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Hathaway with red-carpet style

Monday was New Movie City. “One Day” starring Anne Hathaway premiered at Lincoln Square Theater, 68th and Broadway. “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” starring Katie Holmes premiered at Walter Reade Theater, 65th off Broadway.

It was hot, humid. Lincoln Square’s sidewalk was tented. Security guys with ear pieces watched so no nobodies could sidle or frontle in. CNN, People, Ch. 1 types stood in the sun behind metal barriers as cool movie stars paraded past. Like staring at animals in the zoo.

Each creature arrived with a keeper. Each keeper worked a phone. Cells. Walkie-talkies. Two staffers, dangling ID neck tags, holding clipboards, stood together, facing one another, clutching handhelds. Talking to one another.

Easy, friendly, smiling Jim Sturgess, jacket, open-collar shirt, semi-unshaven, carrying a bottle of water: “I’ve seen a rough cut of this film [‘One Day’], but I look forward to tonight because it needs the energy of other people watching it. I play Dexter, who’s having an on-and-off romance with Emma, who’s Anne Hathaway, and at times I push her away. My character’s a rich charmer who thinks the world’s his playground. Success has gone to his head. He’s really not a bad guy, but he likes to party.”

Might that be the British Sturgess’ real lifestyle?

“No . . . well . . . maybe . . . let’s say . . . yes . . . a little. Not that success has gone to my head. But more as though I do really appreciate a party.

“Great is being back in New York, where I made my first movie ‘Across the Universe.’ We were in this town for a year, so I got to know it well. I’ve got good friends here.”

Will he live in New York?

“No. I live in London.”

Get outta here. Anne Hathaway’s now slickly professionally gorgeouser than ever. Size 0. Alexander McQueen décolleté tight bodice flared dress. Black. Gold beads. Matching gold pumps with red spike heels. Red soles. Perfectly applied eye makeup. “The dress is borrowed. Not mine.” And her diamond solitaire? “Borrowed. Not mine.”

Said Anne: “I’m clothed in this movie. I play a nice Yorkshire lass. Isn’t that a good phrase? Nice Yorkshire lass? It’s a far cry from my first-ever time on film, which was an anti-smoking PSA, where I coughed up. Lovely to come home and show that to your parents, right? My first real role was in ‘The Princess Diaries.’ My mother still has a copy of that.”

About coming from coughing up to hosting the Oscars: “Look, after all that critical acclaim or whatever negativity was written about it afterward, I only know for me the response was complimentary. Wherever I went — coffee shops, airplanes — everyone was excited about it. Strangers offered praise. They said good things to me and they said they enjoyed my performance. So I consider it a win-win.”

Fluffing out her long, smooth hair, which never frizzed despite the humidity, it was: “And this hair is not borrowed. It’s mine.”

The movie, set to start 7 p.m., did not. After Anne and I air-kissed goodbye inside the theater, she went to her seat. It was 20 to 8.

PATRICK Swayze and Jennifer Grey‘s original “Dirty Dancing” getting remade by the film’s choreographer . . . Robert Redford directing and starring in “The Company You Keep.” Shia LaBeouf‘s the reporter who exposes a man on the lam; Nick Nolte co-stars . . . Saturday ARF (Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons) honors Dr. Lewis Berman of East 64th’s Park East Animal Hospital. Top vet for the top dogs. 8 p.m. dinner. Bridgehampton Tennis & Surf Club. The event’s “Magic Under the Moonlight.” The emcee? Me.

LIKE Rip Van Winkle, Town & Country suddenly awakened from its deep sleep. New Ed-in-Chief Jay Fielden‘s turnaround September issue features Mariel Hemingway. Being the 50th anniversary of Hemingway doing himself in, it’s about all the family suicides including Margaux’s. On page 46, moviemaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg, plus look-alike photos, reveals his unknown father was Orson Welles. Nice read . . . Rachel Weisz, the new Mrs. Daniel Craig, anyone know Cambridge voted her most popular girl in college?

FORGET new adventures of old Chris tine. There are fresh adventures of young Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She’s got a delicious HBO fall series . . . Warning to our freshly married same-sex couples. Pay attention if you move to another city and your partner still has the same plumber . . . Russell Crowe and Mark Wahlberg teaming for cop movie “Broken City.”

WE’VE heard about Mike Bloomberg‘s daughter Georgina, who’d suffered a stalker. I knew about this long back because of a similar problem. The public doesn’t know all the private problems Ray Kelly & Co. handle. Our NYPD nailed both these guys.

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