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LOOK WHO'S ON STUDIO BOARD

PAY attention: A new movie company called the Film Department has just been born. Its CEO is Mark Gill, for mer Miramax and Warner Independent exec who masterminded "March of the Penguins." Two of its board members are Sheik Waleed Al Ibrahim and...



POOL PARTY OVER

PERKY reporter Amy Jacobson, who worked for Chicago's NBC station WMAQ-TV and also does stories for "Today," was let go yesterday by the Windy City station after videotapes showed her in a bikini at the home of a woman whose mysterious disappearance...


SIGHTINGS

GISELE Bundchen and Tom Brady in the garden at Palma on Cornelia Street "very affectionate with each other and occasionally kissing across the table. Adorable" . . . BILLY Crystal and Robin Williams making Robert De Niro laugh over dinner at Waverly...


RUSH TO ALTAR

USHER'S walk down the aisle with his pregnant stylist-turned-fiancée, Tameka Foster, is going to happen soon. We hear they plan to wed at a private house in the Hamptons by the end of this month, not in the fall as they've said in the past. "They...


LIFE IS GOOD

JOSH Duhamel is one lucky dog. The hunk not only has the No. 1 movie in the nation, "Transformers," he's just installed a stripper pole at home so live-in girlfriend Fergie can entertain him with a little bump and grind. "Fergie is taking lessons...


ONE NICE SLICE

DAVID Hasselhoff is back on the singles scene. Everyone's favorite lifeguard showed up to the Playboy July Fourth party at the Playboy mansion and spent much of the time flirting with "The Departed" actress Sallie Toussaint . Later, Toussaint...


EAT HER WORDS

SOCIETY bandleader Peter Duchin surprised his wife, Brooke Hayward (daughter of Broadway impresario Leland Hayward), with an intimate 70th birthday dinner for eight pals at the West Street Grill in Litchfield, Conn. - complete with a book-shaped...


AIR MOGUL'S WIFE FLIES COOP

BLUE Star Jets CEO and Southampton resident Todd Rome separated from his wife, Carole, over the July Fourth week. One insider said, "Word is, Carole left him. It's shocking. He was known to treat her like a total princess, lavishing her with gifts...


FREEBIE RAMPAGE

STAFFERS at Jane magazine turned into a wild pack of freebie-stealers when they learned Condé Nast was pulling the plug on the 10-year-old title this week. "People went completely nuts and started grabbing everything they could from the fashion...


FACE FOR RADIO?

CBS has been on the hunt for a radio broadcaster ever since Don Imus was sacked over racist remarks in April. Now insiders are whispering that ex-N.Y. Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason will permanently replace Imus in the morning-show slot on...


MONACO MANIA

GUESTS returning from the Monte Carlo wedding of Mansoor Ijaz, the former Fox News Mideast correspondent, and Belgian beauty Valerie Martin are raving over the fireworks, the belly dancers, and the genius of jazzman Herbie Hancock, a groomsman who...


H'WOOD HOT FOR CRAZY EDDIE

THE life and times of home electronics peddler "Crazy Eddie" Antar may soon become a major movie, thanks to Danny DeVito and his Jersey Films. DeVito and several other producers are hot for Antar's story after recently seeing him on CNBC being...