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Scariest Of All Is Robert Downey Jr. In Your Bed

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

So who would you consider the “scariest people in Hollywood”? Here’s a sampling of Buzz magazine’s list:

Michael Jackson, “a lost boy.”

Heidi Fleiss, the personification of parents’ “where did we go wrong?” worries.

John Tesh, who “managed to sink even lower than ‘Entertainment Tonight’ by becoming the new Yanni.”

“Showgirls”/”Basic Instinct” screenwriter Joe Eszterhas and his wife, Naomi, “the boor and his best friend.”

Dove Books publisher Michael Viner, who “introduced the world to Faye Resnick.”

Val Kilmer, who, when he made “The Doors,” “apparently began overidentifying with the bad-boy rock star.” One filmmaker calls him “the worst human being I’ve ever met.”

Loose talk

Keanu Reeves, on the etiquette of interacting with your partner during movie love scenes: “You have to say to her, ‘Excuse me if I get excited, and I’m sorry if I don’t.”’

You don’t believe us? Hey, we can document it

Ken Burns turns 43 today.

Then there was that wacky Randy Weaver part

Randy Quaid, currently starring in the goofball bowling comedy “Kingpin” after playing a drunken pilot in “Independence Day,” thinks he’s getting typecast as a boob. “I don’t seem to be getting a lot of the suave, Cary Grant-type romantic comedy roles,” Quaid said. “But I am enjoying these characters. The only concern I have is that I may never get another serious role the rest of my life.”

Those Royales with Cheese sure take their toll

John Travolta revealed in a French interview that one of the reasons he walked out on Roman Polanski’s “The Double” just before shooting started was the director’s insistence that he appear nude. “There were no naked scenes in the original script. Roman added it for no reason,” Travolta said. “I have never acted naked in my whole career, and it’s not now that I’m fat that I’m going to start.”

Oh, well, better Uma than Oprah, we suppose

Totally nude photos of Travolta’s “Pulp Fiction” co-star, Uma Thurman, frolicking on the Caribbean island of St. Bart’s will appear in September’s Playboy. As a magazine spokeswoman told USA Today: “She obviously wasn’t worried about any cameras. It’s a public beach and she’s sitting with other people.”

Just think of it as a little green cheesecake

Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione is said to have forked over between $50,000 and $200,000 for the “first photos of an actual (space) alien,” which will be published in September’s issue. Guccione, who says he’s “absolutely 100 percent convinced” of the alleged World War II-era military pictures’ authenticity, compares them to an “actual photograph of Jesus Christ hanging on a cross.”

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