January 26-27 – Has Ethan Hawke left Uma Thurman and the kids destitute? We caught Uma selling a date the other night. Actually, she donated the date to an auction benefiting Room to Grow, a children’s charity. And it was quite a date she was offering – the high bidder will be Uma’s guest at the premiere of Kill Bill: Vol. 2. Arriving for the auction at Christie’s, Thurman joked with us that the unidentified man with her was her new boyfriend. Her current guy, hotelier Andre Balazs arrived later, and gallantly bid up the price for the prized date, but he let someone else pay $60,000 for Thurman’s time. If the date turns out to be a bore, the winner can console himself with the prop samurai sword used in the Kill Bill movies. Thurman and Princess Alexandra of Greece co-hosted the evening, and we tried following both around during the cocktail hour to see what silent-auction items they were bidding on, but we couldn’t keep up. (OK, they told us to get lost.)

The following evening, what we thought was a bear that’d fled the New Jersey hunts turned out to be a head-to-toe fur-clad Liza Minnelli. Liza, Denis Leary, Mariel Hemingway, and a bunch of A&E stars were at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel for the A&E Network’s twentieth anniversary party. Elvis Costello and Diana Krall performed, and Sex and the City’s Mario Cantone had us in stitches with an impromptu Anna Nicole Smith impression, hands on hips, yelling “I’m back! Trim-Spa baby!”

Amy Sabo and Dan Herrick contributed to this article