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CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR HIS SPEECH: Harrison Ford will receive the Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement during Sunday's ceremony.

"It's a Geezer of the Year award," Ford, 59, tells TV Guide but in relatively good humor.

Past winners include Walt Disney, John Wayne and Gene Kelly.

"See what happens? You get a lifetime achievement award, then you end up dead," Ford says.

The standup comedy circuit beckons.

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HIS DATE: More interesting that Ford's speech will be whether he arrives accompanied by a female not related to him.

New York magazine says Ford and Minnie Driver, 30, have been dating for a month, and word is they will make their first public appearance together Sunday.

Both actors' reps wouldn't comment.

Ford is separated from his wife of 18 years, E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison. Driver split with fiance Josh Brolin last year.

Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday dug out a 1998 interview in which Driver said that among older men, she would "really fancy" Ford.

IF ONLY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY COULD FINE HER: Halfway through January, the sexiest woman in the world for 2002 has already been anointed: It's Britney Spears, according to the men's magazine Stuff.

"Spears is so hot she may be a bigger threat to the environment than global warming," editor-in-chief Greg Gutfeld says in a Launch.com report.

Rounding out the top 10: Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz (the winner last year), Heather Graham, Alyssa Milano, Angelina Jolie, Beyonce Knowles of Destiny's Child, actor Jaime Pressly, singer Shakira and Brooke Burke, host of E!'s Wild On.

FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD: So much for the line about a healthy appetite making a woman sexy. Knowles has had to give up one of her obsessions, fried chicken from the Popeyes chain, for her role in the next Austin Powers movie, the New York Post says.

Her contract stipulates that she work out daily with a personal trainer. To be on the safe side, she gave her father temporary custody of her Popeyes "lifetime membership" card, which entitles her to free food at any Popeyes.

How do I get a Godiva lifetime membership card?

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