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[PEOPLE PLAC humans m the news Glenn Close stars with Michael Close to hel] NEW YORK ? Glenn Close will be right at home at this year's m A i lony Awaras. The star of "Sunset Boulevard" will join Gregory Hines and Nathan Lane as co-hosts of the ceremony, which will be held at the Minskoff Theater. That's where "Sunset Boulevard" is playing. Tony nominations will be announced May 8. The awards ceremony will be on CBS June 4. Close apparently has patched up her differences with Andrew Lloyd Webber, the musical's creator. She had complained that his production company inflated the box-office figures during her vacation to make her understudy look good. Family feud NEW YORK ? Hillary Rodham Clinton can't get a break, not even from family. Prtrrav P1ir?fnr\ Plin_ i.WgVi Jk x vuiuvuv \yiui" ton's half-brother, said in a soonto-be-published book that that he was not impressed when he first met Mrs. Clinton. Quotes from the book appear in this week's New York magazine. "Hillary didn't fit my definition of particularly attractive. She wore Coke-bottle glasses and her hair was braided," Clinton writes. He also depicts her as being a bit stuck up. "Hillary (comes) from a different culture, from a different society. Her family, she later told my mother, didn't have a crisis every few days," he said. "You get along with Hillary about as well as Hillary wants you to get along with her." The book is to be published in July by Summit Group of Fort Worth, Texas. Tyson towers LAS VEGAS ? Mike Tyson is going from a prison cell to an 11,000-square-foot home patterned after a French castle. TVie former heawweipht cham pion paid a reported $3.7 million in cash for the house, which has seven bedrooms, a gourmet kitchen, wine cellar, exercise room, tennis court, swimming pool and a guest house. And it's near Wayne Newton's ranch. "Everyone is excited. Everyone is rushing to accomplish this and try to get everything done today," said Phyllis Schwartz, the real estate agent handling the "T+'ct q nninlr r^nol n bi ailoavlrivht JL v kj m \juavn. vkvmi* Tyson, 28, was released from an Indiana prison March 25 after serving three years for rape. He signed a six-fight deal with the MGM-Grand Hotel and a two-year deal with Showtime, which gave him a $20 million advance. Bye bye, Love ARLINGTON, Va. ? Fans went Don't listen about AIDS. 1-800-3 I C C H \AI U A T M r\ T 1 j i_ o HI vv i i n I in I j * Associated Press Universal Pictures Keaton In 'The Paper.' p host Tonys 1 a little too far, so the Love line got cut off. America Online took the unprecedented step of deleting the computer message Doara aevot- ed to grunge-rock singer Court- I ney Love and her band, Hole. The network said fans repeatedly broke the computer network's rules, USA Today reported Tuesday. One user made a death threat | and was stripped of membership, . America Online spokeswoman Margaret Ryan said. | The rules prohibit criminal activity, profanity, and racial, ethnic, religious or sexual slurs. The Hole forum contained messages detailing Love's relation- ship with Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide a year ago Saturday. 'You really got me' BURBANK, Calif. ? A loaded pistol was seized from Eddie Van TT_ 1 1 T naien s carry-on luggage as ne was about to board a United flight, | police said. No immediate charges were filed against the 40-year-old guitarist. He was detained for half an hour Friday, forcing postpone ment of his concerts in the San Francisco Bay area. "He was very cooperative. He said he normally travels by charter, where you more or less do what von lika " said Cheif Tonv _ Lo-Verme, airport police chief. i "This time he traveled by com- | mercial aircraft and forgot to take the gun out." When there's a way, there's a Will . CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? George Will will bring his buttoned-down | brand of politics to Harvard in the fall. | The conservative Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist will lecture on American politics as a visiting pro- fessor, the university said Mon day. | Faculty members in the government department voted to in- | vite Will despite objections from several professors. I "Sure he has a Ph.D. So does . Newt Gingrich, and we don't in vite him to teach undergraduates," f Louise Richardson said. Will countered: "Oh, they have | a terrible problem with affirmative action for conservatives. It's | a problem worldwide." Will, 53, has a doctorate in po litical philosophy from Princeton | University and taught briefly at Michigan State University and | the University of Toronto. He has not held a teaching post since 1970. to the rumors Get the facts! 42-AIDS MH 1T1V DAVE B I If you're planning t Head Todd and th Greenville, take tl middle schoolers, i the words you won concert, they seem day at The Citadel's McAli: The concert crowd was, at As exceptional examples Hp Big Head Todd and the Monste ed what was expected: got didn't contribute to the qi fornia band was full of mil sounded remotely like Stry] the Jets. A few people wen Everything's i College Press Service Is David Spade really like the quick, smug and cutting characters he portrays nr% "Qofurrlov MirrVtf T ,ivow ortrl in fVinao VX1 UUKU1 UUJ Ul T V/ U11VA 1X1 WliVWV ubiquitous commercials? That's a question lots of people have been asking since Spade came to prominence, and it's what they 11 be wondering ane w throughout a good portion of "Tommy Boy," the comedian's first starring role after smaller parts in "Reality Bites," "Coneheads," "Light Sleeper" and "P.C.U." The film teams him with his main "SNL" partner, Chris Farley. "I'm terrified of myself," jokes the witty, less-than jerk-like Spade during an interview at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. "It's all kind of mean-spirited and assholey. I'm a little like that, sure. I wrote most of my stuff, so I stepped into my own trap. That's what they want on 'SNL.' They see what works and then they want you to do it, but sometimes when I i f i oo 1 )i 1 ?i ? write gooner stun, we aon t ao it. Spade doesn't seem too concerned that some people may mistake him for his characters and think he's, well, an asshole. "I think some do, but most people are pretty nice if they're fans. I think they understand that it's more of a joke. I think they know it's in me," he said. "I don't do it to them at all. I'm really nice when they come up to me because I think they get scared that I'd be a (jerk). In this movie, Fm kind of that, especially in the first half. I'm just ripping Chris up. That's why at the end I like that I get to throw in a little humanity that erases some of the sting." "Tommy Boy" casts Spade as Richard, the bitchy right hand to Big Tom Callahan (Brian Dennehy) owner of Callahan Auto Parts. When Big Tom dies, his con raving wire uereK; ana ner son r*voD Lowe) plot to take the company away from Tommy Callahan (Farley), Big Tom's goodnatured but none-too-swift son. Ultimately, Richard and Tommy embark on a lastditch effort to save the company, during which they become something resembling pals. Spade said he and Farley, frequent "SNL" sketch partners and close friends off-screen, enjoyed teaming together for "Tommy Boy." If the film is a hit, chances are the duo will grace movie screens for a long time. "I don't think a next film would be a (Tommy Boy) sequel. I think we would dc just another movie like Abbott and Costello or Lewis and Martin. I'm kind ol straighter, and Chris is goofier. We car both be goofy, and that's fun, but we're pretty opposite looking, so it's good to pi a) off each other," said the 30-year-old funnyman, who is single. "I get a few actual jokes in there. I get to say some things thai HHHiH MATTHEW r_ u r k n U 11 L ft 1/ 0 go to the Dave Matthews/Big set, which thank le Monsters concert Friday in Big Head To lese words into consideration: Matthews. The J \lthough these probably aren't Alright," "Circle ild pick to describe a Matthews sweet." But it w ed to sum up the crowd Satur- "Tangerine" and ster Field House in Charleston, most impressive the least, diverse. Generally, it'i of the new breed of college mu- nal song when d sic, Matthews and made the songs s BBB his openers, Big Head is almost imposs Todd and California's Big Head To " I Boxing Ghandis, at- Matthews was tl 1 traded many middle wasn't that diff school-aged children, songs such as Hi most in tow with par- . What's Around HI ents and mini-vans. "Dancing Nancit K They ran around Lay Down," th HHP and giggled, bought seemed to meet H I T-shirts and giggled the sold-out cro\ ?* some more, really an- congested on the M swering the question Over 2 1/2 hoi 1 H of where all the dis- played a variety W m placed New Kids on appealed to all ? ( the Block fans went, the concert. The 1 Yet, despite the set was when b Giant PG-13 crowd, Dylan's "All Alo rs Matthews and Big tower." Head Todd Drovid- Maybe the re )d music. But Boxing Ghandis wassogoodv lality of the concert. The Cali- Matthews just ei sicians but not music. Its songs as he admitted, per (think Christian rock) meets base of the Soul e seen asleep during the band's come home. Stephanie Sonnenf M Features Editoi coming up Spad make me or someone else laugh, but I'm pretty much the straight man. "I signed up knowing it was me and Farley, and I know the excitement he generates when we're out together. It's fun. I do my job, and I just want to hold my own. It's hard when he's loud, falling down and doing the head-banging and things that make him funny. Just to stand in the same room with him, you're asking for trouble. But, Farley is good at sharing, and I like I nr/wl/i i?rifV\ Uirvi W7 aVa rrAArl f A/Yrtf V\ r* v? ^ S wuirving wiun iiiiii. rrcicgwu i/ugcwici. Born in Birmingham, Mich, and raised 1 in Scottsdale, Ariz., Spade attended Scotts- I dale Community College and Arizona State I University, where studied anthropology | and business, but he never finished school. | "I think I'm about 90 credits short," he ? said, smiling. Instead he pursued standup comedy, | appearing at clubs and colleges nation- 1 [ wide. He joined "SNL" in 1990 and has | made his mark with such characters as || the obnoxious flight attendant ("Buh, bye") || and the acerbic Hollywood Minute reporter || ("Chaplin...It should be Craplin.") These days, of course, "SNL" seems to ?? be the butt of every joke, the recipient of || every conceivable criticism, bpade Has heard the barbs. There are problems, he ?| acknowledges, but the show's death nell || has been sounded before, and it somehow p ' bounced back. It's his hope that it will do so again. "I take all the blame," he said. "I'm just a hired hand. I show up and try to be funny and try to write something for the show at least once a week. If it gets on, it gets on. I have no control over that. I just want to hold up my tent pole when Fm in a scene. If I'm supposed to be straight, Fll be straight. If I'm supposed to be funny, I'll try to be funny. Everyone has the same attitude. "We just have to ride it out and hope everything works out for us. It's still a job. It got everyone where they are now, Spade 1 said. "It's still fun for a handful of people. || 1 People still come to my college gigs. When || I do Letterman, there's a good crowd for jjjg me. When they go after us (on "SNL"), it's || hard. I was there with Dana (Carvey) and f| P Dennis (Miller). Back then, they were || , scared of getting canceled. People were $! . saying, The show sucks,' and now they're r saying When (Carey and Miller) were there [_ it was good, but you guys...' I just try to be I good every week and, hopefully, the tide Di - will turn." ,n I S BAND TODD fully lasted about 20 minutes. dd was as good as, if not better than, Monsters played well-known songs as "It's ," "Broken Hearted Savior" and "Bitteras the band's versions of Led Zeppelin's Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" that were 3 hard to recreate the feeling of an origiloing a cover, but Big Head Todd almost ound better than they originally did, which iible to do. dd was a hard act to follow, but since ," "Satellite," ;s" and "Lover bl|J head todd dnd ese favorites the monsters the demand of - ... vd, which was dave matt hews ! floor. band n s, Matthews W|,ero Greenville Memorial ' of music that . . generations at Auditorium best part of his when Friday, 7:00 p.m. e covered Bob WRh Boxing Ghandis ng the Watch- how much $18.50 ason the show /as because njoys his music. Maybe it was because he, was happy to be back in his band's home theast. If so, welcome home, Dave, wel'ELD es for SNL comedian f ?S^J; ^g| 'Wm^ IhIIHI ^i]Sr;:;:::;:';:>:::;[:::i::::::|:::::ii3p^^g^P|B 20th Century Fox avid Spade starred in last year's 'PCU' before hitting it big 'Tommy Boy' with SNL's Chris Farley.