Anne Hathaway is a class act during the Bride Wars premiere held Monday at AMC Loews Lincoln Square in NYC.

Gliding down the Tiffany & Co. blue carpet sprinkled with pink rose petals, the brunette beauty takes note of the sweltering temperature inside the tent.

“Is there a heater over here?” she asks. “You poor, poor creatures. I’m so sorry.”

(I think it’s awesome, actually, because the alternative is frostbite. I have no idea how these stars can walk the line in barely-there dresses when the temperatures are in single digits. “Must … look …good…in…pictures” is their mantra. It’s perfectly balmy tonight, though.)

Even though wedding movies have become her specialty, Anne shrugs when asked if she’s eager to marry.

“I don’t really care,” she tells me. “If it happens, great. If it doesn’t, I’m sure my life will be just fine.”

The 26-year-old actress endured high-profile scrutiny with dignity and grace when longtime love Raffaello Follieri went to jail soon after they called it quits in 2008. What advice would she give those dealing with a breakup?

“Go home to mom,” she says. “I’m very close to my family, so whatever it is – whenever you feel lost, whenever you feel down, whenever you feel wronged, go to wherever your home is, go to the people that know you deeply and love you.”

Anne gleefully introduces herself as “Annie” to Real Housewives of New York City stars Jill Zarin, Ramona Singer, Alex McCord as Vera Wang, Lisa Rinna and Rachel Roy head inside.

Here comes Kate Hudson, who is showing off her playful side by giving costar Steve Howie a friendly pinch. “She just poked my kidney,” he yuks.

Goldie’s girl gushes about son Ryder, who celebrates his fourth birthday Wednesday. “He is a big music fan,” she says. “Right now he loves Coldplay.”

Are music lessons in his future?

“I haven’t thought about lessons. He has his dad. That’s a lesson enough.”

Kate delights with a dead-on impression of Kurt Russell’s facial expressions and mannerisms.

“My dad saw the movie, and he came out, and my girlfriends are like crying. I’m like ‘I love my girlfriends.’ My dad’s like ‘I don’t get it. It’s so crazy.  You guys are crazy.’”

Up next is SNL star-turned-Bride Wars screenwriter Casey Wilson, who gives her take on female competition. “I’m jealous of both you two,” she tells me and the TV Guide Channel reporter beside me. “I want to be better than you two, but … no.”

What inspired the flick?

“I think all our girlfriends are at that age when they’re getting married,” she tells me. “Not this one! But we were going to all these weddings and there’s a lot of craziness on top of craziness. I love the idea that normal, normal girls go crazy. They just lose their minds.”

Casey continues, “I have a couple friends who went a little cuckoo bananas. They’re really normal girls, but you’d see them berating a caterer and they’re wearing Spanx and a top. You see behind their eyes that something’s not right. God love them. They’re all divorced now.”

Bride Wars is in theaters Friday.

Deepest condolences go to John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston, who lost their 16-year-old son Jett on Friday.

John and Kelly are among the most kind, genuine superstars I’ve met, which makes this heartbreaking tragedy that much sadder.

I first sat down with Kelly in 2001, when she was lobbying Congress on behalf of CHEC to enact a national Right To Know bill, which she described as “the right to know what chemicals are harming us and how.”

Accompanied by Olivia Newton-John, the two stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to get things accomplished. They made a video called Not Under My Roof, which they hoped to get into maternity wards by 2002. (It worked!)

According to Kelly, Jett, then 8, nearly died at age 2 when he breathed in fumes shortly after their carpets were cleaned.

“We’re using things on counters, carpets and outside on the lawn that are very damaging to young nervous systems,” Kelly tells me. “The rates for cancer, autism and learning disabilities are way up. I want to know why and I would like to stop that.”

She was especially concerned about PVC, which is a chemical that was discovered in children’s necklaces sold at Kmart at the time.

“It is found in teethers, and America hasn’t stopped using them, which is appalling, because when the children mouth these toys, the chemicals are released into their little bodies,” Kelly tells me.

 

I’ve seen Kelly several more times over the years with her husband at 2003’s Stella Adler School of Acting Awards, his 2007 Hairspray premiere and her 2007 Death Sentence premiere.

It was very exciting to meet John Travolta for the first time. It was even more refreshing how his soft-spoken nature has a way of putting everyone at ease. (One time he even called me “honey” – wow!) He seems like he would be a great father, and he didn’t think his Hollywood fame made him any different from others rising to the challenge of parenthood.

“It’s tough to be a parent anywhere,” John said at his wife’s Death Sentence premiere. “I think there’s some advantages that Hollywood people have for encouraging privacy and homeschooling. We get to control our environment a little better -- even though it looks like being famous you’re less controlled. We actually in some ways get to control it better.”

Kelly certainly cherishes motherhood. What's her favorite part?

“Just the closeness and the fun and the joy they give you on an every-moment basis,” she tells me at her premiere. “It’s just so wondrous. There’s so many clichés, but it’s really seeing things through their eyes, or the hilarious ways they’ll perceive something. Their take on it is so completely astute. Kids say the wildest things. Well, they really do, and they nail it all the time.”

In getting through difficult times, the couple relies on their 17-year history as husband and wife.

At his Hairspray premiere, John tells me the secret to a happy marriage lies in communication. He says, “Communication leads to understanding, and understanding is a universal solvent.”

They also rely on spirituality to keep their union strong.

“We’re both Scientologists and we have similar beliefs in how to raise our kids,” Kelly says at her premiere. “It keeps us growing spiritually and constantly and happy and grounded.”

John says, “We use the techniques all the time at work, home, with the kids. It’s all tools for better survival.”

Kelly adds, “Better living. We know how to survive in life a whole lot better. It helps you on a daily basis. Apply religious philosophy everywhere that it’s applicable.”

John continues, “It is tools you need every day to better your life.”

Our thoughts are with John, Kelly and their daughter Ella Bleu, 8, during this devastating time.

Jesse McCartney doesn’t look back when it comes to his boy band past in the group Dream Street. The guys have no set plans to reunite.

“I don’t know that that’s going to happen,” he tells me. “Everyone’s doing their own thing at this point. A bunch of us have our own promising careers. I think for everyone that was a big learning experience. It was one of those moments where we learned a lot in this industry in those few years.”

But Jesse, 21, is pleased to return to his childhood by lending his voice to Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel, due out later this year.

“I grew up watching it every Saturday morning,” he says. “I never thought I’d be playing the young little fat chipmunk. Getting back to my roots.”

Even though he’s established as a singer and actor, that doesn’t make him immune to being mistaken for other celebrities.

“A couple girls came up to me a few weeks ago, and they walked up and I’m waiting for it, like ‘yeah?’ And they’re like ‘Frankie Muniz!’ and I’m like ‘no! Wrong guy. Later.’”

He has a backup plan just in case.

“I always wanted to be a baseball player,” Jesse tells me. “I always wanted to be an athlete. I’m a big sports fan. I played baseball all through high school – I was the pitcher for my team – and I probably would’ve gone on to play for college if I didn’t stay in the music industry.”

What’s this single guy’s advice for getting through a breakup? Write a song.

“Even if you don’t consider yourself a songwriter, you don’t have to be. You can just write. For me, that was my biggest outlet.”

Reba McEntire is ready to help with tips to make a fresh start with food in 2009.

“There’s no dieting during the holidays, only afterwards,” she tells me. “I had the clue to get off sugar, bread, anything white, rice, gravy – all the good stuff – I eliminate them totally, and small portions. Eat small portions. Get away from the bad stuff, and only eat small portions.”

The singer, 53, wasn’t always wealthy growing up in Oklahoma. She says it’s possible to look like a million bucks – even if you don’t have a lot of cash.

“Surround yourself with people who can make you look beautiful and dress you well,” she says. “I do that.”