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Sad stars keep stiff upper lip

They surely would have all been frowning — if only they could.

A slew of surgically “enhanced stars” — nipped, tucked and Botoxed beyond expression — gathered near Malibu to pay their respects to Dr. Frank Ryan, the famed Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who plunged to his death while apparently tweeting and driving on a cliff above Los Angeles on Monday.

“As we all know, [Frank] was larger than life,” said Janice Dickinson, the self-proclaimed supermodel-turned-reality-TV-star whose bee-stung lips would have made Ryan proud. “He was the Bentley of plastic surgeons.”

Dickinson, Gary Busey, Melissa Rivers, Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin were among the 150 people at the candlelight vigil Tuesday night in Zuma Beach, about 12 miles from the site on Pacific Coast Highway where Ryan, 50, lost control of his 1995 Jeep Wrangler while tweeting.

“He didn’t care who you were or where you were in your career — he was kind,” said Rivers, 42, the surgically altered daughter of plastic-surgery poster girl Joan Rivers.

Busey also spoke, describing Ryan as having a “generous spirit” that is still “very much alive.”

“If he didn’t feel good, he would always smile and put on a face of happiness so no one else would be affected by what he was going through,” Busey said.

Ryan — whose patients also included actor Lorenzo Lamas, rockers Gene Simmons and Vince Neil and models Shauna Sand and Adrianne Curry — had just climbed to the top of Thornhill Broome, a famed local sand dune, and tweeted about his accomplishment minutes before the 4:30 p.m. crash near Ventura.

“After 25 years of driving by, I finally hiked to the top of the giant sand dune. . . . Much harder than it looks! Whew!” he tweeted.

He then posted a photo of his dog, Jill, with the caption: “Border collie jill surveying the view from atop the sand dune.”

It was his last communication before his death.

The dog, who was in the car with him at the time of his accident, suffered paw and eye injuries, but is expected to recover.

Heidi Montag, 23, “The Hills” star who was perhaps Ryan’s most infamous client — having undergone 10 procedures last year — did not attend the vigil. She has said she is “devastated” by his death.

Ryan’s ex-girlfriend Charmaine Blake, a celeb publicist, told People magazine that Ryan’s family was informed by police that tweeting played a role in the accident.

But Officer Steve Reid of the California Highway Patrol disputed this report yesterday, telling The Post, “The collision is under investigation.”