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Television Ed Siegel suggests tuning in "WIOU." Page 80. THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1990 She's liberal; she's a feminist; she's working to get John Silber elected By Barbara Carton GLOBE STAFF ichal Regunberg picks up the telephone at campaign headquarters again, the Montblanc pen flicking between her fingers, red lacquered fingernails gleaming, her cropped Michal Regunberg, press secretary to gubernatorial candidate John Silber: "i wouldn't stay with John Silber If I dldnt believe he was the right man to fix the state right now." black hair barely streaked with gray (she turned 40 in August; "There's a lot of Leo in eyes rolling, her voice brisk (she wears her brassiness like a badge), her Brandeis-honed intelligence in overdrive, giving the overall impression of extreme impatience. She wears a formidable blue dress -maybe from the "Careers" section of a good department store and she is flanked by a shelf of videos with titles such as "Use of Globe Headlines in TV Ads." As she finishes one conversation, her receptionist slips a new message onto her desk. Regunberg glances at it "Rolling Stone is doing an article on John Silber," she says. "I mean, can you imagine this? Is this weird? What do you think John Silber thinks about this?" For that matter, what does Michal Regunberg think of any of this? She seems in many ways the '90s version of a bell-bottomed activist, with her tutoring of ghetto kids in college, the eye-opening trip to Israel and the liberal views espoused in a variety of jobs, including editorial director for WEEI radio and spokeswoman for Dukakis' welfare department.

What is this fast-talking woman whose friends claim she possesses a keen wit to Woody Allen than the Three doing as press secretary to a candidate like John Silber, who, regardless of what he's really like, is perceived by many voters to be a humorless misogynist and racist whose politics are, in her words, considered by some voters to be to the right of At-tila the Hun? The seeming incongruity of clacking along in high-heeled shoes behind John Silber from this coffee-and-croissant fund- REGUNBERG, Page 82 GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JANET KNOTT Perspectives ARTcetera '90: action against AIDS Ivana be a ghostwriter By Christine Temin GLOBE STAFF REAT NUMBERS OF II writers are panting to gnust ivana i rumps novels," according to a column in USA Today. tSw, cr i I I. rtists are constantly called on to donate art to I worthy causes, and, because of the volume of re- 1 1uests' donations are often of modest pro- jmm portions. So when an artist gives something real-Li La ly big as Anne Neely has in presenting her 9-foot-long "Roussillon" to the ARTcetera "90 AIDS auction -it's worth noting. "Roussillon," which is valued at $8,500, is one of 260 works of art, and such art-related items as a museum-hopping trip to Amsterdam and $1,000 worth of art conservation services, that will be up for bid at ARTcetera 90.

The auction which also includes many less pricey items takes place Nov. 3 at One International Place, where, today through Nov. 2, prospective bidders can preview the works destined for the block. Three previous' ARTceteras have raised more than $600,000 for the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. The goal this time is $250,000 ambitious, given the state's economic woes and the perception that the public is less alarmed about AIDS now than a few years ago, even though the number of diagnosed cases in the United States has risen to 146,000.

What distinguishes ARTcetera from other benefits is not just the extreme urgency of its cause, but the quality of the art up for auction. It is amazingly and consistently PERSPECTIVES, Page 81 4 i'i. AnneNeels "Roussillon," above, and Judith E. Motzkin's "Spirit Keeper, left, will be up for auction at ARTcetera '90. slipped his hands, rough and coarse from a lifetime of deal-making, into her investment portfolio, violating her fiscal privacy.

"You have no she cried, beating her tiny, expensively manicured fists against the $2,000 hand-sewn silk shirt that covered his well-muscled chest" Or maybe it could be a social comedy in the Jane Austen tradition, but updated, a comedy of bad manners: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman with no fortune must be in pursuit of a husband with lots and lots of dough." There is the possibility of a kind of Hemingwayesque treatment, suited to Ivana's own simple, direct approach to life: "It was noon when the lawyers came. They had brought the papers and after they had signed them the rich one and the blond one sat in chairs and talked. "It is a good thing, the prenuptial agreement the rich one said. "But it is not as good as it could the blond one said." Horror sells. And Ivana's story has some pretty horrible elements.

Maybe I should look to Stephen King for inspiration: the wizened gnome hissed, and caressed her golden mane with one gnarled finger. "It was an ancient Gypsy curse, the curse of great wealth. She'd heard about it when she was a kid, in Czechoslovakia. "She thought There is no escaping it Richer and richer. Until I die," Or maybe a Jackie Collins approach best suits Ivana's story: "It was one thing hearing about the other woman.

It was another thing seeing her. Seeing her husband with a busty blonde, an ex-Miss Daytona Beach Bikini Days. In public She reached into her Gucci bag, took out her Oliver Goldsmith gold-tinted sunglasses and put them on. Her. eyes were hot and wet Let him make a fool of himself.

She was going to buy everything in Saks." -4 Count my tongue among those hanging out Talk about a literary challenge. I've been waiting all my life for this. I know there's a lot of competition for the job, but I believe I could bring something special to the task, a certain je ne sais quoi, or whatever, because I feel a kind of mystical bond with Ivana. Maybe it's because she's been totally overhauled by a team of cosmetic surgeons and I'd like to be. Maybe it's because we share the experience of not being members of the Olympic ski team.

Or maybe it's because neither one of us can write fiction. I don't know what it is, exactly, but, to paraphrase Flaubert a writer who, I think, would have understood Ivana only too well "Ivana Trump, c'est moi" It goes without saying that the plot of Ivana's first novel, and maybe all her other novels too, will center on a golden-haired European beauty who marries the tycoon of her dreams. Eventually he leaves her for a younger, even blonder woman, and she is forced to scrape out a meager existence on a $25 million settlement But she prevails. She markets a line of signature lingerie and makes enough money to hire somebody to ghostwrite her novels and becomes a best-selling author. I can see the last scene, when her ex-tycoon ex-husband begs her for some menial position in her lingerie publishing empire.

Will she give him a break? Or will we have to wait for the sequel? The plot is crystal clear, but the style is troublesome. Fve been trying various approaches, but none of them seems quite right for Ivana. It could be a romance. Regular readers of this column may recall, or may have chosen to forget an attempt here to introduce a new literary genre inspired by the Trump saga, a love and money novel, s-allet-ripper. "He Conversations faMStiittiMl I He's a key player behind the BSO I 1 VERY JOB HAS ITS OWN I I built-in problems.

I Few are as public as the ones handled by George Kidder as president of the board of trustees he's been for 40 years, ever since his 1950 graduation from Harvard Law School -1 Kidder's BSO affiliation is volunteer. Kidder is an astute, skilled negotiator He knows when and how to put the crucial issues on the table, right under Ozawa's nose. Armed with an innate sense of kindness, Kidder, 65, is Ozawa's mentor and adviser. When Kidder speaks, Ozawa listens. What Ozawa has listened to lately is a straightforward plea to reduce the number of concerts he does away from the BSO, CONVERSATIONS, Page 80 of one of the world's greatest orchestras, the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

He deals with the big egos of the players, the big egos of the critics and the sensitivity of BSO music director Seyi Ozawa, whose ego needs occasional stroking. This is not Kidder's regular job. He's a partner in the prestigious Boston law firm Hemenway Barnes, where Jlj- George Kidder, Symphony trustee..