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They Can Argue Until The Cows Come Home

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

You’ve no doubt noticed those pro-moo magazine ads featuring the likes of Lauren Bacall, Isabella Rossellini and Nastassja Kinski proudly sporting “milk mustaches.”

You probably haven’t seen the response from anti-fat crusader Phil Sokolof, featuring a milkmustached mother with the caption: “Would you let your child eat nine strips of bacon a day? Three glasses of 2 percent milk have 9 grams of saturated fat, the same amount as nine strips of cooked bacon!”

Magazines refused to run the ad, although a version appeared in some newspapers.

Charlie Decker, executive director of the Milk Processors Promotion Board, accused Sokolof of running a “scare campaign” and “exploiting women’s fears about weight … You can drink 2 percent milk and still be on a low-fat diet.”

Loose talk

Chris O’Donnell, on his role as Robin in “Batman Forever” (in Movieline magazine): “I showed up for the first costume fitting and they threw me this thong jockstrap and said, ‘Put this on.’ I thought, ‘Oh my God, what have I gotten myself into?”’

Maybe he’d better start getting to bed earlier

Jay Leno turns 45 today.

Other than that, Mr. Brown had no comment

After Whitney Houston hubby Bobby Brown and his buddies were arrested in Florida following a bar brawl Wednesday, Brown urinated inside a police car and gouged four-letter words into the upholstery.

No one to blame, it’s just a shame, that’s all

Relationships on the rocks: Olivia Newton-John and actor Matt Lattanzi, who parted amicably after 11 years of marriage; Jim Carrey and Lauren Holly (“Picket Fences”), who fears he might dump her like he left his wife, and British rocker Phil Collins and second wife Jill, whom he’s finally divorcing after faxing a letter almost a year ago saying: “I am so sick and tired of your attitude, I will not be coming back.”

Actually, Traci still has a lot to learn about fire

On the brighter side, things are heating up between the Lyle Lovett-less Julia Roberts and the Cindy Crawford-divested Richard Gere. And former X-rated teen queen Traci Lords (“Melrose Place”), on the rebound from former Madonna boy toy John Enos, has hooked up with Porno for Pyros frontman Perry Farrell.

If that’s the case, it really must be magic

Despite an 18-month engagement with no wedding date in sight, illusionist David Copperfield insists his betrothal to supermodel Claudia Schiffer is no publicity stunt. Copperfield told USA Today: “The relationship hasn’t affected my career one iota - it hasn’t earned me one more dollar or one more rating point.”

His main competition, of course, is Seinfeld

Macaulay Culkin, age 14, is seeing an older woman - 17-year-old actress-singer Sarah Sebestyen. They made mushy-face Monday night at Manhattan’s Tatou Club until Culkin kissed her good night at 11:30 and went home. Alone.

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