Galena? Indefatigable state Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, who's made this a cause, says the issue is "not dead." Topinka just met with two Monday night to help U.S.ISen. Carol Moseley-Braun raise money at Bill Farley's Chicago home, President Clinton will be the "first guest" earlier in the day when CNBC unveils its new joint financial news alliance with the Wall Street Journal. The ClintOOnS 2: On the first lady's visits here last week, we understand that Joel Mallet Hillary Clinton's favorite Chicago hairstylist made "house calls" to the first lady's hotel room.

His Jacques Dessange shop on Oak Street was raided by the INS shortly after her last visit there, but the problem with five French stylists was soon corrected. Error Santo: We miss Harry Caray in the WGN broadcast booth, but Ron Santo is picking up slack in some areas. Over the weekend, when Weight Watchers shill Sarah Ferguson visited the booth during the Cubs game, Santo offered her a "Cronkite" instead of Klondike ice cream bar. More Fergie: We do know Fergie passed up her entree Saturday night at the ALS black-tie gala in the Hyatt Regency, preferring to simply nibble on a salad. So did another person at the table: WBBM-Ch.

2's Jay Levine, who co-emceed with wife Mary Ann Childers. But Jay's not on Weight Watchers he had to rush back to anchor a newscast. Monday birthdays: Randy Travis, 39; Jackie Jackson, 47; George Will, 57; Roberta Peters, 68; Maynard Ferguson, 70; and W. Clement Stone, 96. Bull-ish: You can count Utah Jazz star Karl Malone as a Scottie Pippen Fan Club member.

After a recent taping of the David Letterman show in New York, Malone told the Tribune's Gene Siskel the Bulls should give Pippen $80 million for four years to keep him in uniform. EAVESDROPPING "I don't know. His capacity for denial seems to be stupendous." Warren Beatty, in the NY Daily News on whether President Clinton will like his new political movie, "Bulworth" and other remuneration. That's nearly three times what Forbes said the Bulls' Michael Jordan made last year, by comparison a paltry $78 million. Jordan would have been No.

5 if he were a CEO instead of a one-man product endorser. Tribune News Services It's 'Winter' in spring at Victory Gardens Julie Harris, five-time Tony Award winner for her Broadway work, has signed to star with Chicago-based stage televisionfilm actor Mike Nussbaum in a new play at Victory Gardens, the Off-Loop theater that next season celebrates its 25th anniversary. The play, set in a nursing home, is "Winter," by Claudia Allen, a member of Victory Gardens playwrights' ensemble. The two actors took part in a staged reading of the drama last autumn, and both agreed to return for the main-stage production, directed by Sandy Shinner, May 24-June 20, 1999. Two other plays in the five-show 1998-99 season have been picked: A revival of Ron Carter's "The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy," staged by Dennis Zacek, theater's artistic director (Sept 21-Oct.

18), and "Rain, River, Ice and Steam," a new comic drama by Chicago writer S. L. Daniels, directed by Shinner (Feb. 1-28, 1999). Richard Christiansen LOS ANGELES Director Spike Lee scored the first No.

1 picture of his career, as his basketball-themed "He Got Game" grossed $8.1 million in its opening weekend at the North American box office, according to studio estimates released Sunday. "City of Angels" held steady in second with $6.6 million, while last weekend's leader, "The Big Hit," slipped to third with $6 million. Two other new entries rounded out the top five: a new update of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables," starring Liam Neeson, with $5.3 million, and the Patrick Swayze action movie "Black Dog" with $4.6 million. The Sylvester Stallone film "Into Thin Air," based on a best-selling book about climbing Mt. Everest, has been pushed back for further development of the story, says producer Brian Grazer.

The thriller was to have started in July. CEOs are superstars in salary competition NEW YORK-According to the new Forbes magazine, San-ford I. Weill, chief executive of Travelers Group and future co-chairman of Citigroup, made almost $228 million in 1997 to top a list of last year's best-paid American CEOs, based upon salary, bonus, gains from exercising options direct descendants of Grant's in the northwest Illinois town, a community that memorializes the ex-president's pre-Civil War years there. 'Topinka told us it was the relatives' first trip to Galena, and the result left everyone feeling there was "a fighting chance" of reinterment. Grant is buried in New York City, where expensive Upkeep and other problems have created "questions about the location.

Most descendants 'live in the East, but a great-great-great-grandson is a graduate student here. asking: You don't suppose Mayor 'Richard Daley's reluctance (unless there's a last-minute change of mind) to be a Jay Leno 'guest this week has anything to do with the NBC show's originating from Rosemont, where 'Mayor Don Stephens, not exactly a close pal of Richie's, reigns supreme? Stepping: Terry Hillard's first St Jude's parade as Chicago police chief Sunday be memorable if for no other reason than the large, drug-sniffing Cook County police dog that defecated in front of -'him as he sat in the reviewing stand. The dog, tugged along in the parade by a handler, was in AP photo Sweet anniversary: "Candy bomber" Gail Halvorsen is on his way to Berlin for the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift for which he organized the dropping of candy and gum. obvious need of relief before getting to this important location. Then, after taking firm stand in front of Hillard, the pooch did its business, leaving some rather, ahem, large deposits.

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