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If She’d Passed Go, She Would’ve Gotten $200

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

At a Medal of Honor Society dinner, Denzel Washington received the Bob Hope National Artist Award - while “Courage Under Fire” co-star Meg Ryan got a Monopoly game.

“I can’t figure out why,” Ryan told talk host Rosie O’Donnell, who replied: “I think they dissed you, Meg.”

Not so, said event coordinator Carlton Sherwood, who pointed out it was a $550 Monopoly game from the Franklin Mint: “She didn’t get slapped with a Parcheesi game, a cheesy Parcheesi game.”

Host Bob McMahon added that Ryan wasn’t invited to begin with and the game was an engraved gift for her 4-year-old son. “She even played with it, with Denzel’s wife, on their flight back,” he said.

Ryan’s publicist later called her remarks to O’Donnell “a joke.”

Loose talk

Scottish-born Ewan McGregor (“Trainspotting”), on his particular talents (in Paper magazine): “No one can swear like a Scotsman. It rolls off the tongue so beautifully.”

Those temper tantrums were never his fault

Ilie Nastase turns 50 today.

Fortunately, Sly had flown the coup

A night watchman at Sylvester Stallone’s $8 million Miami estate was stabbed and shot early Wednesday after apparently foiling a break-in attempt by one of Stallone’s day security guards, who was charged with attempted murder and burglary. The actor was in New York filming the movie “Copland” at the time.

It seemed like they were above scale

From the Miami Herald comes the calculation that Demi Moore bares her breasts for a total of 47 seconds in “Striptease” - which, given her $12.5 million salary for the film, works out to $265,957.44 per second.

But who would believe that joker? , Still hungry for more sci-fi fodder following “Independence Day?” Hang on ‘til the holidays and Tim Burton’s “Mars Attacks!,” an alien-invasion extravaganza with a comic twist. Michael Keaton, who was Burton’s “Batman,” turned down a part in the picture but calls it “the funniest script I’ve ever read … I played golf with Jack Nicholson a few weeks ago, and he said it’s turning out fantastic.”

Sounds like real hair-raising stuff

Basketball star Dennis Rodman is set to star opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in the big-budget action-thriller “The Colony.” Rodman will play a character named Yaz, who helps former CIA agent Van Damme escape from a prison for ex-spies.

All the theaters will want to book ‘em

The latest TV series to hit the silver screen: “Hawaii Five-O,” which will get a $50 million-plus treatment from producer George Litto (“Blow Out,” “Dressed To Kill.”) Series stars James “Danno” MacArthur and Kam Fong are considering parts in the film, Litto said.

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The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino