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Gala Suits Brace For Barbra
4 December 2008 9:35 AM, PST
The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, better have all hands on deck when Barbra Streisand comes to town for its 31st Annual Honors gala on Sunday.
Back in March of 2001, Streisand appeared at an "Innovators & Navigators" conference at the Bacara Resort in Santa Barbara sponsored by now-defunct Talk magazine. According to an event organizer, Babs drove hotel staff up the wall by making a number of outlandish requests in her contract rider.
"It was totally insane," says the source. "She requested that there be no oysters in her room at any time; that every square inch
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Ivanka's Working It
3 December 2008 11:05 PM, PST
'My Father always impressed upon me the idea that America is a meritocracy and that you must work for everything you get. I hope to share a positive perspective with the women of my generation," says Ivanka Trump, age 27.
Her motivational book comes from Simon & Schuster's Touchstone next autumn.
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Ussell Crowe is still working on losing the 50 pounds he gained when he co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in the Ridley Scott film "Body of Lies."
In February, the New Zealand star will begin filming "Nottingham" under Ridley's direction - a different look at the Robin Hood legend.
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By LIZ SMITH
A Day In The Life Of Dustin Hoffman
3 December 2008 11:04 PM, PST
Coming out this month is "Last Chance Harvey," starring Oscar win ners Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson with James Brolin and Eileen Atkins. So I asked if, when making a movie, Dustin has any special routine. He said:
"I live the same life every day. All the time. I go to bed 9 o'clock. Always wake up 4 in the morning, so I don't need an alarm clock. Make my own coffee,
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By CINDY ADAMS
It Specks For Itself
2 December 2008 10:39 PM, PST
I never knew dust could give me such pleasure. No, I don't snort the stuff; rather, I have had the plea sure of viewing the charming German documentary "Dust."
It seems that dust has gotten a bum rap. It isn't just something to be swept under the carpet. It is "a mixture of various particles which can have various forms, colors and sizes, and different physical and chemical characteristics."
Not only that, but when dust particles collide, they create planets. (Does that mean that Earth was once just a speck of dust?)
The doc is directed by 66-year-old Hartmut Bitomsky, a writer,
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By V.A. MUSETTO
3 Films Tied Atop Spirit List
2 December 2008 10:37 PM, PST
The dramedy "Rachel Getting Married" star ring Anne Hathaway, the border smuggling thriller "Frozen River" and the Mississippi family drama "Ballast" topped nominations for the Indie Spirit Awards yesterday.
Each had six nods, including best picture, best director and best actress. The awards, honoring independent films, will be handed out Feb. 21 in Santa Monica, Calif., on the eve of the Oscars.
A special award for best director, casting director and ensemble cast was won by Charlie Kaufman's quirky directing debut, "Synecdoche, New York," which also picked up three nominations,
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By LOU LUMENICK
BEYONCé Is Queen For A Movie Night
2 December 2008 10:33 PM, PST
Now, about Beyoncé's arrival at the AMC Loews Theater for the pre miere of her movie "Cadillac Re cords." There was her bodyguard - earpiece, phone, umbrella and whatever else he was packing - who could've called Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "Shorty." There were film p.r. reps and record p.r. reps, one male equerry to hold her hand as she stepped in, another to hold the train on her gown, a female buffer to designate those to whom she'd speak, plus her mother, plus husband Jay-z, who'd arrived alone 20 minutes earlier in natty dark suit,
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By CINDY ADAMS
Honchos Left Out In The Cold
2 December 2008 10:28 PM, PST
Paramount Vantage is off to a bad start hyping its expensive Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet flick, "Revolutionary Road," as an Oscar contender. On Monday, the studio so overbooked an industry screening at the AMC Loews 34th Street - featuring a live Q&A with Leo and Kate - that nearly 200 were turned away, one movie honcho told us. Those kept out included members of guilds representing actors, writers and producers, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, some of whom vote for Oscar nominees. "Scott Rudin,
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Sex Suit Hits Ex-met Shamsky
2 December 2008 10:26 PM, PST
The ex-wife of Art Shamsky claims the Mets legend gave her a sexually transmitted disease after repeatedly cheating on her with both men and women.
In a sordid lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Kim Shamsky says that during their 13-year marriage the famed outfielder and first baseman "engaged in acts of adultery with both men and women," without her knowledge. His romps included "acts of 'unprotected' sexual and deviate sexual intercourse," according to the suit.
The court papers state that Kim, suspecting her hubby was fooling around, submitted to a number of medical tests. After one examination, she was informed by
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Holiday DVD Picks
2 December 2008 2:10 PM, PST
The Post's Chief Film Critic Lou Lumenick presents 26 DVD Picks for the Holiday Season.
Columbia Pictures Best Picture Collection
Eleven complete features, with supplements, in an album showcasing "It Happened One Night,'' "On the Waterfront,'' "Lawrence of Arabia,'' "Kramer Vs. Kramer'' and 7 other multiple Oscar winners from the storied studio. (Sony, $136).
O-tay! All 88 sound "Our Gang'' comedies produced by Hal Roach, most restored, in their first authorized DVD collection. Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Darla and many other gifted child performers (including
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By LOU LUMENICK
Madge, A-rod Hunt Love Nest
2 December 2008 4:02 AM, PST
Madonna and Alex Rodriguez are quietly shopping for love nests on the Upper East Side and on the East End, sources told Page Six.
A knowledgeable real estate source tells us the kabbalah-crazed pop queen and the skirt-chasing power hitter are "discreetly looking at properties between Fifth and Park avenues, from just above 60th Street through the 80s.
"Madonna personally came to look at one house a couple of months ago, and Alex has been looking recently," the insider said. "We're talking about private, double-width mansions in the vicinity of $30 million to $60 million."
Madge and A-Rod are also interested in scoring a
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Jewelry In The Safe
2 December 2008 3:39 AM, PST
Learn Politeness from the impo lite," goes the Egyptian proverb.
What A week was the last week that boasted the name "November." I needed a rest cure before it ended. One of the nicest things was Tiffany's annual Christmas lunch in the famous store itself, where magazine and writing VIPs showed up on the fifth floor. President Michael Kowalski lifted a glass to us and explained why Tiffany isn't suffering as much as fellow retailers in the current down market. People will still, always and forever be getting engaged, signing up for wedding gifts, buying rings, necklaces and earrings, having baby showers,
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By LIZ SMITH
Memoir's Music Sounds Sweet
2 December 2008 12:48 AM, PST
Christopher Plummer has written "In Spite of Myself," a Knopf memoir. "Took eight years," he told me. "I maybe could've done it in two, but when you, thank God, get a job - you stop. By page 1,000, I figured I'll never finish but, eventually, you get on a roll and just do it. I wrote in pen, longhand, because I'm too old-fashioned to control computers and the Internet, so if I didn't like what I'd just done, I just crumpled up the whole page and started over."
The early names dropped run from Katharine Cornell ("she traveled
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By CINDY ADAMS
Unleashed Look At Racism's Bite
1 December 2008 10:38 PM, PST
It took a quarter of a cen tury, but the long-sup pressed racism drama "White Dog" has escaped from the Hollywood pound.
The titular canine is discovered by a young actress (Kristy McNichol, in over her head) who tries to manage his hostility by taking him for retraining to a pair of specialists - after the dog saves her from a rape. They tell her she's got a figurative as well as literal "white dog," spiritual heir to racist beasts trained by Southern slave owners to track down runaways.
The 1982 film, which is being
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By KYLE SMITH
Rough Skies For TV Man
1 December 2008 10:30 PM, PST
Michael Gelman, the famous producer - and sometime on-air personality - of "Live With Regis and Kelly," must have been glad to get back to work yesterday after a "flight from hell." Gelman, his wife, Laurie, and their kids were on JetBlue from Ft. Lauderdale to New York. "First we were delayed for several hours due to bad weather," our onboard spy said. "Then we had an incredibly bumpy and tumultuous ride because we kept getting stuck in other jets' tailwinds." The turbulence sickened some passengers - "like
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Rocker Wants Rent From Ex
1 December 2008 10:28 PM, PST
The bass player for hipster band the Raconteurs is a cheap layabout who is suing his ex-girlfriend for $10,000 in back rent. "Little" Jack Lawrence dated a woman known only as Kelly for a decade, friends of the ex-girlfriend say. "During that time she totally supported him and paid for everything," the pal added. "But the second he hit it big with the Raconteurs, he broke up with her and then tried to kick her out of the home she'd lived in for 10 years. He's despicable." To make matters worse, Lawrence has even hired lawyers to file suit against Kelly in Nashville,
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Harsh Read On Nude Kate
1 December 2008 10:37 AM, PST
Does "The Reader" trivialize the Holocaust? The upcoming Weinstein Co. movie, directed by Stephen Daldry, stars Kate Winslet as a Nazi concentration camp guard accused of incinerating 300 Jews, and is being pushed for Oscar consideration. But the images that will stick in some viewers' memories will be full-frontal sex scenes. After a recent screening for such intellectuals as John Guare, Frank McCourt and Bartle Bull, Daldry subjected himself to a Q&A, during which art critic Charlie Finch said,
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Fabulous Lady Stands Behind Sexiest Man
30 November 2008 11:28 PM, PST
The wife of the "sexiest man alive" Hugh Jackman on his new title: "Thank God the secret is finally out." On her husband's leaner years and first big break with "X-Men," she said: "He was even sexy then."
Her dress? "From an Australian designer named Alex Perry." Black feathered cocktail bag? "Given to me free at the Academy Awards years ago."
Actress Deborra-Lee Furness Jackman is a larger-than-life blonde. Cleavage, big; hugs to Aussie pals, big; black dress with oversize stand-up collar - big statement. A passerby snapped her photo.
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By CINDY ADAMS
Director Acts Like A Dope
30 November 2008 11:21 PM, PST
Director David Fincher is not helping his movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" with his imperious ways. "We are working our asses off trying to get Oscar nominations, and he is so abusive that it's crushing," said an insider at Paramount. "Whatever we do, it's not enough." After an La screening, Fincher was rude to John Goldwyn, who was running Paramount in the early '90s when the movie, based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first in development. After Goldwyn congratulated Fincher,
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Buckleys Loved And Loathed
30 November 2008 11:21 PM, PST
Christopher Buckley - whose famous parents, William F. and Pat Buckley, died within months of each other after 57 years of marriage - is coming out with a book about them, "Losing Mom and Pop," in May - and it isn't going to be all sweetness and light.
"Writing this book may have been simply a way of spending more time with my parents before finally letting them go," Buckley, 56, tells Vanity Fair's Bob Colacello in the magazine's January issue.
"I honestly had no intention of writing about them.
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