Columnists: Cindy Adams

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• Striving for 15 seconds of fame

  There is an aroma in Hollywood. Not the scent of old money. The smell of desperation. It hits all the senses. A) You can see the despair. B) You can touch the fear. C) The hills are alive with the sound of faces falling...   March 01, 2013

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• Taylor made waves with ‘Argo’

  Ken Taylor watched “Argo” win Best Picture. Tall, handsome, silver-haired Ken Taylor is the real Canadian ambassador played by tall, handsome, silver-haired Victor Garber. I’ve reported the Taylors are my friends...   February 28, 2013

• The life of Liu

  There are more humans running for mayor of New York than there are citizens in the city. So John Liu’s hello to me was: “I impose discipline on myself. Don’t drink. Don’t smoke. Still I get pounded. You’ve been taking...   February 27, 2013

• Fair play at zoo

  New York has a zoo. Los Angeles has a zoo. On the East Coast, it’s in The Bronx. On the West Coast, it’s by Vanity Fair. Hollywood’s animals are two-legged. Their hides are in tuxedos. They paw and snort when their...   February 26, 2013

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• The rich, famous and nervous

  This Oscar season’s different. In a first since Groucho Marx’s bar mitzvah, most nominees are recognizable.  Also nervous. Anne Hathaway, shriveled to pre-natal weight for “Les Miz,” ate everything at one pre-Oscar...   February 25, 2013

• All is forbidden

  Kiddies, we’ve become losers. We’re losing everything. In my case, not weight — but money, patience, hair and, mostly, privileges. No longer allowed salt. Sugar is outlawed. Smoking’s second to cheating on taxes. Sodas,...   February 22, 2013

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• ‘Kinky’ teamwork

  Harvey Fierstein. Cyndi Lauper. “Kinky Boots.” He’s doing the book. She’s writing the songs. It’s producer Daryl Roth’s musical of Britain’s 2005 film about a broke shoemaker and his drag queen partner. The opening’s...   February 21, 2013

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• Facing model reality

  Naomi Campbell. Famous model. Temperamental diva. Billionaires’ ladyfriend. Internationally known phone thrower. Producer of TV’s new reality series “The Face.” And sitting with her — she’s a pussycat. “Patrick...   February 20, 2013

• New face and name to watch

  Evan Jonigkeit. Learn that name. He’s 29, in “Really Really” at the Lucille Lortel, and about to become a hotshot. Years ago, actors were jazzed up to be called Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Chad Everett. So why’s he Evan...   February 19, 2013

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• Beautiful dark

  ‘Beautiful Creatures,” dealing with witches, stars Emmy Rossum and Viola Davis. So do such beautiful creatures believe in such unbeautiful creatures?  Emmy: “I know there’s a dark side. Before auditioning for this, I...   February 18, 2013

• Love, optional

  Valentine’s weekend. Thoughts of moon. And June. Also cash. The four-letter word rarely considered anymore is love. In Hollywood, a second anniversary already considers you an old married couple. Here’s today’s passion...   February 15, 2013

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• The battle for Best Director

  Oscars. The only iffy is Best Director. Nobody’s greater than ferociously talented Spielberg. However, Affleck/“Argo” sentiment’s so strong, helped by the Academy’s dumb-ass snub for his Best Directorship, that...   February 14, 2013

• Beyoncé lets us in

  In case you haven’t OD’d on Jay-Z’s wife: Last night competing with Best in Show’s Westminster champions strutting plus Best in Show’s White House champ Obama speaking, Mrs. Carter’s own HBO documentary “Beyoncé: Life...   February 13, 2013

• Affleck snub raises eyebrows

  Internationally, the movie industry is razzberrying the Oscars for dissing Affleck’s Best Director nom. Everyone loves the turn-around actor-cum-director. Like Clooney, whose company made the film, he’s friendly,...   February 12, 2013

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• Skye’s the limit

  Tomorrow is Westminster’s Best in Show at the Garden. Today 2,500 kennels are barking that the top dog could be a British Skye Terrier. Owner, Mr. Marzolini, is Brazilian. Trainer, big with terriers, is California...   February 11, 2013

• My one-day Monaco adventure

  My job is to report mankind’s doings. So I am now reporting them. So what you did this week, I don’t know. So what I did this week was spend one day in Monaco. One day. Not exactly how Princess Grace Kelly did it when...   February 07, 2013

• Who is this Joe Lhota, anyway?

  One colorful mayor gone. Comes now the chorus of hopeful mayors. So who’s Joe Lhota? The former MTA chief. Now a dancing mayoral Rockette. “ ‘Lhota’ is Czechoslovakian,” he said. “My father’s side is from the Bohemian...   February 06, 2013

• Hillary knows what she’s doing

  HILLARY. To run, not run, isn’t the question. The answer is how smart she is. The Clintons won’t leave the stage. Write a book, chair a foundation, push Chelsea. Meanwhile, whether she decides to make that big jump to...   February 05, 2013

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• Koch, an honest New Yorker

  Koch’s mouth and gizzard told it like it is. A Frank Perdue look-alike, the voice, which sounded like the tearing of a rag, told me about civilization’s beloved, adored, cherished Mother Teresa: “She’s only hustling for...   February 04, 2013

• Nation’s crap-ital

  I drove to Washington. I now know what DC stands for. District of Crapola. We’re talking a war zone. The approach to historic Washington, DC, is filth. If the area were a building, it would be condemned. This is our...   February 01, 2013

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• Dame dons another crown

  Helen Mirren is backing into Buckingham again. It’s her third shot. 2006 she won an Oscar for playing Her Maj, sovereign of England, Scotland, Wales and parts of Ireland, a k a the mother-in-law of Prince William’s...   January 31, 2013

• Vermont: nice place to visit

  Last year, between my enjoying Australia and Europe, Vermont’s Gov. Peter Shumlin said, “You’ve never visited Vermont.” I said, “Where is it?” South of Canada, north of Massachusetts, across the river from upstate...   January 30, 2013

• Barbara Walters OK

  The Barbara Walters story. As far away as downtown Odessa everyone’s read that Barbara Walters attended a pre-inauguration social function in DC, and in full view of everyone, fell. She was then taken to a local...   January 29, 2013

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• J.Lo works it

  Wednesday, this year’s coldest night, was so frigid that even Mitt Romney would’ve looked warm. Yet for her new movie “Parker,” mobs shivered outside for Jennifer Lopez. Obama didn’t draw such a crowd. Per critics,...   January 28, 2013

• Passing the buck

  Kiddies, mother is bringing the class together. Today’s lesson is the word “scapegoat.” Bible history says it’s a goat upon whose head the ancients’ sins were symbolically visited. Webster’s dictionary says it’s a...   January 25, 2013

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• Read about high life in heyday

  Grace Robbins’ soon-due unload-all is “Cinderella and the Carpetbagger: My Life as the Wife of the ‘World’s Best-Selling Author,’ Harold Robbins.” In the JFK, Vietnam, free love, Beatles, Marilyn, Elvis, sex, drugs,...   January 24, 2013

• Veep looks to Greeks

  The Greeks have a word for it. It’s called partying. Biden and his wife (and enough with her teenage sleeveless shift dresses) hit Father Alex’s Greek Orthodox party in DC. Ditto Nancy Pelosi. Why? They serve better...   January 23, 2013

• Sen. knew Obama would lead US

  WASHINGTON — July 2004. The Democratic convention. Boston’s FleetCenter. I’m sitting alongside Chuck Schumer in the New York delegation section. We’re watching someone whose name I’d never heard before, Barack Obama. He...   January 22, 2013

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• Inaugural past

  No snarky remarks about there still being just one office that hasn’t been filled in this administration — that of president. No such jokes. Now we thrill to today’s historic process, the inauguration. George Washington...   January 21, 2013

• Etiquette’s dead

  Where did kindness, tenderness, politeness go? Golden Globes. Gents in tuxes without ties. Ladies in expensive belts — hems slit up to the crotch, necklines down to the crotch. Parts hanging out that only a newborn...   January 18, 2013

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