There’s a whole lot more going on in Hollywood today than getting your name in lights. Celebrities have discovered a different way to light up at nightclubs and parties. There’s a new translucent cell phone on the market that glows in the dark and it’s a “must-have” for stars who covet the latest gadget. Among the celebs who are proud owners of the new Motorola cell phone are Josh Brolin, LL Cool J, John Stamos, Evan Jaron Lowenstein, Sela Ward, David Blaine, Vivica A. Fox, Paul Walker, Johh Hopkins and Wayne Brady. The 4-ounce flip phone does more than just glow in the dark. Features include voice recognition, interactive text messaging, speaker phone and games. And, the phone also serves as a two-way radio.

The first five shows of Paul McCartney’s first American tour in a decade sold out in 30 minutes. All 75,000 tickets were sold by telephone and the Internet.

In its debut, NBC’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom, “Watching Ellie,” averaged a healthy 16.7-million viewers, second in the time slot period behind CBS’ “JAG.” But, it easily dominated among young adults and outperformed “Three Sisters,” which it replaced in the time period.

CBS’ Grammy Awards averaged 19-million viewers, the show’s smallest audience since 1995, but enough to win the night. The Miss USA pageant fared much worse, with 7.6-million viewers.

That “American Undercover” documentary on Monica Lewinsky, “Monica in Black and White,” averaged 4.2-million.

In 1998, Michael Douglas was named a U.N. Messenger of Peace – a spokesman for nuclear disarmament and human rights.

By age 11, Pierce Brosnan was almost 6-feet tall, but eventually topped out at 6-foot-1.

“Ally McBeal” star Portia de Rossi collects body parts. Not real ones, however. Portia’s hobby is cruising flea markets for bronze hands and feet, or limbs from mannequins or statues.

Marie Osmond turned down the starring role in the film “Grease” on “moral grounds.”

Sissy Spacek swears the reason she got through her character’s non-stop chain-smoking in the film, “In the Bedroom,” was herbal cigarettes.

While Britney Spears was plugging “Crossroads” in interviews at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, all the Cokes in the hotel’s bars and restaurants were replaced with Pepsi, her sponsor. Even the mini-bars in her suite were restocked.

Josh Hartnett confessed he did his homework for “O” with help from his former high school drama teacher, whose students opened up and gave him an earful.

The late opera star Eileen Farrell made her breakthrough in pop music in 1959 at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, where she filled in for an ailing Louis Armstrong, singing ballads and blues with his band.

Ashley Judd graduated eighth in her class of 300 at Paul Blazer High School in Ashland, Ky. She later attended the University of Kentucky, where she was an honor student in French.

Nicole Kidman suffers from insomnia.

Wynonna Judd isn’t letting the financial failure of Planet Hollywood phase her. She’s opening her own chain of country-themed restaurants which will feature home-cooked southern specialties.

Haley Joel Osment is a lizzard lover. The “Sixth Sense” kid, who lives in the Hollywood Hills, sez he’s caught hundreds and has two leopard geckos from Pakistan as pets.

Katie Couric has her two daughters’ pals over every weekend for karoke sing-alongs that last sometimes for hours.

She may not have won the gold medal at the Olympics, but Michelle Kwan is already attracting attention in the film community. At least three “legitimate” producers have called.

Denise Richards was recently voted the “most fantasized about” actress in Hollywood.