The Crying Game

SHE may be the queen of the emotional interview, but Oprah Winfrey admitted she hired an acting coach to help her cry for her role in Lee Daniels The Butler. Oprah said she consulted the coach at director Daniels suggestion. I have problems crying, she said at a panel at Hearst Tower on Wednesday. Everybody thinks that Im a good crier, an easy crier. Gayle [King], at one point called during the Oprah years, an d said, Youre cryin too damn much . Every day I turn on the TV, y oure cryin over something. I go, Well, Im just feeling it! Charles Allen, the son of Eugene Allen who worked for the Whit e House for 34 years until he retired as head butler in 1986, and who inspired Forest Whitakers character in the movie said he was impressed by Oprahs portrayal. If she could have Tyra Banks seen you, Oprah, with that shoots a afro wig on, shed come sassy look to back, he quipped of his late fotogs in mother, Helene, who in- Times spired Winfreys character. Square The film by hot screenyesterday. writer Danny Strong also recently screened for former President George H.W. Bush, who called it a powerful, engaging story that is more about the struggle for Civil Rights in America than it is about life as a White House butler. Lee Daniels is a compelling, entertaining storyteller, and I congratulate him on this wonderful movie.

Hybrid Super-Ferrari for Ralph Lauren

RALPH Lauren is one of the few who will soon own Ferraris new, $1.4 million hybrid supercar. The designer has put in an order for the eagerly anticipated model, called LaFerrari. The famed automaker has said it will deliver only 499 of LaFerrari, which boasts 949 horsepower and can go from zero to 186 mph in 15 seconds. Its top speed will be faster than 217 mph. Lauren was among guests Wednesday at a private dinner thrown by Ferrari North America President and CEO Marco Mattiacci at The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. The dinner was planned to unveil LaFerrari for its soon-to-be owners, who will take delivery in the spring. Others who have ordered LaFerrari but didnt make it to the event included Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, Canadian businessman Lawrence Stroll film director Michael Mann and Microsofts Paul Allen. Were told the car was sold out before it went into production.

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The kids back with Hollywood book

HOLLYWOOD producer Robert Evans had so much success with his first autobiography The Kid Stays in the Picture that its been reissued by HarperCollins. The publisher will also release Evans second memoir, The Fat Lady Sang, in November. At Book Soup in West Hollywood, where Evans, 83, was signing copies of the new edition of Kid on Wednesday night, he quipped of his next tomes title: The fat lady sang, but she forgot the last verse, The Posts Richard Johnson reports. There to support Evans the one-time head of Paramount Pictures, where his credits included The Godfather, Chinatown and Marathon Man were guests including Varietys Peter Bart, Nikki Haskell, Michael Levine, A.J. Benza and Michel Comte, who shot Evans picture for the new editions flyleaf. More recently, the former playboy Evans has hosted the radio show In Bed with Robert Evans from his home and Kid Notorious. interview at a New York Sports Club 23rd Street branch . . . LAKERS star Steve Nash at Kazino seeing Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.

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Sightings . . .
JUSTIN Bieber walking shirtless on Broome Street [More on Biebs in Pulse: Page 36]. . . TINA Fey at Red-eye Grill . . . DETROIT Tigers manager

Jim Leyland, CNNs Kate Bolduan, Sharon Bush and author Linda Fairstein sitting separately at Primola on the Upper East Side . . . HUGH Grant at SushiSamba in London . . . FLO Rida doing a Fuse

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Its Were the Millers time for Jennifer Aniston at the NY premiere last night.