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SHVITZING & NEEDING HAIRSPRAY

MONDAY night "Hairspray" spritzed into town. The Ziegfeld's red- carpet for Travolta, Michelle, La tifah, Chris Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Allison Janney, Zac Efron was half a block long, and heat and humidity made 54th Street even hotter...



JUST ASKING

WHICH hard-partying starlet has figured out a way to get high while wearing an alcohol-monitoring anklet? She was asking where she could score some Ecstasy at a Vegas club the other night . . . WHICH too-good-to-be-real Hollywood leading man and his...


UNDER A SPELL

SOMEBODY better hose down Sukanya Krishnan. The sexy TV newsgal got so tongue-tied when one of her favorite hunks, Blair Underwood, came on the CW11 "Morning News" yesterday, she introduced him as "Blair Wonderwood." Krishnan went on to call the...


AWKWARD TABLE

GEORGE Hamilton gets along with his ex-wife, Alana Hamilton Stewart - but there are limits. Alana was at Nobu in Malibu dining with two girlfriends when her son, Ashley, came in. "What are you doing here?" she asked. "I'm having dinner with Dad," he...


SIGHTINGS

HEATHER Graham dirty-dancing with a sexy gal pal while sucking a lollipop at the Plumm, and turning down a free bottle of champagne, saying, "I am not drinking" . . . ARETHA Franklin and longtime boyfriend Willie Wilkerson, her agent of 47 years...


FALLEN AGENT ADRIFT IN L.A.

ED Limato, 71, may have a hard time finding a new job after being unceremoniously demoted at ICM. The ill-tempered agent had talks with CAA, which covets his clients Richard Gere, Denzel Washington and Mel Gibson - but CAA doesn't want to pay...


DROWN THE PAIN

O.J. Simpson has been hitting the bottle since he was tricked into semi-confessing to double-murder last year with his "If I Did It" book project. Simpson was at The Ivy in Aventura, Fla., the other night "falling all over himself and couldn't stand...


ON HER OWN

NOBODY can control Britney Spears. Now she's taken over as her own business manager and publicist. Though she's still signed to Jive Records, a source told Page Six, "She is doing all of her own business now." Our spy saw Spears at Aspen on West...


LOTS OF 'GREED' BEHIND THE IPHONE

MAYBE greed is good, as Gordon Gekko said in "Wall Street," but no one likes to be called "greedy." So foreheads flexed last Thursday in Sun Valley, Idaho, when Sony honcho Sir Howard Stringer used that word to describe Apple chairman Steve Jobs...


CALMING EFFECT

ROCKER and eyeliner connoisseur Pete Wentz counts on his groupie girlfriend, Ashlee Simpson, to help him overcome his anxieties. Although the Fall Out Boy was terrified to fly, the couple took a seaplane to the Hamptons last Friday night so he could...


'IDOL' REVELRY

RYAN Seacrest went liver-to-liver Sat urday night at Nobu in Miami with movie producer Ryan Kavanaugh, who was sitting at the next table. "They were sending shot after shot to each other," said our witness. The "American Idol" host was treating 12...


NICKY BUTTS OUT

CASEY Johnson might be second-guessing her choice of Nicky Hilton as godmother of Ava Monroe Johnson, the baby girl she adopted from Kazakhstan. At Casey's recent baby shower at an L.A. restaurant, Paris' little sister was out on a balcony smoking a...


WALL ST. NOVEL BEAR-LY FICTION

IS the main character of Doug Stumpf's "Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy" a thinly disguised tale based on accused pervy billionaire Jeffrey Epstein? The novel, which centers around rogue trader "Jeff Steed" and an insider-trading...