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Mystic movie magic

By CINDY ADAMS

Last Updated: 8:28 AM, December 4, 2009

Posted: 12:20 AM, December 4, 2009

PARAMOUNT'S “The Lovely Bones” had a lovely screening Wednesday at the Paris Theatre. It was cold. It poured rain. Traffic was backed up to New Haven thanks to the tree-lighting. And someone's tote bag ripped the jacket of Cinema Society organizer

Andrew Saffir.

Alice Sebold's dark best seller “The Lovely Bones” is about a murdered girl who monitors her killer from heaven. The film's director,

Peter Jackson, in scruffy beard, tumbled hair, rumpled pants, sneakers, and its diametrically opposite star

Mark Wahlberg, immaculate in knife-crease black suit, black tie, starched shirt, slicked hair, spit-polish shoes, both acknowledge familiarity with the paranormal.

Jackson: “I saw a ghost once. Maybe 20 years ago. I was alone, reading a newspaper in a 100-year-old building in New Zealand, when I sensed another presence. Looking up, I saw a lady screaming with no sound coming out. She looked at me accusatorily for maybe eight seconds, then vanished. I later told a friend, 'I think I saw a ghost.' He asked was it a lady with a screaming face. I said, 'Yes.' He'd seen that same apparition 15 years before. Seems right across the street was the old-time St. James Theatre, which once played vaudeville in the days before movies, and there was a well-known story about a bitterly unhappy actress. It was decided this ghost had been that actress.”

Considering neither “The Lovely Bones” nor his “The Lord of the Rings” are exactly your average garden-variety 9-to-5 stories, is there a reason for his offbeat choices?

“This one tonight is the story of a 14-year-old separated from her body and in a weird psychological state. It's metaphysical. It's escapism. I like watching those kinds of movies, and so I make what I enjoy watching.”

Wahlberg: “I don't know about otherworldly things. I only know I have deep belief in a higher power dominating us, watching over us, directing our lives. I believe in God and heaven. I have had conversations with loved ones who have passed on. I dearly loved my sister, who left us the very same day my son was born. My youngest son,

Brendan, has the exact same face as my father, who's no longer with us. So I only know there's something out there we can't explain.

“My sources of strength are God, my family, and maybe work. I make a lot of money. Too much money. I work a lot. Tonight I'm promoting this movie. Today I was shooting another movie. I think I work a lot because it's a blessing and someday I'll no longer have to work and can devote myself to what we were all put on this Earth to do — and that's to help people.

“Look, instead of where I am now, I could've been a guy in jail. Somewhere I met my first manager,

Dick Scott, which somehow got me to Calvin Klein, and someplace along the line it was helping hands like

Penny Marshalland

Danny DeVito. It's why I always wear Armani. I'm a loyal person. I was a kid who had nothing, and he was very generous. And what I want from now on is to lead the good life. Yes, my wife and I have help, but our children are going to be raised by us, not by nannies.

“I know I have to give back. So do I believe there's Something Else out there? Yes.”

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OB Balaban, entering a movie theater, was asked, “You in this?” He said: “Can't remember.” . . . Lawyer

David Boies, whose high-profile cases include arguing for

Gorein the Supreme Court's 2000 presidential election thing, bought a top floor in the Sherry-Netherland. Give or take a few bucks, $18,000 a month maintenance . . .

Martha Stewartsleeps only three hours a night, “but I catnap in the car. I think while I nap, so it's really not a waste of time.”

SO this 6-year-old was taken to visit Mr. Claus at a mall. She nestled onto San ta's knee, and he asked: “And what would you like for Christmas?” Answered little

Alexandra: “An American Girl doll — and a little black dress.”

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.

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