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THEODORA BOOKMAN, 61, of Locust Valley, executive director, Friends of the Arts. Since 1973, Teddy Bookman has transformed a neighborhood group raising money for band uniforms into a classy "presenter" of bigname music and dance with a budget of more than $1 million. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Itzhak Perlman are regulars. But Bookman's dream is to start a Long Island summer arts festival and teaching institute, a la Tanglewood. This may just be her year. "We hope in January to get approval of the site," Bookman said. "After that, there's no stopping us." Environmental and traffic studies and an artist's rendering of the open-air pavilion are complete. And the Friends have hired a high-powered fund-raising firm, which soon will try to empty cultural junkies' pockets. "Where we're located, the potential for audiences is greater than any other festival in the world," she said. TAYLOR DAYNE, 26, formerly of Baldwin, pop singing star.
Eighteen months ago, a singer with Long Island heavy metal bands implored a contact from a music publisher for songs to record - "throwaways, anything." The tape Leslie Wunderman was handed was "Tell It to My Heart" by fellow Islanders Seth Swirsky and Ernie Gold. She recorded it under the name of Taylor Dayne and the album went platinum, selling more than two million copies. Since then, she has toured Europe with Michael Jackson and received an American Music Awards nomination as best new artist of 1988. This year, she'll release a second album, with some songs she wrote. She still lives on Long Island (where, she won't say, because fans make things "a little nuts at times"), and she'll continue a grueling touring schedule. "It's been one long year," she said. "But it's a dream come true and I wouldn't have it any other way." Harry Chapin, Billy Joel, Dee Snider (a Twisted Sister), Joan Jett, Debbie Gibson - will Taylor Dayne be Long Island's next pop superstar?
LYNN E. DELISI, M.D., 44, of Roslyn, associate professor of psychiatry, University Hospital, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
DeLisi spends some of her days talking to teenagers who seemed perfectly normal - until a sudden onset of schizophrenia sent them reeling. "Maybe someone has just gone off to college," she...