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We are enamoured of Mr. Hunter and have him all over the place on the BLOG and the site. It's only because -- well, it's just because. You,dear reader, know the reason. Anyway, one more time we will mention him, because he will be here in New York come Tuesday. If you can, go.

Keeping Tabs on Hunter == Ben Widdicombe
Fifties hunk Tab Hunter is making pacemakers race with a visit to town to promote his new memoir, "Tab Hunter Confidential."

The title is a winking reference to a gossip rag that used to harass the blond star for dating the likes of Debbie Reynolds and Natalie Wood in public — and being a big old homo in private. (Not that the magazine had much luck in the courts: In 1957, Liberace sued Confidential for saying he was gay — and won.)

"I heard someone was going to be doing an unauthorized book and I just thought, get [the story] from the horse's mouth, not from some horse's ass," Hunter, 74, told me.

The autobiography includes a frank discussion of his sexual adventures inside ­closeted Golden Age Hollywood (with ­Anthony Perkins and Rudolf Nureyev, yes; Rock Hudson, no).

The Daily News' 1952 "Heartthrob of the Year" will celebrate on Tuesday with a party at East Side media mecca Elaine's.

I also asked who he might like to play him if the memoir is made into a movie. Hayden Christensen, maybe?

"Oh, that's not going to happen," he said, dismissively.

Too modest, Tab! But listen, if we drunk- dial you from my mother's 70th birthday next month, sorry in advance.