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to semiifls LamgeDIa pacEting I lalk about being in the doghouse. Breakups aren't easy, and the recent split between Whoopi Goldberg and I I Frank Langella is turning out to be as difficult as they come. I I Sources tell me Goldberg precipitated the end of her five-year romance LJ after becoming more and more discontented with it. Langella "was not bringing enough to the party," said the source close to Goldberg. e5 i TOX.

til v-sr AP PHOTOS iilt 1 IVV I Mitchell So it ended with Goldberg asking Langella to move from the her main house in L.A. to the guesthouse at least, at first it did. But last Tuesday, when she returned home from New York for a new round of "Hollywood Squares" tapings, she asked Langella to leave the guesthouse, and he did, sources say. Goldberg's rep denied there was any rancor to the split. Langella's rep declined comment.

SHE DIDNT LIFT A FINGER Rosie O'Donnell is all revved up to host another Grammys. "The two highest-rated Grammy shows are the ones I hosted," Rosie told me at the Broadway opening of "True West." "I would think they would want me back." Speaking of the Grammys, O'Donnell says she wanted to clear up some confusion surrounding Whitney Houston. Some TV viewers thought Houston gave R3ie the finger after the talk-show host made a joke about the singer's recent trouble in Hawaii, where an airport security guard claimed to have found a half-ounce of marijuana in her possession. Referring to Houston in the audience, Rosie said hello and then "Aloha." "I told her what I wanted to do in rehearsals, and she asked me not to do it," says Rosie. "Not only did I say I was going to do it anyway, I told her to make a fist, like she was mad at me.

She did. But the camera didn't catch the top of her fist, so people mistakenly assumed she gave me the finger." Rosie's right hand, by the way, will be in a cast for the next four weeks. She broke it last week playing kickball with her children. She fell, she said, "and all 185 pounds of me landed on my hand." Ouch. CELINE'S PLACES IN THE SUN What becomes a legend most? Here's how two screen legends are being honored.

Sophia Loren eyeballs some special gold coins given to her at the Swiss national mint in Bern. The "Cleopatra" doll (r.) is the first in Mattel's new Elizabeth Taylor doll line. Hi Lei not getting rid of the Admiral's Cove house and will reserve it for relatives. Dion's rep did not return calls for comment. SOME INITIAL CRITICISM As guessing games go, this one played easier than one of the $100 questions on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." WNBC-TV film critic Jeffrey Lyons was conducting his regular seminar, "Talking Movies." at the DGA Theater on Thursday, interviewing a fellow Fieldston School alum, producer Ed Pressman, when Lyons suddenly began talking about "a repulsive actor." "Once people work with him," Lyons said, "they never want to work with him again." Lyons refused to name the actor, but he gave out his initials "V.K." Pressman acknowledged that he did in fact do a film with this person, but the producer stopped short of saying anything critical about him or mentioning his name.

But even the DGA audience knew the actor in question was Val Kilmer, who starred in Pressman's "The Island of Dr. Moreau." QUICK HITS Yes, that was Gramercy Tavern owner Danny Meyer visiting Commune the other night. That's the new Gramercy Park eatery from Mark There's privacy, and then there's the kind of Wood and chef Matthew Kenney, which is set to open this month. Expect the Budweiser Clydesdales outside the Intrepid I privacy that Celine Dion wants. The Canadian singing sensation recently bought a nice big house in Admiral's Cove, a gated community on the Intracoastal Waterway in Jupiter, Fla.

The idea was to have a hideaway down South that she and her family could use for vacations. Well, it turns out the place wasn't secluded enough for Celine, so now she's plunking down a load of cash tonight to greet Prince Philip and other guests for a royal gala dubbed "One World With Horses." heard of maps to the stars' homes. Manhattan super-Realtor Barbara Corcoran wants to go them one better. When real-estate brokers Jim Carrey and Renee Zellweger at a ShoWest film industry luncheon. They star in "Me, Myself and Irene," a comedy by the Farrelly brothers, makers of "There's Something About Mary? for yet another house in Jupiter.

This time, she's building in the nearby community of Bear Island, where she has reportedly purchased land worth $1.5 million and has guaranteed to build a place of not less than $1 mi'lion in value. Word has it she has also promised to join the local from around the world gather here on April 30. Corcoran will take them on a celebrity tour and point out Jerry Seinfeld's apartment, as well as the pads of Julia Roberts, Calvin Klein and other major names. With Lauren Rubin modeling or her duties as the bikini-wearing host of an Italian TV show. CHRISTINA AGUILERA is no rip-off artist, say the composers of her hit, "What a Girl Wants." Foreign reports have claimed the song is a virtual copy of French singer Ophelie Winter's 1998 ballad "Ce Que Je Suis." According to those reports.

Winter penned that song with Shelly Peiken and Guy Roche, but has never gotten credit or money for Aguilera's version. But Roche's manager, Steven Rosen, tells us Roche and Peiken originally wrote Winter's song in English and that Winter did nothing more than translate it into French. "She was in no way involved with the Aguil-era hit," says Roche. With K.C. Baker stopped in the middle, and it turned out that my dad was going down in the middle of the night and rewinding the tape and watching it.

My mother said to him, 'You don't need to know about sex. Go back to Itemizing SALMAN RUSHDIE'S new love, Padma Lakshml, must be catnip to older literary giants. The 29-year-old Indian model previously dated 62-year-old playwright Tom Stoppard. British papers have been having a field day with the 53-year-old Rushdie's romance with Laksh-mi since we first published their picture here. Envious London scribes never fail to mention Lakshmi's topless isobar country club at its going rate of $250,000.

The developers apparently are heralding her impending arrival. So much for the privacy. Meanwhile, she's a liijih am -mm iw I 1.