Come Again?: It may be ancient history,...

Come Again?: It may be ancient history, but Shirley MacLaine said she was married to New York City Council President Andy Stein in a past life. The other-worldly actress--backing Stein for mayor in 1993--wouldn’t say when the two exchanged vows. But Stein was noncommittal on their “past life”: “Shirley believes in the metaphysical. I believe in politics.”

* The Plot Thickens: “Jimmy told me to tell Marcello and Trafficante they had to kill the President,” the lawyer claimed. And so another piece of another plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy is uncovered. The lawyer for Jimmy Hoffa says the slain Teamsters boss recruited Mafia chieftains Santos Trafficante and Carlos Marcello to carry out the deed. Attorney Frank Ragano says he now believes he carried a deadly message from Hoffa in 1963 to the duo, who may have had a reason to hate Kennedy because of his racket-busting brother, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy. But a House panel was “unable to establish direct evidence” of any such complicity.

* She Must Be Smiling: Kimberly Bergalis--who contracted the AIDS virus at age 23 from her dentist--had a long-running joke with her family, and she had the last laugh in her will. She instructed her father to use part of her $1 million-plus insurance settlement to buy “a new, red Porsche and deliver it to my aunt with a large bow on top.” Prudence Sommers had urged her preteen niece to study hard and succeed so that she could one day buy a Porsche for her aunt. “I just wish she could have given it with living hands . . . not in a casket,” she said. Bergalis died in December.

* A First: Visitors to the Eiffel Tower couldn’t believe their eyes. Police arrested 10 dogs and scuffled with twice as many vets on a protest march near the famed monument. Egged on by supporters who brought blaring cows, donkeys, ponies and sheep, the protesters weaved through Paris streets, proclaiming their opposition to a scheme to include their school in a Paris decentralization plan.