So about that sly dog Snoop Dogg.
Javits Center held an affiliates convention — pop-uppers, spammers, Internet interstuff and all that jazz. Its Copacabana after-party hired Snoop to DJ.
This Dogg does not do his tricks cheap. We’re not talking rolling over and barking for a dish of Alpo. Fee for 45 minutes? $100,000.
Plus his private supertable. He travels with a posse larger than the Secret Service. That means feeding and hydrating his whole kennel, who apparently saw their last food bowl and water bowl six months earlier.
Despite a 45-minute booking, Snoop — dressed in fashionable signature dreads — stayed off his leash an extra 15 minutes and worked for an hour. Even cut the promoter a discount. Dogg did the gig for a cheapo bargain-basement rate of 50 percent off.
Minutes after he left the club turned into a wardrobe, hair and makeup pit for hundreds of actors.
Season 2 of “Billions,” co-creator Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Showtime TV drama based a little on Operation Preet Bharara’s operations, was filming down the street. It was three days around the clock with Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis and Co.
Plane to pasta
Fresh off a plane, Kartika, daughter of Indonesia’s late President Sukarno, headed for Second Avenue’s Primola. Owner Giuliano Zuliani’s pasta definitely beats Jakarta’s…
Stuff I’m not supposed to know: A-Rod’s been a lightning rod to many teammates. As Mother Nature opened up on him during his closing night, a certain Yank said: “Figures. Because with his drugging he peed on Mother Nature.”
‘Grand’ pup adoption nixed
Metro-North, bad. Metro-North, bad. Bad, bad Metro-North.
For Tuesday, Bideawee and the Glazier Group, which owns Michael Jordan’s the Steakhouse, planned National Dog Day. With 10 rescues needing homes during August’s “dog days,” Grand Central commuters en route from work could adopt a new furry family member.
Logistics long planned. Animal experts on hand.
Metro-North just declined approval. No explanation. Everyone, dismayed, was forced to cancel.
Metro-North, bad. Metro-North, bad. Bad, bad Metro-North.
Anchor in step
Lester Holt’s newscaster son Stefan, 29, is becoming a high-stepper. Daddy stepped up when Brian Williams misstepped, and it’s whispered his kid steps in when Chuck Scarborough, 72, steps out…
Billionaire Catsimatidis, all over the news as well as Australia when his Gristedes ice cream got stolen, says: “I didn’t get this much press when I ran for mayor.”
Ireland chides US
With Europe now broken, nobody so far fusses about Ireland — except over their beer — but the country’s newspapers are getting their Irish up anyhow.
Saying not only is America’s political system broken but, with how O’Bummer’s FBI chief and attorney general do those jobs, they’re writing that America’s justice system is now broken.
Adieu, brasserie
America’s classy dining is also broken.
It’s now ta-ta to the high-priced, high-style Chevalier French restaurant on West 53rd’s even higher-level Baccarat Hotel.
The restaurant just went poop. Very luxurious, very classy, it’s now very closed…
A thank you to the New York Times’ Jacob Bernstein for my mention in his piece about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats.”
The business of face-lifts, nose jobs, neck pulls, rump bumps, big breasts, small stomachs is making more money in Hollywood than movies. Those tucks are making bucks. LA just opened a drive-through plastic surgery clinic called Jiffy Boob.
Said only in New York, kids, only in New York.