Jan. 31, 2008

If you squint really hard and tilt your head just so, you can almost see the wheels churning inside Paris Hilton's head (hey, look at those little hamsters go!) as she tries to figure out how to garner some extra publicity for her latest cinematic opus, "The Hottie and the Nottie."

Get arrested? So 2006. Have a meltdown? Too Britney. Girl-on-girl action in a public setting? Bingo.

Both Us and the New York Post claim the self-promoting starlet, who has been on a media blitz this week with stops on the "Late Show With David Letterman" and MTV's "TRL," Frenched pal Elisha Cuthbert Tuesday night at New York hot spot Tenjune.

A source tattles to the mag that the "House of Wax" co-stars were "all over each other and making out," while another eyewitness informs the paper, "They were drinking and dancing, and all of a sudden they just started kissing," adding that the seemingly crowd-pleasing buss stop lasted "about a minute."

Before she purportedly puckered up, Paris, who was at the club for a birthday bash, ascended to her favorite spot atop a banquette, where she shook her well-worn moneymaker to the music.

"It's Paris," the mole shrugs to Us. "She loves putting on a show."

True, but maybe not this time.

Hilton's spokesman is quick to dismiss the tongue-tangling tale as so much fiction, insisting to OK!, "It's false. Elisha and Paris are good friends and Elisha has a boyfriend. Paris doesn't kiss girls."

The rep, who apparently hasn't seen that much-disseminated photo from a few years back of his client doing just that, says she and Cuthbert were merely face-to-face for communication purposes.

"They were talking close due to a loud restaurant," he explains (no word on whether pictures of the pair walking hand-in-hand at dawn indicated their conversation was continuing apace).

Elisha, who was most recently linked to Montreal Canadiens hockey player Mike Komisarek, is also brushing off the lip action talk, with her mouthpiece issuing denials aplenty.

Hilton, for her part, has had a busy couple of weeks smooch-wise. She was photographed sucking face with Jared Leto at the Sundance Film Festival, where she also reportedly spit-shined the tonsils of former flame Simon Rex.

In between sharing her saliva (see, she really is fulfilling her post-pokey promise to give back), Paris slipped on her jammies for some quality time with her sometime BFF Nicole Richie and her newborn daughter, Harlow.

"She looks like a miniature version of Nicole and Joel [Madden]," she gushes to PageSix.com of the tot. "We had a sleepover on Sunday night at Nicole's mom's house. I was crying when I saw her ... I am so happy for them."

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