By Belinda Luscombe

MATCH THE ARTWORK WITH THE SUPERSTAR

Ever wonder why celebrities are more famous than other people? It's because they ooze creativity. For example, not only have MILES DAVIS, TONY BENNETT, RICHARD GERE and DAVID BYRNE elbowed themselves room at fame's bar for their performing abilities; they're also gifted visual artists. Indeed, they must be gifted, because their handiwork isn't cheap. Gere's work, currently on display in a Manhattan art gallery, sells for $12,500 a portfolio (all proceeds to charity), and some of the late Davis' pieces are expected to fetch up to $100,000 when they go on sale in Chicago in November. An original Byrne from New York City's CristineRose Gallery will set connoisseurs back $800 to $8,500, while photocopies of Bennett's efforts recently fetched $1,000 at a charity auction. "Look, I just paint," says the man who works under the nom de paintbrush Anthony Benedetto. "I don't try to create masterpieces. I paint, and then I edit." You be the judge. (Hint: Bennett's piece is not the photo of the Tibetan monks.)

1. B; 2. D; 3. A; 4. C

LINDA'S BEEF

LINDA MCCARTNEY seems to have it all: a happy vegetarian family, a $50 million vegetarian food biz, two cookbooks and the cash to send a million vegetarian meals to Bosnia. But she can't rest. "At night I think of all the animals waiting to be slaughtered," she says. And so she badgered the remaining Beatles into announcing last week that they won't eat meat either.

REMAINS OF THE MARRIAGE

In a grim year for celebrity couples in Britain, the latest marital casualty has prompted the most schadenfreude of all. Alas, the once golden union of KENNETH BRANAGH and EMMA THOMPSON is now asunder. Just before photos of Thompson, 36, holding hands with her Sense and Sensibility co-star Greg Wise, 29, turned up in the tabs, the thinking gossip's Charles and Di announced the split themselves, blaming the long stretches they spend working apart.