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Funny how the luck of the dice can change. . . .

Last year, the raunchy and controversial comedian Andrew Dice Clay (remember the Sinead O’Connor “Saturday Night Live”flap?) had two movies on the summer schedule: his first leading role, in the 20th Century Fox feature “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane,” and a concert film, “The Andrew Dice Clay Concert Movie,” due from Fox later in the summer. Then “Fairlane” came out and, well, crashed after an initial surge at the box office. Fox scrapped its plans to release the concert film. Permanently.

The concert film, now called “Dice Rules,” has resurfaced care of the independent company Seven Arts and will open in L.A. May 17. Drawn from a performance at Madison Square Garden and other original work, “Dice Rules” has drawn (of course) an NC-17 rating.

With the heat on his career barely burning lately, Clay has scheduled an uncharacteristic press conference for Friday in honor of Mother’s Day.

Uh, that’s right: Mother’s Day.

According to the invitation, Mr. Niceguy himself will welcome “you and your mother (or a reasonable facsimile thereof)” to a “special Mother’s Day breakfast and press conference.” (Even Andrew Dice Clay has a mother, it says.) The purpose, his publicist says, is for the press to talk with Clay about his movie. One problem: According to the publicist, no one in the press will get to see the movie until a week after the press conference.