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ROBERT KAHN LOS ANGELES TIMES-WASHINGTON POST NEWS SERVICE Published 14.04.04, 12:00 AM

New York, April 14: Dying is easy... comedy just gives you migraines.

That’s how Julianne Moore summed up her first experience with romantic confections, a turn in the coming Laws of Attraction opposite Pierce Brosnan.

“Comedy just gives you a big, big headache,” the Manhattanite said at the 15th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. “My head was always pounding by the end of the day.”

In Laws, Brosnan and Moore — better known for idiosyncratic turns in The Hours and Far From Heaven — play rival divorce lawyers who find love among their litigation.

“It’s a lot harder than any dramatic role I’ve ever had,” Moore says.

Moore was presented with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s Excellence in Media award.

The five Queer Eye guys created their own dramatic scene at the Marriott Marquis, hobnobbing with celebs such as Phil Donahue, Chris Meloni and Glenn Close, who all came out to honour entertainment industry professionals for positive images of gays in the media.

Design guru Thom Filicia said that the Fab 5 are getting more versatile in their story lines and had just wrapped an episode — due to air in July — in which they make over a man in his 60s.

Tony winner Cherry Jones, honoured with GLAAD’s Vito Russo Award, is just back from Pennsylvania, where she filmed The Village, the M. Night Shyamalan fable about a late 19th-century Utopian community.

As an ice-breaker for the cast — among them Sigourney Weaver, Joaquin Phoenix, William Hurt, Adrien Brody and Jesse Eisenberg — Jones says Shyamalan had them sleep outdoors for a week at a girl scout camp in chilly southern New Jersey. “There was a lot of skinny dipping,” she reports.

With her CBS sitcom The Stones newly axed, longtime gay rights advocate Judith Light has her eye on the stage, cooing about Company, the Stephen Sondheim musical she’s rehearsing as part of the Reprise! series in Los Angeles.

While in town, she’s hoping to catch pal Joanna Gleason in the Public Theater’s anniversary revival of Larry Kramer’s landmark AIDS drama The Normal Heart.

“The time has come for that play to make a mark again like it did 20 years ago,” she said.

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