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FRIDAY, AUGUST PHH-ADELPHIA DAIfcV NEWS PAGE 39 The way to an editor's heart Some people just can't take constructive criticism. Take Fugees star Wyclef Jean, who allegedly pulled a gun on an editor about to publish a bad review of an album he'd produced. "It was pointed right at me, at my chest," said Jesse Washington, editor of the new music magazine Blaze. "For some reason, sometimes hip-hop artists, they seem to feel 'P EB3Z2 1 like they can operate outside the rules of normalcy." Jean was expected to comment at an MTV appearance today. Washington told the Associated Press that Jean had been urging him not to run a negative review of an upcoming album by the rapper Canibus, which he had helped put together.

Jean's Face time for Fergie Fergie, Duchess of York was just about to slip off the Tattle radar, but she's back with a vengeance. The former royal-turned-Weight Watchers-spokeswoman has signed with Rupert Murdoch to host a series of 10 one-hour talk shows for Britain's Sky Television. The ex-wife of Prince Andrew said the show, tentatively titled "Surviving Life," "will be about people and the real problems that they face in society today." Fergie says she'll donate her $80,000 fee to charity. Taping begins next month. Baby parade Country stars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have a new daughter.

Hill gave birth Wednesday in Nashville, to Maggie Elizabeth, who weighed in at 6 pounds, 9 ounces. The couple's first daughter, Grade, is 15 months old. Daily News wire services contributed to this report. Send e-mail to chapmafphiilynews.com or call our tip line at 215-854-5474. beef: The review was based on an early, incomplete version' of the disc.

Apparently his argument, bolstered with the threat of firepower, was pretty persuasive. Washington said he yanked the review but not because of Jean's actions: "We decided to take his word that that was an incomplete record that we had." The editor, who said he didn't feel his life was in danger, did not report the incident to police. Dawn of a new nose Right on schedule, Paula Jones has unveiled her perky new nose, some three weeks after submitting to a plastic surgeon's ministrations. "I didn't even know what he was going to do to it," she said last night on ABC's "Prime Time Live." "I just said I wanted a normal nose to match my face, and he said, "Trust me' and I said OK. Now they can see my whole face, the whole me." Jones unsuccessfully sued President Clinton for sexual harrassment.

First-class cat White lion Prospeitty flew in a private jet from Vegas to Cincinnati Wednesday, with owner Roy Horn of the showbiz duo Siegfried and Roy. Horn is giving the young cat to the Cincinnati Zoo, where she'll join two male white lions previously donated by the entertainers. "She'll have the best of all worlds, she'll have 1 and she i have her pick, sighed Roy. 1 Aim IPTnTl i f-K I. An anonymous donor so anonymous, Jones claims not to know who paid for the pruning, estimated to have cost $9,000.

The new nose is the latest in Jones' continuing makeover. Since stepping into the limelight with her lawsuit, the former Arkansas secretary has revamped her hair, teeth, makeup and wardrobe. Anything else? Jones could use "an implant to correct her receding chin," plastic surgeon Steven Pearl-man suggested to the New York Daily News. Visionaries Stevle Wonder poses with Sarah Moriey at his Vision Awards (yes) in New York Wednesday. The singer praised Moriey for her work helping the blind and visually impaired to use personal computers.

iri 1 Paula Jones, before and after I i New 'Good Day' host? Could WTXF (Channel 29) finally have found a cc-host to replace Don Tollefson on "Good Day Dave Price, described by the Chicago Sun-Times as a morning "weather forecaster and resident funnyman" on CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago, has reportedly asked to be tet out of his contract more than a year early to accept an offer in Philadelphia an offer news execs at Channels 3, 6 and 10 say didn't come from them. Over at Channel 29, news director John Mussonl declined to comment but it's known that he's wanted a co-host for "Good Day's" Tracey Matisak since Tollefson left the show in April to become sports anchor for the "10 0'Clock Tollefson's old gig apparently was similar to what Price was doing in Chicago, at least until February, when his role on WBBM's morning newscast was reportedly cut back. Ellen Gray FRIDAY: Channel 10's Edle Hugglns reports 63. South Philly Walk of Famer Buddy Greco croons 72. Eagles end Mike Mamula exposes 25.

SATURDAY: Channel 6's Wally Kennedy hosts 50. Metro Traffic's Tom MacDonald reports 34. WHAT-AM "King of the Oldies All Hackett rocks 45. Eagles wide receiver Freddie Solomon catches 26. SUNDAY: Fox 29 weathergal Sue Serlo forecasts 40..