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DATE: TUESDAY, March 13, 1990                   TAG: 9003133162
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PEOPLE

In April's McCall's magazine, Black, now the U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, says the revolution "will be remembered as unique among the upheavals of 1989 for its sense of purpose, its discipline and the sheer joyousness of its spirit."

Black, 61, said she has been warmly greeted on trips through the country by crowds who remember her films.

"In 1937, there were Shirley Temple fan clubs all over Czechoslovakia," she said, adding that she met the founder of those clubs: "I thought he would be an old man. But he wasn't at all. He must have been a child then, too."

Rob Lowe says he's worried about how moviegoers will react to his first appearance on the big screen since a videotape of his sexual escapades was splashed across TV screens.

"There's no way that you can know how embarrassing it was," Lowe says in the March 19 issue of People. "No matter what adjective I choose, it would be trivializing it."

Lowe says he went underground to escape the publicity surrounding an X-rated videotape of himself and two other women - one of whom was a minor - made in an Atlanta hotel room in 1988.

He doesn't dispute that he videotaped his guests and says they knew they were being recorded. He denies, however, having sex with the 16-year-old. A lawsuit is pending in that case.

The district attorney in Atlanta chose not to prosecute Lowe. In exchange, Lowe agreed to do 20 hours of community service.

With the release of his new movie, "Bad Influence," Lowe says he is hoping the public will forgive and forget.

"I'm real nervous," said Lowe, who turns 26 today.

Ralph Waite, who played the Blue Ridge Mountains patriarch on the long-running television series "The Waltons," wants a seat in Congress.

Waite, 61, of Rancho Mirage, Calif., filed papers to enter the 37th Congressional District race. The self-described moderate Democrat hopes to unseat Republican Rep. Al McCandless of La Quinta.

Waite said he hoped to capitalize on his role as John Walton in the family series that ran from 1972 to 1980, to sway a heavily Republican district.

"I'm glad for that background and image," Waite said.