FLIGHT FRIGHT: MY TRAVEL TRAVAILS
THERE have been stories this past week about the chronic airplane delays. So, here's my experience last week. The Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico area had storm warnings. As it happened, mine became the last flight from Havana to Miami before the...
PARIS IS CHURNING
'GOOD GIRLS go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere," said Helen Gurley Brown. Paris Hilton celebrated wholesomely over the Fifth and Sixth of July after dancing on a couch at Malibu Beach and hitting the nightspot Area on the glorious Fourth...
COMBS' EX GOES FOR BIG BUCKS
SEAN Combs' split with his long-suffering ex-girlfriend, Kim Porter, could cost him $1.2 million a year. Combs agreed to pay one of his baby mamas, Misa Hylton-Brim, $30,000 a month in child support for their son, Justin. But Porter, who stuck...
DORK REPORT
HAVING thestreet.com founder Jim Cramer as his uncle may have helped Cliff Mason land a job as a writer there. And dealbreaker.com reports the "seemingly dorky, inept" Mason was perfect to report on how the new iPhone is a "babe magnet." Mason, in a...
FATEFUL DAY
SCOTT Speedman, the heartthrob from "Felicity," would be an athlete today if he hadn't injured himself. At the Veuve Clicquot bash at 7 World Trade Center, Speedman told Webster Hall's Baird Jones his parents were runners who met at a track in...
TRUMP LUX FOR IRAQ ENVOY
IRAQ'S ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid al Bayati, likes the high life. Bayati, who's been on the job for just over a year, is said to be living in a $22,000-a-month apartment at Trump World Tower on First Avenue. He's renting while the...
SIGHTINGS
PARKER Posey doing yoga poses with the waitresses and showing them breathing techniques during lunch at Bar Martignetti in SoHo . . . RACHAEL Ray getting $300 lash extensions by Monika at the Pierre Michelle salon at 57th and Lexington . . . BILLY...
CRACKER CUISINE
LET'S hope Justin Timberlake has better luck in the restaurant business than his ex-flame Britney Spears, whose Nyla was one of the all-time fiascos. Timberlake and his pals Eytan Sugarman and Trace Ayala are bringing Memphis-style cuisine to...
WILD AND EVIL
NOTE to Joe Francis: If you need a character witness, don't call Kathy Griffin. "I think Joe Francis is a pig and I hope he goes down hard. There's just something so evil about him," the flame-haired comic rages about the "Girls Gone Wild" czar to...
JUST ASKING
WHICH lesbian nightlife impresario is being accused of hitting on the other mothers at her kids' Laurel Canyon school? Fliers are being sent out anonymously warning, "The school playground has never been more dangerous" . . . WHICH White House...
LEAK PLUGGED
ALTHOUGH Harvey Weinstein loves publicity for his movies, he won't allow anyone to scoop his scripts. When VH1 blog 24sizzler.com got hold of two pages from the upcoming release, "The Great Debaters," Weinstein's lawyers "threw a fit and demanded...
LOOKING TO BE LOCKED UP
HIP-hop artist Lil Jon was begging to be arrested while performing at Hamptons club Star Room the other night. Our spy reports, "He started screaming to the audience, 'I'm so [bleep]ing drunk! You can [bleep]ing take me out of here and arrest me!' "...
SCANDAL HAS GOWN GANG SEEING GREEN
MISS New Jersey's saucy-photo blackmail scandal has been a nightmare for her but it's a financial windfall for fashion house Faviana, which designed the thigh-baring gown worn by beauty queen Amy Polumbo when she was crowned three weeks ago. "We're...
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