NEWS LITE : PARTON REWARDS FANS FOR DEVOTION.

Dolly Parton to her fan club: Get lost. Please. The country singer-actress is disbanding her Dollywood Ambassadors club in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and refunding annual membership dues, which were used to fund Dollywood Foundation projects. ``It has always bothered me to profit from your devotion,'' she told members in a New Year's Day letter. ``Many of you are donating your hard-earned money because you care for me . . . not because you believed in the programs of my foundation.'' The club, founded 10 years ago, handled mail-order merchandise and provided advance tickets to benefit concerts.

Man who paid dues lists L.A.'s flaws

Movie producer Scott Rudin (``Clueless,'' ``Mother,'' ``The First Wives Club,'' ``Ransom'') says he hates L.A. because of ``all those people you really don't want to talk to or don't want to see, don't want to have dinner with. And the people who pick the movies are not in this world, by and large. They don't understand who the audience is. They see their movies in screening rooms where they return their phone calls. They don't go to theaters . . . don't pay eight bucks . . . don't stand in line . . . don't watch trailers.''

Fab Four auction: talk about revolution

``All You Need is Love,'' the Beatles sang in the 1967 summer of love, at a concert that launched global television broadcasts.

Thirty years later, the Beatles will be part of another innovation in television - and this time, all you need is cash.

A March 22 satellite auction of Beatles memorabilia will mark the debut of a British-based auction channel, London's Bonhams auction house said Tuesday.

Bonhams hopes up to 25 million viewers will tune in to watch bidding on Beatles guitars and other souvenirs, auction house manager Christopher Elwes said Tuesday.

The Beatles' live broadcast June 24, 1967, was the first global television link-up. It reached an estimated 400 million people.

Time zone differences mean the Beatles auction will not be broadcast in the United States. To make bidding in Tokyo and London mutually convenient, the March 22 auction will be held at 9 a.m. British time - 6 p.m. Tokyo time - a commercially unviable 1 a.m. in Los Angeles.

Walters gets good inauguration seat

Barbara Walters' boyfriend is the rich and well coiffed Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (and, by the way, one of Elizabeth Taylor's ex-husbands).

This explains why ``Baba'' rode from the White House to the Capitol in the president's procession, and got to sit just behind and to the left of the Clintons at the inauguration. It was a date.

``I especially loved being in the first car in the motorcade,'' Walters told The New York Times, ``hearing people call my name and remembering how to wave. I felt like Queen Elizabeth. I may start running for something. Maybe assistant dogcatcher.''

Interviewed on details of her date by Peter Jennings, Walters said she chatted with the Clintons before the ceremony and that Clinton told her he'd written 12 drafts of his speech.

Not enough green

Girl Scouts want more

from cookies

Girl Scout troops in Mount Laurel want more dough from their cookies this year.

Denied an extra dime per box, leaders of 27 troops in southern New Jersey have begun a sales slowdown in protest.

The move appears unprecedented in 61 years of annual cookie sales by the 2.5 million-member organization, which sold 174 million boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos and other treats in the United States and its territories last year.

``I'm not aware of that at all any place in the country,'' Marianne Ilaw, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America in New York, said Tuesday. ``Things seem to be going well'' with this year's sale.

Not in Mount Laurel, a middle-class Philadelphia suburb of 31,000.

``We feel (the council) has been taking advantage of them,'' Snyder said. ``They need to give us more money and they need to operate on less.''

Eight troops in Mount Laurel are ignoring the slowdown. The sale will end Feb. 17.

Stamp act 

King of the ax, wives will be commemorated

Off with their heads, and into the stamp album.

Henry VIII, the British monarch famed for solving marital problems with an ax, will appear on a series of stamps with his six wives marking the 450th anniversary of his death, Britain's Royal Mail said Monday.

Henry, also noted for his girth, will get a large square stamp; his six wives will get slender issues.

The king, who split Britain from the Roman Catholic Church, married six women:

Catherine of Aragon, marriage annulled after she failed to bear him a male heir, causing the split with the church; she bore him Mary, who ruled as Mary I;

Anne Boleyn, beheaded in the Tower of London following accusations of adultery; she bore him Elizabeth, who ruled as Elizabeth I;

Jane Seymour, died soon after giving birth to Henry's longed-for male heir, Edward, who ruled as Edward VI;

Anne of Cleves. The political marriage was annulled because Henry thought her ugly;

Catherine Howard. Beheaded in the Tower of London for adultery;

Catherine Parr. Survived him.

It is the first time all seven historical figures have been released on the same series of stamps.

Clinton plays self in cameo

President Clinton played a cameo role Tuesday in a TV movie about a dying teen-ager whose wish to meet the president came true.

In real life, said White House spokeswoman Mary Ellen Glynn, it happens pretty often.

She estimated that the president has met 20 to 30 dying children after arrangements were made through childhood foundations that cater to seriously ill kids, such as the Make a Wish Foundation.

The movie, ``A Child's Wish,'' aired Tuesday night on CBS. Clinton taped his part on a Saturday in May.

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Photo: (1) In London, Lauren Keith, 11, holds an enlarged stamp of Catherine Howard and actor Keith Michell has one of Henry VIII.

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