1987 MOMENTS IN THE ARTS

* Feb. 14: Humorist and best-selling author Garrison Keillor tells radio listeners he will leave Lake Wobegon, his fictional Minnesota broadcast home since 1980.

* May 12: Woody Allen leaves the safety of Manhattan to appear before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on the colorization of black-and-white films. Allen calls the dastardly idea “sinful.”

* Sept. 8: Beautiful music. Los Angeles jazz radio station KKGO agrees to pay $4,600 in back rent to save ailing clarinetist and big band leader Woody Herman, 74, from a Hollywood Hills eviction. Herman died a few weeks later, on Oct. 29.

* Sept. 11: Technical difficulties. CBS News anchor Dan Rather stalks off the set after learning that coverage of the U.S. Open tennis tournament will delay his newscast and forces the network to go black for six minutes.

* Oct. 27: Dawn Steel is named president of Columbia Pictures.