Daily Briefing

CHILDBIRTH VIEW HIT

-- In Los Angeles, a TV anchorwoman and activists for the disabled complained to the Federal Communications Commission about a radio show that questioned the woman's right to bear a child knowing it could be disfigured.

Bree Walker Lampley, an anchor for KCBS-TV, and other complainants contend the July 22 KFI-AM broadcast was biased, inaccurate and unfairly singled out Lampley for attack.

Lampley has ectrodactylism, the fusing of bones in the hands and feet. Her son by husband Jim Lampley, also a KCBS news anchor, has since been born, and the child has the condition.

ACTRESS IN TROUBLE

-- Leonette Scott, who played Tisha in the movie, "Boyz N the Hood," pleaded guilty Wednesday in St. Paul, Minn., federal court for conspiring to distribute cocaine. Prosecutors said they would seek less than the recommended five-year sentence because the actress is cooperating with authorities and has implicated two other suspects. Scott, 28, was stopped May 16 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport with two pounds of cocaine taped to her armpits.

BANNER DECISION

-- In Glens Falls, N.Y., a banner promoting the musical, "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," will say just that, after all.

The Common Council, in a crowded room and under the glare of television lights, voted unanimously to allow the banner, fully intact, to hang across the main street of this city 50 miles north of Albany.

By not hanging the banner, "it would almost be like putting a pair of pants on (Michaelangelo's) David if it came to the Hyde Museum," said Councilman-at-Large John Brennan.

The theater group earlier had offered to compromise and change the wording to "The Best Little Blankhouse in Texas."