SHORT TAKES : Things Turned Out ‘Different’

Kadeem Hardison, who plays college geek Dwayne Wayne on the NBC sitcom “A Different World,” says he took the part only because he was sure the show would die quickly.

“I get restless,” he says in this weekend’s issue of USA Weekend.

Hardison, 25, says he figured the show would get him to Hollywood with a little money to tide him over until he could make it into movies.

Now the highly rated show is in its fourth year and Hardison’s contract extends through 1993.

“If I just do TV, it’ll be harder to get movies” later, he says. But he adds, “No one has offered me anything.”