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Cindy Adams

  • Not a gay old time

    Sunday, New York's first day for same-sex marriages, brings a new rendition of that old wedding song. It'll now be: "Here comes the bride . . . here comes the bride . . . " Officiants will say things like: "Do you,...  

    July 22, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Premiere anything but 'Stupid'

    Figures Warners fig ures "Crazy, Stupid, Love" will make money because at Tuesday's premiere its outdoor tent was air-conditioned and "Crazy, Stupid, Love" was embroidered on its red carpet. Stars Steve Carell...  

    July 21, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Scary scoop: 'Exorcist' onstage

    Ben Sprecher, who made his bones as owner of the one-time Promenade Theater, is producing a musical of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel "Rebecca." Its price tag was put at $16 million. I asked how come Broadway's become...  

    July 20, 2011 12:00 AM
  • For Paul it's love love me I do

    WEDDINGS. We speak weddings. If not pooped from Yankee Stadium concertizing, Sir Beatle McCartney marries longtime ladyfriend New Yorker Nancy Shevell, come fall. In London. Considering she's done this before and he's...  

    July 19, 2011 12:00 AM
  • A peek inside Paul's concert

    Paul McCartney's nearly three- hour Yankee Stadium con cert Friday was not a bad little event. Be sides future wife Nancy Shevell, future father-in-law Mike Shevell, former in-law Vanessa Eastman and Hollywood-handsome...  

    July 18, 2011 12:00 AM
  • I for sure need all this stuff

    Wagnalls and his pal Funk define "hoarding" as "amassing . . . putting away . . . storing up treasure." Treasure? Take a person I know. Her mother passed on before King Tut and, still, she keeps Mama's dentures....  

    July 15, 2011 12:00 AM
  • 'Countdown' contains itself

    Keith Olbermann's Mouth That Roared is open again. Although he burbles, "I don't know why MSNBC shed me," reluctance disappears when discussing his new "Count down" show on Al Gore's Current TV station 103. "No...  

    July 14, 2011 12:00 AM
  • 'Key' unlocks secret

    'Sarah's Key," a new searing draining Holocaust movie, stars Kristin Scott Thomas. "My daughter, 22, told me about the book two years ago," she said. "Not believing it would be so great, I thought, 'yeah . . . yeah...  

    July 13, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Not over 'til ex-first lady sings

    Michelle Paterson, former governor David Paterson's wife, is writing a book. "It's about getting thrown into being first lady. How the press treated us. About those who served David and who didn't. All from my own...  

    July 12, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Huma & humiliation

    The Mrs. Anthony Weiner story. Supersmart. Loyal. Able. Important. Good-looking. International. Connected. A Rolodex that goes from a Hillary Secretary of State private cellphone, which not even Obama has, to a Sultan...  

    July 11, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Wedding bells ringing loudly

    It's wedding season. Brit royals. Mon aco royals. Kardashian kommoners. Forgetting Sandra Bullock's ex, whose mantra is, "Try not to ask, and I won't tell," even Hollywood movie stars try it a week or so. Politicians...  

    July 08, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Daly routine includes rituals

    Tyne Daly's reprising Terrence McNally's "Master Class," about the late Maria Callas, the most famous, reviled opera singer ever. She opens tonight at the Samuel Friedman Theatre. So, she nervous? "If the audience...  

    July 07, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Walking on a very thin line

    Looming Sept. 11 brings World Trade Center memories. Now over seeing the University of Paris renovation logistics is Jean-Louis Blon deau. Blondeau, who was in 2009's Best Documentary Oscar-winning "Man on Wire,"...  

    July 06, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Here's Boston for you

    BOSTON -- Philadelphia takes credit for July Fourth. It has the Liberty Bell. But don't go there for a history lesson because the last time I went to Philly it was closed. Although New York was our nation's first seat...  

    July 05, 2011 12:00 AM
  • It really is a grand old holiday

    July Fourth is coming. The only intel ligent thing is to sponge off someone. Usually that's a human who, when I had a country home, I hated having as a houseguest. Considering I have no summer place anymore and they do...  

    June 30, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Hyde in a sort of Jekyll role

    In the new movie "The Perfect Host," David Hyde Pierce plays a lunatic who lives with imaginary friends and kills strangers. Not exactly a musical. Explains DHP: "My character's Warwick Wilson. He's having a dinner...  

    June 29, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Purple One reigns

    Prince. Not the royal. The artist. Not one who will be king of England. One who is king of music. Prince worked the Montreal Jazz Festival. An 11:30 performance. He took the stage maybe midnight. While his backup...  

    June 28, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Ryan O'Neal's intimate details

    Now that we're already up to here with Tatum and Ryan O'Neal's reality fights and make-nices on Oprah's network, I asked him why. Why this dumb show? "I'm 70. I'm not looking to jumpstart a new career. I'm on TV's...  

    June 27, 2011 12:00 AM
  • We know NYC is really No.1

    Instead of studying the rest of the world, much of which we support, folks of my IQ should dump their En quirer copies and learn about their country. With July Fourth nigh, let it be known Columbus discovered us just...  

    June 24, 2011 12:00 AM
  • I'm a woman on a ledge here

    Tuesday "The Ledge" premiered at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema. And don't let the name fool you. It's on East Houston Street. They reserved me a special bench by the men's room facing a decayed wall. Spike-heeled guests...  

    June 23, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Coming up Rose

    Charlie Rose, about to celebrate 20 years of "Charlie Rose" on PBS: "I'm now in Washington. Bloomberg's having an event." And yesterday? "Lunched with Kissinger. A conversation about his book on China. "My first...  

    June 22, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Casey case won't die

    Those who know every clue, splatter and sniff inside the center ring of Florida's did-she-or-didn't-she Casey Anthony case say today's juries surprise pros. They no longer take blindly findings of over-the-top...  

    June 21, 2011 12:00 AM
  • La Toya drops memoir

    Janet Jackson wrote a book. Now it's La Toya. She arrives today to push her "explosive shockwave" memoir "Starting Over," wherein she writes, "My brother Michael was murdered" and "my husband beat me." Says La Toya: "I...  

    June 20, 2011 12:00 AM
  • We're all losing it

    Yesterday I reported Ruben San tiago-Hudson left his wallet in a cab, then ran like a madman down the block to catch up with it before the cabbie chugged far away into traffic's infinity. Despite pouring rain, Ruben...  

    June 17, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Weiner looking for a new job

    Anthony Weiner, Chapter 2: Out siders think rehab's smart. Time passes. Maybe his peccadillo can go down -- excuse my phraseology -- and he can someday recoup. Insiders, considering this is as much a reality as...  

    June 16, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Clearly a rich history

    JERUSALEM -- IN 73 A.D., the first day of Passover, 1,000 Judaic Zealots fell on their swords rather than allow enslavement by Roman enemies. High above the Dead Sea, in the Judean desert near a town called Sodom, this...  

    June 14, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Eyes opened in Israel

    JERUSALEM -- Syria's seething. Egypt's buckling. Libya's burning. Turkey's juggling immigrants. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan have their own miseries. And little Israel, the size of New Jersey, is attracting...  

    June 13, 2011 12:00 AM
  • And you think your job's hard

    Worst jobs: * Besides doing An thony hot-dog Weiner's p.r. * Besides telling Transporta tion Commissioner Janette Sa dik-Khan she khan't stick bicycle lanes in the Waldorf lobby. * Besides subbing for D. Trump...  

    June 10, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Playwright: Israel should exist

    Tony Kushner, author of "Angels in America," evokes angst. His newie, "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures," took two years to write. The title's almost as long as...  

    June 09, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Chitchat made in New York

    Papa Bear Bloomberg gave a "Made in New York" party on Gracie Mansion lawn. Barring 4-inch heels clamping into grass so our bunions emerged in Shanghai, it was great. John Leguizamo: "I'm presenting posthumously to...  

    June 08, 2011 12:00 AM