WHY WE NEED DISH-TRACTIONS
KIDDIES, class will come to order. Mother's subject today is gossip. Webster defines the word as "light, familiar talk." Please. Please! I mean, please. I mean, absolutely - PLEASE. Surely Webster was a nice man. Gave to the Red Cross, didn't...
PIG AND LIPSTICK'S TEXAS ROOTS
'WELL, you can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig." Are you getting tired of this one? I just want to remind you that this is the exact quote made back in 1994 by the governor of Texas, Ann Richards. (Ann was talking...
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"UP close one can't help but note that Mickey [Rourke] now looks like the secret love child of Bea Arthur and her Asian masseur" - Shinan Govani of Canada's National Post . . . "THE only thing a white woman can do for Robert De Niro is show him...
SUMMER FAILS TO MAKE SPLASH
SWIMMER Ryan Lochte is not having as much luck as his Olympic teammate Michael Phelps. Lochte showed up at the Domino party hosted by Deborah Needleman and Alison Sarofim at Sarofim's Bank Street townhouse Wednesday night - and left alone. Lochte...
WE HEAR . . .
THAT Jeremy Piven, in town to star on Broadway in "Speed the Plow," not only looked at Sean Avery's apartment on West 19th, he checked out a loft being sublet on 11th Street. But he balked at the $12,000 a month rent and didn't like the art on the...
ARTISTIC TOUCH
WITH Hurricane Ike bearing down on Texas, Darryl Pottorf, president of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, was reminded of how the late artist's mother prepared for storms before he moved from the Lone Star State to New York. Pottorf - at Thursday's...
COSTLY SEX
IT's hard to feel sorry for Jeffrey Epstein the billionaire in jail in Florida for soliciting teenage girls in Palm Beach for sex while they gave him massages. These women willingly performed for Epstein and accepted his cash. But now some of them -...
NEVER TOO LATE
LOVE has bloomed for Broadway theater magnate Robert Nederlander and Palm Beach socialite Pat Cook. Nederlander's wife, Gladys, died earlier this year after a long illness. Cook's banker husband, Ned, died several years ago. The couple was in...
TOP GUNN AT 'PROJECT RUNWAY'
SUPER fans of "Project Runway" didn't care when they learned Jennifer Lopez was a no-show for season-five finale Friday morning in the Bryant Park tents. Heidi Klum walked out with fan favorite Tim Gunn, and announced that he would replace Lopez...
SIGHTINGS
DANIELLE Steel, dressed all in black with black Chanel bag and glasses, at Serendipity's gift shop buying black skull shot glasses, skull tumblers and snake bracelets . . .WILBUR Ross and wife Hilary at 15 Union Square West previewing the South...
CAMERA HOG
JUST because his Vogue internship is through, doesn't mean Sean Avery is done with fashion. The hockey hunk stopped by the Marie Claire offices to speak with editor-in-chief Joanna Coles Tuesday, and immediately wanted to get in on the taping of the...
LET BOSS WIN
BEN Silverman knows when to lose. The embattled NBC Entertainment co-chairman headed up NBC's West Coast team with his partner, Marc Graboff, during the "hyper competitive" annual NBC softball game held on the Universal lot last week. But Silverman...
EX-MISTRESS: POITIER WAS A CAD
OSCAR-winner Sidney Poitier played his most dramatic role off-screen - that of a real-life, married cad who promised his mistress the moon, then cruelly double-crossed her. In her new memoir, "The Legs Are the Last to Go," Diahann Carroll - the...
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