You Can’T Equate Fame With Having Intelligence

It was just a few years ago that Jim Carrey, having jumped from relative obscurity to the very heights of movie stardom, shed his wife and set up house with Lauren Holly.

But, as they say in country songs, love is a funny thing. After a bit of squabbling, Carrey and Holly got a d-i-v-o-r-c-e. And she got a $9.6 million settlement out of the deal.

Now, believe it or not, the two are seeing each other again. They’re so serious that reconciliation talk is in the air.

So what will happen to the $9.6 million. “That money is hers and will certainly stay exclusively hers,” said Raoul Felder, the attorney who worked the deal. “Call it a safeguard.”

And if they were to marry and split again, would that amount grow? “If Carrey is the guilty party,” Felder said, “then I don’t see why not.”

Loose talk

Tina Brown on leaving The New Yorker (in The New Yorker): “Years from now, when literary archaeologists write of us, they will find the passionate memos, the cryptic E-mails, the midnight faxes circulated among an extraordinary group of men and women striving to make and remake America’s finest magazine.”

That, of course, is in Earthling years

Robin Williams turns 46 today.

Three, they offered him a big paycheck

Dennis Quaid had his reasons for wanting to play the father in the remake of “The Parent Trap.” One, he told Cosmopolitan magazine, “Every woman I know insisted.” Two, “It was one of my favorite movies as a kid,” Quaid said. “I had a huge crush on the star, Hayley Mills.”

In other words, ‘Jurassic Park’ eats ‘E.T.’

Word to the wise about Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming film “Saving Private Ryan”: The noted director didn’t gloss over the horrors of combat. Yet World War II veterans have praised the film’s realism. “I’m only holding a mirror up to what really took place,” he said.

Some people are going to get their felines hurt

San Francisco columnist Leah Garchik reports about a pair of theme-related bumper stickers. One said “American Waterfowl Association.” The other said, “If you’re looking for your cat, check under my wheels.”

One blink and it was stars and stripes forever

Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, 95, told American Heritage magazine that he remembers legendary humorist James Thurber, who had lost an eye as a child, performing at parties. “He had a collection of glass eyes,” Hirschfeld said, “and as the evening went on, he would change them, with each one becoming more bloodshot. At about two o’clock in the morning, he’d put one in, and it would be a little American flag.”

As Jerry Seinfeld once said, ‘There was no pick!’

One report had Minnie Driver expressing on TV a “stunned, slightly sour reaction” to Matt Damon’s Oscar win last March. “I was feeling about a thousand different things,” Driver told Cosmopolitan magazine. “And nobody has a right to judge you in that moment.”