COUPLES
* Robin Gibb, 43, of the Bee Gees is in hot - tepid? - water with his wife, Dwina, over his tale on Howard Stern's radio show Monday that she is a lesbian and he has been sleeping with both her and her current female lover for more than a year at their Miami mansion. "It will cost him dearly," said Dwina, 39. "I am going to extract from him one of the largest diamonds I have extracted in my life."
Ya gotta love Anthony Quinn, 78. The night after he shows his wife of three decades, Iolanda, a publicly good old time on Broadway, doesn't he turn out just as publicly Monday with youngish ex-secretary Kathy Benvin, mother of his latest kid, who was born last summer. Took her to a Manhattan screening of La Strada.
Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita, got their White House overnighter last weekend after a showing there of the yet-to-be-released Philadelphia, which was shot here last autumn. They slept in the Queen's Room.
THEY'RE OFF!
* Whitney Houston canceled a sold-out gig in Barcelona Tuesday night after getting food poisoning from oysters at a posh hotel there. The singer left Spain yesterday but promised to return later this month.
Andrew Lloyd Webber announced that he would take a $300,000 hit by closing Eurovision, a show he produced in London. He blamed "negative critical appraisal" or lousy reviews of the show, which he produced in London. The show was about two guys on their way to a song contest while haunted by the ghosts of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his lover, Antonius. Sounds winnerish!
Roger Rees, Kirstie Alley's rich British boyfriend in TV's Cheers, has been dumped as the lead in the $8 million Broadway musical The Red Shoes, two weeks before its Dec. 2 opening. Sources said that the actor just wasn't up to the Jule Styne tunes and that his attempt to do a Rex Harrison-like sing-speak wasn't working. He was replaced by understudy Steve Barton, who originated the role of Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera. Said Rees: "We all care about The Red Shoes too much to make a size 11 squeeze into a size 9." Or a 9 into an 11!
THE AD GAME
* Gallagher was hired by IBM to entertain at this week's Comdex Computer Trade Show in Las Vegas. "I wish computers would take as long to crash as an airplane," said the comic. "Then you'd have time to say, 'Save your files! We're going down!' "
At its booth, Motorola had Brent Spiner, who plays the half-human, half- computer Lt. Cmdr. Data on TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation. An exec said Data "fits with our company. . . . He epitomizes portable, wireless communication." Badly managed, too?
MARKINGS
* Today's double-brass award goes to Sylvester Stallone. First coat for ordering up a Rambo IV script - can Rocky VI be far behind? - and second layer for telling Crown Prince Naruhito in Tokyo this week that there was a part for him in the new Rambo. As what, human carnage?
It's all so mysterious, and nobody's sayin' nuthin,' but Bob Dylan played his first Big Apple concerts in 30 years at Manhattan's Supper Club last night and Tuesday. Tickets were given away. The sets were filmed, but Dylan's publicist said, "They don't know what they want to do with it yet."
THE MAG TRADE
* Daryl James, editor in chief of the national hip-hop newspaper Rap Sheet, said it would accept no ads containing guns. "As an African American," said James, "I believe that ads which gratuitously appear to advocate violence with automatic weaponry have no place in a magazine with a substantial portion of urban teen readers."
Yes, it's been awhile since John F. Kennedy Jr. has been gainfully employed. But something's up. He was spotted Tuesday in the New York Hilton at a Folio seminar called "How to Start a New Magazine." Hunk, do we really need another one?
