Beckham, last night in Manchester (Reuters)

To the rest of the world, L.A. Galaxy superstar David Beckham’s gesture Wednesday night didn’t mean much.

But in England, it was the equivalent of Becks flipping the bird at Palm Beacher Malcolm Glazer!

Heartthrob Beckham, who’s with AC Milan in Europe when U.S. soccer is off in winter, was lingering on the pitch after playing against his old Manchester United squad when a fan handed him a green-and-gold scarf.

Beckham put it around his neck.

And the Brit media went nuts.

Yep. Just of a scarf.

What’s the big deal?

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The Kodak Theatre it wasn’t, and celebrities must’ve been all busy.

But the Palm Beach International Film Festival’s Oscar party at Palm Beach’s Omphoy Resort — the only officially licensed by the Oscars-organizing Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — did serve its purposes: raise money for next month’s festival, and gather about 230 local movie lovers to watch the award show.

And then some of the guests even dressed up in their favorite characters. Dinner chair and Manalapan party planner Renny Reynolds picked a costume reminiscent of the old TV show The Swamp Fox while the emcee, Florida Stage boss Lou Tyrrell, looked like a dead ringer of painter Salvador Dali. (For Michael Price’s gallery of the event, click here or on the photo)

Kathleen Himes as 101 Dalmatians Cruella DeVil, with Lou Tyrrell as old Sal Dali (Click on the photo for Michael Price's gallery)

This year’s film festival, by the way, is slated for April 22-26 with new personnel, new venues (a return of showings in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens) and a new attitude.

What attitude?

New festival managing director P.J. Layng tells me the festival’s gala, which gathered participants, fans and celebrities at the Boca Resort, won’t be happening this year.

“Too formal,” Layng said, “Galas were too serious. We’ll just have a really good party.”

Rush's ad

Rush Limbaugh cares as much for baby turtles as he does for the Democrats’ jackass.

Palm Beach radio talker Limbaugh is sick of laws protecting the giant marine reptiles, and he wants everyone to know.

Limbaugh is buying newspaper ads this week — one in today’s Shiny Sheet and another later this week in the Palm Beach Post – to poke fun at the Town of Palm Beach’s policy that force the 300 or so households lucky enough to live on the beach to turn off outdoors lights from March 1 until October 31.

Within that time span, giant sea turtles — including several endangered species — dig the sand in the middle of the night to lay eggs, and their babies hatch in early fall.

Artificial lights are known to confuse the animals. They use the moon to navigate to nesting grounds then back to the ocean.

The Conservative lightning-rod Limbaugh lives on a $50 million-plus beach compound that includes a 32,000-square-foot home smack dab in the middle of turtle country. (see it here)

In his ad, Limbaugh mentions a phony group, the Turtle Preservation Society of Palm Beach, welcoming back turtles and hatchlings.

“The lights are off in eager anticipation of your arrival in May,” the ad reads.

A picture show a turtle roaming the sand in broad daylight.

“Kathryn (Rogers, Limbaugh’s galpal) and I bought a full page ad in the Shiny Sheet Sunday to make a subtle protest of all the local and state ordinances requiring people who live on the beach in Palm Beach to go dark EIGHT months of the year (!!!!!) for sea the turtles,” Limbaugh told Page2Live in an email.

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The boisterous Palm Beach artist Edwina Sandys — a painter, sculptor, illustrator, print-maker, and the granddaughter of WWII British Prime Minister Winston Churchill — is showing some of her work at the Whitney building downtown West Palm Beach. The show’s curated by local collage artist Bruce Helander. The show opened over the weekend, and is scheduled to be open to the public until March 20. To see who’s been there, click here or on the photo.

Former U.S. Congressman Mark Foley (right) with oil heiress Ginny Bond and Foley's partner, Layne Nisenbaum (Click on the Michael Price photo for more)

(Click on the photo to see who else has been around)

Nineteen-year-old Hollywood up-and-comer Shenae Grimes, who’s been causing a stir as Annie Wilson in the CW’s 90210, stopped by Florida International University last night on her L.e.i. jeans search for “model citizens.”

Damon, talking with for Barack Obama campaign workers in 2008 in West Palm Beach (Taylor Jones/The Palm Beach Post)

Of all the celebs who hitched their fame to then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, few worked harder than actor Matt Damon (The Bourne Identity, Green Zone). Damon, 39, popped up all over South Florida in the few weeks leading to the historic election, including in West Palm Beach.

Well, this is 2010, and Damon says he is “disappointed” with Obama.

“Politics is compromise,” Damon told the New York Daily News. “I’m disappointed in the health care plan and the troop buildup in Afghanistan. Everyone feels a little let down because, on some level, people expected all their problems to go away. But real change comes from everyday people. You can’t wait for a leader.”

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Tiger Woods and his mom after his televised apology (Click on the photo for more)

Embattled golfer Tiger Woods is building a whole lot of homes for a whole lot of people these days.

Woods’ company, ETW, financed his public relations man Glenn Greenspan’s modest $1 million-dwelling in Stuart.

A Scandinavian-looking house is going up just south, on Jupiter Island, from blue prints bearing the specs of Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren.

And, according to recent paperwork filed in Palm Beach County, the 22,000-square-foot crib he’s building for his mom, Tida, is moving along quite nicely.

Usually a quiet presence by her son’s side, Tida jumped into the fray with both feet at his made-for-TV apology Friday when she blasted the media treating Woods “like a criminal.”

Still, there’s nothing like the soon-to-be-reformed philandering fool to kick a down real estate market into gear!

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Trump at the convention center Saturday (Special to Page2Live)

With rumors swirling that there’s unhappiness in his marriage to model Melania, something he forcefully denies, Mar-a-Lago owner Donald Trump spent Saturday afternoon shopping for St. Valentine’s Day at the Palm Beach Jewelry Art and Antique Show. The event, at the convention center downtown WPB, ends tonight. I’m told The Donald, who looked like a vulgar tourist, hovered quite a bit near the Sherry Sheaf Private Jewelers booth and eyed a 46-carat aquamarine necklace and pendant circled by 5.45 carats of diamonds (see below). The star of The Apprentice didn’t buy it (Boooo!) but promised he’d be back today.

Hard to believe that anyone associated with MTV’s The Hills would find their way anywhere fine books are sold, but hottie Lauren Conrad did just that Wednesday in Coral Gables. But then again, there was a buck or two to be made. Conrad, who quit the pseudo-reality show earlier this year, was at Books & Books to sign copies of her second tome, Sweet Little Lies. It delves further into the life of the reality TV star character dreamed up by Conrad in her first, L.A. Candy. “If fans take anything away from the book, [they should know] there’s a back side to every story,” she told MTV. “And when you’re reading tabloids and seeing these people’s lives exposed, it does affect them and it is hard to go through as a young girl.”

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Funnymen Chris Rock and David Spade in South Beach Saturday (Click on the photo for more celebs at the Super Bowl)

Comic Adam Sandler knows a good deal when he sees one!

The former Saturday Night Live standout just produced Grown Ups, a comedy in which he stars with SNL alums Rob Schneider, David Spade and Chris Rock, sitcom star Kevin James (King of Queens), and others. The flick, slated for release in the summer, is about five high school friends who reunite 30 years after graduation.

As producer, Sandler also needs to pay for some publicity.

Pay for it? Nah!

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