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Drew Barrymore and her Charlie’s Angels co-star Lucy Liu pose with musician Rufus Wainwright after his Secret Live Performance at Gramercy Park Hotel’s Rose Bar Sessions in New York City on Monday night (March 15).

Rufus, 36, gave an intimate concert experience featuring tracks off of his first new studio album in three years, All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu, out April 20th.

Other celebs in attendance: Scarlett Johansson, Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto, Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley, Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, Alan Cumming, designer Christian Siriano (with boyfriend Brad Walsh), Susan Sarandon, and her daughter Eva Amurri (with boyfriend Kyle Martino and pal Damon Cardasis).

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Natalie Portman and fellow actor Alan Cumming hit the red carpet together at the 9th Annual New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend at The Times Center on Saturday (January 9) in New York City.

The 28-year-old actress wore a crepe lace dress by Rodarte for Target and booties by Stella McCartney. Nat finished off her look with a sweater from her own closet and a vintage belt.

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Zachary Quinto cozies up to openly gay actress Sarah Paulson at the reception of ‘Jessica Lange: 50 Photographs 1992-2008′ at The Rose Gallery on Saturday (July 18) in Santa Monica, Calif.

Paulson, 34, is currently dating 52-year-old actress Cherry Jones, who received an Emmy nomination for “Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series” for her work as 24’s President Allison Taylor.

Also pictured below: Jessica Lange, Laura Dern and Alan Cumming.

Alan Cumming has just been cast as lead villain Green Goblin (aka Norman Osborn) in the Broadway production of Spider-Man, opening March 2010.

The 44-year-old British actor joins Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson. The role of Peter Parker (aka Spider-Man) has not been officially announced yet, although musician Reeve Carney is rumored to have gotten the part.

U2’s Bono and The Edge will be bringing the music and lyrics to the near $40-million production called Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Director Julie Taymor, who staged The Lion King, has said that Spider-Man won’t be singing and dancing in tights and the show isn’t a musical, but a “circus rock-’n'-roll drama.”

Alan’s film credits include X2: X-Men United (Nightcrawler), the Spy Kids trilogy (scientist Fegan Floop), 1999’s Titus (directed by Taymor) and the soon-to-be-released The Tempest (also directed by Taymor)

Taymor is thrilled to be working with Alan again. She says, “I obviously love him as this is my third collaboration with Alan - and finally we get to do it on stage. He has such range and such charisma as a performer that I feel confident his Green Goblin will bring many surprises that will move and entertain us.”

X-Men star Alan Cumming, aka Nightcrawler, took the time to speak with me last week during the “A Sealed Fate?” dinner at Bon Appetit Supper Club during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

The dinner was sponsored by The Humane Society and hosted by America’s Next Top Model photographer/judge Nigel Barker. The 43-year-old Scottish actor shared about the blogs he reads, a certain foolish blogger and even his upcoming singing career. Check it:

JJ: Tell us about your new movie, Dare. (The film screened at Sundance.)

AC: It’s about these three high school kids, and it’s interesting because its about these kids who are finding themselves, and are becoming sexually active, etc. I really like it because it’s done in a really interesting way, and it can go beyong your expectations because the people you think are gonna be together, are not by the end of the movie. In the film, I’m an actor and I’m really mean, mean to Emmy Rossum.

JJ: What do you do to her?

AC: I just b—- slap her, like really hard.

JJ: You live in New York nowadays, Where do you like to hang-out?

AC: My favorite bar is Eastern Bloc on 5th St. between Ave A and B. I live in the East Village.

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President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Orange County mega-pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his swearing, which has dismayed many Hollywood liberals. Actor Alan Cumming has taken to HuffPo to voice his opinion:

“In many ways Rick Warren is like a lot of people we know — friends’ dads or people we meet on planes that are pleasant but occasionally offer an opinion that gives you a startling glimpse into the darkness of their souls. Comparing same-sex relationships with incest and pedophilia is a case in point…

“I, like the majority of Americans, feel that gay people are unfairly discriminated against, and it is time they were afforded equal rights. I have heard the president-elect espouse these same opinions many times, and unlike some friends I have talked to over the last few days, I have no fears that he has altered these opinions in any way or that the invitation to Mr. Warren compromises them and his desire to see them enacted into law.

“Obama is very clearly showing his promise to be everyone’s president — from little, lefty queers like me to big, right-wing religious bigots like Rick Warren. (And he is a bigot. Go look it up in the dictionary.)

“And that, finally, is what is so upsetting and insulting about the idea that Rick Warren will be standing on the podium on this great day of celebration for a new America: because this whole thing is not about gay rights or policy or differences of opinion. It is about human decency and respect. Let’s face it, a generation ago Rick Warren would have made Barack Obama sit at the back of the bus, and now it’s the gays who are back there and we feel kind of lonely.”

Read Alan Cumming’s full entry at HuffingtonPost.com.