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

DATE: SATURDAY, February 12, 1994                   TAG: 9402120168
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: B-9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

PEOPLE

Norman and her chauffeur were entering Boston's Symphony Hall for rehearsal Monday night when someone broke a window of a Shawmut Bank branch across the street. The diva rushed inside the hall and asked a guard to call police.

A man was charged with breaking and entering, but police said he probably wasn't trying to rob the bank. He may have been looking for a warm place to sleep.

The bank's president, Allen Sanborn, made Norman an honorary security guard and gave her a badge. Shawmut also is making a $1,000 donation to the symphony's youth concerts in her name.

Actress Liv Ullmann, who will help open and close the Winter Olympics, hopes the Games will be a vehicle for peace in war-torn Bosnia.

Ullmann, an ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund, said at a news conference Friday that UNICEF and the International Olympic Committee have agreed to promote peace initiatives and improved health care for children.

She called on Olympic athletes to join the cause.

"They are the ones who know how to compete in friendliness, those who do, and perhaps they can teach us something," Ullmann said.

A radio station is dropping its pledge not to play Barry Manilow songs.

KBIG-FM agreed Thursday to replace the promos, settling a lawsuit filed by an entertainment company that owns marketing rights to Manilow's name.

The Los Angeles-area radio station said the ads were meant to differentiate it from soft-rock competitor KOST-FM.

"It was never our intention to upset Barry Manilow at all," said Kari Johnson Winston, the station's general manager and vice president. "I frankly thought that, since we were saying where he is played, that that would be a positive, but he was unhappy about it."

Eleven-year-old Anna Paquin has never seen all of "The Piano," for which she earned an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress.

Anna, who plays the impish daughter of a mute woman, is being kept out of the theater by her parents, who don't want her to see the film's sex scenes.

Her parents said when the film came out they would only let her see some of the scenes.

Anna, who was nominated Wednesday for the Oscar, also stars in a series of television commercials for MCI Telecommunications.