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'Did he? Does he? Will he? The burning Apple Sauce suicide is SOUnKXJlleKE OzzyOsbourne is about to get his own head bitten off by a Los Angeles bank. The animal-biting rocker ha been sued by the Mercantile National Bank for defaulting on two loans totaling more than $93,000, reports Billboard mag. Osbourne repaid only part of one loan and nothing on the other. Now the bank is trying to reclaim his 1990 Range-Rover, which he bought with one of the loans. Said Osbourne, "Blame my accountants." Afraid soma might consider the Council a let of noise Revealed: the secret worries of a City Council member! It happened at a meeting of the Council's environmental protection committee yesterday.

On the agenda: a bill to legally define noise. For more than a year, residents of Manhattan's West Side have been driven crazy by a loud, low whistle created when winds blow through the Cityspire building on W. 56th St. (It's no joke. We heard it Sunday.

It's really annoying.) Previous attempts to correct the problem through legal means failed when a federal court declared the city's noise code too vague. The Council the mayor's office are trying to get a new, nonvague noise law on the books. Yesterday, representatives from the corporation counsel office and the Department of Environmental Protection endorsed defining noise as a sound bothering a "reasonable person of normal sensitivity." This bothered Councilman Anthony Weiner. Reasonable people, he said, might consider the sound of a politician giving a speech as "noise" under the proposed law! (P.S. Sauce likes a suggestion by Councilman Stan Mi-chels to have the Cityspire building declared a public nuisance, enabling the city to correct the whistling problem.) U.

I. a I Meanwhile, court officials have launched an investigation to determine where the file wound up. SHINE ON Sauce's favorite political quote to date comes courtesy of Barry Feinstein, president of Teamster Local 237, as he defended his endorsement of Jerry Brown on CNN's "Crossfire" show. "I'd rather bask in the glow of one moonbeam than a thousand points of Jight," he told host John Sununu, who was once one of Bush's bright lights. IN THE MONEY It pays to be a Material Girl.

Rolling Stone reports that Madonna's new multi-media deal with Time Warner will apparently net her a $5 million advance per album for her next seven releases. QXSSHGY against a royalty rate of 20 of the retail price. It's nice, but Michael Jackson and sister Janet Jackson have better deals, the magazine says. ON HIS KIND Gov. Cuomo may not be running for President, but the thought is on his mind.

In a speech he gave to the Hispanic Legislative Conference, Cuomo said: "When I was elected President governor uh, sorry." Our Eddie Borges reports that Cuomo got a three-minute standing ovation for his Freudian slip. After another minute, the audience got up again and gave him another ovation. When the room finally became silent he said: 'That was God saying, 'Mario, it's time to 1 hat was not the, point. I was make. S.I.

SECRET IDENTITY Are the sexcapades of the New York Mets a little too embarrassing for the high-road journalists at Sports Illustrated? Sauce asks because of the curious way one S.I. editor identified herself at the civil division of Manhattan State Supreme Court. Our Robert Gearty reports that the editor, Sonia Steptoe, examined a court case file involving the woman who claims that Dwight Gooden, Daryt Boston and Vince Coleman raped her. (The woman had filed suit on another matter, involving a traffic accident.) When Steptoe signed out the file at the courthouse, she identified herself as a "researcher for the Time Warner Co." The file is now missing. Steptoe at first told Gearty she didn't know anything about the file', said that she did not Have mi Lines stretched down W.

50th St. Sunday morning as the box office opened for Al Pacino's upcoming Circle in the Square productions "Salome" and "Chinese Coffee." (They sold 3,000 tickets in one day.) Circle's artistic director, Ted Mann, called with Vie news. Pacino paused, then told Mann: "I'm so gad 'Search and Destroy' the theater's current production) is doing well." Mann paused, fen rff talking yburhows: AtPaclilO binoioq bmi.