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Maggie Gyllenhaal dishes on new ‘Honorable Woman’ miniseries

We hate the Middle East horror. But we love Maggie Gyllenhaal. Thursdays, on SundanceTV’s eight-part political thriller, “The Honorable Woman,” she plays someone engulfed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“I’ve never been there, but I certainly expect to one day,” she told me. “I play Nessa Stein, a titled Anglo-Israeli embroiled in the horrific situation. My character, who witnessed the murder of her father, a Zionist arms dealer, is working to effect some reconciliation. Trying to be good to both sides.

“On a once-a-week TV miniseries, understand that things don’t resolve quickly.

“It’s complex. Provocative. People are scared to talk about whichever side they believe in. Our scenes are steadily trying for a conversation. Hoping different ways make for talking points and that in some manner, this has some effect. Each episode makes viewers think.

“Maybe even a shifting point of view creates an opening. Maybe we all change our minds. I, personally, of course hope for reconciliation. But I’m just an actress. My job is to hope this starts a dialogue.

“We all know it’s easy to alienate so many people. The show says something but never takes empathy, compassion or reconciliation off the table.

“The role wasn’t easy. In order to play her, I had to process many issues. I needed to re-educate all of it in my mind. And now I feel emotionally involved.”

Romney’s rumbling

Mitt won’t quit. To fumigate Eau d’Obama, the GOP’s main hope is truly positioning himself.

While B.O. leaks droplets on a burning world, plays golf, does fund-raisers, reads Who-Me? platitudes off a teleprompter, proves what many knew in front — he’s a rookie — or sends his wife on trips we finance to places she never saw before while inside wardrobe she never saw before, Romney’s ramping up.

Possibly it’ll be bye-bye Mr. Nice Guy Mormon. Possibly the former in-house strategy will change to a down and dirty mud fight.

Whatever, his family’s supportive, and the Republicans need him.

All’s ‘fair’ on summer roads

Saturday’s Sixth Avenue street fair caused matinee-goers to flee vehicles and run in heels. They reached “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” just as the curtain rose…

Miss Zoe Saldana said this — to Hollywood Reporter, not me: “My boobs are pretty big.”…

With all Monica Lewinsky’s p.r. resurgence, anyone note that, despite years living here, she pronounced the “W” in Greenwich Village?…

New Yorkers aren’t dressing

People once dressed. Now Fifth Avenue’s a Third World colony. Females in short shorts and plain visible bras? Forget suits, men do shoulder bags, shapeless khakis, bellies the size of flounders and tees. If their shirts are from a catalog, somebody explain you should send away for them — not cut them out to paste on.

Six months ago Oheka Castle owner Gary Melius, political power contributor to both Nassau County parties, was headed to an LI steakhouse lunch meeting. Exiting the Castle’s back door, he got shot in the head through the window of his Mercedes. Surveillance video showed two parked cars. A masked gunman getting out of a Jeep Cherokee. A black sedan as the lookout.

After firing one round, the gun jammed, but the shooter continued his attempt to kill.

Melius recovered from his wounds. Remarkable about the tale is that now, almost six months after this attempted assassination in broad daylight — caught on camera and reported immediately — no arrest nor reported suspects.

Only in Long Island, NY, kids, only in Long Island, NY.