Morning Roundup

After wrapping his latest film, Hancock, Will Smith gave the set crew cards redeemable for a personality test at the local Scientology center.

Kate Winslet has filled the role recently vacated by Nicole Kidman in Scott Rudin’s forthcoming film The Reader.

Thanks to the canceled Golden Globes this year, L.A.’s economy stands to lose $75 to $100 million.

Director Julian Schnabel wore pajamas to the Critics Choice Awards on Monday, where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were able to sneak Heinekens from the “closed” bar.

A Miami gallery owner, who designed the logo for Nicky Hilton’s clothing line, says Ms. Hilton failed to hold up her end of the bargain.

Bill Maher was seen getting “several lap dances” at Scores East strip club.

L.A. socials Francesca Cecil and Brittny Gastineau were seen fighting over Andrew Freston, 23, son of former Viacom chief.

Jamie Lynn Spears is apparently “gaga” over the Juno soundtrack.

Joey Buttafuco says he’s “[bleep]ing furious” over his sex tape, which is being released this week.

Power publicist Lizzie Grubman claims she’s been hounded by “every single candidate” for money and help.

Another employee of Michael Shvo, vice president of sales Tali Geva, has just quit.

Some five years after producer Julius Nasso pleaded guilty to trying to extort money from Steven Seagal, the two men have made up.

Burlesque star Dita Von Teese is suing dominatrix Cynthia Butler for allegedly stealing her half of the rights to a film she made.

Comics David Cross and Patton Oswalt are feuding over Mr. Cross’ decision to take a part in the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie.  read more »

To keep her kids away from the paparazzi, Reese Witherspoon sends them to the set of her new movie well in advance.

Norman Mailer once wrote US immigration officials a letter recommending Tina Brown be given a green card.

A new “behind-the-scenes” Sex and the City book may be in the works.

Mary Jo Buttafuco is extremely displeased with all the attention Amy Fisher has been seeking and getting for her new sex tape.  read more »

Nicole Kidman, rumored to be pregnant, had dropped out of Stephen Daldry’s drama The Reader, which was supposed to begin shooting this month.

Friends of Paul McCartney say the former Beatle has been battling heart problems for years.

Sarah Jessica Parker will host a screening of Today’s Man tonight at the Tribeca Grand.

Hollywood is scrambling to figure out what to do without writers for Awards Season.

Lots of celebs are hanging out on Harbour Island: Drew Barrymore and Justin Long; Cameron Diaz; Richard Gere; Thom Filicia; and Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson.

Maxim has poached a top editor from OK!.

Longtime couple Norah Jones and Lee Alexander broke up recently.

A company is planning to make neckties with John Lennon’s paintings on them.

CNBC’s Erin Burnett is turned on by men who can plan trips to Mongolia, Mozambique or Papua New Guinea.

Ann Coulter is no longer dating Andrew Stein.

When Shaquille O’Neal stays at the Marriott in South Beach, many women leave his hotel room.

Gus Wenner, son of publishing mogul Jann, was accepted early to Brown.

Nicollette Sheridan and fiancé Michael Bolton were difficult guests at a St. Barts resort.  read more »

Cops were called to Britney Spears’ home last night to handle custody dispute. 

In Denzel Washington’s new film, The Great Debaters, dialogue among student orators that is meant to be fact-based is not.

Mischa Barton may have arranged to have the paparazzi photograph her walking out of an L.A. church wearing white, carrying a parish brochure.

Amy Fisher will deejay a party tonight promoting her hard-core sex video. 

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are expecting twins—friends of the couple are shopping for one girl and one boy. 

Jay-Z is stepping down as the head of Def Jam records because the position didn’t pay him enough. 

Jeffrey Epstein’s court date has been pushed back to March. 

Avril Lavigne almost cried at a New Year’s Eve party when Lil’ Jon stole the mic and the spotlight. 

Kim Kardashian’s friends keep insisting that she is marrying Reggie Bush.  read more »

Comedian Chris Rock brought the house down with laughs and applause at his sold-out New Year’s Eve performance at MSG.

Lindsay Lohan’s finances are not so hot right now.

White-shoe lawyers for Britney Spears quit yesterday, apparently because of a “breakdown in communication.”

Diane Keaton doesn’t mind being older and unmarried.

Wyclef Jean got carried away on a live MTV show and invited “everybody” to his Saddle River, NJ, home for New Year’s.

After Dina Lohan learned that Lindsay’s ex, Riley Giles, sold his story to Britain’s News of the World, she called his mother.

In a relatively major procedure, Paul McCartney had his clogged arteries cleared last fall, his rep confirmed.

ABC anchor Bob Woodruff has recovered completely after being wounded by a bomb in Iraq two years ago.

Former Dawson’s Creek actor Joshua Jackson forced guests to leave the penthouse suite at the Soho Grand on New Year's Eve.

Musician Pete Wentz told a videographer at a New Year’s party that he wanted his girlfriend, Ashlee Simpson, to practice the countdown so she wouldn’t “[bleep] it up.”

Director Ang Lee had trouble shooting the sex scene in his new film; it took him two weeks to do.

The US publication of Lady Colin Campbell’s roman-a-clef is sure to displease Lily Safra.

Pamela Anderson was seen in Vegas with her ex-boyfriend, who is only 5’ 5”.

The “Jints”—a fake football team in I Am Legend—and the New England Patriots are in “separate conferences,” so they couldn’t play one another as the film suggests.  read more »

The Box owner Simon Hammerstein: “[Bleep] Ashton and Demi, they are so up their own arses.”

Mischa Barton’s ex, Cisco Adler, thinks she looks hot in her mug shot.

Lindsay Lohan made out with three different men in the course of one day in Capri.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., may be Vladimir Putin's newest eco-adviser.

On New Year’s Eve, Britney Spears spent the day and night with her two sons, a court-appointed monitor and her new boyfriend.

If so inclined, hotel guests may now meet the Ritz staffer who served Henri Paul drinks before he drove the car that killed Princess Diana.

Jimmy Fallon used to want to be a priest; now he’s married.

Turns out conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, who once wanted to oust Bill Clinton from office, actually likes the former president.

Model Rie Rasmussen is directing her first feature film, a drama about her adopted Vietnamese sister.

Kristi Schiller, a.k.a. Lucy Lipps, wants to sneak aboard Microsoft mogul Paul Allen’s huge yacht, currently moored next to her hosts’, and force him to fix her frozen computer.

Since Steven Spielberg is directing a biopic about Abbie Hoffman, the director might want to call Bob Fass, who has many taped interviews with Mr. Hoffman.

Dave Chappelle and his wife, Elaine, got into a spat at Union Square Coffee Shop, caused according to one report because the comedian flirted with a model in front of his children.

DJ AM, a.k.a. Adam Goldstein, reveals to Glamour magazine that his life has not always been easy.

Things are super down in Palm Beach, where a new bar for thirsty dogs has just opened.

Will Leitch has penned a tell-all, God Save the Fan, which reveals scandals involving ESPN anchors.

Heather Mills threw a $60,000 New Year’s party, which reportedly included personal remote controls for the guests and fireworks.

Sting sucks on the toes of his wife, Trudie Styler.

Mischa Barton was so difficult to deal with at the opening of a Las Vegas club, the proprietors were happy to hear about her DUI bust.

At the opening of Jay-Z’s new 40/40 nightclub, in Las Vegas, the rapper partied with Mary J. Blige, Alan Thicke and LeBron James.

New York Ranger Brendan Shanahan just nabbed a $13.44 million condo on Park Ave.

Actresses Laura Linney and Daryl Hannah like getting older.

Drinking booze and frequenting strip clubs helped Erik Lindsay make his American Pie sequel films.

Singer Travis McCoy of the Gym Glass Heroes will leave Brooklyn for a one-bedroom pad in Murray Hill.

Adam Sandler, David Spade and Kevin James celebrated Judd Apatow’s birthday at The Bank at Las Vegas’ Bellagio.  read more »

Well-knowns like Philip Glass, Anderson Cooper and Amy Sacco recount nightmare New Year’s Eve tales.

Sean McEnroe, son of tennis legend John and actress Tatum O’Neal, threw a tantrum when he wasn’t let into Pink Elephant nightclub.

When Mary-Louise Parker had dinner in the West Village the other night with sometime lover Jeffrey Dean Morgan, she was overheard trashing one of her Weeds co-stars.

Kate Moss’ rep was appalled by the mere suggestion the supermodel be a guest on Web show LateNet with Ray Ellin.

Before Beyoncé performs somewhere, she demands “"juicy baked chicken legs heavily seasoned with fresh garlic, seasoned salt, and black and cayenne pepper;” singer Eve, on the other hand, requires “there be no use of Styrofoam or plastic goods, no leather furniture, and only recyclable materials."

Eliot Spitzer’s daughter, Elyssa, has no intention of going into law.

When Lauren Bacall recently arrived at midtown restaurant '21,' she rasped: “When was the last time you people polished my plaque?”

Ivana Trump and fiancé Rossano Rubicondi are spending New Year’s in Aspen.

In New York, New Year’s Eve parties will be hosted by John Legend and Scott Weiland; Federico Castelluccio, Paul Sorvino, Jerry Masucci and Chazz Palminteri; and Kevin Dillion.

Bigwig residents of Chelsea apartment building are fed up with construction noise coming from new Wyndham Hotel next door.

Jenna Fischer, star of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, gets a tad racy on her MySpace blog.

ANTM winner Saleisha Stowers learned about family values from her grandmother.  read more »

Film producer Jon Peters has been slapped with two sexual-harassment lawsuits. [Page Six]

Jessica Simpson’s new film, Blonde Ambition, took in a whopping $1,322 on its opening weekend. [Page Six]

Russian heiress Anna Anisimova’s onetime fiancé, David Weisser, moved all his stuff out of the houses they shared. [Page Six]

Producers of Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish’s new film, Stop-Loss, would rather focus publicity on the film than on the couple’s 2006 fling. [Page Six]

Former NBA star Manute Bol will hold a rally in Des Moines on New Year’s Day, demanding that the presidential candidates address the genocide in Darfur. [Page Six]

When Giorgio Armani showed up at the Armani Exchange in Soho, all hell broke loose. [Page Six]

A woman rumored to have slept with Prince Philip in the late 1940s, when Queen Elizabeth was pregnant, has now died. [Page Six]

Vanessa and Donald Trump, Jr., will celebrate their December birthdays tonight at classy Miami club Mansion. [Page Six]

Lindsay Lohan spent Christmas Eve at Entourage star Adrian Grenier’s Brooklyn pad. [Page Six]

Leonardo DiCaprio and Bar Refaeli have rekindled their romance. [Gatecrasher]

Many celebrities spent the holidays in hot and luxe locales; in St. Barts alone: Padma Lakshmi and financier Teddy Forstmann; Nicolette Sheridan and Michael Bolton; Ronald Perelman; Terrence Howard; Donny Deutsch and others. [Page Six]

To avoid paying a parking ticket, Drew Barrymore and boyfriend Justin Long chased down the parking cop who slapped one on their Vespa. [Page Six]

David Beckham said he has no problem with men checking him out; he’s honored to be a gay icon. [Page Six]  read more »

Tom Brokaw and Don Imus are no longer friends; Mr. Brokaw said he thinks Mr. Imus should have been fired, and the shock jock said the former anchor is not courageous. [Page Six]

Martha Stewart jokingly wishes that someone had slaughtered Donald Trump and made steaks out of him. [Page Six]

The details surrounding the Palm Beach death of hedge funder Seth Tobias have gotten stranger, more lurid. [Rush&Malloy]

Sarah Ferguson is reportedly getting romantic with Norwegian frozen foods mogul Geir Frantzen. [Page Six]

The Spice Girls’ reunion tour might not being doing so well. [Page Six]

At Chelsea’s Abacadabra magic store today, Mrs. Claus will spank willing patrons. [Page Six]

At a poorly-air conditioned hotel in Kiev, Moby called the front desk asking for a fan; the man on the other end thought he meant groupies and told him there were none. [Page Six]

Juliet Huddy, who co-hosts a morning show on Fox, named Hulk Hogan and Jessica Alba her two worst guests ever. [Page Six]

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s daughter, Apple, was very sweet and talkative to the staff at a West Village store; her dad was not. [Page Six]

The Soho Grand hosted several A-list parties the other night. [Page Six]

Joan Collins’ daughter, Tara Newly, likes younger men, as does her mother. [Page Six]

A fancy Palm Beach salon closed in the middle of people’s sessions. [Page Six]

Pamela Anderson, who dates poker player Rick Solomon, was seen getting cozy with magician Criss Angel. [Page Six]  read more »

Robert Redford contradicted an earlier statement by saying that his Sundance Film Festival has remained “anti-Hollywood” all these years. [Page Six]

Kate Moss is working hard to have her ex-beaux Pete Doherty prevented from selling private home videos of the pair. [Page Six]

After news of her 16-year-old daughter’s pregnancy broke, Lynne Spears’ book deal went down the tubes. [Gatecrasher]

Larry Flynt made fun of Rudy Giuliani’s decision to move in with his gay friend after he split from Donna Hanover. [Page Six]

Two much-loved East Village bars, Sophie’s and Mona’s, are up for sale. [Page Six]

Liam Neeson agreed to bike to a party in NYC the other night for Matthew Modine’s green initiative, “Bike for a Day.” [Gatecrasher]

Annabel Vartanian's publicist wants everyone to know that her client passed out at a recent La Perla party because she’s just worn out. [Page Six]

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was on fashion detail at Georgette Mosbacher’s recent holiday party. [Page Six]

PETA backs Kim Cattrall’s stance on fur, even if her SATC character loves the stuff. [Page Six]

Sharon Stone reportedly commands $175,000 for 30 minutes of face time at an event. [Page Six]  read more »

Lindsay Lohan went to a party hosted by a power lesbian with her new roommate, Courtenay Semel, and they apparently held hands the whole time. [Page Six]

PETA’s new offices have Zac Posen’s mother’s old phone number; when people call for her, staffers say: “Animals are strangled, electrocuted and even skinned alive for every piece of fur.” [Gatecrasher]

When video tributes from Jennifer Lopez’s ex-lovers, Ben Affleck and Sean “Diddy” Combs, were shown at Harvey Weinstein’s wedding, she looked uncomfortable. [Page Six]

Alexandra Styron was given a six-figure advance to write a memoir. [Page Six]

Jennifer Lopez may be planning to sue her onetime business partner Andy Hilfiger, brother of Tommy. [Gatecrasher]

Justin Timberlake is so good at golf, it bothers writer Carl Hiaasen. [Page Six]

Michael Lohan played the part of Joseph in a Times Square Nativity scene last night. [Page Six]

Knut, the polar bear, was thrown a birthday party on Sunday at the Museum of Natural History. [Page Six]

Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is planning to open a restaurant in Aspen, Colo. [Page Six]  read more »

Publisher Conrad Black doesn’t want his friends, like William F. Buckley and Henry Kissinger, to become his enemies. [Page Six]

French president Nicolas Sarkozy took his new entertainer girlfriend on a date to Euro Disney. [Page Six]

Anthony Minghella sent Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman a congratulatory video that made it seem like he thought the movie mogul was marrying George Clooney. [Gatecrasher]

Harvey Weinstein and his new bride, Georgina Chapman, were planning to spend their honeymoon on Denise Rich’s yacht, but there’s a fuel strike in its homeport of St. Barts. [Page Six]

Tara Reid was hospitalized in Bali after falling during a night out partying. [Gatecrasher]

Designer-party promoter Malcolm Sirrah kept putting Lydia Hearst’s name on his invitations without her consent. [Page Six]

Jennifer Love Hewitt may or may not be pregnant. [Gatecrasher]

Dallas Cowboy fans may think that Jessica Simpson has something to do with her quarterback boyfriend’s poor performance on Sunday. [Page Six]

At his 50th birthday bash at the Time Warner Center, CNBC’s Donny Deutsch told pals that he was the “luckiest man on earth.” [Page Six]

Pamela Anderson cannot decide whether or not to divorce her husband, Rick Salomon. [Page Six]

A very exclusive new lounge in town, 1 Oak, would only let Patrick McMullan inside if he promised not to take pictures. [Page Six]

Musician Dave Grohl can offer advice to others on how to stay clean. [Page Six]  read more »

John Travolta, who was apparently slated to play J.R. Ewing in a feature film version of Dallas, has been replaced by Ben Stiller. [Page Six]

Recent rumors that Lindsay Lohan sells her own staged photos to photo agencies may be true; this time she arranged to be shot going to a recording studio. [Gatecrasher]

W.G.A. strikers on the Fox Studios lot drink Champagne and hook up with each other. [Page Six]

Donald Trump and Jimmy Fallon had to wait outside in the cold for an hour before Neil Young’s concert started last week. [Rush&Malloy]

Bill Clinton said he “saved Bono’s life” by letting him ride in his caravan in 1992; the singer got to a football game an hour early and they became friends. [Page Six]

Gossip Girl's Blake Lively likes to shop in Soho and anywhere else that has “cobblestone and tree-lined streets.” [Gatecrasher]

If Mayor Michael Bloomberg were to run for president, he’d want Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as his running mate. [Page Six]

A pregnant Jennifer Lopez went shopping in New York on Wednesday night. [Gatecrasher]

Rosie O’Donnell has been documenting her family swimming with dolphins with a Flip video. [Page Six]

The “Dell dude,” who was busted in 2003 for buying pot, is now a bartender at Tortilla Flats in the West Village. [Page Six]

Film producer and maybe-onetime-mob-associate Jules Nasso has been asked to chair the 2008 Staten Island Film Festival. [Page Six]

Juno actress Ellen Page prepped for the role by reading Pregnancy for Dummies. [Page Six]

At a Costume National party, Willem Dafoe said that his first job, binding Penthouse and Hustler magazines, was not erotic. [Page Six]  read more »

America’s Most Smartest Model contestant Andre Birieanu thinks VH1 destroyed him. [Page Six]

Fidel Castro doesn’t shave his face because he thinks it saves him 10 working days a year. [Rush&Malloy]

The Olsen twins went to the Bowery Hotel with Full House’s Bob Saget and John Stamos. [Page Six]

Designer Erin Fetherston cuts her own bangs every few weeks with good scissors. [Page Six]

Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams may be dating. [Page Six]

The "little person" Paris Hilton saved in Miami was rushed to the hospital because of a his bad kidneys. [Page Six]

Look’s director Adam Rifkin said that shooting one of the scenes for the film, which opens today, nearly got him in trouble with the law. [Page Six]

Hilary Swank accidentally placed her boob on Bob Balaban’s head. [Page Six]

Comic Jim Florentine doesn’t know why Howard Stern’s sidekick Robin Quivers is dating him. [Page Six]  read more »

Producers of MTV’s The Hills scrambled to set Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port up with Frenchmen. [Page Six]

Reese Witherspoon can’t handle Vince Vaughn’s laissez-faire approach to working on their film. [Gatecrasher]

Bravo is planning a Manhattan version of The Real Housewives of Orange County. [Page Six]

They’re already planning a Sex and the City sequel. [Page Six]

Debbie Dickinson, Janice’s sister, has started modeling again. [Page Six]

Surprise! Padma Lakshmi was rude to her waiter at a SoHo restaurant. [Gatecrasher]

CNN tries to juggle an honoree featured on a program and a big advertiser, whose work is the bane of the honoree’s existence. [Page Six]

Music producer J.R. Rotem acted like a diva at an awards show and claimed he impregnated Britney Spears. [Page Six]

A high school that will soon open in Florida is to be called the George Steinbrenner High School. [Page Six]

An editor for a movie that Oprah’s producing got married in the editing room with Denzel Washington as his best man. [Page Six]  read more »

Charlene Marshall, wife of Brooke Astor’s son Anthony, went to a book reading for a new Astor biography and made a scene. [Page Six]

Steve Martin called up the owner of the Cutting Room and asked if he could play the banjo there later that night; he could and he did. [Page Six]

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin appeared to be very much in-love while dining recently at BLT Fish in Union Square. [Gatecrasher]

Howard Stern says that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have “put a plague” on his Upper West Side block. [Page Six]

Hilary Rhoda’s Chihuahua was rushed to the emergency room last night after eating a packet of poison; Ms. Rhoda was still able to co-host a party at the Neue Galerie. [Page Six]

Madonna may have kicked other students out of a yoga class at the Reebok Sports Club so she could have the room to herself. [Page Six]

Russian heiress Anna Anisimova recently had breast implants, but she posed for Tatler in a modest one-piece bathing suit. [Page Six]

Pictures of Ethan Hawke and his longtime lover after the jump. [Gatecrasher]

President Bush’s cousin, George Herbert Walker, is getting married to Nancy Dorn. [Page Six]

Donna Karan may have a new “boy toy.” [Page Six]

D.A. Robert Morgenthau is thinking about retiring soon. [Page Six]

Jackass’ Steve-O showed up to the taping of Spike TV’s Video Game Awards too drunk to go on camera. [Page Six]  read more »

PETA takes aim at the fur-wearing Olsen twins, calling them “Hairy Kate” and “Trashley.” [Page Six]

Lance Armstrong played celebrity musical chairs at Art Basel last weekend. [Gatecrasher]

A photo agency may or may not be floating around pics of a “very enhanced-looking” Anna Wintour. [Page Six]

J.Lo and Marc Antony are definitely expecting a boy and girl twins, and they will live a luxurious lifestyle. [Rush&Malloy]

Chris Noth gets recognized as Mr. Big from SATC all the time. [Gatecrasher]

When Jessica Simpson heard that her close friend Eva Longoria was hanging out with Ms. Simpson’s ex, John Mayer, she flipped. [Page Six]

Like Eloise at the Plaza, now there’s Chocolate at the Four Seasons, about a Chihuahua who lives at the hotel with producer/casting director Bonnie Timmermann. [Page Six]

Paris Hilton saved a little person on Saturday night at Art Basel; she stayed with him until he was safely in the ambulance. [Gatecrasher]

Well-known defense attorney Mickey Sherman is in very serious trouble tax-wise. [Page Six]

Music producer Scott Storch might be running out of cash, possibly because he likes to buy diamonds for people like Lindsay Lohan. [Page Six]

Democratic MSNBC pundit Lawrence O’Donnell, who also has a role on HBO’s Big Love, attacked the Mormon Church on the McLaughlin Group. [Page Six]

All $500 tickets for Jean-Gearges Vongerichten’s tribute dinner next year at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival have sold out. [Page Six]

Democratic political strategist Bob Shrum has come out of retirement to teach at NYU, assist British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and garner criticism. [Page Six]

Musician Steven Tyler’s girlfriend got into a fight with another woman at a Florida nightclub. [Page Six]  read more »

Park Posey sipped coffee in Kiehl’s East Village store, but when her dog peed on the floor twice, the actress “didn’t bat an eye.” [Gatecrasher]

A post-Iggy Ellen DeGeneres has teamed up with former Meow Mix owner Richard Thompson to revamp the nation’s dilapidated animal shelters. [Page Six]

Amy Sacco’s engagement to Italian doctor Luigi Di Carolis has been called off; “All that glitter was too much.” [Page Six]

Graydon Carter backed out of possible plans to take over the Plaza’s Oak Room. [Page Six]

Four Seasons hotel chain founder Isadore Sharp’s wife dishes dirty on her ambitious hubby in new book. [Gatecrasher]

Celebs like Paris Hilton, Lucy Liu baffle at Art Basel in Miami. [Gatecrasher]

First daughter Barbara Bush parties in Williamsburg. [Page Six]

Old memos written by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis have been found; one reads: “Republican boys date Democratic girls.” [Page Six]

Anderson Cooper has a huge portrait of his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, hanging in his guest bedroom. [Page Six]

Sean “Diddy” Combs has ended global flings to settle down with girlfriend Cassie. [Page Six]

If anyone was wondering, Valerie Plame will not take off her clothes for Playboy. [Page Six]

Will Smith has offered his public time and support to Barack Obama’s campaign. [Page Six]

Palm Beach residents won’t forgive Jane Fonda for her 1972 anti-Vietnam protest. [Page Six]

George Hamilton to start his own reality show, Don’t Mind If I Do. [Page Six]  read more »

Santa Monica restaurant beats Donald Trump at his own game. [Page Six]

John Mayer and Cameron Diaz snuggled by the fireplace at the Bowery Hotel before leaving together around midnight. [Rush&Malloy]

The Sopranos cast reunited on Mulberry Street on Wednesday night to eat “everything” and gaze at a 7-foot-tall tree of cannolis. [Page Six]

Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock wants to find Osama Bin Laden in a new documentary; Harvey Weinstein bought the rights. [Rush&Malloy]

The U.E.S. co-ops of corporate bigwigs can be the targets of major protests, and that irritates their neighbors. [Page Six]

Harvey Weinstein, Tyra Banks, Eva Mendes, Richard Branson and others helped raise $830,000 for UNICEF and the Sarah Ferguson Foundation at Cipriani Wall St. [Page Six]

Kathie Gifford has been housing Eduardo Verastegul in her Hamptons home; he reminds her of Antonio Banderas. [Page Six]

After many years of being mad at him, the French have decided to forgive Ben Bradlee, honoring him with a Legion of Honor. [Page Six]

One of Annie Leibovitz’s photo assistants was hit by a van while riding his Vespa. [Page Six]

Conn. Sen. Abe Ribcoff’s widow, Casey, threw her 85th birthday party Wed. in the Grill Room at the Four Seasons Restaurant; Gerry Schoenfeld, Oscar de la Renta and Felix and Elizabeth Rohatyn went. [Page Six]  read more »

Steve Tisch, who purports to have girlfriends on both coasts, considers himself “not a great husband” but “a fabulous brother.” [Page Six]

Laurence Fishburne got high before putting Frank Gehry on the back of his motorcycle in Russia. [Rush&Malloy]

Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish are preparing to announce to the world that they’re a couple. [Gatecrasher]

When Joan Rivers performed for Queen Elizabeth in London this week, she cursed 13 times and said: “When I walk along, I can kick my own breasts they’re so low!” [Page Six]

Scarlett Johansson has taken “immediate legal action” against US magazine for its current plastic surgery cover, “Did they or didn’t they?” [Gatecrasher]

Leo DiCaprio and George Clooney are rumored to be developing a film about Howard Dean’s failed 2004 presidential campaign. [Page Six]

Is booze more important than art at Art Basel in Miami? [Page Six]

Martha Stewart decorated a tree in the 36th floor lobby of Sirius radio, where she has a station. [Page Six]

Anjelica Huston once “beat the hell out of” Jack Nicholson. [Page Six]

Do SNL castmates Andy Samberg, Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers actually like each other? [Page Six]

Hillary Clinton played second fiddle yesterday to a conversation between Stephen L. Green and Dennis Miehl at Nasdaq headquarters. [Page Six]

A dirty word in the screenplay for Atonement threatened to pull the plug on the entire project; director Joe Wright refused to budge. [Page Six]  read more »

Victoria Beckham sleeps naked and considers herself “so camp” and “a gay man trying to get out.” [Page Six]

The drivers’ ed. instructor in Borat is suing the film’s makers, claiming he was put in danger. [Page Six]

The elevators at Soho’s Fiamma restaurant confused Ben Stiller, so he ended up hanging out with the wrong party for a little while. [Page Six]

Chris Noth won’t say if the fight sequence in SATC is a dream; “Life is a dream.” [Gatecrasher]

Google’s Larry Page is getting married this weekend on Richard Branson’s Necker Island and the logistics are a nightmare. [Page Six]

At a party in Palm Beach, Princess Michael of Kent was obsessed with people following royal protocol; “Don’t touch me, that’s not done.” [Page Six]

Lance Bass yelled at people smoking pot in the bathroom at Hiro, relieved himself and left without washing his mitts. [Page Six]

Dave Chappelle beat his own stand-up record, telling jokes for six hours and 12 minutes straight. [Page Six]

Atonement’s sex scene was very tricky to shoot. [Gatecrasher]  read more »

At a dinner on Park Ave., Bill Clinton left his seat next to Anna Wintour so he could chat with Penelope Cruz. [Page Six]

Eva Longoria and her seven besties just had a weekend in New York City costing $100,000, but it was somehow free for them. [Gatecrasher]

Helena Bonham Carter on her breast-size while filming Sweeney Todd pregnant: “It’s melons to tangerines.” [Page Six]

Mets pitcher John Maine followed a pretty woman into a stall in Touch nightclub and then asked her if he could try on her dress. [Gatecrasher]

Britney Spears almost flaked out of shooting a $500,000 music video, but after her record label told her they were going to give it to a younger artist, she went to the set. [Page Six]

Tommy Hilfiger made more than $8 million after selling his East Hampton manse for $26.5 million. [Page Six]

Reinaldo Herrera is pleased that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has, so far, honored his citizens’ vote to maintain a democracy. [Page Six]

In his new article, Kurt Andersen suggests that Dick Cheney’s wife, Lynne, has long flirted with one of his friends. [Page Six]

Ethan Hawke has been “incredibly in love” with his children’s nanny for two years. [Gatecrasher]

Paparazzo who was pushed after snapping sneaky pics of Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem kissing just wants “my stuff back.” [Page Six]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have signed up to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show. [Page Six]

On the Spice Girls’ reunion tour, Posh will be the only member of the band not to have a solo. [Page Six]

Some people think that singer Cyndi Lauper inhales helium backstage in order to achieve her signature squeak. [Gatecrasher]

Janet might be missing from the Jackson family’s planned 40-city world tour next year. [Page Six]

Contrary to recent reports, Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz has never filed a cease-and-desist order. [Rush&Malloy]

After years of dispute, artist Cindy Sherman has approved an abbreviated version of a celebrity-stacked documentary about her. [Page Six]

Page Six got quite a makeover! (So did we.) [Page Six]  read more »

Mary-Kate Olsen, a week after her kidney infection put her in the E.R., was out partying at Beatrice until 3 a.m.; she “looked fine to me,” said an eyewitness. [Page Six]

Madonna dyed the sheep on her English estate blue, pink and yellow for a Vogue Living shoot. [Page Six]

Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony D. Marshall, apparently wants to destroy his mother’s beloved dogs. [Rush&Malloy]

Christian Louboutin has designed a custom pair of shoes for Suri Cruise. [Page Six]

Tony Bennett will perform for Hillary Clinton in New Jersey. [Page Six]

Rudy Giuliani’s name is to be dropped in a few forthcoming movies. [Rush&Malloy]

MySpace fiend and reality-TV star Tila Tequila may like men…exclusively. [Page Six]

Jenna Jameson and Richie Rich, of Heatherette, are opening a bar in a since-shuttered China Town whorehouse. [Page Six]

Julia Roberts wants to be seated next to actor Paul Rudd at a dinner party. [Page Six]

David Mamet simply adores the Post! [Page Six]  read more »

When Imus returns to the air, he will likely have “scores to settle.” [Page Six]

So maybe Britney Spears isn’t pregnant after all. [Page Six]

Socialista owner Armin Amiri goes to bat for Penelope Cruz and friends. [Page Six]

John Edwards believes that he has snuffed tabloid rumors that he had an affair. [Rush&Malloy]

Truman Capote’s drinks man, Bobby Van, died relatively quietly on Tuesday. [Page Six]

Emile Hirsch went to Marquee the other night to “lay low.” [