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Donna Karan is reported steamed a-plenty at the sight of Savion Glover, star of the Broadway hit ``Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk,'' featured in an eight-page spread for FilawSport in September's Vanity Fair. The fash flash thought she had the dance star tied up exclusively to hawk her duds in the mag's October issue.

Fashion's 2 Ks splitting up

Something came between Kelly Klein and her Calvin. Fashion's bad boy and his photographer missus are calling it quits after nine years. They were married in 1986, when she was his design assistant. New York Post's gossipteer Liz Smith quotes the couple as saying: ``We are still the best of friends. We have made a decision to live apart.'' There was no word on what led to the split.

For years there has been a ``wink, wink, nudge, nudge, smirk, smirk'' attitude among New York society about Calvin Klein's marriage. And a 1994 unauthorized bio of Klein, ``Obsession,'' claimed that the designer does not find it necessary to limit himself to one sex, and that the couple lead mostly separate lives. Klein, undisputably the king of underwear, has managed to stay topical with his risque ads featuring seductive teens - starting with a 1980 spot with a 15-year-old Brooke Shields cooing, ``Nothing comes between me and my Calvins.''

Torme laid low by mild stroke

Singer Mel Torme, known as the ``Velvet Fog'' for his smooth voice, was hospitalized after suffering what his spokesman said Tuesday was a mild stroke.

Torme was in stable condition but was found to have weakness on his left side and ``slight pneumonia'' which was clearing up, Rob Wilcox said.

``His doctors have said his mind is 100 percent in all of his sensory (functions),'' Wilcox said. ``We will know more on Friday.''

The name of the Los Angeles-area hospital where Torme is being treated was not disclosed.

Torme, 70, has been recording an album paying tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, who died June 15.

``He was in the recording studio for three days and on Thursday, after seeing a movie, he experienced some dizziness and his wife took him to the hospital,'' Wilcox said.

Torme's performance this weekend at the Newport Jazz Festival was canceled.

Gifford (Frank) is fighting mad

Frank Gifford says those who attack his perky wife, Kathie Lee, are cruisin' for a bruisin'. The Giff unburdens himself to Good Housekeeping over the heat Kathie Lee took over that sweat-shop deal. ``My initial reaction was to punch someone,'' he is quoted as saying. ``I want to be able to spend an afternoon with my kids and not walk down the street and have to answer questions about how manufacturers and sales work.''

``At night, I would listen to David Letterman and his attacks against her,'' he adds. ``We thought he was a friend. I will never look at him or Jay Leno in the same way.''

Magazine apologizes to Cruise

Tom Cruise won another round in the battle to maintain his macho image. Late Monday the German mag Bunte apologized for a July 25 article saying the movie star couldn't have kids because his sperm count was too low.

``Bunte has been informed that Tom Cruise is not infertile and that his sperm count is completely normal,'' the mag said in a written statement. ``Bunte apologizes to Tom Cruise and his family for this embarrassing and irritating incident.''

It also said the reporter who interviewed the actor and misquoted him for ``a significant portion'' of the piece will never work for the mag again. In return for the confession, Cruise dropped the $60 mil defamation suit he filed against the mag July 31.

Last year, he went after McCall's when it ran a story saying Cruise had married Nicole Kidman to dampen rumors that he was gay. He got a written apology from McCall's plus a retraction.

Little Amy headed for altar

Amy Carter, the little girl who avoided the cracks along Pennsylvania Avenue during her father's inauguration, is all grown up now and getting married.

Carter, 28, plans a small ceremony in September with James Wentzel, 26, of Herndon, Va. They met several years ago while working together at an Atlanta bookstore, said Wentzel's father, also named James.

``They told us about six weeks ago,'' he said. ``We're very excited.''

The youngest child and only daughter of former President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, was engaged once before but never married.

She and Wentzel live in New Orleans, where she is working on a master's degree in art history at Tulane University and Wentzel is a computer consultant for the University of New Orleans.

The couple's parents have yet to meet.

OFFBEAT  Political ad bares it all

A candidate for city council in southern Brazil is using television to reveal his ideas - and nearly everything else.

Julian Carlo Fagotti appears nude in a TV campaign spot for municipal elections in Curitiba, a city 420 miles southwest of Rio.

Fagotti, a candidate for the leftist Workers Party, wears only eyeglasses and holds a campaign leaflet at his waist that reads in Portuguese ``Shameless Politics.''

In the nine-second spot, Fagotti says: ``You work. They steal. You vote. They forget. They're the ones who should be ashamed.''

Fagotti, an advertising executive who is trim and mostly hairless below the goatee, told reporters that his approach is meant to call attention to politicians who don't keep campaign promises.

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Photo: (1) Amy Carter: Wedding bells

(2) Julian Carlo Fa gotti, a candidate for Curitiba city council in Brazil, is nude on television.

(3) Calvin Klein and his wife, Kelly, reportedly told a New York columnist they are divorcing but continue to be the best of friends.

Associated Press