By Belinda Luscombe

MUGGING FOR THE CAMERA

Everyone knows about miscreants like Hugh Grant and Pee Wee Herman. But who knew that JANE FONDA was arrested for drug smuggling and assaulting a policeman, AL PACINO for carrying a concealed weapon and SUZANNE SOMERS for (gasp!) writing bad checks? George Seminara did. He also knew that charges were dropped against Fonda, then 32; that Pacino, 20, was briefly incarcerated and let go; and that Somers, 24, paid the cash back and wasn't prosecuted. Seminara collects celebrity mug shots. His book on the subject, Mug Shots, will be out in June. "One day I sat down and thought of all the celebrities who had been arrested. I came up with 500 without really trying," he says. After two years of research, he had 50 photos. The insights from such a noble enterprise? "Celebrities look alike," he says. "And they smack around their wives and girlfriends a lot." MIKE AND SPIKE GO TO RIO

MICHAEL JACKSON spent only six hours in the Santa Marta shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, but the visit made headlines for weeks. First a judge temporarily barred his film crew, headed by Spike Lee, from shooting the video for They Don't Care About Us in the slum. That resolved, Jackson arrived by helicopter and was swept into a newly painted house for two hours of makeup before being filmed singing and dancing on and around cinder-block shacks. Finally came revelations that the film company had unknowingly paid off local drug lords for permission to shoot. "Producers have to negotiate with the right person, the one in charge," Lee told reporters.

A TAXING FRIENDSHIP

LISA KUDROW, who plays the most airheaded of TV's Friends (quite a feat), has come to the aid of her country. She's taping a public service announcement with Al Gore encouraging people to fill out their tax forms. "It's not that it's my cause," Kudrow says. "But the Vice President of the United States asked me to do it." Kudrow has never filed a late return, nor broken any law since she was caught stealing candy as a child. "I think it's because I'm the type of person who likes to be right."

SEEN & HEARD

Cindy Sherman, the artist who rose to fame in the '80s for slightly creepy photos of herself in various guises, will now flex those creepy muscles as director of an unnamed independent horror movie. "She has great command of the mise-en-scene," says producer Christine Vachon, who worked with photographer Larry Clark on Kids. "She just needed a little push."

Jeanne Calment, 121, isn't just the world's oldest living human. She's the world's oldest rapper. The acquaintance of Van Gogh has cut a record, Maitresse du Temps, in which she talks about her life over rap, techno and dance music. Some of the proceeds from the CD will go toward buying a minibus for her nursing home. Next up for Calment is, of course, a video.