RODERICK MANN : FOR THIS TAURUS, MOTHER’S PREDICTIONS ARE NOT BULL

Unlike a lot of actresses, Lisa Eilbacher doesn’t worry about the future. Her mother, you see, is an astrologer and tells her exactly what’s in store for her.

Long before she ever heard of “Beverly Hills Cop,” her mother told her that she was going to make another movie at Paramount that would be even more successful than “An Officer and a Gentleman,” in which she co-starred. Mom even gave her the start date. Five months later, against stiff competition, Eilbacher landed the role in the Eddie Murphy blockbuster.

“She’s read me all my life,” said Eilbacher, whose birth date is May 5. “And she’s never been wrong. When I called to tell her how ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ was doing--she hasn’t seen it--she said, ‘Honey, you don’t have to tell me. I told you. ‘ She’s extraordinary. People come from all over the world to consult her.”

“Beverly Hills Cop” did great things for Eilbacher. Not just because it’s taken in more than $200 million, but because it dispelled the impression that she was rather homely.

“That began with ‘An Officer and a Gentleman,’ ” she said. “For that movie I gained 15 pounds and wore no makeup--that’s what the role demanded. I hoped people would think I’d done a good acting job. Instead, I found I wasn’t being considered for other roles because producers said I wasn’t attractive enough.”

If she looked particularly good in “Beverly Hills Cop,” it was because she worked on Bruce Surtees, the cameraman.

“I’ve been acting since I was 6 and I know a lot about lighting,” she said. “And I’m engaged to a cinematographer, Brad May, so I’ve picked up a lot from him. Bruce is well known for his low light level, which isn’t flattering for women, so when I met him, I said, ‘You know who I date and you know what I know. So please . . . . ‘ He laughed at that.”

She also bullies her fiance, she says.

“After he’d shot the first two episodes of my ABC series, ‘Me and Mom,’ we had a few arguments. I told him that he was lighting the set better than he was lighting me. And he had to agree. But he’s great. My mother’s already told me that he’s going to win awards one day.”

Since the success of “Beverly Hills Cop,” she’s had a lot of scripts sent her, but her agent tells her to stand firm. What he can’t understand, however, is why she seems so unconcerned about everything.

“You see,” she said, “I haven’t told him about my mother. . . .”

NO LESSONS: If they know him at all, American moviegoers tend to associate British actor Bob Hoskins with villainy.

He scored a big success as a gangster in the British film, “The Long Good Friday.” He played a gangster in “Inserts” with Richard Dreyfuss. He was Nathan Detroit in the National Theatre’s brilliant London revival of “Guys and Dolls.” And he was the shady nightclub operator in “Cotton Club.”

“Won’t someone consider me for something else?” has long been his plaint.

Well, his prayers are answered: He’s to play a screenwriter in “Sweet Liberty” with Alan Alda and Michael Caine, to start shooting next month on Long Island.

Hoskins, a powerful performer on both stage and screen, says he has never taken acting lessons. “I decided long ago: These people are gonna teach me to talk how I don’t talk, walk like I don’t walk, act like I don’t act and in the end I’m not gonna be me. If they don’t like me as I am, I reasoned, I’ll be out of work. But as an actor, you can be out of work and nobody calls you a layabout--they say you’re resting and feel sorry for you.”

ONE REGRET: Some people insist that Greta Garbo is very wealthy and that, as the owner of large hunks of Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive, her rents will always keep her in well-heeled retirement.

But for all that, Los Angeles holds no happy memories for her, according to writer Edward Lozzi, who says he interviewed her recently for a book, “Living Legends.”

According to Lozzi, Garbo said: “Hollywood is my biggest regret. I let money, fame and greed ruin my life. Hollywood is where I wasted the best years of my life.” The 80-year-old legend now lives in New York.