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Cindy Adams

  • Damon lives a dream

    That snowy, awful blizzardy night Cinema Society hosted Universal's "Green Zone." Boy, was it not green. The screening was 7:30. Matt Damon, I was told would show 6:45. Sweet, easy, affable, friendly, just not...  

    March 01, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Colds, I catch! Breaks? Never!

    I have written before about having a rotten cold. I now write again about having a rotten cold. And why is that? Because I have one again, that's why. I'm feeling lousy. And I see no per centage in suffering...  

    February 28, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Celeb$ who gamble

    WILL Albany's coneheads pay atten tion to what they're losing while they dither and dicker about this gambling racino thing? John Cusack: "A hot hand with dice is my idea of heaven. I can't describe it. Anyone who...  

    February 26, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Quentin's not hiding

    It's coming up Oscars. It's coming up Quentin Jerome Tarantino of "Ing lourious Basterds" fame. Born 1963, the Tennessee-born high school dropout has an Oscar, a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d'Or awards, and he's been...  

    February 25, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Opposite pair attracts fame

    Bruce Willis -Tracy Morgan movie "Cop Out" had its shout-out Monday night. In person, the diametric opposites were diametrically opposite. Tracy, hot. Bruce, cool. Tracy banging pals on the back. Bruce, pecking them...  

    February 24, 2010 12:00 AM
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    Not like any gossip columnist I know

    The root of the word gossip is "gospel." In fact, the first four gossips were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. So gossip has been around since the beginning of time. Unfortunately, "Mr. & Mrs. Fitch," the new play about...  

    February 23, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Peers humble actor

    C hristoph Waltz of "Inglourious Basterds" is so hot you can burn your fingers just touching his résumé. He called two seconds after he heard I wanted to speak with him. Jeremy Renner of "The Hurt Locker," who's 11...  

    February 22, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Oh those demented decorators!

    We speak of the joys of home reno vation. I am now living in what re sembles down town Baghdad. Friends suggested decorators. One super-refined type, making it plain that if the economy hadn't tanked he'd never...  

    February 21, 2010 12:00 AM
  • 'I got involved in my own celebrity. It's arrogance. You think above the law.' - Kerik

    The round dining-room table in the handsome New Jersey home featured veal Milanese, pasta with shrimp, Mediterranean salad. Two darling little girls with wet hair chattered to Mom and Dad about their swimming class....  

    February 19, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Sadie's one hot dog

    While Sadie the Scottie, West minster's Best in Show, hit yes terday's talk-show circuit, I spoke to her parents. And what personal goodie did Sadie get for winning this huge prize? "A hot dog," said Dan Musser. "She...  

    February 18, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Actor waltzing toward Oscar

    So where was "Inglourious Basterds" Oscar nominee Christoph Waltz when he heard: "In bed in LA. Sound asleep. And it took me forever to fall asleep. I was actually afraid to listen. My wife was listening. And...  

    February 17, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Oscar virgin excited

    C arey Mulligan is up for a first-time Best Actress Oscar. In fact, she's up for a first-time Oscar period. She's a hot 24. Soon out in "Wall Street 2," she's actually up for her work in "An Education." When we...  

    February 16, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Gotham's funny gals

    So this Judy Twersky p.r. lady says I must go down to the Gotham Com edy Club, 23rd between Seventh and Eighth. I say, Why'd I want to do that?" She says: Because Marion Grodin's doing stand-up tonight." I say, "What...  

    February 15, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Timeless tales from the heart

    It's Valentine's Day. In Ancient Rome, St. Valentine per formed marriages for the soldiers of Emperor Claudius, who'd banned the rite because he did not want emo tional ties that could make his troops less bold in...  

    February 14, 2010 12:00 AM
  • First kiss, then tell

    SUNDAY'S Valentine's Day. Take your beloved to lunch. If you're be lovedless, take somebody else. Any body. With a fresh bagel and cream cheese, you could even get me. Usher's first kiss was at 12, but it was sloppy...  

    February 12, 2010 12:00 AM
  • This fashion is high

    On Tuesday, France's superluxury Hermés opened a shop for gents here. Men's Wearhouse it isn't. You shouldn't think Joseph A. Bank. And forget American Eagle Outfitters. Custom suits can run, give or take a few bucks,...  

    February 11, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Lake of the valley

    Lake Bell is not a summer resort. It's a 5-foot-8 brunette stunner who's in that Meryl Streep-Alec Baldwin- Steve Martin thing "It's Complicated" and come Sunday stars in HBO's new series "How To Make It in America."...  

    February 10, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Denzel finally fit for 'Fences'

    New Yorker Scott Rudin, who dove into showbiz at 16, became a casting director then a 20th Century Fox president, is so prolific that in 10 years there's two maybe three plays and/or films he hasn't produced. When not...  

    February 09, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Janes in good spirits

    Tonight's a party for "Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart," a book about Jane Austen. Jane Seymour's the host. So, why? "Because going back to England, Bath, that beautiful spa city steeped in history, dating to the Druids,...  

    February 08, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Ow! Carrying on over carry-ons

    Sociologists tell us man will live longer, but I, the Margaret Mead of tabloidologists, tell you we're going to grow shorter. And so bent over that we'll transgress back to ape- hood. It's because of schlep-itis....  

    February 07, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Bad girl on Broadway

    V ALERIE Harper, who the '70s loved on TV's "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Rhoda," is coming to Broadway. In "Looped," she'll play the '50s and '60s way way way over- the-top movies legend Tallulah Bankhead, who'd do...  

    February 05, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Understanding great Danes

    Saturday Claire Danes, in HBO's 8 p.m. true-life movie "Temple Grandin," plays this special lady whose autism enables her to understand the souls of animals. Having seen her gorgeous emotional performance, I asked...  

    February 04, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Nice gala, but I'm no Swiss miss

    GSTAAD. I am in Gstaad. In a blizzard. In white stuff up to my computer. The kind of snow job you wouldn't even get in Washington. February is considered "The Sea son" for the European migration here. And those who...  

    February 03, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Before they were famous

    About these hotshot celebrities who duck paparazzi, refuse interviews, avoid the red carpet and hide behind more protectors than whatshisname in the White House. That's what they do now. Here's what they did then:...  

    February 02, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Pride that's ageless

    Hugh Dancy. Soon opening in Broadway's "The Pride." He ex plained the plot three times. I still don't get it. Something about "It takes place half in 1958, half in 2008. There are three characters, but we stay the same...  

    February 01, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Head-scratchers aplenty

    A great legal mind sent me the follow ing but can't re member from where he got them. Printing them without knowing their genesis puts me in a quandary. That aside, enjoy these quandaries: * Why's a round pizza...  

    January 31, 2010 12:00 AM
  • New Yorker at heart

    H arold Ford, running for the idea of maybe running for senator from New York, was running into a Brooklyn coffee shop for takeout. "I'm starving," he told me. "I just met with some leaders here and now I need to meet...  

    January 29, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Day in the acting life

    M elissa Leo, last year's Best Ac tress nominee for "Frozen River," is out in the new film "Welcome to the Rileys." About her co-star, a person called James Gandolfini, she says: "Difficult but a fabulous actor. He...  

    January 28, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Tour conservative to the max

    Bill O'Reilly-Glenn Beck's "Bold and Fresh Tour" teed off its nationwide schlep Saturday. Sold out. Prices from $71.50 to $126.50 entitle you to wall-to-wall, heavy-duty, triple-A, four-star, foot-stomping, right-wing...  

    January 27, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Brangelina doomed

    The Angelina-Brad thing. I don't know more than anyone else. Their lawyers probably don't know more. Who knows if even they know more. They really only know they're used to being pampered, protected, worshipped and...  

    January 26, 2010 12:00 AM