DEM OPERATIVE EYES HILL STATE FOR MCCAIN
ST. PAUL - Hillary Clinton and her roommate, the former president, make a pit stop next month in Penn sylvania. An important state for a candidate to win, this was Hillary territory. She took Scranton like Grant took Richmond. Hillary heads there...
SIGHTINGS
KATE Hudson enjoying colorful specialty drinks in martini glasses with a heavily tattooed guy and two women at Serevan restaurant in Amenia, NY, which some locals call Amnesia - the town time forgot . . . JEFF Conway ("Taxi," "Celebrity Rehab") at...
WE HEAR . . .
THAT Gov. Paterson is expected at the Beacon restaurant on West 56th Street Monday when Kerry Kennedy launches her book "Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning."...
PARTY POOPERS
THE New Kids on the Block reunion sounds more like a second breakup. At the release party for NKOTB's album "The Block," at Marquee, the group wasn't missing just original member Mark Wahlberg. Jordan Knight ditched the event, claiming he was sick...
ROCK OF AGES
FOR a funny guy, Chris Rock sure has some dark thoughts about his career. "It's going to stop one day," he tells the Las Vegas Review Journal. "It's not that you fall. It's just one day there are new people, and, you know, the opportunities aren't...
UNEASY RIDER
LANCE Armstrong, who turned into a boldfaced bed-hopper by dating such babes as Kate Hudson, Tory Burch and Sheryl Crow, doesn't consider himself a sex god. The seven- time Tour de France winner tells next month's Men's Journal: "I had sex if I had...
PANTY PARADE FOR BENSIMON
WE guess Kelly Killoren Bensimon doesn't have any jealousy issues. The model, a columnist for Page Six Magazine and ex-wife of fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon, was spotted at Coqueta on Mulberry Street picking up lingerie with the name of his...
LETTER PERFECT
SOME well-dressed types might recognize themselves in "Fashion Victims: The Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties From A to Z" by Michael Roberts, fashion director of Vanity Fair. Roberts has written a poem for each letter of the alphabet, for...
SISTERLY HELP
KIM Kardashian is secretly working behind the scenes to make sure her kid sister Khloe scores big in the next installment of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice." Kim was seen at the EA Sports FaceBreaker Video Game party in Hollywood texting her sister to...
FEDS' FUR TRIM
FURRIER to the stars Dennis Basso is getting skinned by the Internal Revenue Service. The baritone-voiced minkmeister is singing the blues now that the feds have imposed a $200,000 lien on his swanky Central Park West apartment, according to public...
'EARL' EXEC BASHES BALDWIN
ALEC Baldwin of "30 Rock" shouldn't have started a fight with Greg Garcia, the creator/exec producer of "My Name Is Earl." Baldwin recently told The New Yorker, "NBC hasn't done a [bleep]ing thing to help this show ['30 Rock'] at all . . . They've...
CRAZY ADVOCATE
JOE Pantoliano came to the GOP convention in St. Paul to defend the mentally ill - including himself. The actor, who played Ralph Cifaretto on "The Sopranos," was lobbying for his charity, No Kidding, which tackles the stigma surrounding brain...
FACE RACE
THE top talents at CNBC are battling over a billboard. A network insider tells us Maria Bartiromo, Suze Orman and Donny Deutsch "all want their pictures on CNBC's billboard overlooking the West Side Highway, and there's always a lot of fighting and...
ALL THE PEOPLE FIT TO LAMPOON
THE New York Times and its haughty staff are parodied in a biting new roman a clef by one of the broadsheet's own reporters. In "Black & White and Dead All Over," John Darnton, a 40-year veteran of the Times, sets a murder mystery in the New York...
LINDSAY LO-DOWN
IT'S once nude, twice shy for Lindsay Lohan. The Sapphic-leaning star has turned down a $700,000 offer to do an eight-page topless spread in Playboy's 55th-anniversary issue this January. "If there's nudity, then the answer's no . . . She's not...
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