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CJ| * RNina Garcia is best known for her candid commentary on the catwalks of Project Runway, but she takes a gentler approach in her new book. The Little Black Book of Style, out this month. 'lt's like Style 101' Garcia, the fashion director at Elle maga zine, tells us.'A lot of people come up to me with fashion questions, and I feel like I have all these recipes in my head. I wanted to answer all the questions." So she boiled all her recipes down to 10 basic rules for fashionable women, and she added tips from big names such as Ralph Lauren and Diane Von Fur stenberg. Among the basics: "how to edit' and “the ut most importance of shoes.' She also warns against be coming a fashion victim by succumbing to trends and carrying the "it" bag. MS’ Qj What happened to Adrien Brody? I have adored him since The Pianist. That old Oscar curse must be true. Carrie Anderson, Aquebogue, X.Y. Don’t write him off yet, Carrie. Brody, 34, who won his Oscar for The Pianist has several films coming with hot co-stars. Watch for Manolete with Penel ope Cruz next month. He has a movie this fall. The Darjeeling Limited, with Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman that could be interesting. Plus, he has fin ished a movie for next year, The Brothers Bloom, with Rachel Weisz and Mark Ruffalo. THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS 9.23.07 Jason Alexander 48 Bruce Springsteen 58 Julio Iglesias 64 9.24.07 Kevin Sorbo 49 9.25.07 Will Smith 39 Scottie Pippen 42 Heather Locklear 46 Cheryl Tiegs 60 Barbara Walters 76 9.26.07 Serena Williams 26 Linda Hamilton 51 OSvb NewtooJohn 59 9.27.07 Gwyneth Paltrow 35 Meat Loaf 60 9.28.07 Hilary Duff 20 Naomi Watts 39 Mira Sorvino 40 Janeane Garofalo 43 9.29.07 Zachary Levi 27 Bryant Gumbel 59 Contributing: Bakt Mills, Nancy Mills, Kathy Rowings, Jon Tollestbit 2 USA WEEKEND • Sept 21-23,2007 Wnos By LORRIE LYNCH News To ask a question, e-mail wtiosnews@usaweekend.com or click on “Contact Columnists” at our website. Include name, city, state. jjk- Hiding behind a beard in King of California, Michael Douglas (who turns 63 Tuesday) looks Hk more like dad Kirk, 90. His wife, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (who turns 38 also on Tuesday) didn't H like the look. He says that, on the last day of film jf*H| <n<J. she told him: ‘Shave it off. I feel like I've been Wf living with the Unabomber." Since marrying her in yy 2000, he has changed his priorities. "I never antici ijSß pated raising a second family at my age," says ■addition to Dylan, 7, and is a son, Cameron, 28, from t marriage. "The nice thing ut getting older is that you ■predate and protect your fe, not take it for granted.’ He says that he was focused on his career when raising Cameron. 'ln our industry, there's no balancing act or it's very rare. One is either consumed, one way or the , „ other, and the kids suffer. Pf particularly when you've got both parents working. It's tough for kids in terms of quality time." Douglas plays dad to Evan Rachel Wood in King of California. ■■yi Linda Ronstadtisat home in San Francisco talking with me about how she is raising her teen children in today's pop-culture-driven world I (no junk food, no TV), the importance of paying RBi attention and learning to do things carefully ("when you do, it changes : everything") and passing down traditions like the mariachi music of her father's homeland, Mexico. She is 61 now and as easy to talk to as a longtime girlfriend. Ronstadt's music has reflected all the influences and passions of her life, among them children (with lullabies) and Mexico (with folk songs). This week she'll reconnect with the latter at the International Mariachi Festival in San Jose, Calif., headlining Saturday night with Los Lobos. She's equally interested in the mariachi workshops going on this week because it's a passing on of the culture, she says, and that must be done “person to person, hand to hand, mono a mano." CELEB GOSSIP onYOURCELLPHONE §[□] BUZZ Q. is Patrick Wilson, from the film 1 Evening, the same actor who was in Broadway's The Full Monty and who played Raoul in the movie version of The Phantom of the Opera ? If he is, tell me more about him. Mary Stott, Port Charlotte. Fla. It is indeed the same actor. A gradu ate of Carnegie Mellon University and a Virginia native, Wilson earned Tbny nominations for The Full Monty and Oklahoma! But he was nomi nated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his most impressive work, HBO’s Angels in America. Wilson, 34, plays the guitar and loves arena rock bands like Van Halen. He’s mar ried to actress Dagmara Dominczyk, whom he met in college, and they have a 1-year-old son. Q. What is Howie Mandel's background, and how did he get * the job hosting NBC's Deal or No Deal? Robert Mathys, Clarkxville. Teint. Mandel has been an actor and stand-up comedian, but when he first got the offer for Deal, he turned it down. “It just wasn’t what I wanted to do in my career. I thought I would be a laughing stock.” NBC’s persistence flattered him, so he agreed to meet at a deli, but he was looking around $ for Ashton Kutcher of * Funk'd. NBC reps had a cardboard cutout of the Din/ hoard, and "I tonight I was living punkcd." Nay.- Mandel. ■">). Hi.' wife watched an Italian ver.-in:; lif the game show a 1 ill .-aiii that it \va.- (HilVc! for him. P 31 it;, thing l'\-- • nryvu qfeuui my ‘“*, \ ‘• E career i now do in one venue. I get to do stand un. work off the audi- || ence, do imjirov. 1 get to act, which I I loved doing on St. Elsewhere, and 1 get to interview jieople and flush out theii* hopes and dreams.” o GARCIA: DAVIO Mil lIR.1 IR. ABACAUSA. BRODY: DAVID I ONGtNOVKT, GLOW PHOTOS. DOUGLAS MARK MAIN 7, GfTTY. RONSTADT USA ROST. GLOW PHOTOS; Wit SON: ARMANDO GAI 10. RfTNA; MANOf l NBC/TRAT PATTON