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B2 Wednesday, February 5, ml The Honolulu Advertiser Kids to refute lip-sync charge on Arsenio PEOPLE COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES 33, asked. "That exactly what body was nervous about how rough the Kids sounded. (Kids' co-manager Dick Scott) kept asking me how we could enhance their voices for the television appearance. I told him our only alternative was to buy this expensive synthesizer to digitally reproduce their voices and use it on the air. So they bought the synth immediately and had it flown in from California the next day." But the synthesizer malfunctioned, sticking on some key phrases, so that the Kids appeared to be mouthing the words out of sync.

"It was embarrassing for everybody to say the least," he said. Maurice Starr, the band's manager, and representatives from Hall's show dispute Mcpherson's account. Starr maintains that the Kids who interrupted their Australian tour this week to fly to Los Angeles for Hall's show have al ways done their own lead vocals. "Read my lips," said Starr in a phone interview from Boston. "These guys are not Milli Van-illi.

The New Kids sing." The New Kids flap erupted Jan. 24, when McPherson, whom the group employed as a director and producer for a year beginning December 1988, sued the Kids' managers for creative infringement and breach of contract in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. McPherson who is seeking compensation and credit for alleged contributions on several New Kids projects claims that the photogenic quintet not only beefed up their singing in concerts with tapes, but also on record, utilizing "masked" voice-overs by Starr and his brother Michael Johnson. "You know how Rich Little can impersonate so many different celebrities?" McPherson, By Chuck Philips Los Angeles Tunei Gregory McPherson, the University of Massachusetts music teacher whose lip-sync allegations last week caused an uproar in the world of teen sensations New Kids on the Block, says it's ironic that the vocal group is going on "The Arsenio Hall Show" tonight to defend its honor. It was just over three years ago that McPherson, now 33, got a call from the New Kids' Boston-based management asking him to assemble a band to back the Kids prior to an appearance on Hall's highly rated TV show, preceding a concert tour.

In a phone interview yesterday, McPherson, a former professor at Berklee College of Music near Boston, said that in the days before the February 1989 TV appearance, "every Soda popped Michael Jackson, plastic surgery hobbiest and noted chimpanzee owner, holds his heart during a news conference for Pepsi-Cola International at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The company announced it has just signed another sponsorship agreement with everybody's favorite moon walker. 'Mardi Gras': it's much more fun during peacetime TakeThis Simple PregnancyTest Open your closet. If what you sec makes you fed blue, come sec our fashionable matemitywear. 1221 Kapiolani kZ1 FROM PAGE B1 position that made her look silly.

"I felt too old to do a part but then again there are some other older people in the cast, and they are wonderful," Casey said. "That's where the audience appeal is," Cione said. "Mothers and grandmothers are kicking up their heels together, having a thrill of a lifetime, living out a fantasy. Anxiety is all just part of the growth process, part of becoming an actress instead of a business woman." He's even loaned the production many of the costumes for the show. The silver and gold lame gowns and garish feather Munauy-ijuiuruuy.

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Weinberg and salesman Mark Weiner of Providence, R.I., refiled a suit against five former business partners who, they claim, went ahead with the project without them. Soul'd out The creator of "Saturday Night Live" wishes Jay Leno luck as Johnny Carson's replacement but says "The Tonight Show" lost its soul long ago. "A believe 'The Tonight Show' lost its soul when it moved out of New York and stopped being live," Lome Michaels said in the March issue of Playboy. "I liked it, when I was kid, that they were up at 11:30. People are different when they're up at 11:30." Compiled by Will Hoover I KHNL: A local success 737-1955 Yoke yuks Milton Berle will guest-star on NBC's "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" next week with rapper Will Smith.

At 83, "Mr. Television" said he feels great. "I can, praise God, work until (George) Burns gets to be 100," Berle said with a poke at the 96-year-old comedian. "He's at the age where if he orders three-minute eggs they make him put up-front money." Cross-ire John Sununu, President Bush's former chief of staff, was named yesterday to fill in on CNN's "Crossfire" for Pat Buchanan, who is challenging Bush in New Hampshire's GOP presidential primary. Southern comfort? Novelist James Michener, who was 85 Monday, says he plans to take a trip to Antarctica next month.

To write a book? "No," says Michener. "I only write about places where I've been for a long time. I'm going because it's the only place I haven't been, and if I don't go now I will probably never make it." Kin do attitude President Bush's daughter Dorothy LeBlond will head THE WORD GAME Today's word: farriers Farriers: FAR-ee-erz. People who shoe horses. Average mark 17 words.

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Proper nouns are not used. 5. Slang words are not used. Yesterday's word: hopsack hack hasp hock opah pack poach pock posh sack scop shack shako shock shop soak soap sock capo cash cask chaos chap chop Maurice does, except he mimics singers' voices. He's like a musical ventriloquist." His allegations are supported by Florida composer James Ca-pra, who claims that Starr told him the lead singer on "Angel," a 1986 Kids recording co-written by Capra, was not Joey.

Mclntyre, but Starr himself. Bernard Thomas, an official' of the New Jersey-based Su-j garhill Records, who says he was in the studio with Starri during the recording of thei New Kids' 1990 "Step by StepN album, agrees." "Maurice Starr is the New Kids on the Block," Thomas: said. "The Kids do sing but the) voice you hear on the hits is; Maurice. I've seen him sing over in the studio." i i BARREL RINGS 6mm 105 BARREL PENDANT 6mm 79 8mm 89 Caregiving. Speaker: Dawn Miura, D.

Internal Medicine Care System Hospitals I 1 1 1 FROM PAGE B1 deadlines for picking off a network affiliate. Channel 13 aims to enlarge its niche in various directions, piggybacking part of the way on the Fox game plan, which includes a focus on children's programming. NBC recently abandoned its Saturday morning lineup for kids, he said, largely because of competition from Fox. KHNL has hitched onto that train by forming its Kids Club, which lures its 47,500 members with a mix of cartoons, discount offers and contests. Filling out the schedule is six hours of Japanese-language programming on Sundays, a tip of the hat to the old KIKU viewers.

Armstrong insists that auctioneer Wayne Reis will start the silent auction at 5:30 p.m. The live bidding will begin two hours later. Island Irie will provide entertainment, followed by a sit-down dinner. Handmade goodies and crafts from the Sisters of St. Francis will also be featured at a country store.

Proceeds will go to the school for scholarships and improvements. Tickets are $30 each. For tickets and information, call 988-4111. ry 1 ifrrric 1 Ltf Era i BARREL BRACELETS AT AN EXTRA SPECIAL PRICE! '279 (size up to 73A) The Joy of aii initial Rings Kanaka Mall Sine 1972 St. Francis High benefit auction set for Saturday headdresses most recently appeared in his Le Boom Boom show at the International Market Place.

"For the newcomer, it's quite an experience to walk on stage, wearing a three-foot-tall headdress, with matching eyelashes," he said. At a recent rehearsal, Cione was pulling no punches: "The girl in blue you're walking like an elephant keep your head up!" Cione and Casey agree that the military background produces a special kind of cast "On stage, everyone's a cast member. There's no problem with rank." Cione adds, "We'll all grow old together, loving this." KHNL's eclectic mix is one of its strengths. Not to mention its attitude. "We have a team spirit that's one of an underdog," he said.

It's nice merely to be a contender, added marketing chief Joiner. "I used to say we're fourth in a three-horse race," she said. "Now we're fourth in a four-horse race. At least now we're one of the horses!" Qualify Portraits ONiy IS Wallets and 32 Portrait Petites Ofer ends soon. -Adults A familtet welcome.

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