FOR SOME, IT’S THE SAME OLD SHUFFLE

“Hollywood Shuffle” star-director-writer-producer Robert Townsend’s become an instant celeb and “hot” producer (a new Warner Bros. multi-pic pact) with the splash of his satire on Hollywood’s treatment of black actors.

This weekend, he’s shooting “(It’s That) Lovin’ Feeling,” a new clip by the Jamaica Boys, a new funk-pop band whose album is due out from Warners Records in late July.

His movie, out since March 20, cost less than $1 million to produce and has grossed more than $2 million on only 45 screens.

But how have his stars fared?

Well, only a couple are being offered the kind of demeaning roles--pimps, prostitutes, etc.--that were spoofed in “Shuffle.” It’s because they aren’t getting offered many roles--period.

(It should be noted that a few “Shuffle” players, including Townsend and co-writer Keenen I. Wayans, were already established performers--the film was a break from their regular gigs on sitcoms or in stand-up.

(But for the other Shufflers, who played in the film as a favor to Townsend and were paid union scale, “Shuffle” was a potential career break. Some “Shufflers” said they’ll get percentages of net profits, but asked not to be named--presumably to avoid rankling Townsend or fellow non-point Shufflers.)

Here’s a look at their post-”Shuffle” career progress--or lack thereof:

Roy Fegan (who plays an upwardly mobile militant in “Shuffle”) does episodic TV and awaits residual checks.

About his career, Fegan told us: “Some people live from day to day, I live from job to job. I’m up there with the big names in my community, but I’m still broke.”

The unemployment office penalized Fegan for working, so he’ll get $166 less this month “to help ends meet.” He lives off residual checks and a flat fee that he made from a Dodge commercial. (Like most of the players, Fegan wasn’t promised any money for “Shuffle” but was “pleased” to get a check large enough “to cover some serious bills.”)

“Just give me a chance to show you what I can do and I’ll make my own breaks,” he said.

Bobby McGee (who played an auditioning actor with a memorable reading of “I be got no weapon”) doesn’t count on acting for his income anymore.

McGee said his white counterparts in the biz are sent on more auditions because there are more roles available to them. (He adds to his average interviews per month by “crashing” auditions that he’s not invited to.)

McGee is amused that friends think he’s rich from “Shuffle.” He made $2,400.

“I haven’t been on an interview since April 27. I’m living (entirely) off my bank account. I sit and create ways to make money. I’ve got some T-shirt ideas. . . .”

Bobby Mardis, who holds a communications advertising degree from USC, has had six auditions in the last month, “which is not very much.”

Although he hasn’t been offered any of the stereotypical roles he spoofed in “Shuffle,” “as an actor who is not working a lot, I would take them,” he said.

The nearly $2,000 he made from his “Shuffle” role didn’t go far, but his income worries are eased for now from a part-time job selling Xerox software.

But: “I would like to just act.”

Angela Teek (a “Shuffle” slave heroine, hooker) sings in a nightclub act now, and was cast as a hooker in a Las Vegas Equity show of “Norman, Is That You?”

One of the racial remarks she sometimes hears from producers: Her butterscotch complexion is “too light” to play a convincing call girl.

Nancy Davis, a hooker in “Shuffle” (also a hoodlum’s sister), was cast again as a hooker after “Shuffle”--in Charles Gordone’s play “No Place to Be Somebody”--although one that is leaving the trade by play’s end.

Other “Shuffle” players are getting small parts in high-profile television and movie features.

Jesse Aragon (the Latino gang leader in “Shuffle”) will play a “decent citizen” harassed by a Latino gang on East L.A. streets in director Dennis Hopper’s “Colors,” from Orion starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall.

“It’s kind of nice to be the victim for a change,” he said.

David McKnight (Townsend’s encouraging uncle) recently played a detective on “Hill Street Blues” and a cop on “Moonlighting.”

Rusty Cundieff (pimp in the horror farce “Zombie Pimp”) plays a college student in Spike Lee’s new comedy “School Daze,” which recently filmed in Georgia.

Richard Cummings Jr. (a hood) is the fast-talking program director in the syndicated sitcom “Throb.”

“I can’t complain,” he said. “I’m a working actor on a successful show. Not everyone has been so lucky.”

Anne-Marie Johnson (Townsend’s girlfriend in the film) stars in the syndicated sitcom “What’s Happening Now!”

John Witherspoon (owner of the “Shuffle” Winkie Dinkie Dog hot dog stand) does stand-up gigs on the David Letterman show.

Brad Sanders (Batty Boy, who plays a black bat living with a white family in a satirical sitcom) portrays the radio character Cla’ence (Clarence), the smooth-talking soap-plot reporter updating listeners on ABC’s “All My Children.”

Sanders believes it’ll be some time before Townsend’s message has a tangible impact on Hollywood: “The irony is that some producer will see the ‘Batty Boy’ spoof and try to make a real show out of it.

“They’ll completely miss the point.”