OH PLEASE, SPARE THE 'PARE' WORDS
SO the New York Times got thinner. I thought, Mazeltov, it should happen to me. And then I wondered, why's everything suddenly so consumed with winnowing away. I know in terms of age and weight, the world tries to cut down. There are recent...
WE HEAR
THAT last week Dennis Miller became the first celebrity in the restaurant's history (dating to 1988) to refuse to sign a baseball for the kitchen staff at Mickey Mantle's . . . THAT following Peggy Siegal's screening of "The Nanny Diaries"...
CLUB TO SKIP
BRUCE Willis and Jerry Weintraub are warning people to avoid Flavio Briatore's nightclub in Sardinia. Briatore, the Formula One mogul, called British model Diana Jenkins to invite her and her guests to a small party at his Billionaire Club, said our...
BABE HOMERED WITH GIRLS, TOO
THE Yankees had their hands full with the Alex Rodriguez scandal a few months back, but A-Rod's alleged dalliances with a busty blonde don't hold a candle to the wild and unquenchable sex life led by home-run king Babe Ruth in the 1920s, a new book...
ANCHOR NOSTALGIA
PBS anchor Jim Lehrer takes a veiled shot at Katie Couric , Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson in his upcoming novel, "Eureka." His main character, a scooter-riding insurance executive named Otis Halstead, laments about the evening news: "When there...
NOT IN THE SCRIPT
THE funniest moment at tonight's Comedy Central roast of Flavor Flav is an unscripted slam from roaster Jimmy Kimmel, reports The Post's Mandy Stadtmiller. "It's exciting Flav's ladies are here in the audience tonight," Kimmel said at the taping a...
'CSI' VENGEANCE
REVENGE will be sweet later this year for Chuck Lorre, creator of "Two and a Half Men." Lorre used to work for both Roseanne Barr and Cybill Shepherd on their hit sitcoms and often clashed with the stars. Now CBS is toying with the idea of swapping...
LOVE THAT POOL
BANKING heir Ivan Wilzig throws memorable parties at his medieval-style estate in Water Mill. "I did not count how many partners I had," Spanish photographer Txiki Margalef, who attended a recent bash, told Webster Hall's Baird Jones. "There is a...
GAY OLD PARTY
FORMER Interview editor and Andy Warhol sidekick Bob Colacello doesn't like being labeled "gay." He told W, "I'm presumably gay. I believe in going out, not coming out." He is, however, an out and proud member of an other group often closeted lo...
CHLOE SENDS UP REHAB CROWD
THE September issue of Harper's Bazaar has a lot of fun at the expense of rehabbing starlets. Instead of putting Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan on the cover, the editors chose Kate Hudson. Inside, Bazaar highlights the "rehab trend" with a fashion...
ADDED EXPENSE
LARRY Ellison's current trip to Israel has turned out to be more expensive than planned. The Oracle Corporation founder, California's richest man, visited a community center in Sderot, a city just outside the Gaza Strip, with wife Melanie and a...
OD BLUES
Amy Winehouse, the pop star and well-known hater of rehab, has finally revealed the details of her recent overdose. The singer told the News of The World it "was one of the most terrifying moments of my life . . . I don't know what happened . . ...
H'WOOD EYES LUCIANO TALE
THE life story of Lucky Luciano is finally coming to the big screen. Producer Bob DeBrino - who holds the movie option to "The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano," by the late Martin Gosch and former N.Y. Times reporter Richard Hammer - is pitching...
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