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

DATE: MONDAY, January 10, 1994                   TAG: 9401100004
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PEOPLE

Frankly, my dear, they're not Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. But then as British actress Joanne Whalley-Kilmer put it: "We're not doing a remake."

She will play Scarlett O'Hara in the upcoming $40 million miniseries "Scarlett," which picks up where the legendary 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" left off.

Starring opposite Timothy Dalton's Rhett Butler, Whalley-Kilmer said she's not being asked to copy Leigh, "who is, incidentally, one of my idols."

Dalton, a former James Bond, said he was "quite used to comparisons in my life."

And shrugging off skepticism about Britons playing both roles, Dalton joked, "It's better than having any damned Yankees playing the parts."

Oliver Stone's next movie, says Entertainment Weekly, will be "Noriega," based on the life of former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. The film will probably star Al Pacino as the little general who could.

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani won't allow his 7-year-old son to appear on David Letterman's "Late Show," so Letterman will have to settle for the mayor himself.

Giuliani will appear on the CBS show tonight, when he's bound to take some kidding about his precocious son Andrew. Since Giuliani was upstaged by the boy at his inaugural last weekend, Letterman has been on a tear.

Andrew was the talk of the town after he joined his father at the lectern, recited the oath of office and repeated some of Giuliani's key lines, pumping his little fist for emphasis. Letterman said Giuliani had "promised to restrain crime, he's promised to restrain spending, and he's promised to restrain his son Andrew."

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