Twins Matt and Brett got to ham it up for the Coens' movie

It's not surprising to hear that those irreverent Coen brothers are not keeping a kosher movie set.

My longtime pal Mickey Berenberg was laughing up a storm about a meal encounter her twin grandsons, Matt and Brett Rosenstein, had this week while shooting a bar mitzvah scene for "A Serious Man" at St. Louis Park's B'Nai Emet Synagogue.

"I saw the ads for the tryout in the paper a few months ago, so I called my daughter [Wendi Rosenstein] who has my twin grandsons, who just had their bar mitzvah," Berenberg said. "They didn't want to go; you know, they're 13. One thing leads to another and they got their fourth call-back and so they are shooting today. They are in the audience. What I think is hysterical is that they are there about 14 hours a day. They are feeding them. They must have some catering [truck].

"What are they feeding them? They told me they had HAM! I think this is hysterical. [At breakfast] they had eggs, oatmeal and HAM! I don't know if they were eating in the synagogue."

The twins are not strangers to the pig -- they are ham eaters.

Too young for the role Mickey Berenberg said she asked her twin grandsons why she didn't get a call to play a grandparent in the movie scene.

"In the crowd scene of the synagogue, they hired all these grandparents," Berenberg told me. "My grandson Matt said, You don't look old enough, Baubie [their pet name for her pronounced Bobby]. They own everything I have now."

The twins made no Frances McDormand sighting.

Big day for newspapers "Obama" editions of the N.Y. Times were sold out within the first 30 minutes of business Wednesday at many downtown Minneapolis businesses.

I stopped at the Nicollet Mall Barnes & Noble, a few Caribou and Starbucks coffee shops and various sundries shops, and all proprietors reported being out of these inexpensive pieces of history.

Some of the businesses were out of all newspapers, including USA Today and the Star Tribune, which by the way had the same one-word headline as the NYT but in a bolder, more compelling typeface.

Paris and her baby It's hard to tell whether Paris Bennett's body has snapped back totally since giving birth to baby Egypt.

"It was a dark, big fluffy top, but her jeans -- you'd never know she had a baby within a month," Steinke said. Bennett had a photo on her cell phone of Egypt. "She's so cute," Steinke said. "I know babies don't smile when they are that young, but she was smiling!"

Bennett smiles a lot, so Egypt may have inherited that trait from her mom. For all we know, Egypt's dad is a big smiler, too, given the success Bennett has had keeping his identity a secret.

Bennett is promoting a new "Royal Christmas" album, and the Rockettes have performances this weekend at Target Center.