NEWS LITE : STALLONE ANNOYS MIAMI NEIGHBORS.

Sly is selling out.

Unable to get rid of his five-bedroom Miami mansion, Sylvester Stallone is courting an ultra-luxury hotel chain, to the chagrin of his Biscayne Bay neighbors.

London's Orient-Express Hotels Inc. has made a $24.7 million offer to build 200 villa-style rooms on the 11.7-acre property if the company could get zoning approval to build a commercial structure in a residential neighborhood. That won't be easy.

``I moved here because it was quiet and lovely, and I would rather not have 200 more cars or even 100 more cars per night down the street,'' said Sandra Druckman.

The actor, who bought the 11.7-acre site in 1993 for $8 million and sank $12 million more into it, has had no buyers at his asking price of $27.5 million. Taxes are $216,763 a year.

Stallone, in serious downsizing mode, sold his five-bedroom Malibu manse earlier this year for close to its $3.7 million asking price.

Supermodel denies irking Canadians

Naomi Campbell insists she likes Canada. Really.

In Toronto filming a movie, the supermodel was responding to a headline in Sunday's New York Post: ``Naomi gives Canada big chill.''

``I chose to shoot here,'' she said from the set Tuesday. ``I wanted to come here.''

A column in the Post said Campbell's ``imperious behavior - we're inured to it here - while she's been shooting her new film . . . has put some Toronto noses out of joint.'' It also said the model-turned-actress was smoking in nonsmoking areas of her hotel and throwing tantrums on the set.

Not true, said Campbell, as she puffed on a cigarette. ``I don't pay any attention to stuff like that,'' she added.

Queen Mum, 98, rejects panties gift

Researchers at the Auckland University Injury Prevention Center, working on underwear with rigid shields intended to prevent older women from breaking their hips, recently sent a pair to the 98-year-old Queen Mother, who fractured her hip in January.

The panties were returned with a note from a lady-in-waiting, GP magazine reports: ``These I have handed to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and I am to say that Her Majesty was very touched by your kind thought of her. However, the Queen Mother does not feel able to accept a gift of such a personal nature from you, and I return it herewith, together with Her Majesty's thanks for taking the trouble to send it.''

Lewinsky loses out on Winfrey appearance

The Monica Lewinsky camp is spinning away on the refusal for a one-on-one with Oprah Winfrey and the ex-White House intern, though nobody is putting his or her name to it.

Camp members told The Washington Post that as she considers offers, Lewinsky has decided that with media already making big bucks off the sex scandal, she should at least be entitled to income to help pay for her not-insignificant legal bills.

They also fault Winfrey, who said she scotched the deal over money demands, for lack of full disclosure on the money issue. Lewinsky's people said Winfrey's company, Harpo Productions, planned to sell the interview to ABC rather than air it on her syndicated show. An ABC official confirmed that the network paid Harpo a licensing fee for her Michael Jackson interview.

Launching of toys to capture history repeating

Coming soon to a toy store near you: The Hot Wheels action-packed version of Sen.-astronaut John Glenn, his Friendship 7 capsule from long ago and the space shuttle on which he'll soon be riding.

Glenn is featured prominently in Mattel Toys' latest joint venture with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in advance of the Oct. 29 launch of the space shuttle Discovery.

It features a miniature senator in navy suit and red tie, as well as figures wearing Glenn's shuttle-crew suit and a third wearing the famous silver suit from Glenn's first space trip in 1962.

For $4.99, kids can have all three figures, plus a little shuttle with movable hatch and the miniature Friendship 7 capsule, in which Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

The scale model's launch is set for mid- to late October, Mattel officials said.

Glenn, 77, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of this year, allowed the use of his name and likeness, but will not be compensated.

Spokesman Jack Sparks said, ``This is to get kids excited about our nation's space program.''

News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports

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6 photos

PHOTO (1) Slimy trail of victory

University of California, Santa Cruz, Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood gets down with the school's new mascot, Sammy the Slug, which students chose to replace a sea lion mascot.

(2) Stallone

(3) Queen Mum

(4) Glenn

(5) Campbell

(6) Lewinsky