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Amy and the Buttafuocos will give it another shot


Amy Fisher
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“LONG ISLAND LOLITA” Amy Fisher, and Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco, back together again? The members of the infamous love triangle have agreed to a televised reunion, though no network has yet bought the rights, the New York Post reported Monday.

Fisher was Buttafuoco’s 16-year-old lover in 1992 when she shot his wife in the face. She served seven years in prison, and he did four months for statutory rape.

The Buttafuocos moved to California and divorced in 2003. Mary Jo, who remains partially paralyzed, is engaged.

“It’s time to just put it behind us,” Fisher says. “We played this all out in a public eye. It’d be interesting to let the public see the healing process at the end.

“They saw everything else – why not let them see the final product?”

Adds Buttafuoco, 49: “I’ve been asked about a million times by Mary Jo, ‘Why did Amy shoot me?’ I was never able to get that answer.

“There’s going to be a lot of shocking revelations, and that’s why I’m excited to sit down to do this.”

Bumpy time for ‘Earl’

Jason Lee, star of NBC’s “My Name Is Earl,” has an excuse for missing work better suited for a fifth-grader: He has the chicken pox.

Production is being shut down for a couple of weeks “until he’s feeling better and presentable to be on TV again,” said executive producer Greg Garcia.

NBC announced it is renewing both “Earl” and another Thursday comedy, “The Office,” for next season.

“The Office” will finish this season at the end of March so star Steve Carell can start work on his next movie.

So much for personal growth

His colleagues at fellow NBC sitcom “Scrubs” wouldn’t let Zach Braff get a big head after the success of his movie, “Garden State.”

“I was at Sundance feeling very proud of myself,” Braff says, “and the very first thing I had to do when I came back was a scene where I was wearing a full clown suit and having children hit me with balloons.”

And that, snickered executive producer Bill Lawrence, didn’t even make it on the air.

She’ll just give them a line

Supermodel Kate Moss will speak to British police investigating allegations of cocaine use, though no timetable has been set for her interview.

Moss, 31, lost valuable contracts with H&M, Burberry and Chanel after the Daily Mirror tabloid published pictures of her apparently using cocaine in a studio where her boyfriend, rock musician Pete Doherty, was recording.

Doherty pleaded guilty Friday to possession of heroin, crack cocaine, morphine and marijuana.

Monkey on his back?

Speaking of British rockers in legal trouble, tests show that a coat belonging to Pete Burns was made from the skin of monkeys that may have been illegally imported.

As a contestant on the reality TV program “Celebrity Big Brother,” Burns boasted on air that the coat was made from gorilla fur. Police seized it from him following complaints from the public.

Burns, who has had surgery to produce an androgynous look, is the lead singer of Dead or Alive, which had an international hit in 1985 with “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).”

The birthday bunch

Actor Ernest Borgnine is 89. Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw is 70. Singer Ray Stevens is 67. Singer Aaron Neville is 65. Singer Neil Diamond is 65. Actor Michael Ontkean (“Twin Peaks”) is 60. Comedian Yakov Smirnoff is 55. Actress Matthew Lillard (“Scooby Doo,” “She’s All That”) is 36. Actress Tatyana Ali (“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”) is 27. Actress Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”) is 20.