June 21, 2009
CHRIS DUHON GIVES JILL ZARIN GOLF LESSON
"REAL Housewife" Jill Zarin made Knicks point guard Chris Duhon duck for cover while he gave her a golf lesson at Chelsea Piers in preparation for the Hamptons Golf Classic...
HEY, STARS! WHO'S YOUR DADDY?
FATHER'S Day. Nice. Everyone should have a father. I'm told they're nice things to have. I wouldn't know. I had two, but neither played a role in my life. The...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN'S FAMILY WARMS UP TO RACHEL BILSON
RACHEL Bilson is already part of fiancé Hayden Christensen's family. Christensen's maternal grandparents and Bilson's grandmother joined the couple in Cape May, NJ, last week. Our spy at the Virginia...
GAYS ANGRY AT 'BRUNO'
"BRUNO" is raising gays' temperatures to the boiling point. Despite Universal Pictures' claim that the movie lampoons homophobia, the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy, opening July 10, has activists up in...
DAD'S WISDOM FOR TIGER WOODS
TIGER Woods still listens to his father, who died in 2006. Woods, who slogged through an opening-round 74 at the US Open in Bethpage, tells Fortune magazine in its "The...
KANYE WEST'S MODEST MUSIC MAN
FAME has gone to notoriously cocky Kanye West's head, but it hasn't quite trickled down to the newest artist he's backing, Mr. Hudson. During a small soiree at The Spotted...
MEMOIR: TRUMAN CAPOTE'S TORTURED LIFE
TRUMAN Capote was a great writer, but he was also a tortured one. In his upcoming memoir about life in New York in the 1960s and '70s, Edmund White recalls...
TOUGH AUDIENCE FOR JETS QB MARK SANCHEZ
JETS first-round draft pick Mark Sanchez, who just signed a five-year, $50 million contract, is learning quickly he'd better be good. At the Samsung Four Seasons of Hope gala the...
DWIGHT HOWARD WORKING ON MOVIE
ORLANDO Magic star Dwight Howard is working with "The Ring" executive producer Michele Weisler on a movie titled "Switch," about a "white, unathletic, unpopular high-school freshman who swaps basketball skills...
RECENT ALLIES PEDRO ESPADA, STANLEY SCHLEIN HAD FISTFIGHT
THE recent alliance of controversial Bronx lawyer Stanley Schlein and turncoat state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. has pol-watchers howling. "A few years ago, those two had a bloody fistfight in...
STEPHANOPOULOS DUCKY DAD OF THE YEAR
GEORGE Stephanopoulos, just named Father of the Year by the National Father's Day Committee, said he was certain the title would be revoked due to a recent radio broadcast from...
ART CRITIC PULLS NO PUNCHES
MICHAEL Gross interviewed art critic Charlie Finch for "Rogues Gallery," Gross' book about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and thanked Finch in the acknowledgments -- but then he made the...