Sideshow | Bagging an ex-Soviet

Mikhail Gorbachev

. What do you think of when you hear that name?

If you said sexy, chic, luxury travel items, you're as demented as the folks at Louis Vuitton, who've hired the former Soviet leader as the new face of the luxury label.

The ads, which were shot by celeb photog Annie Leibovitz, show Gorbie and his Vuitton bag sitting in a car in front of a 20th-century icon that just screams fashion, the Berlin Wall. Vuitton also says it is making donations to environmentally friendly organizations founded by Gorbie and Al Gore.

Hearts are broken, spirits sapped: The release of the insanely anticipated vidgame

Grand Theft Auto IV

has been moved from October to March. Vidgame publisher Take Two said it would never release "a product that doesn't meet our standards."

Stevie Wonder

, who on Thursday announced he will start a major tour Aug. 23 in San Diego, will do the whole "Gentlemen, start your engines!" grand marshal thing Sept. 2 at the Sharp Aquos 500 NASCAR race at California Speedway near L.A.

Jennifer Aniston

has signed on to costar with zany guy

Steve Zahn

in playwright-screenwriter

Stephen Belber

's (

The Power of Duff

) directorial debut,

Management

. Aniston will play a traveling saleswoman who so wows an assistant motel manager (Zahn) that he treks after her all over the U.S.

"

Christian Bale

got robbed!"

So says Modest Matt Damon, who tells Entertainment Weekly he's sick and tired of people telling him that he got robbed out of an Oscar the year he starred in The Departed and The Good Shepherd. "Did you see Harsh Times? [Bale] did that and The Prestige in the same year!"

Damon already has an Oscar (for Good Will Hunting). He's not greedy.

Want the maroon 1999 4x4 Chevy Suburban - with gray leather interior - that Tony Soprano drove on the HBO mob drama? It went up for auction on eBay Friday afternoon with a starting bid of $30K.

It's totally worth it: The driver's visor is signed, "Be nice to my car - James Gandolfini."

Marie Osmond

wants to help you commemorate the 30th anniversary of

Elvis Presley

's death (Aug. 16, '77) with a doll in each hand. No, dude, not

that

kind of doll.

Marie is talking about Baby Elvis®, the first in her new Little Bit Country, Little Bit Rock & Roll series. The doll sports the iconic "American Eagle" jumpsuit that Elvis wore on his 1973 Aloha From Hawaii TV special! Info: www.marieosmond.com.

Die Hard

action figure

Bruce Willis

proved he can win hearts and minds Thursday night when more than 7,000 folks showed up for a concert by his piddly little blues band at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Bruce sucked up to the crowd: "We love playing for you."