But She Still Hasn’T Given Gregory A Peck

During her screen career, Kelly Preston has had the pleasure of smooching some of the sexiest actors in Hollywood.

So who’s her favorite? The guy she kisses all the time: hubby John Travolta.

“He’s got the most squishy, delicious lips, I swear,” Preston, who previously lived with George Clooney, tells Redbook. “They are dreamy! They are just … you get drunk on them. He’s the best kisser I’ve ever kissed.”

Preston also gives good grades to Tom Cruise, with whom she had a sex scene in “Jerry Maguire” - which was easier for her to make than it was for Travolta to take.

“I had to force myself to look at that scene,” he says. “Tom joked with me a little bit about it, but I didn’t really think it was that funny. I had to kind of swallow my pride.”

Loose talk

Gregory Peck, on shooting a rabid dog in “To Kill a Mockingbird”: “I didn’t shoot that dog. He was a dog actor. He went home and had a good dinner that night.”

And we know all about her encounters

Glenn Close turns 51 today.

She has a reservoir of feeling for the dog

Actress Mira Sorvino is still sticking up for old flame Quentin Tarantino. At the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend, she blasted a New York Daily News film critic for a 1996 story that included an interview with the adopted director’s biological father, fuming: “That was a horrible thing you did to Quentin.” Before turning on her heel, Sorvino added: “I loved that man. And I still love him.”

To Ol’ Blue Eyes, from ol’ red-handed

The hot rumor at Cannes is that John Travolta - fresh from portraying a womanizing Clintonesque president in “Primary Colors” - is being wooed by director Martin Scorsese to play Frank Sinatra in “Dino,” a forthcoming film biography of Dean Martin with Tom Hanks in the title role. Scorsese, who eulogized Sinatra as “an icon” and “a great actor,” would not comment on the Travolta talk.

It helps to respect each other’s privacy

Director Steven Spielberg, a close friend of Hanks, says they took a chance by making the World War II saga “Saving Private Ryan,” their first film together. “We had to make a determination whether we wanted to risk our friendship in a work environment,” Spielberg told TV Guide. “We decided that we could survive the experience, and we did.”

Guess you could call it a weep of faith

Speaking of Spielberg, when he wanted Cary Guffey to act sad when the aliens left at the climactic end of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” he told the child actor to imagine leaving all of his friends for good. “My 3-year-old brain thought I really wouldn’t be seeing my childhood friends again,” says Guffey, now 26. “I really cried. Those were real tears in the movie.”