Woman’s Passions

Penelope Cruz’s lesbian fans apparently aren’t buying the recent reports linking her with Orlando Bloom

Penelope Cruz’s lesbian fans apparently aren’t buying the recent reports linking her with Orlando Bloom.

Drag king Murray Hill came on strong to the Spanish actress at the riotous party Paper magazine threw for Cruz and director Pedro Almodovar at Indochine on Thursday.

“They tell me you and I would like each other,” said Hill, looking louche in a tan polyester tux and paste-on mustache.

“I see you have your BlackBerry,” said the fireplug-size comedienne, who stood on a chair. “Let me give you my number.”

Cruz, whose relationships with Tom Cruise and Matthew McConaughey have been the subject of speculation, giggled nervously. But she gamely posed for a photo with her butch admirer, who also introduced her to Dirty Martini (a full-figured, pasty-wearing gal who did a mean mambo) and Julie Atlas Muze (a slimmer ecdysiast who writhed around handcuffed to what appeared to be a severed hand).

Among those digging the scene were Usher, Moby, Michael Stipe, Fab Five Freddy, Rosie Perez, Larry Gagosian, Narciso Rodriguez, Michel Gondry, Andy Spade, Cindy Sherman and Paper hosts David Hershkovits and Kim Hastreiter.

Nobody enjoyed the zaniness more than Almodovar, whose new movie, “Volver,” is already earning Cruz Oscar buzz. (Asked about talk that Academy voters are prone to reward the castoff lovers of Cruise, as they did Nicole Kidman, the filmmaker told us: “If that is becoming a tradition, then I welcome that tradition!”

Elsewhere Thursday night, Jimmy Fallon looked out at the packed audience at the Empire State Pride Agenda dinner to raise money for gay political action, and he noticed someone was AWOL ???‚¬” again.

“Kind of a shock that Anderson Cooper’s never here,” Fallon quipped. “Isn’t that weird?”

Cooper had a good excuse this year: The CNN newsman is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reporting on atrocities there.

But Anne Hathaway (there with her gay brother, Mike), Ed Norton, playwright Tony Kushner, gubernatorial shoo-in Eliot Spitzer, singer Frenchie Davis, Kundalini cutie Kyan Douglas, Sen. Russ Feingold and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn were front and center. Or left of center, as the room buzzed about the Republican coverup of former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s predilection for pages. Douglas’ “Queer Eye” castmate Ted Allen said, “The fact that [Foley] is gay is really a shame, and really tragic for a lot of gay people.”