Kissing couple en route to altar?

New York ” Are they or aren’t they? Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck won’t say, but it sure looks like they’re engaged.

The couple, who’ve been photographed kissing everywhere over the past few months, have been coy about whether they’re getting married.

People magazine, quoting friends and sources, reports in its Nov. 18 issue that they plan to tie the knot on Valentine’s Day. The marriage would be the third for Lopez, 32, and the first for Affleck, 30.

The singer-actress has been wearing a flashy pink diamond on her ring finger, which she held up to the camera Tuesday on MTV’s “Total Request Live.” When host Carson Daly asked whether she planned to marry the “Pearl Harbor” star, Lopez answered, “I think everyone will know soon enough.”

A wild-and-crazy Oscars host

Los Angeles ” Comedian and actor Steve Martin will be host for the 75th anniversary Academy Awards show.

This will be the second time Martin has hosted the show. He last served as host two years ago.

“I’m very pleased to be hosting the Oscars again, because fear and nausea always make me lose weight,” Martin said.

The Oscars are scheduled for March 23 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood and will air live on ABC.

Moby takes turkey line to task

Norfolk, Va. ” Vegan musician Moby is urging people to call Butterball’s holiday hot line, but not to learn how to stuff, roast or carve their Thanksgiving turkey.

“Please join me in calling Butterball to let them know that there is no proper way to kill and cook these beautiful birds,” the techno artist says in a message he recorded for a telephone line set up by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

“We are committed to humane treatment of animals,” said Julie DeYoung, spokeswoman for Butterball, part of Omaha, Neb.-based ConAgra Foods Inc. “PETA has a reputation for a radical interpretation of issues, and this tactic does not surprise us.”

Moby, 37, said he has been a vegan ” a strict vegetarian who eschews all animal products ” since he was 21.

Two lay claim to ‘Posh’ nickname

Peterborough, England ” There’s apparently only room in England for one “Posh.”

Spice Girl Victoria Beckham ” or “Posh Spice” ” has opposed attempts by the English second-division soccer club Peterborough United, known since its inception 68 years ago as “Posh” or “The Posh,” to register the nickname.

Beckham, wife of Manchester United soccer star David Beckham, says she’s been known by the nickname “Posh” or “Posh Spice” since the Spice Girls launched their first CD in 1996.

The Peterborough United’s official Web site says the nickname dates back to 1934.