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MORE NAKED TRUTHS: In the battle between grand ideas and grand bodies, grand bodies will always win.

So why would George Clooney think anyone would want to ask him anything else about his ambitious new grand-idea movie, Solaris, but, "So, you're naked. Did you work out?"

"I find it funny, because we're trying to talk about things on a much grander scale, with a story that contains questions about the cosmos," Clooney tells Newsday, "and it'll come down to a 30-second sound bite where I say, 'Yeah, I worked out.' "

Clooney's naked posterior is seen in two scenes of the film, which opens Friday.

THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES: You could be the next Sonny Bono.

You might not end up as the mayor of Palm Springs or a member of Congress, but you can write a song for Cher.

America Online is co-sponsoring a "Write a Song for Cher Contest," in which the winner will work with Cher, Grammy-winning producer David Foster and Academy Award winner Carole Bayer Sager. Cher will record the winning submission, and it may be released on an album, a news release says.

You have to be an AOL member to enter, but that's a small price to pay for the chance to top I Got You Babe.

MORE OF WHY WE LOVE OUR RELATIVES: Eminem's grandmother Betty Kresin wants you to know that her grandson's movie, 8 Mile, is not all fiction, no matter what he says.

"He struggled to get where he is today, and he did get beat up a few times," Kresin, 63, tells New York's Daily News.

"And his mother did live in a trailer, but there's one thing -- this is the fictional part -- it wasn't a trashy trailer."

STOP THE PRESSES: "New survey predicts slow economy won't stop women shoppers," is the headline on a press release that arrived this week.

But that applies only to clothes shopping for themselves. Of the 516 women polled by Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch-Express Omnibus, a market research firm, 46 percent said they would cut back on the number or cost of holiday gifts they buy.

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