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THE BOSTON GLOBE THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1998 NAMES FACES BY BETH CARNEY AND MAUREEN DEZELL Apartyinthename of 'Nomathemba (Hope)' "Look at this room!" the Reverend Charles Stith ex-1 horted from a stairway landing in his sprawling Victorian home. "It makes you want to say It cuts across color! It cuts across community! It cuts across class! It' cuts across continents! "Halleluia!" Stith said again, and a handful of voices" echoed his. Stith and his wife, physician Deborah Prothrow-Stith, threw a party Tuesday night for the parties involved in the A 'Next Stop' makes another stop It was deja vu for the crew from "Next Stop Wonderland" thus week. Director Brad and cast members including co-writer Lyn Vans and actors Hope Davis and Jon Benjamin, were back at the stop and several other spots in Revere filming new scenes for the film, which' Miramax bought at the Sundance Film Festival' for $6 million and is set to be released 'in August. The new shots are minor, said Laura Bernieri of Robbins Entertainment.

"There i were some little momenta we wanted to try to get now that we have Miramax behind us." Meanwhile, "Message in a Bottle," the Kevin Costner Paul Newman film that was shut out of Maltha's Vineyard, has finally landed in Maine! Shooting will start in the mid-coast Maine area next month, and the crew has put out a call for adult extras, especially "fisher- men' arid lobsfermen." Really, he's fine. Now go away upcoming Huntington theatre Wantr enter Tirnduet.inn nf Worn "Nomathemba (Hope)" featuring the South African singJ ing group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. 1 Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith members mingled" with local pols including state Senator Dianne Wilkerson; and City Councilor Tom Keane; friends of the Stiths such as Brace Boiling and Joyce Ferriabough; theater types, and Linda Criniti and Bill McQuillan, who are co-chairing next' week's "Nomathemba" gala with the Stiths. The troupe, which made its international debut on Paul Simon's 1986 "Graceland" album and accompanied Nelson" Mandela to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in' 1 A vWi .1 if Fans stopped Olympic diver Greg Louganis on the street in Boston yesterday. "They say, 'How are and I say, and they're like, 'How are you, said Louganis, who was in town promoting a new video about his living day-today with HIV.

Louganis said he decided to 1993, is now making music in arenas all over the They just wrapped up a 47-city tour, made a 24-hour jaunt to Disney World to record a television special on Monday, and have a hit musical commercial for Heinz products ing in England. Huntington managing director Michael Maso and Wang Center president Je Spaulding somewhat nervous-' Iy compared notes at the party. "Nomathemba," which opens at the Wang's Shubert Theatre Saturday, is a risky venture for both the nonprofit Huntington, which doesn't do commercial plays (it's never run a TV ad before, for example) and the Wang, which typically stages ready-to-show imports like "The Nutcracker" or "Rent." Musicians, cast members, and producers joined Stith when he remounted his makeshift pulpit at the end of the evening to lead the chant: "Nomathemba! It means "hope." LOUGANIS GLOBE PHOTO KERRY BRETT for Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and their hosts Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and the Reverend Charles Stith at a party Tuesday night. Linda Criniti and her husband, Bill McQuillan, co-chairs of the "Nomathemba" opening night gala, are surrounded by Joseph Shabalala (left), lead singer who married in 19815 and live in New York, have two other girls, Danielle, 8, and Belle, 4.

Stepping up for Marks party do the video "Looking to the Light," instead of writing a sequel to his autobiography, "Break- ing the Surface." He has the hang of revealing himself, he said: Now he has to work on priva-'; cyj "The beginning of all this stuff was letting go of secrets. I'm also coming to the realization that there's a part of me I need to hold a little bit closer. It's not necessarily for public con- sumption, namely about Louganis was speaking just hours after he res' vealed on morning radio on WEGQ-FM "Eagle" 93.7 that his significant other is Steve Kmetko, correspondent for the cable television channel. Roberts takes control of PEN Michael Roberts, assistant to president Neil Rudenstine and a longtime administrative muck-a-muck at Harvard, has been named ex-' ecutive director of the PEN American Center. A graduate of Harvard Law School with a PhD in English and American literature, Roberts is taking charge of the international organization of writers and editors at a turbulent time: The often fractious PEN governing board and Shaquille O'Neal sets up his next shot Los Angeles Laker Shaquille O'Neal has tried rapping and acting.

Now he wants to be a di-' rector, too. "This summer I'm going to film school because I've been involved in a lot of commercials. I'm going to try to direct one of my own commercials," the basketball star said after completing a Pepsi commercial with "Lost in Space" kid star Jack Johnson. O'Neal starred as a comic-book hero in the movie "Steel" last year. And he has recorded three' rap albums, including "Can't Stop the Reign." grapher Michael Corder are among the more than 750 expected at next Friday's gala at the Park Plaza.

University of South Carolina makes quite a 'Catch' "Catch-22" author Joseph Heller may live in the Northeast but his literary archives, including early drafts of a half-dozen books and more than 150,000 pages of notes and correspondence, have gone south. The University of South Carolina paid an undisclosed sum yesterday for Heller's papers. "I made a little bit. Not much," the 74-year-old writer said. Heller, who lives in East Hampton, Long Island, had a simple explanation for why his archives wound up at USC.

"South Carolina was more interested in my papers and manuscripts than anybody else," he said. membership have been fighting furiously among themselves in recent years over affirmative action and censorship within the organization. Roberts said yesterday he plans to continue PEN's work of exposing readers to liter-aiy classics and promoting free expression. He also hopes to put new emphasis on promoting literacy and "tying literacy to literature," he said. Roberts and his partner, actor and film- maker Jay Corcoran, will move to New York thus summer, Aykroyd's full house off blues It's another girl for actor and House of Blues investor Dan Aykroyd and wife Donna Dixon.

The couple's thii-d daughter Stella Irene Augustus Aykroyd was bom Apiil 5 in New York and weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces, their publicist announced yesterday. The Aykroyds, The lineup for next week's send-off forTios-ton Ballet's Bruce Marks is looking eclectic and a little bit glitzy. University of Massachusetts president Bill Bulger, actress and director Liv Ullman and Boston businessman Donald Saunders, American Ballet The MARKS Material fmm wire krvicen and other sources was lined in this column. Names Faces can be reached by e-ma il at namesglobe.com. atre dancer and frequent Marks dancing partner Cynthia Gregory, the ABTs Kevin MacKenzie, and choreo- ihris.

Strong new lineup, album for Lilith Fair By Larry Leblanc BIL1.U0AK1) The essential medical guide for every woman. sire for me was to give a platform for young artists." For AristaNashville newcomer Moore, performing five dates on last year's Lilith Fair was an exciting experience surpassed only perhaps by being included on the two-CD set. She's returning for six dates this year. "It's an impressive list of performers, and I'm honored being there," she says. "Lilith Fair is a very well-run festival," says Dar Williams, who performed at five Lilith Fair shows last year and returns this year for six dates.

"Lilith did treat its artists well and brought in some artists that were off the beaten path." Arista Records is utilizing both direct and broad-based marketing strategies in promoting the set. "This is more than just a women's record," says Ari Martin, senior director of artist development (US) at Arista Records. "It features some of the best artists in contemporary pop." tion now, because a lot of artists who said no last year probably didn't know who I was or what Lilith Fair was. Now it has a track record. There are more artists interested in being a part of it now." For those fans and artists who attended last year's Lilith Fair, the two-hour, 20-minute album might seem like a wonderful souvenir.

For those who didn't attend, the recording, with 50 percent of the proceeds being donated to the Rape, Abuse Incest National Network and LIFE-beat, offers an astonishing overview of contemporary pop and folk. Among the 25 artists featured on the album are McLachlan, Paula Cole, Indigo Girls, the Cardigans, Abra Moore, Lisa Loeb, Susanna Hoffs, Joan Osborne, Emmylou Harris, Meredith Brooks, Patty Griffin, Dai' Williams, Shawn Colvin, Bonham, and Victoria Williams. "I'm proud of the album," says McLachlan. "It was very tough to sequence. It's nice to mix up the music as much as possible, but the songs flow really well together.

A big de Imani Coppola, Beth Orton, and Lhasa. A full roster of the acts is expected to be announced today in Los Angeles. Lilith Fair 1998 will kick off June 19 in Seattle with McLachlan, Indigo Girls, Merchant, Badu, and O'Connor headlining on the main stage, and K's Choice, Myers and Lhasa on the second stage. Terry McBride, McLachlan's and co-executive producer with the singersongwriter of the 25-track album, expects there will be several major last-minute "surprise" performances this year. "We're working with three or four big artist camps with the opportunity of having their artists show up for at least one show," he says.

"It could be Aretha Franklin, Madonna, Janet Jackson, or Alanis Morissette. Those are tjie sort of artists we've been talking to." McLachlan says that with last year's substantial success, this year's Lilith Fair has significantly more clout. "Lilith was a baby last year," she says. "We are in a better posi TORONTO As the lineup for the 1998 edition of the Lilith Fair tour takes shape with the announcement of some of the second-stage acts, Nettwerk Arista Records is readying release of "Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music," which documents 1997's standout 70-artist trek. The two-CD album will be issued worldwide April 28.

A full list of performers and dates for this year's 57-date Lilith Fair has yet to be finalized. Main-stage artists confirmed so far include Lilith originator Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Ery-kah Badu, Sinead O'Connor, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Bonham, Queen Latifah, Meredith Brooks, Liz Phair, Luscious Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Neneh Cherry, Holly Cole, and Lisa Loeb. Not all artists play all dates. Among the acts that will be performing on the tour's second stage are K's Choice, Billie Mono, igMii The classic holistic medical guide is now completely revised and updated with new information on: Menopause and natural hormone replacement Improving fertility after age 35 Holistic recovery from surgery New natural treatments Bantam A Bantam Trade Paperback httprfwww.bantam.cora Also available in Bantam Hardcover Reward yourself, find up to seven others. Lease from 299per month36months 36 with purchase option at lease $1,500 Down Payment $350 Security Deposit $299 1st Month's Payment $475 Acquisition Fee $2,624 due at lease siqninq.

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