There’s No Tease Here: Demi Moore Wants $12 Million

Demi Moore will become the highest-paid actress in motion picture history if a deal in the works goes through as expected. Moore’s agents are close to finalizing talks with Castle Rock Entertainment for the “Disclosure” star to receive more than $12 million to star in “Striptease,” a suspense thriller set in the world of South Florida’s strip clubs.

The film is expected to start shooting in September after Moore wraps work on “The Juror” with Alec Baldwin.

Moore has been one of the highest-paid women in front of the camera for some time. Her asking price per film had reached $6 million to $7 million late last year. Most recently she starred in Warner Bros.’ “Disclosure.” She will next be seen in “The Scarlet Letter.”

`Frasier’ welcomes Sam

It’s a shameless ratings stunt. It’s also wonderful and funny when Ted Danson reprises his “Cheers” role as Sam Malone for Tuesday’s guest shot on “Frasier.” Having flown from Boston to his barroom buddy Frasier’s side in Seattle, Sam has a problem. A woman, of course. Then it turns out Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) has a problem with her, too. Any fan of “Cheers,” and especially viewers who don’t much care for “Frasier,” will be delighted with this half-hour reunion of two former castmates of the best sitcom of the past decade. This special episode of “Frasier” airs on NBC at 9 p.m. Tuesday.

`Melrose Place’ steamy

How hot is “Melrose Place”?

If phone calls responding to a Fox contest involving the show are any indication, pretty darn hot.

According to Fox, more than 11 million attempts were made last Monday night to get through on an 800-line set up to field calls for fans drooling over the grand prize: A walk-on appearance on the steamy Aaron Spelling series. Some 150,000 callers got through.

Winners from each time zone were chosen during the show and were called back - be still our hearts - by “MP” stars Andrew Shue and Courtney Thorne-Smith.

Pee-wee back on TV

All is forgiven.

So it would seem for Pee-wee Herman, aka Paul Reubens, who has been off the network airwaves since his 1991 bust for a too-public personal appearance in a Florida adult-movie theater.

The headline-making arrest virtually ended Pee-wee’s TV career, which until then had been directed right at the kiddies. CBS canceled his live-action Saturday morning show, and his movies were unofficially banned by the networks.

Now, though, it looks like the freeze-out is over. ABC has scheduled a March 4 airing of “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” one of the two smash Pee-wee feature films Reubens made before the Florida incident.

Ironically, ABC is using the 1985 movie as part of its Saturday “Family Movie” series.

“Big Adventure,” which last aired on the networks on CBS in 1988, features the childish Herman in a cross-country search for the rascals who stole his beautiful red bicycle. According to Nielsen, “Big Top Pee-wee,”

Reubens’ 1988 followup, has never aired on any of the broadcast networks.