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32 DAILY NEWS Tuesday, April 25,., 1989uf iga. THEY TRIED EVERYTHING TO AVOID IT, but film maker Steven Spielberg and actress Amy Irving will divorce after all. The couple announced their decision yesterday. Spielberg and Irving, both working on films now in L.A., will have joint custody of their son, Max, who was 6 months old when his famous parents married in Santa Fe before Christmas 1985. The entire divorce appears to be amicable well, more amicable than Hollywood dissolutions tend to be.

Spielberg and Irving have already reached a joint property settlement, which will keep them out of divorce Masai tribal chief until it was' revealed the chief sought Mrs. Buckley's shell hatband, and not her hand in marriage. Anyway, food man extraordinaire Gene Hovis is planning a cozy feast for Mrs. Buckley at his upper West Side abode Thursday night (Bill Buckley is invited but otherwise engaged.) Among the pals expected to greet her are: Bobby Short, style reporter Elsa Klensch, Jean Harvey Vanderbilt, Senga and John Jay Mortimer, Anne Slater and John Cahill, Mortimer's Glenn Bernbaum, Andre Leon Talley, Elizabeth Peabody and the globetrotting Johnny GaUiher. All good hosts aim to amuse and delight, but when your guest of honor has just returned from an around-the-world tour, it's harder to plan a novel menu.

"I've been thinking of things Mrs. Buckley will not have eaten on her trip," says Hovis. So far, he has arrived at a menu of New Orleans red beans and rice, bourbon baked ham, and cheese biscuits, rather than corn bread. So you know everything, dessert will be either "a rich, chocolate cake with ginger, or apricot-glazed bread," Hovis reports. Now, let's just hope Mrs.

Buckley has written this dinner date down, so she isn't expected elsewhere Thursday night Shirley Temple Black, rumor has it may soon dance her way to Czechoslovakia to serve as our American ambassador in Prague. Riveting news, if V. US i court and keep gossipmon-gersatbay. "Our mutual decision, however difficult, has been made in the spirit of caring and our friendship, both personal and professional," they said in their statement Of course, allegations of marital malaise have circulated for more than a year, and Spielberg's name frequently has been linked with actress Kate Capshaw. Insiders, however, believe MVORCINQ: Irving and Spielberg are parting amicably.

true. She has already done her- ambassadorial thing in Ghana. The latest in rich and famous lifestyles is the security room. This, is a steel-lined chamber in a house, where stars can escape if ever they find themselves under attack. Christina Onassis had one installed at her Avenue Foch apartment in Paris shortly before she.

died. According to real estate broker John Stathis, encountered dining recently at Moreno's, there is such a heavily secured room in the house Kathleen Turner and husband Jay Weiss just renovated on the upper West Side. The room has its own telephone line and communications system. The Turner-Weisses, however, have decided they prefer living in the Village. Stathis is hoping to sell the uptown place for $4.2 million.

WILLIAM NORWICH the split is not about another woman, but a result of Hollywood, where the pressures of work and personal growth give epic proportions to midlife crises. This, we're told, de "WARM AND UcbudFteedmin, NEWUOUSE NEWSPAPEXS JEFF BRIDGES scribes Spielberg existential state. He will be 42 later this year. Despite the rumored troubles, like most marriages, Spielberg and Irving's was on until it wasn't And, as recently as a month ago, the couple made a big show of public togetherness when Spielberg received the prestigious American Cinematheque's Moving Picture Ball in LA. Irving praised her husband in a moving speech at the ceremony.

Irving begins shooting "A Show of Force," co-starring Robert Duvall, Andy Garcia and Lou Diamond Phillips, early next month in LA Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," with Sean Connery, Harrison Ford and River Phoenix, opens nationally on May 24 Spielberg is in pre-production now with the movie "Always," starring Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter. It is said Spielberg and Irving hope to work together on a film project in the near future. She made it a point not to appear in a Spielberg film when they were married, in order not to confuse home with office. Pat and Bill Buckley are expected to return to the bosom of New York's Gilded Set today, following their mad, three-week dash around the world in a private Concorde. The trip had its ups and downs, so to speak.

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