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Newsday from New York, New York • 7

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By Michael Fleming, Karen Freifeld and Susan Mulcahy Foodies Abuzz Over 21 Club Rumors Should we prepare for further sha-keups at the already shook-up 21 Chib? After massive renovations, the dust is gone, but many patrons feel much of the clubby charm of 21 went with it. According to the food-world grapevine, Marshall Cogan, chairman of Knoll International Holdings which bought the fabled former speakeasy in 1985, is looking for replacements for Ken Aretsky and Anne Rosenzweig, the team he brought in to help revamp a dusty operation. I dont know where you get your information, Aretsky said. Theres no truth to that. Rosenzweig didnt return calls.

The restaurants chef, Alain Sailhac, formerly of Le Cirque, is said to be on the way out as well; sources say he has given notice and will be gone from 21 W. 52nd St. by June 1. There is no news of this, said Judy Woodfin, a spokeswoman for Knoll. As for Aretsky and Rosenzweig, Woodfin said, There is no replacement activity that I know of.

St Bartholomews Church: Financial hardship or anctimonkxjs An Authors, Judgment Against St Bart Bartholomew's, the prestigious Pat if Avenue church at wer with the Landmark 'iM Preservation Commission since 1980 over the right to tear doam part of As complex ft- construct a 49story skyscraper, wont have Hs f'llf case heard In court urrtO but a administers fewer needy the pity It houses In fbte shape church to the poor, BroBn claims It feeds than other, smatter parishes and pays for the 10 or so homeless peopled each He also says the church fbianclaBytl spokesman JFtetct Brood's claims. The Cty pays a i amourriof what costs the church to house the homeless, counters Hodges, who also taBsus the church pas had an operating deficit the pe eight years In generalsays Hodges he finds the book very onesided and told solely ft standpoint of people who are against the I development of a buBdlng on the property lodgment already has come down from Brsnt Brolin, author ofThe Battle at SL Barfs? fust published by WUHam Morrow. According Barfs claims that landmark laws travel i created financial hardship and violated thef churchs rigid to freedom of religion are lot oJ hogwssh. Although the fsy.fchurch has pleaded Its case by saying It Raising the Growler Now that the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum ban sailed dear of the choppy waters of Chapter 1 1, the museum is trying to expand with the addition of a 317-foot submarine, the Growler, a forerunner of todays nuclear cruise missile subs. Wayne Schmidt, executive director of the museum, said the sub, commissioned in 1958 and taken out of service in 1964, is currently in a Navy yard near Seattle, awaiting congressional approval to bring it east.

"We dont anticipate any problem, said Schmidt, who told us the sub carried 88 crew members when it was used for nuclear deterrent patrols. If approved, the Growler would be transported by tugboat and docked permanently next to the Intrepid, the 980-foot aircraft carrier on the Hudson River at West 46th Street. Some $500,000 would have to be raised to tote the boat and dean it up for display, however. If all goes as planned, the sub could be a big boost far the museum, which, Schmidt reports, has paid off its debts, emerged from Chapter 11 in December, and is enjoying increased attendance. years.

Roberts said he stopped concerning himself with reviews in 1978, when a reviewer called him a bad version of Richard Gere. I threw the magazine across the room, he recalled. Then I realized if I took that seriously, Id have to take every review seriously. Now I dont read anybody. Roberts, whose Bum This debut was feted at a party at Chita, Chita Riveras new eatery on W.

42nd Street, said he built a character completely different from that constructed by John Malkovich, his acclaimed predecessor in the role. He was irreplaceable, said Roberts of Malkovich. I had to start from scratch. I didnt want to get caught doing an imitation. leased there and sold well.

Once Mack is squared away, Herman will start work on a new show. In order to write I have to start with an idea that miilmi me excited. Ive got one, he said, but he was unwilling to share specifics. Madonna Reflex Eric Roberts, who is taking three months off from his screen career to star in Burn This at the Plymouth Theater, isnt sparing the rod on critics who thrashed smother Broadway novice. Madonna, for her performance in Speed-the-Plow.

Said Roberts of the critics: What they sue not thinking about is that Madonna will get a young audience interested in Broadway plays, which is needed. And who knows? Maybe theyll come to the theater for the next 20 or 30 Herman is ready for the return of Mack and Mabel first to Londons West End this fall, and then, he hopes, to Broadway. I think it will come to Broadway as a matter of course, he said. Especially if its a hit in London. Herman, who composed the music and lyrics for "La Cage Aux Folles, Hello, Dolly! and Marne, never felt comfortable letting Mack mid Mabel die after only 65 Broadway performances in 1974.

Of anything Ive ever, written, I never got more fan mail than for this, he said. People stopped me on the streets to ask when I would bring back Mack and Mabel. Herman said the music has been popular in England since music from the show was used by the British ice-dancing duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who won an Olympic gold medal in 1984. A cast album was re Edited by Susan Mulcahy Bway Mack Attack After 13 years of rewriting, Jerry Hahn to Testify Before Grand Jury NEWSDAY, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1988 By Dan Fagin Jessica Hahn and a former neighbor who. claims her teenage son was seduced by Hahn will testify today before a state grand jury in Hauppauge, L.I., according to Halms attorney and the ex-neighbor.

State officials refused all comment on the Hahn against her former mentor, the Rev. Profeta of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Mas-sapequa, L.I. Hahn is cooperating with a state grand jury in Albany investigating Prafetas finances. Pietropaolo, a Profeta admirer who said his preaching turned my life around, said yesterday hat, she spoke out in January about her sons alleged seduction because Hahn had everybody bulldozed and thinking that she was a madonna. Hahn, whose claim that she was raped by former television evangelist Jim Bakker eventually drove Bakker from his PTL ministry, denied the allegation.

-Hahn, 28, was expected to arrive in New York late yesterday. In an interview yesterday, her mother and stepfather criticized the fantasy life she now leads at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills. Someday, the bubbles going to burst, said her stepfather, Edward Moylan. Hahn posed topless for Playboy and sold the mag azine the story of her 1980 encounter with Bakker. Pietropaolos allegations against Hahn were detailed in the March, 1988, issue of Penthouse magazine.

John Pietropaolo, a 17-year-old student at Wert Babylon High School, climAl Hahn took his virginity when he was 14. Pietropaolos allegations were investigated by the Suffolk County district attorneys office, which concluded there was no evidence to corroborate Pietropaolos story. Halms mother and father said they are increasingly warned about her lavish California lifestyle, detailed in press accounts. I dont pull any punches. She knows exactly how I fed, said her mother, Jessica Moylan.

I said to her, What do you need all those clothes for, theyll be out of style in six months? She thinks Im just a housewife and dont know anything. But I was young too, once. to 1 jury. And Hahns neighbor, Barbara Pietropaolo, said she wasnt sure why she received a subpoena. I guess well find out tomorrow, wont we, she said.

Hahn and Pietropaolo are involved in a feud that.

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