Any paparazzo will tell you it is a dog-eat-dog business, but those on the Caroline off Monaco beat know it better than most. Since her divorce from Philippe Junot, the jet-setting playboy, Caroline, 24, rarely makes the scene. Yes, there is the occasional rendezvous with Close Friend Roberto Rossellini, 31, Ingrid Bergman's son. But generally the princess restricts her company to another tall, dark male. He is an Alsatian named Oenix and clearly the jealous type.

Recognize that carpenter?

Hint: he is the only cabinetmaker in the country equipped by a presidential Cabinet. Since returning home to Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter, famed fly-fisher, softballer and jogger, has been honing his skills at yet another avocation. Using the tools presented to him by his Cabinet members, he has already completed a table for his office. Last week Carter came out of the woodwork to visit Princeton University, where he hammered away at "the lethargy of Congress and the irresponsibility of the American press."

The President may enjoy the creak of a Western saddle, but he is not nearly as at home on the range as his Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. For over 15 years, Nebraska-born "Mac" Baldrige, 58, has been riding in as many as ten rodeos a year, often finishing in the money ($6,000 last year) in his specialty, steer roping. Last week in Phoenix, Baldrige competed for the first time since joining the Administration. He lost, perhaps because rounding up his department "has taken precedence over rodeo practice." But he did snare an even bigger prize: the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's Man of the Year award. Shucks, the Cabinet cowpoke was clearly overwhelmed: "They only give this to top rodeo people."

"People think I'm secretive and reclusive," says a wistful Woody Allen, 45. "I'm not. It's just easier for me to work without a lot of attendant publicity." Thus when Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater announced that Allen was writing a play to open there next month, those curious about The Floating Light Bulb were kept in the dark. Last week, however, Allen agreed to illuminate the work a bit at a photo session with Beatrice Arthur, Jack Weston and other cast members. "It's a modest little play," he insists. "The basic idea is an enclosed domestic situation, not really as large in scope as a film." Does it contain an Allen alter ego? "Not even remotely," says Woody, though cast members think they recognize him in a 17-year-old character whose magic trick gives the play its title. Is it funny? "Well," he says, "it's not a door-slamming bedroom farce, but it is a comedy --I hope." --By Claudia Wallis

On the Record

William Safire, columnist, describing budget-slashing OMB Director David Stockman: "A blow-dried Grim Reaper."

Erma Bombeck, humorist, on what women discuss in beauty parlors: "Pretty much the same things men talk about in bars, only they don't care about who won the pennant."

Eartha Kitt, singer, on why she is moving from the West Coast to the East: "Everyone's on cocaine or marijuana. There's no one out there for me to play with any more."

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