NEWS LITE : CHASTITY CHASTISES REP. SONNY.

U.S. Rep. Sonny Bono was accused of breaking his word Friday by one of his closest supporters - his own daughter.

``I feel really . . . disappointed and angry,'' Chastity Bono, who is a lesbian, said Friday in a telephone interview from San Francisco. ``It obviously shows that he is not all that supportive of me or of our issues.''

Bono, R-Calif., half of the 1960s TV duo Sonny and Cher, signed on as one of several co-sponsors Friday of a bill that would define marriage under federal law as a legal union between one man and one woman.

Chastity Bono, 27, said her father had agreed to support same-sex marriages in an interview with her that was published in The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian magazine.

Bono's answer, as printed in the Jan. 23, 1996, article: ``That seems fine if that's what they want to do. Yeah, I'll support that, unless there are any costs involved, but there don't appear to be any.''

Chastity Bono said she had not talked to her father since he became a co-sponsor of the bill, and didn't expect to.

``It's just very disappointing to me that my father would put aside personal convictions for a political party,'' she said.

Neither Bono or his press secretary, Frank Cullen, were in their Washington offices Friday afternoon for comment.

Newfound fame is just

diggity dank 

SAN FRANCISCO - He's probably the first national celebrity to sleep in the park, bum cigarettes off tourists and get hassled by cops for skateboarding on the sidewalk.

But these things don't bother Manny The Hippie. To him, life is diggity dank - . . . er, really great.

``I love living on the streets - everyone's so nice,'' smiles the cherubic, blond Manny (who gives his last name as The Hippie), a 19-year-old who fled Ohio several months ago to hang in the Haight.

It was a lucky move. In April, he met David Letterman there.

``I was just chillin' outside Ben & Jerry's and there he was. So I said, `Hey, are you David Letterman?' And he said, `Yeah, are you a hippie?' ''

The ensuing hours were captured on a hilarious videotape and shown on Letterman's program last week while he was on-the-air from San Francisco. Manny and Letterman cruised San Francisco, lunching at Friday's and staging a two-man sit-in at UC Berkeley.

During their visit, Letterman learned a whole new hippie vocabulary: ``dank'' (good) and ``schwag'' (bad). ``Diggity dank'' indicates very, very good.

Letterman had Manny rate various presidents: Jimmy Carter (dank), Ronald Reagan (shwag), Abraham Lincoln (diggity dank) and Bill Clinton (schwag). ``I mean, why would you want a president who couldn't smoke a bowl?''

Manny also made a live appearance on Friday night's show, when he played a serviceable harmonica with his idol, John Popper of Blues Traveler. As he took a bow, Letterman presented him with . . . a set of golf clubs?

And privately, Letterman, who'd taken a liking to the affable lad, handed him $250 of his own money.

``He told me to get a hotel room - that he didn't want me sleeping on the street,'' Manny says. ``He was really cool.''

Manny's brief appearance was such a hit that he's already made one repeat, Monday night, and will now be reviewing summer movies on Friday nights - using, of course, the schwag-to-diggity-dank rating system.

The first movie is ``Twister,'' but he refuses to divulge his opinion until he's on the air. Get this man an agent.

``It's a little weird,'' he says of his newfound fame, while munching a piece of pepperoni pizza. ``But it's cool. I get free food now from the restaurants around here, and I've gotten calls from bands who want me to play with them. I mean, I have appointments now.''

Officers hot on trail of missing Ronald McDonald

Maybe they should look on the dance floor or the golf course.

Local police were searching Friday - with straight faces - for Ronald McDonald after a 6-foot fiberglass statue of the McDonald's mascot was stolen overnight from a restaurant in Caledonia, Ontario.

``We're taking this seriously,'' said police Sgt. Bill Renton, adding that the figurine was worth about $4,000.

Renton was confident his officers would find the statue.

``It would be kind of tough to hide,'' he said.

King's new `significant other'

Larry King introduced Cyndy Truhan, ex-baseballer Steve Garvey's ex, as ``my significant other'' Thursday among other lunchers at D.C.'s Four Seasons. Truhan, 46, has six criminal charges pending in Santa Monica for allegedly lying about being stalked. Meanwhile, her previous boyfriend, Hans Rockenwagner, got a restraining order accusing her of stalking him, and Garvey got one against her, accusing her of threatening his current wife.

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Photo: (1) Chastity Bono

Sharing her disappointment

(2)Manny the Hippie has a new niche reviewing movies on the Letterman show.

Associated Press