IT'S BEST TO STAY ON HIS GOOD SIDE
SUMNER Redstone. Self-made bil lionaire. Fathered by liquor salesman Mickey Redstone (real name, Mi chael Rothstein), his worth today, give or take a few bucks, is $8.5 bil. He owns Viacom, CBS, MTV, UPN, Paramount, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Comedy...
UNFAZED BY CRITICS
'IT'S ALL about hair, isn't it?" asked Katie Couric when she was on the "Today" show and I wrote about her new haircut. Instead of complaining about how trivializing this was, Katie just tossed it off. I took her point. Katie has had a lot of...
WE HEAR
THAT Brad Pitt is reuniting with Gwyneth Paltrow for "Dirty Tricks," a political drama on the aftermath of the Watergate scandal with Annette Bening, Meryl Streep and Sharon Stone . . . THAT Heather Graham and Dominic Chianese, who star in "Adrift...
'VIEW' PROSPECTS
EXPECT an announcement any day on the new lineup for "The View," Barbara Walters' estrogen-heavy chat-fest with Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. We'd heard that Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Griffin and Sherry Shepherd would all be hired and fill the...
CHANNELING DINO
KEVIN Spacey , who played Bobby Darin in "Beyond the Sea," has now sung a couple of duets with Dean Martin. Spacey, who's been busy on Broadway in "A Moon for the Misbegotten," recently was in Capitol Records' legendary Studio A, in Hollywood...
SIGHTINGS
MAYOR Bloomberg lunching on Tuesday with Joe Bruno at Palm West, where we'd wager the name of Eliot Spitzer came up . . . VANESSA Carlton performing three songs off her new album for such guests as Irv Gotti and B. Smith at a very private Veuve...
READY, SET, STRIP
DECADENCE is due in November, when Roberto Cavalli will launch his affordable fashion line for H&M with billboards and ads shot by controversial photographer Terry Richardson - who not only gets his models nude, but disrobes himself. His open-minded...
SUMNER KIN RIPS NEWSWEEK
THE battling Redstones are now gunning for Newsweek. In a letter to the magazine obtained by Page Six, Sumner's brother, Edward Redstone, rants: "Newsweek's recent attempt at covering a legal dispute among family members flew well wide off the mark...
CHOCO-LICIOUS
KELLY Rowland once wanted to look white. "It's said that brown-skinned girls don't sell magazines and that's so sad," the sexy songbird tells next month's Essence. "I remember wishing I was more fair-skinned, but Tina Knowles, Beyoncé's mom, would...
POTTER-PALOOZA
HOW many NBC suits does it take to interview J.K. Rowling? "Today" show co-host Meredith Vieira actually conducted the interview in Edinburgh, Scotland. It airs today. But "Today" executive producer Jim Bell and his boss, Phil Griffin, had reasons...
BUILDING PULLS UP PANTS
THE apartment building at 99 Perry St. in the celeb-filled West Village doesn't fare too well in David Rosen's new novel. In "I Just Want My Pants Back," struggling Ivy League grad Jason Strider, who lives in a tiny pad at that address, rants...
PUBLIC TUMBLE
BEYONCÉ'S fans aren't as loyal as she hopes. During her sold-out Orlando concert, the "Bootylicious" babe took a frightening tumble down a flight of a dozen steps, first falling on her caboose and then slamming face-first to the floor. Visibly...
UNQUIET ENVY
MARC Jacobs is so jealous of couture king John Galliano, he loudly trash-mouths his rival during workouts at the David Barton Gym on West 23rd Street. Our spy snips, "Marc and his trainer always talk very loudly - it's annoying. All he does is...
YOU BOTH STINK
PAUL Sorvino and the waste-haulers who dumped truckloads of horse manure in the driveway of his Pennsylvania farm over a payment dispute are both taking a beating in their local newspaper. "Shame on all concerned. Every party is acting like a...
JENNA'S CLEAN
WATCH out, X-Men: Jenna Jameson now has her own comic strip. The porn queen is starring as superheroine "Shadow Hunter" fighting the forces of evil in an upcoming graphic art book series. But don't expect her to bare anything more than her knuckles...
SONG HOME
FRANK Sinatra and Cole Porter's former Waldorf Towers residence is renting for more than a song. The Post's Braden Keil reports the six-bedroom apartment, now under renovation, will be available in late fall for $120,000 per month - the priciest...
SHE'S LOHAN'S BAD-LUCK CHARM
CALL it the curse of Dori Cooperman. The Zelig-like socialite has been partners in partying with Tara Reid, then Lizzie Grubman - and, most recently, busted-again Lindsay Lohan. Reid, the promising "American Pie" actress who regularly hung out...
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