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Book 'em, Dano

Production is to start in Honolulu next month on an hourlong pilot for a new version of ``Hawaii Five-O,'' TV's longest-running crime show.

CBS spokesman Teri Corigliano said the cast will be a mix of Hollywood and local actors. Hawaii Film Office manager Georgette Deemer said producers are considering using some of the main actors from the original show if they are interested.

The actor who will play Steve McGarrett, head of a fictitious state crime-busting agency, has not been disclosed. Jack Lord, the star of the 1968-80 series, still lives in Hawaii, but is retired.

Corigliano said the pilot, being produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions and CBS Television, could lead to a 13- or 22-episode series.

Wynette stands by word to sue tabloid

Tammy Wynette says reports of her ill health have been greatly exaggerated.

The country music star is suing American Media Inc., which owns the National Enquirer and the Star, accusing the papers of libel, defamation and invasion of privacy.

Wynette's lawyers told a federal judge Monday in Nashville, Tenn., that fans could decide not to buy concert tickets if they believe stories that said the singer was critically ill.

When she was hospitalized last year, the Enquirer claimed Wynette's life was in danger and she needed a liver transplant, while the Star said she had surgery on clogged veins.

Panel finds slider's sacking fair play

An employee who capped a business deal celebration with a dangerous slide down a banister cannot protest the career slide that followed, a British industrial tribunal ruled Monday.

Diane Williams, 34, was fired by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors after her stunt in July. She argued the dismissal was unfair.

Williams, who had been drinking with colleagues, attempted to slide down a banister at the office but slipped and fell 12 feet, knocked out a tooth and knocked herself unconscious.

Her former manager, George Davies, said her actions ``were both reckless and extraordinary,'' and that anyone who would climb onto the banister ``would have to be extremely drunk or crazy. It is a frightening drop.''

Personnel manager Janet Nicolas told the tribunal that Williams had undermined her bosses' trust. In a professional body, members are expected to display ``a certain decorum,'' she said.

Singer sets sights on kid

What do you give the Canadian chanteuse who has 99.99 percent of everything: record sales in the gazillions, a cool, much older hubby with a ponytail, a skyrocketing career and all the perks therein? Celine Dion wants to hear the patter of li'l feet - babies. Figures - she has 13 brothers and sisters. Since beginning singing at 12, Dion has been giving the Energizer Bunny a run for its money. She's everywhere, touring ferociously, and, some say they're sick of her. Perhaps not coincidentally, the singer will take a year off, starting in May. She'll attempt a ``Connie Chung'': aggressively pursue the creation of a bambino, according to People magazine.

``For two years we've been working on it, hoping,'' she says. ``We're not going crazy about it, but just like every woman, and every couple, wants to have a child, to share their happiness.'' ``We'' includes her husband and manager, Rene Angelil, 55, who discovered her when she was 12.

``She wasn't the cutest 12-year-old,'' he says. ``She had a problem with her teeth and she was very shy, but her eyes were incredible,'' he said. And, boy, could she sing.

First lady to attend Grammys, vie for award

Like many of the other nominees, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will be in the audience today to learn whether she won a Grammy award.

Clinton will travel to New York to attend the pre-telecast program at Madison Square Garden, her office announced Tuesday. She will return to Washington immediately after the announcement of the winner in her category for a White House state dinner in honoHr of Chilean President Eduardo Frei.

The recorded version of the first lady's book on child rearing, ``It Takes a Village,'' is nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album. The book spent 20 weeks on best-seller lists last year.

Clinton's recording was nominated along with Garrison Keillor's ``The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' and ``Charles Kuralt's America'' by Charles Kuralt, plus two collaborative efforts.

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PHOTO (1) KICKER: Udder silliness

Dolly, the genetically cloned sheep held at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, got her name from singer Dolly Parton, scientists revealed Tuesday. Dr. Ian Wilmut, who coordinated work on the project, told a news conference: ``She was derived as you know from mammary cells and the people who were looking after her could not think of a more impressive set of mammary cells than those that belong to Dolly Parton.''

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(2) Celine Dion: Working on baby

(3) Wynette

(4) Lord