New York, April 17-23 – It’s been a busy week, but there were some important happenings we didn’t get to tell you about. How, you are no doubt asking, could we have overlooked the Time 100 dinner, where the news mag breathlessly declares the 100 most influential people? Well, it was at the same time as the premiere of The Interpreter, where we were busy being ignored by Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. And then we found out why; Penn and Kidman were in a rush to leave their own premiere so they could dash over and be influential. Whew, they made it in time!

Martha Stewart is so influential that she can go wherever she wants while still on house arrest. She was at the Time party, but bumped up her profile the day before by announcing she’ll go up against Howard Stern with a Sirius Radio show.

Liz Hurley is so influential that she can make any woman look as fabulous as she simply by wearing one of the bathing suits she was hawking at Saks. Thankfully, it wasn’t beachwear but watches that Jay-Z was pushing at swanky jeweler Audemars Piguet. Now, we wish he had the influence to make us able to afford one of these babies, priced in the $25,000 range.

Christina Applegate recovered from her leg injury sufficiently to finally open on Broadway in Sweet Charity. We checked her out early one morning on the Today show; the leg seemed fine, but the normally taciturn NBC cameraman turned to us and cringed when she began to sing.