BITS AND PIECES 07/30
PUSSSYKATT
--FX has renewed Howard Stern's "Son of the Beach" for a third season, ordering
13 episodes plus a special, season-opening one-hour shindig. The new season
(Tuesdays at 10 p.m.) will premiere in the first quarter of 2002, with
production commencing in December. This past season featured a slew of "Beach"
guest stars, including "Brady Bunch" legend Maureen McCormick, Neil Patrick
Harris, David Arquette, Alan Thicke and Vincent Pastore. Tim Stack stars in the
show as lifeguard Notch Johnson, patrolling the beaches of Malibu Adjacent with
his crew (Leila Arcieri, Jaime Bergman, Roland Kickinger and Kim Oja). The
second-season finale featured sleazy porn king "F. Jackie Abraham" - a
none-too-subtle dig at Stern's ex-radio sidekick, Jackie "F. Jackie!" Martling.
--Sally Jessy Raphael has 18 years' worth of "Sally" archives - and she's
starting to use them to reflect on her career. Starting today, "Sally" will
feature highlights from past seasons every Monday. Today, Raphael looks back at
the "Best Of" 1991, followed by 1992 (next Monday), 1993 (Aug. 13), 1994 (Aug.
20) and 1995 (Aug. 27). Raphael will be joined by "co-hosts" for these "reeling
in the years" shows, including her daughter, Andrea, husband Karl Soderlund and
pals like Lorenzo Lamas and his mom, Arlene Dahl (one of Raphael's best
friends).
NY POST/PAGE SIX...
--The Dahm Triplets (December '98), Nicole Wood (April '93) and Victoria Fuller
(January '96) will help "Survivor II" star Jeri Manthey celebrate her nude
Playboy pictorial tonight at Light with free-flowing Michelob Light . . .
--Former wrestling great The Iron Sheik, will try his hand at stand-up comedy
tonight at Caroline's on Broadway.
--LIKE attracts like, and grifter Sante Kimes has made a new friend in con
woman Bonita Money. "Bonita met my mom in [California] jail," says Kimes'
non-killer son, Kent Walker, author of "Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of
Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir by
the Other Son." Money, best known for her public spat with Shannen Doherty a
few years back, alternately describes herself as a "film producer" or "friend
of Leonardo DiCaprio." "All these media outlets are trying to get my mom to
talk, but Bonita is now Mom's agent and p.r. person, so they all have to go
through her," Walker tells us, noting that ever since he wrote his expose, "Mom
refuses to talk to me, but I do talk to Kenny sometimes. It's a sad deal, he's
not doing well." Meanwhile other sources said Sante has fired her California
public defender because she wants a more "media-savvy" lawyer, and has met with
Heidi Fleiss' ex-lawyer, Anthony Brooklier.
--THE star-studded cast of Mike Nichols' production of "The Seagull" in Central
Park is thrilling audiences with antics rather than acting. In the Chekov
classic, Meryl Streep does an applause-drawing cartwheel before flopping onto a
hammock, Philip Seymour Hoffman cries his eyes out nonstop, and Christopher
Walken does a goofy dance.
--TONIGHT'S performance at the Riant Theater on Hudson Street of "A Punch in
the Face" by Jeffrey Gurian is dedicated to Chuck Zito, the super-tough Hells
Angels leader who stars in "Oz." "I originally got the idea for it when he
knocked out Jean Claude Van Damme at Scores with one punch," Gurian explains.
"I called Chuck to ask his permission . . . Using his name without permission
is an automatic opportunity to receive your very own ‘Punch In the Face.' "
Zito is expected, as is the cast of "Six Goombas and a Wannabe," including
Kathy Narducci, and Goomba Johnny of WKTU.
--A BAD foot isn't deterring Ingrid Seynhaeve from trekking in Tibet and Nepal.
Thursday night, the stunning model was injured when a partygoer dropped a glass
at the bash Mark Baker threw for the opening of 60 Thompson's roof garden.
Seynhaeve told guests Esther Canadas, Ted Field and Luca Orlandi that she and
her boyfriend Mario Garnero are joining Baker and Man Ray rep Elizabeth Guttman
on the journey to "get away from it all."
NY POST/NEAL TRAVIS...
--IT'S time for our annual "Bring out your daughters, Prince Albert is coming
to Southampton" paragraph. In fact, the balding bachelor heir to Monaco's
throne will be on the East End Aug. 11 to attend a benefit called "Art With a
Heart," for the Princess Grace Foundation and the Millennium Kids Foundation.
Anton and Robin Katz and Fred and Eva Gradin are the event chairs, and guests
will be fed by everyone's favorite chef, Daniel Boulud.
--WHILE New Line Cinema hits like "Austin Powers" could hardly be described as
advancing the cause of teen literacy, the studio does want to get kids reading
books - particularly J.R.R. Tolkien's epic "Lord of the Rings" series. New Line
is joining with the American Library Association for a big "Teen Read Week"
promotion this fall, with the emphasis on fantasy literature and the slogan,
"Make reading a hobbit." Of course, it's no coincidence that the studio has bet
the farm on its Tolkien trilogy, the first of which, "The Fellowship of the
Ring," opens worldwide Dec. 19.
NY POST/LIZ SMITH...
--THE VICE PRESIDENT's residence in D.C. is in the news because of its gigantic
electric bills. It costs about $136,000 annually to fuel the 33-room Naval
Observatory, where veeps and their families live. (Republican or Democrat,
environmentalist or not, I doubt the second family has much to do with the
amount of the bills for this massive place. They go on no matter what ideology
is in residence.) Lynne Cheney herself is busy personally writing the story of
her redecoration of the residential quarters in this grand old historical
building. The display and text will appear in Architectural Digest come
November.
--I AM in a bit of culture shock from browsing through the promo material for
the coming Talk Miramax book titled "The National Enquirer: Thirty Years of
Unforgettable Images." Next November you can experience culture shock, too.
Editor Steve Coz and writer Jonathan Mahler explore the nation's obsession with
this supermarket tabloid. The color photos of Elizabeth Taylor puckering up to
kiss; Pamela and Tommy Lee exchanging tongues; Donna Rice on Gary Hart's lap;
O.J. in his Bruno Magli shoes; Elvis in his coffin; Jackie O smoking; and
Johnny Carson using two people to water ski on are just amazing. But my
favorite browse is through the actual mug shots of the rich and famous -
including Jane Fonda, Woody Harrelson, Linda Tripp, Paul Reubens, Hugh Grant,
Brett Butler, Al Pacino, Mickey Rourke, Anna Nicole Smith, Larry King, Tim
Allen, Dudley Moore, Keanu Reeves, Suzanne Somers, Marv Albert, etc. No
question; this book will be a sensation and it will make quite a Christmas gift
for those unaffected by the season.
--Bill Clinton is reaching into the music world to form some new alliances.
Tomorrow, the former President and the Grammy Award-winning
singer/songwriter/producer Kenneth (Babyface) Edmonds will announce a
partnership to fight AIDS globally. On Aug. 8, Clinton will hit the links at
the Atlantic Golf Club in Bridgehampton before heading over to the East Hampton
estate of rap mogul Russell Simmons for a Democratic Party fund-raiser. Simmons
doesn't play golf, but said he'd "be glad to caddy" for Clinton.
--Some people who have seen Mark Wahlberg since last week's "Planet of the
Apes" premiere think he's been hanging out with co-star Michael Clark Duncan.
In fact, the guy with Wahlberg only resembles Duncan. He's Freddy Smalls,
Wahlberg's bodyguard.
ASSOCIATED PRESS...
--Harold Land, a jazz saxophonist who over five decades performed with such
greats as Thelonius Monk, Billie Holiday and Tony Bennett, died of a stroke
Friday. He was 72.
--Singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter told a Las Vegas audience this
weekend that she is thinking of updating the lyrics to one of her older hits,
"I Feel Lucky." Carpenter, 43, is on tour for her eighth album, "TimeSexLove."
The upbeat tune, written by Carpenter and Don Schlitz and released in 1992,
features the names of country crooners Dwight Yoakam and Lyle Lovett. "After
years of singing this song, they just aren't doing it for me anymore,"
Carpenter said. Criteria for finding new men's names to replace Yoakam and
Lovett in the song are: They must be available, they must have a recognizable
name and Carpenter must think they are "cute." "I've had audience members
volunteer their names, but 'Bob Smith' isn't going to cut it," she joked. After
polling audiences on her current tour, the two names she has come up with so
far are actors John Cusack and George Clooney, who received the biggest round
of applause during Friday night's show at the new Cox Pavilion, just off the
Las Vegas Strip. The folk/country/blues artist from Washington, D.C., also is
known for her other hits including "Down at the Twist & Shout" and "Passionate
Kisses."
--A watercolor by Western artist Charles M. Russell fetched $2.1 million at
auction, eclipsing the former record of $1.1 million for a Russell watercolor
at the same auction a year ago.
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