December 8 - Whew! What a busy Sunday evening! Jennifer Lopez' new flick Maid in Manhattan mopped up with cast members Natasha Richardson and Amy Sedaris. J. Lo's fiance Ben Affleck, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, actresses Julia Stiles and Kirsten Dunst celebrated after the premiere at the Rainbow Room. Stanley Tucci has a role in Maid in Manhattan, and we guess he's already seen it - he appeared at the premiere, then turned up thirty minutes later at the Broadway opening of Baz (Moulin Rouge) Luhrman's La Boheme.

Understudies must have been strutting Broadway stages that evening since Tucci - currently starring onstage in Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune - and Hairspray's Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur checked out Boheme. Other bold-faced types at the opera-cum-Broadway show included Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Harvey Keitel, Rita Wilson, Katie Couric, Donna Karan and Sandra Bernhard, to name a few. The Sopranos' James Gandolfini turned out even though his hit TV series' season finale was airing that night (what everyone would have been watching had they not been premiere-hopping). La Boheme's early critical buzz and advance ticket sales indicate a hit. Speaking of buzz, the celebrity-laden party at the Hudson hotel raged late into the night.