HOLLY, CARREY GLOW ON SET OF HER NEXT MOVIE.

Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith

Lauren Holly has more than a month's work remaining on the San Francisco set of ``A Smile Like Yours'' - where Jim Carrey proposed marriage to her Sunday - before she can take off to be with the guy she loves.

With the bride- and groom-to-be brightening everything up, the picture, in which Lauren co-stars with Greg Kinnear, is indeed a cheerful production, according to producer David Kirkpatrick.

Kirkpatrick tells us that Carrey and Holly impressed him as ``very sweet together,'' even before the announcement of their marital intentions. ``Jim had a few days off from his movie `Liar, Liar' and came up from L.A. to visit Lauren. He was keeping himself very much in the background, very aware that this is Lauren's movie. It was nice to see them together.''

Kirkpatrick had much to smile about on ``A Smile Like Yours,'' even before the Carrey-Holly engagement blessed the movie with marvelous positive romantic publicity. He tells us that Shirley MacLaine just completed a cameo turn on the picture, playing Lauren's mother in what will be an unbilled appearance - for scale.

``She did it as a gesture of good will,'' he says. ``Shirley really liked the fact that Rysher agreed to fully finance `Evening Star,' '' he explains, referring to his forthcoming continuation of ``Terms of Endearment,'' in which MacLaine returns as the indelible Aurora. ``A Smile Like Yours'' is also a Rysher Entertainment picture. ``She wanted to keep her good karma.''

The inside track: Guns N' Roses fans who've been wondering when the group's long-talked-about next album would turn up, wonder no more.

``At the very latest, next spring,'' reports Duff McKagan, who reveals the group quietly began work on the disc two months ago with ``a really cool, genuine air of excitement.'' McKagan adds that singer Axl Rose has indeed learned to play guitar and ``he's really rockin' - and it's great. It brings a whole new element to our writing process; now we're all there together.''

McKagan most certainly has his hands full right now, juggling his Guns work with promo and tour dates for Neurotic Outsiders, the sizzling hot musical entity in which he performs with Steve Jones (Sex Pistols), John Taylor (Duran Duran) and Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses). The ad hoc band first formed to do a benefit date at L.A.'s Viper Room. More dates followed, then a record deal, and - come September - a debut album and tour.

McKagan acknowledges that, now that advance CDs are out, there are already complaints about the Neurotic Outsiders' raw and decidedly non-PC lyrics. (One song has to do with people who use sexually transmitted diseases as murder weapons.) McKagan notes that the material was originally intended for in-club play - not mass market. ``Obviously, a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek. We never in any way meant to harm anyone.''

The best-laid plans: There's now no telling when Mike Nichols' ``All the Pretty Horses'' will ever make it before the cameras. United Artists had originally planned it as a major end-of-'96 release, but at this point it's still in the early - early - stages of development.

The big-screen scene: Hot French actor Jean Reno is probably the only actor involved in ``The Double'' who isn't unhappy the much-beleaguered film fell apart after John Travolta backed out of the project. ``I've been working without stopping for a year and a half ... it's too much now,'' says Reno, who's best-known to American audiences for the hit French films, ``La Femme Nikita'' and ``The Professional.''

Reno, who co-stars in ``Mission: Impossible'' and the recently released ``The Visitors'' from Miramax Zoe, is about to wrap ``Witch Made Love'' and will then head to London to do looping on ``Rosanna's Grave'' with Mercedes Ruehl. The project he's looking forward to working on next is his wedding to model Netalhie. The couple, who have a 5-month-old baby, plan to marry in September.

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Fren chman on a roll