HEADLINES 9/30

Organizers say Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington will host this year's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo. Artists including British pop band Florence and the Machine, U.S. pop singer Colbie Caillat, pianist Herbie Hancock and singer-songwriter Elvis Costello will also perform at the Dec. 11 show. /AP, USAT 1B

Paris Hilton has landed a new show on the Oxygen network and she intends to show the world she’s not a ditzy blonde as she’s been portrayed on other shows. /NYP 18

Sade will tour for the first time since 2001. /USAT 1B

Heidi Klum quits Victoria Secret after 13 years. She will not be walking in the November show. /NYP 18

Meredith Viera is expected to leave the Today Show and Katie Couric may return once her contract expires at CBS at the end of May. /NYP 15

Singer Liza Minnelli has canceled a concert in Maine because of an illness. The mayor of Portland had expected to give singer a key to the city after her performance at Merrill Auditorium on Wednesday night. But the arts organization Portland Ovations says Minnelli fell ill before her afternoon sound check and could not perform as scheduled. She was on her way back to New York City. /AP

Whoopi Goldberg says she channels her grief from her mother's death last month by staying busy. The co-host of "The View" attended the New York launch party Wednesday for purewow.com, a website with daily tips for women 35 and over. She is an investor. Asked how she's handling her mother's death, Goldberg said, "I'm here, but it's not easy." Her mother, Emma Johnson, died from complications following a stroke. /AP

DC Housewife Michaele Salahi’s latest excuse for crashing the November 09 state dinner is that she was on an OTR list – off the record list. /NYP 15

Hugh Jackman flew in from Australia to be guest of honor at tonight’s Children of the City gala at Pier 60. /NYP 15

Ben Stiller and Brett Ratner lunched at Dees in Forest Hills. /NYP 14

Irmi Nici, the ex-hooker who claims she had sex with David Beckham, is revealing her escapades with Eliot Spitzer in Kristin Davis’ book, “The Manhattan Madam: Sex, Drugs, Scandal & Greed Inside America’s Most Successful Prostitution Ring.” /NYP 14

Jay-Z will be doing a live reading of his book/memoir Decoded at the New York Public Library on Monday, Nov. 15. /DN 39

Rihanna, Drake, Young Jeezy, Fabolus, Trey Songz and Busta Rhymes celebrated Melody Thornton’s birthday at Greenhouse. Rihanna spent the evening giggling with Thornton in the lower VIP section. /DN 9

Nicole Richie opens up to USA Today to promote her new book, Priceless. /USAT 11B

Betty White, Fred Armisen, Steve Carell, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Hudson, Jane Krakowski, Steve Martin, Seth Meyers and Lorne Michaels will salute Tina Fey at the Kennedy Center Nov. 9 in Washingotn D.C. /USAT 1B           

Arthur Pen, director of "Bonnie and Clyde,” died Tuesday night, a day after his 88th birthday. His daughter Molly Penn said he died of congestive heat failure. /AP, USAT 1B

Oscar-nominated actor Joe Mantell, who co-starred in "Marty" and delivered one of movies' most famous lines in "Chinatown," has died. He was 94. Mantell died Wednesday at the Providence Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, Calif., according to a statement from his son, Dr. Robert Mantell. The statement said the death followed a long illness, but it did not elaborate. /AP

Ed Wiley Jr., a jazz and blues saxophonist who recorded the 1950 hit "Cry, Cry Baby" and is considered an early influence in rock 'n' roll, has died in North Carolina. He was 80. /AP

How do the headlines not mention that Tony Curtis passed away in Vegas yesterday?  RIP...