March 4-5 – They cut Jennifer Lopez out of ads for her new film Jersey Girl, and she was nowhere in sight at a benefit screening on Thursday. Lopez’s ex, Ben Affleck, and costar Liv Tyler hosted a way-crowded post-show party at Metronome. Tyler and Affleck both sing in the film, and director Kevin Smith told us that the two took lessons.

The next day at a press conference announcing the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro, recently suffering from prostate cancer, said, “I feel great”. This year’s drive-in movie will be Footloose, and star Kevin Bacon said that viewers will be talking about how much he’s aged since the 1984 film, while costar Sarah Jessica Parker still looks so young and pretty. Bacon’s wife Kyra Sedgwick, New York Governor George Pataki and artist/director Julian Schnabel all spoke at the press conference held at Silvercup Studios in Queens.