A BIG HUNK O' LOVE TOUCHED MANY LIVES
ELVISIANA: Madonna, born same date Elvis died, believes his spirit lives in her. In '77, obsessed fans held up a newspaper truck just to steal papers that bore the "Elvis is dead" headline. But the issue of People magazine that dealt with his...
AWKWARD MOMENT
'NOTHING THAT a man has been, is, or will be, is something he has been, is, or will be forever; rather, it is something he became one day and will stop being the next." So said Ortega y Gasset. If that's not food for thought about politicians and...
ID CLASH
YOUNG playwright Josh Halloway might be spoiling a good thing for himself. Often con fused with "Lost" star Josh Holloway, "I can always get any restaurant reservation I want," Halloway says. But to straighten things out, he wrote and stars in...
JUST ASKING
WHICH suave Latino actor has been tempting sociable cocktail waitresses to act out his sultry movie role scenes in the bathroom of a certain downtown hot spot? . . . WHICH "fauxcialite" has tongues wagging that her longtime boyfriend prefers men?
UNDER THE WIRE
TWO-time Stuff magazine cover girl Ivanka Trump brought her dad, The Donald, to his namesake tower to celebrate the September issue. "I took a different approach to this cover," Ivanka told Page Six. "I decided not to do what I did last time, which...
VEGAS PIGOUT
MORE New York hot spots are headed to Las Vegas. Mr. Chow has decided to open its Sin City locale in developer Andrew Sasson's The Harmon Hotel Spa and Residences, which is part of the MGM's new $7.4 billion City Center. Meanwhile, L.A.-based...
BIMBO OVERLOAD
GIANTS safety Will Demps admits he took full advantage of the sex-mad football groupies who followed him around. "I've had my share of fun with these types. I've flown beautiful women with agendas to big games . . . I've wined and dined them at the...
FIRING RATTLES TMZ START-UP
IT'S less than four weeks until the Sept. 10 launch of TMZ's television show and, after the co-executive producer Bryn Friedman was canned last week, rumors started swirling that the start-up program could be in trouble. "Bryn was the scapegoat of a...
NOT REALLY REAL
THEY call MTV's "The Hills" a "reality" show, but we've had our doubts for some time. Fueling our skepticism, on Tuesday night, the star, Lauren Conrad, showed up at Da Silvano for dinner with three friends and a camera crew. One irked diner told us...
RED OVER PINK
AN avant-garde Manhattan painter is suing Pink for copyright infringement, saying the pop cutie used one of his works in a 2006 music video. In his case filed in Manhattan District Court, Vladimir Kush charges Pink and her record company, Zomba...
SEEING DOUBLE
"ENTOURAGE" star Adrian Grenier bears an eerie resemblance to "American Idol" castoff Sanjaya - at least to Nick Tosches writing in Maxim. Tosches, the best-selling biographer of Dean Martin and Sonny Liston, recalls watching Sanjaya get booted off...
WE HEAR . . .
THAT the United Nations will host a movie premiere for the first time - "Trade," starring Kevin Kline, about international sex trafficking of women and children, to debut Sept. 19...
BIEL'S GOING BARE
SHE'S been shy about bearing her bod every since her racy Gear magazine spread hit stands in 2000, but Jessica Biel plans to shed her threads in the upcoming movie "Powder Blue," which co-stars Forest Whitaker. Us Weekly reports that she'll play a...
STARS SNUB EASY $$$
CELEBRITIES apparently can wait longer than the rest of us to pick up petty cash they're owed. The state of Florida has heaps of unclaimed cash, stock refunds and security deposits waiting for folks like Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Burt...
KERREY ON!
IS Bob Kerrey heading back to Nebraska? The Democrat, who was the governor and a senator of that state, is president of the New School here these days. But at the recent fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton at Ronald Perelman's East Hampton house...
POP PRINCE HOT FOR DIAZ
WHEN John Mayer was snapped having lunch with Mandy Moore at La Esquina on Tuesday, it sparked rumors of a love match between them. But Mayer has his sights set on a more glamorous Hollywood gal - Cameron Diaz . The same day, Mayer took Diaz to an...
SOCIALITES' SNIT SCARS BENEFIT
SHAME on media-hungry socialites Tinsley Mortimer and Olivia Palermo. Planners of Tuesday's Level Vodka gala, "Rip the Runway for Darfur," to benefit the war-torn Sudanese region at the new club Runway on East 28th Street had to scramble when host...
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