The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 43

Stfyle THE KANSAS CITY STAR THURSDAY March 28 1991 Section A potpounf of pajrlcssM ploboiane Channel 62 to change its letters KSMO has 'nicest ring Station awaits FCC approval A buBei-riddkd that wan by Kyle Men row sm FBI went Dale Cooper in "Twm Peeks" be filmed in i Albervilk Mine Barb end Steve Mutawka paid $400 for thevUege Si By BARRY GARRON TV-Radio OWc KZKC Channel 62 has found a new name Approval of the independent station's new call letters KSMO is expected by Monday from the Federal Communications Commission The letters a combination of the postal abbreviations for Kansas and Missouri are to take effect when the station starts a new schedule April 22: "We wanted to find something that can really be identified with the duality of this market'' said Jim MacDonaU general manager "It's got Kansas and Missouri It's got KU fans and Missouri fans" The call letters were suggested by Polly Taylor assistant promotions manager in a contest for station employees There was just one problem: The call letters already belonged to KSMO-AM a contemporary hits and country station in Salem Mo Fortunately for Channel 62 the radio station was willing to share its call letters with a TV station KSMO also will appear in 3-foot letters on Sm CHANNEL F-Co4 6 wKjtm uilhiwi among several pieces of "Twin Peaks" memorabilia put up lor bid in AtbertviOe to benefit St John's Preparatory SchooL Bab Essjess oo-producer of the series graduated from SL John's in 1967 Barb Mulawka says she and her husband didnt phu on buying anything at the auction "We just said What the heck You only live once' Almost hooked TseaillthgjswiayifUmiiigtheTV movie The Boys" nearly drove him to take up smoking UthgwpUyachain-nokirjg scriptwriter His partner played by Jesses Weeds mntrarti if rminal cancer thrwt1 ffffwdhanf fMtfcff After spending the day wreathed in smoke Litbgow says "I was still hankenngfbra cigarette be Id TV Guide It was not his first such experience In 19U while Uthgowwas starring in Butterfly" on niiamilwHslM hta New faces new cases on 'L A Law' ucer Loss of actors prodi poses challenge for faH JonnLRngow character began the evening with a smoke I got to the point where I couldnt perform the play without that first cigarette smoke" Mistranslated rape French film star Gerard Dtpardste threatens to sue "enormously" rime The MtaBfJtjfofl AM and USA Today if they do not retract stories about his alleged involvement in rape as a 9-year-old The accusation "is serious for my wife Elizabeth and for my children" riwtnraava Mt annvthina that By JAMES ENDRST IteiTlMHBrltatfCoiranl Tlw AMOCtatad Pino Audrey Hepburn after a trip to Ethiopia in 1988 Ma special for UNICEF reports on the relief and cvetopfliem work bekigctone there by tr David Keney's work is almost As a result there ia a new sense of drama at NBCs "LA Law" where be the executive producer Now in its fifth season the Ughly rated prone-time drama like the fictional law firm McKeazic man Cheney Kazak Bcuielps approaching a critical juncture 'that could mean a new beginning or beginning of the end Its 100m episode wiii be broadcast tonight (9 on Channel 41 "I think when I took over two yean ago we realized the snow like any how had to make shifts and changes just because it's healthy for programs 8M UL LAW' F-t Cot 1 imeara me completely" His lawyer says the controversy involves a mistranslation Depardieu mid he "witnessed" rape not "participated" in rape according to his lawyer Depardieu was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for "Cyrano de Bergerac" Calling all cars A warrant for the arrest of Dseelt Waklkerg has been issued in Louisville Ky The 20-year-old singer with New Kids on the Block caused a small arson fire at a hotel where he was staying before a concert authorities mid Suddenly he's famous Ceerge HsBHay the plumbing supply manager who videotaped Los Angeles police officers beating a motorist will appear Monday on "Geraldo" (9 am on Channel 4) Among other things Holliday teUs tost Gtnuwalhm that he intended to offer the tape to Cable News Network but nobody answered the phone So he sold it to LA independent station KTLA-TV which paid $300 for first-run broadcast rights Gose to judgment MM- Alluring Hepburn turns her considerable charms toward promoting UNICEF By ELEANOR RINGEL 181 Cm Nswa SwvIm ATLANTA The brown eyes are huge and luminous the figure model-thin the smile incandescent the manner as balanced and precise as the world-famous cheekbones At 61 Audrey Hepburn is still radiant She was the fairest of fair ladies as Eliza Doolittle a runaway princess in "Roman Holiday" a chauffeur's daughter in "Sabnna" and a heavenly host in "Always" She made "Love in the Afternoon" with Gary Cooper dazzled Fred Astaire with her "Funny Face" and learned "How to Steal a Million" from Peter OTook And of course there's that dream maker that heartbreaker from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Holly Golightly But her current role is as UNICEFs ad will ambassador Audrey Hep-rn is on a children's crusade A visit with Hepburn makes you known it Only now as UNICEFs ambassador she thinks she has a legitimate reason to unleash her charms "Whatever baggage you're given fame if you like creates a certain curiosity" she says "People want to see you I'm using that curiosity for the children "When I was acting I did very little publicity I've always been shy and rather introverted not the best equipment to start an acting career I needed desperately to get away to have a private life "But now it's the opposite Now I'm delighted to do publicity because it's for the children That's what enables you to have the strength if you like' to do a lot of things you wouldn't do for yourself It's the cause more than the confidence" Hepburn's official association with UNICEF began in 1986 but she thinks the agency has been a part of her life since she was a child Bom in Brussels Belgium in 1929 the daughter of an Irish-English businessman and a Dutch baroness she spent World War II in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands She SeeAUMtarrlF-vCol1 want to be a better person to sit up straighter to wear nicer domes to speak more beautifully You want to buy a billion boxes of UNICEF Christmas cards because you think it would please her "I know my shortcomings what my personal defects are" she insists with a laugh "I've tried to get away with murder all my life I have!" It was a kind of mass murder you might say She set a style for a generation A nation of girls grew up wanting to be Audrey Hepburn sophist Kate-sprites "I read these things and I marvd" she says "It's a fabulous compliment I suppose I just hope I didnt upset too many mothers if their daughters cut off their hair or whatever to copy me "When you're young I suppose it's natural to pick someone you want to look like I wanted to be a cross between Elizabeth Taylor and Ingrid Bergman'' She still speaks with that distinctive Hepburn lilt puddle-jumping among syllables and then lighting on one as if she's never heard a sound so entrancing The voice is as seductive as the face She knows it She's probably always Original cast rnernbera Harry HatTiin (above) SueanDeyand iMiNiiy sms are expected to leave "LA Law" after thie There's talk in Hollywood that TW'' AfMfcf sjerlsnew movie "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" may coat dosetoSlOO million making it the most expensive movie ever shot in the United Memories greet a return to the trails of youth Arnold Slates A film-company executive says the movie will cost a bundle but not $100 million Cornpeod from ThtSttr's press services by Jbn Hopwood possJWIrytfre-regulatJaiand inavsvd competitor) F-2 old men not yet ready for the county home and a few traveling salesmen passing through The 1 6 or 1 7 lodgers all took supper at one long table then moved out to chairs on the porch to pass the time until sleep In my upstairs room I wrote longhand in pencil some short pieces to send back by mail The news I had to share was not electrifying It was of douds of wild plum coming in blossom across the hills sind redbudsjust beginning of the faint marks a place like Tigris leaves of the night booming of owls and the sudden rush of wings through shadows thrown by a firr of the peppery taste of watercress and the fine smell of wild onions crushed where you laid your blanket It's amazing the kind of stuff that used to find its way into newspapers before scandal and violence became the preferred themes and before journalists dared to imagine themselves so very important C'W Cwmflc'i Minna wan Timdiyi Thvndayi mt Srtutfty ia ifec StyttkMion of the town's stores For the map indicated it was a place of considerable habitation I arrived at the road came up thirsty from the stream and found nothing! Tigris was a fiction or at most a memory and had been for 30 years or more There was an abandoned tomato cannery a fallen general store with bushes pushing through the boards of the porch the foundation stones of several vanished houses Coming there by car the other day I could taste again the coppery dry-mouthed disappointment that came with the discovery of how casually time sweeps all our works away East past Tigris the road bends up to the spine of narrow ridge and across that into a different drainage descending finally into the real living town of Ava By car it's a few minutes only But walking even in that year of youth it seemedan eternity away In Ava I broke the journey for one nisMin a real bed just off the squaroft thenouse of a woman who took boarders (Note: In Ms column and two to follow Gusewelle remits a remembered landscape) Twenty-eight springs ago almost to the day I saw that country first I stepped off a bus with some food in a backpack stepped over a stranger's fence and walked smith to the next state mostly following stream bottoms and taking nine days to do it It's astonishing how the heart saves details The first pale wash of green had just begun to spread across those steep Ozark hills Chilly dawns and nights made the comfort of my little campfires welcome and the wood smoke from cabin stoves pooled in the hollows But the grasp of the harsh season was broken The middays were sweet with forest sounds and the sparkle of sun on hurrying water I went back there again recently not for as long and not passing through afoot That same tick could not be made today Outsiders have settled in those hills bringing with them their jntions of law and trespass And even if they hadnX the says she never j)ianned to havoa career F-3 CWJGUSEWEIJ walker no longer travels on a boy's legs But friends made in that long-ego spring are friends still I wanted to see them again and their pretty country and freshen my ownership of that remembered time With what clarity and force it all came back! The old maps the ones I was carrying then showed Beaver Creek descending to the south and near where it crossed road the town of Tigris My canteen rattled empty on my pack and for half a moraing I had yearned ahead to the cold bottlftf pop I would drink at one MM for Iha Arts is under attack again F-4 i The German band Scorpions chose English to spread Its rock around the world F-i.