RICE VOWS TO KEEP DETAILS TO HERSELF

Did she . . . or didn’t she? Agree to tell all, that is.

Donna Rice, her manager and the ABC television network are feuding over the plot of a planned ABC made-for-TV movie on Rice’s life--specifically, if the ex-model agreed to reveal whether she had slept with former presidential candidate Gary Hart.

Rice herself said Wednesday she would make no deals with anyone that required she reveal whether she was intimate with Hart.

“This is a perfect example of the media’s desire to sensationalize everything I do; this will not be a ‘kiss and tell’ movie,” Rice told “Entertainment Tonight.” “My story would explore the press, right to privacy, double standard and the political process.”

Rice’s manager, Tricia Erickson, disputed remarks made by ABC executive Ted Harbert when he announced the project on Monday. Insisting that Rice “has no intention of changing her standards,” Erickson said on Tuesday that Rice will not “get tacky” by selling the lurid aspects of her story to television.

“If she was,” Erickson said, “she would be doing it for millions of dollars and not for a measly telemovie.”

Erickson’s remarks brought a stiff-lipped reply from Harbert, who said on Wednesday that “negotiations are proceeding as planned and we expect to go forward with the project as announced (Monday).”

In his original announcement, Harbert, vice president of motion pictures for ABC, told more than 100 television critics gathered in Redondo Beach to preview ABC’s new fall TV season that Rice’s oral agreement stipulated that the film would reveal the exact nature of her relationship with Hart.

But Erickson said that, while ABC has indeed been negotiating for “The Donna Rice Story,” no contractual agreement has been reached. Rice and Erickson returned from Barcelona, Spain, on Monday to face various reports that Rice had agreed to sell her story to ABC for between $100,000 and $200,000.

Erickson said Rice has turned down offers totaling $2 million to reveal the details of her relationship with Hart.

“The bottom line is she will not do anything to exploit that relationship,” Erickson said, adding that her client wants to work with ABC.

ABC spokesmen Wednesday confirmed the network was proceeding under the guidelines first revealed by Harbert on Monday. Executives at New World Television--the production company handling the Rice movie for ABC--had no comment Wednesday about the Rice movie-content squabble.

Hart withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in May after the Miami Herald newspaper reported that he spent part of a weekend with Rice at his Capitol Hill town house while his wife was in Colorado.