MY SLOW BURN OVER UN GRIDLOCK
EITHER I am patience-impaired or NYC is transportation-challenged. I had a dinner appointment this past week. Forget it. The only way a human could have gotten to East 55th was to have been born there. One friend was coming by taxi. It never...
A BILLION IDEAS TO HELP ECON
'CHAOS, PANIC and disorder - my work here is done!" So goes a cocktail napkin I glimpsed under a drink. It didn't have George Bush's name on it, but I figure it is his closing motto. I wanted to save it for the last days of his administration, but...
WE HEAR
THAT Jeremy Piven, Jessica Simp son and Ashton Kutcher will deliver school supplies to their favorite teachers on Wednesday for Of ficeMax's charity, "A Day Made Better" . . . THAT Julie Banderas, host of "The Big Story Weekend" on Fox News...
MILKING IT
JAMES Franco seems to like playing gay characters and talking about it. In his umpteenth interview about his role in "Milk," opposite Sean Penn, Franco told Out magazine, "After our [on-screen] kiss, Sean texted Madonna - his ex-wife, Madonna - and...
WELL-BREAD ANGER OVER ELI DELIVERY DISS
LEGENDARY New York bread maker Eli Zabar is begging forgiveness from a ticked-off customer. Lori Mason, who co-owns Klee Brasserie in Chelsea with "Iron Chef" hubby Daniel Angerer, got a call last week from an Eli's staffer telling her their daily...
UNREAL BOUNTY
IT'S amazing what reality-show losers can get for free just because they're on TV. When the blank-faced star of "The Hills," Audrina Patridge , showed up to the Passion for Pink luncheon at a private home in Beverly Hills last week, she was gifted...
AN EYE FOR TINA
WATCH out, Diana Taylor - your man has his eye on Tina Fey! Mayor Bloomberg, when asked by Time Out New York if he'd rather have a drink with Fey, Pat Kiernan, Stephen Colbert, Tim Gunn, Spider-Man or Jay-Z, told the magazine: "I'd be crazy if...
WEINSTEIN FLICKS ON THEIR OWN
HARVEY Weinstein has had a long week. MGM, which distributed a number of Weinstein Co. bombs like "Who's Your Caddy?," has ended its three-year distribution deal with the company three months before the contract was to expire. The Weinsteins must...
SIGHTINGS
MARLA Maples and daughter Tiffany Trump backstage at a preview of "All My Sons" and congratulating Katie Holmes on her performance . . . IVANA Trump showing up solo at ex-fiancé Don Soffer's birthday party at Le Cirque, where Tony Bennett serenaded...
SPLITTING SEAMS
A CALIFORNIA designer likely lost a client after dishing about serving as a seamstress for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton . Susanna Chung Forest, a Beverly Hills boutique owner, spilled all about designing outfits for the privacy-minded, pant-suited...
WELL INSURED
FASHION designer Mary McFadden wants to share her art collection with the world, but she's taking no chances. McFadden, whose treasure trove of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Inca, Mayan and Aztec works went on view at the...
TOMMY AND DEE 'STILL IN LOVE'
EVEN though Tommy Hilfiger called off his summer wedding at the last minute, the billionaire designer insists he and his former fiancée are not history. Hilfiger tells Page Six he and stunning blonde Dee Ocleppo are still in love, see each other...
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