IF SHE WON, LUCCI MIGHT LOSE HER BIG CLAIM TO FAME

So why hasn't "All My Children" soap star Susan Lucci ever won a Best Actress Daytime Emmy? After all, she has been nominated 15 times.

The cynical observer might say that it's because she gets more mileage out of NOT winning than she ever would if she actually did.

Her husband, though, has a different theory.

"Maybe it's because she's a Republican," Helmut Huber told TV Guide. Whatever the reason, he added, "It is difficult for me to accept that for 15 years, someone has always been better."

This year, though, may be different. TV Guide columnist Michael Logan predicts that she'll win, "based on her bravura performance over the last few months."

Loose talk

Candice Bergen on dealing with the recent death of her husband, Louis Malle (in TV Guide): "You carry people around inside you. They inspire you. I sort of try to make decisions with him in my mind, and I try to live life for Louis."

They're bustin' Wookies out at the Skywalker ranch

George Lucas turns 52 today.

Still, bacon tastes good, pork chops taste good

The quote: "I couldn't sleep." The speaker: Actress Mary Tyler Moore. The significance: The vegetarian convert was telling a Shepherdstown (W.V.) College graduating class how she felt after seeing the conditions that pigs and chickens live in before being slaughtered.

Pompous stupidity is overlooked; murder is not

No bids were taken at the registered price for a pair of O.J. Simpson football trophies on Saturday. The awards, Simpson's 1972 Outstanding Player Trophy from the Buffalo Bills Booster Club and his 1971 MVP trophy, each was listed at $5,000. No one bit. Meanwhile, sales are brisk for commemorative mugs marking the Brit-royal divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, reports the J&S Chown china company of Cornwall, England.

No problem, MTV's Kennedy is ready to step in

Christopher Connelly and Nancy Griffin have quit Premiere magazine over allegations that publisher Ron Perelman pulled a financial piece involving Sylvester Stallone because Perelman is involved in a restaurant deal with the movie star. A Premiere spokesman denies all, saying that readers want more pro-industry stories, that "hard-hitting, journalistic pieces have hurt the magazine."

Next roles: `Romeo and Juliet' or `Beauty and the Beast'?

Seen together at Cannes, those "Fear" co-stars Alyssa Milano and Mark Wahlberg. You'll remember her, of course, from "Who's the Boss" and him from his Calvin Klein underwear ads.

Perhaps the queen mum had a hand in the voting

In Harpers' annual list of the world's 50 most alluring women, Princess Diana tops the list of most conspicuously missing.

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