By Army Archerd
Daily Variety - Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004

GOOD MORNING: Thanks to "All My Children's" executive producer Julie Hanan Carruthers, Tonya Pinkins says she can continue her role of Livia Frye Cudahy on the soap by winging to N.Y. on Mondays from her starring role at the Ahmanson in Tony Kushner's "Caroline, or Change." The series will combine several of her segs in one day so Tonya can return to the legiter on Tuesdays. Pinkins, who was Tony-nominated for this role on B'way last season, says the L.A. bow at the Ahmanson "is the mountaintop of my experience." And she's been with the show since its bow in a 250-seat Gotham house.... Gordon Davidson had long sought to bring the show to L.A. and when "Wonderful Town" fell out, he brought it in - until Dec. 26. ... Pinkins, a single mother of four, had also doubled onstage in "Jelly's Last Stand" when doing "Children." She's also writing "Get Over Yourself," will teach weekends at the Omega institute and will star in a one-woman show for the Harold Arlen Centennial at Lincoln Center. She says her role models are (the late) Larry Kramer, Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda and Shirley MacLaine. She's met the first three and hopes to meet MacLaine "to talk about spirituality" ... Tony Kushner, who winged out for the L.A. bow, is back in N.Y. and working on a musical with "Caroline's" Jeanine Tesori. It's set in New York in the early 20th century. He's working with Steven Spielberg on the screenplay of the aftermath of the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich