September 18, 2008
"Top Design" Worth A Second Chance
What caused this phoenix-like resurrection? Most importantly, the show started thinking outside the box - literally. Gone are the oversize shoeboxes our interior designers were saddled with decorating last year;...
"ANTM" Makeover Awards!
Best in ShowI'm still totally unclear on why Miss J called Elina's makeover a first in "Top Model" history - because the bold style actually ended up looking good? -...
Happy Birthday Jada!
In honor of today, Jada Pinkett-Smith's 37th birthday, I decided to bring you a little something special.While Jada was promoting "The Women," I asked about her directorial debut, "The Human...
Exclusive "Smallville" Spoilers!
PW: Do you think Lois knows the truth deep down somewhere?Erica: Sometimes I wonder if she's just letting him have this side that he clearly doesn't want to talk about....
Anna Faris Hosting "SNL!"
Now this is some seriously brilliant news: Anna Faris is going to host "Saturday Night Live" on Sept. 27. Scorchingly hot off "The House Bunny" - which is only worth...
An Open Letter to Kenley
Secondly, while it's important to be confident in your designs, the look of utter disbelief on your face last night when Jerell was named the winner was just gross. Quit...
Adam Wears Everything on His Sleeve
There are few Jews who rock - Bob Dylan, Perry Farrell, David Lee Roth, Shlomo Carlebach - so I try to stay up-to-date on my chosen brethren, like Adam Levine....
Willa is "Gossip's" New Girl
Despite telling Pop Wrap only two months ago that she had no plans to return to television - "It's not on my current plan right now. I enjoyed "The O.C."...
Viggo, The Scourge of Carpathia
D'ya ever find that sometimes it's near impossible to rid yourself of the random mental associations you have for an actor? For example:Renee Zellweger = "Sugar High"Eminem = my breezy...
NAUGHTY PRODUCT PLUGS
GEORGE Clooney has sparked a sex-toy craze. In the Coen brothers' film "Burn After Reading," Clooney plays a sex addict who totes along marital aids, including two items called "The...
UNTIMELY LEAK
JOYCE Maynard was madly in love with her breast implants until the day they sprung a leak. "Perched on my 110-pound frame was a pair of size 40 breasts. I...
LEHMAN HEIRESS' LATE LAMENT
LADY Sharon Sondes - the Lehman Brothers heiress whose mother was hostess Ellen Lehman McCluskey - was as stunned as anyone Monday when the firm collapsed. "I feel very nostalgic....
LUNATIC 'LOU'
ED Asner, 78, has harsh words for Americans who made him rich by watching "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Lou Grant." Asner, who is to the left even of Sean Penn...
CALL OF THE BUTT
MAURA Tierney will stoop pretty low to satisfy her 20-year cigarette habit. "When I can't have one, I'm [bleep]ed," the "ER" star tells next month's Glamour. "I've found myself doing...
GARRETT'S GIRL HAS TRYING PAST
BRAD Garrett's secret girlfriend is a divorcée who was a major figure in the Anthony Pellicano case, sources say. The former co-star of "Everybody Loves Raymond" has a Web-site reality...
MONICA RETURNS
MONICA Lewinsky is now a cartoon character. In "The Alcoholic," a new graphic novel by Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspie, a booze-addled writer meets the Portly Pepperpot at a book...
LANSKY REVIVED
MEYER Lansky's untold secrets are about to be spilled. Sandi Lansky, 70 - daughter of the notorious racketeer who ruled America's biggest crime syndicate with Lucky Luciano - has inked...
TIMELY BAUBLES
VALENTINO Garavani has retired from designing, but not from shopping. Yesterday, he popped into Jacob & Co. on East 57th Street and paid full retail ($15,200) for a silver titanium...
LAWYER BEATS BLACK MAGIC
DOMINICK Barbara says he won't be intimidated by Criss Angel's magic spells. Earlier this year, the magician boasted he'd make the celebrity divorce attorney, who's representing Angel's wife, Joanne Sarantakos,...
TATTOO ENCORE
WHERE should Meghan McCain get her next tattoo? John McCain's daughter, 23, already has a tiny blue star on her foot. Spies overheard Meghan, author of the new Simon &...
SPIRITUAL MECCA
PERIPATETIC playwright Larry Myers recently visited Lily Dale - the upstate town near Lake Erie "dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism since 1879." Myers then wrote a play, "Postmark: Lily...
CATFIGHT CAN'T STOP 'EMPRESS'
THE book "Empress Bianca" deals with two husbands who appear to have gone bye-bye under mysterious cir cumstances. In 2005, this work became a cause célébre when Lily Safra, married...
LIBERACE THE OPTIMIST
'DEPARTING SUMMER hath assumed / An aspect tenderly illumed/The gentlest look of spring / That calls from younger leafy shade / Unfaded, yet prepared to fade / A timely caroling!"...