Columnists: Cindy Adams

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• Kitchen aid?

  I’m not a terrific cook. I microwave sherbet. At my table, flies come to commit suicide. These Mario Batali/Lidia Bastianich Cooking Channel showoffs who in 10 minutes — from scratch — saute pork roast stuffed with...   October 26, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• ‘Scandalous’ show on its way

  I know Kathie Lee Gifford forever. During this whole forever she’s been writing books and songs about the life of ’20s and ’30s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. This B’way musical, titled “Scandalous,” finally opens...   October 25, 2012

• Jolie ‘still naughty’

  Brad Pitt on his soon-to-be/eventually-to-be/about-to-be/-enough time and children have elapsed to be wife Angelina Jolie: “She’s still naughty in sexual ways. I mean this is not exactly an Angel of Mercy.” DANIEL Craig...   October 24, 2012

• Ambassador’s tale

  Ben Affleck’s “Argo” is about Iran, 1979, rebels overthrowing the shah, occupying our embassy, thugs taking 54 Americans captive — beaten and tortured — for 444 days. At great risk, Canada’s ambassador hid six American...   October 23, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• Picture the Kennedys

  Stanley Tretick was Kennedy’s White House photographer. That famous shot with little John Jr.’s round face under Daddy’s Oval Office desk? Those Look magazine pics with the whole Camelot crew? All Tretick’s. Kennedy saw...   October 22, 2012

• Sleepless in battle

  Snooze. Lay the head down. Close the eyes. A nap. Forty winks. Blow-up mattress. No bedbugs thanks to Roscoe. Still, I’m sleep deprived. Immediately the sun shines only Krazy Glue will keep my lids open. Experts — types...   October 19, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• Fonzie set for Great White Way

  Henry Winkler, “The Fonz” from TV’s 21-inch days, opens in “The Performers” next month. Previews begin next week. “This show came about back when I was shooting ‘Royal Pains’ for USA. Suddenly a producer asked would I...   October 18, 2012

• Political buzz here

  Yesterday’s Obama-Romney mishmash. Country cousins wonder if top-secret national security fact-checking and advance priming wasn’t quietly being done re Iran/Iraq/Egypt/Israel/Turkey and the international situation....   October 17, 2012

• Debate demands direct answers

  Tonight’s debate. Obama will be “less polite,” a Castillian B.S. phrase for “I couldn’t deal with issues last time. I had no teleprompter.”  Pollster Frank Luntz: “The town hall format is specialized. The people do the...   October 16, 2012

• Yankee doodle playoff dandy

  From the tension, Yankees president Randy Levine actually — virtually — tore his hair out. A whole clumpful. Meanwhile, at the game, Bill O’Reilly: “Sunday my new book ‘Killing Kennedy’ debuts as No. 1. In under a week,...   October 15, 2012

• Insatiable all

  During a micro miniburst of intellectuality, I pondered why everybody wants. Nobody’s content. Everybody wants something. While my editor wants this incredibly brilliant column I’m writing finished an hour earlier and...   October 12, 2012

• Giuliani can run: NYC charter

  Swirling around martinis faster than the olive is an unconfirmed — also, so far undenied — rumor. Maybe just maybe just only possibly conceivably could be who-the-hell knows for sure but Giuliani might fleetingly far...   October 11, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• Chase is on to film

  David Chase’s Paramount picture “Not Fade Away,” which screened at the New York Film Festival, opens this winter. Chase is TV’s genius who brought us “The Sopranos.” “It’s my first film,” he says. “The story is about...   October 10, 2012

• Bonding moments

  Barbara Broccoli. Daughter of Cubby Broccoli, who made Ian Fleming’s James Bond a movie star. This planet just celebrated its International Bond Day 50th anniversary, plus news about Epix cable network releasing 007’s...   October 09, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• Change is constant

  The world is changing. The country is changing. The economy is changing. The dress code is changing. The civility is changing. Patriotism is changing. Sex is changing. Sometimes now it’s even between a man and a woman....   October 05, 2012

• ‘Sessions’ of naked truth

  Helen Hunt. She’s got an Oscar. She’s got an Emmy. She’s got a Golden Globe. She’s got a divorce from Hank Azaria. She’s got a guy. She’s got a daughter named Makena Lei, which is Hawaiian for “many flowers of heaven.”...   October 04, 2012

• He’s way into comedy

  Marlon Wayans. Going the wayans of all top comics. He and brother Shawn do “A funny thing happened to me on the way to Carolines for the New York Comedy Festival” Nov. 8 to 11. “I did this Comedy Central thing years...   October 03, 2012

• Ladies ‘Butter’ up

  Olivia Wilde, looking smoother than butter, is in the new movie “Butter.” She says: “I play Brooke, a sardonic stripper with a heart of gold. It’s set in Iowa, but we, of course, filmed in Louisiana. Shreveport. “This...   October 02, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• Trump ‘The Wolf’

  Dicaprio and Scorsese filmed an all-nighter at Trump Tower. And where else to film “The Wolf of Wall Street”? . . . Readying her Philly tour, Streisand hired a girl singer to do the entire concert so she could sit in...   October 01, 2012

• Genius salute

  I went to sleep last night wondering about the wonders of Steve Jobs. And what’s bigshot hotshot Bill Gates got that I don’t. Or Spielberg. Or those rich rich Koch brothers. Even Mark Zuckerberg — except now that Mark...   September 28, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• To hell with the Iranian toad

  Only in America could so filthy and rotten as that vile Iranian toad sit on television and insult us, then stand at the UN and insult us. Imagine Americans spitting on Iranians in his country? With Yom Kippur, the...   September 27, 2012

• Initial misfortune

  The Brooke Astor auction has some hard sells. Furniture looks old. And her initials dot every piece of luggage. Maiden name, Russell. They spell BRA. JAVIER Bardem in GQ’s October issue: “I don’t believe in God, I...   September 25, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• Penny & her thoughts

  Penny Marshall. First woman director whose films made more than $100 mil, who starred on TV’s sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” who’s sister to Garry Marshall, director of biggies like “Pretty Woman,” who’s Rob Reiner’s ex...   September 24, 2012

• City’s full but lonely

  It’s about to be fall. Weather is good. After yesterday’s report that a young man was zonked on the head by a futon flopping out of a downtown high-rise window, I took to strolling my city. Betwixt double-parked garbage...   September 21, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• Lochte shows undies in public

  Forget Ryan Lochte in the pool. He moves smooth on the ground, too. As you may have heard, at midnight a few nights ago at gin mill STK, the guy flirted openly with Olivia Culpo, Miss USA. She denies anything is going...   September 19, 2012

• ‘No more Israel’

  Henry KISSINGER. Former secretary of state. Current savant of the state of the world. Do not argue with Mr. Kissinger’s know-how. He already knows how. Middle East horror. Democratic party dissing Jerusalem. DC’s anti...   September 18, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• No spin, just fun for charity

  If you like Bill O’Reilly, read this. Don’t like him, read it anyway. It’s interesting. TBA: Oct. 6 he and Jon Stewart will co-juice up a live mock debate rumble, 90 minutes, in DC’s nice air-conditioned George...   September 17, 2012

• Apple of my eye

  The wind-down of this political season? Our government is a nonprofit organization. They don’t mean to be, but they are. Parents want kids to share in their businesses? Please. The feds will beat them to it. At the...   September 14, 2012

  From Cindy Adams

• Siriano on what a show takes

  Christian Siriano, discovered on “Project Runway,” sells at Saks and Neimans. His shmattas last year earned more than a million bucks. He’s born 1985. My blouses are older. “Took over four months to prepare this week’s...   September 13, 2012

• Director a dad first

  James Cameron produced, wrote, directed 1997’s titanic epic “Titanic.” Nominated for 14 Oscars, it won 11, the most for one film including Best Picture, Best Director. Costliest movie ever made, it grossed more than $2...   September 12, 2012