These days, everybody's getting their shots in at Calista Flockhart, including William Shakespeare, who wrote her latest movie, "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Flockhart has canceled many interviews related to the movie - backing out of TV appearances, etc. - because she doesn't want to answer questions about her weight, or lack of it.

How ironic then, that she stars in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as Helena, a single gal who is jealous of her more popular, more buxom girlfriend Hermia.

Later, when the two women get into a Shakespearian catfight, the curvy Hermia blasts Flockhart's character by calling her a "painted maypole."

That's Elizabethan shorthand for "Kate Moss."

More evidence of Shakespeare's remarkable relevance, which can be found throughout "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a decent adaptation of the playwright's most fanciful comedy.

Flockhart, Christian Bale, Dominic West and Anna Friel, play four Italians who square off and pair up during one enchanted night on the Italian countryside.

Their romantic outcomes are decided by a swarm of interfering fairies and other magical creatures - Puck (Stanley Tucci), Oberon (Rupert Everett) and Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) - who have their own rivalries to sort out.

A third comic subplot finds Kevin Kline as an amateur street actor preparing for a play he intends to perform before local royalty (David Strathhairn, the beautiful Sophie Marceau).

Kline shines as bad, windbag actor (shades of his work in "Soapdish," which had the same director), and his extensive work with New York's Shakespeare Festival shows here.

Others, like Flockhart, are just OK, and others like Pfeiffer and Marceau, don't have much to do except look good, but when it comes to looking good, they have few rivals.