FINE WHINING OVER CHIC DINING
RESTAURANTS. I am fed up with eating in restaurants. New York is Restaurant City. From falafel off a cart to a reservation at Le Cirque, nobody knows what they want for dinner. It's, "Should we grab a pastrami at Katz's?" to "Let's get a good...
DUCHIN'S DINNER, MICHAEL'S LUNCH
'WE ARE seen around New York, El Morocco and The Stork, and the other stay-up-late cafes / I am on the town with you these days / that's the way it stands . . . some cocktails, some orchids, a show or two, a line in a column that links me with you!"...
FINANCE FALLOUT KILLS PARTY
HERE'S another Wall Street casualty: Amit Chatwani's book party. His satirical tome, "Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Banker," was supposed to be feted this week at an undisclosed downtown location, but after the AIG bailout and Lehman bankruptcy, the...
TOURISTS' LUCK
DIANA Taylor is a tourist attraction. Jim Dykes, who runs Rich and Famous Tours, was leading a group of out-of-towners down East 79th Street when the door of Mayor Bloomberg's elegant 1910 townhouse flew open - and out bolted the state banking...
NAKED AMBITION
RANAE Shrider, who starred in an infamous homemade sex video with Verne (Mini-Me) Troyer, says she's ready to show off more in a men's magazine. "I would do full nude, yeah, because you can do that tastefully and classy, and we were all born naked...
STAGE ATTRACTION
CYNTHIA Nixon's career started on Broadway, and she wants to go back. She just celebrated the release of the "Sex and the City" movie DVD the other day with pals Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall, and now Nixon has her heart set on winning the...
DOGGIE DETAIL
TYRA Banks needs security for a really good reason - to carry her doggie bag to the car. The diva dined at Cafeteria in Chelsea on Thursday, where a Page Six source noticed her leaving. "She took her leftovers in a doggie bag," said the tipster...
DUFF'S COURT PLEA ON CALEIGH
PATRICIA Duff is once again at war with billionaire ex-hubby Ron Perelman. The sides were in court the other day where Duff, 53, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Rosalyn Richter her lack of access to their daughter, Caleigh, 13, has "been...
SIGHTINGS
OLYMPICS god Michael Phelps arriving to the In Touch party at the Chateau Marmont in LA on the arm of Demi Moore . . . MARIAH Carey's security team clearing all the women out of the ladies' room at Morimoto while the diva used the facilities in...
MISS STUMBLES
MISS USA just can't seem to find her footing. Crystle Stewart , who tripped and fell during the Miss Universe competition in Thailand this summer, showed up to the Maybelline-sponsored party for "Lipstick Jungle" at Studio 450 in "incredibly high...
LENNON GAVE SEAN AN EARFUL
JOHN Lennon is remembered for his soft-spoken messages of peace and love - but the beloved Beatle had a hair-trigger temper so volatile, nearly anything could set him off. And one night, it exploded in an incident that ended up damaging his son's...
WE HEAR
THAT the James Beard Foundation is doing Vegas for the first time, with a weekend event at the Palazzo Resort on Oct. 24-26 to feature top culinary talent from around the country, including Charlie Trotter, Kerry Simon, Michel Nischan, Traci Des...
OUT OF THE BOX
THEY had so many unpleasant experiences at The Box that Heather and Amber Langely, known as "The Porcelain Twinz," are re-releasing their memoir to include stories about it. BlackBook magazine's Web site says the fetish sisters are scrounging...
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