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Kate Winslet razzberryed 1998's "Shakespeare in Love," for which Gwyneth won Best Actress, and instead made hideous "Hideous Kinky" . . . Burt Reynolds quit "Terms of Endearment" to be replaced by Jack Nicholson who copped an Oscar for it. Burt then chose "Stroker Ace" with Jim Nabors, which was about as well-received as Lyme disease . . . Albert Brooks poo-poo'd the lead in "When Harry Met Sally," which he considered too Woody Allen-ish. The pic he then picked, "Defending Your Life," was even more Woody Allenish, in that it never made a dime.

Chevy Chase turned down "American Beauty," which went to Kevin Spacey. Chase then chose "The One Arm Bandit," which maybe you've heard of but nobody else has . . . Benicio Del Toro opted for the shoot-'em-up bomb "Way of the Gun" rather than the Academy Award-nominated role in Julian Schnabel's "Night Must Fall" . . . Emily Watson received a nomination for "Breaking the Waves." Helena Bonham Carter had turned it down for "Shadow Play," a vehicle which didn't even pass Go. It went direct to video . . . Kate Hudson's "Almost Famous" role, which put her in the Supporting Actress category, was first dangled in front of Sarah Polley, who balked at the topless scene. Polley went onto absolutely no glory in "The Weight of Water" with Sean Penn. It drowned.

"Fatal Attraction" put Glenn Close up for Best Actress. Debra Winger had refused the part of Alex to play an FBI agent pursuing a serial killer in the dismal "Black Widow" . . . Remember "Kramer vs. Kramer"? Kate Jackson was originally picked to play Dustin Hoffman's estranged wife, but her "Charlie's Angels" TV show couldn't work around the movie's production schedule, so Meryl Streep got it. Plus a statuette. And what did Kate Jackson get? Agita . . . Matthew McConaughey was first choice for "Titanic." However, he preferred a different boat movie, Steven Spielberg's "Amistad." It went glub, glub.

William Baldwin first got offered Brad Pitt's J.D. part in "Thelma and Louise." Baldwin's instinctively brilliant selection was, instead, "Backdraft," which bombed . . . Hot off "Happy Days" in 1978, Henry Winkler wanted Carl Reiner's "The One and Only" opposite Herve Villechaize and didn't want "Grease." John Travolta did . . . William H. Macy said no to being J. Jonah Jameson in "Spider-Man" and yes to "Welcome to Collinwood," which was not welcomed anywhere. Same movie, John Malkovich said no to being the Green Goblin, but yes to "Ripley's Game," which no one remembers. It then went to Nicolas Cage, who also said no and yes to "Windtalkers," which everyone forgets. Willem Dafoe eventually said uh-huh.

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Warren Beatty selected the 1970 omelet "The Only Game in Town" rather than playing Sundance . . . Will Smith refused "The Matrix" with: "I was like, 'Computers take over the world? Yeah, right.' I thought, better do a really good film like 'Wild Wild West,' OK?" Oddly, his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith subsequently did "The Matrix" . . . Peter Boyle told Baird Jones at Webster Hall that his agent made him believe "The French Connection" Popeye Doyle role, which subsequently won Gene Hackman Best Actor, was not for him. Says Peter: "Instead he made me do 'T.R. Baskin,' which nobody recalls. That was 30 years ago and I still can barely talk about it."

1977: Harrison Ford's "Star Wars" part could have been had by Nick Nolte. Nick's pick was opposite Jacqueline Bissett in "The Deep," which since got buried real deep. 1999: Val Kilmer could have prevented Laurence Fishburne from nabbing the Morpheus role in "The Matrix" if he hadn't selected the disastrous "At First Sight," which at second sight everyone deemed disastrous. 1994: Halle Berry did "The Flintstones" rather than "Speed," which Sandra Bullock did. And Molly Ringwald skedaddled from the Julia Roberts hot hit "Pretty Woman" to make "Strike it Rich," which didn't.



John Cusack passed on Woody Harrelson-Demi Moore's "Indecent Proposal," which had a millionaire role described as "Trumplike." Cusack said: "Why'd I want to watch Demi f - - - Donald?" He opted for "Map of the Human Heart," about an Inuit hunting his beloved. "Indecent Proposal" had success. "Map of the Human Heart" had a coronary.

Randy Quaid's still complaining he nixed the Samuel L. Jackson role in director Renny Harlin's "Deep Blue Sea." The Quaids had $4 mil of their own in the comedy "The Debtors," wherein Randy played a compulsive loser gambler. Half a dozen years later it's still tied up in litigation. It's never even been released.