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ACTRESS’ NEXT GROOM JUST MIGHT BE OSCAR

ANNE Hathaway, being burbled about as a maybe Oscar nominee for “Rachel Getting Married,” presses onward in the wedding mode. Her new movie with Kate Hudson is “Bride Wars.” So at the premiere, I asked her parents about their own marriage.

“It’s been terrific,” said Jerry, an attorney. “We’re together 28 years.”

And the best thing about it is?

“The great sex,” said Kate, a former actress.

Considering we’d just barely said hi, I figured I heard wrong. What’s the best thing about it?

“Oh, definitely, the great sex. Still is,” she said.

Forget their little kid Annie for a second. The handsome trim, slim Hathaway parents – she’s brunette, he’s bearded – have great humor. Figures they must laugh a lot in bed.

And what’s Mrs. Hathaway do now – I mean, what else?

“Well, we live in Manhattan. Anne was born here, but we lived in New Jersey her growing-up years. We’re now thrilled to be back in New York, and I’m going to school to study theater. I want to go into producing.”

So how many times has she seen this film? “This is my first time.” Added Jerry: “But we’ve seen ‘Rachel Getting Married’ six times.”

Wrenching myself away from this magical couple, I spoke to their magical daughter, who said: “Oh, please, I’m going to forget they talked about their great sex. I prefer to think they just blinked at one another and I was conceived.”

About her new movie: “This is my first time seeing it. And to come tonight, I could almost not tear myself away from the sad news of what’s happening to Israel. It’s devastating. It’s so nice that we have this happy movie for a change. Everything around us is so down and glum.”

Not down and glum was how she looked. Oscar maybe nominee Anne sparkled in hanging pearl-and-diamond earrings. “Borrowed. From Tiffany,” she said. “They remind me of those Audrey Hepburn wore in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s.’ ”

MARIO Lopez‘s diet regimen: He and ladyfriend Courtney Laine Mazza of “The Little Mermaid” did 10 courses at Pichet Ong‘s P*ong restaurant then hit Ong’s next-door bakery for cupcakes to go . . . B’way shows may be closing, but warming everyone these cold nights is “Jersey Boys” at the August Wilson Theatre. It’s still SRO . . . “Super in the City,” out next month, is a debut novel by former Time Out New York editor Daphne Uviller. A Greenwich Village apartment building superintendent for 10 years, she tells neat little vignettes, like the freezing Christmas she and a Roto-Rooter guy cleaned out waste in the flooded basement. Publisher’s Bantam . . . In “Last Stop 174,” Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto, a one-time Amy Irving husband, mixes his actors with real Rio slum dwellers.

IT may not be easy being green, but with this coming Washington inaugural, it isn’t even easy paying green. Robin Bronk of the Creative Coalition had to be really creative. Importing 65 celebrities – Spike Lee, Marcia Cross, Ron Howard, Seal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Susan Sarandon, Marisa Tomei, Billy Baldwin, etc. – means a four-night minimum for 72 equal rooms, all of which, for this special event, got raised in price to $1,000 per night. So, do the math. Since she’s laying down a foot and a half of dollar bills, Bronk figured hotels would toss in continental breakfast. No. Not even a bag of bagels to dole out. Her advance team, way in advance, is already headed there.

Besides their Inaugural Ball the 20th, where Sting and Elvis Costello perform, and their thing on the 19th with Colin Powell, Al Gore and 15,000 high school students, they plan “a small invitation-only dinner. No huge overdone blowout like some other events. This will be private. Kept to a minimum.” So how many people? “Only 1,000.”

Washington at best is a third-world country. And re Operation Obama, nobody cops special benefits. All get fair and square everybody-the-same treatment, which drives those who usually cut the line or drop an important name bonkers. Even with a ticket to an event, it’s not sure is it a seated ticket or a standing one.

Those involved with sorting out VIPs put it this way: “It’s like a subzero boot camp. We’re all a little scared this won’t work out.”

HEARD around Hollywood: “Hey, we all realized ‘Valkyrie’ was no winner. The producers even knew it when they saw patrons in the theater buying popcorn – to go.”

FROM reader Janice Michaelson: “Two men were in the lamp department of Gracious Home on West 67th. One said: “So how do you turn it on?” The other said: “Take it out to dinner.”

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