THE LAUGHS'LL SOON BE ON US
FOUR years ago, a funny thing hap pened on the way to Manhattan. We got an annual New York Comedy Festival. Presented by Caroline Hirsch and Lou Ferranda of Caroline's Comedy Club, this year's gig opens Nov. 6, and the laughs continue at citywide...
LIZ TAYLOR RETURNING TO STAGE
'GLORY IS a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art," wrote the master journalist Oriana Fallaci. What would you give to see the Mistress of All She Surveys in the world history of Fame, once again onstage? Well, come December...
VF SCREEN SPOOF STAR WIGS OUT
JEFF Bridges is wearing a complexly coiffed wig to play a character modeled on Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter in the movie version of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People." But the book's British author, Toby Young - who worked at...
MORNING FRIGHT
ONE dubious bonus of working for Ted Turner was catching the former cable news king in his bathrobe while on the job. Christiane Amanpour told David Letterman Tuesday night that when Turner lived above the CNN center in Atlanta, "We would see him...
CHEEKS OF WAR
RICHARD Gere turns 58 a week from tomorrow, and his hair is white, but his bottom line is still in the black. He disrobed and showed off his derriere in a scene in "The Hunting Party," in which Gere plays a has-been war correspondent who leads his...
AWKWARD ALLERGY
BEFORE he married Annette Bening and fathered four kids, Warren Beatty, the great swordsman, had a form of chronic hayfever. Bening - in Boston filming "The Women" with Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra Messing, Kathy Griffin and Christy Scott...
SIGHTINGS
ANDY Roddick escaping from a flock of adoring female fans at the Hamptons and Gotham magazines party at Tenjune to slip solo into an electric blue Grey Goose Rolls-Royce . . . ELIJAH Wood tucking into Moroccan food at Babouche Brooklyn in Park Slope...
UP WITH CURVES
POLISH pin-up Joanna Krupa says models around the world should protest fashion houses that want them bone-thin. At a recent show, "most [models] looked so sad and sick that I was afraid they could collapse any minute. Their bones stuck out...
PARIS SETTLEMENT A REAL GEM
Paris Hilton finally blinked. Just a day before jury selection was scheduled to begin in diamond diva Zeta Graff's much-anticipated defamation suit against the hotel heiress, Paris forked up enough cash to settle the case. Sources pegged the damage...
TOUGH DOORS
HOW famous do you have to be to get into Flavio Briatore's Billionaire club in Sardinia? A couple of weeks ago, Briatore kicked Bruce Willis out of the place after the star refused to pose for photos with Briatore's pushy girlfriend. Last weekend...
WE HEAR . . . WE HEAR . . .
THAT Ed "The Angry" Limato, the 72 year-old agent pushed out of ICM, has landed his first client at his new agency, William Morris - 77-year-old actress Doris Roberts . . . THAT John Legend will attend Saturday's Missoni fashion show and dinner...
A BOY FOR BRADY & BRIDGET
Actress Bridget Moynahan has added a new teammate to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's bunch - giving birth to a baby boy in Los Angeles yesterday. The former model and the three-time Super Bowl winner split late last year after their...
HELPING HAND FOR JUSTIN
NORMALLY, it's Justin Timberlake getting his posse access to exclusive clubs - but this time, the skirt-chaser relied on his manager to get him into members-only Glen Oaks Country Club on Long Island. "Justin's manager knows a member," said a source...
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