FIDDLE-DEE-DEE
Four hundred and ten actresses marched on Atlanta this summer to audition for the lead in Scarlett, the eight-hour televersion of Alexandra Ripley's best-selling Gone with the Wind sequel that CBS plans to air next year. Bui not British actress Polly Walker, 26, who turned down the chance to test for the role of Ms. O'Hara. "I've no idea how my name came up, hut I'm not interested," says Walker, currently starring in Enchanted April. "It's been played so well before—I mean, Vivien Leigh is a tough act to follow." And so, apparently, was the 1939 movie. "I loved it, but I just about managed to sit through it once," confesses Walker. "It's quite long, you know."

WAZOO YOU TOO
Breezing into a Cleveland mall recently to promote her $225-perounce perfume, White Diamonds, a feisty Elizabeth Taylor agreed to a Q&A session with the crowd. "How's your sex life?" wondered one fan. "Raunchy little broad, aren't you?" responded Taylor. "My sex life is just fine, thank you! How's yours?" Asked if she had ever undergone cosmetic surgery, Taylor, 60, replied, "I have not had a facelift, but I have had a chin tuck, so stick that up your wazoo."

BO MONDE
Since receiving a new hip in April, slugger-running-back-pitchman Bo Jackson, 29, hasn't spent all his time in rehab; he plays a security guard in an upcoming episode of the PBS kids' show Ghostwriter. But Jackson's own brood—Garrett, 6, Nicholas, 4, and Morgan, 2—are keener on cartoons and videos. "They've watched Home Alone a million times," groans Jackson. "My kids eat pizza now with just cheese. They don't like the sauce because they think Kevin [the Macaulay Culkin character] doesn't like the sauce. We can't get them to eat anything with sauce on it." But seeing Dad on TV goes down pretty easily. "Actually they don't see me as 'Daddy'—they say, 'Mom, there's Bo Jackson!' "

DESIGNATED HITTEE
If Billy Crystal had his druthers, he'd be starring in the World Series instead of in Mr. Saturday Night. "I wanted to be a baseball player—shortstop or second base," says Crystal, 45. What crushed his dreams of fields? A 1966 game in which he played second base for Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. "There was a runner on first, a slow ground ball to short—and I knew I was going to get dumped going for the double play," he says. "Then boom! The runner hit me, and I went flying in the air. As I was coming down, I saw this big sign on the ballpark fence that said, AUDITIONS TODAY."