TV no longer golden to this girl

Washington Fans may be nostalgic, but Bea Arthur has no plans to do a reunion show for her two hit sitcoms, “Maude” and “The Golden Girls.”

“I absolutely refuse to do a reunion,” Arthur told AP Radio.

Arthur played Maude Findlay, the liberal scourge of television’s Archie Bunker, from 1972-78, and Dorothy Zbornak, the outspoken divorcee of “The Golden Girls,” from 1985 to 1992.

She chats and sings in “Bea Arthur on Broadway Just Between Friends,” which opens Sunday at the Booth Theatre and will run through March 24.

‘Accident’ brought actress fame

Berlin Italian actress Claudia Cardinale says a life in the movies spanning more than four decades has left her with no regrets.

Cardinale said it was a great honor to be presented the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear. “First of all, because (the fact) I’m making movies is just an accident. When they asked me, ‘Do you want to be in the movies?’ I said, ‘No’ and they insisted for six months.”

She has appeared in more than 100 movies and made-for-television productions, also working with directors Luchino Visconti, Klaus Kinski and Blake Edwards.

‘Good girl’ hairstyles abound

New York As designers offered a preview of fall 2002 during New York Fashion Week, well-known hairstylist Frederic Fekkai made some predictions about beauty trends.

Fekkai, who styled the models for the Diane von Furstenberg, Nicole Miller and Kenneth Cole shows, says hair will be soft, romantic and feminine.

“The beautiful trend will be to wear hair healthy and shiny, and not overdone,” Fekkai told The Associated Press. “There’ll be movement, curls and waves.”

More than 100 men’s and women’s collections, including the designs of Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Oscar de la Renta, were presented during Fashion Week, an eight-day event that ended Friday.

Conductor slated for Netherlands

Amsterdam, Netherlands Yakov Kreizberg, a Russian conductor who studied in the United States, has been appointed chief conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

Kreizberg, 41, will replace Hartmut Haenchen in September 2003, the orchestra announced Friday.

Kreizberg will conduct 27 concerts per season in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, or Concert Building, both with the Philharmonic and the affiliated chamber orchestra. He also will regularly lead the Netherlands Opera in the city’s Music Theater.

Kreizberg moved as a teen-ager to the United States in 1976 to study. He worked in Los Angeles for the Philharmonic Institute as assistant to Michael Tilson Thomas, who won two Grammys in 2000 conducting the San Francisco Symphony.