Mark Wahlberg is in a new movie. Mark Wahlberg is always in a new movie. Last I saw him he was in a new movie. Monday, in his all-black New Yorkish shirt, pants, shoes and socks, he talked up his newest new movie “Pain & Gain.”

“I loved this film. Particularly one scene with neighborhood kids, from 6 to 24, and I’m using really vulgar language. I loved it.

“This is a true story about personal trainers in Miami caught in a crime that goes wrong. Playing a bodybuilder, I had to gain weight for the part.”

But he’s a physique freak. With “The Fighter” movie he took care of his whole crew. Even brought Christian Bale home for dinner.

“Yeah. From the days I was a Calvin Klein model and a music star, I did workouts. I even have my own exercise plan, diet plan and my own product line specializing in the best substance, protein. But for this movie, I stopped working out. No daily exercising. I enjoyed wine. I didn’t eat right.”

A lifetime ago his manager said Mark would “rather die than eat a hamburger.”

“That was then. Today I just had a cheeseburger. It depends on the commitments. If I’m doing a movie, I literally stop everything and exercise constantly. I’m up 4:30. Breakfast is granola and yogurt. It’s the gym, then a protein shake. Lunch is a tuna salad. On this they’d send three meals and three snacks. My real love? Corned beef hash. Crispy.”

This week’s bombing in Mark’s hometown brought up 9/11, when he had reservations on the Boston to LA flight.

“I try not to think about that. But how can you not? I’ve had 50 dreams about it. I’m sure I would not have just sat there. I think I’d have tried to do something. But could I have stopped it? Maybe only if it was a movie. In one film, I killed 30 people. But who knows in real life?”

The screening’s organizer, Andrew Saffir, dragged over a Paramount p.r. type to inform me: “After this new movie, Mark Wahlberg’s coming out in ‘Transformers 4,’ another new movie.”

Oh, please.

HAVING already shipped in your taxes, consider the words of Brazil’s prolific author Paulo Coelho: “All wines should be tasted. Some should only be sipped, but with others drink the whole bottle.”

AS a New Haven passerby nodded, winked and grinned on the street, classy Paul Giamatti, playing “Hamlet” at the Yale School of Drama, did the same in return . . . October brings Emmy winner Mary-Louise Parker to B’way. A premiere of “The Snow Geese” set in rural upstate New York’s hunting season as WWI begins . . . Hugh Dancy: “We just had a baby, so the white-noise app is invaluable.”

OCTOBER brings “The Butler,” another Harvey Weinstein special. Says Jane Fonda: “I play Nancy Reagan. Some people were upset with that because we’re of two such different political views, but she was fine with it.”

Director Lee Daniels is still editing this historical drama based on the real gentleman who served eight White House presidents from 1952 to 1986. Nobody’s seen the film yet, including Oprah, who’s in it.

Jane: “Oprah plays the wife of this head butler who’s played by Forest Whitaker. Robin Williams has the role of Eisenhower, Melissa Leo’s Mamie, Alan Rickman is Reagan, John Cusack is Nixon, Liev Schreiber is Lyndon Johnson. It’s an exciting cast.”

Plus Cuba Gooding Jr., Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, Mariah Carey. It’s a cast of thousands.

TV’s going literary. Coming books are “Secrets of the Southern Belle” by Phaedra Parks, some Real Housewife of Atlanta. Also “VicTORIous” on Tori Spelling’s “normal” life in abnormal Hollywood. Also Kevin O’Leary from “Shark Tank,” who ground out “Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women and Money.” Also from someone on ABC-TV’s “The Chew” thing is Clinton Kelly’s “Freakin’ Fabulous on a Budget.” Charles Dickens must’ve had a lousy agent.

NORTH Korea’s pygmy talking war and shaking his stubby fist at us brings up Nick Nolte’s experience:

“During Vietnam, I was charged with selling counterfeit government documents. Draft cards. A $75,000 fine and one night in jail made me a felon. Then they put me on probation.

“Afterward, when Clinton, Reagan, Ford, the Bushes invited me to the White House I’d say: ‘I’m a felon. The president can’t be seen with a felon.’ If they said, ‘Forget it,’ I’d say, ‘I will not forget it.’ Being a liberal, if I’d gone it would’ve actually helped the popularity of some of them.”

WOMAN on a bench overlooking the East River. Nearby, David Brenner. She said she loved his routine about cleaning up the airport bathroom before using it. She added: “I do the same thing now.”

Brenner replied he’s happy she remembered the routine “but sad she remembered him just for cleaning a toilet.”

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.