PEOPLE

By Belinda Luscombe

OUT OF GRUNGE AND IN VOGUE

The media have a new hobby: making over COURTNEY LOVE. The woman with the Kewpie-doll-gone-bad wardrobe has let herself be gussied up by some of the best gussiers in the land. Can that really be her in Vogue, looking like every dewy 16-year-old who graces its pages? "We've given her the Vogue makeover," says editor Anna Wintour. "Whether she's going to follow it, I don't know." Meanwhile, some would make over Wintour. While lunching at New York City's haute Four Seasons, she was approached by a woman who flung a dead raccoon on her plate and screamed, "Anna wears fur hats!" The activist then fled, and an unrepentant Wintour calmly said to a tablemate, "Merry Christmas."

SEEN & HEARD

Dustin Hoffman isn't satisfied with Tootsie. The movie was fine, but his share of the profits was not--so he is suing Columbia Pictures for more than $1.5 million. He claims he was supposed to get 25% of the gross profits after the movie earned $130 million, but that when Tootsie was sold to TV, the studio did some fancy financial footwork to avoid paying Hoffman his due.

He's back! Steve Jobs is returning to Apple, the company he co-founded in 1976 in a California garage with Steve Wozniak and then left in a bitter dispute 11 years ago. Apple has announced that it is buying Jobs' NeXT Software Inc. for $400 million and bringing Jobs himself in to help buttress the combined company against the depredations of competitor Microsoft.

UP AND AWAY FOR PAM AN

PAMELA ANDERSON LEE just can't stay out of the news. Years ago she shocked the nation when she left Home Improvement for a show that was also laughed at a lot, Baywatch. But snug red swimsuits need no translation, and the show became a huge international success. Now she has shocked everybody again by announcing she will leave Baywatch. "Giving birth to my son Brandon has opened my mind to explore many new personal and professional opportunities," she said. But there is hope for blondophiles. NBC is creating a sitcom for Pam-in-waiting Jenny McCarthy.

DON'T DALLY WITH DALAI

Warning to the stars: making movies may be bad for your passport. According to a Tibetan advocacy group, such names as BRAD PITT, HARRISON FORD and Martin Scorsese are on a persona non grata list at the agency that handles visas for Chinese-occupied Tibet. Scorsese is directing Kundun, a movie about the Dalai Lama, written by Ford's wife Melissa Mathison. Pitt is currently making Seven Years in Tibet. Two sources told the International Campaign for Tibet that they saw the list on a wall at a Chinese Information Travel Service office in Lhasa. "It was in a back room, the office of the head honcho," says John Ackerly, spokesman for the group. A CITS spokesperson in Beijing denied the existence of the list.