·Continuing his three part series on Rebecca Romijn s Four Seasons lunch, where he was apparently hiding in the center piece amongst the azaleas and perennials, Lloyd Cherry Grove reveals yet another tidbit from Romijn s conversation with Oprah interior decorator, Nate Berkus: Boyfriend Jerry O Connell gets acupuncture on his precious cockparts. [Lowdown]
A 7 months pregnant Denise Richards has changed the locks to her and Charlie Sheen's San Fernando Valley home, according to Us Weekly. Lawyers for each side have "signed an agreement that said Charlie would stay away," a source says. "She is focusing on her family's well-being." Meanwhile, a Sheen pal is said to have purchased a stripper pole for Sheen's house parties. Oh, this is fantastic. Anyone else wish they could have been out with Charlie the night after Denise filed for divorce? He should have auctioned off a spot as "Sheen wingman" on eBay. As for the "family's well-being," frankly, we don t quite understand how the first kid turned out okay. The man s bloodtype is, like, XXX. Needless to say, the odds are against them with the second one. So the question is, exactly how many heads is this baby going to have? We have 3 in the Gawker office pool. —NH
"There's something eerie about Paris Hilton," says the Daily News this fine morning, introducing an exegesis of her utterances in an attempt to answer the cosmic question: Serious or Serious Ditz? Actually, there's something eerie about anyone anyone spending that much time thinking about her. And then there's Liz Smith on the alleged ruputure between Paris and the newly svelte Nicole ("She looks better than Paris now") Richie :
· Melania Trump to appear in Aflac Advertisement. Don't really know what to do with this information. [Yahoo! News]
· Boston groupies are blaming Carlos D. of Interpol for the spate of Herpes in the area. "This is wicked retahded," says one victim of the Herp. [PopBitch]
· Anne Hathaway: Nesting, apparently. [GoFugYourself]
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The film's enthusiastic publicist, Cynthia Walker.
Architect Charles Gwathmey's took critic Paul Goldberger's review of his first residential tower in this week's New Yorker rather well, don't you think?—MG
We re not going to dispute the fact that most men are in need of sartorial assistance. That s always been the case. Remember the Pilgrims and those weird oversized blouse collars they wore? They looked like they were putting on bibs before hitting Red Lobster. However, we re skeptical about Conde Nast's forthcoming Men's Vogue. From Women's Wear Daily (notice how there's no Men's Wear Daily?):
· When life gives you lemonade, throw that shit on other people. Foxy Brown did during a recent recording session. [R&M]
· Mel Brooks, the producer of The Producers, doesn t like the way the director is directing his movie. This is the part where we pretend to care: Aaaand ACTION! [Page Six]
· Kim Cattrall and David Schwimmer? Anyone else just throw up in their mouth a little? [Lowdown]
· Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson dropped $1 million a 1,200-square foot condo at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Has views of the Vegas strip and a big closet where Joe Simpson can watch his daughter undress. [Page Six]
· Martha Stewart Living's first quarter numbers are down. See, we told her she should have agreed to do "MTV Cribs: Martha s Cell" to give her some street cred. [NYDN]
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"are you guys for real?" writes a correspondent who styles himself cinephilia and is apparently still too young to reach the shift key.
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The peripatetic social diarist David Patrick Columbia left the coddled safety of lunch at Michael's earlier this week and journeyed downtown to check out the hot 'n' happening scene at R. Couri Hay's 25th birthday party (and he's never looked better, above) and then stop in for some after-party action at Bungalow 8. Sadly, the best-laid plans won't always get you laid.
Since we have no lawyers and no conscience whatsoever, here's the latest installment of Blind Item Guessing Game. You know the drill: You guess, we post. Holla back!
What s crappenin , people? Just a reminder that Gawker editor Jessica Coen is in the tropics abusing men and illegal substances, so this week it s Michael Gross and Noelle Hancock leading you astray. Thanks so much for all of your emails. A few things: 1) If we want to listen to bitching we ve got the voices in our head. However, if you ve got tips, celebrity sightings, and a working relationship with your sanity, send em our way to tips@gawker.com. 2) To answer your question, no, we don t think we re better than everyone else, we are better, especially considering one of us shares a name with the dude who played Mr. Keaton on Family Ties (we d still do Meredith Baxter, by the way). On that note, we ve tied our naked lady mudflaps to the backs of our laptops and are ready to roll. And away we go —NH
On Thursday, April 21, lawyers for 16-year-old Christopher Spaide and his parents, Drs. Richard and Chang Spaide, filed suit against the Dalton School for "arbitrarily and capriciously" suspending the high-school sophomore after he wrote a series of controversial "minutes" for a February student-government meeting. The suit alleges that the minutes which the young Mr. Spaide wrote in his capacity as secretary of the student government were intended as nothing more than playful "attempts at wit and satire." And it accuses the school of "irreparably" harming Mr. Spaide, demanding that Dalton expunge any reference to the scandal from his record.
A plan to alter Washington Square, add a five-foot-high fence to close the park at night, and move and remove trees and popular attractions, is the latest fracas pitting Greenwich Village residents against their ber-neighbor, New York University. The fifty-year conflict has seen buildings demolished, tenants evicted, roads vanish from city maps, public land disappear and even a bizarre scheme to dome the historic park. More recently, N.Y.U. tried to close several more streets around the park—almost all lined with N.Y.U buildings—to extend its "campus-like area." So the Greenwich Village Block Associations are howling along with the dogs in the square's soon-to-be-relocated dog runs. They say:
Steve Schwarzman and Rupert Murdoch may live in New York's most expensive co-op apartments, but their Manhattan Gold Coast neighborhood leaves a little something to be desired, say the folks at Forbes, which lists the zip codes with the nation's most expensive housing. Top of the heap (based on median home prices) is Atherton, California, the 740 Park of Silicon Valley. California takes the four top spots on the list while New York doesn't even make the Top Ten. It's Tribeca (10013), in thirteenth place, that wins the honors for costliest 'hood in the city. Tribeca Film Festival-goers will be happy to note that Beverly Hills follows at number fifteen. And the high-falutin' Upper East Side? Zip codes 10128 and 10028 come in at 149th and 150th place respectively. Eat your heart out 10021.—MG
Most Expensive ZIP Codes 2005 [Forbes]
In the spirit of letting the readers do all the work, here's your latest creeptastic celebrity sightings, including more news on Minnie Driver's low ATM balance (hey, we ain't gonna 'front — we don't even have a checking account) and an encounter with Andrew ("What about prom, Blaine!?") McCarthy. Got more? Send 'em to tips@gawker.com...
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