Mamma Mia and Woody

Our New York correspondent got lucky the other night, spotting the elusive Mia Farrow and Woody Allen out for an evening on the town. Mia, we’re told, looked exquisite in her vertically striped black-and-white jacket with peaked lapels. Her hair was pulled off her face, Alice in Wonderland style. But Woody apparently doesn’t even dress up for Arcadia, which is the very ritzy restaurant they were in. He wore a regular white shirt, standard-issue pants, and when he rose to leave, he put on “the same green Army-style jacket he always seems to wear,” our reporter said. Listen loves him anyway. We’re happy he and Mia get out at all, what with their new baby and her other kids.

Best Ears of Our Lives

We thought we’d heard it all. But now, ear this. Bellarri International Diamond Corp. has named the “10 personalities whose ears generate most eye appeal when wearing earrings.” And the winners are: Princess Diana, Joan Collins, Carol Channing, Raquel Welch, Raisa Gorbachev, Diahann Carroll, Barbara Walters, Susan Lucci, Donna Mills and . . . Gregory Hines? Yes, the actor-dancer is the only male on the list and was so voted because he “turns a jeweled ear into an abject male fashion statement, a completely normal look. This is no small accomplishment,” our note from Bellarri says.

Ol’ B.H. Gang Is Booked Up

We’re not sure what Cesar Romero was wearing all those Monday nights he spent roller-skating down the driveway of the Beverly Hills Hotel. All we know is he did it regularly, about 30 years ago. Romero’s story is just one of the zany tales told by one of the famous citizens in “Beverly Hills, An Illustrated History.” Of course, there’ll be a party for that ol’ gang--and the new book--at the Greystone mansion Thursday night. Romero and Loretta Young, Charlton Heston and other longtime luminaries of B.H. have been asked to dress for cocktails. But because the evening includes a walking tour of the 21-acre estate, one guest tells Listen: “I’m putting my Nikes in my purse.” She’s Kathleen MacKay, who co-authored the book with Genevieve Davis.

Designs All A-Glo

Stephen Sprouse, New York’s “bad boy of fashion,” isn’t bad or a boy anymore. The 32-year-old still wears his hair matted and multicolored, but now he’s more polite--he even has sufficient light at his fashion shows so the audience can see his clothes. Strengthened by sound financial backing and two well-received collections--Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry and dozens of upper-crust store buyers applauded his fall line in New York a few weeks back--he’s ready to take his Day-Glo act on the road. He’ll open a shop right here in Beverly Center next weekend and says he’ll “hang out there for a while to make sure everything is just right.” The 2,600-square-foot shop will feature his signature look: Decor will be silver, with Day-Glo yellow accents; clothes will feature the sensational Day-Glo “Biblical graffiti squiggle print,” designed by artist Keith Haring and translated into ‘60s-style outfits by Sprouse for fall.

Nordstrom Gets an Assist

The National Council on Communicative Disorders held an awards ceremony Thursday at Kennedy Center in Washington. An award for individual achievement went to Bob Love, former star of the Chicago Bulls and current employee of Nordstrom, which was honored for corporate achievement. Here’s the story behind that news. Love’s severe stutter during his sports career prevented him from doing endorsements, commercials or even making easy social chitchat. When back problems ended his career, he became a busboy in Nordstrom’s restaurant division. He was promoted to dishwasher, then quality control manager. Store executives eventually suggested he get speech therapy, for which Nordstrom paid. They urged him to apply for more responsible jobs after his stutter was cured. Now he’s manager of health and sanitation for the retail chain’s more than 50 restaurants. We just thought you’d like to know.

Art Imitates Aliens

We hope the plot is as good as the costumes. Advance word on “My Stepmother Is an Alien” (scheduled for release in November) leads us to believe there will be some heavenly clothes in this film. We’re told Kim Basinger descends her spacecraft dressed in a bright red, form-fitting outfit topped with a wide-brim “spacey” hat. Later, she gets decked out in a wedding gown that is sedate from the front and sensational from the back, where it has a huge heart-shape cutout. Agnes Rodgers created Basinger’s costumes, but we’re told the actress is the one who designed the drop-dead heart. The men in the film supposedly look pretty spiffy too. For a steamy love scene with Basinger, actor Jon (“Saturday Night Live”) Lovitz wears a velvet smoking jacket and silk pajamas, supplied by Rick Pallack in Sherman Oaks. In fact, all of Lovitz’s film wardrobe is supplied by Pallack, who tells us the actor used to work for him.

And the Nominees Are . . .

Can you wait? The California Mart and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will bequeath their annual Rudi award (named in honor of Rudi Gernreich) to a California designer on Sept. 28. The winner will be one of the following five nominees announced this week: Robin Piccone (of Body Glove), Glenn Williams, Karl Logan, Leon Max and Marina Spadafora. All are Los Angeles-based. At the same September shindig, an up-and-coming local designer will receive the Mart’s annual Rising Star award, and a more established type will get the annual Lifetime Achievement award. This year’s event will benefit the Doris Stein Design and Research Center for Costumes and Textiles at LACMA.

On His Toes

Alexander Godunov has his summer fashion look all set: shoulder-length hair covered with “wet look” mousse, khaki work shirt unbuttoned to here and wide-wale corduroy pants the same color as the shirt. The dancer stopped by the other day, so we showed him a few new styles in men’s shirts. Some had pleated bibs, powder blue flower appliques or matching iridescent plaid vests. One even had its own ascot. But Godunov isn’t about to start wearing them, no matter whose fashion runway they come from. “Sorry girls,” he told us. “Not for me.”