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          CAROLINE FENTRESS, daughter of Advantage's LEE
     FENTRESS, was married over the weekend to actor CHRIS
     O'DONNELL (Mult., 4/21)....ACCEPTABLE, the horse owned by
     Yankees Owner GEORGE STEINBRENNER, broke a bone in his leg
     and will miss the Kentucky Derby (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 4/20).
     ....ANDRE AGASSI married actress BROOKE SHIELDS over the
     weekend in CA (Mult., 4/20).  No. 5 of David Letterman's Top
     Ten List of Things Overheard at the Wedding, "Could someone
     give Andre a boost so he can kiss the bride?" (CBS, 4/21).
     ....BET CEO ROBERT JOHNSON, profiled in USA TODAY, said he
     hopes to end the millennium by doubling his company's value
     to $1B by "leveraging" BET's brand name (USA TODAY, 4/21).
     ...OKSANA BAIUL was featured on "Dateline" by Jane Pauley. 
     Pauley, on Baiul after winning a gold medal in '94: "Oksana
     was the darling of the moment.  She moved to America, and
     went pro with a line of clothing, a book tour, visions of
     acting, and a professional skating contract worth an
     estimated $1.5 million.  It was all perhaps too much too
     fast."  Baiul: "I wanted to have some fun, because, of
     course, I'm a normal teenage kid" (NBC, 4/20).  

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