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DATE: SATURDAY, January 15, 1994                   TAG: 9401150138
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PEOPLE

"Basically, me. I should have stayed with pictures," he said in an interview Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America."

The "Chevy Chase Show" was canceled 5 1/2 weeks after its September debut on the Fox network.

"There are myriad things that one could complain about that simply wouldn't look very good to America, so I won't," Chase said in his first broadcast interview since the cancellation.

"Some things work, some things don't," he said. "Fox apparently felt that after five weeks they had seen plenty of me and, frankly, I had seen plenty of them."

The mother of child AIDS victim Ryan White wants Indiana lawmakers to ban trading cards with her son's picture that include condoms in the packages.

"He should be known more for what he taught us about living and to respect those with diseases," Jeanne White-Ginder said.

Eclipse Enterprises of Forestville, Calif., began selling its AIDS Awareness cards last February.

White-Ginder is supporting a bill in Indiana that would prohibit the use of celebrities' likenesses without written consent from them or from their estate.

Ryan was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13 after acquiring the virus from blood products used to treat hemophilia. He sued for and won the right to attend school with other children. He took part in AIDS education efforts until his 1990 death.

Milton Berle is man enough to discuss that unfortunate encounter he had with RuPaul on the MTV video awards show. In the February issue of Vanity Fair, Mr. Television dresses down the upstart drag queen: "Well, MTV asked me if I would make an appearance, teaming me up with . . . what's his name? Rude-Paul? Because in the '40s and '50s I wore dresses in shtick and doing bits. So this person . . . what's his name? Rude-Paul, this female impersonator - I don't know how long he's been in show business, maybe two months. . . . So the first time I met him was when we walked on. My line was `I used to wear dresses, but I don't anymore.' And he was supposed to say, `Why don't you?' And my answer was, `Because it's a drag.' But instead he said, `What do you wear, diapers?' Being a reference in my mind that I'm a little over-aged, that I possibly pee in my pants. I was ready to hit him with a left hook to the stomach, right on-camera." Sadly, the 85-year-old comedian opted not to.

A former movie executive filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Maximilian Schell Thursday in Los Angeles, saying the Oscar-winning actor made improper advances toward her during work on a cable TV movie.

Diana Botsford, 32, a former vice president at Kushner-Locke Co., said that during work on "Candles in the Dark," the 63-year-old Schell, who was the film's director and star, asked her to bathe with him and made graphic comments about her body in front of others.

Harvard is $18.3 million richer now that stock in a ski resort a Colorado businessman gave to his alma mater has been sold.

Whipple VanNess Jones, 84, founder of the Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp., made the gift in 1992 in the form of stock that was transferred to a university-managed charitable trust.

Last month, the stock was sold to a developer who bought the ski area, Harvard announced Thursday.

Under the terms of the gift, Jones and his wife will receive income until their deaths. Then, the money will be released to Harvard to create an unrestricted endowment for the arts and sciences faculty.