By J.D. Reed

It gave America something to wisecrack about, but the scene was not funny to her. "It's like a hard day's work at the studio," said Zsa Zsa Gabor, 66, as her trial began in Los Angeles on charges that include slapping and disobeying a traffic cop last June. Looking radiant if somewhat chubby, she was accompanied by her eighth husband Prince Frederick von Anhalt of West Germany and, for the first day, by her hairdresser. If Gabor is convicted, sallied comedian Richard Belzer, she and Leona Helmsley should be locked in the same cell with only one eyeliner between them.