It must be lucrative being Tom Cruise’s lawyers.

The most recent person to give them some billable hours is Randy Jones, the original Village People cowboy, who has sold his memoir, “Macho Man,” to Greenwood Publishing.

Jones had a story about meeting Cruise in 1982, when the young actor’s most notable film was “Taps.”

“Tom and I had the same management company at the time,” Jones told me at the new Bowery hot spot Antik. “I met him at a party Andy Warhol threw for Peter Gatien’s Limelight [nightclub offshoot] in Atlanta.”

To hear Jones tell the story, it was quite a party. But after calls went out to a spokeswoman and attorney for the “Mission: Impossible” star yesterday, the book’s editor assured me that Cruise’s name had been removed from the final version.

Another story involves Jones running into Jimmy Carter’s mother, Lillian, and then-White House chief of staff Ham Jordan at Studio 54 in the late ’70s.

“We were in the corridor, and someone was passing around a joint,” Jones recalls. “They handed it to Lillian, and she looked horrified. She didn’t take a puff, but she handed it to me very expertly.”

Nice to know the President’s mom was saying “no” to drugs before Nancy Reagan!

“Macho Man,” described by Jones as a “cultural history,” has an expected fall publication date.

After enjoying a meal that lasted over two hours, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes looked to be in high spirits as they left The Cut restaurant at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Saturday night (March 29).

And the big news surrounding the couple focuses on a report that Katie’s in talks for a role on Broadway.

Daily Mail writer Baz Bamigboye tells that Holmes is “in final negotiations to make her professional stage debut in a revival of All My Sons, Arthur Miller’s heartbreaking, post-World War II family drama.”

So far, the former Dawson’s Creek star has committed to participating in a workshop of the play in May, a rep for Holmes confirmed.

If she decides to accept the role, Holmes would portray a woman who visits the family of her former lover, a missing pilot.

Considering all the speculation that surrounded the casting of the upcoming “Star Trek” movie, it wouldn’t seem like a stretch to think that Tom Cruise might be one more late addition to the roster.

“Tom visited the set of the movie and chatted with J.J. Abrams,” a source close to the actor said. The last time Cruise was spotted on a set for a movie he wasn’t said to be signed on for - “Tropic Thunder” - it turned out he had a small role. Unfortunately for Cruise fans, the visit to the “Star Trek” set was just a social call - Cruise and Abrams are friends, and apparently, Cruise is a fan of the television series and in particular, Mr. Spock.

“He asked J.J. if there’s a way he can meet Leonard Nimoy. He said he’d always really respected his work,” said the source.