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-it ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Tn ci icmu SECTION Weather Comics Native son directs 6 Austin- Powers Inside Source ii New Mexico atlve Jay RoadL directs Mike Myers In a SCSR3 front "Austin Powers: TJm Spy Whs Shagged Mewrricli opens today. Read Roger EberTs review in Venue on page 4 1 4 about getting a real job," Matt Roach said, laughing. After graduating from Eldorado, Jay Roach attended Stanford University on an academic scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree with dual majors in communications and economics. called "Blown Away," starring Tommy Lee Jones and Jeff Bridges. Jay Roach is married to Susanna Hof former lead singer for The Bangles, whose song "Walk Like an Egyptian," was No.

1 on the charts in 1986. In 199 1 she issued a single album and has a contract with a recording company. The couple have two sons, Jackson, 4, and Sam, 8 months. Jay Roach's next movie, also a comedy, will be released in the fall and is called "Mystery, Alaska." It's about a hockey team in Alaska that hits the big time. According to Jay Roach's publicist, the new movie is different from either "Austin Powers" flicks, but is still full of off-beat humor and "Jay's weird twists." See FAIRY-TALE on PAGE B2 CX hhhh, shagedelic babyt Talk about a hometown boy who has made good.

Jay Roach, an Albuquerque native and 1975 graduate of Eldorado High School, is the director of the two Austin Powers movies starring Mike Myers, i The new movie, "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," opens around the country today. It premiered with bells, whistles and i500 attendees Tuesday at the Universal Amphitheater in Hollywood. Roach's parents, Matt and Peggy Roach of Albuquerque, flew to Hollywood for the premiere and they brought along Jay's 1975 high school yearbook to show Myers, who is a family buddy. ROACH: Young Jay in the 1975 Eldorado yearbook CHARLOTTE BALCOMB LANE Of the Journal With his long 70s-style hair, the young Jay looks like a character from one of his own movies, his father said. He went on to earn a master's degree in cinematography from the University of Southern California and began teaching filmmaking at USC.

His career also includes screenwriting credits on a 1994 movie "I can't tell whether he looks like Austin Roach or Jay Powers." COURTESY OF NEW LINE CINEMA "I guess Til have to get off his case MEWS MAKERS Smith tics AIDS to government Tribune Media Services Will Smith may want to team up with conspiracy-monger Oliver Stone for his next thriller. That's because the star harbors some strange ideas of his own including his belief that the AIDS virus could be a result of government experiments. AIDS was possibly "created as a result of biological-warfare testing," Smith claims in the new Vanity Fair. Smith, who played the target of a government 'Bowfinger' may reflect elements of Scientology Star-writer Steve Martin insists film was influenced by all spiritual guidance groups in Hollywood By George Rush ad Joanna Mocxoy Tribune Media Services Image-tenders at the Church of Scientology should be on high alert this summer. Hollywood insiders who've gotten a sneak peek at "Bowfin-ger," the Eddie Murphy-Steve Martin comedy about a religion called Meet Natalie Goldberg AGE: 51 HER HIGH SCHOOL SELF: "I was a nerd." EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; teaching certificate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; master's degree, SL John's College.

Santa Fe. HOW SHE GOT TO NEW MEXICO: "I moved from Michigan to Albuquerque when I was 24, where I taught sixth grade in the Northwest Valley. Then I moved to the Lama Foundation to learn meditation, and I lived in a tepee. Then I taught for three years to kids at the hippie school in Taos. I met a man and moved to Boulder for a year.

We moved to Minnesota, then I moved back to Taos in 1984. Taos seemed so small, so I went back and. forth between Taos and Santa Fe from 1984 to 1992. Since '92, I've lived in Taos." WHAT IS HER WRITING PRACTICE: "I try to write in the mornings, but daily life seems to crowd in. I'm not as rigid as I used to be." 1 conspiracy the Dvie "Enemy of the State," believes there is reason to mistrust the government.

"Why do we think it is so incredibly ludicrous that there are conspiracies that take place within our SMITH: A star conspiracy theorist Mind Head, say the film is an obvious tweaking of the beliefs of Scientologists, among them John Travolta and Tom Cruise "Bawfinger," which opens July 23, has Murphy MURPHY: Plays movie megastar 9 SARAH MARTONEFOR THE JOURNAL SUDDEN SUCCESS: Natalie Goldberg teaches two or three weeklong workshops each year at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House hi Taos. Her 1986 book. "Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within was a surprise hit. playing Kit Ramsey, a movie megastar deeply dependent on Mind Head's cold and controlling leader, played by Terence Stamp-Martin, who wrote the script, has said in published reports that Mind Head is apastiche" of spirirual- government?" asks the actor. "President Clinton apologized for one," says the star, whose new movie, "The Wild Wild West," opens this summer.

He is referring to the 1932-72 Tuskegee Study, in which black soldiers were infected with syphilis and left untreated all in the name of science. And, who knows, Smith may be the one apologizing to the nation one day. "I absolutely believe I could be president of the United States," he tells writer Ned Zeman. "I believe that if that's what I wanted to do with my life, I could win." TOO PLASTIC: Supermodel Cdrrie Otis is opening up about her marriage to Mickey Rourke and her ex isn't happy about it. Otis apparently learned to deal with Rourke's temper and his periodic disappearances.

But she's still weirded out by his penchant for plastic surgery. For one thing, she didn't think he needed it. "When things are wrong on the inside, often people try and fix them on the outside," she tells Brendan Bernhard in the new issue of Gear. For another, he sometimes See MODEL on PAGE B3 Jfriie mm uuiu away ui way Natalie Goldberg's popular book has helped people across the nation bring out the author inside i BV Poll SCMMAR Journal Staff Writer 'AOS She thought she knew a few things about writing. She thought she'd write them down in a book with chap ters that could be read in 'any order.

What's a little pain to a rocker? Dave Matthews might not want to show off his latest battle scars. The rocker's recent accident sounds more She thought she'd call it "Writing HflUvwood. And Church of Scientology spokeswoman Janet Weiland told us, "I spoke to the people at Universal, and they assure me that 'Bowfinger' is not aboutthe Church of Scientology. I have to believe them." But Mr. Showbizs Jeffrey Wells says on his Net site: Tve seen the movie; and all I have to say is, 'Yeah; Scientology followers may have had more to worry about from a now-dormant HBO biopic of Scientology founder L.

Ron Hubbard. The script, by John Stockwell and Nancy Stoddart, is said to be evenhanded and scrupulously sourced from Hubbard" own writings. But "if obviously not the film the Scientologists would makej says an insider, who reports that the screenplay doesn't overlook Hubbard two marriages and the suicide of his son. The cable network had quietly been developing the project for several years. But a rep for new HBO production head Colin, CaUenier says that it is "no longer in actiye Waffttie project too hot for HBO to hamii given the church's past court battle with the network's corporate cousin.

Time magazine? "Thafs pure says the HBO rep, adding that "a regime changes and takes a look at the cd! wXes sLits. Meanwhile, Variety, the showbiz bible, has reporter Dan Cox on the HoIIywood-and-religion beat. Among other things. Cox says he's looking into the Church of Scientology's alleged role in Tom Set 1 OLCGY PACE B2 likeaThree Stooges routine than a rock 'n' roll mishap. Matthews broke two ribs last week when he fell over a chair and onto his guitar while he and a friend were tossing grapes into each other's mouths.

PASSION FOR PAINTING: Natalie Goldberg sells her paintings through New Directions Gallery in x. Shown here are "An Evening in Paris," top, and "Two Chairs, Aix-en-Provence." Goldberg tells the story of her love of painting in her book "Living Colon A Writer Paints Her World." Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within." "I thought Fd write about what I knew so no one could say I was wrong," says Natalie Goldberg, a Taos resident who has lived in New Mexico on and off since the early 70s. "I figured my way had worked for me," she says. "It would work for them." Her way, in two, words, was: "No excuses." And much of that determination was based on advice her Zen Buddhism teacher had given hen "Use your writing as your practice." In plain English, Goldberg explains, "Finally, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen and write." The book was a modest dream back then, in 1986, and the first ran was 10,000. But in the past 13 years, "Bones," as Goldberg calls it, has sold about 700,000 copies and been licensed in seven languages.

If now in its Z7th printing. The book tapped a rich vein of imagination in potential writers. "Everybody in America has a secret desire to write," says Gokfberg. "I get mail from VPs of life insurance companies and blue collar workers in Nebraska." Looking back, Goltlberg, 5L, says, "Tin a little MARK HOLMJOURNAL AUDIO VERSION: In a special edition of audiotapes by Sounds True in Boulder, Natalie Goldberg reads "Writing Down the Bones" and offers new commentary ne looks back on what she wrote as a 38-year-old. embarrassed by the confidence of this 36-year-old.

I just told people what to da Now I would say. You have to find your own way." But the book is full of useful methods to find your own way and to spur yourself on. The chap ters range from "A List of Topics for Writing Practice" to "Three Reasons Why People Don't Write." But in addition to the practical, "Bones" is highly See BOOK on PAGE B2 MATTHEWS: Dangerous grapes Yet Matthews isn't letting the fall slow him down. He's been playing on his teur even while on the casualty list "He was in pain, but he totally rocked," says his publicist. "He would never let something like this get in his way.".