PEOPLE

By Belinda Luscombe

THE NOT-VERY-LONG KISS GOODNIGHT

Video-store owners in Helsinki may want to relegate all GEENA DAVIS' movies to the back shelves again. The quirky actress and her Finnish husband of four years, action-movie director RENNY HARLIN, have been separated since April, publicists for each say. While popular opinion holds that this is because the two movies they made together, Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight, were such box-office poison, the couple say they intend to keep working together. Perhaps they'll even take a leaf out of JERRY HALL and MICK JAGGER's book of marital adventures. Barely seven months after the Texan temptress called on Princess Diana's divorce lawyer for a wee spot of legal advice, she's three months pregnant with the couple's fourth child. Jagger, 53, already has two grandchildren for his newest offspring to frolic with.

DEACTIVATION IS PAINLESS

No matter which episode of M*A*S*H you watch, you'll hear someone complaining about being there. Last week two of the chief whiners, Major Frank Burns (LARRY LINVILLE, left) and Major Charles Emerson Winchester (DAVID OGDEN STIERS, right), along with series creator LARRY GELBART (middle), went back willingly. They were invited to Korea by the USO to commemorate the deactivation of the last M*A*S*H base in Korea, the 43rd Surgical Hospital, which also happens to be the one on which the book, the movie and the TV show were based. "It was very, very un-Hollywood," says Gelbart. "The battalion band played the theme song and they cased the colors." But where were Klinger and Radar?

SEEN & HEARD

The only problem most people have with Wolfgang Mozart is that he didn't write enough. But recently, Iowa musicologist David Buch unearthed some snippets that were probably written by the maestro shortly before his death at 36. The two passages were part of a collaboration with other composers on longer operas.

Vanessa Redgrave has also found a lost gem. She read in a Tennessee Williams biography about an unproduced play, Not About Nightingales, bought the rights to it from the estate and will co-produce it next year with the Royal National Theatre. Nightingales deals with life in a U.S. prison.

THE TAO OF POW!

It's not like winning an Oscar, but STEVEN SEAGAL has a new line for his resume. The action star has become a Buddhist and has reportedly given money to the Tibetan cause. Now he has earned a title for his efforts--tulku, recognition that he's a reincarnated lama (that's the priest, not the beast). The honor was awarded by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, Supreme Head of the Nyingma lineage and the 11th Throneholder of the Palyul monastery. Not all Buddhists are happy about the award. There are accusations that tulku titles are being sold.