TOPIC A : A Different Spin on the World Around Us : On the Rebound?

Just call him “Rerun Ross”--yet another American who wants a second chance.

But before you ask Citizen Perot for a reality check, remember Vanessa Williams, Ivana Trump and others who toppled but managed to bounce back.

If Ross makes it to the White House, imagine what this could mean for other potential comeback kids:

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* Woody Allen forsakes his beloved Manhattan for the Malibu colony, where he pioneers computer-assisted sex and plays clarinet every Sunday on the Venice boardwalk.

* Leona Helmsley gets out of jail, sells her hotels, buys H & R Block and caters to clients shorter than 5 feet. After all, “only the little people pay taxes.”

* Milli Vanilli trek to Paris and create a sensation as the back-up group for Marcel Marceau.

* Marion Barry decides he really likes being on TV. He sells his story to Hollywood, moves to L.A. and strikes it rich with infomercials for the Men’s Hair Club.

* Michael Milken formulates an insider trading plan for inmates to swap junk savings bonds for cigarettes. For his efforts, he’s appointed head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Soon after, he’s named secretary of the treasury and erases the national deficit for which he wins a Nobel Prize in economics.

* From his jail cell, Mike Tyson starts a men’s sensitivity/body building group with Ted Kennedy and G. Gordon Liddy.

* Richard Nixon, still not satisfied with his reincarnation as elder statesman, becomes a professor of ethics at Princeton and makes a bundle selling meditation tapes called “18 Minutes of Silence.”

* Tammy Faye Bakker markets a “prayer doll” with real lashes and a lifetime supply of brush-on mascara. The big-haired blond baby doll sings “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” when you pull her string.

* After their divorces, Her Royal Badness, Fergie, and the even badder HRH Diana move to Texas and become real estate agents. After a year in Dallas, they discover that the oil-rich Ewings are not real and move to Denver to be near the Carringtons.