MOVIES - April 27, 1987

Actor Griffin O’Neal began serving 416 hours of community service over the weekend for his part in the 1986 boating death in Maryland of the son of film director Francis Coppola. O’Neal, 23 and the son of actor Ryan O’Neal, spent Friday manning a toll-free boating-safety telephone line at the headquarters of the Boat Owners Assn. of the United States in Alexandria, Va. The young O’Neal was also to film a public service announcement Saturday for the nonprofit boating association, detailing his feelings about the accident that killed Gian Carlo Coppola, 23, on Memorial Day last year.