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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 21, 1990                   TAG: 9003212186
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Oprah Winfrey says her life has become a balancing act as she tries to find time to be host of her talk show, star in her new television series and run her $20 million production studio.

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, she films her TV talk show. Wednesday afternoons through Friday evenings, she plays matriarch Mattie Michael of "Brewster Place," set to make its debut on ABC next month. On weekends, she attends to business at her new Harpo production studio in Chicago.

At night, she gets four, maybe five hours of sleep.

"I'm not trying to say it's been an easy thing," Winfrey said. "But I think that I have managed to handle this all very well because I have insisted upon having control."

\ Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, will bring together other Nobel laureates, human rights champions and statesmen in a high-powered conference in Oslo, Norway, to evaluate the darker side of the spread of democracy.

Wiesel organized the conference to assess the risk of long-supressed hatreds surfacing in societies that abruptly became free. The gathering, set for Aug. 26-29, will be arranged with the Norwegian Nobel Instutute, a Wiesel spokesman said.

Among 35 leaders to accept invitations so far are 1983 Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa of Poland, French President Francois Mitterrand, Czech President Vacel Havel and Jimmy Carter.

Wiesel won the Nobel Prize for his writings examining the Holocaust.

\ Stirling Moss the former British race-car driver who won 222 races, including 16 Grand Prix events, suffered a broken thigh when he was hit by a car while riding his motor scooter in London Monday.

It may take six months for the 60-year-old former champion to recover from the injury.

\ Jane Pauley's popularity has soared since her departure from the "Today" show. It has her worried.

"Most TV stars are larger than life," she said. "But my guess is that viewers identify with me rather than stand back and admire. So you don't want to pump me up to be a great big star because then you've changed me. This could be tricky."

by CNB