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The Answer Bitch EOnline.com Q: Who exactly makes up a star's entourage? Amruta G., Chicago A.B. Replies: The peeps. Mah boyz. Da crew. One's posse. The homies thats keep me real. Those with whom we be transportin'. And Shannen Doherty's stylist. (Oh, I'm serious--read on.) Los Angeles has two requirements for its residents: jury duty and posse service. When we aren't working, Mystic Tanning, rendering verdicts or discussing projects we have in development, we're making others appear as important as we wish we were, so everybody gets an entourage and nobody gets mistaken for, well, a nobody. For example, on Tuesdays I transport with the Baja Fresh cashier posse. Starting in November, I've been assigned to roll deep with the lady who owns that Dutch knitting shop up on Beverly. Celebrity entourages, particularly of the hip-hop variety, have a similarly insipid membership, no matter where they're based. Up to 75 percent of hip-hop posses seem to be wannabe MCs or road managers--gofers spotted by a rapper during some slammin' session at the studio, twentysomethings hungry for the chance to be subservient to that guy who posed with a porn star named Sinnamon Love on last month's cover of Fish 'n' Grits. "Say you're a friend of a friend, or a relative of a friend of a musician," posits Wass Stevens, a bouncer at New York celebrity haunts Hero and Marquis. "If you rub the celebrity the right way, literally or figuratively, you might be able to join that posse. Celebrities love to have their egos stroked nonstop." On the acting side, both famous people and Shannen Doherty tend to drag along beautifiers and other professional handlers to their club outings. "Shannen showed up at Hero last night with seven people," Stevens tells this B!tch on, let's see here, July 27. "Even she's not just running around with her girlfriends. One person was her manager, I think, because she was organizing everything. "And then there was another person who had to be her stylist, because he was so incredibly flamboyant and was always fixing Shannen's sweater." Experts tell this B!tch that entourages can include any and all combinations of the following: ? Security thugs ? Agents ? Managers ? Attorneys ? Bandmates ? MC protégés ? Backup dancers ? Producers ? Stylists ? Publicists ? Childhood friends ? Unemployed relatives ? Girlfriends ? Girlfriends of the girlfriends, who may, if the star is lucky, be sleeping with the previously mentioned girlfriends, but, either way, will soon be sleeping with the star if they wish to remain in the crew ? Car watchers. Like this B!tch could make that last one up. Stevens says that new members of an entourage are often assigned to stay outside and make sure the double-parked, gold rim-spinning, stardust-frosted leviathan SUV doesn't get towed. Celebrities don't do valet parking, see, in case the ladies start to mob the homies and everybody needs to make a clean getaway and whatnot. How many hangers-on can fit in a posse? Well, if your name is Diddy (and it isn't, Mr. Combs), and you have a motorcade, the possibilities can give the little people a good case of the blind staggers. "That man rolls deep," intones Seth Harris, general manager of the New York club Suede. "Sometimes he comes in here with 25 people, and I have to tell him I can handle maybe eight of them and two security guards. "He understands."

DAMON TO THE RESCUE!August 09, 2004 Provided by: [National Enquirer Online]In LA wrapping scenes for "Ocean's Twelve," Matt Damon jogged through a park and found a young woman passed out cold on a secluded path! Matt quickly checked her pulse, then revived her by sprinkling water from his sports jug on her face and hands. Turned out she'd become dehydrated and fainted in the searing heat. Matt gave her sips of water and suggested she phone someone to help her home. Her eyes suddenly focusing on "The Bourne Supremacy" star, she said incredulously: "Are you Matt Damon? . . . Now I know I'm in a dream!" She phoned a galpal on her cell phone and put Matt on "so she wouldn't think I made the whole thing up." Matt waited until the pal showed up 15 minutes later -- with several girlfriends in tow -- and good-naturedly posed for pics and signed autographs.

Page SixOut in La-La land, pop sensation Ashlee Simpson has called it quits with singer Ryan Cabrera. Cabrera, also managed by Ashlee's father, Joe Simpson, has been featured on MTV's "Ashlee Simpson Show," but scheduling problems have doomed their budding fling."They are both so busy with touring and promotion," a source shared. "They looked at the calendar and realized that the next time they'd be able to get together is a year from now."A representative for Ashlee ? whose latest album, "Autobiography," recently topped the pop charts ? did not return calls.

Hilton in New Internet Wrangle imdb.com Paris Hilton appears to be winning the battle with Hilary Duff's older sister Haylie Duff over the single "Screwed," after the hotel heiress' version was leaked onto the internet. Both have recorded the same song, and while they were figuring out how to proceed, Hilton's version has now been put online after it was aired on the radio. Last month, Duff announced she was attempting to block Hilton from releasing the track, explaining, "Paris has talked to the people who wrote the song, and I think it's all under control now." Duff also said she planned to release her own version by early August, but now Hilton has inadvertently beaten to her to it. Hilton's spokesperson Gina Hoffman says, "It's not something we put out. It's a leak. And that's really disturbing." Hoffman adds that Hilton doesn't have a release date for her debut album Paris Is Burning yet, or even a distribution deal in place, so the release is too early to promote the record. The version making the rounds on the internet was recorded from a radio station's airing. Duff's spokespeople have yet to comment on whether her plans will change in light of the leak. Hilton recently suffered more embarrassing problems on the internet, when a sex tape featuring her and ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon surfaced and became an instant international hit.

EOnline.com"Prince Charles asked if I was in the original Star Wars. I was like, 'What are you smoking?' It was very funny."--Natalie Portman in Us. He was probably just hoping to get Leia-ed

Zap2It.com gossip And, little Anne Hathaway is getting a bit "Duffy" with the press (as in Hilary Duff) because she was curt, rude and unresponsive during interviews for "Princess Diaries 2." Of course, her co-star Julie Andrews, was the queen of kindness as usual.

JOAN RIVERS BOMBS AT GIG Page SixJOAN Rivers never met a group she wouldn't offend. And as she's always top ical, the plastic surgery princess took on New York's recent terror alert first at her gig at Fez last week, showing no love for the threatened Citigroup build ing. "I hope it goes down. It's so ugly!" she said to gasps and groans. "I'm helping them load them (bombs) in." Later she joked, "Jewish women will never be terrorists. 'Does the bomb make me look fat?' . . . A Jewish woman will never put a bomb in a Gucci bag, after all the men she bleeped to get it." Rivers, sporting a scruffy fur around her neck that she said was her late dog Spike, later de fended her tasteless humor: "We live in horrible real ity. How else can you get through it, if not with jokes? You have to laugh about it." Earlier in the evening, Rivers was gleefully loading up a bag at the Shop, Etc. magazine launch party. "I got all this for free," she told us.

Damon wants to make a porn film World Entertainment News Network Posted August 6 2004 http://www.southflorida.com/news/sfl-arwnb...guide-headlines The Bourne Supremacy star Matt Damon wants to make a "character-driven porn movie" with an intellectual plot. Damon, 33, believes X-rated films and action movies are predictable and badly written and is keen to break the trend by creating a adult movie where the narrative is as important as the graphic sex scenes. Damon says, "My theory on action movies is that they're like porn movies. A porn movie has got really bad writing, really bad acting and really thinly drawn characters. "They have a ... scene where they talk and say, 'Hey, I'm the milkman' And you know what is going to happen. "And then you get the action and you don't really feel anything for the action and then you get another really stupid scene with, 'Hey, I'm the milkman'. "What I want to do is make a character-driven porn movie. It's all going to be about the character and the porn's going to grow out of the characters and serve as character development. "You know how movie titles get porn titles - movies that rip them off? A producer suggested that we do The Porn Identity."

Matt Damon leaving the Whiskey in LA

COMBS' OVERBOARD BOAT BILL Page Six SEAN "P. Diddy" Combs' vacation in Ibiza got off to a rocky start. Combs, who was renting a yacht named "Tommy" with Andre Harrell and Vikram Chatwal , had just sailed into Ibiza from St. Tropez the other day when he got into a battle with the broker who rented him the boat. "The broker shows up at like 6 p.m. and gave Puffy this outrageous bill," our spy said. "Puffy always looks at every nickel and dime on a bill, and he saw he was being overcharged an outrageous amount for stuff like liquor and other incidentals. He was furious and started screaming he was being robbed." The fight got heated and Combs ended up calling the local police to get the complaint on record. "Six cops go on board and take everyone's statement, and at like 3 a.m., Puffy, Andre and Vikram take their stuff and move off the boat," our source said. Combs left the yacht shouting, "I'm not an idiot, I know when I'm being robbed ? I'll rent another boat!" The three are now staying in a rented villa in Ibiza. A rep for Combs said: "Puff was unhappy with the services . . . and some of the money has been refunded." I bet getting over charged is a common problem.

BIGGEST ALTAR ACTION Nicolas Cage, 40, ordered another round of matrimony July 30, this time taking former sushi waitress Alice Kim, 20, as his wife. The two, who had met in February when she served him in an L.A. restaurant, exchanged vows on a Northern California ranch. It's the actor's third walk down the aisle: He was previously married to Lisa Marie Presley and Patricia Arquette.

Rivers Flows to Court TV Gig (Friday, August 06 08:34 AM) LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) You may not be seeing Joan Rivers on the Red Carpet at the Emmys this year, but those craving more of the perpetually redecorated comic can turn to the most unlikely of cable sources. Rivers has joined Court TV's "Hollywood Heat." The "Spaceballs" co-star made her first appearance on the A.J. Hammer-hosted celebrity newsmagazine on Thursday (Aug. 5) night. Rivers will contribute a segment titled "Joan Rivers -- The Dismissed Juror," taking to the streets to poll common folks about their feelings on the various celebrity trials of the moment. Perhaps she can also critique the way average people dress and insult them. That would be hilarious. Early this summer, Rivers packed up daughter Melissa and fled E! for the more lucrative climate of the TV Guide Channel. However, that decision will prevent viewers at home from finding out Rivers' thoughts on the Emmy Red Carpet fashions. E! has an exclusive deal as the only cable network allowed on the carpet, meaning that Rivers could be trapped watching the dresses and tuxes on television like the rest of us. "Hollywood Heat" airs at 11:30 p.m. ET on Thursdays.

AVRIL'S LAVISH LIFESTYLEAugust 05, 2004 Provided by: [star Online]Avril Lavigne is just 19 years old, and already she's got so much dough that, according to a source, she's "willing to spend up to $15 million" for a new home. The source says that Lavigne recently looked at a few Beverly Hills homes, including one for $14.9 million (nicely within her range) that features 7 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a pool, a spa, 7 fireplaces and yes, even a nightclub that accommodates 100 partiers. According to the source, she and boyfriend Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 "kissed in every room."

A glam Jada Pinkett Smith is sitting pretty at the Urbanworld Film Festival premiere of Collateral in Harlem on Wednesday. The thriller, in which she plays a high-powered attorney, opens Friday.

EOnline.com HOLLYWOOD FOR SALE: The Actors' Fund of America will kick off its Auction of 1000 Stars 2004 next week. Fans can bid online for hundreds of entertainment- and sports-related items, ranging from boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali to the first script from Knots Landing. To bid or view auction items log on to www.auctionof1000stars.org.

'Oprah' Extends Through 2010-11 (Thursday, August 05 01:30 PM) LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Oprah Winfrey will get to celebrate at least the silver anniversary of her daytime talk show. Winfrey has agreed to a three-year contract extension with King World, which syndicates "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which will take the show through the 2010-11 TV season. That season will be the show's 25th. "The thought of taking the show to its 25th anniversary is both exhilarating and challenging," Winfrey says in a statement. "The years ahead will allow me to continue to grow along with my viewers and will give my production company the time and opportunity to use the show as a launching pad to create and develop additional projects." The renewal is pretty much a no-brainer for King World, which has locked in the show at several ABC-owned stations through 2010-11. "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is easily the most popular talk show in syndication, and in the May sweeps it posted its best ratings in seven years among households and several key female demographics. Beginning in 2004-05, Winfrey will produce 140 episodes of the show per season, up from 130 in the past. She'll stay at that number through 2009-10, then drop back to 130 the following year. "Oprah Winfrey is one of a kind," says Roger King, CEO of King World. "And, as the numbers from this past season prove, she's at the very top of her game. We couldn't be more pleased with her decision to continue 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' into the next decade."

More Join Fourth "Harry Potter"Posted: Thursday August 5th, 2004 12:36pm (Au-EST)Author: Garth FranklinSource: darkhorizons.com HPANA reports that Warner Bros. today confirmed that Ralph Fiennes ("Red Dragon", "Schindler's List") and Miranda Richardson ("The Hours", "Sleepy Hollow") have joined the all-star cast of Warner Bros. Pictures' "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's popular Harry Potter novel series. Fiennes will play Harry Potter's nemesis, the evil Lord Voldemort, and Richardson takes on the role of muckraking journalist Rita Skeeter.Meanwhile actor Robbie Coltrane was recently asked by The Sunday Herald about whether he would participate playing Hagrid in the fifth, sixth and seventh film adaptations - "I don?t know. I really don?t know what the circumstances will be for the last three. I don?t know if I should be saying this, although if anyone has got any brains they?ll have worked it out, but if Jo Rowling hasn?t finished books six and seven within the next two years, the kids we?ve got at the moment will be too old to play the parts. And they may not even want to. So it depends on the variables. In some ways I would rather get on with something else, but I don?t want to say that because it sounds so ??. ungrateful. So, no, I don?t know if I?m going to do any more," he continues. "They will, of course, to enchant me back, offer me frightening amounts of money".Thanks to 'Mel'.

Ted C. of E! .... As of press time, I haven't heard back from Jada's flackers, but the point remains: The 32-year-old wife to international superstah Will was without her wedding band at the press junket and premieres for Michael Mann's Collateral. However, a spokesperson for Mr. S. could not have been more helpful: "They're still together," sniffed the repper. "He's been in Europe for I, Robot." Fab. Now that that's settled (yeah, right), let's move on to......

EOnline.com FEELS BRAND NEW: Norah Jones planning to rerelease her current album, Feels Like Home, on Sept. 21 as a double-disc package that will include a DVD and three previously unreleased tracks.

popbitch.comU2 have approached Scissor Sisters to support them on their as yet untitled tour next year. Bono was at Moma in New York last week watching their gig.

Nicolas Cage ties the knot for the second time in less than a week on Monday ? but this time he's just playing the part of the groom with Bridget Moynahan on the Brooklyn set of Lord of War. Real-life new wife Alice Kim, whom he married last Friday, joined him off-camera for the shoot.

people.com....More details have emerged from Cage's Friday wedding in Northern California: The actor's large family had an inkling a wedding was coming up for the 40-year-old star and Alice Kim, 20, even though the couple eloped and married without any family or relatives present."I figured it would be fast and small," says Cage's older brother Marc Coppola, a New York City deejay, "because the last one (to Lisa Marie Presley, in 2002) was so big."Unlike Presley or Cage's first wife, actress Patricia Arquette, Kim is a showbiz outsider who met Cage at a Los Angeles nightclub six months ago. According to Coppola, the former sushi waitress is interested in a career in law or hotel management. "She's educated and a great girl," says Todd Black, producer of Cage's upcoming movie The Weather Man.As for the age difference between bride and groom, Coppola isn't worried. Kim is "worldly and mature" and is already embraced by the family. "They're a good fit," he says. "Definitely. I think this will last."

histar.comDrew Barrymore is being hounded for almost ONE MILLION DOLLARS by the French version of the IRS. The Source says Drew was paid $3 million for her starring role in the 1998 flick, "Ever After". Because that movie was filmed in France, the French want a piece of her salary. She supposedly owes $910,000 in taxes and she's been summoned before a special tax hearing in Paris. Her team of lawyers will attend the hearing on her behalf.

EOnline.com NOT TAKING ANY CHANCES: Pop rocker Pink nixing plans to hang around Prague after performing there over the weekend due to security concerns in the wake of a bomb explosion at a downtown casino.

Page SixSIGHTINGS DEREK Jeter cuddling with Jessica Alba at Rocco Ancarola's new Sunday night bash at One . .