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Hawn's recent The Out of Towners was no hit, but maybe her next movie - fall's Town and Country, with Warren Beatty - will fare better. She's also set to make The Anchorwoman, playing one of three women vying for (no surprise) an anchorwoman job. Acting's getting to be a family affair for her brood: Wyatt, 11, her son with partner Kurt Russell, was in his father's 1998 film Soldier. Hawn's oldest, Oliver Hudson, 22, appears as her son in The Out of Towners. And daughter Kate Hudson is a rising actress. "I don't feel regret about the end of their childhood, just anticipation about their adulthood," says Hawn. "I don't feel there's any void to be filled."

NBA star (and down-to-earth guy) Christian Laettner has moved so much I've lost track of him.
Rhonda Leopold Hayward, Calif.

Trading and moving is just "part of the business," but Laettner, 29, tells us it feels as if the team "fell out of love with you. Or they think someone else is better." He's with the Detroit Pistons, nabbed in a January trade with the Atlanta Hawks, where he'd gone from Minnesota. In the chaos, Laettner's wife, Lisa, 29, and their two young daughters have been living with relatives in Minnesota, where Laettner likes to relax and go ice fishing. But the family planned to look for new digs in Detroit.

What happened to Rob Lowe, that Brat Pack actor whose career was jeopardized a few years back when he got caught up in a videotaped-sex scandal?
Beth O'Donnell, Chicago

The '80s bad boy is a contented married father of two. "If you had told me a decade ago this is where I'd be today - coaching Little League, planning a big Easter-egg hunt and being pumped up about it - I'd have gone, 'Huh?' I never would have believed it. I got more than I ever could've hoped for." Sunday night he stars in the first of a two-part NBC miniseries, Atomic Train, which Lowe, 35, promises is a "thrill ride" and tells us was a "blast - no pun intended - to make." He's also keeping fingers crossed for network pickup of a sitcom about the presidency by Aaron Sorkin, writer of the fabulous Sports Night. Lowe would be a White House aide. "It's the best script I've read in two years, in any medium."

Does Linda Tripp still work for the government?
Tanya Bigham, Lansing, Mich.

The suburban Washington divorced mom of two was a mid-level bureaucrat till the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal broke. After more than a year of telecommuting from home, Tripp, who worked for the late Vince Foster, now gets $94,098 a year as a public-affairs specialist at the Pentagon's Manpower Data Center, a fact that irks some lawmakers.

Like lots of teens, I love Freddie Prinze Jr., the handsome star of the popular movie She's All That. I heard his dad was a '70s comedian who had a TV hit called Chico and the Man.
Morgan Lehman, Brooklyn Park, Minn.

Prinze was just 10 months old when the father for whom he's named committed suicide at the height of his popularity. Of course, 23-year-old Prinze Jr., whose soulful eyes and dark good looks could knock Leonardo DiCaprio off his teen-idol perch, was affected. He once told Movieline: "Every day, I feel a responsibility to never let anyone feel the way I did when, at 13, a kid said, 'Your dad was a junkie who killed himself and you're going to end up the same way.' "

Prince is terrific, and 1999 is his signature year - and tune. He must be planning something outrageous. What is it?
Darrell Washington, El Paso

Word is the eccentric musician will end 1999 with a "big bang" of a bash, but at press time details weren't ready. The music legend, 40, started the year with seven new versions of his multiplatinum 1982 hit 1999. There's no tour set and no release date for his next CD, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, but he promises surprises. We're told he and Mayte Garcia, the dancer he married three years ago, remain "blissful." They recently bought a palatial home in Spain, ideal for escaping Minneapolis' sub-zero winters.

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BIRTHDAYS

May 16: Tori Spelling 26; David Boreanaz 28; Gabriela Sabatini 29; Janet Jackson 33; Pierce Brosnan 47
May 17: Trent Reznor 34; Dennis Hopper 63
May 18: George Strait 47; Reggie Jackson 53; Pope John Paul II 79
May 19: Kevin Garnett 23; Pete Townshend 54; Jim Lehrer 65
May 20: Busta Rhymes 27; Todd Stottlemyre 34; Joe Cocker 55
May 21: Fairuza Balk 25; Mr. T 47; Al Franken 48
May 22: A.J. Langer 25; Naomi Campbell 29