Page Six, May 2, 1996

WHILE Kevin Costner, Oliver Stone, Richard Dreyfuss, Tony Curtis, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg will be at the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday as guests of Vanity Fair, some other stars will be at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street here helping bury “A Current Affair.” The original tabloid TV show, which spawned a dozen imitators and revolutionized the industry, is going off the air after 10 years in syndication, and the black-tie funeral will be attended by 275 guests, including Kato Kaelin, Joey and Mary Joe Buttafuoco, LaToya Jackson, and Tonya Harding. Managing editor Barry Levine couldn't locate Kathy Willets, the Florida nymphomaniac whose cop husband watched from the closet while she turned tricks with other men; Michelle Cassone, the fun-loving Palm Beach woman who bit senior correspondent Steve Dunleavy on the hand when he pulled her dirty photos out of his pocket; or Sheriff Corky, the midwestern lawman who returned a rental camcorder without erasing the homemade porn tape he'd made with his wife. Those other tabloid anti-heroes, Amy Fisher and Robert Chambers, are in jail and had to send their regrets, but the tapes of their most memorable performances will be playing for the duration of the blast, as well as a gag reel of the best flubs by the beloved “Current Affair” anchors who'll also be paying their last respects: Maury Povich, Maureen O'Boyle, Jim Ryan, Penny Daniels and John Scott. So many of the show's alumni are flying in from “Hard Copy,” which is produced on the Left Coast, “the producers were worried about them flying on the same plane,” said one source.