Hepburn Writes: After years of reluctance, actress...

Hepburn Writes: After years of reluctance, actress Katharine Hepburn has decided to tell all about her legendary life, publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Friday. Knopf and Ballantine Books have jointly acquired world publishing rights to the actress’s work, to be published in hardcover in 1991. Describing her decision to write the book now, Hepburn said, “It’s later than you think.”

Keith Remembered: Artist Keith Haring will be remembered in a two-hour memorial service on May 4 at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. About 400 invitations were sent out by the Haring Foundation, but the service is open to the public. Speakers will include actor Dennis Hopper, actress Anne Magnuson, art critic Jeffrey Deitch, art dealer Tony Shafrazi and artist Kenny Scharf. Haring died of AIDS on Feb. 16 at age 31.

Elephant Love: Betsey Fowler, wife of Jim Fowler, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom co-star, has done a series of paintings to help fight the extinction of the African elephant. Fowler took up the animals’ cause after living among a herd during her husband’s research in Kenya, she said last week at a reception in Omaha, Neb. Fowler and her husband, a naturalist and conservationist, formed the Fowler Wildlife Assn. to help save the endangered species. She is selling prints of her work, with part of the proceeds going to help Richard Leakey, director of Kenya’s Department of Wildlife, to curb the poaching of elephants.

AIDS Quilt in D.C.: Millions of Americans saw the commemorative AIDS quilt on its nationwide tours. But Rep. Gerry Studds, (D-Mass.), was sure most members of Congress hadn’t seen it. So Studds and California Democrats Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman got authorization from the Speaker of the House to display the quilt, starting today in the Rotunda of the domed entrance to the Congressional Office Building in Washington. The quilt contains nearly 12,000 individual panels, each a memorial to one of the disease’s victims.