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TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.


Byline: Elizabeth Snead and Joel Stratte-McClure

A FREE SHIRT FOR EVERY STAR: Kirsten Dunst Kirsten[1] Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, known for her roles in (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On  certainly doesn't look too upset about her bust-up with Jake Gyllenhaal Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal[1] (born December 19 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at 11 years old. .

But her hair's looking totally sad. Wearing jeans, baggy top, long bangs and a strange fake hairpiece, Dunst posed with hot girl group the Donnas at the American Eagle Block Party at Ivar Tuesday night.

Then Dunst disappeared into the hot Hollywood club while the Donnas rocked the house. Fans like Donovan Leitch Donovan Leitch can refer to the following people:
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 and Andrew Firestone Andrew Firestone (born July 10, 1975) is the second son of Brooks Firestone, and the great grandson of Firestone founder, Harvey Firestone. Firestone graduated from the University of San Diego with a degree in business administration in 1998.  bopped to ``Take Me to the Backseat,'' ``It's on the Rocks,'' ``You Wanna wan·na  
Informal
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2. Contraction of want a: You wanna slice of pie? 
 Get Me High'' and ``Who Invited You?''

The evening kicked off an online auction (www.ae.com) of customized Gibson guitars donated by the Donnas, Black-Eyed Peas, N.E.R.D., Danger Mouse, D12, the Darkness and Ima Robot. Proceeds fund VH1's Save the Music Foundation supporting music in public schools.

Some autograph hounds flocked around ``The Simple Life'' star Nicole Richie, who managed to sign several without even putting down her new T-Mobile Sidekick. Now that's what we call multitasking multitasking

Mode of computer operation in which the computer works on multiple tasks at the same time. A task is a computer program (or part of a program) that can be run as a separate entity.
.

But Amy Davidson, Andy Dick, Courtney Peldon, Dean Cain, Allison Munn, Izabella Miko and Beverley Mitchell made a beeline bee·line  
n.
A direct, straight course.

intr.v. bee·lined, bee·lin·ing, bee·lines
To move swiftly in a direct, straight course.
 out to the AE Customized T booth where guests were advised to decorate their free shirts with anything from ``your favorite vacation spot to the street you live on.''

Yeah, right. Celebs got a little more, um, creative.

Davidson selected ``Boys R Stupid,'' and Munn went with ``I Love Buster.'' Cain decorated his with ``Christopher's Daddy'' in honor of his little son. Dick kept it simple with a succinct ``A Dick'' on his shirt.

``AE has relaxed and cool clothes,'' said Cain, a self-professed Donnaholic. ``But the reality is that everybody in Hollywood will show up anywhere and stand in line to get something for free.''

Ain't that the truth!

THE SHARP EDGE: It wasn't exactly a ``Monsoon Wedding'' on the ultra-modern rooftop of the Beverly Hills L'Ermitage Hotel Tuesday night.

But friends, fans and press watched the glorious pink, red and orange sunset as they toasted ``Vanity Fair'' director Mira Nair.

Nair arrived in L.A. after the recent New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 premiere of her epic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's scandalous 1847 novel.

For Nair, directing ``Vanity Fair'' was a childhood dream come true. She first read the book at age 16, while attending boarding school, and has reread Verb 1. reread - read anew; read again; "He re-read her letters to him"
read - interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
 it every two years since.

``But I didn't know about the project, and I did not chase it,'' Nair said. ``The studio offered it to me after the success of 'Monsoon Wedding,' with no clue of my personal history with the novel.''

Those who haven't read the novel quite as often as Nair may not recall how deeply Thackeray delved into the intersection of colony and empire.

``It was the money from the colonies that made the empire rich, and it made the nouveau riche want to belong to the older monied aristocracy,'' Nair explains. ``The foundation of the book was all about the plunder TO PLUNDER. The capture of personal property on land by a public enemy, with a view of making it his own. The property so captured is called plunder. See Booty; Prize.  of the colonies.''

And, as she did in 'Monsoon Wedding,' Nair fills the screen with the colorful and exotic splendor of Indian history, fashion and culture.

Nair hopes that a modern female audience will identify with Becky Sharp's social struggles.

``I think we are all Becky Sharps,'' says Nair. ``She is the victim of a society who gave her a certain card to play. She didn't like that card and wanted a new deck. That is what women do today, but in that time they were not permitted to do it. It was all sit quiet, be pretty and hope the guy proposes, and that was their lot. But Becky is a motherless orphan from the wrong side of the tracks and has to make her own way using the only ammo she has - her looks and sexuality.''

To Nair, ``Vanity Fair'' still tells timeless truths.

``The question Thackeray asks is: 'Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us, having met his or her desire, is satisfied?' We should all ask ourselves that question.''

Nair will continue to plumb eternal questions with her next ``call of the heart,'' a script adapted from ``The Namesake,'' by young Pulitzer Prize-winning author (``Interpreter of Maladies'') Jhumpa Lahiri.

``It's a sprawling but intimate story about a young immigrant's life voyage from Calcutta to New York, which is very much my own story,'' Nair says, adding, ``It will star a big Indian actor and a big American actress, but I cannot tell you their names yet. But soon.''

We can hardly wait.

THE LIPS HAVE IT: It's time you knew the truth about your favorite stars.

Britney Spears loves to get Kinky kink·y  
adj. kink·i·er, kink·i·est
1. Tightly twisted or curled: kinky hair.

2.
. Gwen Stefani is into Fairy Dust. Eve wants you to Tie Me Up. And Alanis Morissette screams Hands Off!

Yep, these gals are hooked on lip glosses from Pout, the 3-year-old British cosmetic line with playfully provocative names now sold at select Victoria's Secret shops, including ones in the Beverly Center and Glendale Galleria.

Pout co-founder Emily Cohen cohen
 or kohen

(Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male.
 and two girlfriends, Chantal Laren and Anna Singh, created the line as an alternative to expensive, oh-so serious beauty lines. Since nothing is more fun and girly girl·y  
adj.
Variant of girlie.
 than lingerie, they created Pout lipsticks, glosses, eye shadows, mascara and blusher with a sexy boudoir theme and mint green and pink satin and lace packaging. Suddenly, stars were begging for it.

``Humor is the key for us,'' said Cohen. ``We don't take ourselves too seriously - we're just having fun with it.''

And don't get your knickers in a twist over makeup. Looking pretty should be easy, fun and fast. ``It should take you five minutes to put on your makeup.''

``We've really tried to make it affordable (most items are under $25) and easy,'' Cohen says. ``Besides, its not sexy to look like you're wearing a ton of makeup.''

OUR BAD: Sharon Stone was plenty PO'd by a recent magazine report that alleged she'd had a face lift. ``They're just jealous bitches!'' she railed about People magazine editors at the Project Angel Food Awards last weekend as reported in Spywitness on Friday. Oops! The magazine that made the claim was actually Us Weekly, not People, as Stone's rep was forced to confirm. People magazine didn't appreciate the mix-up one bit.

CAPTION(S):

4 photos

Photo:

(1) NOT A BETTY OR VERONICA: A Donna sings at the American Eagle Block Party.

Debbie Vanstory/Abaca Press

(2) NAIR: She rereads ``Vanity Fair'' every two years.

Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com

(3) SPEARS: Her gloss is your gain.

Lester Cohen/WireImage.com

(4) no capiton (Sharon Stone)

Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
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