European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On Parade Walter Scott s in a tonality Paradi q i find Keanu Reeves to be a talented actor but can it be True that there s a College course on Bis movies he did t hit it big until  was he paid for that movie and what can he expect to make for his next film d.r., Shawn emission a despite the Success of Speed for which he got$1.25 million the blazing hot actor seems determined to avoid the action hero pigeonhole. He Al ready has turned Down $7 million to Star in a film version of Tom Clancy s without remorse Reeves 30, recently earned $2 million for Johnny Mnemonic about a Man with a computer in his head and he s now filming a walk in the Clouds a romantic Story about a world War ii vet next january hell fulfil a personal dream playing Hamlet onstage in Winnipeg Canada. And yes the Pasadena Art Center school of design has a course on the films of Kean Reeves Doris Duke the late tobacco heiress was an extremely private person. But i wonder if you could till Mem on her funeral arrangements survivors and her will Olio Williams Charleston  i. % a the eccentric heiress who studied belly Dareing and Sang in an All Back Church choir was cremated last october after her death at 80. The ashes were scattered at sea near her hawaiian estate. Duke married twice and had numerous lovers but no offspring. She did adopt a daughter Chandi Hefner now 40, whom she Cut out of her will in 1993. Duke made Bernard Lafferty 49 her Butler and confidant executor of her estate Worth $750 million to is 3 Billon. As executor he could earn unto $5 million and Duke left Lafferty $500,000 a year for life As Well. She also left $10 million to  named for her family$1 million to the preacher at the Church where she Sang 5500,000 Toher piano teacher and $100,000 to her dog. There was a time when Rod Mckuen was. Burntt gel poetry and records i Haven t heard much recently is be still writing has toe Ever mar ried and bad children Joyce Brown san Francis co " a i tried to retire but it just did t work explains Mckuen 61, who lives a los Angeles in an interview last year Mckuen said he was Keanu Reeves avoids action millions after 5pced. Mainly doing voice overs still writing poems an songs and giving occasional concerts for charities. I m still concerned about child abuse he  a youth Mckuen was physically and sexually abused by relatives incidents that scarred him but provided emotional material for his songs and verse. Though never married he fathered a son Jeanmarc now 32, and a daughter Marie France 28, in France where the two still live., q five been waiting impatiently for the new sea son Osmy favorite to show la & order but i m going to miss Mic Nae a Moriarty and i won Why the producers made the mistake of letting him go. What Are the chances that they will bring Moriarty Back this season up Manchester Conn. A the chances Are nil. Moriarty 53, quit the 4-jl\ year old series last january after butting Heads with . Attorney general Janet Reno and the enc brass. What set him off was Reno s warning to broadcasters that either they tone Down the violence on to or the government would step in. Moriarty said those in Washington calling Tor censorship were Liberal fascists with sick attitudes before quit Ting he took Abc to task for not giving him enough time on its news shows to air his charges. Then to make matters worse he greeted the announcement that Sam Waterston would replace him by question ing whether that soft spoken actor who played genteel Southern lawyer on to s m Fly away had the right stuff to portray a Tough assistant District attorney in new York. Q we re a ways hearing How Japan is Superior tothe United states lower crime rate greater longevity guaranteed lifelong employment but. Doe sat Japan have a higher suicide rate Why do the japanese my themselves More frequently  it so much better Steve John son Barthes Vic okla. The world health organization estimates that Japan has a rate of 16.1 suicides per 100,000 people compared to 12.1 in the United  s not a huge spread when compared to Hungar y s rate of 38,6 per 100,000 highest among those nations that report on suicides and Mexico s rate of 2.3, the lowest reported. White americans Are brought up in a Jude Christian tradition that views suicide As a sin or at least As something shameful there s nothing in Japan s culture or religious traditions to discourage it. In fact suicide often has Bee seen As an honorable Way to save face. I a often wondered if Mimi Rogers marriage to Tom cruise which listed less than three years hindered her film career. Crb., Daven port Iowa a like Anjelica Huston who struggled for years to escape the Shadow cast by her former Lover Jack Nicholson Rogers thinks the same Fate has be fallen her when it comes to cruise. I m waiting for the moment when i Don t have to talk about that name anymore she has said. I be had it welded onto mine for years  at 38, Rogers has appeared in 16 films but still is waiting for the role that will propel her into the same league As Julia Rob erts Michelle Pfeiffer and Jodie Foster. Even posing last year for Playboy did t help. She Hopes her Luck will change with her next film. Until March she was Busy producing designated hitter a game show Oneson created by her Boyfriend Chris Ciaffa. The " pair s next production is a baby due in december a font to  write Walter sex. Box 5001, grand to printed by part Teton of Parade mraint.1mm Parade pub cation in a Rigutto to Wmk a. Parade and or Scott s a ton Parade w�tr�dnwk8 of Parade Putter Tom inc. Parade s special in i i Lair n i will Czechoslovakia get tack together just before the breakup of Czechoslovakia on Jan.1,1993, Parade paid a visit to Prague and pie diced the economic effect of this velvet divorce the czechs would make rapid Progress we said while Slovakia would become the Basket Case of Eastern Europe. Today the czech Republic is developing a solid Economy with unemployment at just 3 percent to 4 percent. Vaclav Klaus the prime minister recently told the United states that he no longer needed for eign Aid. America s assistance which began in octo Ber 1993 at $34 million will end by 1998. Meanwhile Slovakia s unemployment rate has risen from 11 percent to 14.4 percent since the break up. Foreign investment dropped by 10 percent in 1993, putting Slovakia in last place among the for Mer members of the communist Warsaw pact. The government of its first prime minister Vladimir Mesiar a. Hard line a Mirinovsky style nation Alist who pushed for the split and brought a halt to privatization after Slovakia gained its Independence was voted out of office by the legislature in March. Among Mesiar s unfounded claims was that he kept the czechs from invading in 1992. About 70 political parties Are campaigning for the upcoming elections on sept. 30 and oct. 1, and me Ciar is again a candidate. When baseball was segregated Black baseball players were shut out of the major leagues from the 1880s until 1947, when Jackie Rob Inson broke the color Barrier with the Brooklyn dodgers. _ but the negro leagues flourished during those segregated years becoming the third biggest Blac business in the country according to Ken Burns the filmmaker whose nine part series baseball starts next sunday on pcs. At one Point Louis Armstrong owned a team based in new Orleans cab Galloway played on his own team of All stars and Bill Bojangles Robinson was part owner of the new re Black Yankees sometimes he tap danced on the dugout roof. It was a Tough life playing four games a Day and travelling All Over the United states by bus recalls John Buck o Neil 82. A 21-year Veteran of the negro leagues who later joined the Chicago cubs As the first Black coach in the major leagues he is the conscience of this to series says Burns. O Neil reminds us that segregation kept Black players out of Many hotels restaurants and restrooms that players took the Field even when they were Hurt and that there were no Relief pitchers. Still in 438 exhibition games with the major leagues the Black All stars won 309 times. Elvis Sweet inspiration in 1956, a Little known Southern Singer named Elvis Presley was in Manhattan rehearsing for stage show a variety program that preceded the honeymooners on lbs to and was produced under the supervision of Jackie Gleason. Deason said he needed to Check the camera angles to figure out How to shoot die Singer from the Waist up. His swim Ewing hips never would have passed the censors. When Gleason asked him to rehearse again for the cameras however Elvis threw a Tantrum. His manager col. Tom Parker saved the Day. He patted his pocket and said one More time Elvis and 111 give you  the Singer stopped sulking cooperate with Gleason and made his to debut on Jan. 28,1956, performing Heartbreak hotel. Stardom soon Fol Lowed. What was in Parker s pocket a Candy bar. This bit of show Biz history appears in love Alice due out next month from Crown. The author is Audrey Meadows 72, who played Gleason s wife Alice on the honeymooners among her other reminiscences the actress notes that the 39 classic episodes of that show from the 1955-56 season which Are still being syndicated All were done in Les than 20 weeks. Reprinted by permission of Parade Marazina