Will it be third time lucky for the office romance prone Penélope Cruz, whose previous hookups with leading men Matthew McConaughey ("Sahara") and Tom Cruise ("Vanilla Sky") fizzled out? The New York Post reports the Spanish beauty is cozying up to handsomely scruffy countryman Javier Bardem, her co-star in Woody Allen's recently wrapped (and still untitled) Spanish project. The pair, whose professional relationship dates back to 1992's "Jamón, Jamón," was spotted at the New York Film Festival last weekend looking "very touchy-feely," an eyewitness tattles to the paper. "They held hands when they thought no one was watching and she kissed his cheek, and he put his arm around her." Cruz, 33, and Bardem, 38, were also caught on video -- albeit shaky, grainy, nighttime video -- looking thisclose as they hugged it out on a sidewalk. "She just glows when she talks about him," a Cruz confidante tells the Chicago Sun-Times. "He just dotes on her." The actress, who since her summer 2006 split from McConaughey has been linked to both Orlando Bloom and Josh Hartnett, brushed off talk of a Bardem romance a few months back. "It's not true," she insisted at a July press conference. "He's a friend and the best actor in the world."

Incredibly rich and handsome French-Swiss financiers don't grow on every tree, but is Uma Thurman ready to settle down with moneybags beau Arpad Busson after just three months of coupledom? This week, the comely lovebirds were hit with engagement whispers claiming a "smitten" Busson, who has two children with ex-girlfriend Elle Macpherson, is determined to lock down the actress, who has two children with ex-husband Ethan Hawke, "as quickly as possible." But Uma's rep tells "Entertainment Tonight" that there's no truth to the engagement chatter and the couple have no plans to swap vows anytime soon.

Sarah Larson and George Clooney attend the "Michael Clayton" cocktail party during the 2007 Venice Film Festival. (Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com)

Talk about kissing it and making it better. Over a cozy dinner Monday night in New York, George Clooney was captured on camera repeatedly laying his lips on girlfriend Sarah Larson, who's off her crutches following their recent motorcycle crash. The swoon-inducing star and his cocktail waitress squeeze were breaking bread with Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, but they appeared to have an appetite only for one another. "They were kissing very passionately all evening," a spy tells the London Sun. "They didn't care who saw them."

In other noshing news, Cameron Diaz and Bradley Cooper's rumored romance still seems to be going strong. The New York Daily News caught the blond-on-blond pair dining a deux at an eatery in the West Village on Sunday.

Hugh Grant cracked a mile-wide smile when a camera was pointed at him a few days back, an uncharacteristically obliging reaction that might have had something to do with the bevy of nubile college students who were hanging all over him at the time. According to the London Daily Mail, the very candid photo op took place during a dorm room party at Scotland's St. Andrews University, where the oft-crabby star, 47, was participating in a golf tournament. But Grant, who has been back on the market since his bust-up with longtime love Jemima Khan earlier this year, apparently didn't use his considerable romantic comedy skills to woo a co-ed young enough to be his daughter. "Hugh is adamant that nothing untoward happened," one of his buddies tells the paper. "He thinks he's quite within his rights to have a bit of fun with a group of girls whatever their age -- it's not illegal after all." (And if anyone should know from illegal, it's Hugh.)

Will Paul McCartney's reputation-sullying split from Heather Mills soon be laid to rest? That's the word from the London Daily Mail, which says the embattled exes have finally hammered out a financial agreement that will ensure details of their marital meltdown will remain private. Mills will reportedly receive a lump sum payment of around $30 million, along with another $6 million to $7 million annually over the next 14 years (until their daughter Beatrice turns 18), providing she keeps her cakehole closed about the breakup. According to the paper, McCartney will also pony up for all of Beatrice's expenses, including her education and security. If the deal goes through, it's set to be the largest divorce settlement in British history.

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