GRANT WATCHBrown’s Story: A British Sunday tabloid...

GRANT WATCH

Brown’s Story: A British Sunday tabloid published what it said was an exclusive interview with Divine Brown (Stella Marie Thompson), the woman identified as a prostitute who was arrested with actor Hugh Grant for lewd conduct in public last week. Brown, 25, alleged in the News of the World that Grant had picked her up in his white BMW convertible, handed her three crumpled $20 bills and asked for sex. Other British media reports said Brown was paid up to $150,000 for the interview. . . . Meanwhile, on Sunday, photographers and camera crews kept up their vigil outside the English country home that Grant shares with his longtime girlfriend, actress-model Elizabeth Hurley. Grant spent Sunday alone in the house from which Hurley had sped away Saturday after spending a day with Grant. Hurley was believed to have gone to Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, central England, home of Lord and Lady Ashcombe, whose son Henry Brocklehurst is one of her close friends.

Granting Support: Cosmetics company Estee Lauder is standing by Hurley after Grant’s arrest. “Elizabeth Hurley’s contract with Estee Lauder remains unchanged. We stand by any decision Elizabeth makes in her personal life and have not offered her any advice,” Estee Lauder CEO and President Leonard Lauder said in a statement Sunday. “Our campaign is going forward as planned. We are supportive of Elizabeth in every way. . . . We are extremely pleased with the work she is doing for us.”

PEOPLE WATCH

Working It Out: Roseanne will bring her “work in progress” routine to the Comedy Store in Hollywood for four consecutive Wednesday evenings beginning this Wednesday at 8 p.m. The actress and comic will try out new material for an upcoming stand-up comedy tour. Because it’s a work in progress, Roseanne will donate all proceeds from the gig to Children of the Night, a group that aids runaway children.

Wedding Nerves: Tom Arnold, Roseanne’s ex, who is about to be married, admits he’s having some prenuptial jitters. Best man Chris Farley of “Saturday Night Live” is partly to blame. “I’m worried about him stripping naked and running through the ceremony,” Arnold said. Arnold will marry Julie Champnella on July 22 in Dearborn, Mich. Arnold, 36, and Detroit-native Champnella, 22, met when the former university student was visiting California.

Starship and Burgers: Stan and Kim McClain of Pasadena will have some special guests at their back-yard barbecue in Pasadena on Saturday. Jefferson Starship will perform for the couple--who won classic rock station KLSX’s (97.1 FM) back-yard barbecue concert--and 50 of their friends. The band will play “Somebody to Love” among other rock anthems. The couple was chosen from thousands of contest entries in a drawing.

TV & VIDEO

Pulp Video: “Pulp Fiction,” from acclaimed director (and former video store clerk) Quentin Tarantino, will be released on home video Sept. 12. The Academy Award-winning film starring John Travolta and Samuel Jackson is Miramax’s highest-grossing movie ever with a $107 million take at the box office.

Turner & Turner: One Turner will honor another when cable’s Turner Classic Movies pays tribute to Lana Turner, who died last week, with a retrospective of her work beginning Friday. “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and “The Bad and the Beautiful” will air Friday, along with rare footage of Turner performing the musical number “A Great Lady Has an Interview,” which aired on Ed Sullivan’s “Toast of the Town” in 1954. Beginning Monday, the network will air a Turner movie every evening for a week, including “They Won’t Forget” and “The Merry Widow.” American Movie Classics, another cable network, has announced that its Turner retrospective will air in August.

Apollo 13 Documentary: The movie “Apollo 13” re-creates the story of the astronauts who were temporarily lost in space, but “20th Century With Mike Wallace,” the documentary series on A&E;, will take viewers back to relive it. The documentary “Apollo 13: Crisis in Space,” which airs July 12 at 7 and 11 p.m., presents original news footage from the time of the crisis and tapes of the voices of James Lovell, Fred Haise and John Swigert as they deal with the emergency in space.

QUICK TAKES

Tony-winner Glenn Close gave her last Broadway performance as Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard” on Sunday. Now Betty Buckley, who sang the role for almost a year in London and takes over for Close in New York on Tuesday, is getting ready for her close-up. . . . Steven Seagal will get his feet--and his hands--wet when he leaves his imprints in cement in front of Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood on July 10. His movie, “Under Siege 2: Dark Territory” opens July 14. . . . Mia Farrow met with Czech President Vaclav Havel at a Prague inn Saturday night. Farrow is in the Czech Republic as a guest of a film festival. . . . Legendary lawyer Gerry Spence, author and legal commentator on the O.J. Simpson trial, will host a prime-time call-in show beginning Friday on the CNBC cable channel.