NEWS LITE\Fleiss works Web in search of sympathy.

Byline: News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports.

Heidi Fleiss, who has used her very own Web site as a means of extending

"I am writing to you on behalf of Ms. Heidi Fleiss. . . . I am familiar with the case not from a personal relationship with Ms. Fleiss, but from the attention it has received in the media. . . . On Aug. 31, 1995, Ms. Fleiss was instrumental to saving the life of a man attempting suicide. It is my opinion that we need more people in our society willing to come to the assistance of others in need, rather than less."

Liz's No. 7 has second thoughts

Despite talk from Elizabeth Taylor's camp that "everybody's cooperating," it appears Larry Fortensky is not going gentle into that good night. Seems to have questions about the prenuptial agreement. Thinks his blue-collar self may have been taken advantage of at its signing. Thinks maybe $100,000 for each of their 52 months of bliss is about right.

To ante up $5.2 million cash means the asset-rich actress would have to part with houses, jewels or art.

Fortensky has reportedly armed himself with ace divorce lawyer Raoul Felder.

Prison pigeons ordered killed

Officials at San Quentin Prison ordered the shootings of 134 roosting pigeons that had been lured by handouts from inmates, a campaign that animal rights activists denounced as a bird blood bath.

"Apparently the powers that be decided to start blasting away and to keep it hidden from everybody," according to Elliot Katz, president of In Defense of Animals, a Mill Valley, Calif.-based animal rights group.

He said prison employees had contacted his group to complain that the birds had been shot in the middle of the night and that they had seen officials washing the blood from the grounds.

Prison officials called in a pest-control company to shoot the birds last week because the pigeons were a health and safety issue, said prison spokeswoman Joy Macfarlane. She said prison officials had been responding to complaints about pigeon droppings from employees and inmates.

Prison Warden Art Calderon notified the Marin Humane Society in a Dec. 18 letter that several methods the group suggested to get rid of the birds hadn't worked, Macfarlane said.

Birds do it; bees do it . . .

As a Valentine's Day alternative to fancy dinners and sappy music, the San Francisco Zoo offers a twist on the birds and the bees.

For the sixth year in a row, the zoo is presenting its Valentine's Day Sex Tour, open to anyone who likes to watch.

"Animals practice everything we do," said Jane Tollini, a zoo penguin keeper and sex tour guide. "If you're looking for bondage, harems and kinky sex, we can show it to you right here."

Truth be told, zoo visitors seldom catch the animals in the act. Instead, the 90-minute tour includes stops at several exhibits - and a detailed discussion of mating habits.

The zoo's sex tours this year will be held on Feb. 10, 11, 17 and 18, at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. A special tour will be given at 9 a.m. on Valentine's Day. The tours, which include champagne and truffles, cost $25 for zoo association members and $30 for nonmembers. Reservations are required.

Tollini said she started the sex tours in 1990 to share her knowledge of penguins and their mating rituals - which are most evident around Valentine's Day.

'Man of Steel' signs book deal

Christopher Reeve has signed with Random House to write a book about his life before the accident and the struggle he faces now.

Random House refused to comment on a published report that the paralyzed "Superman" star will receive $3 million.

Publisher Harold Evans said Wednesday that writer Roger Rosenblatt will collaborate, and the book will be ready in 1998.

Too-too-'Tootsie' star, goodbye

Actress Teri Garr filed a petition for divorce to end her two-year marriage, citing irreconcilable differences with her businessman husband.

Garr had one child, daughter Molly, from her marriage to John O'Neil, according to papers filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

"I trust that the matter will be resolved amicably, as it would be, in Ms. Garr's view, the appropriate way to proceed," said her attorney, Ovvie Miller.

Garr, star of "Tootsie," "Young Frankenstein" and "Oh God," married O'Neil on Nov. 11, 1993, the same day their daughter was born, court papers said.

Garr, 46, is asking for "pre- and post-separation earnings" as well as "all property received by inheritance or gift" and "clothing, jewelry and personal effects."

Honest Abe's costume history

An actor who plays Honest Abe for school history lessons was getting ready to suit up in his black suit and top hat for a visit to Lawrence Middle School in Chatsworth on Wednesday morning when he discovered he had been a little too trusting.

The actor left his costume in his car overnight, and the next morning it was missing.

"It turns out Honest Abe got robbed, his costume was stolen, and he was unable to make his appearance," said Diana Dixon Davis, a Parent Student Teacher Association representive at the school.

The actor, who stands 6 foot 4 inches and is normally costumed to resemble President Lincoln, has rescheduled for Monday. He offers a colorful "living history" lesson in which he tells of Lincoln's presidency in the first person.

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