Brigitte Bardot as Don Juan? Why not? La Bardot, 38, in one of the most eye-raising pieces of casting since Sarah Bernhardt took on Hamlet, plays Don Juan as a dancer-turned-impresario whose chief occupation is ruining men of all ages. For the soon-to-be-released film, Director Roger Vadim did quite a job on his former wife: he got her to switch the color of her hair from blonde to brunette and "she even succeeded in changing her childish voice." Fortunately, he left the rest intact.

Settled in a $7.20-a-week cottage, W.H. Auden called his old college town "sheer hell." Only four months ago, the 65-year-old poet escaped from New York to spend his last years quietly at his Oxford alma mater. Imagine his surprise to find the town of Oxford "five times as crowded and the noise of the traffic six times louder." And that isn't all. Auden recently had $117 stolen from him. Sighed he: "Ironically, I had to leave New York and come to Oxford to get robbed." After his comments kicked up a transatlantic furor, Auden, anxious to regain some measure of privacy, hastened to add, "I have a nice little nook in college, so why should I complain?"

Comedian Dick Gregory is not about to agree that the war in Viet Nam is over. Nearly two years ago, Gregory vowed that he would stop eating solid food and run ten miles a day as a protest against the fighting. Now down to 96 Ibs. (from 170 Ibs.), Gregory says he will continue his fast because "we're still at war. We're providing the ammunition and the supplies, and we're still bombing Laos." Some day he hopes to get back on a regular diet, says Gregory, and then he won't care who gets into a scrape or where: "I wouldn't give up eating again if they were fighting in my own house."

Behaving more like a fearless cowhand than a member of royalty, Princess Anne, 22, did not hesitate when a fellow huntsman tumbled off his horse. "Leave the horse to me!" she shouted, then overtook the runaway on her own bay gelding, swung low in the saddle and grabbed the horse's reins to bring it to a halt. Later in the Cheshire Hunt, another rider fell: "The princess jumped over me and went straight after the horse," the fallen rider recalled. "She did very well to catch him. Afterward she said to me, 'You were very lucky. I nearly landed on you.' " -

For a sentimental movie fan it seemed something like a nightmare: Liz and Dick Burton were getting a divorce in public--and on TV at that. No fear. The TV split was for one of ABC's quickie nighttime movies, Divorce; His--Divorce; Hers. It was the Burtons' twelfth flick together since it all began on the set of Cleopatra eleven years ago. Stories from the set made it clear that the Burtons had considerable trouble sticking to the soapy script, with such forgettable lines by jilted wife Liz as, "You'll never be able to give as much of your sheer presence as I find necessary."

Stampeded in recent years by voracious freeloaders, the New York Film Critics decided to make their awards ceremony strictly a private affair. The bash at Sardi's was closed to reporters and all but a few pressagents and publicists. The critics did relent enough to let in the winners and their stand-ins, like John Gielgud, who collected the Best Actor's prize for Laurence Olivier (Sleuth). Liv Ullmann not only grabbed the prize as Best Actress (Cries and Whispers) but picked up three awards for her director Ingmar Bergman (Best Director, Screenplay and Picture awards for Cries and Whispers).

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