For the Red Sox, it really was a Hollywood ending

Your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. That really was Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore making out on the field Wednesday night as the Boston Red Sox celebrated their first World Series victory since 1918.

In a case of art imitating life, the stars of the upcoming Farrelly brothers baseball movie “Fever Pitch” were shooting a new, happy ending, cobbled together furiously in the wake of the Sox’ historic run to the world championship.

Brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly, who are directing the movie about a Red Sox fan who’s torn between the woman he loves and the baseball team he worships, realized they needed a different ending once the Sox came back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the New York Yankees in the American League championship series.

“Until then, we didn’t allow ourselves to dream that it could happen,” Bobby Farrelly said. “You know how superstitious everyone is in Boston. We felt like if we started writing before that, we’d jinx them.”

Black-and-blue socks for Shriver

The curse of the Bambino wasn’t the only thing that was shattered during the Red Sox’s championship run: Faithful fan Maria Shriver broke her foot.

When the Sox scored the winning run in the 14th inning of their fifth playoff game with the New York Yankees, an excited Shriver jumped off the sofa – landing on one of her children’s cast-off shoes and breaking her foot.

Shriver was wearing a brace, and doctors said it would take about three months for the injury to heal.

Grateful Rip beats the rap

A jury deliberated less than two hours before acquitting Rip Torn of drunken driving charges Thursday – then was treated to a personal thank-you from the actor in a courthouse hallway.

“This is one of the great events in my life,” said the choked-up Torn, 73, an 1996 Emmy winner for his portrayal of the hard-drinking producer on “The Larry Sanders Show.”

He offered hearty handshakes to the four men on the jury and planted kisses on the hands of the two women.

Oh, those were just Love taps

Courtney Love has been ordered to stand trial for felony assault for allegedly attacking a fellow female rocker at the home of her ex-manager/boyfriend.

Kristin King testified in a hearing Wednesday that Love “picked up a Johnnie Walker Red Label bottle of whiskey and dumped it all over me. … She threw the bottle at the left side of my face. She picked up a big candle that was lit and threw it at the back of my head.”

King said Love also pulled her hair, sat on her, scratched her, pinched her breast, slapped her across the mouth and chipped her tooth during the April altercation.

‘Factor’ fiction? We’ll never know

Citing his wish to shield his family, Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly has settled a harassment lawsuit brought by a former producer accusing him of graphically discussing sex with her.

“This brutal ordeal is now officially over, and I will never speak of it again,” O’Reilly said on Thursday night’s edition of his talk show, “The O’Reilly Factor.”

Andrea Mackris, 33, who was a producer on the show, claimed the top-rated TV host made a series of explicit phone calls to her. O’Reilly filed a countersuit accusing Mackris and her lawyer of trying to extort $60 million in “hush money.”

The birthday bunch

Singer Grace Slick is 65. Singer Otis Williams (The Temptations) is 63. Actor Henry Winkler is 59. Bassist Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles) is 57. Actor Harry Hamlin is 53. Actor Kevin Pollak is 46. Singer-guitarist Gavin Rossdale (Bush) is 37. Actress Nia Long is 34. Country singer Kassidy Osborn (SHeDAISY) is 28.