* A Break in the War: Donald...

* A Break in the War: Donald and Ivana Trump tried last weekend to escape the media firestorm over their possible divorce by flying down to their 118-room estate in Palm Beach, Fla. But the feuding couple traveled in separate planes, slept in separate beds and spoke with each other only briefly, according to a Donald Trump spokesman. The billionaire businessman had no comment about a rumored reconciliation, saying only that the New York media--which has feasted on Trump: The Divorce--should “be ashamed of itself.”

* Court Decision: Soviet tenor Vladimir Popov came backstage from his triumphant opening-night performance in Verdi’s “Aida” at the Kennedy Center in Washington Saturday night to be greeted by black-robed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Opera fan Scalia was there to present the singer with his citizenship papers. Popov, who defected in 1982, then joined friends for a celebration.

* Shaping Opinion: Psychic Uri Geller claims to be able to bend spoons through mind power, and now he is aiming to get Rhode Island voters to bend his way and support a politician seeking reelection. “I will beam my energy for him to win the election,” Geller said of Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.), whose penchant for the paranormal is well publicized. One sidelight: Pell’s opponent in the Nov. 6 election, Republican Rep. Claudine Schneider, has an interest in astrology.

* Twenty-five in the Shade: The tan has faded for Kriss Ziemer, the California model in those Bain de Soleil suntan lotion commercials. Now, because of warnings about how the sun can damage skin, Ziemer uses level 15 sun block on her body and 25 on her face. “On my first assignment (for Bain de Soleil) I was handed a tube, sent to the beach and told to turn black. I thought it was gorgeous,” Ziemer said in People magazine. “But now I look at people who bake like that and think . . . it’s so unattractive.”