RICHARD JOHNSON: Bette Midler conducted ‘mahvelous’ interview of Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal, who directed and starred in “Mr. Saturday Night” 31 years ago, hosted a screening of the movie at the 92nd Street Y.

Bette Midler, who then interviewed Crystal, began with, “You look mahvelous.”

“That will cost you,” Crystal replied.

“Bette was a phenomenal interviewer,” said one witness. “It was Iike two old vaudevillians surveying decades of entertainment.”

Crystal, 75, said that in 2005 after he finished his one-man show on Broadway, “700 Sundays,” Mel Brooks called and said, “Billy, I want you to go in to do Max Bialystock in ‘The Producers.’”

“Mel, I’m flattered, but I’m tired and don’t want to be the fifth Max Bialystock.”

Brooks said, “You’d be the 12th Max.” Crystal passed.

Midler had Crystal do impressions — “a lost art form” — of Muhammad Ali, Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando.

Crystal even did an impression of Robin Williams doing an impression of Ronald Reagan the night after the president’s funeral.

Reagan was calling from heaven, “But I’m feeling very hot for some reason.”

Crystal also paid homage to Alan King and Red Buttons. “In that crowd not a stretch,” said my elderly source. “Even I felt young.”

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Ben Widdicombe, who once wrote a column for this newspaper, is happy with the documentary he produced, “Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl.”

The Hulu film that debuted last week at No. 1 covers the rise of Paris Hilton, Tinsley Mortimer, Nicole Richie and Casey Johnson, who died at the age of 30.

But the star is Morgan Olivia Rose, who was James Kurisunkal, an 18-year-old from Chicago when he started writing an online gossip column, Park Avenue Peerage.

“Morgan Olivia’s story really made the show,” Widdicombe said.

Widdicombe said the documentary is based on a chapter of his book, “Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World.”

“Fame is like a sports car,” he said. “You can buy one, or have daddy buy one for you, but it won’t teach you how to drive.”

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Former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock saw too much of Iggy Pop when they toured together.

On an episode of The SDR Show, Matlock said, “If you’re gonna whip it out in front of a crowd, you have to get it ready to whip it out in front of a crowd … and he was always doing that in front of me.”

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Anita Durst, whose family is one of the bigger real estate dynasties in town, knows how to throw a good party.

“No sit-down dinner. No speeches. Three hundred performers,” she said of the Chashama Gala to be held June 8 on two floors of 1155 Sixth Ave.

“My family has been very supportive and donated the space to us,” Durst said.

Chashama, which means “to have vision,” has transformed unused real estate into spaces for artists, small businesses, and community-centric art classes since 1995.

“I started when I was 18 years old,” Durst said. An early influence was Iranian playwright Reza Abdoh, whose work had lots of violence and nudity — “like if Andy Warhol made a movie of Jeffrey Dahmer.”

Durst, very inclusive, says tickets to the gala are selling from $1,000 to as low as $25.

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The fight over the East Hampton Airport is getting pricey.

A judge found East Hampton in contempt for violating a temporary restraining order and fined the town $250,000.

The restraining order issued last year barred East Hampton from turning the airport into a private facility and from implementing new flight restrictions.

Among the frequent fliers yet to be affected are Beyonce and Jay Z, Bon Jovi, Madonna, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bloomberg, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Mets owner Steve Cohen, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

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British actor Ray Stevenson, who died May 21 in Italy at the age of 58, had been living on the Spanish island of Ibiza.

Stevenson, who starred in the TV series “Rome,” lived there with his girlfriend Elizabetta Caraccia and their three sons. “He was beloved by the locals there,” said a source.

The 6-foot-4 actor was starring in a movie, “Cassino in Ischia,” about an over-the-hill action hero.

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The Hampton’s party season will kick off Memorial Day weekend and hit a peak in July.

Iris Dankner’s Holiday House — chaired by designers Campion Platt and Thom Filicia, Jean Shafiroff and Andrea Stark — opens July 8 with proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

The Parsons Dance Company and singer Chris Ruggiero, who has worked with Darlene Love, will perform at Steven Colucci’s Westhampton Beach Project starting on July 28.

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“Ray Donovan” star Liev Schreiber and Susan and David Rockefeller are supporting Andy Sabin’s South Fork Natural History Museum’s gala on July 29 in Bridgehampton.

+Body creator and TV star Julia Haart and chef Alex Guarnaschelli will be among the hosts.