BITS AND PIECES...09/07
PUSSSYKATT
--THE surprise birthday party Carrie Lowell tossed for Richard Gere at Chez Es
Saada the other night came off without a hitch - almost. While putting the
finishing touches on her guest list, the leggy stunner accidentally forgot to
include the names of two Tibetan monks, and gatekeepers weren't quite sure what
to think when the robed holy men turned up at the door. But the First Street
eatery's co-owner Robert McElroy wasn't about to mess with the powers that be.
I figured they were the real deal - they were in full garb. And anyone who
shows up here in scarlet robes gets the red carpet treatment.
--HUNKY Today anchor Matt Lauer has finally settled on a wedding date. Since
Lauer bacame engaged last spring to Dutch model Annette Roque, they've been
keeping all details of where and when they would wed under wraps. Now, Star
magazine claims that Lauer and Roque will get hitched on Oct. 3 at the lavish
East Hampton estate of an unnamed wealthy real estate mogul. Apparently, the
waterfront house is so private that people don't even realize it exists, the
tab reports, somewhat bafflingly. Matt and Annette will reportedly tie the knot
in front of 100 people in a garden overlooking the ocean.
--WALT Frazier working out despite his painful weak knees at Synergy Fitness
...
--ANTHONY Edwards and his wife walking in - and straight back out - of Blue
Ribbon Bistro after deeming it too crowded ...
--ED Burns delighting the ladies as he did an impromptu bartending stint at Jet
East ...
--FREDERIQUE Van Der Wal dancing on a table at Lot 61 to celebrate her birthday
while Leo DiCaprio, Mira Sorvino and pals occupied a booth elsewhere ...
--HARRISON Ford insisting on going into the new unopened branch of Purdy's
Optical on Madison Avenue to buy 15 pairs of glasses for his new film even
though Modeworks was still renovating the store ...
--The Backstreet Boys playing hoops till the wee hours at basketball City.
--A NEW biography of troubled '80s haute-graffiti master Jean-Michel Basquiat
contains some fascinating anecdotes about the drug-addled artist and his
equally dopey famous friends. Among the juicy morsels to be squeezed out of
Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, by Phoebe Hoban, just out from Viking: A few
months before Basquiat's death, he had a lengthy discussion with one-time
girlfriend Valda Grinfelds about a child, Noah, whom he believed he had
fathered on a trip to New Orleans. The child has never been traced, and in the
years since Basquiat's death no one has ever filed a paternity claim. Basquiat
did so much cocaine that a rolled-up $100 bill just wouldn't suffice. Gallery
worker Beth Phillips recalls going to collect some paintings from the artist
and eyeing the biggest bag of coke I ever saw in person. Jean-Michel would
throw it down on a dinner plate and snort it. He would snort it with the front
page of the New York Times. After Andy Warhol's death in 1987, Basquiat tried
to kill himself. Barbara Braathen recalls he once ran into the kitchen of his
loft, grabbed a big knife and tried to stab himself. He said that since Andy
had died, he could only think of killing himself, Braathen says. Actor Vincent
Gallo, who played in a band with Basquiat, ran into the artist shortly before
he died at age 27 in August of 1988. He was telling me, "Man, I hate New York.
It sucks,' Gallo recalls. But Basquiat hadn't lost his interest in women: he
told Gallo he was madly in love with Lauren Hutton, with whom he was having an
affair.
--NO wonder scrappy actor Stephen Dorff is such a modelizer - he probably wants
to steal their designer duds. Next month's issue of Elle contains an interview
with the Blade star, who's been linked to models Georgina Grenville, Jaime
Rishar and Natane, wherein he reveals himself to be a fashion fetishist of the
first order. His pre-stained Helmut Lang jeans and mocha suede Dries Van Noten
loafers are among his prize possessions, and he convinced his Blade director
that his vampire character should be clad in Gucci and Prada. Guard your
wardrobes, girls.
--DOC Severinsen, long-abused by Johnny Carson over his untraditional wardrobe,
shopping for new threads at the A.S. Parker haberdasher on Madison Avenue ...
--SEAN Penn, who plays a pool shark in Woody Allen's next movie, practicing
with the house pro at the Amsterdam Billiard Club on the Upper West Side ...
--DAMON Wayans angrily demanding a photographer turn over his film after
snapping the actor and an unidentified woman sharing his private booth at NV
...
--DIONNE Warwick jumping up to sing Do You Know the Way to San Jose in the bar
at the Park Restaurant after lounge crooner Chris Barret noticed her in the
audience ...
--QUINCY Jones eating lunch and dinner every day for a week at the Plaza
Athenee's Le Regence restaurant, where chef Robert Feenie has been making him
special dishes.
--DIRECTOR Vincent Gallo admittedly has some bizarre fans but one of them is
truly crackers. After we reported Gallo had reduced a girl to tears at the
Angelika cinema, he called with details - it turns out the woman has been
stalking him. I've asked her nicely to leave me alone, to stay out of my life,
he says. But she won't give up. She goes around telling people she's my
girlfriend! She's not even my friend. He says the woman hangs around his
neighborhood and the lobby of his building. It's sick and twisted; she's
upsetting my neighbors. I just want her to go away.
--Past livesOSCAR-winning funnyman Robin Williams may have had a previous claim
to greatness. The actor - who stars with Cuba Gooding, Jr. in What Dreams May
Come as a doctor who travels through heaven and hell searching for his dead
wife - believes in reincarnation. Williams discussed the afterlife with
omnipresent journalist Jesse Nash. What, I was Catherine the Great, and every
time I see a horse I get hot? he joked. Why is it, Williams wonders, that
nobody was ever just a regular guy? No one ever says, "I was named Sid. I had a
small shop, I was miserable.'
NY POST...NEAL TRAVIS...
--MODEL Christie Brinkley says she had three heartbreaking miscarriages before
her new daughter, Sailor Lee, was born. She tells the October Ladies' Home
Journal that her labor and delivery-room experiences were terrifying. "But
Sailor was determined to find her way to us Christie and husband Peter Cook,
which at that point was miraculous," she adds.
--FIRST it was those annoying taped messages in our cabs, and now some of the
city's biggest mouths can be heard on CityQuest - a new CD venture to guide
visitors on walking tours of New York. The Post's Cindy Adams, Joan Rivers and
Donald Trump have all taped their bits, along with Parks Commissioner Henry
Stern, who could talk the leg off a horse, basso James Earl Jones, early-riser
Matt Lauer, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who threatens to sell his Hamptons home and
move back here full-time if millionaire Ira Rennert is allowed to build that
monstrosity in Sagaponack.
--ACTION star Steven Seagal is rumored to be risking taking a bath on his
latest and self-financed movie, "The Patriot." I hear Seagal personally put up
about half of the $35 million budget and got the rest from business associates.
He reportedly went ahead without a domestic distribution deal and so far hasn't
been able to interest any of the major Hollywood studios in a distribution
deal. If "The Patriot" does tank, it will be particularly galling for Seagal in
that his arch-rival Jean-Claude Van Damme appears to have a hit on his hands
with the critic-proof actioner "Knock Off," which opened nationally this
weekend.
--THE brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly, who made the big summer hit "There's
Something About Mary," have chosen their next project - one that sounds just as
off-beat. They are working on a comedy script called "Stuck On You" about
Siamese twins - a subject that proved a costly failure on Broadway this past
theater season with the closing of "Sideshow."
RUSH AND MOLLOY...
--Kirk Douglas goes back to work next month, co-starring with Dan Aykroyd in
"Sundowning," his first film since he suffered a stroke more than two years
ago.
He won't stop there. Douglas tells Variety that he has been working on a script
with his son Michael. They have gone through three drafts, but there's still a
lot of work to do before they start filming "A Song for David." "Maybe I'm
starting my career over again," Douglas said. "But I promise to quit at 100!"
He meant movies, not age. The 81-year-old Douglas has already made 80 films.
--Michael Bolton dined on chef Emilio's spaghetti the other night at Ballato's
on Houston St. . . .
--Giants quarterback Danny Kanell celebrated signing his new three-year, $9.3
million contract at the Park Ave. Country Club . . .
--Kevin Costner will film parts of his next movie, "For the Love of the Game,"
at Yankee Stadium next month. Hope he realizes there may be a few hundred
thousand World Series fans milling around the old ballyard in the Bronx . . .
--Robert De Niro dropped by Rasputin, a Russian supper club in Sheepshead Bay,
a few evenings ago to check out the long-stemmed showgirls, singers and
dancers. He did not appear pleased when the club had a spotlight trained on his
table. Nor did he like the club emcee's announcing his presence to the house.
Nevertheless, he posed for pictures with the club regulars . . .
--Marilyn Michaels rewrote the classic "Cinderella" for her upcoming show at
Resorts International in Atlantic City Sept. 24-28. Cinderella is Monica
Lewinsky, the wicked stepmother is Linda Tripp, the misguided prince is
President Clinton. "My only problem was the fairy godmother," Michaels told us.
Her solution: Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
USA TODAY...
--Denzel Washington has a little bit of a problem. It has nothing to do with
his new movie, The Siege. It's about his next two films. The actor has been
boxing for the last year and a half, prepping and pumping up for his role as
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a 1980s middleweight champ who was wrongfully
imprisoned for the murder of three whites in a bar. The movie, called Lazarus
and the Hurricane, doesn't start filming until November. First, Washington
starts the Bone Collector, on Sept. 15. And he'll play a quadriplegic. A
pumped-up quadriplegic. His character is a razor-sharp detective with no use of
his arms and legs.
--Country singer-guitarist Junior Brown is a hard-core traditionalist. He
dresses in a style that might be called '50s redneck, and is one of a few who
have been keeping alive that vintage, twangy, sorrowful country sound
associated with Ernest Tubb, Patsy Cline and Hank Williams. "I don't like what
(country's) become," gripes Brown, 46, whose fifth album, Long Walk Back, is
just out. "What you hear on country radio is more pop-rock than real country.
It's not the country I grew up with."
--British pop star George Michael has canceled a planned 1999 world tour to
deal with a recent string of personal traumas, the Sun tabloid reported. The
tour, the first for Michael in eight years, was to have opened in March with a
series of concerts in Britain. Earlier this year, Michael, 35, apologized on TV
after being arrested in Los Angeles on a charge of lewd behavior. He
acknowledged he is gay. The Sun said he also is coping with the death of his
mother last year.
DAILY DISH....
--TUNES ON THE TUBE: A slew of musicians are finding a new venue: prime-time
television. Along with Sean Lennon — who, as we reported, will perform his
single "Home" on Melrose Place on Mon., Sept. 14 (8 pm/ET, Fox) — Grammy
nominee Duncan Sheik will sing two songs on the Wed., Sept. 16, episode of
Beverly Hills, 90210 (8 pm/ET, Fox). Brandy will work overtime on an upcoming
episode of Moesha when her character, Moesha, attends a Brandy concert. And
Vegas legend Wayne Newton has just finished filming a guest appearance on Ally
McBeal, reports the New York Daily News. No word on whether he'll croon.
-NEVER SAY NEVER: "I'll never be on television again," a frustrated Damon
Wayans recently told the Las Vegas Sun. After having his two most recent shows,
413 Hope Street and Damon, axed by Fox, Wayans has soured on the medium.
Network execs, Wayans contends, "say they want to push the envelope and they
want to do something new, but the truth is they just want the same old thing."
Wayans has also ruled out ever reprising characters like Homey the Clown, which
he created on his brother Keenen Ivory Wayans' sketch-comedy show, In Living
Color. We guess Damon don't play that anymore.
--NEW NEIGHBORS: Apparently, it will take three new cast members to replace the
departing Jonathan Taylor Thomas on ABC's Home Improvement (Tuesdays, 8 pm/ET).
This fall, the show will see the addition of Tim Taylor's (Tim Allen) brother
Marty and his twin daughters. William O'Leary, who has appeared on the show
before, will play Marty, reports USA Today. The twins have not yet been cast.
— Sandra Contreras
E! ONLINE....
--SPARTAN SPIRIT: Jazz musician Branford Marsales, who proved he could do on
The Tonight Show, has been reportedly hired to teach music at Michigan State.
MCD LANCER
>--THE surprise birthday party Carrie Lowell tossed for Richard Gere at Chez
>Es
>Saada the other night came off without a hitch - almost. While putting the
>finishing touches on her guest list, the leggy stunner accidentally forgot to
>include the names of two Tibetan monks, and gatekeepers weren't quite sure
>what
>to think when the robed holy men turned up at the door. But the First Street
>eatery's co-owner Robert McElroy wasn't about to mess with the powers that
>be.
>I figured they were the real deal - they were in full garb. And anyone who
>shows up here in scarlet robes gets the red carpet treatment.
Well, that's one way to get past the bouncers!
>--HUNKY Today anchor Matt Lauer has finally settled on a wedding date. Since
>Lauer bacame engaged last spring to Dutch model Annette Roque, they've been
>keeping all details of where and when they would wed under wraps. Now, Star
>magazine claims that Lauer and Roque will get hitched on Oct. 3 at the lavish
>East Hampton estate of an unnamed wealthy real estate mogul. Apparently, the
>waterfront house is so private that people don't even realize it exists, the
>tab reports, somewhat bafflingly. Matt and Annette will reportedly tie the
>knot
>in front of 100 people in a garden overlooking the ocean.
I'd be surprised to see this come off. Matt doesn't quite set the gaydar off,
but he doesn't quite seem straight to me, either.
>--FREDERIQUE Van Der Wal dancing on a table at Lot 61 to celebrate her
>birthday
>while Leo DiCaprio, Mira Sorvino and pals occupied a booth elsewhere ...
Another gratuitous Leo sighting with a female star. And what were they doing,
pray tell? Was Mira babysitting him?
>--The Backstreet Boys playing hoops till the wee hours at basketball City.
My friend is looking for four tix to see them at the York, Penna. fair, so she
and her sister can take their kids, if anyone has any extras.
>--DAMON Wayans angrily demanding a photographer turn over his film after
>snapping the actor and an unidentified woman sharing his private booth at NV
>...
So what's the scoop on this? Is Damon married or hooked up with someone? Or
was his date?
>--MODEL Christie Brinkley says she had three heartbreaking miscarriages
>before
>her new daughter, Sailor Lee, was born. She tells the October Ladies' Home
>Journal that her labor and delivery-room experiences were terrifying. "But
>Sailor was determined to find her way to us Christie and husband Peter Cook,
>which at that point was miraculous," she adds.
This woman seems to be obsessed with having children. Seems to be a pretty
good mom, except for the goofy names, but seems very driven to answer her
biological clock.
>--ACTION star Steven Seagal is rumored to be risking taking a bath on his
>latest and self-financed movie, "The Patriot." I hear Seagal personally put
>up
>about half of the $35 million budget and got the rest from business
>associates.
>He reportedly went ahead without a domestic distribution deal and so far
>hasn't
>been able to interest any of the major Hollywood studios in a distribution
>deal. If "The Patriot" does tank, it will be particularly galling for Seagal
>in
>that his arch-rival Jean-Claude Van Damme appears to have a hit on his hands
>with the critic-proof actioner "Knock Off," which opened nationally this
>weekend.
>
I heard Seagal's now shopping this to the cable channels, as video and major
studios have taken a pass.
>--Robert De Niro dropped by Rasputin, a Russian supper club in Sheepshead
>Bay,
>a few evenings ago to check out the long-stemmed showgirls, singers and
>dancers. He did not appear pleased when the club had a spotlight trained on
>his
>table. Nor did he like the club emcee's announcing his presence to the house.
>Nevertheless, he posed for pictures with the club regulars . . .
I'm surprised that club regulars even knew who he was. Rasputin's regulars are
a pretty insular crowd, and while they live in NY, they're still hardcore
Russian.
>--Marilyn Michaels rewrote the classic "Cinderella" for her upcoming show at
>Resorts International in Atlantic City Sept. 24-28. Cinderella is Monica
>Lewinsky, the wicked stepmother is Linda Tripp, the misguided prince is
>President Clinton. "My only problem was the fairy godmother," Michaels told
>us.
>Her solution: Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
SKIP. Like this story needed any more play!
Regards,
Mary Beth :-)
~*~ Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ~*~
Goldrivet
>arch-rival Jean-Claude Van Damme appears to have a hit on his hands
>with the critic-proof actioner "Knock Off," which opened nationally this
>weekend.
Geez, in what alternative universe will Knock Off be considered a hit?
>--THE brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly . . . are working on a comedy script
called "Stuck On You" about
>Siamese twins - a subject that proved a costly failure on Broadway this past
>theater season with the closing of "Sideshow."
>--NEW NEIGHBORS: Apparently, it will take three new cast members to replace
>the
>departing Jonathan Taylor Thomas on ABC's Home Improvement (Tuesdays,
>8 pm/ET).
>This fall, the show will see the addition of Tim Taylor's (Tim Allen) brother
>Marty and his twin daughters. William O'Leary, who has appeared on the show
>before, will play Marty, reports USA Today. The twins have not yet been cast.
I wonder if those perky, blonde conjoined twins seen on Dateline and in the
current Life Magazine have an agent? They could be real "double threats,"
making it big on TV and in the movies.
"I want to go where you go,
Do what you do,
Love when you love,
Then I'll be happy . . .
I want to smile when you smile,
cry when you cry,
sigh when you sign,
then I'll be happy.
If you go north or south
if you go east or west
I'll follow you, sweetheart,
and share your little lovenest . . .:
Sorry, got carried away there.
Butch
"He was like a brother to me . . a Menendez brother!"--Knock Off
StThork
(Goldrivet) writes:
>Sorry, got carried away there.
As you should be. Oh! Sorry, that's 'carted'. ; )
=Uncle Robbie
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nothing human loves forever.
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StThork
(MCD LANCER) writes:
>So what's the scoop on this? Is Damon married or hooked up with someone? Or
>was his date?
>
I seem to recall that he's married. Could be single soon, though. : )
Jeg7777
>
> >arch-rival Jean-Claude Van Damme appears to have a hit on his hands
> >with the critic-proof actioner "Knock Off," which opened nationally this
> >weekend.
>
Not even in Bizarro world.
--
Joe
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pusss...@aol.com (PUSSSYKATT) wrote:
> NY POST...PAGE SIX...
> --QUINCY Jones eating lunch and dinner every day for a week at the Plaza
> Athenee's Le Regence restaurant, where chef Robert Feenie has been making him
> special dishes.
A cousin worked there in the 80s. Two things I learned from him: 1) they
make their soup fresh for each customer who orders it (not just scoop it out
of a bucket) 2) Elizabeth Taylor stays there when she's in town. -- Meg
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