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Happy Birthday | Ethan Hawke turns 39 today. Mike Nichols, the film director and husband of Diane Sawyer, is turning 78. Gossip Girl's Kelly Rutherford is 41. The First Lady of California, Maria Shriver, is 54. Sally Field is turning 62. Writer Michael Cunningham is 57. Rebecca Romijn (formerly Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) turns 37 today. Thandie Newton is turning 37. Taryn Manning is 31. Actress Emma Stone is 21. TV host Catherine Crier is turning 55. Former Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger is turning 69. Joe Wilson, the former diplomat and husband of Valerie Plame, is 60  And Lamar Odom, the NBA star and poor soul now married to Khloe Kardashian, is 30. A few weekend birthdays after the jump.
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• Madonna's interest in Alex Rodriguez appears may have waned (she's been spotted with a young Brazilian model in recent weeks), but there's another rich, older, equally Kaballah-obsessed woman happy to take her place. At a New Year's party in Parrot Cay last week, Donna Karan seemed smitten with the slugger, although A-Rod "refused Karan's advances" since he's "still hung up on Madonna." [P6]
• Not only are most people on Mustique happy the Noel family stayed off the island this year, but a bar even created a "No Noel" cocktail to celebrate. [P6]
• Lindsay Lohan says on her MySpace blog that she and Samantha Ronson have not broken up, just in case you've been up all night worrying. [People]
• Officials in the Bahamas have completed an autopsy on John Travolta's son, Jett, and claim the death was caused by a seizure. [CBS, NYP]More

Happy Birthday | Ethan Hawke turns 38 today. Mike Nichols, director, four-time divorcé, and husband of Diane Sawyer, is 77. Sally Field is 62. California's First Lady, Maria Shriver, is 53. Michael Cunningham, the author of The Hours, is 56. TV host Catherine Crier is 54. Actress Kelly Rutherford is 40. Rebecca Romijn is 36. Thandie Newton is 36. Taryn Manning is 30. And your favorite former Manhattan Borough President, Ruth Messinger, celebrates her 68th birthday today.

♦  The election, the economy, and Madonna and Guy all faded into insignificance last night when MTV aired the first clip of The City, and we saw our girl Whitney stepping inside Diane von Furstenberg HQ and getting ambivalently eyeballed by Olivia Palermo (who seems to have a weirdly strong screen presence). [NYO, NYP]
♦  The sixth season of Project Runway has wrapped: Rebecca Romijn, Eva Longoria and Lindsay Lohan reportedly make guest judge appearances, although regular judges Nina Garcia and Michael Kors earn less airtime than before. Yet due to legal issues we can't wrap our mind around much less summarize, no one knows when or where the show will air. [WWD]More

♦  You'd think that for $85,000-a-month, you might shell out a few extra few bucks on a maid. Apparently not. According to the Star, there's no one cleaning up after Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's kids, and their French chateau is a complete pigsty that "looks like a war zone." [Star]
♦  Jennifer Lopez raised $127,000 for charity by competing in the Malibu triathalon. She then flew directly to New York and spent $800,000 on Marc Anthony's birthday party. [MSNBC]
♦  According to the always reliable Joe Francis, Lindsay Lohan is straight. [E!]
♦  Lindsay: Please don't discuss how you're supporting Barack in November. You're embarrassing him. [NYDN]More

Spottings | Pamela Anderson walking from the St. Regis to Central Park with her son ... Tori Spelling and a friend looking lost in Midtown ... Naomi Watts taking a walk downtown with her son ... Mariska Hargitay and Luke Perry shooting scenes for Law & Order: SVU in Inwood ...  Ivana Trump strolling down Madison ...  Katie Holmes leaving an office building wearing baggy men's jeans ... Maria Bello posing outside NBC studios ... Antonio Sabato Jr. outside the CW11 studio ... Rebecca Romijn shooting a scene on the set of Ugly Betty ... Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick leaving a restaurant in Midtown ... and Rihanna leaving Da Silvano with a group of friends.

• Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber are officially parents. The Desperate Housewives actor and Project Runway executive producer had a son named Callum Lyon MacLachlan on Friday. [Us]
• Amy Winehouse is out of the hospital in London, after reportedly having a seizure. Her reps say the episode was caused by a bad reaction to a new medication. [People]
• Lindsay Lohan denies she got hit by a bike this weekend, but hasn't explained why she went to the hospital. Also, she and Sam Ronson got locked in their room at the Bowery Hotel on Sunday night and had to climb out of the balcony. [R&M] 
• Life on the B-list: George Michael's private jet was stuck on the runway at Teterboro on Sunday, while Sting and Bruce Springsteen's planes got to take off first. [Page Six]