April 24-May 1 – New York - While the Today Show’s Katie Couric had no trouble drawing a big roster of stars for cancer benefit Hollywood Hits Broadway, it didn’t hurt that the event was held onboard the spanking-new Queen Mary 2. Those who couldn’t resist a tour of the ocean liner included Nathan Lane, Jon Bon Jovi, Harry Connick, Jr., Danny DeVito, Donald Trump and Glenn Close. Beyonce Knowles closed the show. The evening gown-clad Couric quipped, “Should I wear this dress on the Today show?”

Isn’t that Claire Danes in the green dress standing on the corner? The actress and her date, fashion wunder-kind Zac Posen, hopped out of a traffic-snarled taxi and strolled nonchalantly down Broadway to make curtain time for the Broadway opening of Bombay Dreams. When asked where her newly minted husband Salman Rushdie was, a solo Padma Lakshmi, in stomach-baring sari, replied, “He’s planning the honeymoon”.

South African leader Bishop Desmond Tutu was delayed coming in from the airport on Saturday, and didn’t make it in time to join Robert De Niro at an early morning press conference kicking off the third Tribeca Film Festival. Our question on what Tutu has to do with the film fest went unanswered.

Los Angeles - Winning an Oscar has its perks. Chalize Theron was the only one at the Lint Roller pet-adoption benefit to bring her own dog, Denver. All the other celebs trotted out adoptable pups looking for homes.

At the unveiling of their star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, America’s favorite twin set, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, got a bit testy when photographers asked them to pose with various family members. The two really wanted the spotlight on them only; after all, they're the only set of twins with a star on the Walk of Fame.

With Jen Lowery in L.A.