Stephen Solarz, the former Democratic congressman who made public the vastness of Imelda Marcos' shoe colleciton, has died of esophageal cancer.

Lindsay Lohan turns 23 today. Larry David is turning 62. Singer Michelle Branch is 26. High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale turns 24. The chairwoman of the New York City Opera, Susan Baker, is turning 59. Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Richard Axel turns 63. Former New Hampshire governor John Sununu is 69. Former model Jerry Hall is 53. Retired baseball player José Canseco turns 45. And Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines, celebrates her 80th birthday today.

NY Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams is interviewed in the February issue of Vanity Fair by George Wayne. Cindy talks about Imelda Marcos, her dog Jazzy, life without Joey, and her new book, complete with snippy but affectionate retorts to George ("you bitch.")