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Celebrities are moonlighting as guides to the jewel of New York – Central Park.

The voices of Candice Bergen, Kevin Bacon and Anne Hathaway will guide park goers around the park via a dial-in audio service.

“Want to know where to find New York’s most famous celebrities? Just call!” says the voice on the end of the audio recording for the Seeing Central Park audio guide on the Central Park Conservancy website.

The celebrities have their own areas for the tours. Hathaway introduces the Delacorte Theater, Matthew Broderick, the Sheep Meadow, Isabella Rossellini, the Ramble and Kevin Bacon, the Reservoir.

Bacon says: “Hi, this is Kevin Bacon at the Reservoir in Central Park. There’s a line in the novel Marathon Man where the main character decides, whoever invented the Reservoir must have done it with him alone in mind. It was without flaw a perfect lake set in the most unexpected of locations.

“All of us who come here to run, walk our dogs or to watch the sun rise over the water feel that same way. There’s a sense of space and solitude here, unlike any other part of the park.

President Bill Clinton, Madonna and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who the Reservoir was named for in 1994, are among the runners who have taken to this 1.85-mile track. The Reservoir has even been a popular running spot for fictional film and TV characters like Keanu Reeves in The Devil’s Advocate and Kristin Davis in Sex And The City.”

The audio recording declares: “In New York, you’re nobody until you play in the park!”