Even though Raquel Welch beat out Toni Tennille to replace Julie Andrews in Broadway's Victor/Victoria when Andrews leaves June 1, an upbeat Tennille tells me that the $40,000 she spent making a 12-minute audition video for Tony Adams, one of the show's producers, was money well spent. Tennille, who's best known as half of the singing duo the Captain and Tennille, reasons that "the tape was the only way anyone from the theater world was ever going to see me." Although she has never been in a Broadway show, Tennille vows one day to star in one, possibly even Victor/Victoria "at a future date." Adams says only that Tennille's tape was "beautifully presented. I admire her effort."...

The entire cast and crew of Eyes Wide Shut, the psychosexual thriller Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are currently filming in England, received an unexpected, weeklong paid vacation at the end of February. Production abruptly halted so Cruise could travel through Europe promoting Jerry Maguire, the romantic comedy that earned him his second Oscar nomination. The cost of shutting down Eyes, a Warner Bros. film, was picked up by TriStar Pictures, the company behind Jerry Maguire. One studio "buying out days" on a rival production doesn't happen often in the competitive trenches of Hollywood, but it's not a first. Last year, while Cruise was filming Maguire, Paramount also bought time from TriStar so Cruise could hype Mission: Impossible. Naturally no one will say how much money changed hands in either case, but reliable sources estimate the cost to be between $150,000 and $500,000 a day....

Actress Isabella Hofmann, who played Megan Russert for two seasons on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street, will return for the drama's two-part season finale, airing May 9 and 16. Hofmann left the series last year when she had a baby with another Homicide alum, Danny Baldwin. The former costars live together in Los Angeles with son Atticus, now 8 months old. Hofmann says she is "considering returning to the show" full-time "but nothing is assured." If she does go back, it would mean moving Baldwin and baby to Baltimore, where Homicide is filmed. Should that happen, the actress says, "we'll pack up and drive there, just like the Clampetts." In reverse, that is....

Actress Sean Young isn't shy about chasing after famous folk to sign her autograph book, as she did during the recent U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Young, who had no connection to the festival itself, brags that she has been collecting autographs for years (her most coveted being that of Meryl Streep). Young tells me that she went to the festival mainly to get comedian George Carlin's autograph, and, yes, she was successful. "I already have three completed autograph books," she says proudly, "and I'm working on my fourth."...

Finally, I'm wondering how my mother in Florida and the millions like her who practically live for their nightly reruns of Seinfeld will react when they see actor Jason Alexander, who plays their beloved George Costanza, bare-bottomed and cavorting about as a flamboyant gay man in Love! Valour! Compassion!, the movie due in May that's based on Terrence McNally's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. When I recently posed those concerns to Alexander, he told me to warn my mother. "No matter how much she thinks she's seen of me in the past," he said, "she'll definitely see more of me in this movie than she ever wanted to know."

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