TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.

Byline: Jenny Peters

THRILL OF VICTORIANS: Slip dresses were the outfit of the evening on Tuesday at the gala premiere of Shekhar Kapur's epic film ``The Four Feathers,'' especially when it came to the mother-daughter duo of Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson.

Kate, who stars in the Victorian-era drama, was slinky in medium-blue spaghetti straps, a Christian Dior dress and Versace shoes (spiky gold ones, in fact), while Goldie wore an equally form-fitting and decolletage- revealing seafoam green number.

Hudson was accompanied by her musician husband, Chris Robinson, while Hawn's significant other, Kurt Russell, failed to make an appearance.

Both mother and daughter have films opening Friday (Hawn's is ``The Banger Sisters''), but neither one seemed worried about the competition.

``We're just having a complete blast. It's great,'' giggled Hawn, and the celeb-filled audience at the Mann Village in Westwood concurred, giving the film a roaring ovation as the credits began rolling. Britney Spears seemed to love it, although her bodyguards made it a bit hard to see her reaction (but even they couldn't hide the fact that she was wearing pants so low they define the term ``too much information'').

It was a night of female-singer sightings, as Macy Gray, LeAnn Rimes and Anastacia joined the festivities, too, along with studio bigwigs Sherry Lansing and Harvey Weinstein and the film's Djimon Hounsou, who looked like he just came from a softball game, in baseball cap and T-shirt.

At the under-the-stars party in the courtyard at the Armand Hammer Museum, guests dined on rare roast beef and spicy chicken while sipping white wine and Grey Goose vodka. The movie's lead actor, hunky Heath Ledger, got cozy with fellow Aussie Naomi Watts (whose spangly, cranberry-colored dress and dishabille hair evoked a Glamour ``don't'' moment).

Hudson's binding yet beautiful costumes from the film were strategically placed around the softly lit courtyard.

``Oh, the corset,'' commented Hudson. ``Those problems that I had with the corset! I actually almost fainted a few times.

``They weren't very comfortable, but they are beautiful. I'd love to have one of them, just to have, but I'm not, like, 'I must have all my costumes, now!' I'm not like that. I don't demand those things.''

JACK AND A PLAY: You might have heard that Jack Nicholson showed up for the opening night of playwright (and longtime television scribe) John Herman Shaner's newest work, ``Fellow Traveler,'' in Malibu.

But what you might not have heard was what happened on stage.

Star Mimi Cozzens suffered ann unexpected (and unscripted) fainting spell, midsentence, just as the second act began.

Amid the excited talk of calling paramedics (led by an immediately proactive Jack Nicholson), Cozzens came to, shook it off and - trouper that she is - went on with the show. When she arrived later at the after-party, held at the cozy and beautiful Wandermere Farm, Cozzens looked fresh and glamorous - and none the worse for the experience.

Perhaps it was the comfort food - divine chicken stew, mashed potatoes and an awesome English trifle - catered by Jane Windsor (wife of Charles Morowitz, the play's director) and Gabrielle Harris of ``Anyone for Tea'' that made Cozzens feel better?

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(1) HUDSON, ROBINSON: `Four Feathers' star and a Black Crowe.

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(2) SPEARS: Waist not, want not.