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JOEY GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

You can take the Lothario out of Long Island, but can you take the Long Island out of the Lothario? No matter, Joey Buttafuoco is leaving New York and the auto-body repair biz behind to pursue that age-old Hollywood dream: stardom.

``We're well-accepted out in California,'' he said Monday. ``They have a different attitude there. ... I'm not this image built up by the media.''

Buttafuoco, who spent 4{ months in prison for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, the 16-year-old Long Island Lolita who put a bullet in the head of his still-loving wife, Mary Jo, insists: ``I'm not a bad guy. I'm just a regular kind of guy.''

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