Sideshow | Diddy: No white? Good night

White was the dress code at a star-saturated party thrown by

Sean "Diddy" Combs

at his East Hampton home on Sunday and there was strict enforcement - not even a hint of ecru was tolerated.

Those who failed to abide by the dress code found themselves told to change, including the wife of Billy Joel, Katie Lee. She had gone to the party dressed in a shade of cream, but that did not win over Combs' fashion police. Turned away, she opted to go home.

The hip-hop mogul's annual White Party, which he has held in St. Tropez in recent years, featured a white carpet to go along with the white dress code.

Mariah Carey, Busta Rhymes, Donna Karan, Ashley Olsen, Star Jones and Tommy Lee were among the guests dressed in true white. Combs wore white sneakers with silver detailing, a white shirt and pants, and a gold medallion.

After meeting a week ago in the Hamptons,

Renee Zellweger

and

Paul McCartney

were spotted on an intimate dinner date Thursday in Sag Harbor, according to the New York Daily News.

That newspaper featured exclusive photos of the two stars getting to know each other Aug. 25 during a $3,000-a-ticket Tom Petty concert at the Ross School in East Hampton.

Then the pair dined at a quiet table for two at the American Hotel on Main Street in the Long Island village.

The Oscar winner and the music legend lingered for two hours over their meal at the romantic, Victorian-style hotel that is almost entirely lit by candles. They arrived and left separately, but "they looked like they were enjoying themselves," a source told the Daily News. However, the source said the two shared a hug, not a kiss, before parting.

McCartney's stay in the Hamptons this summer has coincided with a visit by his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Heather Mills, and their toddler daughter, Beatrice.

Actors Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams have ended their relationship of three years, Us Weekly reports.

The magazine reported that a source close to the couple said Heath and Michelle "quietly and amicably split a few weeks ago."

Ledger and Williams had been living in Brooklyn, N.Y., with their daughter, Mathilda.

The pair met in 2004 while filming Brokeback Mountain, for which they were both nominated for Academy Awards. And both Ledger and Williams are featured in Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan film I'm Not There, opening in limited domestic release on Nov. 21.

Owen Wilson is faring well as he recovers from an apparent suicide attempt, and is even making colleagues laugh, the director of his latest film said yesterday.

"Obviously he has been through a lot this week," said Wes Anderson, who directed Wilson in The Darjeeling Limited, one of the films in competition for the Venice Film Festival's top award.

"I can tell you he has been doing very well, he has been making us laugh," Anderson told a news conference in Venice to promote the film.

Wilson, 38, was taken by ambulance to a hospital last week after police responded to a call about a suicide attempt at his Santa Monica, Calif., home. The day after he was hospitalized, he issued a statement asking for privacy so he could "receive care and heal."

In Darjeeling, Wilson plays a distraught man, bandaged throughout the film, who other characters imply has attempted suicide.

Hollywood slashed away at another box-office record as a new version of

Halloween

scared up a Labor Day weekend haul of $26.5 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales through Sunday, distributor MGM said.

Director Rob Zombie's retelling of the 1978 slasher classic shattered the previous three-day record for the often-sluggish holiday period. The old record was set in 2005 by Transporter 2, which opened to $16.5 million.

Labor Day is typically on the slow side for the movie business because fans have school, football and other pursuits on their minds.

The weekend's No. 2 movie, according to studio estimates, was the raunchy teen comedy Superbad, which grossed $12.2 million in its third weekend for Sony Pictures.

Among the other major new films, the goofy table tennis comedy Balls of Fury, from Universal's Focus Features label, opened to $11.5 million, placing No. 3 for the weekend. (The movie opened Wednesday and has grossed an estimated $17 million.)

Halloween is expected to gross about $31 million through yesterday, but it already has the four-day-holiday record in the bag: Transporter 2 grossed $20.1 million through Labor Day two years ago.

Even the closing of the Bay Bridge could not keep thousands of nostalgic flower children away from San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.

More than 100 performers, some who were there the first time around, took the stage Sunday in a free concert to commemorate the year San Francisco became the world's countercultural capital.

An estimated 50,000 people came together to celebrate peace, love and understanding, organizers said, despite the Labor Day weekend shutdown of the bridge connecting Oakland to San Francisco for repairs.

The nine-hour event began with blessings by American Indian shamans and ended with Jolie Valente, son of the late Dino Valente of Quicksilver Messenger Service, singing his father's song "Get Together."

San Francisco police said the gathering proceeded harmoniously, with no major incidents reported.

"Just nothing but love," police Sgt. Mark Im said.