For Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/New Year’s Mindy did her husband Yankees president Randy Levine’s exhaustive historical genealogical ancestral sociological antediluvian DNA background.
Researching pre-civilization, to before the flood, to before Nathan’s hot dogs were discovered, to the RBIs of cave dwellers, she discovered — ready for it? — that on his mother’s side, Levine is related to Marie Antoinette!
True. Legit.
More baseball info. June 29 and 30, in London’s Olympic Stadium, is Major League Baseball’s first game in Europe. To hype the biggest rivalry, it’s the Yankees vs. the Red Sox.
Premium seats are 493 pounds. You figure it out in dollars. I’m a columnist, not an economist.
Two days. Two games. One night, one day. Night’s 6 p.m., which Fox airs at 1 p.m. in New York. Next day, 3 p.m. for ESPN’s Sunday 10 a.m. One problem’s housing.
Reserving enough hotel rooms.
But the big conundrum? Uniforms. For inexplicable reasons NYY’s the ��away” team. It means 55,000 screaming fans won’t see the world famous Yankees in their iconic pinstripes. Seeing them live, first time, in Blighty, dressed in those “away” pajama outfits? That beats London Bridge falling down.
Our Habsburg heir, Marie Antoinette’s blood relative, better he should stick whoever did this in a tumbrel.
Awarding dreamers
Leftovers from the Golden Globes: Bradley “Star Is Born” Cooper: “Trying anything new you’re taking a chance” . . . Emily “Mary Poppins” Blunt: “This role felt as risky as a marriage proposal” . . . Peter Farrelly used the phrase “common ground” in his acceptance speech. Ecstatic songwriter Mike Greenly’s song “Common Ground” is out, sung by Brit singer Sam Stevens.
PR guy: “Following awards time is when the not-so-great films, which until now were being held back, all get released.”
Booking it
America’s running out of bookshelves.
Now comes California Sen. Kamala Harris’ “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey” about “truths that unite us, and the struggle to act upon them.” Dickens, she’s not. Her literary tour luckily includes NYC.
It also includes her itch to scratch through the chorus-line looking to waltz into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Gone gov
Jim McGreevey, NJ’s former governor, was bounced by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop (whom some consider full of a lot of things). McGreevey’s worked for years to help former prisoners live law-abiding lives in a town where a previous mayor also got sentenced to prison.
So why’s he fired? He told me: “There’s only inconsistent and conflicting reasons.”
Devotees say maybe McGreevey should run for mayor.
Cat fight
More politics.
Nassau’s Comptroller Jack Schnirman headed his re-election donations request: “Talking right meow.”
And photos of cats hunting “the purr-fect napping spot” and that their finance goal might be a “cat-astrophe” and we’re “not kitten around here,” it read of “big plans to cat-nip corruption” and “thanks for all your paw-some support.”
Somebody . . . please . . . send him a saucer of milk.
A Republican about one Democratic wannabe: “He’s great. Really smart. He just opened the first Rolls-Royce agency — in Bangladesh.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.