LIVES FILLED WITH CHALLENGES
MEREDITH Vieira's husband of 30 years, journalist Richard Cohen, is coming out with another book. Richard's story is oft-told. Handsome, successful, at 25 stricken with MS, then cancer. The debilitating disease has dimmed his eyesight, mobility...
SIGHTINGS
PRISCILLA Presley at L.A.'s Brentwood Restaurant & Lounge smooching with Nigel Lythgoe, executive producer of "American Idol" . . . SHARON Osbourne shunning the airline food on a flight to L.A. but devouring the bags and bags of salads and candies...
MIAMI B-DAY
ALEX Rodriguez might love living in New York, but the Yankee slugger celebrated his 32nd birthday in Miami. With the team having a day off on Monday, he jumped on a private plane with his wife, Cynthia, and eight of their closest friends, and flew...
ONE TO TRUST
Lindsay Lohan may have one loyal person on her payroll after all - her bodyguard, Jaz. A source tells The Post's Marianne Garvey that the troubled starlet's ever-present guard and driver, Jazman Bennett, has been fielding offers of up to $500,000...
NEXT FOR UMA
IT didn't take long for Uma Thurman to find a new man after breaking up with hotelier Andre Balazs. The star of "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" has been spotted playing kissyface with handsome Swiss banker Arky Busson, who was Elle Macpherson's man for...
WE HEAR . . .
THAT Westchester County DA Janet DiFiore, who took office as a Republican, will switch to the Democrats because the GOP county organization is in shambles and has lost clout . . . THAT Mayor Bloomberg, Donald Trump, Joe Torre and Billy Crystal had a...
PARIS, NICOLE SIMPLE AS EVER
JUST because E! pulled the plug on Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's unreal reality show, "The Simple Life," it doesn't mean the duo are done acting like imbeciles. In an interview with OK!, Richie - who finally confirmed yesterday she is four months...
GROUPIE MAGNET
ADRIAN Grenier becomes more and more like his "Entourage" character every day. Last Saturday, the curly-haired cutie was holed up in the VIP section of Star Room in East Hampton, when a fellow patron noticed "the room started getting really packed...
AGENT FACES LONELY LEAVE
THE longer it takes Ed Limato to find a new job, the longer his former col leagues at ICM have to lock down his cli ents - including Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington and Steve Martin - so the tal ent agent can't take them with him...
DEM BOSS SNOOKERED
MEADE Esposito, the legendary Democratic boss of Brooklyn, knew a lot about politics, but not so much about art. Artnet.com writer Charlie Finch - in describing his recent tour of Kykuit, the John D. Rockefeller estate in Tarrytown, where Nelson...
MARY'S NEW ROCK
IT'S getting more and more serious between Mary McFadden and her multimillionaire fiancé, Marquette de Bary. The designer, 70, was spotted at a private dinner in Southampton over the weekend showing off a huge canary diamond engagement ring her...
ALL IS FORGIVEN
MANY legitimate actors who appeared in "Caligula" disowned it after producer Bob Guccione turned the 1979 historical epic into a sleazy porn flick by adding hardcore lesbian scenes with Penthouse Pets. But time heals. A DVD reissue will feature...
WRITER DUMPS HUBBY FOR TED
PULITZER prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler sent out an e-mail yesterday announcing that his wife had dumped him for billionaire Ted Turner. "Put down your cup of coffee or you might spill it," Butler, 62, wrote to his graduate students and...
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