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Chinese hungry for bigger, curvier boobs

Also in Tattle: Le Paul's guitar, Sienna Miller's Bowles, Bill Cosby tells jokes and more.

IN THE MIDDLE of the last century, the height of fashion in China was the Mao suit.

Now it's breasts.

There had to be some payoff to the Long March.

As Julie Makinen, of the Los Angeles Times, reports, "Shapely breasts, often more ample than Mother Nature bestowed, are objects of desire and status symbols in China these days."

Bei-Schwing!

Yes, it's difficult to walk around the big city without seeing a variety of methods to enhance the bust, including one ad that says, according to the Times, "Autologous fat breast enhancement can create a legendary breast."

And who doesn't want a "legendary" breast? Especially if it means taking the fat from your behind and putting it up top.

But now that the Chinese are enamored of bigger cups than those that hold tea, people were surprised when the 80-episode, $50 million TV historical drama "Empress of China" got booted off the air for showing 7th-century courtesans with too much cleavage.

After judicious editing, the show returned to Hunan TV with a little less spicy Szechuan.

The new version of the show is now being ridiculed in China for its abundance of really close close-ups.

And for its inaccuracy.

China Daily film critic Raymond Zhou said that Chinese women of the era actually showed more cleavage than the TV show.

TATTBITS

* The 1954 electric guitar that served as the prototype for Gibson's iconic Les Paul models is going on the auction block.

The Paul-designed guitar, known as "Black Beauty," features gold-plated hardware. Paul made frequent modifications as he refined its sound over more than two decades of use.

Guernsey's auction house is offering the guitar Feb. 19 in NYC. The auctioneer calls it the most significant electric guitar ever made.

What's second, Brian May's "Red Special"?

Sienna Miller, the only celebrity interview subject who ever gave Tattle a kiss, will step up to play the fishnet-and-bowler-hat-wearing chanteuse Sally Bowles in Broadway's "Cabaret."

Roundabout Theatre said yesterday that Miller will take over for Emma Stone on Feb. 17 and play the final six weeks of the show's run, through March 29.

Miller, who is co-starring in Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper," made her Broadway bow in Patrick Marber's "After Miss Julie" and starred in the 2011 West End revival of Terence Rattigan's "Flare Path."

* Through Sunday, "The Interview" has grossed $31 million through video on demand.

The Washington Post reports that analysts believe the movie would have done more business had it gotten the theatrical run originally planned, but then we would have missed out on all of Sony's interoffice emails.

How does one put a price on that?

Bill Cosby - remember him? - returned to the stage last night for the first time since November, with some ticket-holders vowing not to show up and others saying they would heckle the comedian.

Cosby was scheduled to appear in Ontario at the Centre in the Square, in Kitchener, last night; at the Budweiser Gardens, in London, tonight; and at the Hamilton Place Theatre, in Hamilton, tomorrow.

Yesterday afternoon, lawyer Gloria Allred said that three more women were accusing the Cos of drugging and sexually assaulting them in Las Vegas or Los Angeles between 1981 and 1996. Allred said at a news conference in Los Angeles that the accusations are too old for criminal charges or lawsuits.

* E! News reports that "People Are Convinced Justin Bieber Padded His Crotch for His Calvin Klein Photo Shoot."

Those same people still are unconvinced about climate change and evolution.

- Daily News wire services

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