Seen, Heard, Saind

Bobby Brown is asked in Sister 2 Sister magazine about reports he engaged in "an act of infidelity" in a car and bragged to the woman, "My wife is Whitney Houston." His denial, in part: "I wouldn't even say that because I don't like people calling my wife Whitney Houston. Her name is Whitney Brown. . . ."

Emmy-winner Helen Hunt, in The Orange County Register, discusses working with Jack Nicholson in her upcoming theatrical film, "As Good as it Gets": "I was very nervous and very star-struck with his Jackness thing, but he turned out to be the most prepared and most generous actor I've ever worked with."

Teen star Jonathan Taylor Thomas encounters the peculiarities of fandom, in US mag:"On occasion, I've taken the test that's been in the teen magazines about me, and I've failed. Isn't that scary?"

Drew Carey has a book coming out and TV Guide will have excerpts in its Sept. 27 edition. In "Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined," Drew reveals that he was molested at the age of 9. He writes: "Not even my family knows that. All my life I lived with it buried inside me, like a Playboy hidden under the mattress." (He gives no details except to say no relative was involved.) Drew says he thinks the abuse contributed to his two suicide attempts, but he also feels some good has come of all this: "God gave me a second and third chance to accept being alive and imperfect. That's what I'm going to be: alive, taking chances, making mistakes and enjoying every minute of it."

Wild and crazy guy John Leguizamo says he will play no less than 40 roles onstage in the Big Apple in "Freak," which he describes as a "semi-demi-quasi-pseudo autobiography." He tells The New York Times "I'm doing my mom, my dad, my grandfather, my grandmothers, my cousins, Lee Strasberg, Jerry Lewis, my girlfriends and my girlfriends' fathers."

Celestial celibacy is what Kate Mulgrew tells People magazine is in store for "Star Trek: Voyager" character: "I mean, I'm the captain. . . . there's no time to jump in the sack," which must be Starfleet lingo for fraternizing with the crew. Kate says she also doesn't want young girls seeing "Captain Janeway drop her knickers." Ten hut!