January 25, 2009

'TRUTH' IS, DIRECTOR HAS BOLTED

FAMED "Exorcist" director William "Billy" Friedkin has just walked out of the La Scala operatic production of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," citing "creative differences" with the script by Pulitzer-nominated...

TABLE FOR TWO

IS Kirsten Dunst (above) getting cozy with Josh Hartnett again? They've been linked to each other on and off for a year, and a Page Six spy saw them at...

TOWER OF POWER

ALTHOUGH real estate values are plummeting almost everywhere, apartments at 740 Park Ave. "continue to command premium prices," according to the National Post of Canada, and Michael Gross takes credit...

SPIKE'S SOIREE

ONE of the better parties after the in auguration of Barack Obama was the "Welcome to 1600" party at the Jose phine, hosted by Spike Lee and night life impresario...

COVER CHANGES

PENGUIN sure knows how to tart up a book. Last year, its Viking division published "No Man's Land," Cambridge-educated Ruth Fowler's memoir about arriving in New York to be a...

MUY CALIENTE

LIKE todo el mundo, chic young Mexican expatriates in Manhattan are loco about el presidente. The other night they gathered at MaÑana restaurant for a feast they called Obama Te...

MY HELLISH RIDE TO HISTORY

IN tune with today's consciousness, some joke writer sent me the follow ing: She was only a politician's daughter, but she said yes on every proposition. She was only a...

RESPECT A LEGEND ( & HER HAT)

'DOES ANYBODY still wear a hat?" sings the Elaine Stritch character, in the Stephen Sondheim musical "Company." Oh, yes, a very important "somebody" still wears a hat, and it became...

SAPPHIC SAGA

SMITH College is a hothouse of unbridled female sexuality. At least that's the idea readers will get in Smith alum J. Courtney Sullivan's debut novel, "Commencement," out in June. In...

STARS SHARE IN SWAG SWEEP

WE'VE told you about all the D-listers scrambling for free stuff at Sundance, but behind the scenes, big Hollywood names also stocked up on stuff. Cameron Diaz, who's skiing in...

OBAMA CAN'T SAVE MAGS

THE year 2008 wasn't grim for magazine sales, but it was great for Barack Obama. Time featured the new president on its cover a staggering 13 times, while Newsweek put...