CATCH THIS PLAY ONLY IF YOU CAN
THE 2008 theater season is already upon us. Rehearsing in a studio here in New York and trying out in a workshop here in New York as we speak has been the work-in-progress of the hoped-to-be Broadway musical of "Catch Me If You Can." For those with...
'HONEY' THE MOVIE
'LIVE A little, Kill a Little" . . . "The Flame and the Pussycat" . . . "Slay, Gypsy, Slay" . . . "The Fun-Fun- Killer." If you have a good memory for colorful television, you might recognize the above as episode titles to Anne Francis' fabulous...
COMIC CLOBBERS COMIC IN L.A.
IT was fight night at an L.A. comedy club last week when Jon Lovitz roughed up Andy Dick over the murder of their "Saturday Night Live" colleague, Phil Hartman. Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who witnessed the assault, said, "Jon picked Andy...
SCRATCH MINE
THE New York Times has printed 25 news articles about the iPhone, and now Apple is saying "thanks" by plugging the newspaper in one of its latest commercials. It could easily be confused for a Times ad, since the whole spot shows the phone scrolling...
CELL BLOCK JOB
RAPPER Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who plays a vicious drug dealer on HBO's "The Wire," once served time in the shooting death of a teenager and made ends meet in jail by selling homemade sex toys. In her upcoming autobiography, "Grace After Midnight,"...
THE RIGHT CHOICE
LIKE hundreds of thousands of other discerning New Yorkers, White House front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton buys The Post, but shuns the Daily News. New federal campaign records show the Clinton camp ponies up for a subscription to the power-packed...
LESS THAN A PRINCE-LY JOB
TWO tickets to see Prince play at the Ross School in the Hamptons on Saturday night went for as high as $23,000 the night before at the Children's Museum of the East End benefit auction - but the diva rocker didn't seem to connect with the...
WE HEAR . . .
THAT a couple of U.S. senators were rude and unruly last week when Majority Leader Harry Reid had a Hindu chaplain for the first time say the opening prayer. The unidentified lawmakers heckled the saffron-robed clergyman as he prayed to the...
SPECIAL STRESS
ALL'S not well with Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady. While the two have put up a happy front for the cameras - and his family is even said to be flying out to Italy to spend time at the villa in Rome she recently acquired - our spies say Bundchen is...
NATURAL ROLE
NAOMI Campbell has landed the perfect gig - she gets to go ballistic in a new TV ad. In the Dunkin' Donuts spot directed by Zach Braff of "Garden State" fame, the hair-triggered hottie breaks her heel while gardening and proceeds to beat up a tree...
LAWYER BLASTS CO-OP BOSS
THE co-op board at 61 Jane St. picked on the wrong shareholder when it started messing with Allen Roskoff. The fiery gay-rights activist has already bought a new apartment in Chelsea, but he's furious the board is withholding $25,000 he says belongs...
DRINK UP, ED!
IF he who laughs last, laughs best, we're guilty of having a chuckle over the demise of Ed Limato, 71, the Hollywood agent who threw a drink at the editor of this page four years ago at the Vanity Fair Oscars party. Flamboyant, platinum-haired...
SIGHTINGS
SUGE Knight blocking off the bathrooms at Sky Bar in L.A.'s Mondrian Hotel so an overly intoxicated Paris Hilton could have them to herself . . . ROLONDA Watts at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills getting happy 48th birthday wishes from Julie Chen, Star...
EAST END-BOUND
DENISE Rich will leave her Mediterranean-based yacht for Southampton this month. Sources tell The Post's Braden Keil she is renting a home on Captain's Neck Lane for about $350,000 for four weeks. Rich will live a few doors down from fashion...
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