April 18, 2001

A MATTER OF BRIDE

AFTER being turfed out as CEO of his family's ritzy Barneys, Gene Pressman is attempting a comeback as a kind of hired gun. "Even though I crashed, I'm back," Gene...

L.A. IS A 'PARTY' TOWN

HOPEFUL Democrats are still descending on Los Angeles, where the rich liberals live. Yesterday morning, Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, gave a breakfast at the...

CAROLINE BRINGS CAMELOT TO MET

THERE won't be a dry eye at the Met Museum Monday night when Caroline Kennedy rises to address the fashionable crowd at the Costume Institute's annual gala. The place will...

FULL-FRONTAL FUND-RAISER

OUR moralistic Mayor Rudy probably won't be surprised to learn that the very liberal Mark Green, the leading Democratic candidate to replace him, is having a fund-raiser tonight at the...

HEF-TY CRITICISM

BIRTHDAY boy Hugh Hefner (75 this week) isn't going to like the note a former lover has penned to the May issue of Vanity Fair. Signing herself "S. Franz, Seattle,...

FUR-OCIOUS ATTACK ON STARS

JUST in time for the Costume Institute revels, PETA is coming out with its first-ever worst-dressed list. It's topped by TV's Star Jones. "[She] claims that the first thing she'd...