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She’ll Try To Avoid Any Hair-Raising Experiences

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

People magazine has again come out with its “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” issue, and there are plenty of usual suspects such as Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Antonio Banderas, Pierce Brosnan, Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore and Brad Pitt.

But the list includes some fresher faces as well, like Mira Sorvino, Fran Drescher, Patrick Muldoon and Josie Bissett (both of “Melrose Place”) and Kate Winslet.

Drescher (“The Nanny”) admits she’s “a high-maintenance chick” who plays a lot of tennis, avoids dairy products and does isometric squeezes while seated in movies.

Winslet (“Sense and Sensibility”) offers this advice from Mom: “She said if I ever start to get the family whiskers - because there are women in my family that do get them - never, ever pluck! Always trim.”

Loose talk

Elizabeth Taylor, to a department store shopper who asked whether her new Black Pearls perfume will “help me get a man”: “Honey, I think you and I will find out at the same time.”

For a birthday dinner, how about Elaine’s?

Jerry Seinfeld turns 42 today.

And he was having the time of his life

Speaking of beautiful people, following a recent flight to South Africa, model Angie Everhart (a former Sylvester Stallone squeeze) pressed charges against a fellow passenger, claiming she woke up from a nap to find him pressing her in private places. The man told police he was simply trying to find his lost wristwatch.

Actually, it was Satan-atra worship

In her new book, “Sammy Davis Jr. - My Father,” Tracy Davis claims her dad was a cult member who once told her his pinky finger was painted red as a “symbol of devil worship.”

He’s ashamed of his fiscal attributes?

An upcoming unauthorized biography of Howard Stern, set for June publication by St. Martin’s, will reportedly reveal details of the radio shock jock’s finances, including what he wanted to hide when he backed out of the New York governor’s race.

But it will have the same lousy ending

In case you’re having O.J. withdrawals, good news: Paramount has signed a deal with Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden to develop his best-selling book “In Contempt” (co-written by Spokane journalist Jess Walter) into a movie.

When the director yells ‘cut,’ look out

Playwright Edward Albee, whose “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was turned into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, is involved in more movie talks: “I recently met with an agent who tried to sell ‘Three Tall Women’ in Hollywood. He asked me if I could rewrite it to include a beheading of one of the actors.”

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