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Are you so hopeless at walking in heels that drag queens put you to shame? Not to worry. You can hire one to show you how. Jazzmun, a transgender performer with a few TV credits to his/her name, is offering a one-night course on strutting in stilettos. It takes place May 21 at the Santa Monica boutique Il Primo Passo. No word yet on an advanced class in chewing gum at the same time.

For every model that successfully crosses over to film—Rene Russo, Famke Janssen—there are seeming hundreds of actress wannabes who should have stayed on the runway (Cindy Crawford, Veronica Webb). L.A.-based Amber Valletta is straddling both worlds, still doing major ad campaigns and fashion mags while managing to appear in several films a year. Not films anyone has seen, necessarily, but the women does work. Maybe that’s because she’s not so picky with roles she accepts. “I would really like to do a period piece, something off the beaten track,” she said last week at a charity event for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital) at the Elyse Walker shop in Pacific Palisades. “Maybe even work on an indie with a USC student.”