New York, September 7-8 – Jenny from the block is scared of vegetarians. At her Thursday appearance on the David Letterman show, Jennifer Lopez’s people apologized to the press for her absence from the red carpet at the previous evening’s premiere of her new movie, An Unfinished Life. She and Marc Anthony scooted inside the DGA Theater on 57th Street to avoid the PETA protesters, who, we have to admit, had a clever sign depicting a skinned animal with the slogan “Another unfinished life”. (Of course, we would have preferred a well-aimed pie tossing, but they didn’t ask us.)

Anyway, back at the Letterman show, J. Lo’s posse parked all of their SUVs strategically, so that the protesters were blocked from view, and a security guard even hand-picked a dozen or so safe-seeming fans and brought them over for autographs.

As impressive as the J. Lo machine’s PETA-beating about-face was, they never made up to reporters, who, at the premiere party at Megu, waited patiently to speak with Jennifer while she and Marc dined with family inside a private room. They were having a great time laughing and talking and eating, and it was after midnight when Mr. and Mrs. Anthony slipped into the kitchen and out the side door, in full view of reporters.