Record business is a disaster for Disney. Leaked memo from Peter Paterno, president of Disney's Hollywood Records, to company higher-ups indicates the record label could lose as much as $33 million.

Says the memo: "If we choose to be in the record business and if none of (them) sell, I submit that (a big loss) is . . . an inevitable thing."- GOOD SPORT: Zsa Zsa Gabor is the presenter as Alec Baldwin and Sinead O'Connor get the annual Sour Apple Award of the Hollywood Women's Press Club. Zsa Zsa, last year's loser for the dishonor given to each year's least cooperative star, called LaToya Jackson, another nominee for the dubious award, "Toyota Jackson," adding that O'Connor "must have been nursed in pickle jar."

- BEACH BOY Brian Wilson has found a way out of a lawsuit pitting his family against his former therapist. Wilson is allowing a California court to appoint an independent conservator to run his affairs, agreeing to a "lengthy" separation from therapist Eugene Landy.

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Wilson's family had claimed Landy "brainwashed" the singer-songwriter before he rewrote his will in 1989 and named Landy the chief beneficiary. Wilson, says his lawyer, is "happy the hostilities have finally ceased" and is working on a new record.

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