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`I NEVER wanted to be or expected to be engaged in any relationship that makes it into the gossip columns. I was so disgusted with myself for being famous, I never wanted to date anybody else famous." That's what actor / author Ethan Hawke tells Mim Udovitch in the new issue of Details.
Hawke, by the way, is dating Uma Thurman, who is famous. Obviously, Ethan got over it. -- -- --
SO WHO is the TV actress most lauded by other actors? Well, I think it's the brilliant Helen Hunt of NBC's "Mad About You." And "they" - the ubiquitous, all knowing "they" - insist that Helen is sporting an engagement ring from her beau, Hank Azaria, though she just hates talking about her private life. (Honey, when people are as crazy about your work as people are crazy about Helen's, you don't have to worry about a "private" life!) So, how do I get these dollops of gossipy goodness? Well, in this case my witty, wonderful pal Bobby Rivers, who toils on Fox' "Good Day New York," was standing with me at the elevator. He had just interviewed Hunt and described her as "radiant" in her coming feature, "As Good as It Gets," with Jack Nicholson. (Bobby, like many who have seen advance screenings of this movie, predicts Oscar...