Actually, O.J.’S Help Could Be Bill’S Handicap

President Bill Clinton has one defender whose support he may not be seeking: O.J. Simpson.

“If it’s true what happened to Paula Jones, simply for hitting on a dog like her, he should do 30 days,” Simpson says. “Other than that, I don’t think it’s anybody’s business.”

As for Monica Lewinsky, he told London’s Weekly Standard: “A 22-, 23-year-old girl who has her mind set on a 50-year-old guy is more in control than the 50-year-old guy.”

Simpson again denied killing his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson - “I’m a Christian, and to me, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ is the first Commandment” - but added that his golf game has improved.

“Pre-Nicole, I was probably playing mostly around a 10, 11, 12 (handicap),” Simpson said. “Now, I’m about a seven, eight. Once again, I don’t have all those other distractions.”

Loose talk

Frank Sinatra’s final words, according to daughter Nancy (in Daily Variety): “I’m losing it.”

Remember when she was the marrying kind?

Peggy Cass turns 74 today.

With this gentleman, she doesn’t prefer bonds

At age 77, Carol Channing has filed for divorce from husband Charles Lowe, 86, saying he regularly humiliated her in public, physically assaulted her and frittered away her funds. While Lowe was impotent and they had intercourse only twice during their 41-year marriage, Channing said: “It doesn’t matter to me that I didn’t have relations. That’s incidental. The important thing is my freedom.”

He just wanted her to give him another shot

Actor Michael Rapaport (“Copland,” “Mighty Aphrodite”) has been ordered to stay away from his ex-girlfriend, actress Lili Taylor (“I Shot Andy Warhol”) after pleading guilty to aggravated harassment. Rapaport admitted calling Taylor 21 times in four days and banging on her apartment window at 1 a.m.; she told police he wanted to get back together with her but his way of doing it left her “seriously annoyed.”

And we hear Jerry has a thing for spaniels

Meanwhile, on the Jerry Springer front, some stations are refusing to carry an episode scheduled for broadcast today titled “I Married a Horse,” which features a man describing his five-year marriage to his horse, a woman recounting her romance with her dog and a man who says he is attracted to canines, not people.

He could only handle strangers in the night

Former actress Vanessa Brown, who says she dated Frank Sinatra for six months in 1958 and has the pictures to prove it, remembers him as “one of the most fantastic, tender, caring lovers one could imagine.” Just one problem, says the 70-year-old Brown: “Every time I was on a date there’d be his friends there. I soon realized that he really didn’t like to be alone … I could never get him alone except you-know-where.”