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hel ley Long left TV's "Cheers" S several seasons back to pursue a big-screen career. She didn't quite catch it. Now she's heading back to the medium that brought her fame. Next month, Long begins taping a pi• lot for CBS titled "Good Advice." In it, Long plays a marriage coun- selor with an unfaithful husband. Among the other characters in this sit-com-to-be are a divorce law- yer and a chiropractor. Yes, yes, I know, but it doesn't sound any worse — or any better — than most of what's on TV, and Long is very fun- ny. Well see. Shelley Long will starlis the new CBS sit-corn 'Good Adyice' • Insiders at the FBI haven't been too terribly upset about Oliver stores in trench coats, dark glasses Stone's "JFK," even though it and beads of sweat. doesn't make them look very good. It's only a movie, after all. But nerves are rather frayed over a coming book • My first call yesterday was from about the Federal Bureau of Investi- Tri-Star's Dennis Higgins, letting us gation. It is titled "The Insider —The know that while the studio appreci- FBI's Undercover 'Wiseguy' Goes ates my concern over "Bugsy's" box Public" by Donald Goddard (Pocket office, my concern is premature and Books). unwarranted. This work concerns the exploits "We had an excellent weekend 1 f Billy Breen, an ex-cop and ex-con with 'Bugsy' — it's performing very ho has, for the past 30 years, work- well," said Higgins. ed as a free-lance operative, gather- Well, naturally. Who has ever ing evidence against some of the na- known Warren Beatty to have per- tion's most elusive and dangerous formance problems? criminals — murderers, drug deal- ers, arms smugglers. • On the eve of the dissolution of the Reportedly Breen and author Soviet Union, a Russian publisher ac- Goddard shred the FBI's holier-than- quired the rights to — of all things - thou, truth-justice-and-the-Ameri- Christopher Andersen's "Madonna can-way image, exposing previously Unauthorized." unpublicized faults, weaknesses and Coincidence? I think not! tactics. Ellen Levine, Andersen's agent, Nick Pileggi, author of "Wise- truck a deal with Khudozhestven- Iguy," has written an intro to "The In- aya Literatura to unleash 200,000 sider," stating that the book is "re- opies of the Life and Times of Her- ; quired reading" for anybody con- elf on the unsuspecting inhabitants ' cerned with crime and the FBI's abil- f the Commonwealth of Indepen- ity to cope with it. (So, that means all dent States. Andersen told jaded of us, right?) Westerners more than we ever need- This expose will be on book- ed to know about Madonna — just shelves by the end of the week — imagine the effect of her adventures I just look for the line of guys at book- over there! 4-...._