 BRET
MICHAELS  WORKS OUT SOME KINKS Talk about ironic.
Charlie Sheen, of all people turned out to be the arbiter of good taste recently when he helped talk rocker Bret
Michaels out of including in his upcoming movie, 'A Letter From Death Row," some footage of Michaels in a steamy solo
turn, if you catch our drift.
Ann Gillis, producer of the psychological thriller, was busy working on the film
when Michaels -- the lead singer of Poison who also wrote the movie, stars in it and scored it -- offered up an X-rated piece
of video depicting him in a sauna. The video was shot by Michaels' girlfriend, Canadian model Kristi Gibson.
Gillis, whose other new movie "Films that Suck," about the independent film world, is just wrapping production, was so
unnerved by the singer's desire to include the footage in "Death Row" that she summoned Sheen -- who has a cameo in the movie
-- to help her talk the singer into his senses. Sheen did just that and Michaels backed down.
Expecting The conversation turned to pregnancies when former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, stopped by the Manhattan office of a former aide, Leon H. Charney, yesterday. His wife, Tzili, is expecting for the first time.
"He Says, 'Amy's expecting also.'" Mr. Charney said later, 'I asked when her date was. 'the end of July.' the same as mine I said, 'They'll both be Leos.'"
Amy Carter lives in Atlanta, where she is on the board of the Carter Center, Mr. Carter's human rights and diplomacy center. The Carter Center did not return a call seeking comment last night. Her husband, James Wentzel, is a computer consultant.
Mr. Charney, a lawyer and cable-television host in Manhattan, was present for the negotiations that led to the Camp David peace accords. "I told him that because he lost the election, I was able to purchase this building." Mr. Charney said, referring to the midtown skyscraper where he works. "Had he won, I'd still be working on the peace process."
Soap Opera Hall of Fame ceremonies will be held Monday at N.Y.'s Planet Hollywood, presented by Soap Opera Weekly. Inductees include Betty Rea, Ruth Warrick, Eileen Fulton and Gloria Monty.
Peter Bergman ("The Young & The Restless" hosts). It'll air as E! special in October.
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 Those two hot supermodels  Esther Cañadas and Mark Vanderloo met just eight months ago on a fashion shoot for Donna Karan New York. They fell in love and signed a multimillion-dollar, two-year exclusive contract -- together! (They now affectionately refer to Donna as their "cupid godmother.")
In Milan, Mark proved that chivalry isn't dead. He went on bended knee to ask for Esther's hand in marriage. When the show moved to Paris, Mark presented an exquisite engagement ring. This was right after the aborted Giorgio Armani fashion debacle created by the French gendarmes, and it made Mark and Esther about the only happy people in the darkened City of Light. They are waiting to set a date.
JUST GUESS: Guess who makes bad boysCharlie Sheen and Nicolas Cage blush? Supermodel Claudia Schiffer. On an 11-city tour for Guess? Parfum, the Bardo-look-alike hits star studded Los Angeles Saturday for one of two big parties. Mickey Rourke, Richard Grieco and Danny Ponce also turned out to shake her hand. Today she hits Miami for the tour's second party, given by club owner Peter Stringfellow. Some Dolphins may be lucky enough to meet her.
CINDY GUYER:
 BODICE RIPPER
WHAT do you get when you mix the Queen of Romance novel covers, Cindy Guyer, who has also pose for Playboy, with the very serious scribe Paul Alexander, whose book Death & Disease exposed how Andy Warhol's legacy was squandered? Call it Boobs & Brains at Elaine's. The two co-host a joint book party tonight for husband and wife authors Kat Martin, whose Night Secrets is her 20th romance novel, and Larry Jay Martin, whose Sounding Drum is about a Native American in Manhattan.
 Best ex he ever had?
THE ex-wives of Donald Trump don't have much in common, apart from a marked reluctance to give up using his name, Ivana and Marla are fierce competitors and don't mind scoring points off one another.
So Ivana should be gleeful when she sees the upcoming Soap Opera Weekly. It reports that the role Marla has just won on "Sunset Beach" was originally written for Ivana, who bowed out under business pressure.
"She'll always b e second fiddle to me," is the way Ivana puts it.
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