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Meet Colin The Great
Known for his plentiful female conquests, COLIN FARRELL is now playing the role of a fabled land grabber. The mischiefmaking Dublin-born star is Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's untitled tale of the Macedonian warrior-King currently filming in Morocco with Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins. Historians debate Alexander's true appearance, but Farrell's normally dark locks are now blond to accommodate the "sun-bleached golden-boy" theory, he says. "Do blonds have more fun?" ponders Farrell from the Marrakech set. "Nah, the Irish do."

The News In Technicolor
The story of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl was sold last week to Warner Bros. It's the latest in a growing list of journo movies.

Opening this week, Shattered Glass depicts the downfall of yarn-spinning New Republic staff writer STEPHEN GLASS, left, who fabricated sources. HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN stars as the guy D.C. beat reporters love to hate.

CATE BLANCHETT, right, plays the title role in a movie about Irish journalist VERONICA GUERIN, who was murdered in 1996 by drug dealers she exposed. This one may fill journos with purpose or empty newsrooms.

Showtime is planning a film about former New York Times reporter JAYSON BLAIR, left. The disgraced newsman hasn't yet been cast, but we suggest a man who can talk a good game — CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER.

No, Not Like In Bosom Buddies
Now that gays are as ubiquitous on television as Law & Order spin-offs, actor-playwright HARVEY FIERSTEIN is set to break new gender-bending ground. Fierstein, who won a Tony Award for his performance as a plus-size hausfrau in Broadway's Hairspray, has signed on to play a divorced mother of two in an ABC pilot. More Roseanne than Will & Grace, the show will include "no acknowledgment that this is a man playing a woman, no winking at the camera," says Craig Zadan, who is developing the project with Neil Meron, his co-executive producer on the film Chicago. Fierstein will sport wigs and makeup for the role and may have romantic encounters.