Harrumphs from Hollywood! It seems odd that...

Harrumphs from Hollywood! It seems odd that a motion picture awards show would be unable to obtain financial support from the Industry. But that’s the case with the 14-year-old Golden Raspberry Foundation, possibly because it “dishonors the worst achievements in film.”

So strapped is Razzies founder John Wilson that he had to persuade friends and associates to help pay for this year’s extravaganza, which will be held Sunday at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The first insult is scheduled for 2 p.m.

One of Wilson’s biggest disappointments was his failure to hook up with a fertilizer company. “The corporate person I talked to just didn’t get it,” Wilson said. “He kept asking, ‘But what does it have to do with gardening?’ ”

Wilson doesn’t expect worst-actress nominee Madonna (“Body of Evidence”) or any of the other candidates to attend Sunday.

But at least actor Tom Selleck was good-natured enough to accept a 1993 Razzie on the Chevy Chase show for his role as Ferdinand, that hunk of a king of Spain, in the film, “1492.”

“He (Chase) brought it up in the middle of a conversation about artificially inseminating a bull on Selleck’s ranch,” Wilson noted proudly.

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Egg roles: The casting of Selleck in “1492” was a memorable mismatch, even if he did forgo using his trademark Detroit baseball cap as a crown. It’s too bad the Razzies weren’t around years ago, when they could have honored these other bizarre combinations:

* John Wayne as Genghis Khan, “The Conqueror,” 1955.

* Yul Brynner as Pancho Villa, “Villa Rides,” 1968.

* Zsa Zsa Gabor in title role, “Queen of Outer Space,” 1959.

* Richard Dreyfuss as Baby-Face Nelson, “Dillinger,” 1973.

* Frank Sinatra in title role, “The Kissing Bandit,” 1948.

* Rod Steiger as W.C. Fields, “W.C. Fields & Me,” 1976.

* And, of course, Tony Curtis as a Cossack warrior with a Brooklyn accent, “Taras Bulba,” 1962 (“Yonda lies da castle of my faddah, the Khan.”)

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And a Razzie in the making: Shooting will start soon on “Jefferson in Paris,” a film about Thomas Jefferson, who will be portrayed by Nick Nolte.

What? Stallone wasn’t available?

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Not a protest against Abe!Scott Dewees sent us a photo he took a year ago of demonstrators outside the Lincoln statue on 1st Street Downtown near the county courthouse. Actually, they were picketing the nearby Academy Awards show.

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Who says the big-time sports schools ignore books?For exterior shots of a college gymnasium, the makers of the movie “Blue Chips” used USC’s bookstore.

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Those things happen when you only have 35 years to build a freeway: Jane Gifford observed that when you drive eastbound on the Century Freeway from LAX, you first see a sign that says Vermont is three miles ahead. “Then,” she added, “after another mile or so, the next sign lists Vermont Avenue as 3 3/4 miles.

In other words, it seems the closer one gets to Vermont, the farther away it is!”

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And after what he did to Abel: The School of Theology at Claremont has installed a “Cain Professor of Theology and Ecclesiology.”

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The Cain professorship, by the way, was named for Richard W. Cain, a former president of the school, not for the Biblical bad brother.