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By Karen Freifeld, Doug Vaughan and Linda Stasi accused of murder in the death of Yusuf Hawkins. Outside the tiny courtroom on the fourth floor of the Brooklyn State Supreme Courthouse was Patricia ODwyer, wife of Paul ODwyer, former (Sty Council president. Im here to lend her moral support," she said. Pamela has been rehearsing her lines at our apartment. As it turned out, ODwyer was one of the last people to make it inside the crowded courtroom.

Even Patrick Clark, who is Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Ilynes chief spokesman, was turned away at the door. New Kids Magic Act Falls Flat Even though the tour Is called The Magic Summer Tour, New Kids On The Blocks Donnie Wahl-berg didn't have much magic going for him Sunday night. Thats when he fell through the trap door while attempting to do a magic trick on the Saratoga Racetrack stage. Hou-. dini didnt take into account that timing is everything in the magic game.

But not to worry yesterday he was resting comfortably at the Saratoga Hospital, sustaining mostly a bruised ego- Outside the hospital, tilings were not so comfortable, however. About 100 or so girls held vigil, begging hospital staffers to give them Meets, pillows, pillowcases, anything he used," said a hospital spokeswoman. They even begged for his bed-pan, she said. No, girls rubbing a bedpan is not the same as rubbing a magic lamp. Photo by Marina Oaraiar 0 JACKIE! Perhaps Jackie 0 is on an economy kick, but the other night when she went to see the new John Guare play, Six Degrees of Separation," with her pal, socialite-playwright Jane Stanton Hitchcock (Vanilla playing in-London), 'she was actually caught alive in a pantsuit in which she was photographed three years ago.

Fast Facts MONEY FROM MANDELA: Not everyone had good will and brother hood on their minds during the Mandela visit to our city. Take the folks who run the Hotel Theresa at 125th and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard. (The very place Fidel Castro stayed when he visited the UN after getting thrown out of the Shelboume Hotel for harboring swine.) Well, since the hotels roof was the primo place for filming thfl Mandela rally, a CNN pro-ducer sought out the site. And then promptly turned down the request from the hotel for $2,000 to give to a charity in the building. HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES? Now that hes dose to opening the Paramount Hotel, Ian Schrager (this is his first venture without his longtime partner, the late Steve Rubell) decided it might be a good idea to send out apples to 25,000 out-of-town customers inviting them to the Big Apple.

Not so fart. Bub! The Big Apples apples were stopped at tin California border and permits checked and rechecked before being released. And a good thing, too. These are no wimpy shriveled California Raisins, you know QUICK AUCTION: Tonight, Cindy Crawford and Rudolf will be co-chairing the Brooklyn Academy of Music auction benefit at Quick! with eveiything being auctioned, from tap dancing lessons given by Gregory Ilines to original photos by Annie Leibovitz to a Concorde trip for two to London to see The Stones at Wembley. Silent bidding starts at 6 oclock.

Arrestaurateur Restaurateur Johnny Kouros was one New Yorker not too happy about Friday nights reception at Tribeca Grill for Nelson Mandela. Kouros, owner of Cafe Americano on Hudson Street, says all the security surrounding Robert De Niro's neighboring' Tribeca Grill practically closed down his restaurant. Nobody could get to my place to eat," Kouros said. After serious consideration though, Kouros says hes not going to make too much of a squabble over it. I thought about it, but I'm not going to press charges because it was Nelson Mandela.

I was in jail with him in South Africa in the early 70s when I was arrested for operating a restaurant there without a greencard. They locked me in jail for a few days and forced me to leave the country, Kouros said. Teachers Pet Jane Tillman Irving, the former WCBS-TV reporter who was let go last year, was seen, handy-cam in hand, covering Nelson Mandela appearances in Bed-Stay and Harlem last week. She explained to our spy that she was taping the events for her NYU video class. Told that she ought to be teaching instead of studying journalism, she said she was.

teaching (at Columbia) but still needed to learn the technical basics. tivist Chip Duckett says Atlantic is effectively beating up gay people by distributing hate-filled anti-gzy records like this. The rap group is stupid, prejudiced and hate-filled." Duckett, a member of Queer Nation (the group responsible for last Saturdays march in the Village), says he distributed up to 80,000 cards that reprinted Audio Two Jyrics along with Atlantics phone and fez numbers at Mars and Quickl dubs and at Sunday's Gay Pride parade, inciting people to flood Atlantics offices with protests. Lorin Lewis, general manager of First Priority (Audio Twos label, which Atlantic distributes), said, The album is called I Dont Care" and theyll say what they want to say and they don't care. Its not advocating anything.

Its their brand of humor." Gay Bashing Bout A group of gay activists is waging' war against Atlantic Records and their recording artist. Audio Two, whose album-cut Whatcha Looking At" contains anti-gay lyrics. Ac Pat on the Back Last Monday was a very big day for Pamela Hayes, one of the prosecutors in the Bensonhurst racial lulling. She was to make the opening statements to the jury in the trial of John Vento, Edited by Linda Stasi I Edited by Al Cohn last album and I thought, Hmm, hes reaching. Hes running out of materiaL That sounds like my third album Martin Gets Candid on Comedy Steve Martin is as offbeat in an interview as he is in his comedy routine.

He underplays whatever it is he is supposed to be promoting, and concentrates on speaking out bluntly. In the current GQ, he puts down fellow comedian Sam Kinison, comedy dubs and Las Vegas audiences. Martin, 45, is featured on the magazines cover wearing a $1,425 Gianfranco Ferre suit, dearly hoping to convey the impression that here, no longer, is a wild and crazy gqy. Martin says he is through with comedy dubs and hopes to focus on some different things. Director-screenwriter Bruce Robinson wants to write a movie suspense thriller for me and Victoria Tennant, Martins wife to do.

Id sure like to try it; I think Im ready," be said. In the immediate future, thought i comedy, My Blue One Darryl Says I Do Does In the recently-concluded CBS-TV Newhart series, John Voldstad played erne of the two silent brothers named Darryl (the chubby, blond one), who smiled onty when introduced by a third brother, Larry. The current Pfeople magazine reports that Voldstad, 89, recently smiled and even spoke, sqying I do when he married 20-year-old Kellye Fowler in Gadsden, Ala. They met in August when Voldstad was playing in a celebrity tennis tournament in Macon, and Fowler asked him for an autograph. She was spelling Kellye with a tye, and I thought, Umm, thats very pretty, "Voldstad said.

Steve Martin John Voldstad: as Darryl Heaven, co-starring Rick Moranis. In no part of his foture, he says, is Las Vegas or any of the popular comedy dubs. People dont realty go there to be entertained. They never stop eating, and they never applaud, he said. Martin said he likes Kinison, but I heard his t..