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POP ART: Just call him -- Dad? Sean Connery says he's mulled over an offer to play Bond pere to Pierce Brosnan in the 007 movie, GoldenEye, out this Christmas. ''It has been mentioned, but so far I haven't talked seriously about it,'' says Connery, who adds that he'd take the role ''if it was well written.'' One father figure he would play again, however, is Indiana Jones' old man. ''I would do it in a minute,'' he says. ''That was good fun. Maybe I should pay Harrison [Ford] a little fatherly visit.'' -- Cindy Pearlman
JACKSON HEIGHTS: The time: April 3. The place: Excalibur, a strip club in Columbus, Ohio. The player: recording artist and psychic hotline hostess La Toya Jackson. The scene: Jackson on stage for the first of eight booty-shaking shows over four nights. Wearing black lingerie under a silver jacket, fishnet stockings, and knee-high boots, she sang to five taped songs, including two by the Jacksons, while flanked by two dancers. What did the two dozen or so audience members think? ''Major rip-off,'' said a man who attended with his wife's permission. Said another onlooker: ''She should have taken more off. That's what you expect in a place like this.'' Explaining Jackson's appearance was Jack Gordon, her Svengali manager/husband, whom she once threatened to divorce. ''You have 10,000 of these venues in America,'' says Gordon. ''Why not utilize them?'' -- Erik Battenberg
DEBRIEFED: Onetime underwear model Mark (Marky Mark) Wahlberg says it was a desire to be taken seriously that came between him and his Calvins. But even after his starring role as a drug-addled city kid in The Basketball Diaries, Wahlberg's fans won't let him be debriefed. ''People still expect me to come into a room with my pants hanging down,'' says the rapper-actor. ''At first it was cool. Then it became the only thing I was known for. I was stripped of my voice. I was just a torso.'' Now free of his B.V.D. endorsements, Walberg adds: ''I can wear Fruit of the Looms and not get sued for it.'' -- CP
LOEB AND BEHOLD: The Loeb family wants its MTV. And they've got it. First, Geffen artist Lisa Loeb became a music-video darling with her Ethan Hawke-directed ''Stay'' clip. Now Loeb's 24-year-old sister, Debbie, is spoofing Ricki Lake-style chat shows in promos for the music network. ''I never thought I'd make it on MTV,'' says the younger Loeb, a multimedia performance artist who once toiled as an MTV International production assistant. ''I thought Kennedy would have to be excommunicated or something.'' Any chance MTV will make her Debbie Loeb Show a real gig? An MTV spokeswoman says a series hosted by Loeb could happen, although not in the immediate future. -- Anderson Jones
ETC.: Leave it to Oprah to find the one person not obsessed with the O.J. Simpson case. Stedman Graham, Winfrey's significant other, ''is the only person I know who didn't see the Bronco chase,'' says Winfrey. ''He called me from a library'' -- where he was researching his new book The Ultimate Guide to Sport Event Management and Marketing -- ''that night, and I go, 'Are you watching!?' And he's like, 'Watching what?''' -- With two Vegas-based films on his resume -- Honeymoon in Vegas and the upcoming Leaving Las Vegas -- Kiss of Death's Nicolas Cage has a confession to make: ''I am sick of Vegas. I don't want to be in the state of Nevada. I don't want to see any more Elvis impersonators. I don't like gambling. I don't even like the free buffets.''
