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1 i IFE Television: 2D In the community: 3D Conversation: 4B Comics: 5D Statesman Journal Salem, Oregon Tuesday, October 20, 1992 ft mSmsy Wlilmsy Tom Forstrom JHbmto, 2 in St She's a new bride, a mom-to-be, and she's starring with Kevin Costner in one of the holiday season's most-anticipated films. But the best is yet to come, the singer says. The Associated Press If you want, you can have a record out in a week. Films take discipline, a deep-rooted discipline." She received many scripts before Bodyguard, but none to her liking. "None of them seemed to hit me.

Then I saw this one, and I knew it was special. I was afraid. It was like, 'My God, can I handle this? This might be too much, Whitney. Don't bite off more than you can chew. Don't do this to "But there was the challenge, along with Kevin's encouragement.

He kept telling me, "You can do it. You can do she says. The subject matter someone stalking a star was chillingly realistic for Houston, as it is for many celebrities. "I've dealt with it before," she said. "I've been threatened.

People love you to death." But for now, Houston's thoughts are on the baby. She says she may have a sonogram to learn the sex of her baby, although she likes the suspense of not knowing. Her husband, singer-songwriter Bobby Brown, i AS VEGAS She owns just about every honor a singer could covet, but Whitney Houston says the best is yet to come. Uharly next year she II add the title of Mom, and the pop music megastar says it's an honor with is hoping for a girl, she says, while she would like a boy. "So I think it will be a girl, because that's what he wants." The close-knit family that Houston knew growing up remains that way today.

In addition to her mother's role in her career, her father, John, is head of her management company, her brother Michael is her road manaerer. and hpr out equal. "There is no comparison," she says, patting her abdomen. "It is just the biggest honor of all to be pregnant, to be waiting for your child to come. It's an amazing thing.

It's like no other feeling of joy in the world that I can compare." Houston, 28, is now four months pregnant. She says she plans to scale back her work late in her seventh month and will probably not do anything in her final month. But she admits that inactivity isn't her forte. "I'm the type of person I can't just sit around, I like to keep busy. I'm just pregnant; I'm not an invalid," she says.

Houston is the only artist to achieve seven consecutive No. 1 hits, surpassing the Beatles. Her three albums have reached multiplatinum status. She went from an unknown teen-ager singing in her mother's church choir in her hometown of Newark, N.J., to music stardom with hits such as The Greatest Love of All, Didn't We Almost Have It All? and Saving All My Love for You. She's won two Grammys, 12 American Music Awards, three People's Choice citations, a pair of Emmys and an American Black Achievement Award to name a few.

And next month she ventures onto new professional turf with her first movie, The Bodyguard, opposite Kevin Costner. She plays a singer-actress being stalked by a killer, with Costner hired as her bodyguard despite her objections. Their relationship evolves from confrontational to romantic, but Houston won't tell the outcome. "You'll just have to go see the show," she says. The switch from singing to movies was a great thrill but very hard work, very confining work, she says.

"It's a very slow-moving process. For me it was a real culture shock, coming from music and being able to move fast, move at your own pace. Pet antics can tire you out quickly It's the darndest thing. Poor old Buck just flipped out, figuratively and literally. Then there's this business with Henry.

Buck. Henry. That pretty much sums it up a Buck Henry week. Buck was an aging gourami, the patriarch in a 10-gallon aquarium. About two weeks ago he started losing it.

He'd go berserk in the tank at random times with no provocation, smash into the walls, and beat himself into sushi. I called the fish experts, and they said it could be another fish antagonizing him or some internal problem. I removed the only possible source of agitation a male betta to another tank. Then I built a little hiding place to which he could escape and be alone. It's hard to hug and console a fish, but I did everything else I could that you might call fish bonding and nurturing.

Still, he went crazy, and one evening he bashed himself sense- less. I wasn't in the room, but I heard him; and when looking to see the damage, I didn't find him until it was too late. Somehow in his suicidal frenzy, Buck slipped past a narrow space i next to the heater and flipped him- self out of the tank. When I finally found him, he was past tense. Then there's Henry, one of those free kittens who find you.

You feed them, and they're yours forever. When Henry got acne and start-; ed watchingAmert'ca's Sexiest Cat Home Videos, we took him in to have him neutered. The coincidence factor here is that the very week Buck became airborne and Henry required sur-; gery, I was going to buy new tires for my truck. Buck's madness was merely a prelude to the week and didn't af- feet the purchase of tires. But the Henry procedures were good for about three tires because he had some other problems that needed tending to.

Back at home the same day of his surgery, Henry was groggy and wobbly from the anesthetic. He tried unsuccessfully to resume his usual routine. Instead he fell off the table once, fell off of the same chair twice, and, at 3 a.m., while batting things off of a dresser, fell into a wastebasket. It was only then that he decided to take a nap. Oh, Henry.

The second coincidence factor is that two days after Henry was back at home reassessing his attitudes, our dog Magic went to the same vet to get some upgrading done: exam, shots, ear work, etc. That hour came to.the fourth tire on my truck. As I was paying, I whined to the receptionist that I wasn't going to be able to buy new tires for my truck after all. She quickly gave me a new perspective: "Tires can't snuggle up to you when you're not feeling well, can they?" she said. "No," I said, "they can't." I guess there's a few more miles left in those old tires after all.

t. i I Bobby Brown brother Gary provides backup vocals. Her career also was influenced by cousin Dionne Warwick and friend Aretha Franklin. Children share a special niche in Houston's life. She's formed the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, headed by her mother.

The organization is dedicated to promoting a positive self-image for children by providing opportunities for them to learn and express themselves in safe, supportive environments. "I would like to see this nation that we live in called America the beautiful take more interest in our children: in their health; in their education; in their care. When I was growing up, people at least still cared about each other. Their values and morals were more intact. We have to get back to basics.

I think we're losing a lot of young people very fast," she says. "I see things getting worse drug abuse, crime, the assaults we make on each other. And it really comes down on you when you're about to bring a life into this world. "I want my child to grow up in a healthy world, and right now it's not looking very healthy." Channel 32 goes off the air College advice: Tuck yourself in, take a nap He said the station could return to the air within two to four weeks but definitely would return. KEBN originally went on the air as KUTF, a Christian station, in 1989 and was sold in January by Dove Broadcasting Inc.

of Greenville, S.C., to Eagle Broadcasting, a California company which is moving to Beaverton. The station first went off the air in 1990, claiming financial problems. KEBN carries three hours of paid religious programming daily but devotes the rest of its scheduled to standard entertainment fare. Silveira said passage of a cable regulation bill by Congress would mean that Channel 32 would be carried by local cable systems, a status it has been denied so far. The station also has received FCC permission to broadcast from the Eu-gene-Springfield area.

But the station should be back in a few weeks. Salem Channel 32, KEBN-TV, has gone off the air and doesn't expect to return to broadcasting for two to four weeks, according to a station spokesman. Barry Silveira, KEBN director of marketing and promotion, said the decision to go off the air at midnight Oct. 12 was dictated by the financial demands of moving the studio to Beaverton. "We're operating on an extremely lean budget," he said, and the expense of consolidating what was a Salem-Beaverton operation dictated going off the air.

Silveira said the electricity budget for the UHF station was $7,000 a month, a savings that will be put into moving expenses. KEBN has a small staff of four full-time employes and three part-time employes. campus in Davenport, 160 miles east of Des Moines, are nodding their heads in approval. Others say, "No Way!" "I have a class from 1 to 1:50, so I don't take 10 minutes out then, but I take 10 minutes out of my own schedule. I just kind of relax a little," said David Stedwell, a communications professor.

"It's a positive experience. I'm used to coming in early and staying late. But I have found the 10 minutes I take out of my schedule, I gain it back later on. I'm more refreshed." Olander said it's OK to nap during class: "I would like to encourage faculty who are teaching during that hour to ask students simply to lower their heads at their desks with them and take a nap." Yeah, right, said Kim Brown, a junior from St. Peters, Mo.

"I'm sure the professors are going to give up 10 minutes of their lecture for a nap," she said. The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa Gather a blanket, tuck yourself in. Take a snooze. At midday. That's what the new president of Teikyo Marycrest University wants people on campus to do.

"Latin, Asian and Mediterranean peoples have long known that contemporary medical researchers have discovered naps are very good for us, spiritually, mentally and physically," Joseph D. Olander wrote in his first directive to his staff. "Therefore, I should like to encourage each of you, sometime between 1 and 2 p.m. every day, to take a 10- to 15-minute nap. Please take time away from work to refresh yourself by this simple wellness program." Olander, who also took over last month as president of Teikyo Westmar University in Le Mars, issued the same memo for that school.

Some on Marycrest's Tom Forstrom is a Statesman Journal writer. His column appears Tuesdays in this section. Shriver snags interview with Castro Naomi Judd says she's been healed People Persistence pays off. Just ask NBC's Maria Shriver and two had built a relationship from a 1988 Sunday Today interview. GARDEN GROVE, Calif.

Country singer Naomi Judd, So Sept. 10, she flew to Cuba. "Ijust said, 'I'm going down there until he sees who retired last year after -contracting chronic hepatitis, said God has cured her of the liver disease. "Medical science is wonderful, but I gotta go to a higher Cuba's Fidel Castro. Shriver landed the Cuban leader for an exclusive interview after he declined all other TV requests to discuss the 30th anniversary of the Cuban mis- Olll ivci She wait- says.

It V- II Roseanne's leather look is a fashion felony NEW YORK Roseanne Arnold's leather-and-lace look at the Emmys earned her a spot on People's worst dressed list for 1992. Michael Jordan, for just being Michael Jordan, was among the magazine's fashion elite. Madonna and Demi Moore were urged to keep their clothes off. Other best-dressed stars were Annette Bening, Peter Jennings, Jackie Onassis, Tanya Tucker, En Vogue, actress-dancer Rosie Perez, Gregory Hines, Candice Bergen and Rob Morrow. The rest of the worst were Geena Davis, Ivana Trump, comedian Pauly Shore, La Toya and Michael Jackson, Arsenio Hall, Monica Seles and Axl Rose.

ed at her hotel as word reached Cuban officials that ment in 1990 and retired from the hit mother-daughter duo The Judds last year. Daughter Wynonna has gone on to a solo career. Judd was hesitant when Schuller asked whether she plans to return to the stage. "I'm living one day at a time," she said. Since retiring, Judd said, she has spent time writing her autobiography and researching the connection between body, mind and spirit.

"God is the deepest source of my identity," she told the congregation. FYI If you have suggestions or questions about lifestyle news, call Life Weekend Planner Editor Grant Butler at 399-6767. Somalian model says her country is hurting LONDON International model Iman said she suffered emotional agony when she saw firsthand the effects of civil war and famine on Somalia, her homeland. Iman, 37, the wife of singer David Bowie, earlier this month went back to Somalia for the first time in 20 years to make a documentary for the British Broadcasting Corp. She said at a news conference in London that she wanted to put a face on the pain of Somalia, where more than 100,000 people have died from drought and warfare and 2 million more are at immediate risk of starving.

"Nothing prepared me for what I saw," she said. Maria Shriver Naomi Judd authority, Fidel Castro Shriver was on the island. Castro met with her Sept. 11. "I told him, 'You need to do this for historical says Shriver, whose uncle, President John F.

Kennedy, faced Castro in the crisis. "He was riveting," Shriver says. sile crisis. Parts of the 3 V2-hour interview will air on One Minute to Midnight: The Real Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, airing at 9 p.m. Saturday on NBC, KGW Channel 8.

Shriver thought that if she met with Castro she could convince him to sit for an interview. The Judd told the congregation Sunday at the Crystal Cathedral. "It worked. I'm in full remission." Her comments came during a taping of The Hour of Power television show with the Rev. Robert Schuller.

The show will air next weekend. Judd contracted the liver ail.