West Palm Beach liberal radio screamer Randi Rhodes has found herself a new job.

And you won’t believe where!

In the house that Rush Limbaugh built, that’s where!

The raspy-voiced Rhodes just signed on with the Premiere Radio Networks, home of the Hard Right’s Dr. Laura, Glenn Beck, Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

Strange bedfellows? You bet. Ratings for Rhodes’ lefty rantings actually will benefit from the huge numbers that Palm Beach’s Limbaugh garners. She signs on for her three-hour show immediately as Limbaugh signs off, at 3 p.m. on work days. She starts May 11.

Is the D.C. chatter about bringing back the Fairness Doctrine and truly balanced programs having Premiere honchos quake in their boots?

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Former baseball superstar slugger Jose Canseco will fall hard.

In a sense, he already has.

Jose Canseco in training (Photo by AP)

Canseco, who’s now as well known for the book that blew the lid off baseball’s dirty little steroid secrets as for his towering homers, is scheduled to get in the boxing ring for a three-round bout June 27 in Fort Lauderdale.

In a tabloid twist, some of the proceeds of the evening of boxing will go to the John Graziano Foundation, a foundation for a Tampa man seriously injured in a 2007 accident with wrestler Hulk Hogan’s son.

No venue’s been picked yet, but chances are Canseco’ll fight someone off the street.

Well, this being Florida, it’s someone off the mall!

Promoters will be accepting $50 applications to fight Canseco at the Dadeland Mall near Miami noon at 4 p.m. Saturday.

Hear that, Mark McGwire? No need to remind you that Canseco wrote he injected you personally with ‘roids! (Read more…)

Jupiter big screen legend Burt Reynolds ventured south this morning to distill some of his hard-earned wisdom to local students who won the Palm Beach International Film Festival’s student showcase.

Every year the festival, which ended Monday, rewards two college and high schoolers who produce their own films with $5,000-grants, a prize aptly named Burt Reynolds Scholarship. It was the first time in 14 years that Reynolds was able to attend and hand winners Savannah Winchester, who goes to West Palm Beach’s Dreyfoos School for the Arts, and Kristen Harding, of Spanish River High in Boca, their dough. 

Burt Reynolds with scholarship winner Savannah Winchester of Dreyfoos School for the Arts Tuesday at PBCC (by Gary Coronado)

“We just got lucky he was in town,” said Palm Beach County Film Commish Chuck Eldred. 

Speaking in a hushed tone, Reynolds told the students gathered at Palm Beach Community College that the great Spencer Tracy once told him: ”Never let anybody catch you acting, always look natural!”

Festival chair Yvonne Boice managed to ambush the 73-year-old star of Boogie Nights and The Longest Yard, and made him swear, cross his heart, that he’ll be one of the celebrity guests at next year’s festival.

Burt Reynolds with showcase winner Kristen Harding of Spanish River High School (Photo by Gary Coronado)

No wonder Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade seems distracted at times this playoff season.

Rumors that his paramour, actress Gabrielle Union, recently was or currently is expecting his lovechild have been dogging Wade – this, as he fights through a nasty divorce with his high school sweetheart.

While Union, 36, denied it on a black entertainment website – “I love my margaritas too much,” she said – I’m told Wade’s soon-to-be-ex wife, Siohvaughn, went ballistic when Wade, 26, told her about the new baby. Especially since Siohvaughn accused the NBA’s top scorer in court documents of not taking care of the two rug rats they have together.

Does this woman look pregnant? (Courtesy Maxim online)

Siohvaughn told one of Olympic hero Wade’s former business partners in Fort Lauderdale that she was convinced Union was with child. Siohvaughn, who isn’t talking directly with the press after Wade filed a lawsuit in their hometown of Chicago demanding that she keep her mouth shut, also said Wade later claimed the pregnancy announcement was an “april fool’s joke.”

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Maya, the endangered jaguar cub born at the Palm Beach Zoo, is turning six months old Tuesday. By far the biggest celebrity at the park, the little one’s starting to look like a jaguar instead of a cuddly kiddie!

Maya turns six months old Tuesday