MOVIES - Feb. 18, 1987

Katharine Hepburn will be coming out with a book this fall chronicling the filming of “The African Queen,” the 1951 motion picture that paired her with Humphrey Bogart and was shot during three months in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and in Uganda. Hepburn, who will make her debut as an author with the book--tentatively titled “The Making of ‘The African Queen,’ or How I Went to Africa with Bogey, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind”--said she found writing a piece of cake. “You can do it sitting down,” the 77-year-old actress told the New York Times. “I sit in bed with a big breakfast and then I write. I like that.”