2000 plans for Jones, Stevens, Spielberg

GOOD MORNING: The big three met in L.A. Thursday to formalize plans for the millennium show from Washington. The three are Quincy Jones, George Stevens, Jr. and Steven Spielberg. (Conversations have been ongoing with the Clintons). The locations will include the Mall, Washington and Lincoln Monuments and the White House, with the dinner portion of the New Year's Eve program from 8-10 p.m. (EST) and the show building up to midnight. John Williams is at work composing music and Spielberg is assembling film of the century (and more?). Quincy, at whose home the trio met, sounded more excited about this event than any with which he's been associated. "It's an amazing time," he exuded. On another musical front, Jones is amazed the tune, "Soul Bossa Nova," which he wrote 38 years ago, opens and closes "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." "I can't believe it," Jones laughs, "And I wrote it in 20 minutes." Lalo Schifrin is on piano on the record. "He introduced me to bossa nova when I met him in Rio back in the '60s. And now Mike Myers is going to be stuck with it the rest of his life." Jones met Myers on a "SNL" gig in 1990. "We were in a skit in which we both wore kilts!" The "Austin Powers" theme song has also been used in a Nike commercial and Jones says a rap version has been made by the Highway Bombastic Group! It was also re-recorded five years ago by the London band Dreamwarriors ... Gene Barry, who hasn't sung in a N.Y. cabaret in over 20 years, begins a two-weeker at the Oak Room of the Algonquin, July 20-31. Of course, Barry began his career on B'way, and returned in 1983 to star as Georges in "La Cage Aux Folles," for which he was Tony nominated.

NO NUDES IS GOOD NUDES. From the editing room at Shepperton Studios, "The Debtors" director Evi Quaid said she was cutting down a racy scene in the pic starring Michael Caine, Catherine McCormack and Evi's husband Randy Quaid (who, in a nearby Shepperton stage, was hanging from a harness with Whoopi Goldberg for a blue screen scene in Robert Halmi's "Leprechauns"!). "I've been encouraged to tone down a scene," admitted Evi about the pic's S&M fashion-heavy party sequence, in which a member of the German rock band Rammstein wears rubber genitalia. She said the film's full-financial backer Charles Simonyi didn't like the idea, nor did Michael Caine's agent. But Evi claimed, "I know Michael's sense of humor and I know he'd love it. After all, his movie 'Get Carter' is enjoying a re-release in England and in it, Michael and three black beauties are seen in a, shall we say, a very adult scene." (Upcoming for Caine are "Quills" and "Cider House Rules"; in the latter, he sports his first American accent, which he says is tough to do) ... After viewing the latest editing on "Debtors," Evi says, "Simonyi now wants more" rubber organs in the scene! Forget it. They'll take the completed pic to the Toronto Film Fest and toss a big party for an anxious list of distribs, she says ... Director Quaid, who received advice on directing before the start of this film, is next planning a pic based on Dostoyevsky and his 20-years-younger, gambling-crazed wife Polina Suslova ... Christiane Kubrick was "devastated by the betrayal" by London Evening Standard film critic Alexander Walker, said Pat Kingsley after talking with Stanley Kubrick's widow. "I know what I'd like to do with him," Kubrick added to Kingsley ... Lee Solters was surprise-partied on his 80th birthday at Frankie's on Melrose by son Larry S. and daughter Susan Reynolds, other family members, and other flacks (former and current). No clients, current or former, no press, just love. Lee can teach today's public relations experts how to be a press agent.

FRANCE'S PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, wife Bernadette and daughter Claude were among those friends who wanted to attend today's Paris funeral for Line Renaud's mother, Simone (94), who died Tuesday. Renaud said she'd gotten calls from her mother's friends in Las Vegas, L.A. as well as all parts of the world. We in L.A. had come to love her as well and Simone adored America. Line and her mom were very close and it will be a difficult time ahead for Renaud. She will be helped by a busy sked, which includes working with the new Paris Hotel in Las Vegas; she will sing there -- for the first time in many years -- at the opening when she'll be backed by Michel Legrand and the Nevada symph orch ... Jean-Claude Van Damme remarries his former wife Gladys Portugues today in Knokke-Heist, Belgium ... John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck are planning a Sept. wedding. They have a (darling!) baby daughter, Stella ... Norman Lear has established a scholarship for a comedian with a disability, to be presented at the 17th Media Access Disability Awareness Awards, Oct. 24 at the BevHilton. Auditions will be held later this summer. Contact the Media Access Office at [phone] ... Rhonda Fleming (Mrs. Ted Mann) is honored Saturday by the Concern Foundation for her contributions to psychological and social care programs for cancer patients at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center ... Writer/producer Stanley Ralph Ross, last week's designated Internet speaker for National Cancer Survival Day, winged to N.Y. to emcee Back to B'klyn Day, back to L.A. for a Friars' fundraiser for Cedars-Sinai cardiac Unit -- and today hosts the "Mrs. Calif. Beauty Pageant." P.S. Ross was also named "Best Minister in L.A." He's got all bases covered.