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By Verne Gay. STAFF WRITER, Variety, By Barbara Schuler. Barbara Schuler is Newsday's Style editor

1997

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[Ellen] DeGeneres, say sources, will now be able to tape a scene in which her character, Ellen Morgan, is seen going into a bedroom with another woman. ABC had initially refused to allow the scene. The episode will air during November sweeps. Last week, DeGeneres told TV Guide that she was infuriated when ABC slapped an advisory label on the Oct. 8 episode, which displayed a kiss between Ellen Morgan and her heterosexual friend Paige (Joely Fisher). Such labels warn viewers that because of the subject matter, \"parental discretion is advised.\" She believed it was tantamount to censorship, adding the show got it \"because I'm gay.\" Princess Caroline [Kennedy Schlossberg] of Monaco, who won $100,000 in a libel suit against the German magazine Bunte last year, lost a second suit against the magazine the other day. The princess had sought a court ruling banning Bunte from publishing pictures of her while on vacation, on the tennis court or at a horse-riding event, saying they represented an invasion of her privacy. But a Hamburg court said in its ruling that since she is a public figure the princess must accept being the center of interest while out in public. Caroline won the suit last year against Bunte when the court found it had published a fictitious interview with her.

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