Here's a trailer for Rabbit Hole, the dead-kid drama based on the Pulitzer-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Nicole Kidman steps into the role that won Cynthia Nixon a Tony on Broadway, plus Aaron Eckhart shows up for some moping.

Let the record show that last night the Manhattan media crowd descended on The Box to see a youth from Wasilla receive a silver dildo for showing his penis. Photographs by the wonderful Nikola Tamindzic and Hee Jin Kang.

Her Royal Majesty turns 83 today. Feel free to use this an excuse to take your British friends to lunch and order a celebratory cocktail. Others celebrating today: Charles Grodin is 74. Filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell is turning 46. Andie MacDowell is 51. Patti LuPone turns 60. Author Nell Freudenberger is 34. Ugly Betty's Eric Mabius is turning 38. Tony Danza is 58. Iggy Pop is turning 62. Former congressman Gary Condit is 61. The Cure's Robert Smith is 50. And Tony Romo, the NFL quarterback who has to put up with Jessica Simpson for so long now, turns 29 today.

The patron saint of queer cinema, John Cameron Mitchell is responsible for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus and Rabbit Hole.

For their October issue, Out interviews adorable Gay-of-all-trades and striped-shirt aficionado John Cameron Mitchell on the matter of his new film, Shortbus,which features explicit sex scenes but is not, mind you, hardcore porn. So how to go about shooting this brave new art?

We're going to venture ever-so-slightly off our beaten path and, for just a moment, talk about fashion choices amongst popular figures in the gay community. Specifically, we're really feeling what John Cameron Mitchell, the doll behind Hedwig and the Angry Inch, has been doing with his wardrobe for the past few years. He may know how to be one bold tranny, but when it's all business, Mitchell also knows how to work the fashion rules — find a look that works and stick with it, darling.

Experiencing a severe bout of "I'm thirtysomething and I don't know what I want to be when I grow up", Salon's Paul Festa auditions for John Cameron Mitchell's The Sex Film Project"a legitimate movie with hardcore sex." The audition tape contained a story about an affair Festa had with a married couple, also chronicled in fiction form on his blog.
Naked on the set! [Salon]

Nerve covers John Cameron Mitchell's Sex Film Project. Mitchell wants to make a film with "meaningful dialogue, a dramatic arc, robust camerawork and lots of hardcore screwing." Says Mitchell, "Shooting porn has become very standardized: you have a camera up the ass, another camera up the vagina...I want the sex to look the way it does when you're having it. You don't necessarily see up your ass." Amateur porn stars, take note: there's an open casting call.
Project X [Nerve]
The Sex Film Project

· Howell Raines is getting married. [Page Six]
· Guests at Cabo resort tease Sean Penn about Iraq. [Page Six]
· Amy Sacco is suing her landlord, who she says is trying to evict her so he can triple the rent. [Page Six]
· John Cameron Mitchell is casting for a new movie called "The Sex Film Project" that features actors having actual sex on camera. He's looking for "downtown, bohemian Williamsburg types." [Page Six]
· Condé Nast CEO, Steve Florio, was in a fender bender in the Florida Keys. [Page Six]
· Cindy Adams objects to the construction of a cement plant in upstate New York on the basis that its builders "are not even New Yorkers. Not even Americans." Note to Cindy: neither is half the population of Manhattan. Cindy Adams]
· Liz Smith turns 80. [Liz Smith]
· Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz flew Roberta Flack in for his New Year's party; Guy Ritchie's new TV show is cancelled after a cameraman is stabbed; and ex-Bush speechwriter David Frum's new tell-all says the Karl Rove had "the ideas nobody else had" while Karen Hughes had "the same ideas that everybody else had."