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Section QUAD-CITY TIMES Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1995 Pages 5T-6T 1 TODAY Mary-Louise Parker likes to keep her personal life close to the vest Mary-Louise Parker stars in "Boys on the Side." By James Ryan ENTERTAINMENT NEWS f. 1 ft. Fawn Hall 'fesses up LOS ANGELES Fawn Hall, best known as Col. Oli- ver North's document-shred- ding secretary, says she became addicted to crack cocaine after leaving Washington and was hospitalized for an overdose.

"I hated myself so much because I couldn't even kill myself. I wanted to die, but I didn't have the courage to kill myself," Hall told the syndicated TV show "Inside Edition" in an interview for broadcast Monday. Hall said she only began to fight her addiction after the overdose and later entered a drug rehabilitation program. During her addiction, she said, she holed up in her Los Angeles home for months at a time, never answering the phone and barely eating. "Everything is centered on getting that drug," she said.

Jackson fans show their support SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Michael Jackson fans are loyal. Allegations that the singer molested a 1 3-year-old boy prompted supporters from around the world to deluge the courts here with letters and petitions of support. "You know he is innocent," wrote Wendy Martin from England. "Yet you continue to persecute the poor man when there are criminals to be caught." The fan mail and petitions were part of sealed court papers that were made public last week, the Santa Barbara News-Press reported Sunday.

Jackson's accuser claimed the entertainer molested him at Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Santa Ynez in 1993. Jackson denied the allegations, then settled a lawsuit with the teen in January 1994 for an undisclosed sum believed to be in the millions of dollars. Stalking victim wants to help NEW YORK Joy Silverman, the New York socialite who was stalked and terrorized by the state's for mer chief judge, is going public with her ordeal: she's a spokeswoman for the National Victim Center, which provides support to crime victims. Silverman will deliver the keynote address next summer at a police conference on stalking in Los Angeles, The New York Times reported Monday. "Stalking is a form of violence.

My goal is to get tough laws passed that will keep stalkers in prison and protect victims before physical harm is done," she said. Sol Wachtler, the state's top judge and a potential Republican candidate for governor, admitted terrorizing Silverman after she broke off their affair, at one point threatening to kidnap her daughter. He was paroled last year to a halfway house after serving an 1 1 -month prison term. The Associated Press ARY-LOUISE Parker often plays characters who appear weak and one-dimensional at the outset but reveal unexpected reservoirs of strength once their protective outer layers are peeled away. There was the sexually ambiguous, cancer-stricken Ruth in "Fried Green Tomatoes," for example, the recovering junkie in ABC's TV movie "A Place for Annie" last year, and the overwhelmed mother battling to protect her son in "The Client." In her latest movie, "Boys on the Side," Parker plays a stereotypically uptight yuppie who joins an unemployed lesbian musician (Whoopi Goldberg) on a cross-country road trip.

But it is only after a third woman (Drew Barrymore) joins their caravan that Parker's character begins to reveal her capacity for compassion, vulnerability and perseverance. During a recent interview, it strikes this reporter that behind Parker's doe eyes and occasional Big Smile flash lie equally surprising depths. If only there was enough time to win her confidence and discover them. At this point, any question even remotely smacking of the personal tends to elicit a vague response. The relatively innocuous "where did you grow up?" prompts the reply "out west." After a pause she adds unhelpfully, "In the desert." In hiding personal details, Parker doesn't seem to be trying to cultivate an aura of mystery as much as to be raising a protective barrier between her public and private personas.

Indeed, the 30-year-old actress later acknowledges becoming physically ill after interviews during which she felt she had become too confessional. "When I go home at night, if I've blabbed I literally have to lie down for a few hours," insists Parker, who is dressed for her interview in Whoopi Goldberg, left, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore In a scene from "Boys on the Side." 1 Boys' tackles tough issues with light touch urn-in. naiiium 1 1 in mumu.mi'mi4t iV Mary-Louise Parker's Among films are: lon Linda Cook Movie Review a black leather jacket and jeans ripped at one knee. "I always feel ill. I don't think it's healthy." A biography accompanying the production notes to "Boys on the Side" reveals only that she attended high school in Arizona and enrolled at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Beyond that she says, "I don't think it's an obligation to document parts of my life if I don't feel like it." Luckily for this interviewer, the Motion Picture Association of America library has extensive files Signs of Life Longtime Compan- Fried Green Toma- Grand Canyon Mr. Wonderful Naked in New York The Client Bullets Over 1991 toes 1991 1993 1994 1994 1994 Broadway Step aside, Thclma and Louise. The newest incarnation of the female buddyroad trip concept is "Boys on the Side." Directed by Herbert Ross this adults-only dramcdy handles such issues as homosexuality, murder and AIDS. And somehow Ross delivers it all with a light touch. Whoopi Goldberg stars as Jane, a singer with a band.

She answers an ad placed by Robin (Mary-Louise Parker, "The who wants to leave her job as a real estate agent in New York City and head to San Diego on the same trip she took with her mother and brother when she was a little girl. Robin needs someone to help drive. And Jane, who recently has been dumped by her girlfriend, agrees to accompany her. Robin thinks Jane is extremely cynical, and Jane thinks Robin is a goody-goody. Still, they seem to get along fine.

Along the way they stop in Pittsburgh to see Jane's friend Holly (Drew Barrymore), who is living with an abusive boyfriend. The pregnant Holly takes off with the other two women. Robin is surprised when she learns about Jane's sexual orientation. And Robin has secrets of her own. When she becomes ill, the 1995 Boys on the Side Matthew McConaughey with Drew Barrymore and Whoopi Goldberg.

subtle perfection as the moral, loyal police officer who falls in love with the very pregnant Holly. And be forewarned: You're liable to have your eyebrows raised along with your consciousness when you hear the sometimes profane dialogue that these women deliver, not to mention some of the sobering topics with which the story line deals. Ten years ago, some audiences would have been shocked by this show. But its oh-so-'90s flavor is just right for its contemporary viewers. "Boys on the Side, rafed is at Showcase Cinemas, Davenport and Milan.

three end up living together in an interesting sort of family. This is for the same audience who loved "Friend Green Tomatoes" and "Thelma and Louise," which also are movies about women banding together for strength. This is a great cast. Parker is terrific as the quiet, classy woman who loves Carpenters music and has a steely inner fiber. This is Barrymore's best grown-up role yet she's wonderful as the devil-may-care Holly who flirts with every man she meets.

And Goldberg is at her finest, too, as a woman who may be falling in love with someone who can't return her feelings. Surprisingly, the scene-stealer is a male. Matthew McConaughey and is simply of cuppings on actors and actresses. A yellowing biography from her first film, "Signs of Life," reveals that Parker, the daughter of a one-time army officer and judge, lived in Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Germany and France at various times during her childhood. Perhaps because of her rootless youth, Parker until recently had trouble settling down and would change apartments with great frequency.

"I never had a lease until two years ago," she says. "Sublet Sally they called me." She is a lapsed vegetarian, likes John Lennon and Maya Angelou, and was once romantically linked to Timothy Hutton, her co-star in the Broadway production of "Prelude to a Kiss." Despite her solid reputation in New York theater SENTIMENT Please turn to Page 4T 1 Domestic box office sales FAMILY FARES (in millions) Find the familiar phrase, saying or name in this arrangement of letters 1 (LvV 9 for the Sweet Top-grossing animated films: "The Lion King" $291.5 "Aladdin" $217.0 "Beauty the Beast" $145.0 "The Little Mermaid" $85.0 "The Fox the Hound" $63.0 "The Rescuers" $59.0 "Oliver Company" $53.0 "The Land Before Time" $48.0 "An Amerlcjin Tall" $48.0 "The Arlstocats" $47.0 Chocolate treats show you care Answer on Page 3T Paul Ka9an lnc-.