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Oops! She's Getting Ready To Do It Again
After BRITNEY SPEARS strutted down a Las Vegas chapel aisle in ripped jeans to wed a childhood friend six months ago, the nuptials lasted just 55 hours. This time Spears, 22, is undergoing a waiting period — er, engagement — before she gets hitched to boyfriend KEVIN FEDERLINE. Federline, 26, was a backup dancer for Spears' ex, singer Justin Timberlake. The groom-to-be has a 2-year-old daughter and a baby due in July with former Moesha star Shar Jackson, who has trashed the couple in the press since they started dating in April. We wonder if Spears' mother, who orchestrated an annulment last time, has a divorce attorney on speed dial.

Ben Plays His Cards Right
Even ex-fiance Jennifer Lopez couldn't tell when this guy was bluffing. So it should come as no surprise that Daredevil's seven-card stud, BEN AFFLECK, beat out nearly 90 other players to win first place and $356,400 at a major California poker tournament last week. His victory in the $10,000 buy-in event earned the avid gambler a seat in the World Poker Tour Championship, to be held next April in Las Vegas. Affleck outlasted a former world champ and fellow action hero Tobey Maguire at the tourney in Commerce, Calif., to "become a respected member of the poker elite," a casino rep said. Now if only the star of such clinkers as Paycheck and Gigli made smarter bets on his films.

Hey, We Thought the Invitation Said "Dress Casual..."
Some parties are meant to be skipped — like when a convicted tax cheat dons a crown in a federal office building, declares himself the Messiah and claims to have redeemed the souls of Hitler and Stalin. When Salon.com revealed last week that dozens of legislators attended a bizarre event staged by eccentric businessman and wealthy campaign contributor THE REV. SUN MYUNG MOON in the Dirksen Senate Office Building last March, red-faced pols said they had been duped by invitations to a "peace-awards banquet." "This went far beyond anything that I expected," said Representative Danny Davis of Illinois, who carried a crown for Moon's wife. A spokesman for Moon said all members of Congress got invitations stating that the Unification Church leader would be honored. They must have missed the fine print about the Second Coming.

Scoring Points for the Ages
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, 47, became the oldest woman to win a singles match at Wimbledon in 82 years last week. Though she lost the next round, that first game put her in the company of several other graying jocks who outplayed younger peers:

The Arizona Diamondbacks' RANDY JOHNSON, 40, became the oldest pitcher to hurl a perfect game when he beat Atlanta in May. Over the hill? Hey, the Big Unit owns the hill.

COLLEEN DE REUCK, 40, set a record at the U.S. Olympic trials in April. In Athens the marathoner, who previously ran for South Africa, will race for Team USA — and her sister soccer moms.

After playing the most NHL games without winning a Stanley Cup, team captain DAVE ANDREYCHUK, 40, finally broke the ice this month, leading the Tampa Bay Lightning to a championship