Smooching in Times Square (and Bryant Park)

Pucker up to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the end of World War II and you could win prizes. The Times Square Alliance is inviting couples to a smoochfest today in honor of the famous 1945 celebration of V-J Day in Times Square, which attracted 750,000 jubilant New Yorkers.

The first 200 attendees will receive free sailor caps and roses -- all the better to help recreate that famous 1945 photo of a sailor and a nurse kissing passionately in Times Square (the photo is memorialized by a sculpture in Times Square by artist Seward Johnson).

Special prizes will be given to couples whose kisses "bridge boundaries, be they spiritual, political, racial, or otherwise." That's your invitation to get creative. Couples can also pre-register to win tickets to a Broadway show and other goodies. The event starts at 1PM today on Military Island, at the intersection of Broadway and 7th Ave. between 43rd and 44th Streets.

If you're not kissed out after the V-J Day celebration, the Bryant Park Film Festival is showing Charade tonight, a classic starring romantic icons Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant.