
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, September 9, 1993                   TAG: 9309090123
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

The world knows that Mia Farrow no longer thinks very much of Woody Allen, but she says in an interview published in Dublin that she wasn't wild about his films, either.

"I mean, Woody's films were all so - insular," she said in an interview published in the Irish Independent.

"He had his own family of actors, and everyone knew his movies took up most of a year. So I never got the chance to do anything else," Farrow said.

She was in Ireland for the filming of "Widow's Peak," directed by John Irvine and co-starring Natasha Richardson and Jim Broadbent.

\ Is it just coincidence that the latest Rolling Stone, Issue 666 (!!!), includes an interview with that devil-may-care, heavy-metal madman Ozzy Osbourne? Dispensing with recent rumors that he's suddenly found religion, Osbourne says, "I'm not a born-again Christian, just the same as I'm not a Satanist." What he is, however, these days is sober, and that's been a life-changing occurrence. "I no longer get stoned, and I no longer drink. So I'm more clearheaded now," he says, expressing his frustration at not being able to kick his cigarette habit, too. "I'm not one of these holy rollers where it's like because I've stopped drinking the entire world's gotta be sober. It's just that I like myself a lot better for not drinking." So does he regret his less-than-health-conscious years? "Absolutely not. If I had to do it all again, I would do it exactly the same way. I believe that everything happens for a purpose, and that our lives are plotted out."

\ Director Herbert Ross, known for such films as "Steel Magnolias" and "The Goodbye Girl," is staging his first opera, Puccini's "La Boheme."

The romantic tragedy opens today at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles for seven performances. "I direct in theater, and because of my background in ballet, I think musically. The challenge is to meet this fusion of drama and music that the opera represents," Ross said recently during rehearsals.

Ross, 67, was a dancer in the 1940s, then choreographed and directed on Broadway. He came to Hollywood in 1964.

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