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There will be no body stockings and pasties in the Utah production of ``Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.''

The star, Donny Osmond, requested more modest attire for Potiphar's seductresses in heavily Mormon Utah, The Salt Lake Tribune said Friday.

``Donny did not believe the costumes in that scene would fly with Utah audiences,'' an unidentified source told the newspaper.

When the show opened here Monday at the University of Utah, the costumes used in performances elsewhere were replaced with black vests.

Woman sues to get late Kuralt's land

A woman claiming she was Charles Kuralt's ``On the Road'' partner for decades has gone to court to get a Montana spread that she says the TV star promised her before his death July 4.

Patricia Shannon, who says she met Kuralt in Reno, Nev., in 1968, says she has notarized documents in the broadcaster's handwriting, giving her about 130 acres and a home he owned near Twin Bridges. She adds that Kuralt supported her financially throughout their relationship.

A lawyer for Kuralt's widow, Petie, declined comment on the case. But in papers filed in court, she says her husband had the opportunity to amend his will but didn't, that he intended to leave all to her and their kids, and that the handwritten papers attributed to him are invalid. A court hearing is set for March 3.

Politics adviser has counsel for dieters

Susan Estrich, 45, first female president of Harvard Law Review and first of her gender to run a presidential campaign (Michael Dukakis'), now has come out with a diet book.

In ``Making the Case For Yourself,'' the ex-size-14-now-size-6 says that other than falling in love and having kids, nothing ``has made me prouder, happier or more fulfilled than losing weight and getting in shape.''

To feminist howls, she replies: ``What really bothers me are the beautiful and thin feminists inveighing against the conspiracy of beauty and thinness. I don't think there is a woman alive who doesn't do better in a business meeting if she looks good and feels good about herself.'' She's wed to Hollywood screenwriter Marty Kaplan.

Firefighters get rub via Janet Jackson

When L.A. County firefighters saved her Malibu estate from devastating fires, singer Janet Jackson thanked them by sending her own special present: two women to give them deep, relaxing massages. Now, the idea has become an annual event from the singer to the fire station nearest her home. ``It couldn't have made them any happier,'' a firefighter spokesman says.

Allen thinks future children optional

Children, says newlywed Woody Allen, are ``a reasonable option.'' In an interview in the French daily Le Figaro, the 62-year-old actor-director said he and 27-year-old bride Soon-Yi Previn had discussed having these ``reasonable options.''

``Why not?'' he said. ``I feel young and full of energy and my parents, you know, are still alive. My father is about to turn 97, and my mother is 91, and they're well. That's why I believe having children is a reasonable option for the two of us.''

Fugitive pigs captured after stealing hearts across Britain

The grand adventures of a pair of runaway pigs that captivated Britain after escaping from a slaughterhouse came to an end Friday.

``It's one of the great escapees - a very cunning pig,'' police Constable Andy Walden said of the 110-pound boar who was cornered in a field Friday after six days on the run.

But the story of the 5-month-old pigs - nicknamed Butch Cassidy and Sundance Pig - has a happy ending: they will spend the rest of their days in an animal sanctuary.

The Tamworth pigs broke away from slaughterhouse workers last week in Malmesbury, 90 miles west of London, squeezed under a fence and swam across a river.

National tabloid newspapers enthusiastically took up their tale - and the resulting wave of public sympathy prompted a change of heart by their owner, a road sweeper who had raised them in his back yard to eat.

The owner announced Thursday that he would spare their lives and sell them to a good home - prompting a bidding war among the tabloids that was rumored to reach $24,500.

The media frenzy prompted comparisons with the 1994 pursuit of O.J. Simpson's Bronco.

Could be last season; `ER' may lose hunk doctor George

There is a good possibility that next season will be George Clooney's last on ``ER,'' according to executive producer John Wells.

Wells, a surprise guest in Pasadena at the Television Critics' Association Winter Press Tour on Friday, said that Clooney will have to decide in the next three or four months whether to stay on the show beyond season No. 5. ``ER'' is currently in its fourth season.

Earlier this week, ``ER'' made big news as Warner Bros. and NBC announced a new three-year agreement worth a record $13 million an episode.

Clooney, who plays hunky Dr. Doug Ross, has one year remaining on his original five-year contract. The rest of the original cast has two years left on their contract; actors who joined the cast after the first year also signed five-year pacts.

``My assumption is he won't (be back),'' Wells said. ``He's been fairly clear in saying that he planned to honor his original commitment, that he wanted to pursue a feature career. That's his decision to make.''

Wells said that, on a personal level, he will miss Clooney if he leaves the show. But in ensemble shows like ``ER,'' the loss of one character does not necessarily spell doom. For instance, ``Law & Order'' has survived the loss of main characters portrayed by Sam Waterston and Christopher Noth without losing anything creatively or financially. Some would argue that ``NYPD Blue'' became a better show after Jimmy Smits replaced David Caruso.

Wells did not preclude the possibility of future Clooney guest appearances if he chooses to move on, just as Mandy Patinkin has continued to be an occasional presence on ``Chicago Hope.'' But, Wells said that he will not compromise the show for the gimmick.

``It has a great deal to do with storytelling and how he would be involved in the show,'' Wells said. ``It depends on how we would bring him back.''

Keith Marders

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

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PHOTO (1) A British animal aid worker lifts a tranquilized pig over a fence after it was caught Friday about a mile from the slaughterhouse it escaped.

(2) George Clooney

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(3) Osmond

(4) Kuralt