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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 6, 1994                   TAG: 9407060017
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PEOPLE

A Daily Express poll had 84 percent of respondents saying his reputation was intact. A BBC poll showed 83 percent believed Charles should be the next king. And on a TV call-in show, on which many people called for his resignation in January, 85 percent said he should stay as first in line for the throne.

Val Kilmer's ascendancy to the title role in the third "Batman" movie apparently has done in Rene Russo, who was to play Michael Keaton's love interest. Russo, in her late 30s, was thought to be too old to play opposite Kilmer, 34. No replacement has been named.

One rumored reason for Keaton's departure: He was ticked at being upstaged by "Batman" villains, such as Jack Nicholson's Joker, Danny DeVito's Penguin and Michelle Pfeiffer's Cat Woman, with Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones probable scene-stealers in the next episode.

Novelists Bobbie Ann Mason and Lewis Nordan and New York City writer John Berendt have won the 1994 Southern Book Awards, the Southern Book Critics Circle announced Tuesday in Lexington, Ky.

Mason and Nordan tied for the fiction award: Mason for her novel "Feather Crowns," and Nordan for his novel "Wolf Whistle." Berendt won the nonfiction award for "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," an account of a 1981 murder in Savannah, Ga.

The critics circle also announced that it would give its Distinguished Service Award for lifetime achievement to award-winning historian C. Vann Woodward, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University.

Former President Carter scaled new heights Tuesday with a climb of 12,385-foot Mount Fuji.

Carter, 69, is in Japan to participate in the opening next week of American Festival Japan '94, which highlights American culture and history.