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I By Anthony Scaduto, Doug Vaughan and Linda Stasi 11 5 Cats all showed for the event. The one no-show, though, was Mick Fleetwood, who was in a car accident earlier that day in Los Angeles. Sources say that Fleetwood has had to have minor surgery on his knee as a result of the accident. But rest assured, the musician is doing fine. Fleetwood called the Athletic Chib Wednesday night from the hospital to assure everyone hes OK.

LaToya Roseanne In the last few weeks, not only LaToya Jackson has come out and said that her father sexually abused her, but Roseanne Barr Arnold also came -out and said her parents sexually abused her. And last week, the two women talked to each other about it. First, LaTeya says she called Roseanne from Holland and left a message Roseanne called her back and the two spoke about their shared nightmarish childhood experiences for three or four hours, according to LaToya. We want to set up a way to reach other kids whove been abused, she told us from Holland. We want them to know that theyve got to call a neighbor, a friend, the police they cant endure this by themselves.

German Nightmare You wont believe this one, but guess whoB invited to Jthe very important and very well attended Frankfurt Book Fair? None other than the various Iranian publishers those well-read and well-quoted halfwits who went on record as supporting the death sentence for Salman Rushdie (for writing The Satanic Verses). The New York Lit wits are at a loss for words over this incredible breach of ethics. Hell, an Italian translator and a Japanese translator of Rushdies book have already been killed, and poor Salman lives in fear of his life. When New York Newsdays Paul Colford asked Roger Straus top man at the high-toned publishing house of Farrar, Straus and Giroux about the German nightmare invite, he said, and we quote, We couldnt agree more. Shooting Jackson Word from the set of Michael Jacksons new video is that he and The Twilight Zone director, John Landis, are not exactly seeing eye to eye.

Sources say that control-freak Jackson and the equally controlling Landis didnt exactly have a winning first week on the set of Black or White, the first single and the first Fast Facts GAGE A RESTAURANT BY ITS CUSTOMERS: Just because some people think the boroughs are only there to fence the city in doesnt mean others don't think the best eating places sit over the bridges and through the tunnels. On Friday, at Brooklyns Gage Tollner, for example, John Kennedy Jr. sat over there and Wilson Goode, Philadelphias mayor, sat over there. And, hey who was that on the phone? Spike Lee ordering up 10 she-crabs to be delivered to his office for lunch. And you? Did you stay in fabulous Manhattan? Yes? And did you like that eouvlaki from the guy on 56th Street? LICENSE TO SIT ON IT: Last week, for what may be the first time in city history, the NY local board of the Alcohol Beverage Control Corn issi on refused to do well, anything, at its weekly liquor-licenBe approval session.

No one got approved for a liquor license and no one got refused. No one got anything. Seems they were having (we hear) a work slowdown to stick it to the powers-that-be for personnel cuts. BENCH IT: What do you do with a love song for a broken love affair? Send it to the country station and hope for the best? Well, BenchMark Recordings did up a little ditty for Donald St Marla which they figured might be played at their wedding, even though its got a coupla laughs built in. So now, we hear, theyre planning to do the song in front of Trump Tower, anyway on a flatbed truck with speakers and all.

We cant say when, or the cops will also know. Edited by Linda Stasi York, and a network-approved writer who lives in California. To actually do the call, the producer vice president flies to California, makes a local call to the network-approved writer and they call the contort in New York. And thats how you do a conference call. The Hollywood sense is living in the twilight of red-eye flights from coast to coast without ever finding out what lies between.

The United States of America is not a place one goes to. The contact does that. The United States of America is what one makes Movies of the Week about. Thera are certain things that aren't wanted as Movies of the Week. Blacks, for instance.

We draft do blacks on M.O.W.," Please see AGUS on Page 45. Rock Me Please Rockline, the award-winning rock and roll radio talk show, celebrated its 10th anniversary Wednesday night at the Hollywood Athletic Club in Los Angeles. Billy Idol, Ray Man-sarek, Stevie Nicks, Joe Walsh, Skid Row, Heart, Slaughter and the Stray He Really Understands a video to be shot from Jacksons much-anticipated Dangerous" album. To the best of my knowledge, its not true, Jacksons publicist says. Theyre getting along fine." After only one week of production, though, were told Landis was off to Europe and no completion date has been set.

wont find them on an M.O.W. Nothing downbeat, nothing depressing. Gotta have a hero or someone to identify with, says Alfie. If youre thinking about Happy Land, youre not thinking M.O.W. The sponsor is selling his crap, so the plot has to go with cans of peas and soup.

You have to leave people up and ready to watch the evening news. Carole Agus It a cold way to look at it but this stuff is product It took three conversations with Alfie to find out what his actual job is. What do you actually do, Alfie? Interesting question. waiting for the answer, I tried 1 I i 1 I Alfie, the Arbiter of TV Taste in America, bounces around NoHo these days making contacts, perfecting pitches, doing deals. He used to be a surfer.

Now, all this New York living has taken a toll and he describes himself as stocky. When he does his job well, Alfies wading through descriptions of the muck and mire of peoples lives will have a happy ending: ordinary people will be signed by the networks and end up as Movies of the Week. Movies of the Week, whose season kicked off again this month, are based on true crime or true tragedy. The M.O.W. transforms the stuff of tabloids into two tragic, heartbreaking hours that always end on an upbeat note.

If the real-life story is peopled with people whose lives got ruined and now theyre bereft and homeless, you to picture the kinds of job holders who, when asked what they do for a living, say interesting question. Im a producer, he said. A producer in the Hollywood sense. A producer means you can afford to have business cards printed up. The Hollywood sense means people who live in a different kind of reality from you and me.

In the Hollywood sense, you dont just pick up a phone. You call someone in i tember to schedule a conference call that will not occur until Oct 22. The conference call is between a producer vice president who works in New York, a contact who works in New 4 i I i- i NEW YORK NEWSDAY, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1991.