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No, they weren’t playing “Sympathy for the Devil”: As Mick Jagger and the boys wailed away at the Rose Bowl, camera shots of young gyrating spectators--mostly attractive women--popped up on the stage’s giant screen. Suddenly there appeared a middle-aged man whose head was bopping with a bit more restraint. The camera lingered on him.

“It seemed out of context to what was going on,” spectator Larry Kusnitt said later. “I don’t think anyone recognized him at first. Then a kind of wave of recognition came over the crowd and you heard people saying, ‘Oh, my God!’ ”

And a small smile played on the giant-screen mug of Robert Shapiro, unsequestered defense attorney.

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You say your client was last seen in a Ford Bronco?We don’t know why we just thought about it, but a detective agency is mailing out flyers indicating that it’s ready to track down just about anyone an attorney could be looking for.

Day 13: And still no name for the Geffen-Katzenberg-Spielberg studio. Luckily, readers are still sending in handy suggestions, including:

* Spiegettziberg (Hilary Cejka)

* Moola Mogols (Tiffany Quon)

* Two Bergs and a Geffen (Vanessa Holmes)

And, finally, Jerry Lench wrote: “I don’t have an idea for the name but I know what the logo should be: A cat . . . eating a mouse.”

Poor Mickey!

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Funny--we thought we saw him at the Stones concert: An autograph-seeker at the Beverly Hilton Hotel pushed past security to ask Mikhail Gorbachev to autograph her Gorby doll, as general manager Peter Kretschmann looked on in horror. The former Soviet leader was in the hotel to address a Town Hall breakfast forum. He not only consented, signing near the well-known birthmark, but remarked that he found the custom amusingly “American.”

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Smoke gets in your TelePrompTer: A Channel 9 anchorwoman, introducing a segment on the “upscale revival” of cigar-smoking, inadvertently said “up-stale.”

Food for thought: As part-owner of the Twin Palms restaurant in Pasadena, actor Kevin Costner has apparently become something of a gourmet. For the filming of the sci-fi adventure “Waterworld” on Hawaii’s Big Island, Costner has an ocean-view bungalow, which comes equipped with a butler and chef, according to the New York Daily News. Cost: $4,500 a night.

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We haven’t heard of anything so remarkable since actor Eddie Murphy expense-accounted a $235 breakfast for himself and some colleagues during the making of “Coming to America.” That was for breakfast at McDonald’s. Didn’t even include cigars.

miscelLAny A promo for a coming television program showed newsreel footage of President John F. Kennedy and asked ominously: “Did Marilyn Monroe know too much about a government UFO cover-up?” We thought that was Elvis.

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