SIGHTINGS
ELTON John, right after yesterday's Princess Diana memorial in London, buying a suit for his husband, David Furnish, in the Dover Street Market, a boutique run by Comme des Garcons . . . BRUCE Springsteen, in Bridgehampton to see daughter Jessica...
DUAL CAREERS
JOHNNY Solo might be too busy soon in Hollywood to run his restaurant, the popular Grand Café in Astoria, Queens, where some of the "Sopranos" crew hangs out, as well as Armand Assante. The aspiring actor has landed roles in "The Big Shot-Caller"...
PASSION PUT-ON
FOXY Michelle Borth, who appears naked and in bed a lot in her new HBO drama, "Tell Me You Love Me," debuting Sept. 9, insists she was only simulating, though some viewers say the action looks real. "I'm flattered. I mean, if you really think I'm...
CBGB HEIRS FIGHT OVER WILL
THE body of CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, who died Tuesday, is barely cold and his kids are already locked in a vicious battle over his will. His son, Dana Kristal, says his sister, Lisa Kristal Burgman, has taken charge of their dad's assets and...
STOCKS AND SEX
MANHATTAN DA Robert Morgenthau, chairman of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, may have thought he was participating in a solemn ceremony when he ventured to Wall Street the other day to mark the museum's 10th anniversary by ringing the opening bell for...
TURN IT OFF!
SOMEONE needs to teach John Travolta some movie manners. At the New York premiere of his wife Kelly Preston's new "Death Sentence," which also stars Kevin Bacon, the waxy star annoyed a few fellow moviegoers by not turning off his cellphone. An...
LOWER ROAD
THE New Yorker, known as a hoity-toity literary magazine, isn't above going the beer, babes and boobs route. This year's New Yorker Film Festival will feature a conversation with Judd Apatow, director of raunchy, R-rated smashes "Knocked Up" and...
FRED RUNS AND HE'S STILL DA
EVEN though Tennessee Republican Fred Thompson will formally announce for president next week, "Law & Order" fans will still be able to see him as DA Arthur Branch in reruns on TNT. The cable network said yesterday it won't drop episodes with...
WE HEAR . . .
THAT Playboy Playmates will invade the Hamptons tomorrow, with Monica Leigh (March 2006), Raquel Gibson (November 2005), Sandra Hubby (March 2004), and Shannon James (May 2007) hosting a pool party with Hennessy Cognac at the W Hotel Hamptons...
EDITOR SURGING AHEAD
FORMER Maxim editor Jimmy Jellinek isn't licking his wounds after being let go last month. The funniest editor in town took his severance package and took his wife, Emily, and daughter, Minnie, to Aspen, where he's fielding offers from head-hunters...
CRUE CHRONICLE: HEROIN & SEX
IT would be impossible to cram any more debauchery, drug use or desperate living into Nikki Sixx's new tell-all, which chronicles the bass player's years of touring with Tommy Lee and Motley Crue. "Sex to me was always about conquest. Girls were a...
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