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A TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2000 5 LESLIE DOOLimE'S Names Faces La diva loca 1771 II I l-x-W Vi Did you hear that Vanessa Williams is filming a re- make of a noiiaay classic wnn a vn i man tanea a DVa's Christmas Carol and her Scrooge is a singing shrew named Ebony, according to the New York Post And if that lirtlP nlov duIIs in the ratings, just think of the remakes we 1,688 worfls A2 Orlando Sentinel Birthdays Julie London (actress) 74 Philip Bosco (actor) 70 Kent McCord (actor) 58 Bryan Ferry (singer) 55 i' Christine Todd Whitman (New 54 Jersey governor) James Keane (actor) 48 Cesar Rosas (rock singer- 46 musician, los Lobos) Linda Hamilton (actress) 44 Roger Franklin Williams (740 43 AM WWNZ news talk-show host Doug Supernaw (country singer) 40 Melissa Sue Anderson (actress) 38 i. Tracey Thorn (singer, Everything 38 But The Girl) Jim Caviezel (actor) 32 Shawn Stockman (singer, Boyz li 28 Men) Olivia Newton-John 52 (singer) could be in for: Father of the Diva, Diva Without a Cause, Twelve Angry Divas, National Lampoon's European Diva, Natural Born Divas, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Diva and Ace Ventura: Diva Detective. And lef not forget a TV remake for the kiddies: Little Diva on the Prairie. Goldie Hawn doesn't have a daughter she has a life-size mini-me. Watching Kate Hudson star in Almost Famous must give Hawn the same eerie feeling Dolly the Sheep gets when she glances over at the clone pen.

The similarities between Hawn and Hudson are even more striking than those between Gwyneth Paltrow and her classy mom, Blythe Danner, not to mention Melanie Griffith and her mother, Tippi Hedren, who starred in The Birds. Other daughters of actresses seemed determined to steer clear of their mothers' images. Take Star Wars' Carrie Fisher, the daughter of musical legend Debbie Reynolds, for example. Then there's Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of Psycho's Janet Leigh. Celebrity update The Blair Witch Project co-director Dan Myrick will team with J.D.

Shapiro on Salvage, a post-apocalyptic pic they are writing. According to Variety, Shapiro also just signed a six-figure deal with Spelling Entertainment to create TV shows even though he's the guy who wrote Robin Hood: Men in Tights and John Travolta's mega-flop Battlefield Earth. Stephen King told Maine police he was sorry to hear that the 43-year-old problem driver who nearly killed him, Bryan Edwin Smith, has been found mysteriously dead in his home. "I would wish better for anyone. Our lives came together in a strange way.

I'm grateful I didn't die. I'm sorry he's gone." 1 yjJjjSk Shorttakes Both of those young actresses also had famous dads: Eddie Fisher and Tony Curtis. The Parent Trap's Natasha Richardson not only followed her legendary mother into acting but wound up marrying a famous actor. Said Richardson: "I've spent half my life trying to get away from being Vanessa Redgrave's daughter, and now I've got to get away from being Liam Neeson's wife." IS Orlando girl-group Innosense is marking the release of its first album today, So Together, with an 8 p.m. chat at www.planethollywood.com.

Law Order may become a new magazine. Dolly Parton will star in and produce a TNT remake of Judy Hollidas 1 956 com edy, Solid Gold Cadillac. Paramount execs dismissed reports that Dr. Laura is going on an unscheduled hiatus. They say Laura Schlessinger's new show is adding staff and leads the ratings among all new-season syndicated TV shows.

Got a celebrity tip or a comment? Call Leslie's Line at 407-420-5008. Or e-mail Leslie at ldoolittleorlandosentinel.com. Tune in to Magic 107.7 FM (WMGF) for "Dean and Darby Dish with Doolittle" every weekday at 7:1 2 am. Who said that? PC Did you know? The French refer to "paper flips as "trombones." More than half of everything alive is water. I haven't quite got my head round it all yet.

fL I Grain Phillies kv Takes a turtle two weeks i to digest its dinner. I i'r: The headache is said to be a most uncommon malady in mental hospitals. In the Netherlands of '1 1636, you could have paid for ''v a house with three choice lip bulbs. 1 Britain's Big Brother winner, a Duiiaer from uver- pool, said he will donate his Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn (above) have raised several kids together. No doubt Kate Hudson (right) is Hawn's.

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