Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Sun, 1 Nov 92 20:06:09 EST Message-ID: \SE A;PEOPLE \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Khrushchev likes U.S. SEATTLE - Sergei Khrushchev, son of the late Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, has taken the first step toward applying for permanent U.S. residency. "Our countries are not enemies any longer. We are on the same side now," Mr. Khrushchev, 57, said in a telephone interview. "I decided to change my life, and I think it will be easier and more convenient for me to do this if I were to have permanent resident status." Mr. Khrushchev filed an application for permanent residency with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, his Seattle-based attorney, Dan Danilov, said Thursday. Mr. Khrushchev, a rocket engineer and computer scientist, is on a two-year exchange program as a senior research fellow at Brown University's Center for Foreign Policy Development in Providence, R.I., where he has been living since last year. He is studying ways to turn Russia's centralized economy into a free-market system. S=NEW STORY Stern fans react LOS ANGELES - A producer for the tabloid TV show "Hard Copy" says she's received nearly 250 death threats from fans of radio shock jock Howard Stern. Police in Los Angeles say the threats against Audrey Lavin are being investigated, but it's unlikely any action will be taken. Miss Lavin says the calls began after "Hard Copy" aired a segment earlier this month that portrayed Mr. Stern as a bully. Miss Lavin says Mr. Stern announced her private telephone number on the air because he was angered by her story. The producer's charges come on the heels of a record $105,000 fine against a Los Angeles radio station. The Federal Communications Commission says the station aired "indecent" segments of Mr. Stern's program during inappropriate hours. S=NEW STORY Spike Lee on journalism LOS ANGELES - Director Spike Lee says he prefers to be interviewed by black journalists about his new film, "Malcolm X," because he believes they will have a better understanding of the movie. "Malcolm X is such a part of the African-American psyche and experience, African-American journalists will be that much more sensitive to the subject matter," he said Friday. "My efforts to control the representation of my art and my image is nothing extraordinary, but rather commonplace and traditional in respect to Hollywood's standards." Mr. Lee's film about the slain black activist, starring Denzel Washington, is scheduled to be released in November. Mr. Lee said he does not refuse to speak to white reporters but added, "I've been burned by recent articles written by white journalists." He said his request highlighted "the embarrassing lack of black writers" at many media outlets. S=NEW STORY Letterman's new deal NEW YORK - David Letterman's contract as host of NBC's "Late Night" variety show has been extended three months under a deal that lets him "explore opportunities outside the network," both sides announced Friday. The agreement was struck "in a good-faith effort to move their negotiating process forward," the comedian and the network said in a joint statement. Reports of Mr. Letterman's unhappiness with NBC and his purported plans to end his 10-year stint as host of the program have been grist for the entertainment media for more than two years. His contract, which would have expired in early April, now extends until late June. S=NEW STORY De Niro's not the one LOS ANGELES - Blood tests have revealed that actor Robert De Niro is not the father of a 10-year-old girl whose mother filed a paternity suit against the actor, said the woman's attorney, Marvin Mitchelson. But he said Friday that his client, Helena Lisandrello, will press forward with the lawsuit because Mr. De Niro, 49, had accepted the girl as his daughter and supported her for a long time. Superior Court Commissioner James Endman is scheduled to rule in November whether to order the "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver" star to continue paying the girl's school tuition of nearly $1,000 a month and $2,500 a month in support pending a trial. Mr. Mitchelson filed the suit Aug. 6. on behalf of Miss Lisandrello, a 31-year-old nightclub singer. She said she met Mr. De Niro at a party in 1979 and began an intimate relationship that continued for three years. She had claimed her 10-year-old daughter, Nina Nadeja De Niro, was a result of that relationship. S=NEW STORY 'Tommy' on Broadway LA JOLLA, Calif. - Guitarist Pete Townshend's stage production of the Who's 1969 rock opera "Tommy" is moving to Broadway after setting attendance records at the La Jolla Playhouse, where it premiered. The composition, about a deaf and blind child who is cured and becomes a messiahlike leader, was made into a movie in 1974. Mr. Townshend adapted the work into a stage musical, using most of the original and some new music. The show opens in New York in April. A national tour is planned for next fall. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM