Collateral Damage

HITCHING POST Morning man Bryant Gumbel popped the question to longtime girlfriend Hilary Quinlan on Friday, six months after ending a four-year divorce battle with ex-wife June. They had been married 24 years and had two children, Bradley, 23, and Jillian, 17. During those proceedings, June alleged that the CBS ''Early Show'' host had cheated on her with a number of women, including Quinlan, but Gumbel insisted that he didn't start seeing the former Goldman Sachs executive until after he and June had separated. No date has been set yet for the wedding.

VIDEO VIEW In a season where new DVD sales records have been broken every couple of weeks, the latest winner is ''Pearl Harbor.'' In its first week, which coincided with the 60th anniversary of the real-life day of infamy, the video racked up sales of 3.7 million two-disc DVDs (beating the 3.5 million first-week live-action sales record set recently by ''Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas'') and 3.3 million VHS cassettes. It didn't hurt sales that Disney made several different ''60th Anniversary'' editions available, with various different extras offering historical background. It also didn't hurt that what played six months ago as a silly love story interrupted by a horrific battle spectacle now plays as a patriotic catharsis. The video raked in $130 million in first-week rental and retail business, making an expensive production that struggled to earn $200 million in theaters suddenly look like the blockbuster it was meant to be.

PASSING NOTES Pauline Moore, a starlet who was so busy in the 1930s and '40s that she made 25 movies in four years, died Monday at a nursing home in Sequim, Washington. She was 87 and suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. Despite starring opposite A-list performers like Henry Fonda (in ''Young Mr. Lincoln''), Shirley Temple (in ''Heidi''), and Tyrone Power (in ''Love Is News''), she was typecast as a B-movie and serial actress after appearing in several Charlie Chan films. She also was a frequent guest star on early TV dramas like ''Death Valley Days'' and ''Four-Star Playhouse.''...

Oscar-winning animator Faith Hubley died Friday at age 77 in New Haven, Conn. She and her late husband John were nominated for several Academy Awards for their cartoon shorts and won three times, including for ''The Hole'' (1962) and ''Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature'' (1966). The Hubleys' shorts displayed influences from cultures around the world and frequently featured dialogue improvised by thir children and jazz scores by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie or Quincy Jones. She completed her most recent film, ''Northern Ice, Golden Sun,'' this year; it will air on the Sundance Channel next April.