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2B quad-city times Saturday, Oct. 5, 1991 PEOPLE 'nifmtf If Dueling Madonna bios hit the shelf among publishers and confusion among read Madonna ers. Intrigued by a claim that Madonna cruised Manhattan's Lower East Side and picked up young Latino men for flings in her limousine? Consult "Madonna Unauthorized," by Christopher Andersen. Want to read that she used to eat out Unauthorized biographies compete for readers NEW YORK (AP) So who's that girl Madonna? If you thought you knew everything, think again. Two unauthorized biographies of the Material Girl came out this week, promising scandalous details of "her tragic childhood, her greatest fears and her string of lost loves," as one news release puts it.

The dueling bios, with some material that doesn't overlap, are creating competition Promotion, but she does have her secrets," said Ben Petrone, a publicist for Carol Publishing, which put out "Madonna Revealed." Madonna's publicist Warner Bros, in New York declined to comment about the books. "Madonna Unauthorized" is reportedly a less flattering portrait with more details of the singer's sex life. It claims that Jacqueline Onassis was infuriated when her son, John F. Kennedy dated Madonna. According to "Madonna Unauthorized," the singer thought she was destined to have a fling with JFK just as Marilyn Monroe allegedly had a fling with President Kennedy.

ot garbage cans and lived a roach-infested apartment? Pick up "Ma donna Revealed, by Douglas Thompson. "She may be Our Lady of Perpetual Emmy winner Wettig portrays Iowa rape victim BACKSTAGE Mom steals away with Brenner's son NEW YORK (AP) Comedian David Brenner said today that his 9-year-old son was spirited away by the boy's mother just hours after a judge awarded custody to Brenner. "She absconded with Cole and we have no idea where she is," Brenner said by phone from Los Angeles. Kenneth Goldstein, lawyer for the mother, Charisse Brody, said he last saw her as she left his offices Thursday night. He had just informed her that state Supreme Court Justice David Saxe had ordered her son, Cole, away from her.

David Ettinger, Brenner's attorney, said he plans to ask Saxe on Monday to find Brody in contempt for disobeying the court order to relinquish the child. Brenner has been fighting Brody, his former girlfriend, for custody of their son for the past five years. Saxe awarded Brenner custody after Brody refused to take a court-ordered drug test. Romero credits cable SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) Cesar Romero says cable television is introducing new generations to the classic movies of early Hollywood.

"They don't make movies like they used to not as much musical or acting talent around, too hiany four-letter words," said Romero, 84, who has been host of "Romance Classics" on the American Movie Classic cable channel since April. She likes to watch NEW YORK (AP) Jackie Onassis may cherish her privacy but she keeps a telescope focused on Central Park because she likes to watch people from her Fifth Avenue apartment, USA Weekend says. "She has always been a gossip-monger, adores hearing tidbits about the rich and famous, though in fact she hates it when anybody writes or talks about her own adventures," literary agent Marianne Strong says in the new edition of USA Weekend. Onassis, an editor at Double-day is trying to persuade Frank Sinatra and Barbara Walters, the magazine said. 1 I Natural Women ASSOCIATED PRESS Filming will be in Tennessee DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa rape victim Nancy Ziegen-meyer will be portrayed by two-time Emmy winner Patricia Wettig in a television movie to be called "Taking Back My Life." Executive producer Larry Lyttle said Wettig, who played Nancy on the "thirtysomething" television series, was chosen from among several top actresses.

"She is a terrific actress," he said. Wettig is the sister of Iowa State University basketball coach Pam Wettig. Mrs. Ziegenmeyer, a Grinnell homemaker, first told the story of her rape and her attacker's prosecution and conviction in a series of articles in the Des Moines Register by writer Jane Schorer that won a Pulitzer Prize. Filming of the movie is set to begin in late November in I 1 Letterman Candlce Bergen, who stars on "Murphy Brown," meets Aretha Franklin In an upcoming episode of the CBS series that was taped In New York Wednesday.

Bergen will sing "Natural Woman" on the show with the legendary queen of soul. Jodie Foster opts out of Today' interview NEW YORK (AP) Jodie Foster canceled an interview with NBC's "Today" show Friday when the morning show said would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley would be mentioned in her introduction. Foster, who is on the publicity circuit to promote DAVID LETTERMANS TOP TEN LIST Top 10 signs you've gone to a bad restaurant Memphis, Lyttle said. A CBS official last summer said the network wanted to shoot the movie in Iowa, but Lyttle said Tennessee was later chosen because production costs would be lower there. "It was just going to be too expensive to shoot in Iowa," he said.

"Crews were available in Tennessee. And another reason we didn't come to Wettig Iowa is that The Des Moines Register wouldn't let us film in their newsroom." Register publisher Charles C. Edwards Jr. said the paper did not want to interrupt staffers' work or get involved in the movie business. "We had no control or input over the creative part of this and that was a concern," he added.

Show goes on for injured Hope FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) Bob Hope stumbled during a rehearsal and got a bad cut above his ski slope-shaped nose. But the 88-year-old comedian went on with the show. It took six stitches to close the gash, but Hope was released from the hospital in time to appear at a benefit for the Air Force Enlisted Men's Widows and Dependents Home Foundation. "When I say I'm happy to be here tonight, I'm not kidding," Hope told his audience Thursday night.

Hope fell near the stage at a high school football stadium and his sunglasses cut into him when he hit his forehead on the ground, said Rick Stevens, associate director of Okaloosa County Medical Services. "There are not many people his age who could take a fall like that and spring back and be on stage that night," Stevens said. "He's a great guy." The foundation has two housing complexes in this Florida Panhandle city, one named Bob Hope Village. Tour Historic Vg Davenport i Hi-- Ann Landers Pretty good is not good enough Dear Ann Landers: Considering the sad state of education in this country, I thought you might want to run this beauty from The Osgood File. He says it awfully well.

H.L. in Bloomington, Ind. Dear H.L: Charles Osgood is a longtime favorite of mine. Thanks for sending it on: There once was a pretty good student. Who sat in a pretty good class And was taught by a pretty good teacher, Who always let pretty good pass.

He wasn't terrific at reading. He wasn't a whiz-bang at math. But for him education was leading Straight down a pretty good path. He didn't find school too exciting, But he wanted to do pretty well, And he did 'have some trouble with writing. And nobody had taught him to spell.

When doing arithmetic problems. Pretty good was regarded as fine. Five plus five needn't always add up to be ten, A pretty good answer was nine. The pretty good class that he sat in Was part of a pretty good school. And the student was not an exception, On the contrary, he was the rule.

The pretty good school that he went to Was there in a pretty good town. And nobody there seemed to notice He could not tell a verb from a noun. The pretty good student in fact was Part of a pretty good mob. And the first time he knew what he lacked was When he looked for a pretty good job. It was then, when he sought a position, He discovered that life could be tough.

And he soon had a sneaky suspicion Pretty good might not be good enough. The pretty good town in our story Was part of a pretty good state, Which had pretty good aspirations, And prayed for a pretty good fate. There once was a pretty good nation, Pretty proud of the greatness it had, Which learned much too late, If you want to be great, Pretty good is, in fact, pretty bad. The Osgood File, copyrighted 1986, CBS, Inc. Dear Ann Landers: This item has been circulating in my neighborhood and I thought your readers might find it enlightening.

Jackson Heights, N.Y. Dear Jackson Heights: Thanks for sending it on. Here it is: In the six seconds it takes you to read this sentence, 24 people will be added to the Earth's population. Before you've finished this letter, that number will reach 1,000. Within an hour 11,000.

By day's end 260,000. Before you go to bed two nights from now, the net growth in human numbers will be enough to fill a city the size of San Francisco, It took 4 million years for humanity to reach the 2 billion mark, only 30 years to add a third billion. And now we're increasing by 95 million every single year. No wonder they call it the human race. Gem of the Day (Credit Robert Orbin): The newest development in manufacturing is robotics.

Robots put in long hours, function in difficult environments, never run down, cost little to maintain, and do it without praise. Actually, robots are nothing new. They used to be called mothers. Planning a wedding? What's right? What's wrong? "The Ann Landers Guide for Brides" will relieve your anxiety. Send a self-addressed, long, business-size envelope and a check or money order for $3.65 (this includes postage and handling) to: Brides, cp Ann Landers, P.O.

Box 1 1562, Chicago, III. (In Canada, send S4.45.) tne mm "Little Man late, her directorial debut, customarily refuses to discuss Hinckley, who in 1981 said he shot President Reagan to impress her. Jerry Zucker, supervising producer for "Today," said he spoke with Foster on Friday and tried to settle the last-minute hitch. "Today" does not allow its interview subjects to set ground rules, he said. 10.

After presenting food, waiter says "good luck." 9. The ASPCA has the kitchen staked out. stops by table to ask if you want spit-shined. suddenly realize it's the water that's not the glass. range chickens wander around men's for a napkin and the waiter says, Mister Fancy?" your burritos is a rolled-up Ace thing French about the chef is kissing your wife.

you wake up, your date is gone. (drumroll) the No. 1 consider Saltines a pasta. "We interview presidents and prime ministers and we don't allow them to set ground rules. She's a great and talented actress, but we can't allow her to set the ground rules, either," Zucker said.

"When we talked to her yesterday, we explained that we didn't anticipate that it would come up in the interview, but that we would probably mention that this had happened in her life," Zucker said. "I don't have any comment on it and my guess is that she wouldn't," said Lisa Hintelmann, a publicist representing Foster. Veteran Holliman returns to TV Foster Earl Holliman can't depend on agents," he says. The show is produced by Glen A. Larson a man with whom Holliman had teamed before.

He guest-starred on Larson's "It Takes a Thief years ago and later appeared in the pilot of the producer's series "Alias Smith and Jones" and the pilot for "The Six Million Dollar Man." At 63 Holliman has experienced life on both sides of the tracks. The first fraction of his life sounds like something out of a Charles Dickens novel. Early life was hard He was born on the outskirts of a little town called Delhi near the Tensas River in Louisiana. His dad was a farmer. He was the seventh in a family of 10 children.

His father died sjx months before he was born and he and his brothers and sisters were sent to Vi mil r-ni- in ill 8. Guy your fork 7. You amber-colored, 6. Free room. 5.

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Trolley route includes stops at these attractions: BIRTHDAYS TODAY Johns Allen Actor Donald Pleasence, 72. Actress Glynis Johns, 68. Comedian Bill Dana, 67. Singer-musician Steve Miller. 48.

Actress Karen Allen, 40. Rock singer and famine-relief organizer Bob Geldof, 37. on the Neighborfair Trolley! jllSBSQStf'i by Service Palmer by KALA FM Radio Sponsored by: Unjfted Neighbors IncorpotaUd NEIGHBORFAIR i T-wcr 1 A Quad-City Times Riverssance Festival-1 at Lindsay Park Schools (Hoover, Lincoln or Jefferson) Vintage homes rehabbed Neighborhood Housing and others for sale New Montessori School an orphanage. He was then adopted and raised by the Hollimans, a supportive couple who encouraged him to realize his dreams. But his adoptive father was disabled and died when Holliman was 13.

The family struggled. "My mom was slinging hash for $1 a day," he says. "We lived upstairs and she worked from 8 to 4 and I was going to school and working in a magic store." At 14 Holliman hitchhiked his way to Hollywood, but stayed only a week before his funds ran out. Three months later he quit high school and went, to work in a cafe for $1 a day and two meals. At 15, lying about his age, he joined the Navy and was sent to the Reserve Training Armory in Chavez Ravine near Los Angeles.

It was then, in the middle years of World War II, that Holliman got to visit the Hollywood Canteen and gaze at the stars who had loomed large and enchanting at his neighborhood movie palace. "From the time I was 5 or 6 I knew I wanted to be an actor," he says. Holliman went to a Navy school to learn how to operate radios until they discovered he was underage. Then it was back to Louisiana, where he finished high school. He joined the Navy again when he was eligible and this time he was stationed in Norfolk, Va.

There, he snagged a part in an amateur production of "You Can't Take It With You." From then on there was no stopping him. NEW YORK TIMES It's not a handsome face, not one you'd bestow on an actor. With his square jaw, narrow eyes and skyscraper shoulders, Earl Holliman looks more like a cowboy who has prettied himself up. The Hollywood veteran has been cast as a good ol' boy in films such as "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" (1954), "Giant" (1956) "The Rainmaker" (1956), "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957) "Summer and Smoke" (1961) and "Sharky's Machine" (1981).

But he is probably best known for his role in the '70s TV series "Police Woman." He played Lt. Bill Crowley, the straight-arrow foil for Angie Dickinson's character Pepper Anderson. Since then, Holliman's appearances on the small screen have been scarce. He says it is his own doing. "I was pretty picky," he says.

"I did movies-of-the-week, The Thorn Birds' and other specials. But I had some illness in the family and didn't want to go away to work. I feel like I'm (now) getting back in the business." Holliman stars in the TV comedy-drama series "P.S.I. LUV which premiered Sept. 19 on CBS.

He plays the put-upon boss of Connie Sellecca and Greg Evigan, who portray two hustlers in the federal witness-protection program pretending to be employees of Palm Security Investigations (P.S.I.) in Palm Springs, Calif. His own initiative helped him secure the role. "Sometimes you Octoberfest on Washington Street Putnam Museum- admittance by freewill donation Food served throughout the day by: Taste of New Orleans Greatest Grains QC Mexican American at LeClaire House at Palmer Organization at Putnam Museum Live Remote Broadcast at Clowns! Face Painters! Mimpfi Live Music!.