December 11 - 12 - It's official - December 11, 2002 is Two Weeks Notice Day in New York City by proclamation of Mayor Mike Bloomberg. We know you all honored this by quitting your jobs that day. Actually, it was to thank those involved in the new Hugh Grant/Sandra Bullock film of the same name for shooting entirely in NYC shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The city's been losing movie shoots to Canada like crazy - including one about ex-mayor Rudi Giuliani. So listen up filmmakers - shooting here you get the real backdrop, plus you can house your crews in $395 per night hotel rooms, get $105 parking tickets on your trucks, and parking garages only charge $23.95 for the day if you drive in before 7 am and leave by noon, your car is blue, the license plate ends with an even number and the radio is set to 117.8. Otherwise it'll cost you $83.50. For the night it's another $33.75. Why shoot your film anywhere else?

Two Weeks Notice premiered the following night with a so-so star turnout compared with other recent holiday releases. We ran into Kylie Minogue and Justin Timberlake at the annual pop concert Jingle Ball. Later the Island Def Jam holiday party doubled as a release spectacular for Mariah Carey's new album Charmbracelet. There were no charms dangling from Carey's $100,000 diamond necklace. The party at Capitale was so packed - with the likes of Jay Z, Beyonce Knowles, Cam'ron, Foxy Brown and Al Sharpton - that the police shut it down. Rapper Ja Rule's gigantic posse livened things up by starting a brawl when they couldn't get in. It's not a good party unless the police come.