NEWS LITE : TESH YULE ALBUM FINDS ROLE FOR WIFE.

That John Tesh, he's a laugh a minute. Consider his ``The Choirs of Christmas'' album, on which his wife, Connie Selleca, served as co-executive producer. Well, on the album the missis is listed as Concetta Sellecchia, the name with which she was born. ``I wish I had a great story to explain Connie's executive producer credit,'' Tesh says. ``But the truth is, I was just trying to be funny.'' What, by the way, does a co-executive producer do?

To teen, Clooney

a cut-up

She played a bloodsucker in ``Interview With the Vampire'' and a brat in ``Little Women.'' What's the current role for 14-year-old Kirsten Dunst?

``I'm a young hooker now,'' she says brightly.

Dunst is guest-starring in six episodes of NBC's ``ER'' as a teen-age prostitute befriended by George Clooney.

She said Clooney acted around her like somebody her own age.

``He's double funny, like a kid,'' she told People magazine. ``We did our first scene in this emergency trailer, and he kept throwing cotton swabs at me and just being really stupid. I had a fake knife for the scene, and he kept stabbing it into his head. He's always making jokes.

``And you know, now he's Batman too.''

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Photo: (1) Connie Selleca

Takes original name

(2) Team of run-deer

Led by Frank Appice of Mission Viejo in the role of Rudolph, the Loeschhorn's Running Club hoofs it during the Turkey Trot 10K in Dana Point, an annual Thanksgiving Day race in Orange County.

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