Watch Herself On TV? Hey, Buffy’s Too Busy

Forget the Generation X slacker stereotype. Sarah Michelle Gellar, the 20-year-old star of television’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” doesn’t even have time to join castmates who regularly gather to watch the weekly program.

“I kind of have this mentality that there’s gotta be something better I can do than sit down and watch myself on television,” Gellar tells Rolling Stone.

A child actress who started making commercials at age 4, Gellar’s role on the soap opera “All My Children” led to “Buffy” and movie roles in the teen horror films “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and “Scream 2.”

Despite being a hit with young people, Gellar doesn’t always relate.

“I don’t have much in common with people my own age,” she said. “So I always have to date people that are older.”

Loose talk

Jack Nicholson, on his best actor Oscar: “If you have young children, you always wish they’d get to see you do something big, so I knew they were sitting home having a ball. They don’t know the difference between this and bowling but they know dad won.”

Remember back when he was a big Starsky?

Paul Michael Glaser turns 55 today.

And we’re sure he was anxious to accept it

Jack Nicholson’s Academy Award for “As Good as It Gets” will share room on his shelf with the first-ever Realistic Enactment of Anxiety and Living award from the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, which commended his accurate portrayal of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A spokeswoman said Nicholson’s performance, “including the character’s quest for appropriate treatment, will be helpful in demonstrating that there is hope, support and treatment for these disorders.”

But once in a while, there’s a honey of a part

Peter Fonda, Nicholson’s old “Easy Rider” pal who was also up for the best actor Oscar for “Ulee’s Gold,” takes his often-overlooked career in stride. “I took drugs but I wasn’t a druggie,” he says. “I made an average of 1.3 films a year. Some were, you know, bad. But I did my job well. My father (Henry) took everything he was offered. I’m sure he wasn’t thrilled with being in ‘The Swarm.’ But there he was.”

She has to take her roles with the punches

At 18, Christina Ricci has already been through the casting wringer. “With ‘Lolita,’ the first time, I was too ‘healthy,’ then ‘too heavy,”’ she says in Movieline magazine. “Then, in the middle of my anorexia, (director) Adrian Lyne called me back and said I was ‘emaciated’ … I was ‘too short and too young’ for ‘William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet,’ and I wanted that movie so badly it hurt.”

So, don’t ask him to play ‘Myst’-y for you

Cyberwhiz Robyn Miller, who split with business partner/brother Rand Miller to make movies, isn’t planning film versions of their popular computer games. “I worked on ‘Myst’ and ‘Riven’ for years - I feel like I was drowning in those worlds,” he tells Entertainment Weekly. “I think about other projects. I think about other places.”

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