Oh, dear, we wOwers practically have Sarah Palin poisoning. Every time we mention the governor, we get blasted one way or another. “Stop mentioning her (which is what we know we probably should do) … But she’s irresistible … Haven’t you got anything better to write about? … You people are raving lunatic liberals … You are probably Communists …Why don’t you write about something useful? … What’s the matter with Sarah Palin? She’ll be our next president!” And exclamations of that ilk.

So, today, we’ll go abroad and see what they’re saying all over the rest of the world. Let’s ask if Putin can see Sarah Palin from his office? No, let’s don’t start that. 

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You are aware that, although “Mamma Mia!” — the movie — was passed over by the Golden Globes, it has become the all-time highest-grossing movie in the UK. It bumped 1997’s “Titanic” from the top spot. It bested “Titanic” in DVD sales. It sold 1.7 million copies its very first day. The live musical version is still playing on stages all over the world and in London and New York.

What’s more, I am betting that the constant smile on the face of its star, Meryl Streep, is because — her critics aside (I mean the ones who don’t think she should ever do anything “commercial”)  – I’m betting Ms. Streep has pots of money now from starring in this film. And more power to her; the greatest actress of our time shouldn’t go to the poorhouse!

I do think she should probably stop letting herself be nominated for acting prizes. She won the Oscar twice and has been nominated 14 times. She has won six Golden Globes and has been nominated 23 times. Meryl must keep acting, but she might hang up her championship gloves.

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If you can’t pronounce “preliminary” and “transubstantiate” in Suffolk, England, the cops believe you are drunk. They’ll also ask you to repeat the words "innovative," "preliminary" and "cinnamon.” 

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The Versace fashion house is opening a hotel in Dubai, the site of the proposed new Palazzo Versace, and it will boast a refrigerated beach. With normal temperatures of 122 degrees, a network of coolant pipes will lie beneath the actual beach.

This delightful factoid is just as crazy as other factoids in the history of the Versaces.

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France’s Justice Minister, the impossibly chic Rachida Dati, came back to work less than five days after giving birth by Caesarean section. Mlle. Dati, 43, is the new Carla Bruni of France. Dati admits she has had “a complicated life” and refuses to name the baby girl’s father.

This caused a number of well-known French men to insist in public that they are not the father, though nobody said they were. (I mean the president of France’s brother Francois Sarkozy … the French hotel/casino owner Dominique Desseigne … the former PM of Spain, José María Aznar.)

Mlle. Dati is quite a number, wouldn’t you say?

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Nicole Kidman is so unhappy with the negative press she has received lately that she says the Baz Luhrmann epic film “Australia,” about her native land, may be her last movie. Of the movie itself, she opines: “It’s not meant to be an intellectual, historical drama. It’s meant to be entertaining and fun.”

I’m all for that and if I have my way, Nicole, one of the nicest, most generous people in entertainment, will never retire.