TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.

Byline: Mike Szymanski

WEDDED DISH: A faux bride and groom walked down the white carpet in front of the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood Monday night with the wedding guests, including Ben Stiller, David Crosby and Billy Crystal. It was all for "License to Wed," starring an intrusive pastor played by Robin Williams as the Rev. Frank. Don't let the collar fool you, however, as Williams said, "This isn't my most religious character, no, I think maybe Parry in 'Fisher King' was more of a spiritual character. He was looking for the Holy Grail after all."

In this case, Rev. Frank was only looking to coach a newly engaged couple played by Mandy Moore and John Krasinski, and he often got in the way. "What was it like being in bed with Mandy Moore and Robin Williams? Well, Robin is a bit furry," smiled Krasinki. And Moore gushed, "It was the best summer job I ever had, but it was a bit tough dealing with Robin's ad-libbing all the time. He threw me off, of course."

Others in the cast attending the after-party on the roof of the ArcLight parking lot included Eric Christian Olsen, Christine Taylor, Josh Flitter, DeRay Davis, Peter Strauss, Grace Zabriskie, Rachael Harris and others. A steel-drum band banged out tunes while barbecued pork and mango mojitos were served to re-create the film's romantic honeymoon scenes in Jamaica.

"I think everyone should go through some sort of test, maybe not as rigorous as this one, before they get married," suggested Williams, who's on his second marriage. "It will show how to get through stressful situations, deal with problems with relatives and all sorts of things that will come up later."

It seemed for once, that when it comes to marriage, Robin Williams wasn't kidding.

OH, THE HUMANITY: When Larry Gelbart, who wrote TV's "M*A*S*H" and the film "Tootsie" picked up his Humanitas Prize named after a priest, he quipped, "This really puts a ding in my atheism."

Gelbart won the Father "Bud" Kieser Award at the 33rd Humanitas Awards ceremony Tuesday afternoon at the Universal Hilton. The annual awards recognize humanizing achievements in writing for movies and television. Among the winners were the writers who created the family of talking pig farmers called "Jakers!" -- they won for Children's Animation, while the "Pot Chocolate" episode of "Weeds" took the Comedy Writing Award.

Even though a total of $145,000 was doled out to the winners, some of them didn't want the money. Richard LaGravenese, who wrote "Freedom Writers" and tied with "Venus" writer Hanif Kureishi for the Feature Film Award, said his $12,500 will go to the student writers from the Long Beach school program that the movie depicted. Two of the students portrayed in the film were on hand at the ceremony to accept. Later, writer Salvatore Stabile, who wrote the semiautobiographical film about his family being homeless called "Where God Left His Shoes," picked up his award and $10,000 check saying, "I don't need this money; it will go into the hands of someone who does."

Actors Corbin Bleu ("High School Musical") and Rami Malek ("War at Home") were among the presenters, and Charlie Hauck ("Frasier" and "Home Improvement") emceed.

The winners all seemed very happy, even if some of them were giving their money away.

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(1) KRASINSKI, MOORE and WILLIAMS: Letting the fur fly during three-in-a-bed scene

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(2) GELBART: 'M*A*S*H' was then, this is now

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