NAMES IN THE NEWS : Julia Roberts’ Bit Mum to Mom

Julia Roberts was thrilled to get the star-making role in “Pretty Woman” but she says it wasn’t easy to tell her mother that she would be playing a prostitute in the movie. “My mom works for the Catholic archdiocese of Atlanta,” Roberts says in a Rolling Stone magazine interview.

“I mean, my mom’s boss baptized me. I called her at work and it was like, ‘Hi, mom, I got a job!’ She said, ‘You did? What’d you get?’ And I said, ‘Oh, it’s a Disney movie! I’ve got to go, talk to you later.’ ”