People

By Belinda Luscombe

NEXT, THEY POSE FOR IN STYLE

Maybe PEARL JAM felt its campaign to become less popular was getting too successful. The grunge band, which maintained a no-interviews, no-videos, no-selling-tickets-the-normal-way frame of mind even before singer Eddie Vedder's appearance on the cover of TIME five years ago, seems to have relented. Not only has it released Single Video Theory, a home video of the band rehearsing for its current Yield album tour, but, horror of promotional horrors, a clip for Do the Evolution will soon pop up on MTV. The band released a statement about its new work, saying, "Basically, we've tried to make a good stoner video."

INTERN-AL JUSTICE

The interns of the world have had enough. They may work for little or no pay, they may do the most menial tasks and they may be content to have their efforts go unrecognized, but they will not be made fun of on national television! Or at least one of them won't. Carrie Photsios, a former intern at the Justice Department, is suing JAY LENO over a joke he made using a photo of her standing next to President Clinton. The picture appeared in a recruitment brochure for Albion College. Leno remarked that the literature mentioned opportunities for "hands-on experience." Photsios, who claims she suffered "embarrassment, humiliation and indignity," is suing Leno and three others, including the station that aired the show, for $75,000. Leno's taking President Clinton's first approach: not commenting.

APRES TELETUBBIES, LE DELUGE

The Brits, who have had mixed success selling TV to the U.S., have a new secret weapon: NODDY. A small wooden puppet whose friends have names like Big Ears and BUMPY DOG, he has proved irresistible to generations of British kids, so the BBC has made a U.S. version. Want to talk production values? The American show adds cute-beyond-belief child actors, big musical numbers and, of course, star power. CAROL KANE does a turn as the Tooth Fairy. How much does she pay? "Teeth are very expensive," she says. "I don't think you can leave less than a dollar."

THE SECRETS OF ANNE FRANK

ANNE FRANK's family, when in hiding, lived in less than ideal conditions, so it's not surprising that Anne's parents' marriage had its ignoble moments. Nor is it surprising that what Frank wrote about such moments did not make the final version of her much loved and much published diary. The discovery of five previously unknown pages of Anne's writings, which are reportedly "very critical" of her parents' relationship, nevertheless sent shock waves through the publishing world. The pages are being held by a former employee of the Anne Frank Foundation, who says OTTO FRANK, the only member of the family to survive the death camps, gave them to him for safekeeping. Once retrieved, the pages will be included in the next edition.

ROCK WON'T ROLL

The scene: a perfectly pleasant press luncheon at the HBO offices. CHRIS ROCK is holding forth to a room of journalists about his 13 new TV shows--and sex. He says it's always good material. Having effortlessly charmed the room, he takes the last question from Tracii McGregor, an editor at The Source, a hip-hop magazine. She tells Rock that his photo in whiteface in Vanity Fair was jarring to many of her black friends and asks him what was behind it. "I'm a clown. I'm a comedian," Rock says. "Do you want me to be Dick Gregory?" Yvette Russell of Essence joins in, saying the pictures pained the average black person. Rock is not joking anymore. "It's sad that Jim Carrey can do things I'll never be able to do because of people like you," he says. "Part of me is never going to come out because of people's closed minds." Guess those preshow nerves can get to anyone.