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Cancer Has Not Impaired Patrick Swayze’s Judgement

Photo: Getty ImagesPatrick Swayze passed on playing a gay cheerleading coach in Fired Up for "creative reasons," not because he's sick. The script for Saturday's Inner Circle show at the Hilton had to be overhauled in light of Spitzergate. Tom Brady made a rare post–Super Bowl public appearance with Gisele at the opening of the Zegna store on Fifth Avenue. Anne Hathaway bought five bottles of absinthe and borrowed an absinthe fountain from a restaurant for a party she was hosting with her boyfriend Raffaello Folllieri. ABC may cancel Rachael Ray's show because of poor ratings. Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie shared an "uncomfortable silence" after being seated six feet apart from one another at a Cinema Society screening. Eva Longoria had an assistant run home to get her wedding ring because she didn't want to start a tabloid controversy at the opening of an L.A. restaurant. Big-shot Manhattan attorney Joe Tacopina and his three sons are skiing in the NASTAR National Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Girls Gone Wild sleazebag Joe Francis is out of jail and back to filming naked drunk girls. Yogi Berra thinks today's crop of baseball players is too self-obsessed. A couple renting Mikhail Baryshnikov's house in the Dominican Republic for their wedding celebration ended up burning his neighbor's house with an errant firework. Fat Joe and his crew beat up Brooklyn rapper Papoose and his D.J. in a North Carolina hotel room. British magazine publisher Jefferson Hack, Kate Moss's baby daddy, trashed a hotel in Milan during Fashion Week. Eighty-three-year-old Paul Newman didn't attend the twentieth anniversary of his Hole in the Wall Gang charity because of a bad back, but also maybe because he had surgery for cancer in January. Molly Sims allegedly demanded that an Austin club owner create a VIP section for her and her friends, pay her for appearing at a party, and comp her $8,000 tab. A friend of Chris Noth made a dirty toast to the actor's new son at '21.

Published: 2008-03-13
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Round Round

Photo: Charles Eckert/Polaris In a week in which a freak twister whipped through Brooklyn, downing trees and smashing cars, everything seemed like it was spinning, starting with the MTA PR department after the same tornado-producing storm washed out the subway system. (They blamed the city’s clogged drains.) Thrice-married adulterer Rudy Giuliani talked in circles when asked if he considers himself a “traditional Catholic”; his daughter Caroline sent heads whirling by linking to a Barack Obama booster site on her Facebook page. Team Obama played down reports that its candidate had pulled a 180 by backing out of a fund-raiser at midtown’s extremely Caucasian Harmonie Club. Mayor Bloomberg, who quit the Harmonie before running for mayor, was called for jury duty downtown and didn’t seem too upset about being blackballed from an asbestos case.Nightstick-twirling traffic cops were busted writing bogus parking tickets to cover up their laziness. The man accused of strangling his girlfriend in her NYU apartment was caught in an Upper West Side supermarket after he tried to slit his wrists. Six Hasidic fishermen lost in a fog off Long Island thanked G-d after being rescued. The Times dropped one and a half inches and announced plans to shed TimesSelect, and the Post was left to break the story that some city women opted to go commando even on National Underwear Day. An air passenger en route to La Guardia snuck a marmoset through security and onto his flight by employing the old monkey-in-the-hat trick. Yankees fans went ape on Atlanta Braves slugger Chipper Jones after he wondered whether in the future people might suspect A-Rod of using steroids. And a 21-year-old Mets fan from Queens on his way to Australia stopped over in San Francisco and contorted his body just enough to catch Barry Bonds’s 756th-home-run ball. Meanwhile, the stock market’s whirlwind romance with 14,000 ended abruptly with a 387-point drop on Thursday —

Published: 2007-08-10
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Ivana Trump Defends Her Great, Semi-Absentee Love

The happy couple. Photo: Getty ImagesIvana Trump claims that she and husband Rossano Rubicondi are still in love, despite the fact that they've barely been spotted in public together since their wedding, 69 days ago. Beastie Boy Adam Yauch says his favorite childhood memory is shooting bottle rockets at the guys in the porno theater near his Brooklyn home. MTV shot a reality show starring Tinsley Mortimer, but canned it because it's totally boring. Toby Young says it's pretty unlikely that Graydon Carter will run a nice piece about the movie version of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People when it comes out. Alec Baldwin has come out against the horse-carriage trade in New York. Wayne Gretzky called Vogue intern and New York Ranger Sean Avery "the Charles Barkley of hockey." Senator Chuck Schumer plays himself on Law and Order: Criminal Intent this Sunday.Oprah's best friend, Gayle King, recommended James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning on Good Morning America, which is odd given how Oprah handled Frey when he was on her show. Mike Myers made interns go get him Silk nondairy creamer, Twizzlers, and raspberry seltzer while he was waiting backstage on Conan O'Brien. Molly Sims's dog had to be admitted to a veterinary hospital because it either ate too much sand or drank too much salt water out on the South Fork. (The dog's okay.) Jeremy Piven attempted to pick up Megan Fox with the line, "I don't know you, but I should." (It didn't work.) Matt Dillon danced with customers at Sofrito restaurant, while ex-Knick Patrick Ewing cheered. Two Maxim models who are twins walked off the set of Catherine Zeta-Jones's new movie, The Rebound, after director Bart Freundlich insisted they wear really skimpy, see-through bathing suits. Ultimate Fighting champ Chuck Liddell proposed to his girlfriend, Erin Wilson. Liza Minnelli tells Cindy Adams she lost 45 pounds just by dancing.

Published: 2008-06-20
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Port of Call

Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/PolarisGas prices remained astronomical and American Airlines debuted a $15-per-suitcase surcharge, but that didn't matter to the thousands of Fleet Week sailors who floated into town wearing white (to mark the arrival of Memorial Day, probably). Hillary Clinton, fresh from an invigorating Tuesday in Kentucky, prepared to pack up husband Bill and her $20-million-in-campaign-debt baggage for a Florida confab of Democratic leaders. Barack Obama would not publicly declare himself the Dem nominee; his booster Ted Kennedy didn't let the diagnosis of a brain tumor stop him from sailing at Hyannis Port. John McCain tried to stay (metaphorically) aboard the Straight Talk Express while explaining how the Iraq war could be won by 2013. Former state First Lady Silda Wall Spitzer gave a showstopping solo turn at a charity event; husband Eliot surfaced, in a way, as the inspiration for a gov-love story line on Law & Order. Governor Paterson underwent emergency eye surgery to stop migraines caused by glaucoma. Staten Island congressman Vito Fossella backed off his reelection plans to “concentrate on healing the wounds that I have caused to my wife and family.” (He declined to specify which family.) Arbitrators granted city police a 10 percent raise, while the NYPD announced that the three cops cleared in the Sean Bell shooting faced possible dismissal from the force. A purse snatcher who'd terrorized subway riders was nabbed in a homeless shelter. JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon promised to keep 45 percent of Bear Stearns' employees. Rupert Murdoch installed lieutenant Robert Thomson as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. Katie Holmes scheduled a Broadway run in Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Mets manager Willie Randolph blamed racism for negative press, then apologized. The Brooklyn Bridge celebrated its 125th birthday with fireworks. And the once-condemned Saint Brigid's Church on Avenue B found salvation — after being touched b

Published: 2008-05-23
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What the ... ?

Photo: Joshua Lott/ReutersAnchor Sue Simmons talked her way into the headlines last week by dropping the F-bomb during a live promo for WNBC’s eleven-o’clock news, but foul language could be heard all around. Hillary Clinton’s shrinking band of supporters emitted a collective WTF? when her 41-point victory over Barack Obama failed to regain her any traction toward the Democratic nomination. (John Edwards’s subsequent endorsement of Obama elicited four-letter reactions.) GOP candidate John McCain, known to swear like a retired naval officer, came to town to do Saturday Night Live. Hooker booker Temeka Lewis promised to share dirty details about former governor Eliot Spitzer with the Feds as part of a plea bargain. Multitasking Staten Island congressman Vito Fossella continued to insist he’d run for reelection despite getting busted for drinking, driving, and having a secret family. Former Jersey governor Jim McGreevey pleaded poverty in the trial to divorce Dina Matos McGreevey, claiming he’d purchased furniture at a Huffman Koos closeout sale. Four city officials were alleged to have taken $1 million in bribes from busing companies hauling special-ed students. Tishman Speyer and the MTA scrapped their billion-dollar deal to develop the West Side rail yards. A master of disguise knocked over local banks dressed as a rabbi or Indiana Jones. In the Heights and August: Osage County pulled in armfuls of Tony nominations. Eloise’s portrait returned to its place of honor at the Plaza. Francis Bacon’s massive Triptych sold for $86 million at Sotheby’s, quelling fears of an art-world recession. Li’l Boss Hank Steinbrenner threatened to bring the hammer down if Joe Girardi didn’t start winning some games. Mike D’Antoni was introduced as the new Knicks coach. MTV rolled out plans to shoot The Real World: Brooklyn. Rapper Remy Ma’s jailhouse nuptials were postponed when her fiancé tried to sn

Published: 2008-05-16
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Differences of Opinion

Photo Illustration: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty ImagesWhile political watchers spent last week looking ahead to primaries in Ohio and Texas, the candidates engaged in a serious debate — over a photo of Barack Obama wearing Somali clothing. (An Obama staffer claimed Hillary Clinton had leaked the shot to make him look Islamic; Clinton’s campaign manager said no one had claimed the photo was “divisive” until Obama and his new friend at the Post played it up.) Latecomer Ralph Nader, unsafe at any speed as far as most liberals are concerned, moseyed into the presidential race. Connecticut senator Christopher Dodd backed Obama; Jersey governor Jon Corzine rushed to aid the Clintons in Cleveland. Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz landed at the top of a poll of Democratic mayoral hopefuls. A stripper named Marseilles Payne testified that police who shot Sean Bell outside Club Kalua never identified themselves as such. North Koreans applauded the New York Philharmonic’s performance of An American in Paris. (The axman of evil, playboy dictator Kim Jong Il, invited Eric Clapton to follow the Philharmonic to Pyongyang.) Mayor Bloomberg declared war against vendors selling $10 Coach bags on Canal Street as police raided 32 stores in Chinatown; he also declared, finally, that he really, truly won’t run for president. The city rolled out competing plans for apartments overlooking the trash-strewn Gowanus Canal and proposed a Coney Island boardwalk built from recycled materials. Manhattan prosecutors dropped cop-slap charges against bikini-photo-sharing Philadelphia newsreader Alycia Lane. An NYPD officer’s wife who admitted to adultery on national TV said she wanted to reconcile. Jerry Seinfeld's lawyers insisted that his wife’s litigious cookbook rival, Missy Chase Lapine, simply didn’t get the joke when he compared her to Mark David Chapman. Roger Clemens fell behind in the count when trying to explain his attendance a

Published: 2008-02-29
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Steve Aoki Is Much Happier Now That He Quit World of Warcraft

Photo: WireImageName: Steve Aoki. Job: D.J., designer, Benihana heir, and celebrity friend. Aoki will be spinning this Saturday night at Room Service. Age: 29. Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Malcolm X. What's the best meal you've eaten in New York? Cabana. In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job? Run a record label, clothing line, and studio time when I'm in L.A.Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary? Yes, but in Brooklyn. What's the last thing you saw on Broadway? Blue Man Group, 12 years ago. Do you give money to panhandlers? Only if I'm up from private poker games. I play all over the city. What's your drink? H20. Fuck alcohol! How often do you prepare your own meals? I make the best tofu pasta I've ever had. Last time I made it was last year. What's your favorite medication? Sleep. What's hanging above your sofa? A Malcolm X poster and a Bruce Lee poster. How much is too much to spend on a haircut? 40 bucks. When's bedtime? I'm trying to figure that out. Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square? Old Times Square had more peep shows. What do you think of Donald Trump? I like his hair weave. What do you hate most about living in New York? The one thing I've noticed about NYC is the separation between Brooklyn and the city. City kids don't come to Brooklyn that much and Brooklyn kids don't really come to the city. Besides not seeing friends that live in Brooklyn that much, I don't hate that much. Who is your mortal enemy? Well as of two years ago it was World of Warcraft. But I got rid of it and I'm much happier. When's the last time you drove a car? An hour ago. Who should be the next president? Obama. Times, Post, or Daily News? Times. Where do you go to be alone? Airplanes. I put on my eye mask and ear plugs and I'm out for the count. What makes someone a New Yorker? Their accent. Or that they hate L.A.

Published: 2008-02-22
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Ian Schrager Is Kind of ‘Meh’ on the New Royalton Lobby

Photo: Getty ImagesWe're kind of falling in love with Lloyd Grove's rambling, sprawled interviews with business celebrities on Portfolio.com. This week, he sits down with Ian Schrager, who is two years into his massive partnership with Bill Marriot, the hospitality king, to build 100 chic hotels worldwide. Below, we've selected some of our favorite moments with the man who brought you the Delano, the Hudson, the Royalton, the Shore Club, the new Gramercy Park Hotel, 40 Bond Street, and that little club he used to run in the late seventies… • On the destruction of his legendary Philippe Starck lobby in the Royalton Hotel by his Morgans successors, who replaced it with a dark-amber jewel box this year: Uh, you know, I think it's nice. Um, I can't second-guess what those guys had in mind. I had no emotional attachment to it, quite frankly. But I think from a business point of view, I would've done something different. But I don't know what criteria they were using and why they did it. And I think it was a very risky move … But basically we liked to think that what we did was classic and timeless and would stay, even though it was incredibly provocative. I mean, I've never changed any of my other lobbies. • On his surprise about the legend that Studio 54 has become: It is a myth. I think people remember things better than the real thing. • On his and partner Steve Rubell's fall from greatness after the tax-evasion scandal that killed Studio 54: Well, we think we were good guys who got intoxicated and lost our way, did something stupid. You know, we were guys from Brooklyn, didn't have any money, we kept our values intact, and we remained friends with the same people. We loved our parents and family. But we just got intoxicated with the whole thing and did stupid things. I think we're proof that the system works. • On his fellow hotelier and sometime competitor André Balazs: Good. He does a good job, a credible job. I think for the

Published: 2007-11-16
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