NEWS LITE : KRAVITZ COLLAPSES FROM JERSEY HEAT.

Lenny Kravitz collapsed from heat exhaustion during a weekend concert in Holmdel, N.J., a spokesman for the arena said Monday.

Kravitz, wearing bell bottoms and a long-sleeve coat, played for 40 minutes Sunday night, then walked off and collapsed backstage, said Jim Steen, director of marketing for the PNC Bank Arts Center. His band played for another 15 minutes without him before the show was stopped.

Kravitz was treated by the house doctor and left on his own, Steen said.

Kravitz, who has been touring with the Black Crowes and Everlast, was the final act in the first concert held at the arts center this season.

Sitcom actress bunny in past life

Susan Sullivan, who plays fretful mom Kitty Montgomery in ``Dharma & Greg,'' was once a Playboy bunny. Oh yes, Sullivan also played a mom on '80s prime-time soap ``Falcon Crest.''

At age 18, she applied for a job at Manhattan's Playboy Club, she told People magazine.

``I put on the silly outfit with the ears and tail,'' says the 56-year-old actress, who called herself Bunny Sue. ``I only worked weekends, and people treated you like a goddess. I was applying for a Fulbright Scholarship at the time while attending Hofstra, so I let everybody know it, because I didn't want everyone to think I was just a Playboy bunny.''

Bomb threat ends concert in London

A bomb threat forced the evacuation of more than 3,000 people at a Kenny Rogers concert at Royal Albert Hall in London, his publicist said.

No bomb was found, and no injuries were reported Sunday night, publicist Cheryl Kagan said. The concert was supposed to be the last for the country singer during a 10-nation tour.

``I'm extremely disappointed,'' said Rogers, who was about to take the stage when police recommended the evacuation. ``I don't understand who benefits from this. It's an unpolitical gathering of people who are out for a night of good fun.''

Stevie Wonder given Polar Prize

Three years ago, Stevie Wonder sang ``Happy Birthday'' to Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf for his 50th. On Monday, the king gave Wonder the Polar Music Prize and a check for $125,000.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Music picked Wonder and composer Iannis Xenakis as this year's winners.

The prize is endowed by the late Stikkan Andersson, whose record company released the songs of Swedish supergroup ABBA. It is awarded annually to one popular and one classical musician.

Xenakis, a Romanian-born Greek who lives in Paris, was unable to attend the ceremony at Berwald concert hall because of illness. His daughter accepted his prize check.

Former winners include Paul McCartney, Ravi Shankar and Dizzy Gillespie.

Cheese wheels rolling once again in England

Runners tore down a steep 300-yard course in pursuit of an 8-pound double Gloucester cheese wheel Monday at a revival of the custom of cheese rolling. The cheese always comes first, but the person who crosses the finish line right behind the fast-rolling wheel gets to keep it.

Stephen Brain, 30, of Gloucester was the big cheese this year, winning all three men's races at Cooper's Hill near Gloucester, 115 miles west of London.

According to ``The Customs and Ceremonies of Britain,'' cheese rolling was once an event at a big spring celebration that included long-forgotten sports including ``grinning for the cake,'' ``jumping in the bag,'' and ``chattering for a bladder of snuff by old women.''

The reference book does not give any further explanation of those games.

OFFBEAT: This one's near heart-warming 

In Oslo, Norway, Anne-Mette Smette, 58, is keeping a bird's egg between her breasts in hopes of incubating it. The abandoned egg was found by a farmer last week, and hens refused to accept it for hatching.

Photograph was ultimate space shot

This summer is the 30th anniversary of the moon walk, and is also the 30th anniversary of the first man-made photograph of our whole planet from space, as taken by an astronaut on an Apollo mission. The photograph came to grace the cover of the Whole Earth Catalog, as a reflection of the vision of Stewart Brand, who created the catalog.

Brand recalled the other day that in 1966, to ``get people going'' in favor of space travel, he'd given out buttons that said, ``Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth?''

The classic shots taken three years later ``weren't photographs taken by robots on a satellite,'' Brand said. ``They were taken by homesick astronauts looking toward the Earth from the moon.'' The change in people's perception of themselves in the cosmos was like that ``when mirrors got really good,'' Brand said, ``when people could really see themselves. . . . We saw a planet, but we saw ourselves.''

Eventually, after the image was used on the cover of Life magazine and all sorts of ads, ``it just became the classic image of the world. It became as strong as the mushroom cloud, and eventually displaced it, as fear of Armageddon was replaced by a sense of the wholesome Earth and the age of space travel. What's interesting is that the same rockets that were going to deliver the bombs were going to deliver us to space.

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Warthog leads the King and Eye entry across the Eel River in the 30th Kinetic Sculpture Race on Monday in Ferndale, Calif. The three-day race covers road, sand, water and mud.

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