Straight from the Washington Post!

No one — no one — admitted onto Metro without a Farecard! — and that goes for you, too, Ms. Nicole Kidman!The Aussie Oscar winner and the crew of the film she’s shooting here learned this week that not even fictional characters are exempt from our subway system’s zero-tolerance policies.

The script of “The Visiting” — an alien-epidemic thriller due out next year — called for Kidman’s character to race into the Cleveland Park station, some kind of evil in pursuit, and hop the fare gates to catch a Red Line train.

Not so fast, said Metro — that’s against the rules! So after negotiations between transit officials and filmmakers, yesterday’s shoot included a character newly added to the script: a police officer who says, “Ma’am, you didn’t process your Farecard.”

It was all about maintaining order, Metro explained. “We had to make them say something so people know they’re not supposed to do this,” spokeswoman Taryn McNeil told The Post’s Lyndsey Layton.

Good thing Nicole’s character didn’t try to eat a french fry in the station. They’d have to add a scene in the D.C. jail.

In the meantime, I was reading today’s Express and came across a news item about Lucy Lawless. Now, many remember her as Xena, the Warrior Princess (that sounds so lame now, doesn’t it?), and I saw an accompanying picture next to the story. I couldn’t make the connection between the two items. Who was that woman in the picture?

Oh, that’s Ms. Lawless. She cleans up great, doesn’t she?

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