White Russian: The night before an exhibition match in Dublin, Anna Kournikova traded tennis togs for Escada Couture to model in a fashion show benefiting the Chernobyl Children's Project. Two days earlier the tennis belle cavorted with beau Enrique Iglesias (below) in a London restaurant and played peek-a-boo with the paparazzi.

"Let's name 2002 the year of Denzel Washington," proclaimed Tom Hanks, as he presented his Philadelphia costar with the American Cinematheque Award for his contributions to filmmaking. Said Washington, who took home the Best Actor Oscar for Training Day in March: "I'm so nervous, I feel like I'm having a Halle Berry moment."

Halo, angels: Lucy Liu (left) locked arms with her onscreen nemesis Demi Moore at Maxim's Pussycat Dolls party in L.A. In the sequel Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle, due next summer, Moore plays an ex-Angel gone bad.

At the London premiere of their movie musical Chicago, Richard Gere provided a victory lap for costar Renée Zellweger (left) and his new wife, Carey Lowell. "It's the first time I've sung in front of anyone but my dog," said Zellweger, who plays Roxie Hart to Gere's Billy Flynn.

Jude Law cozied up to real-life wife Sadie Frost in Romania, where they are on location filming the Civil War drama Cold Mountain. The film costars Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger and Natalie Portman.

Cornering the stocking market, Kate Hudson basked in '20s swimwear on an L.A. beach for the upcoming romantic comedy Loosely Based on a True love Story.

frequent flyers: As legal eagle Elle Woods, Reese Witherspoon lobbied for animal rights on the L.A. set of Legally Blonde 2: Bed, White & Blonde.

Rein man: Tobey Maguire saddled up to portray jockey Red Pollard in the horse racing drama Seabiscuit at the Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, Calif.

Honor roles: After singing "Bridge Over Troubled Water," Alicia Keys (above, center) bonded with Angela Bassett and Charles S. Dutton in Washington, D.C., at a Dec. 8 fete for the 25th annual Kennedy Center Honors (to air Dec. 27 on CBS). The night before at the State Department dinner, two of this year's award recipients, Paul Simon (left) and Liz Taylor, compared medals, while Glenn Close (below, left) and Christine Baranski mingled with 1995 honoree Sidney Poitier. "This is to celebrate the talents of people who add to the soul of this country," said Close of the awards.

On Dec. 7 duties for presidential advisor Karen Hughes grew to include playing (for one night only) Mother Ginger in the Ballet Austin production of The Nutcracker in Austin, Texas. Hughes added her own spin to the holiday tale: At one point onstage she produced a magnifying glass and examined a ballot for hanging chads.

Jerry Seinfeld, who's used to being a hot ticket, got into a fine mess in Manhattan, where he was slapped with a $105 ticket for parking illegally while he and wife Jessica went shopping.

Atten-hut! Christina Aguilera put on her game face (which apparently comes with a matching shirt) as she fell in with a couple of Marines at a Motorola party in L.A.

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