FRENCH CONNECTION O NORIEGA FREEDOM
MY first interview with Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega was 20 years ago. I arrived in Panama City at night, and, rifles at the ready, his soldiers escorted me through blackened byways to a reception. In the middle, surrounded by adjutants and...
MEET YOUR DAD
TAYLOR Stein - daughter of nightlife impresario Howard Stein, who owned Xenon and Au Bar - quietly gave birth on May 24 to a baby girl, Djuna. The birth was low-profile because the father is believed to be cosmetics heir William Lauder, a married...
SIGHTINGS
KELLY Ripa looking ripped as she jogged along Rose's Grove Road in the North Woods of Southampton . . . JOHN Maine celebrating his first home run at Hawaiian Tropic Zone near Times Square with fellow Mets pitcher Aaron Heilman...
FACIAL REWIND
COURTNEY Love is getting plastic surgery so she can look more like she did before she had earlier plastic surgery. On her blog, a grammatical mess we've cleaned up, the rocker writes: "My mouth still looks wonky. I think I got to go back to Paris to...
NOT 'OFFICIAL'
HERE'S one for The New Yorker fact-checking department. Is the weekly's film critic, Anthony Lane, married to journalist/author Allison Pearson, mother of his two children? Although the British couple often refer to themselves as man and wife...
ALPHA FEMINIST
STAR Jones says gals who get into the TV industry are royally shafted. "Women still make 70-something cents to every man's dollar, as if my bread somehow costs 30 cents less than his bread. That p - - - es me off," she tells next month's Marie...
ONE, TWO, THREE
WRESTLING great Chris Jericho was explosive in the ring, but a big dud his first time in the bedroom. In his upcoming autobiography, "A Lion's Tale - Around the World in Spandex," Jericho writes that when he lost his virginity with a Modesto beer...
AB FLAB FOR MODEL
ATTENTION, guys with a few extra pounds - it's your lucky day! Luscious model Terricka Cason of MTV's "Short Circuitz" says a little bit of flab is her favorite body part on a man. "I should say something like abs, but for me it's the love handles,"...
ALL THE IPHONE PLUGS THAT FIT
APPLE doesn't need Justin Long to be its spokesman - it already has New York Times technology columnist David Pogue to promote its latest gadget. Eyebrows were raised earlier this month when Pogue, who covered his "on loan" iPhone extensively...
JUST ASKING
WHICH lad-mag editor couldn't wait to get a lovely lass back to his bachelor pad? He indulged in a sexual act in the back of a taxi until the Pakistani driver freaked out in Urdu, pulled over and evicted them . . . WHICH actress' weight gain is...
NERVY JUDITH RATTLED HILLARY
JUDITH Giuliani is an opportunistic, puppy-killing homewrecker who has a full-time hairstylist and needs an extra seat on planes for "Baby Louis," her Louis Vuitton handbag - at least according to a hatchet job on the former mayor's wife in the...
DIANA FANS STRIKING BACK
GERMAINE Greer risks being strung up by fans of Princess Diana if she ever sets foot in England again, now that she's ripped the tragic royal as a "devious" simpleton who sexually tricked her lovers and may have caused her own death. In an interview...
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