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Guess He’s Just Going To Get Rich And Richer

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

Don’t expect Jim Carrey to apologize for the $20 million he’s getting paid for “Cable Guy,” his upcoming movie.

“I refuse to feel guilty,” Carrey told Entertainment Weekly. “I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin’ wealthy.”

And don’t expect the “Dumb and Dumber” star to take the blame for the alleged dumbing down of American culture.

“A lot of my stuff is dumb, but there’s smart stuff in there, too. It’s not up to me to educate America. I’m trying to give them relief.

“I had lunch with Steve Martin, and he said, ‘I was feeling bad, I didn’t want to go out of the house, somebody talked me into going to “Ace (Ventura),” I laughed my guts out and it made me feel better.’ (Jerry) Seinfeld said the same thing.”

Loose talk

Model-cum-actress Cindy Crawford, on the negative reviews of her film debut in “Fair Game”: “I’m sure I’ll be given many more, even bigger things to be insulted about.”

He’s about to say bon voyage to his younger days

Sinbad turns 39 today.

Maybe she’s learning to trust her instincts

Sharon Stone’s more demure role as a self-destructive moll in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “Casino” is a sign of things to come. “My rear end is starting to slide down the back of my legs,” Stone said in Britain’s Ikon magazine. “I’d rather have more sex at home and keep my clothes on at work. I’m maturing.”

There was no excuse for being antisocial

Signourney Weaver’s part in the thriller “Copycat” required her to lie in bed and let a horde of carpenter ants crawl all over her. “And we couldn’t kill any of them,” she told Entertainment Weekly, because their handler “believes in humanity to ants. He wanted us to give them back to him - especially the ones he had defanged.”

He tried to burn those bridges behind him

There’s a new Robert James Waller book out - about him, not by him. In “Memories of Madison County: The True Story of My Romance With Robert James Waller,” Jana St. James claims Waller’s hit book-turned-movie “The Bridges of Madison County” was based on their own affair 25 years ago, when he was a married grad student at Indiana University and she an 18-year-old coed.

Not exactly what you’d call a first-class guy

A federal judge in Los Angeles has thrown out charges against Kirk Douglas’ youngest son, Eric, for allegedly disrupting a July flight, squeezing an attendant’s buttocks and insisting that his dog sit in his lap.

He wanted to be sure to see the uncut version

In his final dispatch on the O.J. Simpson trial for Vanity Fair magazine, Dominick Dunne reports that after his acquittal, the Juice managed to sneak away to the movies one night unnoticed. His choice: “Showgirls.”

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