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They Hate You, Liz, Really, Really Hate You

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

Forget “Braveheart.” The real story is “Showgirls,” which won a record seven Razzies - Golden Raspberry Awards for the year’s worst movies, to be precise.

Elizabeth Berkley pulled down two, for worst actress and worst new star. The other, er, honors: worst picture, worst director (Paul Verhoeven), worst screenplay (Joe Eszterhaus), worst original song (“Walk Into the Wind”) and worst screen couple (“any combination of two people or two body parts.”) The previous record was the six Razzies collected by the Pia Zadora film “The Lonely Lady” in 1984.

Pauly Shore (“Jury Duty”) was named worst actor and Dennis Hopper (“Waterworld”) worst supporting actor, while Madonna earned her fourth Razzie as worst supporting actress for “Four Rooms.”

Loose talk

Antonio Banderas, reflecting on his romantic nature (in People): “I was attached recently to a pair of pants. I just loved them. And I know I have my closet full and that I have to throw something away. But I can’t! I am tormented by this.”

Here’s wishing her - what else? - one sweet day

Mariah Carey turns 26 today.

They really think they can palm that off?

Madonna and Antonio Banderas are in Hungary this week to finish filming the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Evita” - which, of course, is set in Argentina, where most of the movie was shot. Director Alan Parker said some sections of Budapest resemble parts of Buenos Aires, although workers had to add plastic palm fronds to the bare trees.

It will probably be the same bat-time

“ER” star George Clooney is all aflutter over his upcoming big-screen role as Batman, following in the footsteps of Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer in the fourth film of the Caped Crusader series. “My God, it’s the biggest franchise ever! Nothing can compare,” Clooney said, adding: “I’m going to have the time of my life.”

He seems to have a real altitude problem

Eric Douglas, whose dad, Kirk, won a lifetime achievement Academy Award, is working on a lifetime achievement of his own. For the third time, the youngest Douglas son has been arrested for disrupting an airline flight, this time for letting his dog run loose in the cabin and rolling up blankets and throwing them at attendants. Charges were dropped in his last escapade last summer, when he allegedly squeezed an attendant’s buttocks and insisted his dog sit on his lap.

Just think of him as the other ‘why me?’

“Babe,” which was largely overlooked at the Oscars, may be simply misunderstood. In the Los Angeles Times, producer George Miller compared the plucky little pig to another of his creations, Mad Max of “Road Warrior” fame: “They’re both individuals wandering in unknown landscapes trying to find meaning, overcome a number of obstacles … and through courage effect change in the world they inhabit. It’s essentially the hero story told again.”

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