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The Sunday Gourier-Neujs How to reach us You can e-mail us at or call Jay Jefferson Cooke, features editor, at (908) 707-3165. F-l Networking F-4 Outdoors F-5 Foodwine F-9 Sunday, November 15, 1998 Television Greek Americans in spotlight tif tt in fiii i dDlDBf un rl. 4 j.VV- 3L t. 5. i i I "v-, Oi 1 1 I "(cd) If I 1 Vv fl clol i "1 Jl llin The Back In the Saddle Holiday II catalog 4 Qt i II offers a number of charming items including Vj this iak 1 1 1 II CIA.

4VVl4 Ji'vf V-Catalogs can provide alternative rm I rv tne nustle 911(1 1)118116 of stores I IC. jMWr 7. onH naflot MicoaWfo mhinh colic ifom and Leaflet Missalette, which sells items 7 By EDNA ARGUELLO Staff Writer most Central Jerseyans, Margaret Jones doesn't have a whole lot of By ROBERT MAKIN Staff Writer The continuing odyssey of the Greek-American experience a story inspired by the muses and infused with an enthusiasm of mythic proportions is explored in "The Greek Americans." The documentary will air at 8 p.m. Saturday on WLIW as part of the public television station's series celebrating the country's various ethnic groups. "This tribute to Greek culture and tradition shares the collective memory of an extraordinary group, from the efforts of the first Greeks to land on American shores to some of the most famous American achievers," says Susan Soberman, a spokeswoman for WLIW.

"No other immigrant group had a legacy to live up to quite like the glory of ancient Greece, which laid the foundation of modern science, democracy, drama, art and architecture." The special features actors Olympia Dukakis, John Sta-mos and Billy Zane, former presidential adviser George Stephanopoulos, actor and former football player Alex Kar-ras, sportscaster Bob Costas, tennis champion Pete Sampras, author Arianna Huffing-ton, prima ballerina Helene Alexopoulos, CIA Director George Tenet, business leaders and many others who share their personal stories of Greek life in America. In the special, Academy Award-winning actress and Montclair resident Dukakis describes the Greek-American experience as "an appetite for life." Huffington confirms that to be Greek is "to really live life to the fullest." The Greeks "were immigrants who came to the United States with little more than their optimism for life in a new land and found the ultimate culmination of their ancestors' ideals of democracy," Sober-man says. "The Greek Americans" also shows how the immigrants organized communities that kept alive their native language, culture and religion. The latter changed the physical landscape of America with the rounded domes and distinctive crosses of the Greek Orthodox Church. Tribute also is paid to Telly Savalas' impact on television with uncompromising portrayals of Greek-American roles like Detective Theo Kojak.

WLIW's series also has looked at Jewish Americans in "A Laugh, a Tear, a Mitzvah," "The Italian Americans," "The Polish Americans" and Irish Americans in "May the Road Rise To Meet You." -n-Pi nJ fH I 1 ray I with a Christian theme. Plenty of other people will be joining Jones. More than 30 percent of U.S. residents make at least one purchase from a catalog every year, with the majority of those purchases being made for year-end holiday gifts, according to the Direct Marketing Association. The association predicts Americans will spend an estimated $87 billion in catalog purchases this year.

Clothing items will be purchased most often and catalog operations in California, Pennsylvania and New York will continue to lead the country in total sales. "There really is something out there for everyone, no matter what size, need or hobby," says Amy Blankenship, director of the Shop-At-Home Information Center of the Direct Marketing Association. And with catalog companies beefing up the size of their books at this time of the year, you're likely to find a lot of variety. See CATALOG on page F-7 free time. Her daughter's wedding, which took place earlier this month, is still fresh iner mind but everywhere she turns there are reminders that it's time to shop for the holidays.

"I've piled the catalogs up," says the North Plainfield resident. "I use them when I'm in a crunch." The crunch is a reference to time, of course. The catalogs are for shopping. Catalogs are the shopping alternative for those with little time on their hands or no patience for shopping in stores that begin to, bulge with people at this time of the year, if In the coming weeks, Jones wilL.be browsing through the L.L. Bean and 3 ti it- Lands' End clothing catalogs, as well as Lillian Vernon, the IAN IlS Rptl catalogs put out by lirr.rHVxlU seller of novelty items for home and self, iten The Sharper Image Catalog continues to offer cutting-edge products like this handy carpet steamer.

Our rjJ i i At I'V 1 4 A 1." 20 5 "The Greek Americans" will premiere at 8 p.m. Saturday on WLIW. The program will be rebroadcast at 8 p.m. Nov. 24 and Dec.

8. iMillilM l- --H-TIV I. i tt 1 Oltitn tfc.HilM, iiHH.V Hlfi il ifi jKt- Mh" rKai STAFF PHOTO BV MARY IUVONE Music Demon diva is a golden goose New CD celebrates 'The White Album' PROFILE i 1- i it acting career going is a long, hard haul," says Chase, who'll turn 40 on Christmas Day; she plans to spend it on vacation in Las Vegas with her mom and an aunt. "When you finally make it, it's not like you're an overnight success. Sometimes it takes 15 years to get there.

I've always been amazed at how giving and supportive my parents were, what a strong foundation they were for my acting. They were behind me 100 percent." Different perspective On the advice of an agent, Chase took a stage name while studying at the Lee Strasburg Institute in New York City during the 1980s. Her first role came as the voice of Diane Keaton's baby in the 1987 hit comedy "Baby Boom." While working as a secre- See CHASE on page F-7 By ROBERT MAKIN Staff Writer When Cheryl Chase was a youngster growing up in Manville, kids used to make fun of her quirky voice. "Stop talking like a baby," they'd say, laughing at her. Chase has had the last laugh: She's the voice of Angelica Pickles, the 3-year-old "demon diva" on the hit Nickelodeon cartoon "Rugrats." Her loudest laugh will come Friday when the Paramount feature film "The Rugrats Movie" is released nationwide.

"One of the guys that used to make fun of me, ironically lives next door to my mom and is a very good neighbor," says Chase, who moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career in 1985. "His kids are major fans of the show." Softer and sweeter than the shrill, bratty Angelica, Chase's speaking voice still sounds like a little girl. She was nothing like her "evil twin" while growing up, her mother Stella Hudock says. "She was a sweet, quiet young lady," says Hudock about her only child. "But when she did the character, it just came naturally for her.

I'm very proud of her. I visited the studio and watched them tape the show. It's a lot of hard work." Chase credits her actress mother and musician father, the late Emil Hudock, for being so supportive of her career. She says she still feels a close connection to her dad, who passed away in September, just two months before the star-studded Hollywood premiere of "The Rugrats Movie" last week. "Trying to struggle to get an On Nov.

24, Capitol Records will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of "The Beatles" universally known as the "White Album" by issuing a one-time-only limited-edition compact disc. The 1968 double-album the first to be issued by The Beatles after the launch of its Apple label was housed in a gatefold sleeve that was entirely white, save for the wording "The Beatles" subtly embossed, also in white, on the front cover, and an individual serial number stamped underneath. Inside, in addition to the two vinyl discs, buyers were provided with a color poster collage of photographs and artwork, with the lyrics to all 30 and four glossy photos of the individual Beatles. The 30th anniversary edition will carefully re-create all of these elements, with scaled-down reproductions of the posterlyrics, photographs and inner sleeves and the front cover. The release will be limited to just a half-million copies worldwide and each will be individually numbered.

They will be distributed around the globe at random, so that no country will be favored with specific serial numbers. This special edition, duced in association with Apple, will be issued to retailers at the same price as the regular CD pressings of the "White Album," which will continue to be available. From wire reports PHOTO COURTESY OF STELLA HUDOCK Cheryl Chase provides the voice for Angelica Pickles, the 3-year-old 'demon diva' on the hit Nickelodeon cartoon.