Robin Williams -- who comes between John Krasinski (left) and Mandy Moore in the comedy License to Wed -- is full of compliments for Moore.

MORK AND MANDY: Is the clock finally ticking on Hollywood's boozing, bratty bad girls?

Mandy Moore, Amanda Bynes and Emma Roberts are among those starlets making movies and music without blacking out or flashing their pubic regions. If their success marks a seismic shift away from the Lohans and Britneys of our world, it will come as no surprise to Robin Williams, who's long known the appeal good girls hold over the male masses.

Discussing Moore, who co-stars with him in License to Wed, Williams refers to his days on TV's Mork and Mindy.

"(Moore's) got this wholesome sensuality that Pam Dawber had where a lot of guys come up to me and say, 'You ever do Mindy?' It's like the Amish girl who knows, you know?

"She's got a lot going on."

THE TIES THAT BYNES: For her rehab-free rise from teen queen to adult actress, the 21-year-old Bynes credits her parents. Altogether now .... Awwww.

"I think I'm just lucky I have educated parents who taught me how to treat people and just to be thoughtful and respectful."

Bynes is currently appearing in the musical Hairspray as Penny Pingleton, a teen engaged in an interracial romance in 1962 Baltimore. "(The movie) has a positive message - you should free to be who you want to be ... You should allowed to be different."

SMELLS LIKE BACON: High School Musical star Zac Efron will kick off his Sunday shoes for a remake of 1984's Footloose.

While this is blatant creative heresy -- what's next, a remake of Vision Quest? -- Efron is admittedly a logical choice to replace Kevin Bacon as a rock 'n' roll rebel who brings the devil's music to a small town USA.

After all, the 19-year-old has become a teen star by demonstrating his musical mojo.

Case in point: his role in Hairspray opposite John Travolta. "I love musicals; I've always been a fan. It probably started with Grease, coincidentally, which makes it that much more weird."

Next month, Efron will reprise his role in the Disney Channel sequel to the phenomenally popular High School Musical.

"If the first movie was like Grease, this one is going to be like Dirty Dancing."

As for the new Footloose, there's no word yet if Loggins' theme will be retooled by Nickelback.

KEEPING MOM AT BAY: How did John Turturro get the upper hand on famously tyrannical Transformers director Michael Bay? He consulted Bay's mom. "He was a nervous wreck I was talking to his mother," says Turturro, who based his performance as a power-mad man in black on Bay.

LICENSE REVOKED? After reviving the James Bond franchise with the gritty, dangerous Casino Royale, are Bond's handlers tumbling ass-backwards into Roger Moore mode?

Daniel Craig recently told The Daily Express producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli "want more gags" in the sequel, due in November 2008.

While concern is warranted, it's probably best to reserve passing judgment since they've also hired Canadian Paul Haggis to again polish the screenplay and recruited Marc Forster to direct. Forster's no Octopussy wannabe, having helmed Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland and last year's Stranger Than Fiction.

But still. Gags?