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The Kansas City Star SECTION I Puberty is tough enou so imagine how the early bloomer feels Your Family F-3 Art Trek 98 and Culture Under Fire include 22 galleries Showtime F-6 muMidm FOR YOUR INFORMATION vmicstvxMifjiifyiJta STARGazing For Christina Rkd the roles come easy was bored and unhappy in the 18-year-old star of Ice RUNNING A PARTY OR Running a Boardroom Ricci and Addams tells The New York Times used to act out and do horrible Like write all over the bathroom and be really awful to teachers used to provoke other kids into hitting me and throwing me around I think as a way of drawing attention to she said Then at 8 she began acting professionally and threw herself into work She found roles like creepy Wednesday Addams or the alternately innocent and sexually predatory girl-next-door in Ice She labels sweet roles that sentimentalize childhood as Ricci appeals in several new movies including and Loathing in Las and Opposite of Sm Pige 6 mm Step REALLife Executive grandmother a pro at entertaining motivating others Doris Harris a genteel soft-spoken woman who loves to entertain at home with informal intimate dinner parties leads another life during the day unknown to many of her guests The 55-year-old grandmother is the founder and president of BRAL Environmental Services Inc which deals mostly with nonhazardous waste material She talks about the removal of contaminated soil asbestos piping and underground fuel tanks as easily as she does about having friends over for dinner Harris and her husband construction company executive Elbert Harris 57 own a spacious home near Swope Park once featured as a Showhouse for the annual Kansas City Symphony fund-raiser There they often entertain for members of the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey and other civic affiliations including the Starlight Theatre Association and Renaissance West a substance abuse rehabilitation facility Bunni Copaken advisory board co-chairwoman of the Friends of Alvin Ailey said she was amazed to learn about double life Copaken and her husband Paul have worked with the Harrises on several charitable projects and been to their home many times has just never talked about herself or her Copaken said such a gentle gracious and good person She and Elbert have often hosted membership parties in their home for KCFAA I remember once when the McFadden Brothers tap-danced all over the newly polished floor in their third-floor ballroom It faze Doris at An even low-key temperament is trademark says Greg Sager senior project manager for BRAL I interviewed with her I was impressed by her professional demeanor and warm personality" he said field (environmental cleanup) is dynamic and is growing in size and technology just like the computer field You have to stay on top of things Mrs Harris does that while being a good motivator and coach to everybody never known her to have to be tough She is a professional and expects the same from everyone else And when it comes to See HARRIS F-7 Col 1 Where the weed-whipper whips the weed to WEIRDNews Mark Hatterer became a local hero in York Pa in April after he rescued Scottie the Scottish terrier that had fallen into a septic tank Hatterer wiped most of the muck from the unconscious snout and gave mouth to mouth resuscitation until he came to For more strange stuff call StarTonch at (816) 889-7827 and enter 5995 THURSDAY In FYI Physical IX The special-effects crew for Ang With the eschews computer effects in favor of realism TAUS BERGMANISThe Sta Doris Harris founder and president of BRAL Environmental Services Inc has quietly made her mark in a male- dominated arena Fortunately for originality matter Story script and actors are bland but technological terror surpasses expectations By ROBERT BUTLER Movie Editor How it rates 12 a monster movie opens today and is rated PG-13 for monster actionviolence Running time is 2 hours 10 minutes Showing at the Antioch Bannister Square Barry-woods 24 Belton 8 Blue Springs Boulevard Crown Center Dickinson Glenwood Great Mall 16 Independence 20 1-70 Kansas City 18 Noland Fashion Square Oak Park Plaza Olathe Station 30 Red Bridge 63rd Street Summit Town Center 20 Twin Ward Parkway 22 and WestGlen 12 theaters LOOKBack 1927: Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island NY aboard the Spirit of St Louis on his historic solo flight to France 1932: Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic 1961: A white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery Ala prompting the federal government to send in US marshals to restore order 1993: An estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of on NBC TODAYin KC BARN DANCE: New England-style contra dancing music by Clan Whitethorn and calling by Lany Falkln pm Hillcrest Community Center 10401 Hillcrest Beginner's Instruction at 7 pm $5 (531-1781) KANSAS CITY COMEDYCOURTZ: Improvisational comedy show set in a courtroom 735 pm ComedySportz 512 Delaware $11 (842-2744) THROUGH THE DECADES: MUSICALS OF THE '50en: 8 pm closes May 31 Quality Hill Playhouse 303 Tenth $17 (235-2700) There is really only one question that must be answered about Is the monster cool? The monster is very cool Not completely original though: The digital animators who created Godzilla borrowed heavily from the beasties in the series and the velociraptors in the two films The monster gets straight to the heart of old New York in But those who IVIOV I EnPVIPW know Godzilla only mw itncvicw as a umbering stunt man in a rubber suit knocking over Tinker Toy replicas of Tokyo will find the big guy to be remarkably convincing all 30 stories of him The human characters on the other hand are so unpersuasive they sell air conditioners to Texans Whenever this sleek streamlined Godzilla is whipping through the canyons of Manhattan at 60 mph the movie is a hoot When homo sapiens rule a snore Yup a big monster out there in the ocean movements are shadowed by a mysterious -French fellow (Jean Reno) who also has an interest in this creature Meanwhile in New York old college sweetheart Audrey (Maria Patillo) is an assistant to a TV anchor' man and desperately wants to become an on-air reporter When Godzilla invades the city she uses her friendship with Niko to unscrupulously snag an exclusive story See OOHJIJLA CoG The story centers on Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick) a Nuclear Regulatory Commission biologist who is yanked off his study of earthworm mutations in Chernobyl and reassigned to examine some huge radioactive footprints in Panama.