PEOPLE

SEEN & HEARD

Steven Bochco and his wife, actress Barbara Bosson, have reason to feel the Hill Street Blues. They have separated after 29 years of marriage, two children and several series in which they worked together. A spokesman for the Emmy-winning producer said the split was amicable and they would like to be left alone.

Oops. Strom Thurmond became Storm Thurmond after finding he'd penned the foreword to a book that says the government covered up a 1947 UFO landing at Roswell, N.M. The book was written by a former Thurmond aide and Army intelligence officer. The Senator said he thought it was to be a memoir.

SPORT, BUT NOT SPORTING

It was supposed to be a track triumph, but it ended up a tacky travesty. To prove who was the fastest, after months of sniping, DONOVAN BAILEY, who won the 100-m Olympic gold medal, raced on a 150-m track against MICHAEL JOHNSON, who won the 200-m and 400-m gold medals. Bailey won after Johnson gave up halfway with an injury. But the battle didn't stop there. "He didn't pull up," said Bailey afterward. "He's a coward." Johnson's manager then accused Bailey's team of trying to injure his prize runner. Bailey apologized for his barbs, but they seemed meaner after Johnson pulled out of the national championships because of the injury. No wonder people only care about running events once every four years.

NEED MORE DI IN YOUR DIET?

The problem the world's media have with DIANA these days is that she's too photogenic to leave alone but there's precious little new or interesting to say about her. So July's Vanity Fair has taken a unique approach: it's running a story on what it's like to photograph her. What these snaps of an unguarded, somewhat tousled Di signify, claims VF, is that the former princess is ready to slough off the old and embrace the new. Further evidence is her decision, at her son William's suggestion, to auction off some old frocks for charity on June 25. This must mean she's looking to a new post-royal life where she won't need such possessions. Alternatively, it could just mean that she has a new stylist.

A PFEIFFER PFRAME-UP?

Most of the time, it must be fun to be MICHELLE PFEIFFER. But sometimes it can be a big drag. Like now. A Michigan plastics-factory manager, Lawrence Booker, claiming to be the father of Pfeiffer's adopted daughter Claudia Rose, has filed suit for $75,000, and he asserts that Pfeiffer and husband DAVID E. KELLEY lifted portions of his script Barrio Kids for the film Dangerous Minds. Bunch of hooey, says Pfeiffer's publicist. The adoption was closed, so Pfeiffer doesn't know who the biological parents are and they don't know who got their child. At the time the script was allegedly delivered, Minds was already in the can. Pfeiffer and Kelley plan to fight the suit and have hired a private detective to look into Booker.

TAKE HIS MONEY OR HIS MIND