"I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff."

That's Matthew Broderick, kidding around in W, out Friday. Even though Broderick is one of the nicest, most normal stars around, he knows "the gravy train" when he's on it! He says, "At the Golden Globes, there's a room full of free stuff. You go around the room, you point, and you have it. It's insane."

Like I always say, better living through publicity.

OPRAH WINFREY has nailed an exclusive with Luther Vandross, the first since the great R&B singer had a near-fatal stroke. Winfrey conducted the emotional interview, which airs tomorrow, at his rehab center. Vandross even sings, accompanied by his two longtime backup singers and -- Oprah! They croon "Buy Me a Rose."

This Mother's Day show also has an interview with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her mom, Dorothy. When asked if she wants her daughter to run for president, the elder Rodham replies, "Shall I choose for myself or my country?"

THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL is under way, and today's screening of "Point&Shoot" is expected to be one of the big events. (Even bigger than Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's Tribeca debut as feature film stars?)

"Point&Shoot" is a love story about a fashion photographer and one of his subjects, set in the diamond-hard, razzle-dazzle New York scene. Top New York photographer Patrick McMullan, a man who knows where every well-dressed (and undressed) body is buried, was an associate producer on this flick. Real-life types Betsey Johnson, Carmen Kass and McMullan appear as themselves, along with a cast of, I hate to say "unknowns," but not-yet-famous. The red carpet will be thick with fashionistas for this edgy blend of fact and fiction.

THAT'S A FABULOUS, sexy photo of Brad Pitt, stripped down in Vanity Fair, but I wish the mag had positioned the pic better on the two-page spread. You have to flatten out VF to really see it. As to Brad's remarks to the British press that he's not exactly well-endowed -- not so. We've all seen the paparazzi nudes of Brad and Gwyneth Paltrow frolicking some years back.

IT'S BEEN 100 years since the birth of the movie industry, and this year Loew's Cineplex celebrates its anniversary as the nation's oldest movie exhibitor. The man behind it was Marcus Loew, an immigrant whose supporters say he is "the forgotten mogul of the movies."

The son of a Lower East Side Jewish family, he has been compared by some to Henry Ford. But Loew has been forgotten in spite of his enduring legacy of making the movies America's dominant art form. When Loew died in 1927, Variety published a memorial edition that ran an unprecedented 212 pages.

It was Loew who brought us Clark Gable and more stars than there were in the heavens, introduced by the MGM lion. Under him, Louis B. Mayer helped found the Motion Picture Academy that annually brings us the Oscars. You can now see Charlize Theron and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos presenting "Happy Birthday" trailers to Loew's. Barbra Streisand practically grew up in a Loew's theater in Brooklyn. They join a long line of stars. Matt Damon was an usher. Likewise, Elvis Presley, in Memphis.

ANNE SWEENEY, president of the Disney Channel and ABC Cable Networks, will be honored at the United Cerebral Palsy's third annual Women Who Care luncheon tomorrow. Diane Sawyer presents Sweeney with her award ... SAM WATERSTON of "Law & Order" has played Lincoln several times (once in the Gore Vidal miniseries and also in the Robert Sherwood play), but tonight at 6:30 he'll read every word of Abe's two-hour-long Cooper Union address, from the very stage where Lincoln gave it in 1860 at the school downtown. This free event marks the publication of the book "Lincoln at Cooper Union" by the Metropolitan Museum's Harold Holzer ... ROBERT ALTMAN will be the guest of honor for tonight's opening of a state-of-the-art Connecticut movie theater in Stamford. There'll be dinner and a screening of his "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" in -- a fresh print. The Avon Theater will devote itself to indies and classics from the golden age ... I SEE the Austin, Texas, police have dropped charges against "The Alamo's" Jason Patric, as I predicted. He is no longer accused of "resisting arrest."