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THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1991 Sanies and Faces Barr humbug, says Roseanne judge A federal judge dismissed the racketeering portion of comedian Roseanne Barr's $35 million lawsuit against the National En- quirer, but her attorney promised to press 1 ahead with the rest of the suit The lawsuit accuses the Enquirer of paying someone to steal four intimate letters Barr sent her husband, Tom Arnold, in 1989. US District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew ruled Monday that the lawsuit failed to meet requirements of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Or-' ganizations Act. The star of "Roseanne" alleges that the tabloid has operated a racke- I 4 teering enterprise that paid individuals to MICHAEL BLOWEN credible that in Shakespeare's land one child in seven leaves primary school functionally illiterate," he said Monday in Shakespeare's hometown, Stratford-on-Avon. Even students who can read may leave school without being introduced to Shakespeare's works, the prince told teachers at a gathering marking the bard's 427th birthday.

Some teachers said the prince was talking "nonsense." But Britain's education secretary, Kenneth Clarke, said, "I agree with practically everything he said." Houston accused of punching man Whitney Houston was charged in a summons yesterday with punching a man in the eye and threatening to kill him during a fight in a Lexington, hotel lounge. Ransom Brotherton of Lexington filed a complaint alleging that Miss Houston assaulted him Friday night in a hotel lounge when he tried to break up a fight. Brotherton said the fight involved the singer's brother, Michael Houston, and Michael Owens of Austin, Texas, irfthe lounge of the Radisson Plaza hotel. In a related complaint, Owens alleged that Michael Houston started the fight. He said the singer's brother began yelling at him after someone in a group of people in the lounge yelled, "It's Whitney Houston." Miss Houston and her brother could not be reached for comment.

Offers, she gets offers Michele Cassone, the "other woman" in the alleged rape at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach, has declared herself available for interviews starting at $1,000 a pop. She's already had a taker: TVs "Inside Edi- Only in New Jersey Randy Jackson, along with several other Jackson family members but not Michael is involved in a proposed 48-acre, hightech entertainment center to be built in As-, bury Park, N.J. "Members of the Jackson family will be present from time to time," a family source said. When they're not, 3-D likenesses of Jacksons will be available to commune with. How will patrons tell the difference? Only in New Jersey -Part2 Jon Bon Jovi, Hulk Hogan and Grateful Dead's Bob Weir have done a video for New Jersey, explaining what's acceptable behav-! ior and what's not at state entertainment sites like the Meadowlands.

The 10-minute version premiered yesterday at Secaucus Middle School while a 60-second version is being screened in Jersey theaters. Maybe the audience should produce a video to teach1 the performers proper stage etiquette. Actor enters clinic Adam Rich, who played the part of Nicholas Bradford on the television show "Eight Is Enough," entered the Betty Ford Center! to kick a drug habit he blamed for his recent arrests. Rich, 22, was arrested early this month and charged with stealing morphine from a pharmacy. He was arrested again last week for investigation of shoplifting a pair of sunglasses and socks worth $30.

"I am deeply remorseful and embarrassed by all of the pain and suffering I have put my family, friends and fans through the last few weeks," he said. The rehabilitation program; lasts 45 days. Jon Bon Jovl Audrey Hepburn purloin property of such stars as Elizabeth Taylor and the late Lucille Ball. Andrea Hartman, representing the Enquirer, said the ruling was "very significant" and "re-r" duced to a significant sense the scope of the Awesome Audrey awed by tribute New York turned Hollywood for a night as more than 2,000 fans and dozens of film stars turned out to fete Audrey Hepburn at Lincoln Center Monday. The 61-year-old ''J star of more than 25 films dazzled the tion." Forget that she confesses to knowing nothing, that she met the alleged victim for the first time that night, that she never met William Smith or heard anything at the Kennedy digs.

"The media's grabbing and grasping at me because there's nobody else to get," she noted. "The tabloids have offered me tons of money and I'm getting these really weird proposals, so I go and I meet with these people and I hear their offers." Cassone, 27, has little sympathy for the alleged victim. "She's fair game," the waitress said. "You take your chances." And if she had been the victim? "It would have been my fault," Cassone said. "I'm fair game." Sounds as if she's worth every penny of that thousand bucks.

just now, I'm more than ever awed and overwhelmed by the monumental talent I've had the great great privilege to work for and with," a choked-up Hepburn told the audience. Hepburn joins an elite crowd as a tribute recipient. Among others celebrated have been Charlie Chaplin, Fred Astaire, Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert and Paul Newman. Rollover, Shakespeare To read or not to read, that is the ques- tion Prince Charles believes Britain's schools haven't answered. "It is almost in- crowd inside and onlookers on the street as she wore a gold-sequined matador's cape and white gown.

Hepburn is best known for roles in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "My Fair Lady" and "Roman Holiday," for which she won an Academy Award. Hepburn was characteristically gracious accepting the Film Society tribute award that has been given to 18 films stars and directors before her. "I must say, looking at those film clips Perspectives jjgsSBiqsiscr i The work of the Superiors: Sweet and weird By Christine Temin GLOBE STAFF Roy and Mara Superior live off ha haofan olr in fha woof am in the country, with more than 120 livework studios. More than 20 artists are participating in Brickbot-tom's "Spring Sampler" exhibftion, and they range from Peggy Russell, who does bold textile designs, to Chris Mesarch, who mades fans, ceramics and monoprints, to Nina Gilbert, who creates lamps using handmade papers. Artist Pier Gustafson will exhibit his restored vintage fountain pens.

Rugg Road Papers, the well-known paper shop and gallery, will be open for the event, which is this Saturday tnd Sunday, noon to 5. Brickbottom is at 1 Fitch-burg St. in Somerville. Some of the Boston area's better known artists including Jody Klein, Laurie Kaplowitz and Naomi Ribner work in Artistspace, former public school in Wellesley. More than 20 of them welcome the public this Sunday from noon to 5.

Artistspace is at 311 Walnut St. in Wellesley Hills. hnro fnnt tn ha ivuiriiaorl unrn tha more sophisticated Williamstown), where he makes doll-sized wooden "TSirniture and buildings and she frafts porcelain teapots and vases. Their work is obsessive, eccentric, extreme and functionless. There's so much horror vacuui in her pots painted with flower garlands, zigzags, checkerboards and other pots that you can imagine her snowbound -4n a cottage all winter long, painting 'and painting until someone forcibly Hracra hav nff Tie moanurhilo Orta that it's also a bit weird.

Roy Superior's "The Angler's Shrine" is made of exotic woods, ivory and 23-karat gold. A tiny, half-timbered cottage, its double doors of herringbone-patterned wood are thrown open to reveal a golden, apsidal interior. Up the ivory staircase, mounted on a gilded Ionic column is a fish. Then there's the artist's "Sweet Burden of Youth," which involves a winged wheelbarrow, and his "Homage to the Last Shaker," a Shaker chair hanging on a peg above a Shaker trestle table with a single place setting. While paying tribute (sort of) to the Shakers' obsession with craft, it also tweaks the inherent self-destruction of a sect that couldn't have sex.

Mara Superior's vases and pots are flattened until they're nearly two-dimensional and then heaped with decoration. The top of her "Amphora" is a sculpted row of smaller amphora, and on all the amphora are painted more amphora, as if the artist had gone crazy with the concept and couldn't stop. restored South Station, near the ticket windows. "Musclebound" is made of Type Tightlock Couplers, the kind that connect railroad cars, pulling them forward and stabilizing them on curves. The couplers are indeed the "muscles" of the railroad.

The sculpture is tall and totemlike, with a quasi-human personality. It provides a still point at the edge of the station's bustle, a calm witness to the railroad traffic of today and to the romantic history of America's railroads: John Henry, the Union-Pacific, even "The Little Engine That Could." Instead of being merely mechanical, it has a fleshy roundness, with rusted "skin" that is warm and appealing. It's not one of those public art pieces that bowls you over, but it's one that is thoughtful, appropriate and welcome. Roselyn Karol Ablow's works on paper distill elements of architecture and the landscape into almost completely abstract compositions. Put together with skill and care, the works celebrate the play of one shape or color against another.

The The craziness heats up when the two artists collaborate, as on "Arbor Vitae" and "Aqua Vitae," two cup-board-cum-ceramics pieces. The life-size cupboards are painted with various faux finishes and gold; the ceramics are painted with homey imagery. The resulting works are outrageously funny. The Superiors' is the smaller of the two current shows at the DeCor-dova. "The Boston Printmakers 43rd North American Print Exhibition" is the larger, but lesser, exhibition.

There were more than 1,500 entries to the show, which was judged by National Gallery curator Ruth Fine, yet it is tame and middle-of-the-road, especially compared to other recent and far more adventurous printmaking exhibitions in Boston museums. The completion of a public art project is cause for celebration, given the years of bureaucratic wrangling such works usually entail. It was 1981 when Mayer Spivack's "Musclebound for Miami" was commissioned. A decade later, it is now a reality, installed in a corner of the on craftsmanship in miniatures with messages that would freak out the Martha Stewart school of cozy home Sflecor. "Commemorations and Collaborations," the Superiors' show at the EJeCordova Museum in Lincoln through June 9, is a fantasy a la Ed-ward Gorey, sweet until you notice Tip for Tomorrow Two women take extreme measures to gain the attention of their indifferent husbands as Noel Coward's 1924 comedy; "Fallen Angels" is presented in the Lyric Stage, 54 Charles Boston.

Performance at 8 p.m. Tickets Tele- phone 742-8703. SMALL ENOUGH TO KNOW YOU LARGE ENOUGH TO SERVE YOU if -l iffi I was a woman with hair The craziness heats np when Roy and Mara Superior collaborate. energy varies from explosive to quiet hovering; the scale veers from vast to minute. In the largish monotype, collage and pastel "Through the Gate," black bars and arcs are juxtaposed with streaks of bold color: pumpkin, jade, the vivid blue that seems to be a favorite with Ablow.

In "Ladders II" and "Ladders with Collagraph," jagged angles resembling panes of broken glass penetrate one other. "Interior Court II" is a long, gracefully curving space. Floating in a sea of blue are green bud forms, tightly closed. The rhythm, motion and sharpness in these pieces are highly satisfying. These works are all love chiefly for the materials and processes of art -and no sentiment.

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