BITS AND PIECES 04/21
PUSSSYKATT
--It looks like Jennifer Aniston has gotten herself into steamy water. The
"Friends" star is facing the humiliation of having raunchy photographs of her
discussed openly in court - after she launched a legal battle against two
magazines that published paparazzi pix of her sunbathing topless in the garden,
London's Mail on Sunday reports. Fiercely private Aniston, 33, was livid when
the revealing photos of her wearing nothing but white panties appeared in porn
mags Celebrity Skin and High Society - and filed a lawsuit in California saying
they caused her "shame, hurt and embarrassment and distress." Now a judge has
ordered her to produce evidence of each time she has appeared "partially nude"
in print or on film for hearings in the lawsuit, reports the Mail. The case is
to be heard in July.
NY POST/PAGE SIX...
--NAOMI Campbell’s ex-boyfriend Flavio Briatore has a revolt on his hands at
his exclusive Kenyan beach resort. Staffers at the Lion in the Sun,
Briatore’s jet-set club on the Indian Ocean coast, have threatened to go on
strike and burn the place down if they’re not treated better, local police
say. The Italian playboy got a fax outlining the demands of the workers, many
of whom claim their wages have been cut in half to a measly $41 a month. They
also claim management intimidates anyone who dares to complain.
--PAINTER Jackson Pollock not only cheated on his wife with pretty, young art
groupies. Pollock, memorably portrayed by Ed Harris in a 2000 biopic, also
bedded erotic artist Harold Stevenson, best known for "The New Adam," a
room-sized 1962 painting of a nude Sal Mineo. Stevenson, 73, tells Art
Newspaper he knew Pollock "in the biblical sense" and that they often got drunk
together and "participated with one another" at a friend’s Long Island
cottage. "I didn’t mind going to bed with him," Stevenson says, "I just
didn’t want to paint like him."
--PIMPLED pubescents who love *NSYNC shouldn’t hold their breath for the
juggernaut-like boy band’s next album. "We’re taking a break until the
beginning of next year," band member Joey Fatone told PAGE SIX at the
after-party for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" at The Park. "We’re all going to
focus on our individual projects." Fatone, who has a small part in "Wedding"
and starred in last year’s flop "On the Line," warned us that he plans to
continue acting. "I have a role in ‘The Cooper’ with Alec Baldwin. I play a
sleazy lounge singer in Las Vegas - worse than a lounge lizard. I like acting,
but I also want to direct."
--LUKE Wilson, who was in town for Michael Milken’s annual golf tournament,
Vin Diesel and Jerry Bruckheimer chatting at Light in Las Vegas . . .
--SIR Ian McKellen, in an open-necked denim shirt, dining with his much younger
Next model boyfriend at Domicile as John Waters and fitness guru Radu chowed at
nearby tables.
--MICK Jagger's jewelry-designer daughter, Jade, is back on the meat market.
She recently dumped Internet entrepreneur Ben Elliot after a six-month romance.
"I don't have a man," she told reporters on her way into a gala on the arm of
her mother, Bianca. "I'm definitely single. I enjoy being single." Sophie Dahl,
meanwhile, is said to be bandying about with modelizer Tim Jeffries, who was
engaged to Claudia Schiffer and Elle Macpherson, reports British Vogue online.
"He's being very attentive," she gushed.
--"Sopranos" star Jamie-Lynn Sigler is mixing business with pleasure. The
actress, who plays James Gandolfini's daughter, Meadow, recently got hot and
heavy with her manager of two years, A.J. Discala. The pair, who've been seen
all over town lately, are already very serious, reports Chaunce Hayden of
Steppin' Out magazine. Sigler is a mere 20 years old, so the 30-something
Discala better be nice to her if he doesn't want Tony Soprano on his case.
NY POST/LIZ SMITH....
--YOU CAN EXPECT to see the legendary Peter O'Toole as a visiting Harvard
professor on one of the May episodes of "The Education of Max Bickford." This
TV show is exemplary, stars Oscar winners Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay
Harden, and also features Eli Wallach. The starry Mr. O'Toole has been in New
York for the CBS tapings, which use locations in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten
Island. This year happens to mark the 40th anniversary of his great film opus
"Lawrence of Arabia." And the veteran actor is making his debut on a network TV
series.
--THE DELICIOUS British actor Simon Callow opens on Broadway this week in his
sold-out London hit "The Mystery of Charles Dickens" by Peter Ackroyd. Simon is
well-known in Britain but laughs that here he is called "Funeral" because "No
one has heard of me . . . except as one of Hugh Grant's pals in 'Four Weddings
and a Funeral.' " We'll soon be able to appreciate the talent that made Simon a
standby of the Royal National Theatre.
NY DAILY NEWS/RUSH AND MOLLOY...
--Richard Blow might want to skip one party marking the publication of his
upcoming book "American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy Jr." It's an
anti-book party. Former colleagues at George magazine will hold a "Death to
Dishonor" fete on May 3, at Sebastian Junger's Half King bar in Chelsea. The
former editor in chief of Kennedy's political magazine has angered one-time
colleagues who feel Blow is capitalizing on Kennedy's tragic 1999 death in a
plane crash, and question the book's accuracy. On the invitation, they quote
Blow: "John was entering a year of intense and painful self-examination, and he
would pull us along with him, like a whaleboat crew tethered to a harpooned
animal, bouncing along the choppy ocean toward the endless horizon.'" "Just
remember that while many on the staff at George were working together with John
F. Kennedy Jr. at 1633 Broadway, Rich Blow was apparently somewhere else
entirely," reads the invite. Blow wouldn't give us a comment, but Kennedy
loyalist Rose Marie Terrenzio told us: "It's just a fun way for for all of us
to have a little reunion."
--Oprah Winfrey may not be plugging books anymore, but Catherine Crier, the
Dallas-born former Texas judge and Emmy-winner, is planning her own book club
for her Court TV show …
--Placido Domingo announced this week that he dreams of playing composer
Giacomo Puccini in a film. Meanwhile, he'll be playing host, with Beverly
Sills, at tomorrow night's "Live From Lincoln Center's" 25th-anniversary gala
at the New York State Theater. The evening, which celebrates the great PBS show
that exports New York culture across America, will include performances by
Jessye Norman, Wynton Marsalis and Itzhak Perlman. A dinner thrown by Muffie
Potter Aston and Daisy Soros will follow …
--It's nice to see that Carroll Petrie is being recognized for following in the
footsteps of her late husband, Milton. The philanthropist would read the New
York papers every day and write life-changing checks to ordinary citizens in
trouble, like Marla Hanson, the model whose face was slashed. Carroll Petrie,
who's given millions to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will
receive the hospital's Award for Excellence tomorrow night, along with IBM's
former CEO Louis Gerstner and Dr. Alan Houghton, who researches connections
between cancer and the immune system …
--David Lee Roth turned up with Playboy's busty Dahm Triplets, who were clad in
clingy turquoise Lycra jumpsuits, at the Mondrian Hotel's Skybar this week when
he and Sammy Hagar heralded their coming tour. Hagar came with five middle-aged
Midwestern fans who'd been waiting outside to see him …
ASSOCIATED PRESS...
--With a Sundance Film Festival prize for her breakout role in "Real Women Have
Curves," America Ferrera is being touted as one of Hollywood's next big stars.
But the teen-age actress doesn't have time to worry about such things. "I was
completely shocked and thrilled to be recognized with the award," said Ferrera,
who turned 18 on Thursday. "Right now, I'm preparing for my senior prom and
graduation." The youngest of six children, Ferrera plans to graduate from high
school in June and attend the University of Southern California on a
scholarship in the fall. "In terms of my acting career while I am attending
college, I plan to focus my interests on (television) movies-of-the-week and
feature films," she said. Her first acting role was on the Disney cable
channel's "Gotta Kick It Up," which will air in July. She also starred on stage
in "The Have-Little," at the Strasberg Theater in West Hollywood. "Real Women
Have Curves," will be shown on the HBO cable channel in October.
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WEIRD BUT TRUE/Clemente Lisi & NY Post Wire Services
--An avid driver has clocked a whopping 2 million miles in his beloved 1966
Volvo. Irv Gordon, 61, a retired Philadelphia schoolteacher, bought the sporty,
cherry-red Volvo P1800 for just $4,200 when he was 25. Since then, Gordon has
clocked a staggering 55,000 miles a year for the past 36 years. Gordon - who's
changed the car's oil approximately 660 times - said that the car has never
broken down and has never failed to start.
--A British man who spent 12 years looking for the father he barely knew found
him after a chance encounter in an Internet chat room. Wesley Harrison only
knew his father's name, that he worked as a chef, was Jewish and lived in
Canada. Harrison's parents split up when he was 3. He had not seen his dad
since the divorce. The 24-year-old was about to give up looking for dad Marc
Estrin when he came across a Canadian man in a chat room. Both recognized a
Calgary street address when it came up in conversation and decided to exchange
phone numbers. The number belonged to Estrin's brother, and, within a few days,
he was talking to his 51-year-old father.
--Don’t expect to see any itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny Malaysian bikinis this
summer. The Islamic government in the eastern region of Terengganu voted to ban
women from wearing the revealing bathing suit and from sharing swimming pools
with men. Wan Hassan Mohamad Ramli, the state’s tourism minister, said hotels
and resorts have been directed to build separate pools. He said the dress code
bans women from wearing bikinis and ordered them to dress "in accordance with
local cultural norms."
--Six people were burned at a college hangout in Iowa after bartenders set the
place on fire with rum - a stunt they learned while on vacation in Acapulco.
The bartenders at Et Cetera sent a stream of rum down the bar top and ignited
it - hoping to dazzle patrons with the stunt. But the flames raced up the arm
of a young woman sitting near the counter, setting her hands and face on fire.
The blaze then spread to another woman’s arm and a man’s shirt.
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