Quick hits

AL Guart, formerly a police reporter for The Post and then an investigative producer for CBS News, will star in an episode of “Hotel Impossible” on the Travel Channel in April. Guart, the owner of the Catskill Mountain Lodge since 2007, had hotel consultant Anthony Melchiorri and his crew spend a week critiquing his operations. “They transformed three areas of the hotel,” Guart told me. “Having the flaws of your business exposed on national television is not for the faint of heart” . . . IT was SRO at the opening of John Baker’s art show at the Galerie Mourlot on East 79th Street Thursday night. “Why aren’t you in Japan?” journalist Mimi Kazon asked Edwin Schlossberg — husband of US Ambassador to Japan Caroline

Kennedy. “I was there on Monday,” he said . . . THE violence in Ukraine has not gone unnoticed in Brighton Beach, where Fay and Alexander Mermelstein, parents of real estate attorney Edward and developer Uri, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at Signature Steakhouse restaurant. The Mermelsteins said a prayer for peace with oligarch Mikhail Fridman, taxicab billioniare Evgeny Freidman and p.r. man Ronn Torossian.