VETERAN ACTRESS HAS ALWAYS been known as one of the more colorful characters in local Show Town.

On the set of a TV series, VA regaled coworkers with tales from her rather R-rated love life.

With very little provocation, VA revealed a secret bedroom maneuver that, she claimed, had endeared her to the men in her life.

The faint-hearted listeners couldn’t help feeling queasy, but the adventurous ones took mental notes.

Suffice it to say that VA’s amorous tip gives new meaning to the term “helping hand.”

Clash of the managers

Camp of Talent Manager 1 blames Talent Manager 2 for the former’s departure as staff of a show.

TM2 allegedly gloated about it. “Thing is, TM1 left the show because it was being pummeled by its rival program for the past three weeks,” said a mole.

In spite of the crisis, TM1 purportedly left for a beach holiday, recalled an insider. “That was the last straw and the reason that TM1 lost the gig.”

Buying an award

There is talk that Influential Manager clinched an award for Prized Talent by wining and dining the jurors.

No big surprise there. The awards body in question has been linked to all sorts of controversies in the past. IM was also involved in one of the biggest awards scandal in show biz history.

Declining an award

If other stars are tripping all over themselves to win an award, consider these Teen Stars an exception.

Teen Stars 1 and 2 were supposed to receive an honor recently. They were already at the awards show venue, but their Feisty Manager (FM) pulled them out at the last minute.

Why? FM didn’t like the idea that TS1 & 2 were in a tie with equally Popular Loveteam from a rival studio.

Womanizer, interrupted

Controversial Celebrity is a notorious womanizer. But when CC was still a poor and struggling wannabe, he was almost duped by a Cross-Dresser.

CD looked a bit like the Sexy Wife of a Good Friend, an action superstar, that’s why. CC flirted with CD, who mercifully turned down the indecent proposal.

Broken heart

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, dreamy star of “(500) Days of Summer,” on his own heartbreaks: “I’ve had my heart broken before—truly, truly, truly broken. But when I look back at me in my broken-hearted phase, it’s pretty hilarious, because it feels so much more extreme than it really is.”

A perfect gig

LOS ANGELES—Ricky Gervais is known as an edgy comedian, and the Golden Globes are considered the least stuffy of film and television awards shows. So it’s little wonder that Gervais sees his hosting job for the 2010 ceremony as a match made in Hollywood honors heaven. “Everyone is sitting around and drinking. I’m going to be drunk, and I’m not going to rehearse. So, it’s the perfect gig for me,” Gervais said last week, laughing. Reuters

Broadway debut

NEW YORK—Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut starring in a revival of American playwright Arthur Miller’s drama, “A View from the Bridge,” the show’s organizers have announced. Johansson, 24, will appear opposite Liev Schreiber in the drama set in 1950s America about a Brooklyn dockyard worker obsessed with his 17-year-old niece, to be played by Johansson. Reuters

Kids in therapy

LOS ANGELES—Paris Jackson wears her father’s shirts every day, but her brother Prince does not want to watch the King of Pop’s DVDs. All three of Michael Jackson’s kids are in therapy, La Toya Jackson has revealed.

La Toya told the British newspaper The Mirror that the three kids were dealing in very different ways with their father’s death four months ago.

Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II, 7, also known as Blanket, are being raised by their grandmother Katherine Jackson.