Bonnie totally tubular

By BEN WIDDICOMBE
DAILY NEWS GOSSIP COLUMNIST

Monday, May 7th 2007, 4:00 AM

Gatecrasher

Tabloid queen Bonnie Fuller is preparing her exit from American Media with two years left on her seven-figure contract.

The editorial director of supermarket staples such as Star magazine, The National Enquirer and the Globe spent last week in Los Angeles, ostensibly meeting with celebrity entertainment programs to promote her titles.

But she was also pitching two personal projects, to be directed by her NYU film student son, according to a source. One is a reality show based on herself and her family; the second is an idea of her son's.

The family show concept fits with her '06 memoir: "The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life - the Great Career, the Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted." (Although let's hope the TV version has a shorter title.)

One prospective partner is Star Price Productions, which occupies Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's old Desilu studio lot in Hollywood.

As reported here Thursday, she also met with "Ugly Betty" production company Reveille, which has already featured her on its new game show "Identity."

A rep for American Media said he had "no knowledge" of Fuller's TV ambitions.

Author recalls royal treatment

Queen Elizabeth II - the woman, not the ship - has sailed past New York again on her fourth state visit to the U.S. of A.

In 2001, West Village author Peter Carey met her to receive the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his novel "True History of the Kelly Gang."

"She said she had only been to New York City once for a few hours, but she could sense that it had a 'Champagne energy,'" the Australian writer told me at the time.

He recalled making an offhand remark about how the city sometimes didn't smell so good in the summer, which confused Her Majesty - fragrant sewers apparently being outside her experience.

(Elizabeth also said that she had tried to interest her children in reading - that would be Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward, and Princess Anne - but that they always preferred television.)

Kanye's Mr. excitement

Kanye West knows all the moves in hip-hop videos, album sales and also, it seems, the art market.

West was disappointed at the recent Art Basel Miami Beach to discover the work of Japanese artist Mr. only after it had sold out. But Mr. opened a show at Chelsea's Lehmann Maupin gallery Thursday. "Mr. was in the gallery working 24/7 on an installation to be ready in time for the exhibition," says a source.

"So Kanye surprised him by bringing in dinner at 9 p.m. on the night before the show opened so he could be the first one to see the work. He brought fried chicken and Mexican food."