HUMOR'S MY FAVORITE ORDER OF BUSINESS
COMING up is PBS-TV's six-hour series "Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Busi ness of America." Produced by Michael Kantor, it's partly hosted by Billy Crystal, who just filmed his opening and closing episodes intercut with another fairly funny guy of a few...
JUST ASKING
WHICH reality-TV judge was absent from two of her top-rated shows because she had a bad reaction to Botox? Spies said the fashionista's face "swelled up like a cauliflower". . . WHICH stunning TV actress can't stand the Hollywood starlet who's...
LAP DEFICIT
WALL Street's financial crisis has trickled down to Manhattan's mammary meccas. A source tells us jiggle joints all over the city are seeing a drop in business, with fewer customers, less bar traffic and a drop in lap dances. "The strippers at...
LOTS OF DRENAS
THE staff of the Ziegfeld Theatre should be glad Robert De Niro didn't turn into Travis Bickle the other night after the way they treated his daughter. Drena De Niro and a pal showed up at the cinema for the premiere of her dad's flick "Righteous...
DON'T COOK, JUST GET OUT
WHILE Dane Cook's 15 minutes of fame are, sadly, not up yet, the not-so-funnyman's time in his beloved apartment has come to an end. The LA sheriff's office slapped Cook with an eviction notice after he repeatedly failed to clean up after his dog...
LEONA DISSED KIDS FOR DOGS
WHEN Leona Helmsley set up an $8 billion charitable foundation for the care of dogs, she did so by snubbing the poor, new documents reveal. In this week's New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin bares never-before-seen documents from the Queen of Mean's trust...
GOLDEN GIFTS
Michael Phelps fans are about to get the opportunity to bid on their own private swim lessons from the Olympian. Phelps , who's on the committee for the Animal Care and Control charity event at Pressure on Thursday, agreed to auction himself off...
NOT STATUESQUE
SCARLETT Johansson wants everyone to know she's not a tourist attraction. The actress and fiancé Ryan Reynolds hit the Lower East Side spot National Underground the other night "wearing matching bowler hats," our spy said. Even though Johansson was...
OBAMA'S GOODIES
ONE way members of Hollywood are supporting Barack Obama is by forking over their wedding gifts to his campaign. The executive producer of the HBO se ries "In Treatment," Paris Barclay, married his longtime partner, Christo pher Mason, in LA last...
POWER BACKERS
GRAYDON Carter's Monkey Bar is going to be 10 times more successful than the Waverly Inn, if his investors are any indication. While we've already pointed out that Carter is teamed with hotelier Jeff Klein in the venture, Carter notes in his Vanity...
BYE-BYE TIME AT MARTHA SHOW
MARTHA Stewart has turned into a hatchet-wielding cost cutter, dropping the ax on members of her TV show's staff. An insider tells us the home-products hustler booted her longtime hair and makeup specialist, Eva Scrivo, as well as Martha Stewart...
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