By Belinda Luscombe

AWKWARD TURNER EVENTS

Hell, as it turns out, hath a lot more fury than a woman scorned-at least if the woman is Kathleen Turner. The bassoon-voiced actress, starring on Broadway in Indiscretions (a revival of Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles), was the only member of the show's five-person cast not to get a Tony nomination. The snub was compounded in awkwardness because Turner had been chosen to read the nominations to the press and because her fellow reader, Jeremy Irons, then drawled cattily, "I always think it's better to be nominated than to win." Other than that, how do you like the play, Ms. Turner? "I was taken off guard," she says of l'embarras terrible. "But I'm absolutely thrilled for the play. It proves to me the excellence of the project."

SEEN & HEARD

Perhaps hoping to move her image Audrey Hepburn-ward, Julia Roberts flew to Haiti last week to act as unicef's goodwill ambassador to the newly democratic but still impoverished country. The actress visited orphanages, vaccination programs and schools. But while delighting the people of Haiti, she disappointed the folks at Disney by taking a pass on its script for the Pretty Woman sequel.

He didn't seem to enjoy himself much last time, but Mark Fuhrman wants another day in court. The Los Angeles police detective has filed a $50 million libel suit against the New Yorker and writer Jeffrey Toobin for a July 1994 article he says exposed him to "hatred, contempt and ridicule." The article explored his psychological records and quoted O.J. Simpson's lawyers calling him a "rogue cop."

APART AGAIN, NATURALLY

Their marriage has been on and off like a light switch, but now Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson say they have definitely made up their mind: it's off. A spokesman for the couple (seen here in happier days last year) confirmed that the split was final. Conveniently, Griffith has never withdrawn the divorce papers she filed in March 1994, before the twosome attempted a last reconciliation. Also conveniently, Griffith has reportedly struck up a new relationship-with Antonio Banderas, her (married) co-star in the recently wrapped romantic comedy Two Much.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

The famous won a round against Britain's notoriously nosy tabloid newspapers last week. It all started when Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, told a friend he was leaving his wife and taking his children to America. The story was credible: Spencer's wife Victoria Lockwood is undergoing treatment for eating disorders, and their marriage has been strained. But it was false: Spencer made the whole thing up to see whether his friend was leaking stories to the News of the World. Sure enough, the next day's front page carried the story, and Spencer came forward to reveal the hoax. Editor Piers Morgan said the paper's 13 million readers would be "baffled" and "insulted" by his actions.