UNKNOWN STORIES OF QUEEN OF MEAN
DURING the Queen of Mean's heaviest troubles, closest to her was me. The one to whom she spoke was me. The one nailing the only sit-down exclusive one-on-one front-page stories with Leona Helmsley was me. This I report merely to lay groundwork for a...
WHAT AN HONOR FOR MRS. ASTOR
'MY MOTHER used to caution me: 'Never get beyond yourself and start thinking you are really great.' I've tried to live by that," said Brooke Astor during her social reign as New York's No. 1 lady. Nothing would have pleased Mrs. Astor more than to...
VIOLENT IMPULSES
TOP-selling mystery writers Ian Rankin and Val McDermid are at each other's throats. Rankin, who pens the Inspector Rebus series, started it by suggesting women authors are more bloodthirsty in their writing than men and are "mostly lesbians as well...
VEGAS EXPANSION
CHINESE-food fanatics will have a new eatery in Las Vegas in 2009 when Philippe Las Vegas opens in the Cosmopolitan Hotel & Casino. It's the third in the chain for Stratis Morfogen, who opened the first Philippe on East 60th Street. He opens...
GWYNNIE OFFERS SYMPATHY
WHEN Page Six mentioned to Gwyneth Paltrow that the shrewish wife she plays in "A Good Night" was "a hateful character," she smiled and told us, "Men feel that way, but women are sympathetic to her." The movie, the directorial debut of her brother...
STARS SCARCE AT FASHION WEEK
FADING faster from New York Fashion Week than the tents at Bryant Park are the A-list celebrities who used to fill their front-row seats. With shows of spring fashions starting Sept. 5, organizers are scrambling to line up big names. The...
SIGHTINGS
MAXIM Deputy Editor Chris Wilson howling out a Monkees song with N.Y. Observer writer George Gurley, followed by fellow Observer scribe Spencer Morgan and his girlfriend, Vanity Fair fashion editrix Alexis Stewart, belting out Heart's "Magic Man" at...
RECONNECTED
"THE Hills" star Lauren Conrad has another man. The cute blonde was spotted holding hands and making out with dancer/actor Sean Zastoupil over the weekend at Les Deux in Hollywood. Our spy snitched, "They met a couple of years ago at a fashion show...
FAYE'S WEIGH-IN
DINERS at the Koo Koo Roo in L.A. were jolted when they saw Faye Dunaway sashay in wearing gym clothes and plastic food-handling gloves. "She ordered chicken and broccoli to go, and then she sat at a table with her food container," reports cyber...
RATHER SKEPTICAL
DAN Rather says he was perplexed that Katie Couric's staffers were reduced to dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" at a bizarre CBS Evening News pep rally held by executive producer Rick Kaplan last week. "To say I'm surprised would be...
ENDQUOTE
"SHE'S far too voluptuously beautiful for the job, like a Tiffany necklace in a brown paper bag" - Variety's assessment of Scarlett Johansson in "The Nanny Diaries" . . . "SHE likes to hide around our house, like in our closet, and jump out at me...
TORY BOOST FOR RUDY
IT looks like the Tories in Britain are pulling for Rudy Giuliani to be our next president. On Sept. 19 in London, Giuliani will receive the "Medal of Freedom" award from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The "Iron Lady," who helped Ronald...
ENTOU-RAGE
IS Jeremy Piven taking his role of Ari Gold on HBO's "Entourage" a little too seriously? Spies at Nobu Malibu spotted Piven having "a very loud argument" with his own mother Friday night. "It was so venomous, the entire restaurant could hear them...
LOHAN'S REHAB STROLL
Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is taking rehab in stride with a hike in the mountains of Utah with fellow recovering patients, Splash News reported. The troubled starlet, who was arrested last month and charged with DUI, walked dogs in Big Springs...
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